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North Street Book Prize WINNER

Been hiding this secret since January. Blackwax Boulevard has WON the 2019 North Street Book Prize in Graphic Narrative. It's the first year for the new category and I'm so humbled they chose my crazy idea of a comic as their first winner. Plus the cash prize is a nice cherry on top. 😂🏆 #comics #webcomics #musicjunkie #winningwriters #northstreetbookprize #artistsoninstagram #bookawards

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Nominated Once Again! And Again and Again!

Just found out that Frotoon scored THREE nominations at the 2019 Glyph Comics Awards: Best Reprint Publication (Blackwax Boulevard: Five Years, What A Surprise); Best Comic Strip and Rising Star Award (Blackwax Boulevard the webcomic). Thanks to the wonderful people at ECBACC!

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Thanks to Publishers Weekly for a positive review of Blackwax Boulevard!

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WE NOMINATED, Y’ALL!!

The awesome folks at East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) have nominated Blackwax Boulevard at the 2018 Glyph Comics Awards. Marsalis is in the category of Best Male Character. Best news of the week. Congrats to all fellow nominees!! 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌

https://ecbacc.com/2018-glyph-comics-awards-nominees/

#comics #webcomic #music #recordstore #glyphs #ecbacc#blackcomics #drawingwhileblack

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John Henry: Steel-Driving Man

Adaptation by:

Dmitri Jackson

Art by:

Dmitri Jackson

Written by:

Dmitri Jackson

Published by:

Dmitri Jackson

Price:

$1.99

A retelling of the beloved 19th-century folktale, steel driver John Henry discovers that the mighty steam drill is being used to replace manual labor. It's man versus machine as John and the drill face off in a climactic race down the railroad track. Recommended for all ages.

Buy now on comiXology!

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MUSIC GEEKS: COME AND GET IT!!! New on ComiXology!

Blackwax Boulevard #5

Art by:

Dmitri Jackson

Written by:

Dmitri Jackson

Published by:

Dmitri Jackson

Price:

$1.99

While Marsalis wrestles with self-doubt over his latest review, his brother Dexter scraps with their landlady Mrs. Gutierrez and hides a secret that could uproot their lives in the city.

Buy now on comiXology!

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Some sample pages from THE COMPLETE MARTY’S DINER, now available over at Amazon.

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Sneak peek at finished cover for upcoming book. For fans of Blackwax Boulevard, hopefully you’ll be fans of the comic I did before BB. I fashioned Marty’s Diner (2009-2011) to be “Crash meets Napoleon Dynamite meets Cheers.” Didn’t last as long as I hoped but I felt the time was right to revisit the project. I plan to debut this book in time for the St Louis Small Press Expo this October. But it should also be available on Amazon by then as well. Stay tuned!

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7/6/2015

Coming back, y’all!

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Classic blue 8-track tape

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NEWS FLASH: Blackwax Boulevard is nominated for two–count ‘em, TWO– Glyph Comics Awards this year: Best Webcomic and Best Male Character (Marsalis J. Parker). It’s an absolute honor to be recognized. Congrats to all the nominees this year and to The Glyph on their TEN YEARS!

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NEWS FLASH: Now you can get Volume One of Blackwax Boulevard on @comiXology!

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 Thanks for the shout out, Kevin!

I’ve only ever had one “intern,” and that was many years ago now. Anyways his name was Dmitri Jackson—check out his comic “Blackwax Boulevard” on Tumblr.

“Blackwax Boulevard is a slice-of-life look at an eclectic group of record store clerks and the strange customers they must endure, while trying to keep their struggling store open for business. See nerds, punks, metalheads, teenyboppers, bohos, hobos and every music lover in between explore life, pop culture and the eternally dusty record bin. Updates every Monday!”

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Here’s a process .gif from my contribution to the awesome punk rock comix anthology, As You Were #3.

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WOW! Blackwax Boulevard has been nominated for the second year in row for Best Comic Strip or Webcomic at the 2014 Glyph Comics Awards! It's a wonderful, exciting honor! Thank you ECBACC (East Coast of Black Age Comics Convention) for your support! The awards are given out on Friday, May 16. Congrats to all the other nominees!