We're eight weeks away from the Maine Comics Arts Festival, which will be held in Portland, Maine on Sunday, May 17, 2009. It's been described at Northern New England's answer to SPX or MoCCA Fest or APE or SPACE.This will be an opportunity for many local creators to show their comics, books, and other items. If you're into literary comics, graphic novels, mini comics or Web comics, then you've heard of some of these people. You'll get to meet these cartoonists, meet them, and, if you like, buy some of their work directly from them. There will be no comic book dealers at the day-long event.
I was glad to see Joe Staton on the list. Joe is a journeyman comic book artist whose work spans many superhero books through the years. I still have my copy of E-MAN that I bought at my local 7-11 store back when I was a kid in Lawrence, KS.
Anyway, I was reading Rick Lowell's excellent MECAF blog. Rick is the man who has put this together, and he runs the local Casablanca Comics shop. I cut & pasted & alphabetized the names from the his blog entries, creating a one-stop master list of the 48 cartoonists and studios.
The list below includes both featured guests, as well as cartoonists who paid for a table. I've checked and double-checked it for accuracy, but if you see something wrong, please tell me.
American Stronghold - Jeff Lok, Dane Martin
& barekpublishing
Atomic Pulp - Christopher Mills
Gabrielle Bell
Marek Bennett
Ben Bishop
The Boston Comics Roundtable
Becky Cloonan
Corbett Features - Barry Corbett and Brian Codagnone
Michael Connor
Sam Costello
Dandelion Studios - Rick Silva & Gynn Stella Silva
Alexander Danner
Nate Doyle
Franklin Einspruch
Austin English
Faux-Pas Industries (Sam Gaskin and Dane Martin)
Chuck Forsman
Colleen Frakes
Free Lunch Comics - Matt Ryan, Steve Kanaras
& Steve Kuster
Zack Giallongo
Chris Giarrusso
Sarah Glidden
Mark Gonyea
David Jacobson
John Klossner
Lucy Knisley
Cathy Leamy
Mike Lynch
Dan Mazur
Juana Medina
Dave Naybor
On the Fly Publications - Dan Fleming and Chris Beckett
Jennifer Omand
Jeff Pert
Stephanie Piro
Jay Piscopo
Mark Ricketts
Joel Rivers
Aya Rothwell
Sarah Searle
Christina Siravo
Kean Soo
Joe Staton
Matt Talbot
Trees and Hills Comics Group
The Underburbs - Joe Haley and T.J. Dort
Jen Vaughn
Julia Wertz
Great, another cool Comic Art festival that I can't attend.
ReplyDeleteI'll go cry in the corner now :D
Mike, It was awesome of you to do the work necessary to post this. It's a great primer for the event. I'll check out some of these creators online before I go to the show. Should be a kick!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, that's just a fantastic way to put that together, but how long did that take? Wowzers!
ReplyDeleteGoodness I wish I could be there. CURSE YOU GLOBAL RECESSION!!!!
Hi Mike. Thanks for adding our banner... and for keeping up with this fantastic blog. Don't know how you find the time to do all this work. Hope to see you at the Expo!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for this. I haven't been to a comics event since moving to Maine two and a half years ago. I look forward to meeting you!
ReplyDeleteYeah, Nick, growing up in small Iowa and Kansas towns, it was AGONIZING to hear about cartoony events hundreds of miles away from me. Thank goodness for the Internet! And the next time I'm in Shreveport or New Orleans, I'll let you know! We'll have our own MECAF. The "M" will be for Monroe, my friend!
ReplyDeleteLenny, Mark, Barry, John: thanks for your kind words.
The great news from Rick Lowell is that there are more guests to come!
I was working on the guest list today and it seems as if we will have more than 70+ creators exhibiting at the festival. Thanks for everyone's support.
ReplyDeleteNice to see us all up and that people are excited! I'm excited!
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