The second annual Comics Arts LA festival was held yesterday, in its first year as a two-day show. It’s the Los Angeles stop on the Premiere Indie Comics Circuit, and has a strong influence from the huge local animation community, as befits its founders, Jen Wang, Angie Wang. Iris Jong and Jake Mumm, several of whom work in animation.
While I haven’t found any detailed write-ups, it seems like everyone was up on their socials, with happy photos of comics and people all backlit with the warm, golden sun of early winter downtown LA. And Matt Groneing showed up and bought peoples comics, which probably made them happy. CALA seems to have established itself as a vital event on the calendar, if not for sales then certainly for community building.
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We’re at Comic Arts LA until 5 today!
Posted by MariNaomi on Sunday, December 6, 2015
As you can see from the photos, the programming in particular looked pretty strong here. Wish I could have been there for the Jaime/Alden meeting. Or any of it really. Did you go? Did you have a good time? Sound off in the comments.
Thanks so much for covering the show, Heidi! It went really well for us this year.
Just a little correction though, only one of the four organizers actually works in animation!
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