Comics

Comics is a visual medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or visual information. Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences ofpanels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and sound effects ("onomatopoeia") indicate dialogue, narration, or other information. Elements such as size and arrangement ...OH FORGET IT! Check out this comic strip:

Maxfield & Company is a series of cartoons that we ran in the Jamaica Plain Gazette in the late 1990's.  The subject is, you guessed it, a real estate agency and many of the local attractions in Jamaica Plain. It was written by a former Boston Pops bass player and comic writer,Justin Locke and written and illustrated by a former MassArt student, Christian O'Brien. 

We will maintain the history of these 'toons on our blog posts.