Curriculum Vitae
- Publication
- The Cambridge Chronicle, weekly newspaper of Cambridge, MA
- BCR Playing Card Deck (2019), Boston Comics Roundtable
- Colonial Comics Vol. II: New England, 1750—1775 (2017), Chicago Review Press
- Boundless (2016), Boston Comics Roundtable/Robot Camp
- Colonial Comics: New England, 1620—1750 (2014), Chicago Review Press
- SubCultures, (2014), Ninth Art Press
- Hellbound (2010), Hellbound II (2011) (see creator interview here), and Hellbound V (2014), River Bird Comics
- The Greatest of All Time Comics Anthology (2012), Ninth Art Press
- American Communal Societies Quarterly Vol. 6, no. 2 (April 2012)
- Polite Company Magazine, an online humor journal of sex, politics, and religion
- Nix Comics Quarterly #3
- Inbound 5: The Food Issue, a publication of the Boston Comics Roundtable
- The Commons, monthly alternative newspaper of Brattleboro, VT, and Windham County
- The Recorder, daily newspaper of Greenfield, MA, Franklin County, and North Quabbin
- The Friends of Lulu Girls' Guide to Guys' Stuff
- Fortean Times
- Funny Times
- Journal of Irreproducible Results
- Awakening Comics publications: Awakening Comics 1999, The Origin of Sparky, and Sparky in Love
- Shattered Wig Poetry Review
- Gauntlet: Exploring the Limits of Free Expression #3 (incorrectly billed on their credits list as B.J. Barnes)
- 1993 Women's Glib Calendar
- Lewis Carroll Epstein's Thinking Physics, Second Edition (supplementary illustrations)
- Awards
- 2017: Coaster Design Winner (Top 4 in Audience Voting), 2017 Coaster Show at Lamplighter Brewing Co., for "Happy Customers"
- 2017: Honorable Mention, "White|Black|Monochrome" at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA; for "The Plague (Page 3 of 7)". Exhibition juried by Beth Urdang of Beth Urdang Gallery
- 2009: 2nd Place winner, Illustration/Daily Class, New England Newspaper and Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, for "Old Deerfield Grammar School", published in The Recorder 20 September 2008
- 2007: Third Prize Winner (Audience Voting), Sevincer Animation Festival, for Leatherwing Bat
- 2007: Judges' Choice Award for Wurst Pun, Arisia Science Fiction Convention Art Show, for "A Tern for the Wurst"
- 2004: Category Award Winner: First Film, Open Genre Short, Thunderbird International Film Festival, for Leatherwing Bat
- Group Exhibitions: Highlights
- 6–29 November 2020: Speak UP! juried exhibition at Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
- 16 September 2018 – 13 January 2019: New England Watercolor Society's 2018 Biennial North American Open Juried Exhibition at the Art Complex Museum, Plymouth, MA.
- 17 April – 28 May 2017: "White|Black|Monochrome" national juried exhibition at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
- 7 October 2016 – 29 January 2017: Fur, Feathers & Fins: Our Faithful Pets, national juried exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
- 1 September – 11 December 2015: Seeing Stories: Traversing the Graphic Narrative, invitational exhibition at Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
- 19 June – 23 August 2015: Heroes & Villains: Exploring Archetypes Through Art, national juried exhibition at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
- 4 December 2014 – 16 January 2015: The Cambridge Art Association Presents: Platinum, juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
- 31 May – 5 July 2012: The Cambridge Art Association 11th National Prize Show, national juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
- 3–24 February 2012: "Scratching the Surface", juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association's Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- 28 January – 4 February 2011: "Good vs. Evil! Superhero vs. Villain Smackdown", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA
- 30 April – 21 May 2010: "Get Your Freak On! Celebrating Circus Folk, Carnies & Sideshow Freaks", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA
- 29 January – 13 March 2010: "I...You...We...ROBOT: A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek!", juried exhibition at Space 242, formerly of Boston, MA
- September – November 2006: 7th Annual Great River Exhibition: "Homage to the Seasons", benefit for , at Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, MA
- 2006–2008: "Critical Views" II, III, and IV, annual juried exhibition of political art at Red Sun Press held in conjunction with Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
- Solo Exhibitions
- April 2010: "Laughing To Keep From Crying: The Political Cartoons of E. J. Barnes", Upstairs at The Middle East Restaurant, Cambridge, MA
- July 2009: "Around the Neighborhood": 2007—2009 original editorial cartoons published in The Recorder and The Commons, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA
- January — March 2007: "Funny Pictures, Serious Business II": 2006—2007 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA
- December 2006: "Odd Ducks: Avian Art for Cartoons, Comic Books, and Animation": watercolor and gouache paintings made for Birds of the Baltic, Leatherwing Bat, and other works, Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA
- September — October 2006: Untitled solo show of original topical cartoon art, including editorial cartoons that have appeared in The Recorder, at Green Fields Market, Greenfield, MA
- May — June 2006: "Funny Pictures, Serious Business": 2005—2006 original editorial cartoons for The Recorder, Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA
- November 2004: "Circles of Color": Syncretic mandalas painted in gouache, Amherst Crepes, Amherst, MA
- Juried Art Festivals
- 2010—present: Cambridge Open Studios
- 2009—2014: Cambridge Center for Adult Education Holly Fair
- 2008: Pittsfield Art Show, Pittsfield, MA
- 2007—2008: Great Falls Art Fest, benefit for the , Turners Falls (Montague), MA
- 2006—2007: Northfield Summer Arts Festival at Green Trees Gallery, Northfield, MA
- 2005—2006: University of Massachusetts Holiday Craft Fair, sponsored by the , Amherst, MA
- 2004—2005: ArtShow Amherst Fine Art Street Galleries, Amherst, MA
- Curatorial Experience
- 23 February — 22 April 2012: "Comics and Society: Observations of Boston Comic and Cartoon Artists", featuring art of the Boston Comics Roundtable, at Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- 29 June — 31 July 2009: "Five Valley Cartoonists", at Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, MA
- 1 April — 29 May 2008: "Accounts of Events: Narrative Works by Connecticut Valley Artists", at Greenfield Community College Downtown Center, Greenfield, MA
- Teaching Experience
- 2010 — 2015: Introduction to Cartooning, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
- Spring — Fall 2014: Comics and Graphic Storytelling, Amigos Cambridgeport Community School, Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, MA
- Summer 2008: Basic Cartooning, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Continuing and Professional Education Program, Amherst, MA
- Spring 2008: Editorial Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA
- Summer 2007: Editorial Cartooning, Sunderland Public Library, Sunderland, MA
- Spring 2007 — Spring 2008: Basic Cartooning, Greenfield Community College, Community Education Program (teen to adult), Greenfield, MA
- Winter 2007: Cartooning, A.C.E. of Clubs (After Class Experience), Mohawk Trail Regional High and Middle Schools, Buckland, MA
- Media Coverage
- 20 October 2019: Comic Book Convo W/Michele: Jaime Hernandez, Diane Noomin, and E. J. Barnes at MICE
- 11 December 2017: Citywide Blackout: Blackout Bootleg: MICE
- 3 December 2015: Cambridge Community Television (CCTV): The Drawing Board - Episode 3
- 28 October 2011: Cambridge Chronicle: "Cambridge artists are 'Hellbound'"
- 1 May 2011: Cambridge Community Television (CCTV): Interview for Cambridge Open Studios
- 3 December 2010: Indie Spinner Rack: Interview with Boston Comics Roundtable
- 24 June 2007: Fanboy: Coverage of Confessions of an American Ling Master (one-shot reprinted in Blaster Al Ackerman's Tales of the Ling Master #1).
- July 2006: Zebra Magazine: Recommendations including a plug for the Ling Master stories and an interview with E. J. Barnes
- 25 May 2006: The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, Arts & Entertainment section, "Art Scene": column by Cheryl Rezendes Rulewich, "Funny Pictures, Serious Business," (not available online)
- 22 April 2006: Amerikos Lietuvis, The Lithuanian-American Weekly (Rytų Pakrantė [Eastern Edition]): Interview by Laurynas Misevičius, translated and edited by Eugenija Misevičius, "Rumunų kilmės karikatūristė susidomėjo Baltijos šalimis ir jų... paukščiais," (in Lithuanian; no longer available on the Amerikos Lietuvis site)
- 24 June 2004: The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, Diversions: The Arts & Entertainment Section: Interview by George W. Claxton, "Artistic Expression in Many Mediums," (not available online)