May 17: Maine Comics Arts Festival

Check out the Maine Comics Arts Festival website.
On Sunday May 17 from 10-5, Jay Piscopo and The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli crew will be at the Maine Comics Arts Festival in our beautiful hometown of Portland, Maine. You're in for a treat because the Capt'n Eli's Soda team will also be there offering free soda to festival-goers! This first-year festival is presented by Casablanca Comics.

More detail coming this week about a special free workshop for educators and librarians which will be presented by acclaimed national speaker Peter Gutiérrez and award-winning Maine educator and technology integrationist Laura Richter.

Stand by for adventure!

Rochester Rocked It

Check out photos HERE.
Fraffle! Ralph DiBernardo and Jetpack Comics rocked Rochester, New Hampshire today with the Free Comic Book Day city-wide festival. It was the place to be! Jay Piscopo and The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli crew were there and gave away hundreds of free comic books, collectible card games, buttons, and Seasearcher tattoos. Fans lined up for Jay's free superhero sketches and it was a great day connecting with families and comics fans of all ages. Huzzah to Ralph and the Jetpack Comics crew!

Free Download for Free Comic Book Day

Celebrate Free Comic Book Day with a free pdf download of "Commander X Adventures" at this link.

Stories
The Guardian of Tantarus
By Jay Piscopo

The Thing in the Moon
By Ron Fortier, Art and layout by Mike Fyles

A Friend in Need
By Michael Thomas, Art and layout by Mike Fyles

Pinups
Undersea Adventure Cover
Joe Zierman

Commander X and the Yeti
Lauren Monardo

Commander X
Jay Fife

Rumble in the Jungle
Jay Piscopo

Old Commander X
Jay Piscopo

Capt'n Eli: Free Comic Book Day

This Saturday, Jay Piscopo and The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli crew will be in Rochester, New Hampshire. It's actually a citywide festival sponsored by Jetpack Comics and the Rochester Main Street Association. Check out all the details at this link. Jay will be doing free sketches and the crew will hand out free limited edition comic books and collectible card games.

Scott Doyle and the Capt'n Eli's Soda team will also be on hand with the Capt'n Eli's Soda van offering free samples of this hand-crafted Maine-made soda.

Ralph DiBernardo puts on fantastic conventions every year and you won't want to miss this Free Comic Book Day Festival in Rochester!

Jay Piscopo on Location at Colby College Museum of Art

In preparation for 217 Films' shoot at the Colby College Museum of Art in June, yesterday Jay Piscopo, author/illustator of The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli, spent the afternoon storyboarding on location with director Michael Maglaras and executive producer Terri Templeton for their new documentary John Marin: A Whole Body Full of Light. View on-location photos from the storyboard session HERE.

Ocean Adventure Day

This week, The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli author/illustrator Jay Piscopo is taking part in the Baxter Memorial Library's Ocean Adventure Day with his Draw on Your Creativity workshop. Read about this great three day program youth services librarian Kathy Stevens has organized in Gorham, Maine in today's Portland Press Herald article by Ray Routhier: Fun on the Cheap: It's more than just books at the library in Gorham.

Be sure to check out new photos just added HERE from Jay Piscopo's interactive drawing workshop for Jobs for Maine's Graduates (JMG). This workshop was sponsored by Maine Reads as part of its Maine Festival of the Book celebration to showcase career pathways in Maine's creative economy.

ImaginOn's youth librarian Bill Corder also sent more photos from Jay's Charlotte, North Carolina library tour (check them out HERE) and posted this great blog entry on Boys Rule Boys Read.

New Photos Added from Charlotte Library Tour

Our Boys Rule, Boys Read friend Carl donning his Capt'n Eli t-shirt on vacaction!
Don't miss these NEW photos from ImaginOn Youth Librarian Bill Corder just uploaded of Jay Piscopo's Charlotte, North Carolina library tour. Stand by for adventure! It was a great tour of an amazing library system and Jay enjoyed meeting fans of The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli, presenting his interactive Draw on Your Creativity workshop, and talking about comics and graphic novels with kids of all ages.