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Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival: Small + Indie Press 2025
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.
2025 A2CAF: Small + Indie Press Headliners
Caroline Cash
Caroline Cash is a cartoonist who currently works out of Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vice, The Nib, The Chicago Reader, and various other publications. Her debut graphic novel Girl in the World and her ongoing Eisner award-winning series PeePeePooPoo are published by Silver Sprocket. She is also currently working on an untitled book for Drawn and Quarterly, and a video game about dating hot girls.
Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt is the creator of Tuca & Bertie, the production designer/producer of BoJack Horseman, and the production designer/producer of the upcoming Long Story Short. She’s written and illustrated four books published by Drawn & Quarterly: My Dirty Dumb Eyes (2013), Hot Dog Taste Test (2016), Coyote Doggirl (2018), and I Want You (2020). She lives in Los Angeles.
Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. She made the comic books The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (collected in Museum of Mistakes) and the graphic novels Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait, Tenements, Towers, & Trash, (for which she won the 2018 Brendan Gill Prize), and Impossible People. She does regular short story comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Believer, the Best American Comics, and other publications.
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Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival 2025
The Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival is a two day celebration of a lifelong love of comics with workshops, art activities, and one-on-one encounters between comics readers and comics makers!
And our special guests:
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award–winning creator of the graphic memoirs Smile, Sisters, and Guts. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adaptations, and, with Scott McCloud, the co-creator of The Cartoonists Club.
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud has been writing, drawing, and examining comics since 1984. Winner of the Eisner and Harvey awards, Scott created the superhero comic series Zot!, along with work on The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln and on Superman comics. He also created Understanding Comics and other influential non-fiction comics, and, with Raina Telgemeier, is the co-creator of The Cartoonists Club.
Tony Weaver Jr.
Tony Weaver, Jr. is an award-winning writer and educator creating diverse stories that make young people feel seen and valued. After seeing the impact that media stereotypes had on students in his community, Tony embarked on a journey to create narratives that would challenge the status quo. He is the author of Weirdo—a middle-grade graphic novel memoir about an awkward preteen who loves all things geeky but struggles with mental health issues and self-doubt.
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Events for the Week April 28th-May 4th
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Events for the Week April 7th-13th 2025
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Chiptune Workshop and nmlstyl w/ Hypnogram Concert
Free Tech Workshop and Concert at Neutral Zone!
High School aged teens! Come to this two-part workshop + concert at the Neutral Zone featuring live chiptune music and glitch art. Learn how to make glitch art and chiptune music and stick around for a concert featuring chiptune music from Hypnogram and NMLSTYL as well as live glitch art from Errata.
Chiptune: Learn how to produce electronic music using a Nintendo Gameboy! Chiptune musician Hypnogram will teach you the basics of songwriting and sound design using free software you can run on your computer, phone, or any Gameboy game system. Participants in the workshop will learn on backlight-modded DMG-01 Gameboys loaded with the newest version of the music-making ROM, LittleSound DJ.
Glitch Art: Glitch art is a way of making art that celebrates the beauty of glitches and errors. Glitch artist and UM lecturer D’oh!nut will teach you about the art theory behind glitch art, demonstrate multiple methods of creating beautiful analog and digital glitches, and teach you some of the easiest ways to make glitch art on your own computer using free software.
April 11th at Neutral Zone. Workshop will begin at 4PM and the concert starts at 7PM. Free and open to all high-school age teens.
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Hypnogram concert at Hear.Say Brewing
18+
Chiptune artist Hypnogram concert at Hear.Say Brewing
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IsshoCon 2026
We’re BEYOND excited to announce IsshoCon 2026 will be returning January 23-25th at the Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest!
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Events for the Week Feb 10th-16th, 2025
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Con Ja Nai XXIX
Con Ja Nai is a FREE “not a con(vention),” hosted by Animania, the Japanese Animation Film Society at the University of Michigan. Con Ja Nai has a few staples that make it worth coming to!
When: February 15, 2025
Where: University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus, Modern Languages Building (812 Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
What: Maid Cafe, Music Performances, Panels, all the anime you can watch, and more!
Artists and vendors are also returning!
This event has been graciously funded by the University of Michigan SOFC and supported by the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.
Pardon our dust as we gradually update the website!
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