The BCR playing card deck can be ordered online, direct from the printer, Drivethru Cards, for $15/deck:
Author: Dan Mazur
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Spellbound 1 & 2: reviewed!
Better late than never, we’ve just caught up with these two reviews of our Spellbound anthologies, from Graphic Policy, dating back to last December:
https://graphicpolicy.com/2018/12/09/review-spellbound-vol-1/
” a diverse collection of stories that reflects the many shades and shapes that the city possesses. The stories… are funny, enigmatic, and accessible. The art is both alluring and vivid…. an excellent set that will have readers wanting to peak around their city for those mystical clues that makes their places magical.
https://graphicpolicy.com/2018/12/16/review-spellbound-vol-2-urban-magic/
“…the comics collection is excellent and different. Readers will both enjoy and be intrigued by these new voices. The stories are fun and exciting. The art is alluring and gorgeous…. a set of stories which coalesce into an interesting narrative of a city beneath its underbelly.”
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BCR Card Deck debuts at FanExpo Boston, August 16-18
BCR will be at FanExpo Boston this weekend, Friday August 16-Sunday August 18 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The brand new BCR Playing Card Deck will be available to the public for the first time: 54 works of art by BCR artist, in a sturdy tuck-box, for a mere $15! The second printing of our LGBTQ anthology “Being True” will also be on sale, after nearly a year of being sold out! Come see us at Artists Alley Table A1200! (Friday 4-9 pm, Saturday 10-7, Sunday 10-5.) More info on the show here.
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Being True Gets Prism Award Nomination
BCR’s LGBTQ-themed anthology BEING TRUE has been honored with a nomination for a Prism Award in the Anthology category. We are all bursting with Pride here, for editors Renie Jesanis, Kyri Lorenz, and Steph Rose Glass. BCR’s first major award nomination!
From Prism’s announcement:
PRISM COMICS, THE QUEER COMICS EXPO and the CARTOON ART MUSEUM are excited to announce the Nominees for the THIRD ANNUAL PRISM AWARDS. The Prism Awards and the Prism Award Honorary Mentions will be presented at COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO, July 18 – 21, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center. The date and time of the Awards Presentation will be announced with the release of Comic-Con’s programming schedule.
The Prism Awards are presented to comic works by queer authors and works that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations of LGBTQAI+ characters in fiction or nonfiction comics.
The goal of the Awards is to recognize, promote, and celebrate diversity and excellence in the field of queer comics.
The Nominees and Awards are voted on by diverse panels of comics professionals, educators, librarians, journalists and writers.
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Somerville Public Library Comix Con
BCR will be there! Lots of individual members and our usual group table. Whatever you’re doing for Free Comic Book Day, come by the Somerville Library as well. At 2:30, EJ Barnes will moderate a panel of local comics artists, including Liz Bolduc, Anna Christine, and Dan Mazur, on “The Greater Boston Comic Scene.”
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BCR Collaborative Project: Assembly Line Comics
BCR is about to embark on a new group project. This will be a process-oriented exercise designed to involve as many members as possible. We’ll create as many 3-pager comics as we can, breaking the work down into assembly-line-type steps, each produced by a different creative team. We’ll try to approximate the “Marvel method,” where the dialogue is written after the story is penciled. Anyone can take multiple roles, but not on the same team.Below is the proposed breakdown for how each comic will be created.1. Idea person: pitch/proposal for 3 pages of comics (1-2 paragraphs). It can be a self-contained story, or the opening of something longer, or even 3 pages from the middle or end of a story (which doesn’t have to exist in full).2. Character designer: draw character designs for the characters in step 1’s outline.3. Plotter: write up a “Marvel style” page-by-page breakdown of the outline. Descriptions without dialogue.4. Penciller: pencil 3 pages. Leave room for word balloons!5. Dialoguer: write dialog/captions for art after the fact, Marvel-style6. Inker: inks the previous artist’s pencils (either over originals or, photocopied onto fresh Bristol or ink digitally)7. Letterer: hand or digital.8. Colorist/graytoner: add tones or color.There should be a reasonable amount of flexibility as we go along, depending on how people tackle each step. This should be more about process than product, and having fun. There’s obviously still a lot to be worked out/figured out as we go along.We’ll organize this via the BCR Google Group, so watch for messages there!For updated status of the project, see this page: http://bostoncomics.com/assembly-line-comics/
