Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Aug 17-18, 11am-5pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street If you want to check the pulse of the international comic book scene, hitting up the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival has always been a surefire bet. The fest, held at Alderney Landing, routinely brings in top-of-their-field cartoonists and comic creators. For example, this […]
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Catching up with Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton has a lot on her plate. Within the past eight months, she moved home to Mabou, Cape Breton from Toronto; received a prestigious Eisner award for her book Step Aside, Pops! A Hark! A Vagrant Collection; and decided to devote full-time work to a new graphic novel based on her experience working in […]
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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is the big draw in comics
Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an […]
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DCAF is brewing
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Sunday, August 16, 11am-5pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street free Lacking the ticket price and Hollywood trappings of bigger conventions, this weekend’s Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival has both free admission and an emphasis on the east coast. “I wanted a show that focused on comics and the people who made them,” […]
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Soak up some DCAF
If you’re a comic fan counting down the days until Hal-Con, Strange Adventures is making the wait easier. On August 19, the first-ever Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) is taking place at Alderney Landing (11am-5pm). The event is free and will be an opportunity for people to learn more about comics, shop, meet cartoonists and […]