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  • 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!

  • BCR Turns Five Today!

    Today is the fifth anniversary of the founding of Boston Comics Roundtable! Happy Birthday, BCR!

    Founder Dave Kender writes:

    Today the Boston Comics Roundtable celebrates its FIFTH ANNIVERSARY! Nine anthologies, 198 members, a yearly convention, a third (and largest) meeting space, and a fleet of comics created by individual members. I could not be more pleased with how we’ve grown.

    From the beginning, this has been group effort. Each new member brings something new and exciting. While we continue to stick to our mission of building a community and supporting local artists, I don’t think we’ll ever lose that.

    Thank you to everyone who’s contributed to our success.

    Congratulations, BCR! Five years is an exciting milestone!

  • Jesse Lonergan listed in The Best American Comics 2011!!!

    Joe and Azat by Jesse Lonergan
    Hellbound 2 Launch Party Poster by Jesse Lonergan, editor

    BCR member and Hellbound 2 editor Jesse Lonergan has been listed among this year’s Notables in The Best American Comics 2011 for his graphic novel, Joe and Azat. Congratulations, Jesse!!!

  • BCR Presents: Fight Choreography for Comics and Animation!

    Hyun's "Kenshin and Kaoru"

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

    Tonight, we’re excited to start an instructional series of brief talks on making comics!  BCR Founder Dave Kender writes:

    The BCR’s own Hyun Supul will kick off our presentation series with a demonstration of fight choreography for comics and animation. We’ll have fake swords, but real advice. Join us.

    And here is Hyun’s description of what he will be demonstrating tonight:

    A presentation about the basics of fight choreography for those who would like to have an introduction to the concept of staged fights (and apply the concepts for comics creation). Will not teach you how to be a Ninja or Zorro in 15 mins, but will cover both unarmed and armed staged combat.

  • Meeting tonight

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

    Exciting to see so many new members! Welcome to BCR, and please keep coming!

  • Dan Gessel’s Patrons series!


    Tonight, BCR member Dan Gessel will be showing around his evocative Patrons series, an ongoing collection of remarkably sensitive comics portraits of coffeehouse patrons (see upper right). Also shown here is one of his emotion-based character grids, this one depicting “Anxiety and Sadness.”  He drew it as part of a series of character development exercises for his current comics project, Berlin Junction (be sure to check out his beautiful architectural studies at the bottom of the page, too).  For more of his work, please go visit his website at http://www.syntheticblue.com/.  To see his Patrons portraits up close and personal, join us tonight!

    We’ll be convening an hour early tonight at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for Writer’s Night. More information here!

    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.