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  • Hellbound V: End of Comics

    Hellbound V: End of Comics

    Published by River Bird Comics

    Edited by Stephen Cartisano

    48+foldouts pages ~ $10 | Risograph 2 colors. | 9x5 inches

    What is the end for you? sometimes is death sometimes is the end of a bad relationship, sometimes is just running out of rope. Hellbound V is the end of the Hellbound series with a small set of stories that will take you over the edge. Mature readers only. Returning contributors include Dan Mazur (Comics: A Global History), Ellen T. Crenshaw (Nobodies Volume II, Womanthology), Alison Burke and Tara Harris (A.R.R.O.), Patrick Flaherty, E.J. Barnes (Tales of the Ling, An Invitation to the World of Luisa Felix), and Clayton McCormack (Dead Meat, Heavy Metal Magazine). Joining them for the first time on this volume are Gary Bonesteel (Killer Ink Comics), Ben Doane (Subcultures), and Brenton Barnes (Bartkira, Mister Reusch’s Black and White Illustration Book). Press Release.

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  • No meeting this week: Party instead!

    Don’t forget, no regular BCR meeting this week, instead, on Thursday October 30 from 6-9 pm,  we’ll be at the Hellbound V release/Halloween Party, at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, 159 Brattle Street in Cambridge.  Lots of fun and games!  More info here!

  • The fifth annual MICE: Oct 4-5!

    The fifth annual MICE: Oct 4-5!

    This is it!  Boston’s only independent-alternative comics show!  MICE – the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, presented by the Boston Comics Roundtable, at Lesley University in Porter Square.  1815 Mass. Ave, 2nd floor. Saturday 10-6,  Sunday  11-4.   BCR members will  be everywhere, but the official BCR table is D13.  All info is at www.micexpo.org.   See you there!!!

  • Hellbound V: End of Comics Marks the End of an Era

    Hellbound V: End of Comics Marks the End of an Era

    BOSTON, September 22 – The Boston Comics Roundtable, in conjunction with River Bird Comics, is pleased to announce the publication of Hellbound V: End of Comics. Aptly themed, this will be the final installment in a series of original horror comics anthologies from some of Boston’s most celebrated creators. No fear or phobia will be left unprovoked. More.
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  • “Pigs Might Fly” from Dye, Abadzis, Leake

    “Pigs Might Fly” from Dye, Abadzis, Leake

    Two BCR people (Dye, Leake) and a recent MICE guest (Abadzis) are involved in this exciting book.  Jerel Dye calls it:   An all ages steam punk (diesel punk?) graphic novel to be published by First Second. … Nick Abadzis, of Laika fame wrote it, I am illustrating it, and Laurel Lynn Leake is doing the color…”

    http://comicsalliance.com/pigs-might-fly-announcement/

  • SubCultures anthology

    SubCultures anthology

    Published by BCR affiliate Ninth Art Press, edited by Whit Taylor, and featuring work by lots of BCR members and other Boston-area artists (and great artists from all over), the SubCultures Anthology is a collection of comics about various subcultures.   Coming in September, and available for preorder now at www.ninthartpress.com. (Cover art by Box Brown)