I have come back from A2CAF 2025, which was a MASSIVE success!
Holy banana pants. I’ve been to this show twice, and both times, I come back with my heart so full. It’s a great time every time I get to go. This year was no different.
I gotta’ give some shout-outs!
- to D Bradford Gambles, Jessi Zabarsky, and Ari for being great table neighbors!
- to Ben Wright-Heuman for the ride.
- to Scott McCloud for being so hyped when I told him about The Legend of Jamie Roberts! Thank you for getting volume 1!
- to Kat Tuesday for the rad comics and the unexpected compliment about my coloring work.
- to everybody who stopped at my table! Especially to the kiddos who were so psyched about my pirate comics and all of my kitty zines.
I also have to shout-out the organizers for putting together the Quick Draw! The Quick Draw is a drawing competition where two artists square off and draw prompts from the audience. Have a look at what I drew!
There aren’t a ton of pictures because good golly Mister molly, the event got PACKED. So many people came by to check out indie comics! We even had some folks from the No Kings protest trickle in. Here’s my favorite protest sign.
(Also I got some great protest posters from a zinester walking around. If you’re reading this, you know who you are. And You’re AWESOME).
So…What’s Next?
My next event is July 19 at the Toledo Comic Arts Festival in the Toledo Lucas County Public Library (Main Branch). The fest runs from 10 am to 4 pm. I’ll also be doing a quick draw-like event there, and showing off my comics and zines!
Speaking of zines, holy banana pants I sold so many of them at A2CAF! I need to reprint more. (If you have the means to leave a tip on Ko-fi, that will help towards the cost of printer ink!) I also need to order more copies of The Case of the Wendigo because DANG, y’all made me almost sell out of copies!
But what about between now and Toledo Comic Arts Fest?
Well, I’m giving my YouTube channel an overhaul. Like, I’m not doing Shorts anymore. Why? Because I made changes behind-the-scenes to disconnect more from social media, so there’s no incentive for me to keep making them.
I’m going back and forth on whether to keep doing livestreams on my channel. You can still find me making appearances on Ben’s Twitch and YouTube. Right now we’re playing the indie game Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea!
As for my own YouTube channel? I want to go back to making the videos I want to make, not what “the algorithm” is trying to make me do. You can keep an eye on this website, though, for more on that.
I’m still making webcomics! Check out The Legend of Jamie Roberts AND Vanita and the Demon King. I’m also hoping to launch An Ignorance of Romance next week! Watch my email newsletter to get the first scoop.
More to come, including future comic reviews and other good stuff!
That’s all for now. Thank you for reading!
You. Are. Awesome.
P.S. For my fellow comics makers, The Orange Peel is a quarterly comics zine that’s currently accepting submissions for “classified ads.” This is a good way to promote your comic project and/or KickStarter!