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

Author: Cherry Ogata

  • Reception and Meeting tonight

    Join us tonight either from 6pm-8pm at the Comics Art New England art show reception at the New England Institute of Art or at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    Please note Writer’s Night has been postponed to next week, Thursday, November 10 @ 6:30pm, due to tonight’s art reception.

  • Hellbound 2 (new edition) is now on sale!

    New England’s most disturbed comic creators present a dozen nightmares in black and white: a fiend in the next hospital bed, a comic book that drives men to murder, a plague with feathers, a love-triangle in a cemetery… plus a whole unholy host of demons, psychos and misunderstood monsters. These will be your companions for a cozy evening of blood and gore and over-the-top horror as you snuggle up with the second volume of Hellbound. From Ninth Art Press and River Bird Comics, who brought you the first Hellbound! in association with the Boston Comics Roundtable!

    Buy it here!

  • Comics Art New England: Exhibition

    BCR Member Prof. Kyle Lindholm of The New England Institute of Art writes:

    Please join Gallery Club and Gallery 303 in welcoming
    Comics Art New England
    With over 100 original comics art pieces!
     
    Exhibition:
    October  18th – November 19th
    Reception:
    Thursday, November 3rd, 6-8pm
     
    If you missed our art show at MICE 2011, here’s your chance to see it in its new installation at The New England Institute of Art!
     
    Featuring the art of Kimball Anderson, E. J. Barnes, Cara Bean, J. L. Bell, Eric Boeker, Jim Bredt, Heather Bryant, Ellen Crenshaw, Doug DeRocher, Jerel Dye, Bob Flynn, Daniel Gessel, Joel Gill, Lawrence Gillette, Tyler James, DeAnna Marie Johnson, Patt Kelley, Renee Kurilla, Laurel Leake, Leann Leake, Cathy Leamy, Ron LeBrasseur, John Lechner, Kyle Lindholm, Joel Lolar, Jesse Lonergan, Dave Marshall, Daniel Mazur, Clayton McCormack, Dan Moynihan, Adrienne Nunez, Line O, Cherry Ogata, Shelli Paroline, Hallie Jay Pope, Ben Prager, Ansis Purins, Gabe Robinson, Roho, Aya Rothwell, Jacob Saariaho, Carl Tsui, Jason Viola, Andy Wong, Matt Young, and Keith Zulawnik

  • Hellbound II in Cambridge Chronicle and Party TONIGHT!

    See you tonight in costume at 7:00pm at Tommy Doyle’s (96 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA) in Harvard Sq. for the Hellbound II Launch Party!

    To whet your appetite, Hellbound II is featured in an article in this week’s edition of the Cambridge Chronicle. It includes nice quotes from Hellbound II editor Roho and contributors E.J. Barnes, and Gabriel Robinson, alongside mentions of E.J.’s collaborator Patrick Flaherty and Jesse Lonergan’s cover artwork. Go, Roho and everyone in Hellbound II!

    Want more? Latest batch of interviews from the matchless Hellbound blogger Steve Cartisano:

    Interview with Gregery Miller
    Interview with Joshua Hoaglund
    Interview with Roho, Jesse Lonergan, and Steve Cartisano

  • BCR 5th Anniversary Party tonight, Hellbound II tomorrow night!

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room. We’ll be celebrating 5 years of the Boston Comics Roundtable! Come have cake and see what cartoonists are like when they’re happy! Happy 5th Birthday, BCR!!!

    The party will then move over to John Harvard’s in Harvard Sq. at 8:15pm. Join us there for further carousing!

    Tomorrow night, Friday, October 28th @ 7:00pm, we’ll all get some rest by partying some more at the Hellbound II Release Party at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Wear a costume and click here so you have all the details!

    So how did Roho put together Hellbound II anyway? See part of the answer in this blog post about the screenprinting session that BCR member Joel Gill led at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Ever wanted to see elegance in motion via a man doing his craft? Behold Joel Gill with a squeegee.

    In other local comics-related news this weekend, E.J. Barnes writes:

    For 4 days only — Revenge of Freeky Fright Night Annual Horror Ho-Down
    28–31 October @the Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Avenue, Fenway, Boston

    Opening Reception — Friday, 28 October, 7-9pm
    Costume Ball/Contest — Saturday, 29 October, 7-9pm
    Gallery hours 1–7 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

    And our own Franklin Einspruch delivered a keynote speech at Augusta State University in Georgia last Friday on “High and Low: What is Excellence in the Arts?“. Looking for information-dense prose that sparkles like firecrackers in addition to mentioning kimchee, the Roadrunner cartoons, and Tintoretto? Look no further.

    See you tonight and tomorrow night, too!

  • Hellbound II Launch Party!

    The Boston Comics Roundtable will be horrifying readers again this Halloween with the second installment of its Hellbound anthology of independent horror comics written and drawn by local creators. All comics creators, fans, and friends are invited to celebrate the premiere of the new book at a comics-themed Halloween Party Friday, October 28 at 7:00 P.M. at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square:

    Tommy Doyle’s
    96 Winthrop Street
    Cambridge, MA (    map)

    Admission is free!  Costumes are strongly encouraged! For more information, visit the Hellbound website.  Hope to see you there!