The first volume of The Ragbox, a trade paperback graphic novel, is available online and in select stores. Written and created by Dave Kender, the book is the first installment introducing the racial kaleidoscope neighborhood of the Ragbox district. Each chapter is illustrated by a different artist. Go to theragbox.com for previews and purchase.
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The Ragbox
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Boston Comic Con
Boston’s Comic convention returns to the Back Bay Events Center (180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA) for the weekend of October 24-25th. The show runs from 10am to 5pm with passes for $10 each day. Guests include: Tim Sale, Geof Darrow, David Mack and many more. Check out the Boston Comics Roundtable in the Artist Alley. More information is available at the BCC website.
In addition, the Comicbook Artist Guild is hosting a post-con meet and greet on Saturday, October 24 at Clerys Bar & Restaurant on Dartmouth Street.
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Inbound is for Lovers
Love Reign O’er Boston! To celebrate the season of romance, the hard-working comics artists of the Boston Comics Roundtable have released Inbound #3, a Boston Comics Anthology. Cover artist Matt Reidsma and a host of comics storytellers entertain you with our biggest issue yet!
Included in this issue: “First Kiss” (Robert Sergel), Franklin Einspruch, “Puppy Love Eternal” (Aya Rothwell), “Fear” (Chris O’Neill), “Just an Old Fashioned Zombie Love Song” (Eric Boeker), “Wish Me Luck” (Donna Martinez and Joesph Peters), “Colossa” (Braden Lamb), “An Afternoon Session” (Hyun Supul), “A Winter’s Prelude” (Roho), “The Prince” (Carl Tsui), “From Afar” (Dan Mazur), and “A Gothic Romance” (James Möbius).
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Cartoonists: Why Signage Matters
My table at the art market last month. Can you find the signs? For the past year, I have tried peddling my comics in a new venue: the craft fair/art market.
BCR contributor Matt Reidsma on craft fairs and effective signs:
Part of the decision is financial: with tables at MoCCA going for $400 next year, (!!!) I simply can’t justify the travel expenses, the exhaustion, and the outrageous cost for a tiny table in an overheated room when I’m selling comics for $3 a piece. But the other motivation has been my wife Wendy; since we’ve been collaborating more and more on books and zines, we thought it would be fun to share tables. And so we hit the art fair circuit. Why didn’t I do this sooner? (more…) -
SPX 2009
The Small Press Expo (SPX) SPX 2009 will be held the weekend of September 26 and 27, 2009 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation’s capital, Washington DC. In its fourteenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery of new creative talent.