Are you heading to TopatoCon this weekend? If so, the Boston Comics Roundtable will be there! Yes, we are heading to the Eastworks in Easthampton to join the weekend festivities. We will be located at Table A9. The conference will be taking place from 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday September 26 and 11 am to 6 pm on Sunday …
The Small Press Expo, “North America’s premiere independent cartooning and comic arts festival,” will be taking place this weekend on Saturday September 19th (11 am to 7 pm) and Sunday September 20th (Noon to 6 pm) at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland. A small contingency of Boston Comics Roundtablers will be …
(Cambridge, MA – September 15, 2015) dwelltime’s fourth event in the dwelltime art fridays series will open an exhibition featuring local artist Catalina Rufin on October 2, on view until December 4. “Incantations” will feature 8 pages of “Space Explorer Stephanie,” a charming, all-ages tale of a young girl’s dream trip to the solar system, …
BOSTON COMICS ROUNDTABLE PRESENTS: 24-Hour Comics Day This year’s 24-Hour Comics Day will take place on Saturday October 3rd, marking the annual attempt of comic artists worldwide to create and complete a 24-page comic in 24 consecutive hours. Pioneered by artist Scott McCloud, the project is a fun and exciting challenge to the creative process! This …
BOSTON COMICS ROUNDTABLE PRESENTS: Creator Talks, with Levon Gyulkhasyan on Jumbo Comics, A Tool for Building Communities The Boston Comics Roundtable’s Creator Talk series will continue on Sunday September 20th with artist Levon Gyulkhasyan discussing the use of giant comic strips in public spaces. Held at the new Boston Comics Workspace at 561 Windsor St., …
L.J.-Baptiste’s Creator Talk covered the intricacies of webcomic publishing. He showed some very early character sketches from the beginnings of Comixscape, when it was called Toonatics, citing early influence from shows like Looney Tunes. He talked about how he developed Tyler, the main character of Comixscape, from a fairly stereotypical creation of L.J.’s childhood into the kid …