SAN FRANCISCO COMICS FEST

SF Comics Fest is a celebration of San Francisco comics culture: past, present, and future.

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The city of San Francisco declares May 5th, 2015 to be “Ron Turner Day”.

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It’s official!

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Celebration of Underground Comics on Tuesday, May 5, as part of the inaugural San Francisco Comics Fest week!

The audience was in for a surprise, with museum Executive Director Summerlea Kashar’s announcement it was actually a secret awards ceremony for Underground comics publishing legend Ronald Edward Turner of Last Gasp Books!

Turner became the latest recipient of the Cartoon Art Museum’s Sparky Award, and May 5 was named “Ron Turner Day” in San Francisco by an official proclamation of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Congratulations, Ron Turner!

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Congratulations to Ron Turner, and start making your plans for how to best celebrate Ron Turner Day next year! (Hint: read some underground comics!)

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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Hatke Shares the Love for Kids Comics with CBLDF!

Today we are celebrating Free Comic Book Day, and with it, the launch of Children’s Book Week! Friend of the Fund Ben Hatke, creator of Zita the Spacegirl, took a moment to share his thoughts on kids comics exclusively with CBLDF, and he did so using the format we all love so much — with a comic!

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Did you know that, along with this being San Francisco Comics Fest week, it’s also Children’s Book Week?

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Free Comic Book Day was a blast! 

Gail Simone was at Fantastic Comics in Berkeley, graciously posed with me and Jenn Croft (Lara) for photos and signed autographs. We were also able to pick up some awesome fun comics and meet Spider Gwen, Black Canary and Thor! There were even some extra young heroines in attendance but they were too shy to take pictures ;) 

This was amazing. The comic book world is full of such amazing, inspiring and wonderful people! Such a great day.

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I met gailsimone!!!

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Today’s events for the SF Comics Fest, happening all this week! Check out our full calendar of events HERE.

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Playing Mangaka: The Fast and Furious Game of Drawing Comics! at the Cartoon Art Museum.

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Are YOU ready to join us for our FANTASTIC Free Comic Book Day, 2015?

This year our FCBD will be featuring a signing with GAIL SIMONE! Gail is the fan favorite writer of Red Sonja, Secret Six, Birds of Prey, Batgirl, The Movement, the upcoming Swords of Sorrow, and many more. Gail will be signing comics as well as selling limited edition, original scripts! The signing will begin at noon, so stop by and say hi. Come by the store to take advantage of all-day, store-wide sales (details TBA), get your picture taken with members of the 501st Legion, and pick up a bag of specially produced FREE COMICS! Free comics are first come first serve and our doors open at 10AM, so come early. Fun for the whole family! Cosplay strongly encouraged! For questions or to RSVP, check out our facebook event.

Hope to see you here!

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Not only are we excited to have Gail signing with us at Fantastic Comics for FCBD, we are THRILLED that she will also be joining us for our Fantastic Ladies Comics Club meeting the next day!

For Sunday, May 3rd we will be reading: RED SONJA: Queen of Plagues, vol. 1 by Gail Simone and Walter Geovani

Red Sonja, the Hyrkanian She-Devil with a sword, must pay back a blood debt…even if it means leading a doomed army to their certain deaths. An epic tale of blood, lust, and vengeance, Queen of Plagues takes Red Sonja from the depths of her own grave to the heights of battlefield glory.

Gail Simone will be at Fantastic Comics the day before doing a signing for our Free Comic Book Day Event, and she will be attending this meeting with us for an in-person Q&A! We’re all very excited to have her here. We will be starting the meeting a half hour earlier than our usual time, starting at 7PM and ending at 8:30.

This meeting is open to women attendees only, including LGBT+ and nonbinary identified adults. We are wheelchair accessible and happy to welcome new readers as well as life-long comic book fans.

We meet at Fantastic Comics, one block from Downtown Berkeley BART.

This is a participating event in the inaugural SF Comics Fest. Check out their website for more details. http://www.sfcomicsfest.com/

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BAY AREA QUEER CARTOONISTS

This event will bring together LGBTQ cartoonists who call the Bay Area home to read from and discuss their works about sexuality, gender, dating, and self discovery! Organized by local artist Elizabeth Beier, this event will also feature  Tyler Cohen (whose work is picture here), Rick Worley and Emeric Kennard, who will read from their work and then have a Q&A discussion.

Time:
 3 p.m. to TBA

Cost and Audience: 
Free
 All ages

Location: 
 The Center for Sex and Culture
 1349 Mission St.
 San Francisco, CA 94103

Contact: [phone] 
Center for Sex and Culture website

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The Guinness Records’ Largest #ComicBook is set up at @missioncomics in SF for #sfcomicsfest. #indiecomics @sfcomicsfest #CreatorOwned

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Check it out, the world’s largest comic! Happening at Mission Comics and Art right now.

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MANGAKA: THE FAST AND FURIOUS GAMES OF DRAWING COMICS

Come to the Cartoon Art Museum for a free afternoon of comic-drawing fun with Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics! Play a demo of this creative fast-paced card game, the first drawing game where players draw actual comics! Players draw stories combining wild Themes (chosen by cards) & an ever-growing number of fleeting Trends (also chosen by cards). Playtested at multiple anime and comic conventions, libraries and game stores, Mangaka has been refined over its four years of development into a challenging game that anyone can play, whether you think you can draw or not! So pick up a pencil and challenge your friends and your creativity in a battle against time!

Support the game on Kickstarter.

Time: 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost and Audience Free All ages

Location: Cartoon Art Museum 655 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105

Contact: (415) CAR-TOON Cartoonart.org Facebook event listing

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THE LARGEST COMIC BOOK EVER PUBLISHED

Come to Mission Comics and Art in San Francisco’s Mission district on Sunday, May 3 to meet Omar Morales, local writer and publisher of the World’s Largest Comic Book, CRUZADER, the Guinness World Record Holder for World’s Largest Comic Book Published! The book measures 37 and 3/16 inches long by 24 inches wide. Wow! The first 12 people to show up, take a picture with the giant book, and post it on social media with the hashtag #SFCOMICSFEST will receive free, signed copies of Indie Comics Magazine #9 (a $6.49 value).

Time: 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost and Audience Free All ages

Location: Mission: Comics and Art 3520 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110

Contact: [phone] Mission: Comics and Art website Facebook event listing

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KIDS’ DRAWING WORKSHOP

Our first event is a Sunday morning children’s comics drawing class with Emma and Julie! All kids are welcome to this free drawing class (the first of a series of three!) where our bubbly hosts will help your budding artist to create fun cartoon characters!

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Cost and Audience Free All ages

Location: Comix Experience Outpost 2381 Ocean Ave. San Francisco, CA  94127

Contact: [phone] Comix Experience Outpost website

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It’s the first day of the SF Comics Fest! Are you ready? We’ve got all sorts of events happening all day, for all ages! See our Calendar of Events for more details!

Awesome art of our SFCF logo above by Nigel Sussman

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Free Comic Book Day by Sergio Aragonés

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It’s Free Comic Book Day! Find a store near you.

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It’s official! This illustration by Jason Novak was chosen to represent the festival on print posters and postcards. Thanks to everyone who sent in artwork or proposals, and check out our site to see more of the great designs we received!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcY44hx64Bw)

Are you ready? Because it’s coming this Saturday! Find a store near you: http://www.freecomicbookday.com/storelocator