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  • We rock the holiday fair circuit this December

    Boston Bazaar Bizarre 2011The 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.

  • Meeting Tonight & Happy Birthday, Jay!

    "Left-Overs of the Living Dead," edited by Jay Kennedy — Happy Birthday, Jay!!!

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    It’s also BCR member Jay Kennedy’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Jay!!! Come help him celebrate properly after the meeting!

  • Writer’s Night and BCR Presents: Projector Night!

    "Chiyo Dances with Storm Troopers" by Hyun Supul
    How would the first page of the best graphic novel of all time read? Join us an hour early tonight for Writer’s Night at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square to find out! If you’d like to review the scripts beforehand, you can download them here. We’ll be discussing all the scripts under the heading, “Best First Page.”

    And at 7:30pm, we’ll have the usual meeting in the usual place: the Nelson Mandela Room, the big room at the Democracy Center. Tonight BCR Presents: Projector Night! Come see BCR’s Hyun Supul‘s laptop projector project recent projects! Your retinae too, dear reader, can be pummeled by light bounced off a silver screen so that shapes forged in the crucibles of local cartoonists’ imaginations may be rendered unto your own. And see stuff lit up big, too! Want to show your art- or video work? Bring a thumb drive tonight and share the love!

  • Reception and Meeting tonight

    Join us tonight either from 6pm-8pm at the Comics Art New England art show reception at the New England Institute of Art or at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    Please note Writer’s Night has been postponed to next week, Thursday, November 10 @ 6:30pm, due to tonight’s art reception.

  • Hellbound II in Cambridge Chronicle and Party TONIGHT!

    See you tonight in costume at 7:00pm at Tommy Doyle’s (96 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA) in Harvard Sq. for the Hellbound II Launch Party!

    To whet your appetite, Hellbound II is featured in an article in this week’s edition of the Cambridge Chronicle. It includes nice quotes from Hellbound II editor Roho and contributors E.J. Barnes, and Gabriel Robinson, alongside mentions of E.J.’s collaborator Patrick Flaherty and Jesse Lonergan’s cover artwork. Go, Roho and everyone in Hellbound II!

    Want more? Latest batch of interviews from the matchless Hellbound blogger Steve Cartisano:

    Interview with Gregery Miller
    Interview with Joshua Hoaglund
    Interview with Roho, Jesse Lonergan, and Steve Cartisano

  • BCR 5th Anniversary Party tonight, Hellbound II tomorrow night!

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room. We’ll be celebrating 5 years of the Boston Comics Roundtable! Come have cake and see what cartoonists are like when they’re happy! Happy 5th Birthday, BCR!!!

    The party will then move over to John Harvard’s in Harvard Sq. at 8:15pm. Join us there for further carousing!

    Tomorrow night, Friday, October 28th @ 7:00pm, we’ll all get some rest by partying some more at the Hellbound II Release Party at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Wear a costume and click here so you have all the details!

    So how did Roho put together Hellbound II anyway? See part of the answer in this blog post about the screenprinting session that BCR member Joel Gill led at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Ever wanted to see elegance in motion via a man doing his craft? Behold Joel Gill with a squeegee.

    In other local comics-related news this weekend, E.J. Barnes writes:

    For 4 days only — Revenge of Freeky Fright Night Annual Horror Ho-Down
    28–31 October @the Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Avenue, Fenway, Boston

    Opening Reception — Friday, 28 October, 7-9pm
    Costume Ball/Contest — Saturday, 29 October, 7-9pm
    Gallery hours 1–7 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

    And our own Franklin Einspruch delivered a keynote speech at Augusta State University in Georgia last Friday on “High and Low: What is Excellence in the Arts?“. Looking for information-dense prose that sparkles like firecrackers in addition to mentioning kimchee, the Roadrunner cartoons, and Tintoretto? Look no further.

    See you tonight and tomorrow night, too!