BCR is proud to feature three of our finest at the table (D723) this Saturday at the Boston Comic Con. Catalina Rufin, Doug De Rocher and Joey Peters will be selling their comics, signing & meeting-and-greeting their fans. Be one!
Featured artist schedule, Saturday, August 13th:
1:00-200 pm – Catalina Rufin
2:00-3:00 Doug De Rocher
3:00-4:00 Joey Peters
Come find us this weekend at the BOSTON COMIC CON, located at the teeming Seaport World Trade Center! We’ll be at table D723. (If you can’t find us, just ask Gillian Armstrong, she’s sure to know!) We’ll have all the great BCR books, but most exciting of all… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the WORLD PREMIERE of BCR’s newest anthology, that Kickstarter Sensation, hot off the presses….
Next door at table D724, you’ll find BCR members Dan Mazur and Jesse Lonergan. Jesse will have copies of his trippy sci-fi newsprint masterpiece, HEDRA!
This Sunday, July 12, Franklin Einspruch will lead a workshop, “Using Your Head to Draw the Figure,” at the Boston Comics Workspace.
You can reserve your spot (for a mere $10) at Eventbrite.
This workshop will cover the basics of drawing the human figure out of your imagination. It will introduce a simple system that relies on proportion, geometry, and just a little bit of anatomy to get a drawing of a person to read well in a panel. The artist can elaborate on this system to make figures appropriate to any genre, from superhero to slice-of-life. We will also talk about working from reference.
About Franklin Einsprich: While maintaining a studio practice as a painter in Boston, Franklin Eisnpruch is also active in art criticism and comics, & has long experience in alternative publishing. His art has appeared in 18 solo exhibitions and 36 group exhibitions. Einspruch has authored 171 essays and art reviews for many publications including Art in America. He produces a webcomic, The Moon Fell On Me. His imprint, New Modern Press, Comics as Poetry and Aphorism for Artists.
WHEN
Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
WHERE
Boston Comics Workspace, Studio A306, 561 Windsor Street, Somerville, MA 02453, Somerville, MA 02143
BCR’s Jonny Bloozit’s epic spiritual noir “The Nowhere Man” is Kickstarter-ing. Jonny is raising funds to collect his fabulous minis in a larger-format, perfect bound graphic novel. Will your children someday look up at you, with wide, innocent, trusting eyes and say “What did you do when The Nowhere Man was on Kickstarter, (daddy/mommy/parental designation of your choice)?”
What will you tell them?
Three great classes are being offered (for teens and adults) this summer at the Boston Comics Workspace:
DRAWING WITH INK FOR COMIC ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS, taught by Jerel Dye
Starts: June 9- June 30
Thursday, 6:00pm-9:00pm
COMICS FORM/FILM FORM, taught by Heide Solbrig — Learn the Language of Film for Making Comics!!
Starts: July12, Tuesday, 6:00pm-9:00pm
INTRODUCTION TO COMICS 1 taught by Heide Solbrig — Graphic storytelling and comics.
Starts: Thursday, July. 7-August 25th
More details and register here!
Celebrate the publication of Muqtatafat, the first anthology of independent comics from the Arab world published in the U.S.
Edited by Boston and Cambridge-based team of Anna Mudd, A. David Lewis and Paul Beran, and published by local Ninth Art Press, Muqtatafat presents to North American readers a glimpse of the vibrant and diverse world of Arab comics, featuring 15 artists from Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. Political, personal, satirical and whimsical, these comics present unusual insights into the creativity and culture of the Middle East.
At this event, the editors and publisher will discuss and display the contents of the book, describe the process of its publication, and give an introduction to the world of Arab comics in general, including the legal and censorship problems facing Samandal, the groundbreaking Lebanese comics journal, for which all sales of Muqtatafat are a benefit.
THURSDAY FEB 4, 6:30 PM AT THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 449 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE.
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/678183148988279/