Binding Session

The last step (or next to last) on the assembly of our annual horror anthology was the binding. We reserved the familiar grounds of the Rosa Parks room at the Democracy Center on a Tuesday evening and proceeded to put the book together on an assembly line style.

Screen Printing Session

A few weeks ago we journey into the northern lands of  New Hampshire to Screen Print the Box that will contain the Evil that is Hellbound 2. At the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, under the guidance of Joel Gill we proceeded to lay ink on handmade paper and let the spirits bond it to it.

Here Joel feeds the hungering loom with a mix of unspeakable pigments while Jesse Lonergan quietly and reverently summons the local specters to protect the previously hand made paper. 

Patrick Flaherty and E.J. Barnes

Today we’re discussing horror and the Hellbound 2 story, The Plague, with writer Patrick Flaherty and artist E.J. Barnes.

Paper Session N° 2

As promised in the Paper Session N° 1 post, the BCR and BPC teamed up a second time. On August 18th, we gathered to create paper for the Hellbound II Art Edition boxes. Once again we were joined by BPC founding member, Zoe Culbertson, and for the first time, director, Melinda Cross. Bear with us for this brief PSA:

The Boston Paper Collective to create paper for the covers of the Hellbound II Art Edition. The Boston Paper Collective provides studio access for paper artists and is located at 523 Medford Street in Charlestown, MA. In addition to having a beater, mixer, 20 ton press, and drying system, along with a vacuum table, vats, and moulds, they also offer workshops, custom classes, pulp beating, one on one instruction and studio rental.

The Plague by Flaherty & Barnes

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A House with a Past by E.J. Barnes

Boston is a city of history but not all history finds it way into text books or Duck Tours. In a state synonymous with witch burnings and 86 year old curses, writer and artist E.J. Barnes investigates the questionable ancestry of a Massachusetts home. Did the previous owners engage in highly questionable practices? Were they demonic or pharmaceutical in nature? With the housing market being such a beast, they should have just said no.

About the creator:

E. J. Barnes is a comic writer and artist, painter, gag and political cartoonist, and animator. Her cartoons have appeared in Funny Times and Fortean Times. In 2009 she received an award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association for illustration work she did for the (Greenfield, MA) Recorder. Her comic work includes Blaster Al Ackerman's Tales of the Ling Master, an adaptation of the short stories of humorist "Blaster" Al Ackerman. She collaborated with Patrick Flaherty on a short comic piece for the Boston Comics Roundtable's anthology Inbound #5. She lives in Cambridge and has experienced nothing supernatural in her current residence.
http://www.ejbarnes.com/

More Submission Info

As you prepare for the submission deadline there are a couple of things to consider:

1. We would like for these stories to be all ages or at least PG ( stay away from the F-Bomb)
2. We want the stories to be based on real events, and yes that does mean you can include stories that you heard first hand.
3. If you have question or you want my advise please send thumbnails of pages along with scripts.
4. The stories can be serious or comical either way utilize the red in some way.
5. THIS IS IMPORTANTAll those that are accepted into HellBound will help put the artist book together. That means taking the bus to NH ( an hour ride) and helping out over a weekend either printing or binding the artist book.

The link below is a place where you may be able to find story info. There are others, search them out. http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/massachusetts.htm Also below is the image information about the size of the page. It may turn out that the book needs to be smaller, but that should not effect your image quality. If you are picture with out a story or a story without pictures please post to the BCR google group with HellBound in the subject lines to see if you can find a match.

Submission Rules for Hellbound #1

• Limited to 24 one-page stories. 
• One over-sized page each (tabloid size 14"x20"). 
• Screen printed in two inks (black and glow in the dark red). 
• Horror stories based on New England murders, urban legends, ghost stories and creepy tales. 
• A hand-bound, signed and numbered over-sized artist book edition will be released at the Hellbound event. 
• This Limited Edition will be auctioned at this event only! 

Finished pages must be black, red and white and can be submitted digitally beginning March 1st. It is recommended to work on a size equal or bigger than tabloid (14"x20").
24 local creators will be selected will participate in the printing and binding process.

Deadline: April 1 2010.