Calling all creators! Indie Comics Creator Con is now accepting artist table applications for the 2026 show in Jacksonville, FL. With 20,000 square feet dedicated entirely to the craft of comic creation, this is your chance to showcase your work in a space built for indie talent.

Apply today at the link.

   

Cartoonist Thien Pham (Family Style, Sumo, Level Up) signs at Flying Colors Comics from 11am – 2pm to celebrate Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 2, 2026!

RSVP on Facebook!

Flying Colors Comics
1170 Concord Ave Suite 140, Concord, CA 94520
(925) 825-5410

   

This month, Picture + Panel explores humanity’s closest brushes with extinction with Meera Subramanian and Katy Doughty at the Boston Figurative Art Center on Monday, April 6th. What does it take to keep a world alive? Join us for a conversation about climate, action, and hope. WBUR environmental correspondent Barbara Moran will moderate. Click here for details.

All BCAF events are free to attend.  If you wish to pay it forward, a $5 suggested donation helps sustain BCAF’s comics advocacy and educational programming in the Greater Boston area.

More about Picture + Panel

Picture + Panel is a monthly conversation series that brings fantastic graphic novel creators to the Greater Boston area. Discover terrific authors and fascinating stories that combine text and art through conversational confabulation. Produced in partnership by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, Porter Square Books, and the Boston Figurative Arts Center, Picture + Panel provides thought-provoking discussions for adults about this unique form of expression.

Book sales are provided at the event by Porter Square Books.

About the Creators

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic’s western edge.

Katy Doughty is a California-born, Texas-bred, New England—educated illustrator who holds a bachelor of fine arts in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and a master of public health from Boston University School of Public Health. Her unique background fuels her interest in the intersection of visual communication, research, and health care. She lives in Boston with her husband.

   

Every ballad tells a story, but Charles Vess brings them to life through detailed, ethereal illustrations rich with light and shadow. Experience these timeless tales reimagined in our upcoming Special Exhibit, “Charles Vess: The Book of Ballads,” opening April 17, 2026!

Ballads – folk songs that tell a story through narrative verse – have been passed down through English, Irish, and Scottish oral traditions and continue to echo throughout the Appalachian Mountains today. Ballads have long captured the hearts and imaginations of songsters, storytellers, and listeners, including award-winning illustrator Charles Vess. In 1993 Vess was inspired to illustrate the ballads he had loved to listen to for so many years. He worked with several award-winning and ballad-loving fantasy authors to develop scripts and compiled a series of beautifully illustrated comics, which he published in “The Book of Ballads.”

The exhibit, “Charles Vess: The Book of Ballads,” features seven ballads reimagined by some of the greatest fantasy writers of our time. The featured comics, including “The False Knight on the Road” by Neil Gaiman, “Thomas the Rhymer” by Sharyn McCrumb, and “Barbara Allen” by Midori Snyder, are an excellent introduction to traditional ballads for those not yet familiar and a special treat for those who already are. The exhibit also explores the tradition of ballad singing in Appalachia and traces the origin of each ballad and its journey through time. After all, singing is one way to keep ballads alive, art is another.

To learn more about Charles Vess and our upcoming Special Exhibit, “Charles Vess: The Book of Ballads,” please visit the link.

Birthplace of Country Music Museum | 101 Country Music Way Bristol, VA 24201

   

Faith Erin Hicks (Friends with Boys, The Nameless City) appears in conversation with Gene Luen Yang to celebrate the launch of her new book Inbetweens on Wednesday, April 1 at 6pm. Details at the link.

Linden Tree Books | 265 State Street, Los Altos, CA 94022