September 2017 – THE BOSTON COMICS ROUNDTABLE: a community of comics creators, meeting weekly since 2006.

September 29, 2017

BCR in “One Page Stinkers”

No less than seven BCR members are featured in the latest issue of the Portland, Maine-based anthology, “One Page Stinkers.” As the name indicates, this is an anthology of one-page comics (stinking is optional). This is a fun anthology, risograph printed in mini-comic format. There’s always a theme, and this issue’s is “heat wave.” They …

September 27, 2017

The Double Translation Project

This summer (July 27, to be precise), the BCR meeting was consumed with a collaborative/creative activity, which Levon Gyulkhasian, who introduced it to the group, calls “Double Translation.” In this timed activity, we initially select, at random, several visual “prompts” to get us started (we drew them from an actual hat!) Using the prompts as inspiration, each …