A2CAF ’24 Photo Report

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Chris Anthony Diaz | June 6, 2025

Year 2 of the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF): Small + Indie Press 2024 was held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 in the Ann Arbor, Michigan downtown library, which also provided free giveaway prints and flyers for attendees. The show expanded in offering workshop for risograph printing to anyone inclined to print out their art to go along with the special guests who spoke in panels and signed for fans afterwards, and of course the exhibit floor with many up-and-coming young cartoonists as well as seasoned ones tabling to meet new and longtime comic fans to peruse and purchase their work to enjoy and appreciate. It's a great show to attend in a very nice setting and town, and there will be another one in 2025, around the same time again. Be on the lookout for their announcements in the near future! Top notch work by festival/library staf and Athenaeum Comic Art for organizing and getting the word out to get the buzz going for an indie comics celebration in Ann Arbor!

-Chris Anthony Diaz

Trung Lê Nguyễn Festival Poster

Jon Allen screen shot

Librarians and Festival staffers Christopher Becker and Audrey Huggett

Deborah Watkins and Sean Watkins, Athenaeum Comic Art

Original art exhibit for Ebony Flowers, Tillie Walden and Trung Lê Nguyễn

Ebony Flowers original art

Ebony Flowers original art

Tillie Walden original art

Tillie Walden original art

Trung Lê Nguyễn original art

Trung Lê Nguyễn original art

Jasmine Ni

Eliza McKinney

Morgan Sea

Narciso C. Espiritu Jr

Curtis Sullivan, Vault of Midnight

Deborah Watkins and Sean Watkins, Athenaeum Comic Art

Deborah Watkins, Sean Watkins, Ben Damstedt and Jon Allen

Panels schedule

Trung Lê Nguyễn panel

Before the Trung Lê Nguyễn panel

Tillie Walden digital guest poster

Ebony Flowers and Christopher Becker

Tillie Walden panel

American Cartoonist: The Comic Art of Noah Van Sciver, published by Athenaeum Comic Art

Jon Allen

Matthew Allison, Cankor

Katie Cook

Jessi Zabarsky

Rachel Dukes

Julian Deyo

Addi Kalmbach

Jon Iñaki

Al Nelson

Ella Joklik

Ethan Best

Margy Dikova

Angie Coe

Panels Signing and Workshop Schedule

Trung Lê Nguyễn signing

Trung Lê Nguyễn signing line

Green Room Indian food provided for artists and exhibitors

Sherlonya Zobel and Abby Haywood Risograph Zine Printing workshop

Sherlonya Zobel and Abby Haywood Risograph Zine Printing workshop

Anna Clark and Sarah Malooney Risograph Zine Printing workshop

Ebony Flowers signing

Sean Watkins, Ebony Flowers and Sam Szabo

Tillie Walden signing line

Tillie Walden signing

Ben Damstedt, Sean Watkins and Tillie Walden

Felix McKenna

Stephanie Mannheim

Stephanie Mannheim and D. Wang Zhao

D. Wang Zhao

Maya Scarpa

Sean Peacock, All Sorrows

Matt Feazell

Lisa Naffziger

Evan M. Cohen

Emma Jayne and Lily

Diskette: Robin Rowe and Michelle Perez

John Greiner

Sarah Malooney

Kristen Ousley

Sam Szabo, Mountain Dew and Morgan Sea

Sam Szabo

Lexi Ramos

Maggie Umber

Sean Watkins, William Dopp and Chris Anthony Diaz

Jacob Voorheis and Aaron Kondzer

Oliver Aguilar and Kristen Lee

Olivia Fredricks

Abby Haywood and Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood

Abby Haywood

Jason Morrow and Max Schaller

Taylor Blossom

Lillian Xie

K.J. Martinet

Aster D'Amico

Britt Monday

Jeremy Bastian

Andrea Pearson, Aquatic Panda Distro

Alex Hoffman, Fieldmouse

Melissa Capriglione

Librarians and festival staffers Lily Wiest, Laura Hancock and Audrey Huggett

Jon Allen and Sean Watkins

Sean Watkins and Sam Szabo