I love a good comics event. Love it. There’s something creatively energising about them, but they’re also great group therapy - the same people with the same problem get together all weekend to share tips and commiserations about this thing we love: comics.
Comic Conventions are cool, but they often feel more sprawling than my brain can handle. As such, enter Papercuts Comic Festival. I cannot wait for this event.
This weekend I’m flying to Adelaide to be a part of the Papercuts Comic Festival - it’s going to be a really cool set of events.
My schedule is a one-two punch.
Saturday - Creators in Conversation
I’ll be at the Library with Jessica Watson and Scott Wilson to talk about writing comics, with the awesome Dr Mike 2000 moderating from 3:30-4:30pm. I’m really excited to listen to them, and I might speak a few words myself.
Thankfully, this event is free, and there are a bunch of other cool chats on throughout that day. You can scope more details about our chat here - and probably catch me at heaps of those other chats.
Sunday - Market Day
In the Town Hall, comic people will be selling comics all day long and entry is free. Check out more details here - and seriously start clicking on every table holders’ links because there is so much great stuff being made by everyone.
I love that every single stall holder will have comics for sale. Just a whole hall full of people who have spent time making comics now spending a day selling them and putting them into the hands of readers. What could be better? ’m going to need time to really browse and buy on this day because there are a lot of people and comics I dig there.
I will be selling two graphic novels that I love dearly:
A FISTFUL OF PAIN HC
My latest, and the love I have for this sibling-kung fu-dragon mash up has no ceiling. Working with Louie Joyce to bring this to the world has been a career highlight. I’ll have to see if I can also bring any softcover versions - I’ll see just how many fit into my single bag for the plane :]
ETERNAL SC
I finally got some more in stock, and this viking ghost story I created with Eric Zaeadzki and Dee Cunniffe just always brings me joy.
I also want to take some others, but I’ll have to pack strategically, so I won’t make any promises.
What I can promise is that I’ll have a deal for those who buy a copy of both books. So come and see me on the show floor and I’ll flash you some discount.
I’m really excited for this show, and to see two of my oldest comic friends who live in Adelaide, and to see a bunch of other creators I haven’t seen since a pandemic obliterated any kind of normal con schedule.
I should also be at the Comic Arts Awards of Australia [formerly the Ledger Awards] on the Friday night, and there’s a Talking Pictures event on the Saturday night I’d also like to attend.
If you are in Adelaide, I really can’t wait to see you. If you are not in that SA vicinity, then maybe I’ll catch you at Oz Comic Con in Sydney the following weekend. And if not there, well, it seems like you’re avoiding me, and with good reason - I’ll pay that.
Have a great week/end, celebrating comics however you like to.