MICE: A new indy comics show!
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We’re putting on a show!
On September 25th, the Boston Comics Roundtable joins forces with the Art Institute of Boston to present MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. This will be Boston’s first show dedicated to independent and self-published comics, with over 50 exhibitors from the city and beyond.
At MICE, [...]
Bazaar Bizarre Summer Fair
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[ August 21, 2010; 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] It’s summer in New England, and what better time for an outdoor fair! This Saturday, join us at Boston Bazaar Bizarre Summer Fair in Somerville’s Union Square for cool arts and crafts, live music, and more! The Roundtable will be there selling our group’s comics anthologies and projects by our members. And stop by the [...]
Small Press Expo 2010
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[ September 11, 2010 to September 12, 2010. ] SPX 2010 will be held the weekend of September 10 and 11, 2010 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation’s capital, Washington DC. In its fifteenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery [...]
Cambridge River Festival
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[ June 5, 2010; ] The Cambridge River Festival is coming! The annual outdoor arts celebration will be held on June 5 by the Charles River, and Boston Comics Roundtable will be one of the art vendors. Come for a day of music, dance, food, arts and crafts … and comics from local creators!
What: Cambridge River Festival
When: Saturday, June 5, [...]
WildPig Comic-Con
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[ May 15, 2010; 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm. May 16, 2010; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] If you’re a comics fan around New Jersey, come on over to the WildPig Comics Convention on May 15 and 16! Boston Comics Roundtable member Roho will be there, selling Roundtable anthologies Inbound and Outbound. Look for a great lineup of indie and webcomic creators as well as thousands of back issues and trade paperbacks! [...]
Maine Comics Arts Festival 2010
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[ May 23, 2010; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Convention season continues! Our next show will be the Maine Comics Arts Festival in Portland, Maine. Come by on Sunday, May 23 for a day of indie comics fun, and bring the little ones – kids 12 and under get in free! This year’s fest also offers a day of panels and workshops on Saturday, [...]
Boston Zine Fair – Spring 2010
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[ March 20, 2010; 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] It’s a hometown show! Come and see us at the Boston Zine Fair, a festival of DIY and self-publishing. This event is a collaboration with the Whitehaus Family Record and will be part of Whitehaus’ music celebration Blastfest.
Comics, zines, and loads of live music – stop by Central Square’s YMCA on March 20 and [...]
Art of the BCR in Marblehead
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[ March 7, 2010; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Come and see the art of the Roundtable!
Marblehead Arts Association is hosting “The Art of the Boston Comics Roundtable”, an exhibition of original comic art by our members and including pieces from our latest anthology, Inbound #4: A Comic History of Boston.
Join us for a special reception party on Sunday, March 7 from 2-4pm! Enjoy [...]
BCR on WGBH Radio!
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[ February 22, 2010; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] The Boston Comics Roundtable is taking to the airwaves again!
Catch members of the Roundtable on WGBH’s The Callie Crossley Show at 1pm on Monday, February 22. Check out the show live at 1pm streaming on the WGBH website, or download it later on the show’s website:
http://www.wgbh.org/897/programDetail.cfm?programid=855 (Scroll down to show date 2/22/10).
MoCCA Art Fest 2010
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[ April 10, 2010 11:00 am to April 11, 2010 5:00 pm. ] MoCCA Art Fest is coming sooner than ever! The classic indie comics festival and fundraiser will be held this year on April 10-11 at the 68th Regiment Armory in downtown Manhattan. Look for Boston Comics Roundtable – we’ll be there, selling our anthologies and comics projects by our members!
What: MoCCA Art Fest 2010
When: Sat-Sun April [...]
Boston Comic Con
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[ April 10, 2010 10:00 am to April 11, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Boston’s own comic show is moving up in the world, and the Roundtable will be there! This Spring’s con will take place at a new, bigger location (Westin Boston Waterfront) with high-profile guests (Jim Lee, Sergio Aragonés, Mike Mignola, and more). Boston Comics Roundtable will have a table – come by and check out our [...]
Graphic Novel Event at MassArt
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[ February 6, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Interested in making graphic novels? Learn about the creative and publishing processes at an event co-hosted by Massachusetts College of Art and the Graphic Artist Guild. Join them on February 6 from 1-5 for presentations and panel discussions, followed by a portfolio review. Panelists include Roundtable members Gareth Hinds (King Lear, Beowulf) and Dave Kender [...]
Robot art exhibit at Space 242
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[ January 29, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Robot attack! Space 242, Boston’s gallery for “pop surrealist and ‘low brow’ artists,” is opening a new exhibit of robot-inspired artwork, I…YOU…WE…ROBOT!. Look for pieces by two Roundtable members, Ron LeBrasseur and E.J. Barnes!
The exhibit will run from January 29 through February 19 with an exhibition opening party on Friday, January 29, 6-8pm. RSVP required [...]
Paradigm Shift release party
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[ January 30, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] BCR member Dirk Tiede is celebrating the printing of book 3 of his paranormal police drama webcomic Paradigm Shift!
Join him on Saturday, January 30, for the book release party at Cambridge’s Atomic Bean Cafe (904 Mass Ave, Cambridge) from 4-6pm. Enjoy an art show, sketches, and cake!
Visit the comic’s website paradigmshiftmanga.com to read the comic, [...]
Boskone 2010
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[ February 12, 2010 to February 14, 2010. ] If you’re a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, then save the date for Boskone, the New England sci-fi convention! Boston Comics Roundtable will be at the con selling out-of-this-world comics by our members. See you there!
What: Boskone 2010
When: Fri-Sun February 12-14, 2010
Where: Westin Boston Waterfront hotel, Boston, MA
Website: www.nesfa.org/boskone
Inbound 4 Book Signing
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[ January 21, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] Join Porter Square Books and the Boston Comics Roundtable for an evening with contributors to Inbound #4, A Comic History of Boston. Writers and Artists will be presenting their process and research from the individual stories. Signed copies will be available for purchase.
Location:
Porter Square Books (map)
25 White St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413
Inbound #4 Release Party
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[ December 5, 2009; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Inbound #4, the Boston history comics anthology, will be released this month!
Come and celebrate with us at our Inbound release party! Hang out with Boston-area comics creators and check out a display of original art from Inbound #4! Join us at Central Square’s Atomic Bean Cafe for good times on Saturday, December 5 at 4pm.
WHAT: [...]
Comicazicon and Bad-*ss Christmas Bazaar
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[ December 12, 2009; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] December has another holiday fair coming up, and this one’s especially good for the comics fans! Davis Square’s own comic shop Comicazi will host its second annual Comicazicon and Bad-*ss Christmas Bazaar on December 12 – look for Boston Comics Roundtable, and come and pick up comics and crafts by our members!
What: Comicazicon and Bad-*ss [...]
Holly Fair
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[ December 12, 2009 10:00 am to December 13, 2009 5:00 pm. ] Join us midway through December for gift shopping at Cambridge’s oldest craft fair, the Holly Fair!
What: Holly Fair
When: December 12-13, Sat 10-5:30pm Sun 12-5pm
Where: Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Website: www.ccae.org/hollyfair.html
Boston Bazaar Bizarre
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[ December 6, 2009; 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Join us under the mistletoe for some seriously funky gift shopping! Boston Comics Roundtable will have a table at this year’s Boston Bazaar Bizarre, the infamously offbeat craft fair!
What: Boston Bazaar Bizarre
When: December 6, 12-7pm
Where: BCA Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Website: www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston.html
MIT Craft Fair
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[ December 3, 2009 9:00 am to December 4, 2009 5:00 pm. ] This year, give the gift that keeps on giving: COMICS! Look for Boston Comics Roundtable at MIT’s Artists Beyond the Desk Craft Fair, where you can find jewelry, original artwork, handicrafts, and more.
What: MIT’s Artists Beyond the Desk Craft Fair
When: December 3-4, 9am-5pm
Where: MIT’s E25 Atrium and Stata Center (see MIT campus map for [...]
Harvard Square Holiday Fair
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[ November 28, 2009 10:00 am to November 29, 2009 6:00 pm. November 28, 2009 10:00 am to November 29, 2009 6:00 pm. ] Celebrate the holiday season – give the gift of Boston Comics Roundtable! We’ll be appearing at a number of holiday fairs in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville throughout November and December. Surprise someone special with one of our graphic novels, minicomics, or anthologies!
First on our list of fairs is the Harvard Square Holiday Fair, a long-time [...]
Gareth Hinds reading
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[ November 6, 2009; 6:00 pm; ] Gareth Hinds will be at Wellesley Booksmith on November 6 at 6pm to read from and discuss his graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Come and enjoy a look into how graphic novels are made, and see a preview of Gareth’s upcoming work!
Dark Corners signing
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[ October 17, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
Hub Comics in Somerville’s Union Square is hosting a signing for two new comics anthologies, Dark Corners and Funny Aminals, on Saturday, October 17, from 7-9pm. Come and meet fun comics creators and get free gifts with purchase!
For more details about these anthologies and the event, check out the blog of the organizers, minicomics collective [...]
APE 2009
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[ October 17, 2009 to October 18, 2009. ] Look for Boston Comic Roundtable at San Francisco’s APE, the Alternative Press Expo! The show is open on October 17 from 11-7 and October 18 from 11-6, and guests include Phoebe Gloeckner, Dean Haspiel, Batton Lash, and Jeff Smith. $10 admission for one day, $15 for two. See you there!
Boston Comic Con
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[ October 24, 2009 10:00 am to October 25, 2009 5:00 pm. ] 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 [...]
SPX 2009
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[ September 26, 2009 to September 27, 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 [...]
Wild Ink! BCR Fundraiser
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[ August 20, 2009 8:30 pm to August 21, 2009 12:30 am. ] Join us on August 20 for Wild Ink, a live arts and music event! Sketches, caricatures, artist showdowns, raffle prizes, and music by Rotary! Proceeds to benefit the fourth issue of Inbound, our comics anthology! 9pm (doors open at 8) at P.A.’s Lounge in Somerville, MA. Tickets $12 at the door. See our press release for full details, and [...]
MoCCA Festival 2009
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[ June 6, 2009 to June 7, 2009. ] The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is hosting this year’s MoCCA Festival on June 6th & 7th at the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street in New York City. Members of the Boston Comics Roundtable including Cathy Leamy, Shelli Paroline, Dirk Tiede and Braden Lamb will be exhibiting.
General admission [...]
Maine Comic Arts Festival
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[ May 17, 2009; ] This festival celebrates the wonderful world of comic books, comic strips, graphic novels, web comics and more. The festival will feature a wide variety of comic creators, writers, artists and publishers. Located in the beautiful Ocean Gateway Building on the shores of Casco Bay in Portland, Maine.