It is with great pride and excitement that we share with you all that we are here in Puerto Rico right now to launch a new collaboration with Chocolate Cortés P.R. to further our philanthropic work on the island. Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez created an original story that will be reproduced in a comic strip series in four limited edition separate chocolate bars available now in Puerto Rico that he designed the wrappers for! Proceeds from this chocolate bar and merchandise will go towards Fundación Cortés as part of our La Borinqueña Grants Program. Special shout out to our creative team of artists Will Rosado and Christopher Sotomayor who worked with our studio to produce this amazing charitable project!
With each purchase of a Cortés Chocolate bar you will be contributing part of the profit to the Cortés Foundation and you will get one of the four limited edition volumes of the La Borinqueña comic.
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We’ve collaborated this year with Stretch and Bobbito + The M19s Band to produce our first song, music video, and comic book Que Bonita Bandera dropping on December 18, 2020 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Puerto Rico’s flag on December 22, 2020. The song will be released on 10x Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri's label Uprising Music NYC (distributed by ADA/Warner Music) who also has a featured piano solo by the NEA “Jazz Master” himself. The song and music video features vocals by Jeimy Osorio (Netflix "Celia Cruz" series), Latin Grammy Award winner Mireya Ramos, Grammy Award nominee Danny Rivera, Ismael Cruz Cordova (HBO “The Undoing”), Bomba singer Chamir Bonano, and newcomer Sabrina Cintrón. The music video features cameos by Olympic medalist Laurie Hernandez, actors Rosario Dawson (Disney+ “The Mandalorian”), Lauren Luna Velez (Into the Spider-Verse), Oscar nominee Rosie Perez, Ramon Rodriguez (HBO "The Wire," Transformers II), Freddy Rodriguez (CBS "Bull"), Justina Machado(CBS "One Day At A Time"), Modesto Lacen (Netflix "Celia Cruz" series), artist José Parlá, hip hop legends Crazy Legs and Tony Touch, former AND1 Mixtape star Tim “Headache” Gittens, and DJ Janzism de Puerto Rico. Digital/vinyl available NOW on 10x Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri's label Uprising Music NYC.
Que Bonita Bandera 7" - Picture Disc + Comic Book
La Borinqueña comic book written by award winning graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. Cover art by Gustavo Vázquez and Juan Fernández. Interior art by Will Rosado and Chris Sotomayor.
¡La Borinqueña vive! Time has passed since Marisol has been seen. What became of her? Her friends? Most importantly, Puerto Rico? Who controls la estrella del camino and what does that mean for La Borinqueña’s fate? All of these questions and more will be revealed in the long awaited sequel to our best-selling graphic novel series! New release date: July 2021! We’re taking pre-orders for our next issue with one main cover and three variant covers! The first cover features art by Javier Salteres, Ana Teresa Rivera Fuentes, Sabrina Cintron, Francisco Javier Rodriguez, with art direction by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. Our first of three variant covers commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Puerto Rican flag and features art by Ana Teresa Rivera Fuentes with art direction by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez.
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Legendary world-renowned graffiti artist John “Crash” Matos who’s work draws many inspirations from cartoons to superhero comics collaborates for the first time ever on a comic book cover with award-winning graphic novelist, activist, and philanthropist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez on his creator-owned self-published series La Borinqueña. Our partners at Fine Art Pop have created new merchandise for this epic collaboration! Get your customized sweatshirts, mugs, water bottles, and more with beautiful art inspired by this collaboration! ORDER YOUR MERCHANDISE NOW!
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For a limited time we're offering a free La Borinqueña coloring book to all of our fans. These days it's up to all of us to become heroes and stay home to do our part to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. This is our gift to parents so that you can share this digital coloring book with your children. Print out these pages, then post photos or videos of yourselves coloring them. Tag us on our social media accounts and we'll share your art with everyone.
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DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE LA BORINQUEÑA COLORING BOOK WITH NEW PAGES!
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Celebrated author and illustrator Ed Rodríguez created the beloved character Kiki Koki 10 years ago. This beautiful children's book series has enamored children for a decade in beautifully illustrated tales about Boriken and the island's rich history. We're so proud to announce that in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Kiki Koki we have teamed up with Ed Rodriguez to produce a unique project available today. Thanks to our friends in London, England at Fine Art Pop we now have a beautiful Kiki Koki and La Borinqueña art print available for your purchase. Proceeds will go towards our La Borinqueña Grants Program which already has awarded $165,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations in Puerto Rico. Click here to purchase:
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Doctors, nurses, and other frontline medical workers across the U.S. and Puerto Rico are being forced to ration N95 masks or turn to inadequate bandanas, paper, and cloth masks — leaving them vulnerable to infection as they interact with COVID-19 patients. There are already reports of health care workers getting sick and dying as a result of a lack of proper protective gear. We have found and partnered with an FDA-certified manufacturer selling N95 equivalent masks at only $2/mask — a fraction of what hospitals and governments have been paying for N95 masks. Every dollar donated will go directly to mailing masks to health care facilities who request them through. For only $2, you can provide a safe mask to a frontline health care worker!
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As valuable and essential PPE supplies, quite rightly, go to our heroes on the Front Line; we're delighted to offer La Borinqueña Protective Filtered Face Masks, for some fun, positivity, color, and protection! This comfortable and durable face mask comes with 2 replaceable PM2.5 filters. These special filters are made from activated carbon and non-woven melt-blown filter cloth, a 5 layer filter system that effectively keeps away from PM2.5 and a range of airborne contaminants including droplets, dust and pollution. (PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) that have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers, which is about 3% the diameter of a human hair.) The PM2.5 filters last for 48-72 hours depending on usage and the environment they are used in. It's recommended approximately 2-3 days for frequent use and 5-7 days for occasional use. We'll be offering packs of filters so you can just keep changing them as you want. We recommend the main polyester mask is washed with soap and warm water regularly to keep it clean.
Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuiliding Puerto Rico is an anthology featuring contributions from writers and artists from the comic book industry like Frank Miller, Gail Simone, Greg Pak, Reginald Hudlin, Denys Cowan, Tony Daniel, Ken Lashley, Bill Sienkiewicz, Yanick Paquette, Gabby Rivera, Will Rosado, Jorge Jimenez, Mike Allred, Chris Sotomayor, to Puerto Rican and Latinx celebrities like Rosario Dawson, Rubén Blades, Javier Muñoz, Sonia Manzano and over 100 more. Produced and also featuring stories written by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, this anthology teams up his original character LA BORINQUEÑA with some of the most iconic comic book heroes of all time from DC COMICS: Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, The Flash and many others. Original stories also take us to the past to explore the beautiful history of PUERTO RICO as well as tales that envision a stronger and rebuilt island. 100% of the proceeds from this anthology will go to the continued work to help over 3 million Americans living in Puerto Rico, providing solar-powered lamps, food, clothing and so much more. These short stories remind us all that the true power of being a hero is inside each of us. When we come together as a united people, we will never be defeated! ¡El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!
Thanks to DC for generously giving our studio, Somos Arte, permission to use some of DC’s iconic characters in original stories for this anthology, whose proceeds Somos Arte will contribute towards the continued hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico.
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La Borinqueña is an original character and patriotic symbol presented in a classic superhero story created and written by graphic novelist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. Her powers are drawn from history and mysticism found on the island of Puerto Rico. The fictional character, Marisol Rios De La Luz, is a Columbia University Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate student living with her parents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She takes a semester of study abroad in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico. There she explores the caves of Puerto Rico and finds five similar sized crystals. Atabex, the Taino mother goddess, appears before Marisol once the crystals are united and summons her sons Yúcahu, spirt of the seas and mountains and Juracan, spirit of the hurricanes. They give Marisol superhuman strength, the power of flight, and control of the storms.
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is a graphic novelist most notably recognized as the writer and creator of the critically acclaimed and bestselling superhero series La Borinqueña. In addition, he is the recipient of the San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic efforts via the benefit anthology Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico featuring La Borinqueña teaming up with Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman and other DC Comics heroes. He self-published this anthology under his own studio Somos Arte and to date Edgardo has raised close to a quarter of a million dollars for grassroots organizations in Puerto Rico via the La Borinqueña Grants Program. As the Creative Director and owner of Somos Arte, a Brooklyn-based creative services studio he has worked with such notable clients as Atlantic Records, Columbia University, Sony Pictures and Marvel. In addition, Edgardo is a curator of art exhibitions having already produced three original Marvel comic book art exhibitions and his very own La Borinqueña for the Smithsonian Museum. Edgardo is also an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State giving talks and leading workshops in Latin America about how La Borinqueña speaks to social justice issues as a graphic novel. In addition, he is a curator of art exhibitions having already produced three original Marvel comic book art exhibitions and his very own La Borinqueña for the Smithsonian Museums and Fundación Cortés in Puerto Rico.
Edgardo continues to be recognized widely for his work on NBC, CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and numerous other media outlets for having already produced in addition to his own series La Borinqueña, graphic novels under the Darryl Makes Comics imprint which he co-owns with Darryl DMC McDaniels (from RUN DMC), and the comic book series Freak written by Emmy and Tony award winning writer John Leguizamo. He has also written for Marvel Comics critically acclaimed anthology, Guardians of the Galaxy: Tales of the Cosmos.
As part of his national tour he continues to speak on such topics as diversity in comic books and current socio-political issues related to Puerto Rico. The Smithsonian, The American Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Princeton University, Colgate University, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, New York Comic Con, Rhode Island School of Design, Viacom, Hasbro and many other institutions, libraries and events invite him to deliver keynote presentations and talks to audiences that range from elementary school children to graduate students .
For more information please visit www.la-borinquena.com and www.somosarte.com and follow Edgardo on social media on Twitter @MrEdgardoNYC and Instagram/Facebook @LaBorinquenaComics
Sept. 21 & Sept. 24, 2021 | La Paz Book Fair, Virtual
Sept. 28, 2021 | Boston College Education Resource Center, Virtual
Sept. 29, 2021 | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Oct. 4, 2021 | Fordham University, Bronx, NY
Oct. 7-10, 2021 | New York Comic Con, Manhattan, NY
Oct. 14, 2021 | Loraine County Community College, Elyria, OH
Oct. 15, 2021 | Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
Oct. 16, 2021 | Wilmington Delaware Library, Wilmington, DE
Oct. 23, 2021 | Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
Oct. 26, 2021 | University of California San Francisco, Virtual
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1st Issue Cover Artwork by Ralph Anthony ‘Rags’ Morales & Emilio Lopez, 60 pages including a bonus story.
2nd Issue Cover Artwork by George Perez & Juan Fernandez, 64 pages.
2nd Issue Variant Cover Artwork by Nicole Virella, 64 pages.
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NOTE: Personalized signed books will be signed with the name of the person purchasing the books. If you would like a different name, please email info@la-borinquena.com with your Name, Date & Transaction # along with the Name you would like to have signed immediately after your purchase.
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NOTE: Personalized signed books will be signed with the name of the person purchasing the books. If you would like a different name, please email info@la-borinquena.com with your Name, Date & Transaction # along with the Name you would like to have signed immediately after your purchase.
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NOTE: Personalized signed books will be signed with the name of the person purchasing the books. If you would like a different name, please email info@la-borinquena.com with your Name, Date & Transaction # along with the Name you would like to have signed immediately after your purchase.
