On the eve of Free Comic Book Day, I thought I should highlight all things comics in the area. Firstly go support your local comic shop for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May 1st. Shops will be having events and free comics for the kiddos. Local artists will be in attendance At Coast City Comics, including yours truly, and Casablanca Comics will be welcoming what looks to be some Star Wars characters.
Later in May, the 22 & 23 to be exact, sees the return of Maine Comics Arts Festival, brianchild of local comics retailer and comic literacy crusader, Rick Lowell. Rick and his wife Laura O'Meara along with their crew of store employees and an army of volunteers will transform the Ocean Gateway into a portal to Comicdom. MEIC members like Christina Siravo and myself will be exhibiting along with 100+ local and national comic creators. Leading the list of headliners is comics writer Brian Wood and Canadian artist and writer Jeff Lemire. Local notables include Michael Conner, proprietor of Strange Maine, and talented illustrator in his own right, has told me he will be premiering a collection of his long-running mini-comic "Coelacanthus". David Naybor, long-time Casablanca Comics employee has been working for years on his book "Walking in Christendom." Both are profiled HERE by Maine resident and Comics Journal Blogger Rich Kreiner. Sarah Searle and Elizabeth Heller are two more young, talented local comic artists that are active in the comics scene here in Maine.
There will be an art show for the participants at the newly re-opened Portland Public Library. The whole thing should be a blast, and kids under 12 are free. Who doesn't like that?
Joel Rivers
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