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Tag: Writer’s Night

  • 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!!!

  • Writer’s Night and BCR Presents: Projector Night!

    "Chiyo Dances with Storm Troopers" by Hyun Supul
    How would the first page of the best graphic novel of all time read? Join us an hour early tonight for Writer’s Night at 6:30pm at the Democracy Center (map) in Harvard Square to find out! If you’d like to review the scripts beforehand, you can download them here. We’ll be discussing all the scripts under the heading, “Best First Page.”

    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. Tonight BCR Presents: Projector Night! Come see BCR’s Hyun Supul‘s laptop projector project recent projects! Your retinae too, dear reader, can be pummeled by light bounced off a silver screen so that shapes forged in the crucibles of local cartoonists’ imaginations may be rendered unto your own. And see stuff lit up big, too! Want to show your art- or video work? Bring a thumb drive tonight and share the love!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!