Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF) – Small & Indie Press

NOTE THIS EVENT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED

Date(s): Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time: 11:00am-5:00pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF): Small + Indie Press is a one day venture into the world of small press comics publishing. This event offers attendees the chance to meet comic artists and learn about the art of creating comics outside of a traditional publisher. Due to the content of many independently published books, this event is intended for a teen and adult audience. A2CAF: Small + Indie Press is created in partnership with Athenaeum Comic Art.

Vault of Midnight will be at A2CAF Small + Indie Press selling books by all the headliners for signings.

The event is listed as for teens & adults.

Headlining artists:

• Trung Le Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese-American cartoonist, artist, and writer best known as the author of the graphic novel The Magic Fish. He has contributed work for various comic publishers, including DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel.
• Ebony Flowers is an accomplished writer, cartoonist, and recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Award to identify and support women writers of exceptional promise. Flowers’ debut graphic novel Hot Comb contains a mix of autobiographical and fictional short story comics. She has been published in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
• Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator, best known for her emotional storytelling and dream-like comics, who, at age 21, had already published five graphic novels and a webcomic. Her graphic novel memoir Spinning won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work, making Walden one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever. Her latest work, Tegan and Sara: Crush, will be published in October 2024.

Event Highlights:

• 11a-5p: Lobby open with exhibitors
• 11:30a-12:30p: Trung Le Nguyen: Visual Inspiration for Comics
• 12:45-1:45p: Trung Le Nguyen Signing
• 1-2p: Ebony Flowers: Sister Images
• 1:30-3:30p: Risograph Zine Printing
• 2:15-3:15p: Ebony Flowers Signing
• 2:30-3:30p: Tillie Walden on Becoming a Cartoonist
• 3:45-4:45p: Tillie Walden Signing

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