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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Boston Zine Fair 2008 seeks vendors!

The dates for this year's Boston Zine Fair have been announced!

This year's zine fair will be held on September 20-21 in a new location: Art Institute of Boston's building at 600 Newbury Street, Boston.

We're looking for vendors to make this a fantastic event: zine makers, comics creators, writers, artists, and anyone interested in independent publishing. Registration is open and table space is cheap! Go to BostonZineFair.org to learn more and to register to table at the fair.

Want to learn more about zines? Read the Wikipedia writeup, or if you're in the Harvard Square area, stop by the Papercut Zine Library and check out their enormous selection.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Inbound - a new comics anthology from Boston, now on sale!

Fresh hot comics straight from Boston!

Inbound has arrived! This is the first issue of a new comics anthology by the Boston Comics Roundtable, and it is a gem. It's packed full of a variety of cool stories (Astronomers! Plague! Can openers!) and features a stunning cover by the crazyskilled Shelli Paroline. This is the first issue of many - look for a story by me in issue #2!

$7.95 an issue for some rock-solid New England quality! You can buy Inbound on the Boston Comics Roundtable website or in Boston-area comics shops including Million Year Picnic and Hub Comics.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Geraniums and Bacon #5! Now on sale!

It's here, everyone!

The fifth issue of my minicomic Geraniums and Bacon debuted at last weekend's MoCCA Art Festival, and now it's available for sale online!

This one's 20 pages of black and white comic awesome: decrepit expired Halloween pumpkins, medieval English mecha, bra shopping, and Kitty's completely unneeded trip to Filene's Basement's Bridal Sale!

$2 dollars gets you all this and more, so pick up your copy today!

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

MoCCA 2008: The awesomeness goes to 11

Another year, another MoCCA art fest!

This year, we had a posse: me, Charles, and the rest of the Boston Comics Roundtable. All of our tables clustered like a New England colony out in the wilds of New York City. We're pilgrims in an unholy land!

And we brought some amazing goods to trade with the natives. I debuted the latest Geraniums and Bacon, Charles sold out of his two collections of Sordid City Blues, our pals sold out of the Star Wars fan comic Harvest is When I Need You the Most, and the Boston Comics Roundtable hit the ground running with the first issue of our new anthology, Inbound (now available for sale online). Rock solid!

The sun didn't like us and kicked out some fierce upper-90's heat. We skated through most of it due to our table sitting directly underneath a ceiling fan, but the inevitable struck on Sunday: a fire alarm and evacuation of the building. Kudos to the poor firefighters in their pounds of full-body protective gear.

I love the amazing selection of indy comics every year at MoCCA. It's like strolling into a walk-in treasure chest. It can be overwhelming, though. You risk the coolfinder's anxiety: "There could be hidden gems that I'll never see again at every single table! I must examine all of them! Wah!" Coming in as a creator, too, is a different level of social fun. You get to meet up with rarely-seen friends from around the country and immediately swap your latest creations, like little kids trading Halloween candy.

The social kept on flowing in the afterhours. We hit the Friday party at Rocketship, got copious drinks with new and old buddies, and laughed our heads off at karaoke. Comics geeks rock out like you'd never believe. And comics geeks shout out too: I had great times running around with or just running into Ed, Kevin, Birdie, Neilalien, Gina FirstSecond, Bill Roundy, Joe Rice, Mildly Astonishing Mike, the Satisfactory Comics crew, the Trees and Hills gang, Bully the Little Stuffed Bull and his human pals, and the Karaoke All-Stars. Not to mention dozens of other people I'm totally blanking on because my weekend was filled to bursting with comics and no sleep and gin and tonics. Take my word that they are all made of awesome as well.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Coming soon: Geraniums and Bacon #5

It's coming! Are you ready for this?!

Geraniums and Bacon issue #5!

This one's got something for everyone!
BRAS!
BRIDAL GOWNS!
BUDDHISM!

The next issue of Geraniums and Bacon will be debuting at the upcoming MoCCA Art Fest in New York City on June 7. Come by my table on the upper floor and get yourself a copy!

And in the meantime, catch up on the awesomeness by ordering issues 1-4!

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