Did your child, sibling, niece, nephew, or other young budding artist have fun at MICE?? If so, please consider telling them about an affordable & totally fun course for high school students being offered by MICE’s host, the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University! It’s offered on Saturdays, from October 22-December 10, for a mere $125.00 + $45 materials.
COMICS AND THE GRAPHIC NOVEL:
This is an introductory course focusing on the history and production of graphic novels. Major figures and their work are reviewed and studied for inspiration. Students will view the collection of graphic novels in the AIB library. Students learn the basics of producing their own short comic story from beginning to end using various materials and techniques such as pencil, ink and brush washes, nib pen work, watercolor and markers, and some computer scanning. Character design, storytelling, and composition are stressed.
Register here: http://www.lesley.edu/aib/curriculum/precollege.html
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MICE would like to thank the all exhibitors and attendees that made our show a huge success. We counted approximately 924 people coming through door this past Saturday, and with over 80 exhibitors, attendance totaled over 1000! In the coming week, we’ll be posting our videos from the panels and workshops, in case you missed or want to review any of the action.
In the meantime, please leave any feedback as a comment here, or by sending us an email. We’d greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts on the space, the panels and workshops, communications, improvements for next year or any other comments you may have.
Our thanks goes out to our supporters: The Art Institute of Boston and Susan Levan, The Weekly Dig, each of our panelists and moderators, the art show coordinators and our volunteers!
- The MICE Crew: Dan Mazur, Cherry Ogata Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb and Rebecca Viola
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Yay! MICE 2011 is today! The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and the Boston Comics Roundtable are excited to present a lineup of panels, workshops & demonstrations, and exhibitors today, along with the amazing art on the walls from our art show, Comic Art New England. Special thanks to all exhibitors who chose MICE 2011 to premiere their awesome debuts, as well as to our wonderful sponsors Boston’s Weekly Dig and the Boston Chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild! We look forward to seeing everyone at the show!
Please do join us afterwards at Tavern in the Square (located on the first floor of 1815 Massachusetts Ave.) to celebrate MICE 2011. The MICE After Party officially kicks off at 7pm and goes until last call!
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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!
[via Hellbound and Oz and Ends]
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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/