No regular Boston Comics Roundtable meeting on Thursday October 8.
Instead, everyone (newcomers included) are invited to…
We repeat: NO BCR meeting at the Library this week! We will be back as usual on Thursday, October 15th, 7 pm!
Author: Dan Mazur
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Boston Comic Con 2015
The Boston Comics Roundtable is very excited to be an exhibitor at Boston Comic Con 2015. We will be launching our latest anthology Spellbound, which will be available for purchase for only $8! Our past anthologies will also be available along with an assortment of work from our members.
We will also be hosting a number of featured artists, including:
Eric Boeker
(Fri. July 31, 12−1 pm)
Ever since he can remember, Eric Boeker has wanted to grow up to be a cartoonist, which is why he (like all other aspiring cartoonists) studied German Literature and grew up to be an engineer.
Thankfully, his cartoonist tendencies could not be repressed, and in 2005 he began to actively work on various independent cartoon projects, including creating the weekly, Gen-X, zombie sitcom comic “Commute of the Living Dead,” which can be seen on-line as part of Dig Boston’s Sunday Comics Project and at www.commuteofthelivingdead.com. He is also known to draw giant monsters and cute animals wearing dashing hats, when under extreme duress. Eric is a proud member of the Boston Comics Roundtable, a Boston-based collective of comic book artists and writers.
Greg Moutafis
(Fri. July 31, 2−3 pm)
Greg Moutafis has illustrated an eclectic mix of projects for Cengage, Caliber Comics, Children’s Hospital Boston, Jetpack Press, and Lollipop music magazine. His current release is the full color miniseries Boom!Squad with writer David Crouse.
Bob Flynn
(Fri. July 31, 4−5 pm)
Bob Flynn is a cartoonist and character designer known for his work in SpongeBob Comics, Nickelodeon Magazine, and Heeby Jeeby Comix. He heads up the art team as Director of Art & Animation at Boston-based FableVision Studios. Bob has also served as lead character designer on the animated series, Bravest Warriors, having designed fan-favorite characters including Catbug, Impossibear, Jelly Kid, and Plum…as well as shaping the look of all sorts of cute little creatures and weird monsters.
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Joey Peters
(Sat. August 1, 11 am−12 pm)Joey Peters is a writer, cartoonist and beauty contest champion. His work has appeared in In a Single Bound, Leftovers of the Living Dead, a few alt-weeklies, and all across the internet. His latest work is The Super Wizard Returns, a reinterpretation of Fletcher Hanks’ mad genius.
Catalina Rufin
(Sat. August 1, 12−1 pm)
Catalina Rufin is an illustrator, cartoonist, and zine-maker from Boston. Her work is inspired by Celtic culture and mythology, Studio Ghibli films, and 1970s rock. She tells stories about hope, and healing. She draws LOTS of fairies.
Cory Levine
(Sat. August 1, 1−2 pm)
Writer, editor and graphic designer Cory Levine is a former editorial staffer for Marvel Comics where he edited hundreds of collected editions of comic books, encyclopedic handbooks, special edition magazines, and foreign-licensed comics including the company’s well-received line of Soleil graphic album adaptations. In 2010 he founded First Edition Publishing, Inc. — a publishing solutions firm offering editorial packaging, graphic design and pre-press production services. His writing is featured in the VIZ Media graphic novels Monsuno Combat Chaos Vol. 2: Revenge/Sacrifice and Ben10 Omniverse Vol. 1: Ghost Ship. He lives and works in New Hampshire.
Heide Solbrig
(Sat. August 1, 2−3 pm)
Heide Solbrig, the mind behind WhateverFloatsYourBoat Productions, is a writer, filmmaker, and media artist. Solbrig’s scholarly and media work examines the history of capitalism and concentrates on what some have described as ‘economic storytelling,’ i.e., stories about how economics, history, and politics impact us in deeply personal ways. While Solbrig’s work engages with politics, personal narrative, and experimental media forms—she will admit to liking accessible serial narrative quite a bit as well—she is a fan of Joss Whedon as well as other independent fantasy, science fiction, and comic book forms. Her graphic novel The Dandelion King is available for purchase.
Jerel Dye
(Sat. August 1, 4−6 pm)
Jerel Dye is a cartoonist, illustrator, and artist living and working in the Boston area. He has several self published mini comics and has stories in anthologies like Inbound, Minimum Paige, Hellbound, and the Little Nemo tribute Dream Another Dream. His first graphic novel Pigs Might Fly is due to be released in 2016. Jerel also teaches courses in drawing, cartooning and comics, at the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, and does graphic design and media work for local non-profit organizations.
Joel Christian Gill
(Sun. August 2, 3−5 pm)
Joel Christian Gill is the chairman, CEO, president, director of development, majority and minority stock holder, manager, co-manager, regional manager, assistant to the regional manager, receptionist, senior black correspondent and janitor of Strange Fruit Comics. He is the author/illustrator of 2 forth coming books from Fulcrum Publishing Strange Fruit vol I Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History May 2014 and Tales of the Talented Tenth Fall 2014. In his spare time he is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and member of The Boston Comics Roundtable. He received his MFA from Boston University and a BA from Roanoke College. His secret lair is behind a secret panel in the kitchen of his house (sold separately) in New Boston, New Hampshire where he lives with his wife, four children a 2 talking dog and 2 psychic cats.
Please see the complete schedule of featured artists below:
Friday July 31
- 12:00 PM: Eric Boeker
- 2:00 PM: Greg Moutafis
- 4:00 PM: Bob Flynn
Saturday August 1
- 11:00 AM: Joey Peters
- 12:00 PM: Catalina Rufin
- 1:00 PM: Cory Levine
- 2:00 PM: Heide Solbrig
- 4:00 PM: Jerel Dye
Sunday August 2
- 3:00 PM: Joel Gill
We’ll be at table numbers 812 and 813. Do come by and say hello!
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Boston Creators Recognized by Harveys and Eisners
It’s awards season for mainstream American comics, and several of our local friends are getting attention from both Harvey and Eisner Award jurors.
At the San Diego Comic Con, the gorgeous, gigantic anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon), won the Eisner for Best Anthology and Best Design; among the star-studded list of contributors to the book is long-time Roundtabler Jerel Dye, whose stories have appeared in BCR anthologies Inbound 5 and Gulp!; Jerel also co-edited BCR and River Bird Comics’ Hellbound III:Darkness. Also in the Little Nemo anthology is Raul Gonzalez, whose stories appeared in the BCR’s Inbound 4, Inbound 5, and In a Single Bound #1, as well as Boston-area cartoonists Maris Wicks, Joe Quiñones, and Andrew MacLean. The Harvey awards have recognized Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream in their nominations as well, with a chance at both Best Anthology and the Special Award for Excellence in Presentation.
A panel from Jerel Dye’s entry in the anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Another friend of BCR received an Eisner nomination this year: comics writer and scholar A. David Lewis (who co-edited the Colonial Comics anthology in which several BCR members were represented) got the nod for his tome American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan).
Bob Flynn has contributed stories to Inbound 4, Inbound 5, and Gulp! a monster comics anthology for KIDS! (which he co-edited); he’s also a frequent contributor to Spongebob Comics, which was nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers category — we wish the best of luck to the two Bobs!
An excerpt from Bob Flynn’s story in Spongebob Comics #37 Congratulate Bob and Jerel in person — buy their comics and even get a sketch! — when each appears as Featured Artist at the BCR Table at the Boston Comic Con (Bob Flynn from 4:00-5:00 on Friday, July 31st; Jerel Dye from 4:00-6:00 on Saturday, August 1st).
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The Super Wizard Returns
Joey Peters demonstrates the value of recycling for cartoonists:Peters mines the detritus of the Golden Age, namely the weird sequential outbursts of the mad genius Fletcher Hanks, using them to build his own comics empire from spare parts. Bringing his own contemporary sensibility to the material, Peters has actually drawn more pages using Hanks’ characters (including Fantomah, Stardust the Super Wizard, and Big Red Maclane — all in the public domain), than Hanks himself did in his brief, meteoric career. Peters’ newest Hanksian saga, The Super Wizard Returns, Chapter. 1, is now available as a digital download on Comixology.
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SYDNEY PADUA at Porter Books
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Coming up next Monday, May 11, 7 PM: Porter Square Books hosts Sydney Padua, who will be speaking about her new book, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage , “a graphic novel debut that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into an unexpected, and hilarious, series of adventures.”- Buy The Trilling Adventures of Lovelace and Bbage here.
- Read Part 2 on her site!
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Unsung Heroes and Invisible People
Local indie comics superstars Joel Christian Gill and Raul Gonzalez appear, along with novelist Helen Elaine Lee, in a panel entitled “Unsung Heroes and Invisible People” Wednesday, April 22, 2105 from 8 to 9:30 pm, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Admission $10.
When the market is saturated with celebrity tell-alls, how does one go about getting ink for individuals the world should know more about? Three authors discuss how their books shine a light on people whose lives are far from positions of influence or power, through words alone or words and pictures. Register by phone (617-547-678), online (course code: WRLF Sec. 03: 1),or pay at the door ($10). 8-930 pm.
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Joel Christian Gill, Strange Fruit Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives of Black History (Fulcrum Publishing). Gill has an M.F.A. in painting from Boston University, a master’s in art history, and undergraduate degrees in fine/studio arts and commercial art. In this graphic novel, he combines his love of art with his desire to tell stories of African-Americans that history books have left behind. Gill is Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and a member of the Boston Comics Roundtable. (https://joelchristiangill.wordpress.com/)![serpents-gift[1]](http://bostoncomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/serpents-gift1.jpg)
Helen Elaine Lee. Her first novel, The Serpent’s Gift, was published by Atheneum in 1994 and her second, Water Marked, by Scribner in 1999. She recently finished “Life Without,” a novel about the lives of ten people incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons, and “The Hard Loss,” a novel about a DNA exoneree’s first week of freedom after 22 years of incarceration for a crime he did not commit. Stories from “Life Without” have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, and Best African American Fiction 2009 (Bantam Books). She is Associate Professor of Fiction Writing in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and a Writer in Residence with the Solstice Low-Residency M.F.A. program. A member of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she serves on its Freedom to Write Committee, and teaches in its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she directs and helped establish. (www.helenelainelee.net)![LSPA-1[1]](http://bostoncomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/LSPA-11.jpg)
Raul Gonzalez, Lowriders in Space (Chronicle Books). He is an award-winning artist, also known as children’s book illustrator, Raul III. An inspiring teacher, Raul has taught at both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Boston. Gonzalez’ first book was illustrated with black, blue and red Bic pens, the materials he recalls using as a young boy growing up in El Paso, Texas. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States including Princeton University and Art Space in Raleigh, North Carolina. (http://www.raulthethird.com/)Writers Life series advisors: Barbara Beckwith & Yleana Martinez. Moderator: Charles Coe.
For National Writers Union info: www.nwuboston.org, www.facebook.com/NWUBoston
A Write up of the event.
