VATO MALDITO: My Life of Crime by John "Bubbles" Gallegos. Now Available from Enlightened Pyramid. 
BOSTON, MA (November 4, 2009) – The Boston Comics Roundtable, in partnership with River Bird Studios, is pleased to announce the release of the premiere issue of Outbound, a Science Fiction comics anthology.
BREATHERPlaying the Field
you hover
you say I’m not your first flower
your first lover
you lower yourself
how hoverly
how loverly
then leave
oh bee
my honey boy
oh baby mine
come back to me
When Somebody Calls after Ten P.M.
when somebody calls after ten p.m.
and you live in wisconsin
and you’re snug in your bed
then all’s I can tell you
somebody better be missing
somebody better had a baby
or somebody better be dead.
Boston Comics Roundtable releases its second anthology
BOSTON, MA (OCTOBER 6, 2008) – The Boston Comics Roundtable has returned with their second anthology, featuring a wide variety of comics from Boston-based creators. From would-be supermen to foibles in space to real-life stories from the streets of Iraq, Inbound #2 is the best of Boston. This 64-page book retails for $7.95.
Contributors include:
"Might" – Matt Reidsma (High Maintenance Machine)
"Watcher Wanted" – Shelli Paroline (Harvest is When I Need You the Most)
"Bad Topology" – Charles Schneeflock Snow (Sordid City Blues) & Erik Haines
"The Walk" – Kevin Kilgore (Center for Cartoon Studies)
"Little Cody Visits the Underworld" – Rachel Maguire
"Too Many Robots!" – Ron LeBrasseur
"Endlessly She Said" – Jay Kennedy
"unWendy" – Cathy Leamy (Geraniums and Bacon)
Cover – Braden Lamb
The Boston Comics Roundtable was created in 2006 to unite Boston-based comics creators in the spirit of camaraderie and professional development. Their ever-growing membership roll - now over fifty people – and the publication of Inbound #2 reaffirms that Boston is the hot new town for comics!
The Boston Comics Roundtable is an independent organization of comics creators in the Greater Boston area. The group meets weekly for workshopping, teaching, and social gathering. Meetings are open to the public. Information regarding publications, artist galleries, and meetings can be found at their website
For more information or to contact for interview, email Dave Kender.
I speak to 91 year old Hatboro, Pennsylvania[,] poet Ed Galing on a regular basis, and I am amazed that despite his advanced years his mind is still sharp, and he continues to regale the small press with his prolific output of poetry and prose. Ed at this stage in the game is being discovered and is being published in such top shelf [magazines as]: Pearl, Margie, Rattle[,] and others.
I am also glad that a local press: Propaganda Press, headed by [Cambridge] resident Leah Angstman, has published a new [chapbook] from Ed. Ed has written extensively about his days as a boy on the streets of the Lower East Side of New York City, his stint as an occupation soldier during World War ll, and his life in America as a Jew, family man, and the many other roles he has played in the long expanse of his lifetime.
His latest book "Confessions of a White Hat" deals with his time as a naval reservist in the post World War ll Cold War era. In characteristic Galing style[,] he gives the reader the taste and texture of the Navy-life, as he knew it. Here Galing describes the milieu, and the sensibility of his place and time:
The Beginning
we are a motley
crew
as motley as
you could ever wish
for; fresh out of
other branches
of the service,
after world war
two,
the reserves
wave a silver
platter before
our eyes;
ex-marines
soldiers
coast guard
waves
we all clamber
on board,
not willing to
forget the
military yet;
the cold war
is still on;
unrest in other
parts of the
world,
the russian bear,
i had to be nuts
but six months
after i get out
of the Army
i am now a
member of the
naval air
on active duty
at an air station
four miles from
home,
and the fat is in
the fire once
again.Ed tells me that Leah Angstman is going to publish more of his work so that he can speak to us well after his death. Let's hope that Ed stays around on this earthly plain for some years to come.
Chapbooks of Ed's due out before the end of the month:
One of our editors at Propaganda Press, leah angstman, just had four pages published in issue number eight of The GUT, a cool assembling zine where the artists/authors create the pages themselves, and the editors print them as-is. Shown here are the four pages, as well as the cover of the issue, shown directly to the left.
In The GUT's own words, the zine is "home to an ongoing series of interviews with anti-societal icons[;] and independent writers, artists, musicians, and publishers. [The zine] invites submissions of writing and art from guerrilla creatives worldwide. Who cares what genre it is? [They] accept random thoughts, scrap thoughts, finished thoughts."
Feel free to send them a page or two; if they like it, they will use it. Half page size. Large submissions by invite only. When our website is up and running, we will be carrying this awesome assembling zine, but until that glorious day, you can obtain a copy of this wondrous zine, with four pages of art and poetry by Propaganda Press editor leah angstman, by writing to the editors.
To submit, send your poetry, short prose, art, cartoons, or pics; to purchase, send $5 per issue or $20 for a year's subscription (6-8 issues) to:
Best to make checks out to one of the editors until further notice of something to the contrary.
NOW AVAILABLE
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