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Shelli Paroline

@shelliparoline.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, Designer, Executive Director of the Boston Comic Arts Foundation supporting comic festivals and creators across Massachusetts. She/Her shelliandbraden.com / bostoncomicarts.org

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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
People love reading comics. That includes people in prisons. Buy a comic requested by incarcerated people, and have it delivered to their libraries courtesy of the Prison Book Project, Hub Comics, & Boston Comic Arts Foundation! Give Jojo to the people! www.bostoncomicarts.org/prison-book-...
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Prison Book Project | BCAF 7/10
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Calmer Con Boston @calmerconboston.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
People person? Volunteer to help with our registration area, workshops, artist alley, or young adult lounge! Gather your friends and join us on September 6th to help make Calmer Con a welcoming space for all! www.calmercon.org/volunteer (Not a people person? We’ve got volunteer spots for you too.)
An illustration of four stylized characters happily chatting with overlapping speech bubbles.

Caption: What's your superpower?
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today today today!
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Calmer Con Boston @calmerconboston.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Oh my glob, you guys. This Adventure Time cover art by @shelliparoline.bsky.social and @bradenlamb.bsky.social is like SO beautiful and it features the best princess EVER. You should totally get it and hang it on your wall. Bid: givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON2... Give: givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON25/
An image featuring Adventure Time comic art, with Finn, Jake, BMO, and Lumpy Space Princess who is lookin' FRESH even while yawning.
Text reads: Original Adventure Time Cover Art by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.
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Boston Comics in Color Festival (BCICF) @comicsncolor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
the fifth annual Boston Comics in Color Festival is starting in two days! Thank you Boston.com for this amazing article! boston.com/things-to-do... #bcicf2025
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With diversity under attack, Boston's Comics in Color fest is back to 'amplify diverse stories'
The fifth edition of Boston's Comics in Color festival comes to two locations in Roxbury this weekend, April 25-26.
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Calmer Con Boston @calmerconboston.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
JUST ADDED! Original inked Life's Little Victories comic strip by @keefknight.bsky.social. Bid now, and remember to always check those lint screens. Bid: givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON2... Give: givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON25
Comic of a woman holding up a sheet of lint and saying "Yes!!" Caption: Life's Little Victory #7017: pulling the lint off the dryer screen...all in one piece!

Surrounding text reads: Just added to the auction! Original comic strip by Keith Knight! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.
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Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hello, MICE friends! It's the announcement you've been waiting for- MICE 2025's exhibition dates are here! The show will take place at Boston University's Fuller Building on December 6 and 7. Mark your calendars and keep on the lookout for upcoming application dates!
Colorful graphic that says, "MICE 2025
Save the Date!
Dec. 6-7, 2025
Boston University
www.micexpo.org
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Calmer Con Boston @calmerconboston.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Calmer Con's April auction continues! We have original pencil art by Tillie Walden from Tegan and Sara: Crush up for bid. Two spreads are available—bid on one or both! See them here: givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON2... givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON2...
An image featuring two penciled spreads from Tegan and Sara: Crush.

Text reads: Original Comic Art by Tillie Walden! Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston.
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We've just put up one of our few remaining pieces of original #AdventureTime comic art on the Calmer Con charity auction. It's a good one! givebutter.com/c/CALMERCON2... @shelliparoline.bsky.social
Ink drawing. A wobbly, lumpy living room. Hovering just above the couch, Lumpy Space Princess (a fabulous blob with a face, noodle arms, and a star on her forehead) is doing the old "yawn and stretch" to reach her arm around the shoulders of Finn (a boy adventurer wearing a hat with bear ears), who is next to her on the couch, sweatily indicating that he has to leave. A dog and a little handheld game robot look on with concern from the stairway above. Text: Original Adventure Time Cover Art by Braden Lamb & Shelli Paroline - Bid now through April 28, 2025 to benefit Calmer Con Boston
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Gasp! I have some gorgeous original comic art pieces in my home and not enough wall space. Help me to help @calmercon.bsky.social
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Oni Press @oni-press.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
INFINITE INTERLOCKING COVER (1:10) BY @shelliparoline.bsky.social & @bradenlamb.bsky.social
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
All I want is to adapt a manga version of Kindergarten Cop. Veteran officer vs precocious kiddos vs Yakuza.
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School Library Journal @slj.com · 19/03/2025
When the Pandemic Struck, Comics Creators Offered Young Readers Refuge | 5 Years On www.slj.com/story/When-P... @brigidalverson.bsky.social looks at COVID's impact on the industry--and how comics helped kids through.
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When the Pandemic Struck, Comics Creators Offered Young Readers Refuge | 5 Years On
Comics didn’t just survive COVID-19, they thrived. Despite the strain the pandemic placed on the industry, the audience for comics, graphic novels, and manga grew—and is still growing.
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As promised, here's me and @shelliparoline.bsky.social's interlocking *and looping* covers for Adventure time from @oni-press.bsky.social! 👹⚔️ Check them all out here: www.cbr.com/new-adventur...
A very wide illustration full of Adventure Time characters. It's a panorama of the inside of the tree fort with a party happening all around. Featuring Finn arm wrestling Susan Strong, Marcelline playing bass, princesses accidentally summoning a demon, Jake preparing food with ten wiggly arms, and Ice King creating some ice cream.
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Cara Bean @carabeancomics.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hello, caregivers for kiddos! During April vacation week, I am offering a free comics class at the Acushnet Public Library in Massachusetts for kids 8+. There are 20 spots available. Register to join! acushnet-ma.whofi.com/calendar/eve....
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Come along with me (and @shelliparoline.bsky.social and @ryannorth.ca) to an Adventure Time Afternoon! We'll be screening our favorite eps, doing a Q+A, and signing the AT Comics Compendium vol. 1. Sun. Mar. 16 at 1pm at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social! Tix: brattlefilm.org/special_even...
Illustrated poster art with the same info in the bsk. Finn and Jake on a couch, eating popcorn, giving each other high five. Finn's drinking from an owl-shaped cup. In the foreground, an old TV and computers with melted candles all over them and a waving snail.
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're doing covers for the new Adventure Time comic series at Oni! It feels great to be drawing these folks again. Our covers will interlock, forming one continuous image from issues 1 to 5, and *looping back to the first issue!* It's a full panorama! Stay tuned!
Cartoon style comic cover. It's a glimpse of a party inside a treehouse. Finn, a human boy with a bear hat, struggles mightily in an arm wrestling match with Susan Strong, a huge, muscular human girl in a cat hat. Other girls cheer her on, and candy people enjoy the entertainment.
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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We're celebrating Hourly Comics Day on February 1st at Comicazi! Come by at 6:30pm for a fun panel discussion from local comics creators. www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Support the work of the Boston Comic Art Foundation this year with a donation! We work all year-round to support comics and cartooning in New England with events. education, advocacy, grants, and awards -- and you can help make that happen! www.bostoncomicarts.org/donate
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Adventure Time Compendium vol. 1 is now available from Oni! 👹⚔️ It collects the first 35 issues of the comic, all written by @ryannorth.ca, and mostly illustrated by me and @shelliparoline.bsky.social (with Mike Holmes & Jim Rugg). Buy it from your local comic shop! They love you! We love you, too!
A huge beautiful compendium of the Adventure Time Comics lying on two crossed replica swords from the cartoon - the demon blood and root swords. It's on a grassy field with autumn leaves in some golden hour light, looking very purchaseableAn interior page with clever character introductions of the main cast plus Party God because he rulesTwo silent panels of Jake and finn about to chorf down on either end of a car-sized burrito. Then a panel of Bubblegum and Marceline crashing their cars into the scene.A spread of the comic with color coded branching path arrows pointing to different panels. My withered claw holds it open.
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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
It’s Banned Books Week and comics are being targeted. Gina Gagliano reports: “In the last three years, the numbers have seen a huge jump – 2023’s total censorship attempts are twenty times what they were just three years ago in 2020.” www.tcj.com/the-state-of...
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The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week - The Comics Journal
There's been a troubling rise in challenged and banned books in recent years- why are comics being targeted?
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Friends in comics! I'm working on a fun and inclusive project – Calmer Con Boston a comic festival that welcomes attendees with sensory sensitivities into an adaptive environment. If you're glad this exists, consider a donation to keep it accessible and free to attend. givebutter.com/CALMERCON
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Calmer Con Boston
At Calmer Con Boston, our mission has never been more clear: to support children and families through sensory-adjusted play, calm spaces, and calm conventions.
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
For all the kids who love the mini worlds around them!
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Is Boston just spoiled for great comic shops? They each have their own personality. I haven't lived in any other major metro area so I'm just curious!
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Million Year Picnic is so meaningful to so many comic creators and fans. If we were going to celebrate their 50th, we figured we better get a theater so we could all fit!
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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
I had no choice but to pick up this comic at Boston Comics in Color - Fist of the New Lands by D.B. Spur. Awesome, adrenaline-fueled, superpowered ninja violence.
Fat muscly baby with a straw hat, sick kicks, and studded bracersBig title in a cliff face with insane inking detailThe Walking Vengeance prepares to show a ninja punk what he’s made ofPart of a 2-page splash of Walking Vengeance punching a dude’s spine out his back with some Japanese sound effects rendered in gory 3D
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
I hope you'll join us next Monday at Aeronaut Brewing Company! This month, Picture + Panel opens up a profound and compassionate conversation about mental health between Cara Bean and Jonell Joshua. Graphic Medicine advocate Matthew Noe will moderate. www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
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Picture + Panel: Mental Health with Cara Bean + Jonell Joshua | BCAF
This month, Picture + Panel opens up a profound and compassionate conversation about mental health between Cara Bean and Jonell Joshua. Graphic Medicine advocate Matthew Noe will moderate.
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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
We can't wait to hear about love and obsession (and comics!) from @madrupert.bsky.social and @ericafails.bsky.social next Monday at this month's Picture + Panel! See you at 7pm, 3/4 at Aeronaut Brewery! www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
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Fieldmouse Press @ SPX M2-3A @fieldmouse.press · 03/01/2024
Posting this again in case you missed it - we are open for unsolicited submissions through 1/31/2024 for comics projects! Check out our linktree for more info: www.linktr.ee/fieldmousepress
Banner calling for comics submissions for Fieldmouse Press
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
I'm personally passionate about helping foster youth connect with their feelings and stories through comics. Can't wait to share this program with them.
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
It's stressful living in Salem during Halloween but I'm finding the circling helicopters an unnecessary touch.
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Fun fact: Erasure's niece had a healthy budget and a dream to create a live action AMV. I think we can all agree they succeeded. youtu.be/lWqJTKdznaM?...
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
My cat needs direction - a hobby - anything. Please send suggestions while I pick up all my pens from the floor.
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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
My newest graphic novel, Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy will be out from First Second Books in ONE MONTH!!! Pre order always appreciated, here's the info link: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Shelli Paroline @shelliparoline.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Calmer Con – the area's only sensory friendly comic and pop culture convention – is coming October 21 to Meadowbrook in Weston. Specifically designed & adapted for those with autism, anxiety and sensory-processing sensitivities. Register: www.calmercon.org Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/fmkz9-calm...
Calmer Con Boston
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 04/08/2023
Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics
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