A Month of Comics Fests

I had a very busy May this year, with appearances at 3 comic arts festivals all across Canada: TCAF in Toronto, VanCAF in Vancouver, and FBDM/MCAF in my beloved Montréal! It was a bit exhausting but I have to say I enjoyed the social element, connecting with friends new and old in this shaggy and quirky creative scene.

I had the pleasure of conducting interviews and round-table discussions at all three, including a spotlight on Chris Oliveros (I also reviewed his excellent, award-winning book Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? over at the Comics Beat), a neat “drawn interview” with Tim Probert, an all-star panel with Tille Walden, Jillian Tamaki, and Adam de Souza (🤯), and a massive panel on international comics. 

I’ve been taking photos over the last few years using an Olympus E-M5 Mark II, I mostly use a zoom lens to grab pics of birds and other animals, but lately I’ve been playing more with a fixed 25mm lens and I decided to mix it up and take photos of human beings once in a while! I’ll be posting more of these photos over on my Instagram (as well as the Pow Pow Press IG, too), and you can expect to see these here in the newsletter once in a while. Here are some quick portraits of comics folks from the last month.