#vancaf 2023

[hurglewurm]

vancouver girlies!!! if you are thinking of coming to VANCAF on may 20th or 21st i’ll be there at half of TABLE M4 in the GYM!!!!!!! come give a glance to my Wares... and also there will be a Ton of amazing artists there for you to stare at

please wear a mask if you come to the event if you are able !

WOOOO COMIC FESTIVAL LET’S GOOOOOOOOO

[hiveworks]

There's gonna an all star lineup at the Roundhouse in Vancouver this weekend! Find Hiveworks creators at VanCAF 👇 ⁠ In the exhibitor hall

A1 Sarah Webb (Kochab)

A2 @hagofbolding (Fairmeadow)

A2 @phantomarine (Phantomarine)

F4 @windywallflower (Augustine, Paint the Town Red, Sanity Circus)⁠

In the gym

J6 @stripeyworm (Intercosmic) as part of Fruit Salad Comics

J9 @jubyart (Cut Time)

L2 Colin Tan Wei (Folklore)⁠

See you there May 20-21!

[fumscomics]

hi y’all!!

just a heads up there won’t be any ELECTRO MAGNETIC BOTTLE ROCKET updates as i’ll be travelling from to BC for vanCAF and selling some comics there with my group. however updates will resume on the 26th so stay tuned!!

if you happen to be in the area, you can check out my group Fruit Salad Comics over at J6 in the festival and drop by and say hi!!

until then, you can catch up on my webcomic or check out my other works below!!

EMBR RECENT - EMBR FIRST PAGE

my other free short comics can be found over here

thanks!!

[phantomarine]

VanCAF time!

And I brought a friend 👀

[dcsart]

Hello, fans in Vancouver Canada! I'll be at VANCAF next weekend, my first ever time and I am HONORED to be doing so! Please come by and say hi to me!

[floral-monsters]

VANCAF! IS!!! NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!!!

I'm going to be at table H3-1 in the gym with comics, stickers and art galore!

[stellamay17drawings]

⭐️ Heyo!!! ⭐️

Got nothing to do this weekend? Come on down to Vancaf at Yaletown Roundhouse! It’s gonna be my first time selling so I’m excited!!!

A lot of my print stuff will be coming tomorrow but I just want to post what I’ll be selling! I’ll have some prints, stickers a personal comic zine and an Owl House Zine!! 😊

Even if you don’t buy anything please come say hi! I love meeting people!!! I’ll be in the gym area next to the entrance/exit to the hall! See you there!! Can’t wait! ⭐️

[vivsdraws]

I’ll be at VanCAF this weekend! Come find me at table J06 (Fruit Salad Comics) in the gym, I’ll be there Saturday 12-2pm and Sunday 2-5pm! ✨

I will have a limited quantity of free 6-page samplers of my upcoming graphic novel ATANA AND THE FIREBIRD, and a bunch of other goodies!

[renstrapp]

art vs artist to conclude 2023

Comics I worked on this year: - Lesbian Gender Outlaw - Heavyweight Desk Jockey World Champ - Heave and Thaw - How Could You (you know, my huge freakin book??) - Invasive Species

Projects I did illustrations for this year: - Classics But Gay Vol III - And They Were Monsters - Dreams in Riso

Shows I did this year: - ECCC - VanCAF - MCAF/FBDM - Sonny's Summer Story Fest - RCCC - Portland Zine Symposium

I can't wait to see what I get to do next year!

[godfleshcomic]

UPDATE || Monday, May 15 || 2023

CHAPTER 4 OF GODFLESH IS COMPLETE!!!

Catch up now cuz if you like it, you can buy a print version of Chapter 1 at VanCAF this weekend! ;^)

Webtoon | Tapas | Patreon | Themesong

G O D F L E S H is a comic about gods and prophets, sinister happenings, and royal bloodshed… along with a healthy dose of gay romance.

[cloudscapecomics]

Cloudscape Comics Society is 15 this year! From days of VANCAF past… Look how we've grown from 2017, 2018, all the way to 2023!

[suddence]

Retrospective!

HI. So. Since Suddence draft 3 is done, I thought I'd do a bit of retrospective on this story :^)

This little project started as an escape from my main wip, APHELION, which is a big sprawling sci-fi thing. I thought Suddence would be a nice little novella, 40k words tops.

Turns out, it's 60k words long. That's right. It's a wholeass novel.

Draft #1

On May 17th, 2021, I started the first draft. While I had a strong idea of the basic premise and a nice solid beginning, I wasn't sure how exactly the rest of the story would go. Most of this draft was just me writing down scenes that seemed interesting. At this point, I hadn't even figured what exactly Dany was gonna do after reaching Suddence. I threw together some semblance of a wham bam action climax. I didn't like it, but I couldn't think of much else.

Also, while I had the alternating timelines idea already, they were both written in regular prose.

After "finishing" this draft, I went back to my main wip for a while and continued struggling with it.

Draft #2

On November 16th, 2022, I started the second draft. In this draft, my goal was to tie the story down. The prose doesn't have to be good; it just has to be finished and whole. The beginning of the story stays mostly the same, except that I decided wait! Wouldn't it be more interesting if we got to read the flashbacks as if they were Dany's diary entries?

I tested this out and decided, yup. It was much cooler.

So, I focused on this for a while. Progress was meandering and I was struggling a bit with how I wanted the story to end. At some point, I peeked at my first draft, hoping to have some inspiration, and noticed I started it on May 17th. And at this point, it was also almost May 17th (2023). And I thought to myself, "Man, wouldn't it be something if I could finish this draft on May 17th? Wouldn't that be nice and symmetrical? Haha. That's not possible though."

But with the power of promising I'll treat myself to a Lego splurge after I finish the draft, it was, indeed, possible.

Now, as you read through the draft (I say "you" as if you will ever read this version of the story), you will notice that the quality significantly gets worse as it goes on. But I was perfectly fine with it! I had confidence and trust that my future editing self will handle it. All that matters right now is that it's done.

I let the story marinate for a few months, leaving notes whenever I thought of something, and went back to focus on APHELION. And I had a HUGE breakthrough there, which only boosted my confidence. I had been struggling with this wip for SO long, and it was amazing to finally have it figured out.

Draft #3

On August 1st, 2023, I began the third draft of Suddence. I switched my goal from "it just has to be finished" to "it has to actually be good." My mindset on this stage was that it had to be in a publishable state, even though I don't plan on publishing it just yet. I took the chapters one by one, reading each of them out loud to catch any strange wording or confusing moments. (There were a LOT of these that would have slipped by if I hadn't been reading out loud.)

One thing that really helped was keeping a notebook on hand, and any time I thought of something (e.g. checking the continuity on a previous scene, or a reminder to add something earlier, etc) I would write it down. This made editing SO much more manageable. I didn't have to rely on my spotty memory, I could cover so many more bases, and it's very satisfying to check each task off my list as I tackle them.

I wasn't really sure how long the edit would take. My general goal was to have something ready to show by April/May of 2024, where I'll hopefully be tabling at VanCAF again.

And now it's only been a bit more than two weeks, and the edit is done. 😳

Next Steps

So! My next steps will be to get critiques. I've set up a critique form, and now I'm preparing to reach out to people for beta reading. It's exciting! But also nerve-wracking. I've never gotten to this stage with ANY of my wips before. (Unless you count, like, my grad film, which I definitely don't.)

After critiques, it'll be one more round of edits!

I'm also going to have a copy printed out just at a local print shop, just so I can have something physical to hold :3

Publishing

I'm sure I've talked about this at some point before, but I'm planning to publish the story serially online first, and then having physical copies and e-books once it's done airing, so to speak. I've been checking out a few websites, like Wattpad and Royal Road and Substack. I'll have to poke around them a bit more before I decide which one to use.

I haven't really decided which printing company to use, either. Last I checked, BookVault doesn't ship to Canada :'( and the only other printer I've used is Lulu. I guess I'll have to look into KDP and all that eventually anyway, so I'll do some research on that front as well.

Thank you to everyone who's been following along on this journey! For now, I'm gonna migrate back to APHELION.

[kikitr0n]

I have drawn the most perfect image ever captured of me & my vibe 👌🍀

Drew this to be my artist profile pic for the upcoming VanCAF 2023 event!

[friendsandfood]

VanCAF 2023 is happening really soon!

The Vancouver Comics and Arts Festival will be happening from Saturday, May 20th to Sunday, May 21st! It'll be from 10AM-5PM for both days.

We'll be at Table K02-1 in the gym area! We revamped our savoury food zine to include a couple of new drawings.

We're still working on Volume 3 of our comic, so unfortunately it will not debut for this year. But we'll be selling our other comics and our Tiny Drawings of Big Food zines, in addition to food-themed stickers and a hot pot keychain!

[phantomarine]

Phantomarine will be at VanCAF on May 20 and 21!

I'm in the Exhibition Hall this time around with a table near the doors to the turntable plaza. Come on down!

(I will also have the legendary Jeff plush under my table - ask me and you can give him a friendly headpat 🦕)

[sheepinthebigcity]

i think the funniest thing to happen in 2023 so far is my sister and i ending up at vancaf and she bought tiny zines so her cats could read them