We’d like to give a big thanks to BCR member Franklin Einspruch for putting this incredibly useful calendar. It compiles nearly all the notable comic book shows for 2012. Most are in the U.S., but a few international shows also get a mention.
Read the original post on (the shockingly-still-available-URL) comiccons.org, a site that Franklin set up. If you have another show you’d like to add, he urges you to contact him directly.
The Boston Comics Roundtable will be as busy as elves this December, racing from one holiday fair to another in order to deliver you the best gifts of the season. Miss us one weekend, catch us the next weekend. Sometimes we’re even at two different shows on the same day! Yes, we’re that good, and so’s our stuff. Do your friends and family a favor this season and give them what they really want: genuine Boston comics.
Boston Bazaar Bizarre
December 4, 2011, Noon – 6pm
BCA Cyclorama
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
This is a monster of a show, with over 4,000 visitors last year. We’re surrounded by big talent from crafters and artists from around Boston and beyond. We’ll be towards the back of the room, shilling comics and doing sketches for the crowds. Pro tip: we will be accepting credit cards at this show. $1 admission.
Comicazi-con and Baddass Bazaar
December 4, 2011, 10am – 4pm
Dilboy VFW Hall
Davis Square, Somerville
Our friendly local comic shop in Davis Square embraces the holidays like no other, with a rollicking holiday fair. You’ll find stacks of classic comics alongside artists selling their new books. $4 admission.
CCAE Holly Fair
December 10, 2011, 10am – 5:30pm
December 11, 2011, 12pm – 5pm
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
42 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Cambridge’s oldest craft fair is supporting its newest (and best) arts scene by allowing us some space to sell our comics. The Holly Fair offers a wide range of gift ideas from a lot of talented people.
SLAM (Saturday Local Artists Market)
December 3, 2011, 12pm – 4pm
December 10, 2011, 12pm – 4pm
December 17, 2011, 12pm – 4pm
The Burren
247 Elm St.
Somerville, MA 02144
Not only can The Burren pour you the best pint of Guinness in Boston, they’ll sell you some comics and crafts to boot this December! SLAM happens all year (on alternating Saturdays), but they pull out all the stops for the holiday season.
Breaking even our hopeful expectations, the day’s attendance for M.I.C.E. totaled a whopping 924 attendees. Add in the over 80 exhibitors and that’s over a thousand people that turned out to celebrate what an amazingly awesome town Boston is for comics!
Big ups to Dan Mazur, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb, Rebecca Viola, Cherry Ogata, Jaime Garmendia, and everyone that made M.I.C.E. a success.
Tonight the Harvard Book Store will celebrate the release of its first-ever comics anthology, Minimum Paige. We’re also pretty sure this is the first comics anthology printed by an in-store robot, a print-on-demand machine named “Paige M. Gutenborg.” Yes, the future has well and truly arrived.
The event is open to all. If you’re a Boston Comics Roundtable member, you’re especially welcome, as we had a hand in helping to produce Minimum Paige. The normal BCR meeting will still be held in its normal time and place for those interested, but if you’re so inclined, you can come to the party instead.
Thursday, September 22nd, 7 pm, Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store and the Boston Comics Round Table are excited to celebrate the release of Harvard Book Store’s first comics anthology, Minimum Paige, printed on Paige M. Gutenborg, our in-house book machine. The evening will include improvisational cartoons by local artists, a raffle to benefit a neighborhood comics-related charity, a chance to meet some of our contributors, as well as wine and light refreshments.
Minimum Paige showcases the talent of local artists including Ignatz Award-winner Liz Prince (“Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?”), DC Comics artist Joe Quinones (“Wednesday Comics”), Boston Comics Roundtable editors Dave Kender and Dan Mazur, and many more.Minimum Paige will also feature profiles of the Cambridge area’s most talented graphic novel creators.
The anthology also features work by winners of Harvard Book Store’s first-ever comics contest, which ran for six weeks during the summer.
[via Harvard Book Store]
Tonight we will have a change of venue, moving from our cosy spot in the Democracy Center to just a few blocks up the street at John Harvard’s Brew House (map). We’ll be back to our normal place and time next week.