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Bellingham Comic Arts Festival!

Saturday, March 31st, 2018: Noon - 7:00pm

Alternative Library - 519 E Maple Street - Bellingham, WA 98225

BellCAF poster designed by Ben Duncan

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TODAY!!! TODAY!!! TODAY!!!

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Remy Coutarel

Remy is a Bellingham-based cartoonist, illustrator, and arts educator, who teaches a comics class for kids. Remy will be stationed at the B’ham Zine Club table, with some of his own work and the comics made by students from his latest session of The Comics Class.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Phoebe Wahl

Phoebe is an artist, illustrator, and product designer born and raised in Bellingham. She works in a variety of mediums, from watercolor & collage to fabric sculpture and maintains a theme of tactility, comfort, and closeness with nature & one another throughout whatever medium she is working in.

Phoebe has had her first two books published by Tundra Books.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Eroyn Franklin

Eroyn is a cartoonist and illustrator, living in Seattle, who has self-published numerous graphic novels, including Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory and Detained, a 26′ long accordion comic exploring Washington state’s immigrant detention centers. Eroyn is also one of the co-founders of Seattle’s Short Run Comix & Arts Festival

I still to this day don't remember if I'm 5'4" or 5'5" so I just randomly tell people one or the other. My work is sometimes sweet, raunchy, and usually depressing. It's occasionally funny but don't get your hopes up.

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Bellingham Comic Arts Festival!

Saturday, March 31st, 2018: Noon - 7:00pm

Alternative Library - 519 E Maple Street - Bellingham, WA 98225

BellCAF poster designed by Ben Duncan

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THIS WEEKEND!!! Just two days away! THIS WEEKEND!!!

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Cold Cube Press

Cold Cube Press is a risograph printing and publishing studio located in Seattle, WA and specializing in art books, poetry and illustration.

They produce small run single artist books and a periodic house anthology.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Jason T. Miles

Jason T. Miles is a cartoonist, designer, publisher, and alt-comics mainstay, who has worked with Fantagraphics, La Mano, Cold Cube Press, and more. His work is deep, inquisitive and steeped in the history of pop culture.

My current work is a fun deep dive into the male libido via comics and drawings.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Bjorn

Bjorn is a designer based in Seattle. His main body of work are risograph comics, and art books, which he prints himself using a variety of color mixing theories. More recently his focus has been on design, in video games, graphics, and 3-dimensional art.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Brandon Muncy

Brandon is a cartoonist who creates comics, illustrations, animation and caricatures; a passionate lover of all genre's of art who strives to learn from and build upon the techniques developed in the past.

Brandon is a Bellingham local and will be at the B’ham Zine Club table!

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: James the Stanton

James has been living in Seattle, often drawing under the pseudonym Gnartoons and contributing his brand of goop doodles to various comics newspapers and alt weeklies.

I live in Seattle and spend most of my time working on comics. My comics are pretty cartoony and playful. Some of my books are published by Silver Sprocket and some of them I still publish myself.

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BellCAF Exhibitor Spotlight: Lara Kaminoff

Originally from Seattle, Lara has since relocated to the LA but she dearly misses the rain. Her comics and zines are all painted with gouache and deal with a wide range of genres from philosophical psychedelia to filthy, funny witch raps to surrealist autobio dreamscapes.

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Bellingham Comic Arts Festival!

Saturday, March 31st, 2018: Noon - 7:00pm

Alternative Library - 519 E Maple Street - Bellingham, WA 98225

BellCAF poster designed by Ben Duncan

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Hey, check out our awesome exhibitors list and get excited about all the amazing artists who will be coming to Bellingham for BellCAF on March 31st!

Leading up to the festival, keep an eye on our blog as we will be spotlighting these amazing creators who will be coming to BellCAF to share their work. Get excited for this show!!!

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The Bellingham Comic Arts Festival (BellCAF) is a single day festival celebrating the diverse array of today’s cartoonists, illustrators and printmakers...

Please RSVP and help spread the word through our Facebook event!

Come by the Make.Shift Gallery this Friday, March 2nd, where we're hosting an opening reception from 6:00-10:00pm, featuring original and printed work from artists exhibiting at this year's BellCAF!

On the night of the opening, the front room will also be hosting a xerox jam, where attendees can make their own xerox art or zines!

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SATELLITE EVENT: BellCAF Gallery Show - Xerox Installation Opening Reception - March 2nd Make.Shift Gallery - 306 Flora Street

As a part of our gallery show at the Make.Shift Gallery we will be creating a xerox installation, filling the front room of Make.Shift with all black and white xerox art. Anyone is welcome to submit pieces to Make.Shift to be included in this portion of the show by mailing them in or dropping them off at: 

Make.Shift Gallery ATTN: BellCAF 306 Flora Street Bellingham, WA 98225

On the night of March’s first Friday Art Walk, we’ll have an interactive xerox exhibit, where attendees will be able to copy things and add their work to the walls. If you're able to send xerox art to MakeShift, we'll be accepting art submissions up to the opening of the show on Friday, March 2nd!

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We’re really excited to host this year’s festival at the Alternative Library, which is already an incredible resource for art and comics in Bellingham! The walls of this space are stacked with so many incredible books and it’s neighborhood location, right between downtown Bellingham and Western Washington University, is perfect for this year’s show.

Check out the Alternative Library at www.altlib.org

Also, today is the last day to apply for BellCAF! http://bellcaf.tumblr.com/apply

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BELLINGHAM ARTISTS - In consideration of Bellingham’s burgeoning comics and zine scene we’ve created a new tabling option this year for Bellingham locals with three or fewer items to show. Local applicants have the option to select the B'ham Zine Club for their table preference and will be able to show their work at a shared table and participate as an exhibitor along with other local creators.

The table will be staffed with help from volunteers, so that local artists are able leave the table and spend time exploring the work of other exhibiting artists, while still having their zines available for purchase. We are hoping that this option will make an easy entry point for members of our community and encourage more local artists to be involved in creating things to show for the festival.

We’re excited to have contributions featured at the B’ham Zine Club table from students of The Comics Class (ages 10-14), taught by local cartoonist, Remy Coutarel.

The above image drawn by Remy Coutarel