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

2024 A2CAF: Small + Indie Press Headliners
Trung Le Nguyen
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
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
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 web comic. 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.

A2CAF: Small + Indie Press 2024 Exhibitors:
Oliver Aguilar
Jon Allen
Matthew Allison
Aquatic Panda Distro
Athaneaum Comic Art
Jeremy A. Bastian
Ethan Best
Taylor Blossom
Melissa Capriglione
Angie Coe
Evan M Cohen
Katie Cook
Aster D’Amico
Margo DeVaughn
Julian Deyo
Margarita Dikova
Diskette Press
Han Donovan
Rachel Dukes
Narciso C. Espiritu Jr
Matt Feazell
Olivia Fredricks
Connor Good
John Greiner
Abby Haywood
Alexander Hoffman
Jon Iñaki
Emma Jayne
Ella Joklik
Addi Kalmbach
Sarah Maloney
Stephanie Mannheim
KJ Martinet
Felix McKenna
Eliza McKinney
Britt Monday
Jason Morrow
Lisa Naffziger
Al Nelson
Jasmine Ni
Kristin Ousley
Lexi Ramos
Maya Scarpa
Max Schaller
Morgan Sea
All Sorrows
Silver Sprocket
Sam Szabo
Maggie Umber
Jacob Voorheis
D Wang Zhao
Lillian Xie
Jessi Zabarsky