KickStart our PCC Rhode Island Anthology!

We are launching a Kickstarter Campaign at the same time as our Rhode Island tour to libraries all over the state, to help raise funds to print and publish "The Rhode Island Anthology". Contributing is your only way of getting your hands on a copy of this sure-to-be awesome brick of a book. Thanks for helping us make it real! 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/771537978/providence-comics-consortium-rhode-island-antholog

Thanks Providence Phoenix!

The Providence Phoenix wrote an awesome little article in it's "Best Of..." issue.  

"You may have stumbled into a PCC gathering if you've walked into a Providence Community Library branch on a weekday afternoon and seen an energetic man gesticulating excitedly before a group of eight- to-12-year-olds armed with pencils and workbooks. This is the formula PCC has followed since its founding (with the help of a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant) in October 2010. Kids enroll in the PCC — free of charge — for a month of twice-weekly after-school workshops. During the sessions they learn about comics-making by filling out character sheets ("Name," "Height," "Weight," "Homebase," "Powers/Abilities," "Weaknesses," etc.), playing sketching games with names like "Face Factory," and brainstorming with visiting artists."

Check out the full article here:

http://providence.thephoenix.com/news/153774-local-heroes-2013/?page=2#TOPCONTENT

MAY RI Tour Calendar!

PROVIDENCE COMICS CONSORTIUM RHODE ISLAND TOUR **********************************************************
We're taking the Comics Consortium all over the great state of Rhode Island...by bike! Check us out at the following locations, contact your local librarian to sign up for a free workshop. Spread the word!

5/2 Pawtucket Public Library
5/3 North Providence Union Free Library
5/4 East Providence Public Library
5/6 Warwick Public Library
5/7 East Greenwich Free Library
5/8 Coventry Public Library
5/15 Cumberland Public Library
5/16 Johnston - Marian J Mohr Memorial Library
5/18 East Smithfield Public Library
5/20 Barrington Public Library
5/21 Warren - George Hall Free Library
 5/22 Tiverton Public library
5/28 Westerly Public Library
5/29 Peace Dale Library
5/30 Narragansett - Maury Loontjens Memorial

Thank you to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for making this tour possible!

CAR CRASH CONSORTIUM #2 Out Now!

Were you looking for parables of road safety? Were you looking for tales of horror to scare your pals straight onto the seatbelt tip? Well friends, this is for you! More stories calculated (by kids) to keep your body in one piece, including: Headless Hula Dancers, Phantom Cars, Nerdy drivers losing their heads (literally), and Anti-Carcrash Dog! An instant classic! Guest Artists are Nate Doyle, Laura Knetzger, Jesse McManus, Caitlin Cali, & Cathy G. Johnson. 28 pages 8”x5.5” Black on Black Cover ripped from Cathy G. Johnson’s Sketchbook! Red risographed interiors Get a copy HERE!

Providence Car Crash Consortium

Yo Consortium Friends! Over the next 8 months we are going to be creating a ton of characters and comics relating to seatbelts and car accidents! The Providence Community Library got some funding from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to put out an avalanche of cautionary comics about Car Safety! So we've just started to dip our toes into this morbid subject with the hope of buckeling some more people up, in this, one of the worst driving cities in the world. Rotten McGee by Dakarai Williams and Walker Mettling