Monday, November 26

Outbound Cyber Monday Sale!

Outbound #2 cover art by Marcello Buchelli

Outbound #2 (+Digital #1)

River Bird Comics

by The Boston Comics Roundtable +

Edited by Roho.

120 pages ~ $10 | Black and White | 5.5 x 8.5 inches

New ongoing stories premiering alongside continuing chapters of fan favorite stories from the first issue. Featuring new stories:"The New Kid" by Dan Mazur, with chapter cover by Roho; "The Fallout Parade" by Jesse Lonergan; "Frequency: Breaking the Law of Gravity" by David Alluisi and Brian Boyles, with chapter cover by Jason Baroody; "Robot 11-Three" by Kevin Kilgore, with chapter cover by Chris Ring; "Alkehine's Gun" by Joel Gill and "Driftwood" by Morgan Pielli. Returning stories include: "Space and Time" by Josh Mills, Michael Paoloni, David Marshall, and Roho, with issue cover by Marcello Buchelli; "The Caerulean Dream" by Roho and Kevin Zimmerman, with chapter cover by Randy Valiente; "The Null Device" by David Marshall; "Flek" by Erik Heumiller; "Scientists Gone Wild" by Eric Boeker; and "Black Fuska" by Roho, Dave Myers, and Steve Willhite, with chapter cover by Paul Marquis. Also includes prose fiction: "Tin Cans and a String" by Patrick J. Flaherty, with art by Furman.

Includes a Digital Copy of Outbound #1!

Online Previews!| Read Reviews

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Wednesday, September 26

Hellbound and Darkness



Hellbound III: DARKNESS Press Release
Boston Comics Roundtable Unleashes Hellbound III: Darkness Anthology of Horror Comics

BOSTON, September 24—The Boston Comics Roundtable, in partnership with River Bird Comics, is pleased to announce the publication of “Hellbound III: Darkness,” an anthology of all-new horror comics by artists and writers from greater Boston.

The Art Edition of Hellbound III: Darkness will debut on September 29 at the third annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE), and be available at selected comics shops in the region and online. The Art Edition, at 8.5 x 11 inches, features black and white art with a wraparound full color cover nearly a yard long, designed by Roho and featuring art by Jerel Dye. Following this initial printing, a regular edition will be available at local comic stores, shows, and online.

The Boston Comics Roundtable’s annual Hellbound collections have won the praise of many comics critics. Roz Young at Sequential Tart called last year’s edition “a wonderful set of frighteningly fiendish stories.” Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 wrote, “The craftsmanship in this volume is impressive.” Jen Vaughn of the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont called the collection “perfect for the horror fan.” That edition, Hellbound II, was nominated for a New England Art Award in the category of best book.

Hellbound III: Darkness continues in the same horrifying tradition with eleven chilling tales that examine the darkness that lies within all of us. These gruesome narratives feature some of New England’s best artists and writers. Tak Toyoshima, creative director at Dig Publishing, offers a quick taste of zombies. Poet and “horror burlesque” impresario Janaka Stucky teams with tattoo artist Josh Wallis for a story set in a mortuary. Lindsay Moore, Donna Martinez, and Joey Peters explore the dark side of high-school overachievers. Even baseball gets the horror treatment in “America’s Pastime” by Stephen Cartisano and Ellen T. Crenshaw.

The creators work in a variety of styles. Kimball Anderson’s “No, He Can Come” uses totally black backgrounds while James the Vampire’s art may look light and airy but hides terror underneath. Jacob Oley and Gregery Miller collaborate on a nightmarish character sketch named “Vimshaw.” Alison Burke and Tara Harris of Arrocomic.com explore the woods at night. Joshua D. Hoaglund’s “Vengeance” and Adrian Rodriguez’s “Pedestrian” are both nearly wordless, with one story taking place on a whaling ship and the other in a modern city. Jon Clark’s “Void” closes out the volume with the chilling words of a love too far.

The editorial team for Hellbound III included Jerel Dye as story editor and Kyle Anderson as art editor with supplied additional illustrations by Gregery Miller and Roho. This volume was designed and produced by Roho, owner/publisher of River Bird Comics and creator of Hellbound.

The Art Edition of “Hellbound III: Darkness” costs $25.00 and it’s available for preorder here.
Please contact the publisher to receive an advance preview/ review copy.

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I will be also premiering a mini-comic titled Darkfull that will be included with
the Art Edition of Hellbound III, you can buy a digital version @Gumroad.

Darkfull by Roho and Jamie Hibdon.

Wednesday, August 15

Hellbound III: DARKNESS


Hellbound III: DARKNESS, pencils for the fold gate cover that I will be colaborating with Jerel Dye story editor for this year horror anthology. More about Hellbound here and make sure to check the G+ page for sneak peeks and more art.

Friday, June 1

MECAF 2 pager


Check out this 2 page exercise I drew while tabling at MECAF a couple of weeks ago at ROHOisROUGH. Is being posted one panel at the time, you can start from the link (or click on the pic) and work your way to today. If you like it take the time and let me know what you think. Coming after that some sketches and previews for a couple of upcoming stories.

Wednesday, April 18

Glory

Glory (Rob Liefeld's Glory from Image Comics ) for this week's Sketch Challenge (@Ten Ton Studios) he is riding a Leaping Mole... that is a real thing right? I have been using Borden & Riley's #120 Bristol Plate (Smooth) is pretty good for inking and markers. For Ink I used a Rotring Art Pen Extra Fine and a Sanford Extra Fine Point Marker, mostly for the Mole Skin and contour.

Sunday, February 12

WEEK 6

This week characters started being 80's teenagers but then changed into something else. Last week I won the Ten Ton Studios Sketch Challenge (it's was Rob's Liefeld's Re:GEX). So I got to choose this week's and do a good entry to defend the title so that took over from Tuesday one. So here is the week: Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The New Challengers of the Unknown (Re-imagined), Teth-Adam (Redesign), Bizarro (Re-imagined), Proto-Wizard head shot. Next week we will revert back to the normal schedule, it maybe double whammies stay tuned. Also go visit the Boston Comics Roundtable daily sketch Tumblr, where our members show sketches and work in progress of what they are working on.

Tuesday, February 7

Week 5

This Week's Characters are: Jean Grey, Catwoman, The Thing, Cyclops and Judge Dredd. Next week was going to be 80's Teenagers but after spending half an hour looking at references of Sean Penn I decided against it so keep eye out, there will be some doodles coming out everyday.