MoCCA Festival goes virtual next week with Comic and Cartoon Art Week
Among the participants, Adrian Tomine, Meghan Parker and Shawn Martinbrough
Chris Butcher steps down from TCAF amid calls for greater racial diversity
Butcher co-founded the festival 17 years ago.
The TCAF 2020 Interviews: Scarlet Wings Kaili
Scarlet Wings Kaili on her current comic series Halfsoul, mental wellbeing, experimentation, page layout and surviving in uncertain times.
EXCLUSIVE: Bluestockings Comics Festival returns in July — this time at Kickstarter HQ
The show is free to creators and attendees and workshop leaders will receive stipends.
MICE returns in October & exhibitor applications open around April
Here's what we know so far.
On the Scene: MICE is still the paragon of punk zine intimacy
#MICE2019 is proof Boston's heart beats to an unconventional rhythm.
Comic Arts Brooklyn returns in November with Ware, Kominsky-Crumb and more
The art comix event of the year is free and has a bonus Cabaret on Sunday
Indie creators call on comics festivals to cut ties with Amazon sponsorships
An illustrious group of cartoonists is calling for shows including SPX, TCAF, CXC and Thought Bubble to stop taking sponsorships from Comixology, Amazon's comics arm.
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Celine Loup on Colours, Post-Partum Depression and Supernatural Historic Erotica
"All of this stuff is such rich ground for new work and when I was coming up with this story I couldn’t find much like it in comics. I need stories like these because I’m afraid and I know a lot of my friends are too, and we deserve to explore these fears in fiction."
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Meredith Park on Diary Comics, Faith & Family
"To finish a comic and post it to the internet felt like cutting the tether to whatever difficult thoughts I’d been processing."
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Jenny Ziomek on Intimacy, Watercolor & How Travel Leads to...
"I don’t like doing what I’m expected to do and I disagree with the notion that big always equals powerful, and small always equals weak. I think small things can be quite powerful."
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Kat Verhoeven on her long-running webseries Meat & Bone
"I'm really proud of Meat & Bone, and it's very surreal to hold it and look at it. I've already read this book over hundreds of times, but it feels different to see it physically. Maybe I'm not exhausted, maybe I'm elated"
