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  • Good Morning Gorgon

    Good Morning Gorgon

    Good Morning Gorgon
    Another great new comic bubbles up from the BCR cauldron: “Good Morning, Gorgon” from the team of Ben Doane and Olivia Li, plus colors and tones by Jamie Koh! This book is 40 pages of adorable. It will be on sale at RIPExpo, but you don’t have to wait…

    What’s the book about? “Single mama gorgon Maddie has six hissing kids. Planning birthday parties is hard, especially when your children live on your head!”

    It’s eight dollars, black and white (perfect bound!), and, we repeat, totally adorable. Buy it here!

  • Up Down Clown

    Up Down Clown

    Front cover jpgNinth Art Press is publishing “Up Down Clown,” a graphic novel by Whit Taylor.Taylor is one of the most distinctive voices in independent comics today, and her association with Cambridge-based Ninth Art Press includes editing the recent SubCultures anthology. (more…)

  • Thursday 3-12 Meeting Presentation: A look back at BCR anthologies

    Thursday 3-12 Meeting Presentation: A look back at BCR anthologies

    This Thursday, Dan Mazur will present, a little walk down memory lane, relating the history of BCR anthology publishing, and bring in examples of all the anthologies that have come out of the group, including some rarities. Inspiring anecdotes and cautionary tales — you may never look at a BCR anthology the same way again!

  • Inaction Comics No. 1

    Inaction Comics No. 1

    Inaction Comics No1
    Preorder Inaction Comics no. 1! Contributors include: Kimball Anderson – MJ Robinson – Paul K. Tunis – L. Nichols – LB Lee – Laurel Lynn Leake – Kelsea Rain – Alyssa Berg – Andrew White – Susie Oh – Klára Grancicova – Cathy G. Johnson The book is $12, ~100 color pages, perfect bound. All pre-orders get free shipping and will greatly help us with printing costs. The book will debut at RIPExpo on March 28-29th and any pre-orders that can’t be picked up in person will be shipped in early April.

  • Machiavelli

    Machiavelli

    Machiavelli
    Lucky Kickstarter contributors (like me) are getting their copies of our friend Don MacDonald’s gorgeous historical graphic novel, “Machiavelli.”   Those less lucky will have to wait awhile for hard copies of the book to be available — but in the  meantime it’s there for the taking at Comixology. 

  • Colonial Comics a Geek Dad Favorite

    Colonial Comics a Geek Dad Favorite

    Colonial Comics makes Geek Dad’s  list of Best Books of 2014!  “Comics and graphic novels are an extremely moving way to teach about history. Great comic artists can show the joy, anguish, discovery, and struggle that those who came before us experienced.” (Pictured: Maverick Island by J.L. Bell & Joel Gill)  http://geekdad.com/2015/01/best-books-2014/