Tag: Indie Comics

As the indie show/CAF circuit gets more popular, one market seems to be without its own show and that's Los Angeles. It's always Los Angeles. They have book fairs and Comickaze but indie shows tend to founder there. Well, a new kid just hit the block and it's called Comic Arts Los Angeles. Like the best CAFs it has an acryonmic name that makes shandy shortcut: CALA.

By Matthew Jent Ben Costa is a maker. He makes comics, games, and deadpan jokes. I caught up with Ben at the tail end of this...

Director Chris Butcher has a wrap-up post for the 2014 TCAF that has many thanks and observations. Also the news that next year's fest...

The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo takes place this weekend, and the show really seems to have ramped it up to take its place among...

The above band of scalawags signs the SCAM Anthology at Forbidden Planet tonight. SVCAM is a book that was Kickstartered and now published...

Sam Alden has just posted the first part of a longer story called HOLLOW part I—it's a digital version of a comic he had...

While waiting for my Porter Airlines flight at Billy Batson Airport, I thought I'd dash off a thought or two. • It was an...

Comics anthologies are generally a good thing, but in my personal preferences, I like ones that are on a tightly focused topic better than...

There's a great warehouse sale going on at AdHouse Books: It's been a few years since we had a SALE, so I thought we'd make...

The Grand Comics Festival 2014 a small but very friendly comics show is returning this June, although slimmed down to one day. Exhibitors include...

Thought Bubble in Leeds, UK—to be held November 9-15th this year—has rapidly gained an international reputation as one of the finest comic arts festivals out there. With a fantastic guest list and a friendly vibe, it's on many people's must-do list now. But with popularity comes growing pains. The show has just announced a bunch of changes including a move to curation for exhibitors, a higher fee for tables, and charging for tickets to a Saturday night party. The show has rapidly outgrown its venue, and a third hall used in 2013 is no longer available. So...something had to give, as they explain.

Catching up on some of the news that broke Christmas week (!?!) and this is pretty huge. After a total server meltdown and general headaches over exhibitor registration for the 2013 show. the Small Press Expo is going to basically a lottery. "Legacy" exhibitors—those who have been at the show for five years or more—and invited guests (of course) will be given tables, and the remainder will be put up for a lotteryplain and simple. The show will not go curated, as nearly every other CAF has, because...well because of tradition. Here's the new procedure::