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  • Boston Creators Recognized by Harveys and Eisners

    Boston Creators Recognized by Harveys and Eisners

    It’s awards season for mainstream American comics, and several of our local friends are getting attention from both Harvey and Eisner Award jurors.

    At the San Diego Comic Con, the gorgeous, gigantic anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream (Locust Moon), won the Eisner for Best Anthology and Best Design; among the star-studded list of contributors to the book is long-time Roundtabler Jerel Dye, whose stories have appeared in BCR anthologies Inbound 5 and Gulp!; Jerel also co-edited BCR and River Bird Comics’ Hellbound III:Darkness. Also in the Little Nemo anthology is Raul Gonzalez, whose stories appeared in the BCR’s Inbound 4, Inbound 5, and In a Single Bound #1, as well as Boston-area cartoonists Maris Wicks, Joe Quiñones, and Andrew MacLean. The Harvey awards have recognized Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream in their nominations as well, with a chance at both Best Anthology and the Special Award for Excellence in Presentation.

    A panel from Jerel Dye's entry in the anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream
    A panel from Jerel Dye’s entry in the anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream

    Another friend of BCR received an Eisner nomination this year: comics writer and scholar A. David Lewis (who co-edited the Colonial Comics anthology in which several BCR members were represented) got the nod for his tome American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan).

    Bob Flynn has contributed stories to Inbound 4, Inbound 5, and Gulp! a monster comics anthology for KIDS! (which he co-edited); he’s also a frequent contributor to Spongebob Comics, which was nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers category — we wish the best of luck to the two Bobs!

    An excerpt from Bob Flynn's story in Spongebob Comics #37
    An excerpt from Bob Flynn’s story in Spongebob Comics #37

    Congratulate Bob and Jerel in person — buy their comics and even get a sketch! — when each appears as Featured Artist at the BCR Table at the Boston Comic Con (Bob Flynn from 4:00-5:00 on Friday, July 31st; Jerel Dye from 4:00-6:00 on Saturday, August 1st).

  • Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream

    Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream

    Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream
    On sale at Million Year Picnic this week, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream: over 100 of today’s best cartoonists pay tribute to the great Winsor McCay, including BCR’s Jerel Dye (editor of Hellbound III). Other local creators include Raul Gonzalez (Low Riders in Space), Joe Quinones (Howard The Duck), Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine),  and Maris Wicks (Primates).

  • Writer’s Night: Best First Page Ever!, MICE Postering, & Boston Pulp!

    Join us an hour early tonight at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square for a special edition of Writer’s Night: Best First Page Ever!  This month’s challenge is to write an original script for the first page of the best graphic novel/comic of all time.  More information here and scripts here!

     At 7:30pm, we’ll have the usual meeting in an unusual place: the Nelson Mandela Room, the big room at the Democracy Center.  We’ll meet there from now on.  A bigger space for a bigger BCR.  Can you handle it?  Come find out!

    We’ll be taking names and handing out posters and postcards to canvas the Greater Boston area for our upcoming Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE).  Just wait till you see the boggle-worthy graphic art of Jerel Dye, Maris Wicks, and Shelli Paroline, dear reader, and you too will feel the sudden need to plaster them everywhere!

    And local artists desperately in search of a local writer, take note.  Come hear BCR writer Troy Minkowsky pitch his project idea, Boston Pulp!  What’s it all about?  Four words for you: Sunday. Funnies. Intertwining. Storylines.  DON’T come if you DON’T want to be intrigued!