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.
Boston Comics Roundtable members ROHO and Jesse Lonergan will be showing around a proof preview of their Hellbound 2 books with a handmade box, screenprinted under the guidance of Joel Gill, all of whom will be exhibitors today at MICE 2011. Get an exclusive sneak peak of the book and a flyer about the Hellbound Halloween Party on 10/28/11 at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square!
Contributors include MICE Panelist J. L. Bell and MICE Exhibitors Alex Cormack, Lindsay Moore, and Laurel Leake (see her at the Boston Comics Roundtable table), who were just announced two nights ago as award-winners of the contest for Minimum Paige, the Harvard Bookstore’s first comics anthology! Congratulations, John, Alex, Lindsay and Laurel! Stop by their tables and attend the “Comics & Children’s Literature: Smart Comics For Kids” MICE panel today at 12:15pm to congratulate them in person!
[via Hellbound, Oz and Ends, and MICE]
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]
The writers and artists of the Boston Comics Roundtable will be signing books at Harrison’s Comics in Salem, MA on Saturday, October 1st from 12pm-4pm. Get your copies of Inbound, Outbound, and Hellbound signed by the authors and illustrators themselves. Our artists will also be doing free caricatures and monster sketches, so please come on by.
This event is organized by our own Eric Boeker. To get you in the mood for going to Salem in the thick of Halloween season, we present the veritably transportative cover of Eric’s MICE debut, Commute of the Living Dead * Volume One: Blood and Coffee. See the MICE website for more details. Better yet, stop by his table this Saturday at MICE 2011!
Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.
In other news, BCR members have been making paper at the Boston Paper Collective for the upcoming art edition of Hellbound II, published by Roho of Riverbird Studios and edited by Jesse Lonergan. Check out all the papermaking mayhem at the Hellbound blog!
Join us tomorrow night at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.
In other news, several BCR members will be at SPX in Bethesda, MD this weekend. Good luck, guys!
Our hearts also go out to the folks at the Center for Cartoon Studies Schulz Graphic Novel Library in White River Junction, VT. They were flooded by Hurricane Irene, and the community has pulled together to save the books (headed by BCR friends/Schulz Librarians Jen Vaughn and Caitlin McGurk and including BCR members Laurel Leake and Jesse Lonergan). Read on below, and if you’d like to help, you can make a donation to the Center for Cartoon Studies.
The Comics Reporter: James Sturm: CCS’ Schulz Library Building Potentially Lost
The Beat: How to Save a Graphic Novel Library, by Jen Vaughn
Schulz Library Blog: Schulz Library, Post-Irene, by Caitlin McGurk