SF Comics Fest Advisory Committee Update With representatives from comics retail, publishers, professionals, education and more, we held the first committee meeting tonight. Weve initiated a two-prong attack to bringing a comics-centric festival to San Francisco. 2015: The committee is developing a plan for a 1-2 week city-wide spring comics festival involving events at retailers, libraries, schools, bookstores and other organizations. The first step in that process is creating a master list of businesses and organizations who are interested in being involved. The point person for collecting this information is the amazing Casey Gilly. If you know of a business or organization who might like to participate, be sure to send that information her way! The tentative launch date for the festival would be Free Comics Day - Saturday, May 2nd (offering an ideal avenue for promoting city-wide festival events). 2016: Our goal is to merge the events and programing developed for the city-wide festival with a big hall, exhibitor-centric show in 2016 (date to be determined). Whether internally organized or through a partnership with an external organization, this show would appeal to a large audience with programing and satellite events centered around the rich and diverse comics culture of San Francisco. The committee is scheduled to reconvene in early January to firm up a general outline for the festival. Our second town hall meeting is tentatively scheduled for early February for community feedback on the plan. If committee members have anything to add to this summary, please do so in the comments. And if anyone has any question at this point in the process, please feel free to ask. Well do our best to answer. As always, we encourage and welcome your feedback!
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:57:53 +0000
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