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Call for Submissions: Comic Book History of Boston, Vol 2

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

December 6, 2017

SPELLBOUND Volume 2 BOOK RELEASE PARTY

It’s HERE! Our new anthology, Spellbound Volume 2, made its debut at MICE last weekend. Join us in celebrating its release on Sunday, November 12th 2:00 – 5:00 PM at the Boston Comics Workspace, 561 Windsor St, Somerville.

Buy Spellbound Volume 2 (and all other BCR anthologies that are still in print) in the “Store” section, or at http://bostoncomics.storenvy.com/products/22077479-spellbound-volume-2-urban-magic

October 29, 2017

BCR will be at MICE (of course)

It’s fair to say that the Boston Comics Roundtable is in the very DNA of MICE – the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, we’ve been there since before the beginning, of one of the best indie comics shows anywhere! So here we are again this weekend, exhibitors at MICE for the 8th consecutive year. Come see our table chock full of members’ work and group anthologies. Table D01, the first table at the show, you can’t miss us!

MICE: The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
October 21 10-6/ October 22 11-5
Lesley University Hall
1815 Mass. Ave., Porter Square, Cambridge

October 19, 2017

MICE ART SHOW OPENING: THURSDAY OCTOBER 5

On Thursday October 5, from 4:30-8:00, the annual MICE Art Show reception will be held at the 2nd floor Atrium at Lesley University’s University Hall, 1815 Mass. Ave at Porter Square. Among the artists with comic art in the show are many BCR members!

Artist in the show: , Maria Photinakis, E. J. Barnes, Jesse Lonergan, Jonathan Todd, Mick Cusimano, Beth Barnett, Kurt Ankeny, Heide Solbrig, Chris Collins, Alison Burke & Tara Hamilton,L.J-Baptiste, Clay McCormack, Aya Rothwell, Levon Gyulkhasyan, Dirk Tiede, Zoe Piel, Dan Mazur.

RSVP at the FACEBOOK EVENT.

October 4, 2017

BCR in “One Page Stinkers”

No less than seven BCR members are featured in the latest issue of the Portland, Maine-based anthology, “One Page Stinkers.” As the name indicates, this is an anthology of one-page comics (stinking is optional).

This is a fun anthology, risograph printed in mini-comic format. There’s always a theme, and this issue’s is “heat wave.” They don’t do large runs, so it’s hard to get a copy outside of Portland –but we’re working on getting some for BCR events. Find out more about them here. There are lots of other good cartoonists in there, of course, but the BCR people represented are:

September 29, 2017

The Double Translation Project

This summer (July 27, to be precise), the BCR meeting was consumed with a collaborative/creative activity, which Levon Gyulkhasian, who introduced it to the group, calls “Double Translation.”

In this timed activity, we initially select, at random, several visual “prompts” to get us started (we drew them from an actual hat!)

Using the prompts as inspiration, each person write a short essay or story in about 20 minutes, then passes it to the person to their right, who adapts it as a comic (in about 45 minutes), who then passes the finished comic to the person to their right, who writes a written adaptation of it (in about 20 minutes again).

Pieces of paper were being passed around the BCR meeting tables, with each member having a chance to write, draw, and “rewrite” on a different story.

At the end of the meeting, there was a little time left to pin the work on the walls and discuss/admire what we’d done.

Here are the results of this fun and challenging exercise, by each of the three-person “teams” — a lotta good work for 2 hours! (Click TWICE to enlarge an image):

Soyoon/Levon/John: