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  • MICE 2019 Art Show: Thursday October 10

    MICE 2019 Art Show: Thursday October 10

    This week, the regular BCR meeting will be replaced by the annual MICE art show reception. Come ring in the MICE season with walls full of original comic art by Maria Photinakis, Marty Moyer, Caroline Hu, Revel Lyn, Levon Gyulkhasian, Kurt Ankeny, Anna Christine, Crispin Wood, Heide Solbrig, Line Olsson, Karen Knighton,Skip Wrightson, Catalina Rufin, Beth Barnett, Anthony Lathrop, and MORE! Refreshments too! Thursday October 10th, 5-8 PM at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge: University Hall’s 2nd Floor Atrium (the MICE space).

    FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/946177649051177/

  • Order BCR Playing Cards online!

    Order BCR Playing Cards online!

    The BCR playing card deck can be ordered online, direct from the printer, Drivethru Cards, for $15/deck:

    https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/281901/Boston-Comics-Roundtable-Playing-Cards?manufacturers_id=15139

    https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/281901/Boston-Comics-Roundtable-Playing-Cards?manufacturers_id=15139
  • Spellbound 1 & 2: reviewed!

    Spellbound 1 & 2: reviewed!

    Better late than never, we’ve just caught up with these two reviews of our Spellbound anthologies, from Graphic Policy, dating back to last December:

    https://graphicpolicy.com/2018/12/09/review-spellbound-vol-1/

    ” a diverse collection of stories that reflects the many shades and shapes that the city possesses. The stories… are funny, enigmatic, and accessible. The art is both alluring and vivid…. an excellent set that will have readers wanting to peak around their city for those mystical clues that makes their places magical.

    https://graphicpolicy.com/2018/12/16/review-spellbound-vol-2-urban-magic/

    “…the comics collection is excellent and different. Readers will both enjoy and be intrigued by these new voices. The stories are fun and exciting. The art is alluring and gorgeous…. a set of stories which coalesce into an interesting narrative of a city beneath its underbelly.”

  • 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.”