#cccaf

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.