Tag: CAFs

Update: the correct dates for the show are April 2-3, not 3-4 as I originally wrote. MoCCA Festival, New York's largest indie comics focused event, has announced a new venue for 2016: Metropolitan West,...

This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take Porter Airlines know that as delightful as are the low...

A lot of information on small press, indie. CAF evets have piled up in my inbox. Here's some of the news: • The newly revamped APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Jose has put out...

Rounding out our pre-game with a few of the signing schedules not widely spotlighted. SLG/Slave Labor will be occupying a prime slot at the con as they have for the last 20 years, and...

It's a little hard to find concrete reports from indie shows these days unless Secret Acres or Robyn Chapman post reports, from the social media, looks like CAKE Chicago this weekend was a successful indie show. I've heard mixed reports on sales in past years, but based on the "haul photos" I've seen, a lot of comics were purchased. I dug up a few more concrete reports:

I have to admit, if I hadn't committed to going to SE: NYC I would totally be at the Grand Comics Fest, a small one day indie show that has a great lineup or cartoonists and some exciting comics debuts. You can see the lineup in the card above.

Things are kicking into high gear worldwide for comics shows. So much is kicking off tomorrow. Here's a very quick look at some of them. In London's Crouch End a 2nd year CAF is taking place, the Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival or CECAF, organized by Sean Azzopardi.

The new two day launch event for CXC in Columbus has been the buzz among cartoon circles for a while now and the website is now open with the initial guests: Kate Beaton, Jerry Beck, Bill Griffith, Françoice Mouly, Jeff Smith, Art Spiegelman and Craig Thompson. AND the first round of events, below. The exhibitor application form is in the above link and, well, this is surely going to be a hoedown for the comics. Oh and a new logo by Dustin Harbin, above.

After a few very successful years with Paul Karasik steering the programming, Comics Arts Brooklyn has announced a new Programming Director for 2015, Columbia University's Karen Green, whose many titles include Ancient &...

  § There's been some chatter over the last week or so over this public FB thread by Stephen Bissette about what he sees as exclusion of certain creators at indie comics shows. It sprang...

Just as a reminder, this weekend is the first big West Coast Caf of the year: LINEWORK NW which is FREE to attend in Portland's Norse Hall. Info in the above link but here's...

There's a CAF (comic arts festival) born every minute! Here's a new one, the New South Fest in Austin. They have a tumblr and a FB page, and some art...and exhibitor applications are now open. The plan is an outdoor books and comics event to be held June 6th, 2015 at the French Legation Museum in Austin, Texas. "Our goal is to celebrate independent literature, alternative comics, small presses, and print culture. New South will be highly curated, focused, fresh, and irreverent."

UPDATE: Oops should have dug a little more. This event seems to be run by Danithan Mejia of the Foxing Review, website under construction.