Boston Comics Roundtable members ROHO and Jesse Lonergan will be showing around a proof preview of their Hellbound 2 books with a handmade box, screenprinted under the guidance of Joel Gill, all of whom will be exhibitors today at MICE.  Get an exclusive sneak peak of the book and a flyer about the Hellbound Halloween Party on 10/28/11 at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square!

Contributors include MICE Panelist J. L. Bell and MICE Exhibitors Alex Cormack, Lindsay Moore, and Laurel Leake (see her at the Boston Comics Roundtable table), who were just announced two nights ago as award-winners of the contest for Minimum Paige, the Harvard Bookstore’s first comics anthology!  Congratulations, John, Alex, Lindsay and Laurel!  Stop by their tables and attend the “Comics & Children’s Literature: Smart Comics For Kids” panel today at 12:15pm in the Amphitheater to congratulate them in person!

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Last few spotlights before the show, be sure to check out all the debuts premiering at MICE.

Dave Kender continues his series from San Francisco’s Mission Hill neighborhood. With an ever changing cast of characters and artists, The Ragbox’s latest installment does not disappoint with lush illustrations from Line Olsson.

www.theragbox.com

Cartoonists Nomi Kane, Jen Vaughn and Caitlin M. are proud to present “Lies Grown-ups Told Me”, a collection of short comics about the improbable and outrageous things we believed until we were old enough to realize their absurdity. If you ever thought there was a Tooth Fairy, or that your face would stay that way, or that Mountain Dew was really Kangaroo piss, this book is for you. Featuring creators from all across the U.S. like Lorna Miller, Bryan Stone, Ricker Parker, Jesse Lonergan and Jon Chad, you’ll read about some big whoppers and maybe one day use them on your own children.

Lies Grown-Ups Told Me
editors: Nomi Kane, Jen Vaughn and Caitlin M

70 Pages, $7.00

In honor of MICE, our sponsor, the Weekly Dig this week features a “jam comic” cover, drawn by three MICE exhibitors and/or panelists: Maris Wicks, Ming Doyle, and Patt Kelley. The concept and layout is by Tak Toyoshima, who’ll be a panelist and exhibitor at MICE as well (at the Dig table). Word has it that copies of the cover, signed by the artists, may be found at that very same table…

Set in an Moroccan-style marketplace, Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline tell the story of a Potter who’s creativity and desire to please gets away from him.

The Potter’s Pet
by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline

24 pages, $5.00

www.shelliparoline.com / www.bradenlamb.com

Joel Gill continues his StrangeFruit series with the story of first American Stage Magician, Richard Potter. As a black man from New Hampshire, Potter was a pioneer on several fronts — but how many of his astounding feats were fact, and how many were legend?

StrangeFruit #4
Joel Christian Gill
20 pages
$3.00

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Jerel Dye’s MICE debut is One Android Stories 2: Tide Lines.

A mysterious island, a lazy castaway, a struggling scientist and an unconscious android all blend together in this the second issue of One Android Stories. Comical and strange with a touch of melancholy, “Tide Lines” continues the story begun in “Deep Waters.”

One Android Stories: Tide Lines
Story and art by Jerel Dye
22 pages
$4
Website: http://www.jereldye.com/

Do you have issues with the alphabet?  Leann Leake has one–Issue #3 of her ‘zine Hot Tea, Cold Water, to be specific.  Stop by her table at MICE 2011 to peruse “The Alphabet Issue,” with a piece devoted to and inspired by each and every letter of the Roman alphabet.  If you like abecedarian ruminations of the non-rudimentary sort, this latest from Leake is not to be missed!

Hot Tea, Cold Water #3: The Alphabet Issue
by Leann Leake
Website: http://laughing-anima.livejournal.com/61333.html

Since the dawn of time, there has been one question that has consistantly baffled scholars and gutter-punks alike: what if someone crossed the light-hearted, zany antics of family-friendly comics like The Family Circus, Ziggy and Archie with zombie gore like Night of the Living Dead and The Family Circus?  The answer: you get Commute of the Living Dead.  Commute of the Living Dead – Volume One: Blood and Coffee collects the first eight months of the light-hearted, one-panel web-comic about zombies and humans living together in relative “harmony”, originally seen as part of the Weekly Dig‘s Sunday Comics Project.

Commute of the Living Dead * Volume One: Blood and Coffee
by Eric Boeker
36 pages (full color cover, b&w interior)
$3.00
Website: http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eboeker/