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  • Boston Comics Workspace!

    Boston Comics Workspace!

    The Boston Comics Roundtable is pleased to present the Boston Comics Workspace. Working in tandem with the media and comics artist Heide Solbrig (also known as Whatever Floats Your Boat Productions), BCR now has access to a spacious studio and event space, conveniently located at 561 Windsor Street in the TAZA Chocolate Factory building outside of Inman Square in Somerville.

    The Workspace will operate in addition to our regular weekly BCR meetings in the Cambridge Public Library and will provide access to studio work and event space as well as printing resources for the group. We hope the Workspace will grow the Boston comics community and further the professional development of our members. (more…)

  • Boston Comics Northshore

    Boston Comics Northshore

    Alright, BCR-North cartoonist and groupies… smile emoticon …we just reserved the Wicked Art Bar in Beverly MA (home of the recent Beverly Comic Con) for a special Boston Comics Northshore drawing event on Tuesday June 16 from 7-9 PM. The idea is that they will open up the bar to us and give us space to draw for the evening. This will be a FREE drawing evening, so bring a bunch of supplies and any pieces that you want to work on, and we can draw at the bar! Make sure to RSVP!

    Description:

    This is a private drawing meet-up hosted by the Boston Comics Roundtable North group. This event is an informal collective of North Shore based comic book creators (artists and writers) that meet once a month to talk comics and show off our current projects.

    The event is free. Snacks, beverages, beer and wine will be for sale at our bar during the duration of the event which is being held at our studio location in Beverly, MA.

    Where: Wicked Art Bar: 95 Rantoul St, Beverly, MA 01915

    Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2015

    Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

    Instructor: None!

    Cost: $0.00

    Facebook Event!

  • SYDNEY PADUA at Porter Books

    SYDNEY PADUA at Porter Books

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    Coming up next Monday, May 11, 7 PM: Porter Square Books hosts Sydney Padua, who will be speaking about her new book, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage , “a graphic novel debut that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into an unexpected, and hilarious, series of adventures.”

  • Buy The Trilling Adventures of Lovelace and Bbage here.

  • Read Part 2 on her site!
  • FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015

    FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2015

    Saturday May 2nd at The Million Year Picnic!

    99 Mt. Auburn Street (downstairs)
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    Tel. (617) 492-6763

    BOSTON COMICS ROUNDTABLE LIQUIDATION SALE!

    Get some finely aged comic anthologies for a low low price! (more…)

  • Unsung Heroes and Invisible People

    Unsung Heroes and Invisible People

    Local indie comics superstars Joel Christian Gill and Raul Gonzalez appear, along with novelist Helen Elaine Lee, in a panel entitled “Unsung Heroes and Invisible People”  Wednesday, April 22, 2105 from 8 to 9:30 pm, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge.  Admission $10.  

    When the market is saturated with celebrity tell-alls, how does one go about getting ink for individuals the world should know more about? Three authors discuss how their books shine a light on people whose lives are far from positions of influence or power, through words alone or words and pictures. Register by phone (617-547-678), online (course code: WRLF Sec. 03: 1),or pay at the door ($10).  8-930 pm.

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    Joel Christian Gill, Strange Fruit Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives of Black History (Fulcrum Publishing). Gill has an M.F.A. in painting from Boston University, a master’s in art history, and undergraduate degrees in fine/studio arts and commercial art. In this graphic novel, he combines his love of art with his desire to tell stories of African-Americans that history books have left behind. Gill is Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and a member of the Boston Comics Roundtable. (https://joelchristiangill.wordpress.com/)

    serpents-gift[1]Helen Elaine Lee. Her first novel, The Serpent’s Gift, was published by Atheneum in 1994 and her second, Water Marked, by Scribner in 1999. She recently finished “Life Without,” a novel about the lives of ten people incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons, and “The Hard Loss,” a novel about a DNA exoneree’s first week of freedom after 22 years of incarceration for a crime he did not commit. Stories from “Life Without” have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, and Best African American Fiction 2009 (Bantam Books). She is Associate Professor of Fiction Writing in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and a Writer in Residence with the Solstice Low-Residency M.F.A. program. A member of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she serves on its Freedom to Write Committee, and teaches in its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she directs and helped establish. (www.helenelainelee.net)

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    Raul Gonzalez, Lowriders in Space (Chronicle Books). He is an award-winning artist, also known as children’s book illustrator, Raul III. An inspiring teacher, Raul has taught at both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Boston. Gonzalez’ first book was illustrated with black, blue and red Bic pens, the materials he recalls using as a young boy growing up in El Paso, Texas. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States including Princeton University and Art Space in Raleigh, North Carolina. (http://www.raulthethird.com/)

     

    Writers Life series advisors: Barbara Beckwith & Yleana Martinez. Moderator: Charles Coe.
    For National Writers Union info: www.nwuboston.org, www.facebook.com/NWUBoston
    A Write up of the event.

  • BCR Policies Announcement

    The Planning Group of the Boston Comics Roundtable has written and adopted a policy on interpersonal behavior and speech, which will apply to our weekly meetings and online forums. While our group has been generally characterized by harmony and mutual respect, we ask that all BCR members please read these policies, and bear them in mind.

    The policies are posted here:
    http://bostoncomicsroundtable.com/policy/


    The Planning Group is also in the process of finalizing conflict resolution procedures, which we  are confident will be rarely needed!

    Any comments or concerns, please address to any member of the BCR Planning Group, or email to concerns@bostoncomicsroundtable.com