MeCAF 2010 Guest announcement-SKOTTIE YOUNG!

We are very pleased to make our next guest announcement...SKOTTIE YOUNG! Skottie is the artist for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Marvelous Land of OZ from Marvel Comics. He has written and drawn numerous books and covers.

MeCAF partners with the Portland Public Library

The Maine Comics Arts Festival is pleased to announce that we have partnered with the Portland Public Library for the festival. They are just finishing a two year, seven million dollar expansion/renovation of the main branch. We have toured it and it is amazing. We will be hosting our panels and programming at the library. They are very excited about this (we have worked with them extensively in the past). They will be putting their full promotional efforts behind this. It will be one of the first major events after they re-open and they want to use this to attract people to see the new library. The panels will be on Saturday at the library, and the festival will be on Sunday at Ocean Gateway on the waterfront.

Look for an official press release to follow, and more event announcements soon. We are just getting started!

MeCAF 2010-First guest announcement-JEFF LEMIRE!

We are very pleased to announce our first official guest for MeCAF 2010- Jeff Lemire!

http://jefflemire.blogspot.com

Jeff Lemire is the cartoonist behind the Eisner-nominated ESSEX COUNTY TRILOGY, THE NOBODY and the new series SWEET TOOTH from Vertigo.

MeCAF Twitter account

We now have a Twitter account for the Festival. We will be using it for updates on the 2010 festival. Follow us here:
https://twitter.com/MEComicArtsFest

Thank you Baltimore!

Thanks to all of the creators that I spoke with at the Baltimore Comic Con this past weekend. I hope that many of you will be able to join us at MeCAF in 2010.

Good luck at SPX!

We wish all of the creators attending SPX this weekend great success! Please spread the word about MeCAF to your fellow SPX'ers. We have some big plans for 2010. Thanks!

MeCAF 2010

Hello,
We are already planning for MeCAF 2010. Current plans are for the weekend of May 22-23, 2010 again at Ocean Gateway. That would put it after graduations at many schools (specifically the Center for Cartoon Studies) but before Memorial Day. We have surveyed this year's exhibitors and are studying the results.

Exhibitors who purchased a table in 2009 will have the option to attend in 2010. After that we will open up the registrations for others. This will probably happen in January 2010.

We should be posting some great video interviews from this year's festival sometime this weekend. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!