CAFs

SPACE (Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo) , Columbus's longest running die comics show, has announced its 20156 dates: April 9 and 10, 2016,...

  If I were in London I would DEFINITELY be going to the  Safari Festival, the one day CAF run by Breakdown Press and devoted...

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...

While the chance for SPX exhibitors to pitch cartoon ideas to Nickelodeon as announced yesterday sounds like a good opportunity, there was quite a bit of controversy about it on social, as seen in these tweets. Click on the Gillman and Gran links to go to much longer discussions, but the basic objection is that SPX is a small press show that celebrates the joy of small press comics, and formalizing the participation of a major cartoon network/corporate brand at the show goes against that philosophy.

 Here's a on offer that many people might just get excited about: The Small Press Expo and Nickelodeon are teaming for a Call for Submissions...

This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take...

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...

Special correspondent Christian Hoffer went to the SPACE indie comics expo in Columbus and got a lot of comics and met a lot of people. Here's his report.

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...

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.