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@bostoncomicsroundtable er... Table is setup at #cccaf !

[ejbarnes]

I’ll be one of the exhibitors tomorrow at Cambridge Community Comic Arts Fair at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library Main Branch, in the Teen Room on the main floor. The show is FREE to the public 10 AM - 4:30 PM.

And it’s Free Comic Book Day, so I encourage you also to swing by your local comic shop -- be it Million Year Picnic, New England Comics, Hub Comics, Comicazi, Comicopia, JP Comics and Games, or anyplace else that tickles your fancy! Some of these stores will have other comic creators doing signings and sketches, so don’t miss out on the fun!

[bostoncomicsroundtable]

The Cambridge Community Comic Arts Fair is TOMORROW, May 7th, from 10 AM to 4:30 PM at the Cambridge Public Library! Admission is FREE!

There is going to be a great lineup of local, independent comic creators showing their work as well as free and engaging comics workshops suitable for all ages! Come on by!

For a complete list of exhibitors, see here.

For the complete workshop schedule, see here.

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This Saturday, in just a couple days, will be CCCAF! Jack Turnbull, Brendan Tobin, Michael Saver & Andrew Bratica, and Jesse Schuh are just a selection of the many great exhibitors we’ll be having at the Cambridge Public Library. See bostoncomics.com/cccaf for more information!

Jack Turnbull (b. 1983) is the author of Roger Otto: Dinosaur Skateboarder, The Invasive Exotics & I Escaped A Satanic Ninja Cult.  He has been self publishing graphic novels since 1999.  He currently lives in Jamaica Plain. He teaches at Lesley University & through the Boston Public Schools.  He plays guitar and skateboards. For more information visit his website atwww.jackturnbull.com.

Brendan Tobin currently works in marketing as a designer for a RI tech company and enjoys creating comics and cartoons for himself. He lives in Norwood, Ma with his beautiful wife, wonderful stepsons, and two, terrible kitties, all of whom he loves very much. Occasionally, he dreams of building an angry robot army and waging war against bigfoot when not dreaming of grilled cheese sandwiches.

Michael Saver and Andrew Bratica just released their first comic book, The Radically Ordinary Adventures of Mr. Teacher and Panda, in the Spring of 2015. The goofy, dry humor book follows the debut adventures of the temperamental Mr. Teacher and dull-witted Panda as they face off against life’s more trying tribulations – death, work, police, taxes, and grocery shopping. Following a sell out debut at Boston Comic Con last year, the self-published book is in its second printing of Issue 1 and will be debuting Issue 2 at CCCAF!

Jesse Schuh is a cartoonist from Brookline, Massachusetts. He is currently doing a comic strip onTapastic.com called “Year ‘Round Days.” It is a strip about little kids based on the author and friends he knew  growing up. The strip is based on the human condition and contains a lot of real-life humor. Schuh has been developing this strip since roughly around August 25, 2003, shortly after turning 12 years old. Since then, he has been reworking the strip’s characters and humor with some influence from other pieces of work. Schuh’s style is heavily influenced by daily comic strips such as Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, but believes Peanuts by Charles Schulz is his greatest influence. When growing up, he utilized Charles Schulz’s drawing style, humor, and characters to create his own strip. Schuh is proud to be able to share his strip with others and be part of Boston Comics Roundtable.  

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Rebecca Gundlach, Ken Perez, and Roho will be exhibiting work at CCCAF this Saturday at the Cambridge Public Library! Come check it out! For information, see bostoncomics.com/cccaf.

Rebecca Gundlach, a.k.a. singingstranger, is a 19-year-old German nanny who went to Art School parallel to High School and is now drawing whenever they find the time. Usually it’s fantasy, activist, or silly doodles. Comics creator, illustrator, and loves hedgehogs.

Ken Perez is an illustrator/writer, creator of meta-sci-fi graphic novelettes or ‘zine’ epics. They’re mixed-media books, incorporating many mediums, avante-garde/visionary comics, speculative essays about the nature of reality, and illustrated short story/parables with extensive art galleries. He’s created his own mythos with semi-autobiographical themes that also explore our evolutionary potential.

Roho was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and immigrated to the United States in his early adulthood. Shortly after moving to Cambridge in 2008, he joined Boston Comics Roundtable. Roho has contributed to the last three issues of Inbound, Show and Tell, The Greatest Comics Anthology of all Time and In a Single Bound as well as publishing and editing Outbound: The Science Fiction Comics Anthology and five issues of Hellbound Annual Horror Anthology. Continuing his work as publisher he is partnering with John Carvajal on the newsprint periodical The Midnight Oil. Building on the mission of using comics as a teaching tool for children and adults in the community and supporting local creators for the last three years working with the Cambridge Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Cambridge Public Library on the mission of using comics as a teaching tool for children and adults in the community. More about his work can be seen atroho.tumblr.com and riverbirdcomics.com. 

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Maria Photinakis, LB Lee, Christopher Previte, and Heide Solbrig are just a few of the excellent independent artists who will be showing work at the Cambridge Community Comic Arts Fair this Saturday! For more information, please go to bostoncomics.com/cccaf.

Maria Photinakis is an illustrator, cartoonist, painter, and giant Star Trek nerd who loves sci-fi and autobiographical comics. Her sci-fi comic, Red Flag, about a young woman trying to make her dreams of space life come true despite the odd, is available to buy at CCCAF!

LB Lee is a multivarious entity that makes mental health comics, draws pretty pictures, and writes stories about reality melting. They live in Boston. They have windows.

Christopher Previte is an artist, graphic designer, writer, photographer, and educator. He has enjoyed working creatively for over twenty-five years. In that time, he has created content and solutions in the areas of Illustration, Identity & Branding, Print & Web Design, Photography, and Event Media. His current practice explores themes of loss, responsibility, and impermanence through comic book storytelling. His pursuits include fiction writing in the form of micro-stories, image creation, illustration explorations, and spoken-word narratives. This wider view of storytelling techniques has resulted in a number of interesting projects that he is currently pursuing. You can see his work and learn more about him at www.christopherprevite.com.

Heide Solbrig is a graphic novelist, media artist, filmmaker, and communication scholar. She is the author of the The Dandelion King, a graphic memoir about the 1970’s and has taught media art, film and communication at Wheaton College, Emerson, Bentley University, UCSD, and SFSU. She currently runs the Boston Comics Workspace and organizes comics classes, workshops, and speaking series.

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Dan Mazur, Joey Peters, and Mehitabel Glenhaber are just three of the many talented artists who will be exhibiting at CCCAF on May 7th at the Cambridge Public Library. See their bios below! And for information about CCCAF, go to www.bostoncomics.com/cccaf.

Dan Mazur is an independent cartoonist, editor, publisher and author who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His comics have appeared in numerous anthologies, and his Cold Wind (with Jesse Lonergan), was named a notable in The Best American Comics of 2013. He is the co-writer with Alexander Danner of Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present.  He is co-founder of the Boston Comics Roundtable, and MICE: the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, and founder of Ninth Art Press, as small press devoted to comics and comics anthologies. His comics include The Jernegan Solution, based on a true historical mystery, set in Maine in 1898 andHooves of Death, a mashup of 1940s superhero comics, Marxism and modern art.www.danmazurcomics.com

Joey Peters is a writer, cartoonist and beauty contest champion. His work primarily focuses on bringing new life to the strangest forgotten characters from comic book history, including the Super Wizard Stardust and the billionaire industrialist vigilante lumberjack Big Red McLane. Read his comics at SuperWizard.net.

Mehitabel Glenhaber hails from Somerville and likes to make comics about squid, Alan Turing, the 1950s, and other things! You can find more of her work at topquarkintown.tumblr.com.

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CCCAF is less than a week away! Here is another selection of the excellent artists we will have exhibiting on Saturday May 7th. For more information, please go to bostoncomics.com/cccaf.

E. J. Barnes writes, draws, and paints comics, cartoons, illustrations, and animation in a variety of media, including ink, watercolor, scratchboard, gouache, and digital media. Her work covers history, humor, horror, science, and nature. She teaches cartooning in Cambridge and surrounding communities. Her self-published books appear under Drowned Town Press.

Jess Semeraro makes cartoons about work, pets, and forgotten or invisible people.  She lives in Gloucester, MA and has yet to see a whale in the harbor but has seen the occasional seal and once, a snowy owl.

Ansis Purins is a Xeric Award-winning cartoonist living in Allston, MA. You can see his strips in Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine and online at www.ansispurins.squarespace.com. His next book, Magic Forest, will be coming out soon from Revival House Press.

Spencer Hawkes: In addition to drawing, Spencer rides his bike, goes camping and eats toast. He likes to travel with his lady Sam and explore other cities’ comic shops, and often finds himself buying comics in languages he cannot read. He has contributed to several anthologies such as Reality Not Included, and God-Zine-Ra and has drawn comics for the Cambridge Historical Society and the Boston Globe. You can find see his work at spencerhawkes.com.