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  • On Holiday Fairs and Online Accolades

    "Ice" by Shelli Paroline
    "Ice" by Shelli Paroline

     

    Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to a holiday season filled with peace, love, and comics! 

    Join us an hour early tonight for Writer’s Night at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square. If you’d like to review the scripts beforehand, you can download them here. 

    And at 7:30pm, we’ll have the usual meeting in the usual place: the Nelson Mandela Room, the big room at the Democracy Center. 

    Not sure what to get for your favorite third cousin once removed or the office Secret Santa this year? Nothing celebrates the winter holidays like independently published mini comics and original comic art.  Give the perfect gift of handmade images drawn in narrative sequence!  You can find them in cornucopiac abundance this weekend.  This Saturday, December 3, BCR member E. J. Barnes will be at the Somerville Local Artists Market, and now through January 8, 2012, she has several pieces in the annual Small Works Show at Riverside Gallery.  On Sunday, December 4,  BCR will be in two places at once at Comicazi Con/Bad-Ass Bazaar and the Boston Bazaar Bizarre.  Come by and see us! 

    As for recent comics news online, Comics Alliance published this nice post of BCR member Shelli Paroline’s work to highlight her and BCR member Braden Lamb’s selection as the artists for the upcoming Adventure Time comic to be published by Boom Studios’ Kaboom! imprint.  Go, Shelli and Braden!!!

  • Meeting Tonight & Happy Birthday, Jay!

    "Left-Overs of the Living Dead," edited by Jay Kennedy — Happy Birthday, Jay!!!

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    It’s also BCR member Jay Kennedy’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Jay!!! Come help him celebrate properly after the meeting!

  • Reception and Meeting tonight

    Join us tonight either from 6pm-8pm at the Comics Art New England art show reception at the New England Institute of Art or at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    Please note Writer’s Night has been postponed to next week, Thursday, November 10 @ 6:30pm, due to tonight’s art reception.

  • BCR Presents: Fight Choreography for Comics and Animation!

    Hyun's "Kenshin and Kaoru"

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    Tonight, we’re excited to start an instructional series of brief talks on making comics!  BCR Founder Dave Kender writes:

    The BCR’s own Hyun Supul will kick off our presentation series with a demonstration of fight choreography for comics and animation. We’ll have fake swords, but real advice. Join us.

    And here is Hyun’s description of what he will be demonstrating tonight:

    A presentation about the basics of fight choreography for those who would like to have an introduction to the concept of staged fights (and apply the concepts for comics creation). Will not teach you how to be a Ninja or Zorro in 15 mins, but will cover both unarmed and armed staged combat.

  • Meeting tonight

    Join us tonight at 7:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for our weekly meeting in the Nelson Mandela Room.

    Exciting to see so many new members! Welcome to BCR, and please keep coming!

  • Dan Gessel’s Patrons series!


    Tonight, BCR member Dan Gessel will be showing around his evocative Patrons series, an ongoing collection of remarkably sensitive comics portraits of coffeehouse patrons (see upper right). Also shown here is one of his emotion-based character grids, this one depicting “Anxiety and Sadness.”  He drew it as part of a series of character development exercises for his current comics project, Berlin Junction (be sure to check out his beautiful architectural studies at the bottom of the page, too).  For more of his work, please go visit his website at http://www.syntheticblue.com/.  To see his Patrons portraits up close and personal, join us tonight!

    We’ll be convening an hour early tonight at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for Writer’s Night. More information here!

    And at 7:30pm, we’ll have the usual meeting in the usual place: the Nelson Mandela Room, the big room at the Democracy Center.