The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival was welcomed with gorgeous weather this Saturday. Northwest crowds now have a reputation for filling out events like this, and today was no exception. The convention floor was packed with attendees and exhibitors. The Yaletown Roundhouse was a great venue with a mixture of modern and historical decor. I saw and met many of my favourites here, but I also discovered comics that I had never heard of that are hits by any objective standard. It just goes to show how important these events are. Google’s pretty good, but it can’t introduce you to all these comics in one search query. I mean, how much is a Post-it comic like Savage Chickens going to have in common with a medieval comedy epic like Much the Miller’s Son? Hit the jump if you want to see more of pictures of the convention and the exhibitors.
The Arts Festival was held at the historic Roundhouse community centre in Yaletown
Longtime friend of the blog Marie Tary of Evil Space Cat Productions
The booth of Suyaku! and God Game
Jenn Manley Lee promoting Dice Box
Kip Manley writes City of Roses, a swashbuckling adventure set in Portland, OR
Jacob Samuel of the Daily Snooze
J.J. Mccullough of Filibuster cartoons
Doug Savage of Savage Chickens will be a guest of honour at San Diego Comicon this year!
Ryan Peguin of Three Word Phrase was sharing a booth with Emily Partridge
Becky and Frank from Tiny Kitten Teeth
Steve Lecouillard of Much the Miller’s Son
Katie Shanahan’s Booth (I kind of got lost in the mob here)
Tony Cliff signing copies of Delilah Dirk and the Seeds of Good Fortune
Lucy Bellwood creator of Baggywrinkles
Sam Alden of Eighth Grade
Jason Copland and Ed Brisson’s Booth
Ed Appleby’s Booth
Caanan of Max Overacts Sketching away
Tyson Hesse of Boxer Hockey
Carina Piccion of The Finger and Dear Diaryahh
Trevor Waurechen
Albert Art Overseeing the Homeless Quatchi Project
No Homes No Peace for Quatchi!
Carrie Q. Contrary poses with her wares
Elaine Will of Look Straight Ahead
Rebecca Dart with Battle Kittens
Angela Melick of Wasted Talent
Chloe Chan of Two Keys
Sean Karemaker, Astronaut Journalist
Gabriel Frizzera
Chris Hutchison of Dr. McNinja had a booth to show me, but he solded it.
Todd Ireland hanging out at the Critical Hit Comics Booth
The Mor Comics Booth had a sweet display!
The boats were out in English Bay!
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