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  • BCR Card Deck debuts at FanExpo Boston, August 16-18

    BCR Card Deck debuts at FanExpo Boston, August 16-18

    BCR will be at FanExpo Boston this weekend, Friday August 16-Sunday August 18 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The brand new BCR Playing Card Deck will be available to the public for the first time: 54 works of art by BCR artist, in a sturdy tuck-box, for a mere $15! The second printing of our LGBTQ anthology “Being True” will also be on sale, after nearly a year of being sold out! Come see us at Artists Alley Table A1200! (Friday 4-9 pm, Saturday 10-7, Sunday 10-5.) More info on the show here.

  • Being True Gets Prism Award Nomination

    Being True Gets Prism Award Nomination

     

    BCR’s LGBTQ-themed anthology BEING TRUE has been honored with a nomination for a Prism Award in the Anthology category.  We are all bursting with Pride here, for editors  Renie Jesanis, Kyri Lorenz, and Steph Rose Glass.  BCR’s first major award nomination!

    From Prism’s announcement:

    PRISM COMICS, THE QUEER COMICS EXPO and the CARTOON ART MUSEUM are excited to announce the Nominees for the THIRD ANNUAL PRISM AWARDS.   The Prism Awards and the Prism Award Honorary Mentions will be presented at COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO, July 18 – 21, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center.  The date and time of the Awards Presentation will be announced with the release of Comic-Con’s programming schedule.

    The Prism Awards are presented to comic works by queer authors and works that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations of LGBTQAI+ characters in fiction or nonfiction comics. 

    The goal of the Awards is to recognize, promote, and celebrate diversity and excellence in the field of queer comics. 

    The Nominees and Awards are voted on by diverse panels of comics professionals, educators, librarians, journalists and writers.

  • Somerville Public Library Comix Con

    BCR will be there!  Lots of individual members and our usual group table.  Whatever you’re doing for Free Comic Book Day, come by the Somerville Library as well.   At 2:30, EJ Barnes will moderate a panel of local comics artists, including Liz Bolduc, Anna Christine, and Dan Mazur, on “The Greater Boston Comic Scene.”

  • BCR Collaborative Project: Assembly Line Comics

    BCR Collaborative Project: Assembly Line Comics

    BCR is about to embark on a new group project.  This will be a process-oriented exercise designed to involve as many members as possible. We’ll create as many 3-pager comics as we can, breaking the work down into assembly-line-type steps, each produced by a different creative team.  We’ll try to approximate the “Marvel method,” where the dialogue is written after the story is penciled. Anyone can take multiple roles, but not on the same team.
     
    Below is the proposed breakdown for how each comic will be created.
     
    1. Idea person: pitch/proposal for 3 pages of comics (1-2 paragraphs).  It can be a self-contained story, or the opening of something longer, or even 3 pages from the middle or end of a story (which doesn’t have to exist in full).
     
    2. Character designer: draw character designs for the characters in step 1’s outline.
     
    3. Plotter: write up a “Marvel style” page-by-page breakdown of the outline.  Descriptions without dialogue.
     
    4. Penciller: pencil 3 pages.  Leave room for word balloons!
     
    5.  Dialoguer: write dialog/captions for art after the fact, Marvel-style
     
    6. Inker: inks the previous artist’s pencils (either over originals or, photocopied onto fresh Bristol or ink digitally)
     
    7. Letterer: hand or digital.
     
    8. Colorist/graytoner:  add tones or color.
     
     
    There should be a reasonable amount of flexibility as we go along, depending on how people tackle each step. This should be more about process than product, and having fun.  There’s obviously still a lot to be worked out/figured out as we go along.
    We’ll organize this via the BCR Google Group, so watch for messages there!
    For updated status of the project, see this page: http://bostoncomics.com/assembly-line-comics/
  • BCR at the Boston Children’s Museum

    BCR at the Boston Children’s Museum

    From Friday February 15 through May 4, the Boston Children’s Museum presents a comic arts exhibition, “Comics: Heroes, Myths and Tales.” The show features two of the best comics artists in the Boston area, Jerel Dye and Raul the Third, along with a selection of artists from the Boston Comics Roundtable:

    EJ Barnes
    Ron LeBrasseur
    Anthony Lathrop
    Liz Young
    L. J-Baptiste
    Brendan Tobin
    Consuelo Terra
    Dan Mazur

    An opening reception will be held on Friday February 15, 6-8 pm.  The Musuem is located at 308 Congress Street,  Boston, MA. Phone number: 617.426.6500

    For more info: 

    https://bostonchildrensmuseum.org/exhibits-programs/exhibits/gallery

  • BCR at MICE

    BCR at MICE

    We’ll be at MICE this weekend, with all our books, including Being True!  Come visit us at table D01 — first table past the welcome desk.  MICE is at Lesley College, 1815 Mass Ave. in Cambridge, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5.