For our next weekly meeting, BCR will be once again in the Community Room at the Cambridge Public Library. The monthly writer’s night meeting will begin at 6:30, so the “general” BCR begins a little later, 7:30.
Check back in here for next week’s meeting location, as we zero in a new permanent home.
Tonight’s meeting will be held at the Cambridge YWCA, 7 Temple Street, Central Square.
The meeting will be held at the usual time, 7 pm-9 pm.
http://www.ywcacam.org/
Next week’s meeting location will be announced.
After a few years of holding our regular meetings at the Cambridge Public Library, the BCR will be moving to a new home! Only thing is, we’re not sure quite yet where that home will be. This past Thursday, Jan 18, was the final regularly-scheduled meeting at the CPL. In the coming weeks, we will be exploring new possibilities, starting this coming Thursday, 1/25, at
THE CAMBRIDGE YWCA
7 Temple Street
Cambridge
As usual, our meeting will begin at 7:00. See you there this week, and next week… who knows!! While we may end up choosing to make the YWCA our permanent home, we are, as stated above “exploring possibilities.”
BCR MEETING SPACE HISTORY
2006-2008 Cafe Pamplona
2008 – 2014 The Democracy Center
2014-2018 Cambridge Public Library
2018-?
Well those wimps at the Cambridge Public Library have closed the place on Jan 4 due to a few little feet of snow and sub-zero temps. See you next week!
Being True (or How I Learned to Love Myself) will be an anthology of short, LGBTQ+ themed graphic stories revolving around what “Being True” means to the creative team in the context of being LGBTQ+. Stories can be fiction or non-fiction, so long as the story fits this theme! Stories can range from a coming out experience to a slice of life event (major or minor) and anything in between.
All stories in Being True must be directly LGBTQ+ related. Stories may be fiction or non-fiction, and can encompass most genres (History, Romance, Biography, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Slice of Life, etc).
Stories must be TEEN appropriate (aka PG-13). No on-the-page sex or nudity, though stories about sexuality are welcome. No gore or gratuitous bodily fluids, though stories can depict warfare and crime.
All submissions must come from an LGBTQ+ writer-artist or a writer-and-artist team where more than 50% of the team is LGBTQ+. If you want to participate but need a writer or artist partner, feel free to register your interest with us during the Discussion Period (see below), but it’s your responsibility to find a suitable collaborator. We want teams to have discussed their collaboration and be working in sync before they submit.
While this is a Boston Comics Roundtable project, we welcome submissions from people who aren’t (yet) members of the BCR or don’t even live in the Boston area!
1) Discussion Period. Between now and the end of January 1, 2018, we invite you to propose possible topics and ask questions about what we’re looking for. We’ll record your interests and perhaps suggest sources or approaches. This is the time to find collaborators and to research sources.
2) Submissions Period: We’ll accept submissions in January. The deadline for submitting all proposal material is therefore 11:59 P.M. on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. In order to evaluate the proposals fairly with confidence about how they’ll turn out, we ask you to please submit this material:
3) Script, Sketches, and Bio Details Deadline: The intermediate deadline for a full script and thumbnail sketches of the entire story, if those weren’t part of the initial submission, will be March 15, 2018. This will give us all a chance to review the work, discuss any concerns with you, and make any necessary course corrections.
By that date we’ll also ask each contributor for a picture and short bio to go in the back of the book. And we may ask you for one page of finished art to help the crowdfunding campaign.
Print size: 7″ wide x 8.5″ tall, image safe area 6.5″ x 8″- No bleeds.
Grayscale.
2, 4, 6, or 8 pages.
Scanned at 300 or more dpi at print size. (Meaning 1,725 pixels wide x 2,587 pixels tall at least.)
Delivered in TIFF, JPEG, or PNG files.
In delivering material to Being True, creators grant the Boston Comics Roundtable the exclusive worldwide right to print their stories in an anthology for twelve months from the date of first publication, the right to reprint that collection thereafter, and the right to permit others to reproduce extracts of a story online or in print for review or publicity purposes. Each creator will retain the copyright, intellectual property rights, and all other reprint rights in their work.
In return, the BCR will provide each contributor two copies of the finished book and the right to buy additional copies at 50% of the cover price. We are planning a crowdfunding campaign, and if that succeeds we will pay for each page of comics—the same amount per page for all contributions. (Creative teams must decide among themselves how to split that payment.)
The BCR anthology, Inbound 4: a Comic Book History of Boston, published in 2009, was one of our most popular titles, and has been sadly out of print for several years. Now there’s double-exciting news: a reprint is in the works, and, even more exciting, we are soliciting pitches for contributions to an ALL-NEW VOLUME: A Comic Book History of Greater Boston will be an anthology of short graphic nonfiction exploring the dramatic past of Boston and surrounding communities. This book can cover topics from before the first English settlers to the early 21st century, history as significant as the founding of the U.S.A. or as quirky as the invention of Marshmallow Fluff.
For full details, including deadlines and specs for the new book, please consult the Comic Book History of Greater Boston’s own webpage, here:
https://comicbookhistoryofboston.blogspot.com/p/about-comics-history-of-greater-boston.html