Prefer to give your friends and family the gift of paper this year? Look no further! At the Bazaar Bizarre Boston, the Boston Comics Roundtable will be offering their fantastic comics anthologies (featuring their newest comics anthology, Inbound 5), showcasing mind-blowing collections of mini-comics, and wooing the crowds with spectacular caricatures.
The Boston Comics Roundtable is a collective of comics artists and writers in the Boston area. We meet, we talk, we publish, and, most importantly, we encourage each in the pursuit of creating more and better comics. Since 2008, we’ve published Inbound, a Boston Comics Anthology as a platform for showcasing local talent. In that time, additional publications have also come out of the Roundtable, including the Outbound science fiction anthology and the Hellbound horror anthology. It is our belief that when it comes to comics, you can be your own best publisher. In that spirit, the Boston Comics Roundtable has always embraced a D.I.Y. spirit.
Featured NEW Comic – Inbound 5: The Food Issue
Our best and brightest comics artists come together in Inbound 5 to share their reminiscences, fantasies, fears, and love of food. From the deeply personal to the fantastical, this book explores our complex relationship with what we eat.
When did humans first learn to cook? Why are we sometimes attracted to the most repulsive cuisines? Is it possible to turn into the food you eat too much? Inbound 5 takes you from the historical tales of fishwives and cheese-chasing to the beautiful and evocative legends of food handed down from the gods. http://www.bostoncomicsroundtable.com/inbound-5/
Mini-Comics Gift Packs
In addition to comics anthologies, the artists and writers of the Boston Comics Roundtable also write, draw and publish mini-comics. Whether they are created by individuals or teams of artists, writers and designers, the Boston Comics Roundtable will showcase dozens of mini-comics at the Bazaar Bizarre for less than $5 each. Come browse the BCR table and pick up individual mini-comics that strike your fancy, or be adventurous, and pick up one of our mini-comics gift packs.
Caricatures
Looking for the perfect, personal holiday gift? Well, just sit back, relax and let our caricature artists whip up something for you for only $10 per person. This year, the Boston Comics Roundtable will feature the following spectacular caricature artists:
Braden D. Lamb is an illustrator currently working on the “Ice Age” and “Adventure Time” comics for kaboom! studios. He recently finished studying illustration at the Art Institute of Boston. His favorite X-man is Beast. His work can be seen at http://www.bradenlamb.com/
Dan Mazur grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1983, he relocated to Los Angeles to work in the motion picture industry, then in its infancy. After 23 years on the west coast — including 17 in Topanga Canyon, California — he moved back to Cambridge, where he turned his attention to the art of comics. He has since become a household name at his house. For more information on Dan, please read this paragraph again. His work can be seen at http://www.danmazurcomics.com/
Dirk Tiede was born in California, grew up in the Midwest, and cut his teeth as a graphic artist in Chicago. He holds a BFA in commercial art from Millikin University, but has been drawing comics for as long as he can remember. He began “Paradigm Shift” as an online comic in 1999, and is a founding contributor to premiere comics portal Modern Tales. His artwork is showcased in the books “Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning and Webcomics”, appears the documentary “Adventures In Digital Comics”, and was featured in Season 3 of NBC’s “Heroes”. His work can be seen at http://www.dirktiede.com/ and http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com/
Visit the Boston Comics Roundtable at the Bazaar Bizarre activity room, where you can also check out gather here, Lindsay Metivier, the Boston Derby Dames, and Repeat Press.
