CAMP2026 Exhibitor status emails have just been sent out, please check your inboxes! :) Thank you to everyone who took the time to apply, we were completely blown away by the quality of work! It has been a wonderful privilege to read all of your comics.

📣Calling all Comics Creators📣 Today is the last day to apply to CAMP 2026! Apps close at 11:59pm tonight! www.comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting

Hello comic creators! It’s been a busy September for many of us so we are extending our application through October 7th to give everyone some extra time to apply to exhibit at CAMP :) Apply here: www.comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting

Calling all comic artists! Applications for CAMP 2026 are now open! Visit www.comicartsmaineportland.com/exhibiting to apply!

Announcing CAMP (Comic Arts Maine Portland) 2026! We will be returning to the Portland Public Library on Saturday, April 11th 2026 from 10am-4:30pm. Our stunning 2026 poster is designed by artist and co-author of the Mapmakers Series, @mandallin.bsky.social

Almost to 300 backers!

If you get the @bulgilhanpress.com newsletter you saw my book was officially announced yesterday. Get excited for a book about love and despair and god and poetry and robots and grace and death and hope and anarchist utopian religious communes in space and little alien crabs and ambulatory trucks!

We’re very excited to announce this year’s Cupcake Award Winner: @milimonster.bsky.social! The jury had a hard time selecting just one winner out of this year’s stellar applicant pool, and want to shout out some additional honorable mentions. Thank you to our jury, and congratulations Mili! 🧁

Happy Cartoonist Day! If you wanna do this cartoonist a solid, maybe share my newest story around? The Wolf with No Tail is about a soldier facing the past she ran away from, and has its first preview issue up on my Kofi now: ko-fi.com/s/b17975b898

Hello, MICE friends! We are now open for exhibitor applications for MICE 2025! Check out the link below for application guidelines and more info. www.micexpo.org/apply

big news! ⭐️KNAPSACK MAGAZINE VOL. 2: BUTTER 🍮launches TOMORROW at noon est! there’s a lot of new rewards and elements we added to this volume, here’s a sneak peek of our foldout poster and tear-away recipe cards!

welp. The thing I’ve been worried about happening for about a year finally happened. Please consider checking out my web store or giving me a boost, it’s going to be basically our only household income for a while 🫠 ♡ www.stillvreni.com ♡

Thank you so much Community Canvas 💜🐹 @wgbh.org

the second LMZF is this Saturday at the DerrySalem Elks in SalemNH from 11-4. we have 50+ amazing vendors from all over the northeast. I've been working like crazy these last 5 months to make sure this event is worth everyone's time. Hopefully I see you there!

CAMP was so much fun! I came back with all these souvenirs – more photos are now on my patreon :> www.patreon.com/posts/campfi...

Wednesday marks the beginning of Art in Bloom, the busiest and best-smelling weekend of the year at the Portland Museum of Art. More than 20 artists create floral installations in response to specific works on view at the museum.

😳 get ready… something is cookin….

My @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social comic haul.

CAMP was so wonderful! What a perfect first year to a comic convention. Every time I table, I always come out of it inspired and filled with new ideas that I want to work on.

Hi friends! I'm honored to be a vendor at the Luna Moth Zine Fest this year. Pls consider stopping by table 8B to purchase your very own copy of Gromlin Zine. Issues #1 and #2 are available now, and we will be debuting issue #3 at the event. Please look forward to it! www.instagram.com/gromlinzine/

An exciting opportunity for a teen from Vermont by the Vermont Department of Libraries and The Center for Cartoon Studies! Create Comics is for both beginner and intermediate students 16+! More info: libraries.vermont.gov/sites/librar...

We had a wonderful time at CAMP (@comicartsmaineport.bsky.social) in Portland last weekend! Huge thanks to all who dropped by, and wishing the staff & volunteers many more years of community-organized comics fest-ing!

Now that I was thoroughly spoiled by CAMP, the shop's restocked! The Wolf with No Tail is up, so head on over and grab your physical or digital copy and maybe snag some Monster Girls seconds and stickers while you're there! #comics #zines #theWolfWithNoTail #monsterGirls ko-fi.com/kayandp

LAST CALL FOR SPX TABLE LOTTERY SUBMISSIONS!!! 📢📢📢 Today is the final day to sign up to table at SPX! If you don’t do it today, you won’t be able to until next year so today is the day! Go on and click that post below! Good luck! 🤞

Wonderful comics from CAMP 🪵

Back home after having a wonderful time at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social! Now I'm 50% made of Frosty's donuts! 🍩 Time to catch up on the weekend's F1 shenanigans 😎

Reminder THE FINAL DAY for the SPX Table Lottery is TOMORROW, APRIL 7th! Now is the time to not wait for tomorrow! The time is now!* *(and roughly 36 hours but you know what I’m saying.)

I had a great time at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social and was really impressed with the hard and deftly done work of the organizers, and the fun and warm community. If you didn’t go, go next year!

Big thanks to everyone who checked out my comics at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social . I hope it was as much of a success for the organizers so I can keep coming every year.

The things that happen when you convince a friend to watch just enough First Gundam to spread your propaganda (zine by the incomparable @korimichele.bsky.social, tabling next to us at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social)

I'm at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social !! I've been too busy to post I'm sorry!!

We're blasting through @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social 2025!

Yay!! Now everyone must go to @lunamothzinefest.bsky.social on the nineteenth!

@comicartsmaineport.bsky.social was a blast!!

Wow @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social you sure know how to treat a girl! Thanks for an awesome show, Portland!

CAMP was an excellent comics festival - hard to believe it was it's first time as a show. The organizers and volunteers really made magic happen, can't wait for next year! @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social

I only had an hour to spend at this but I got a bunch of great-looking comics I'm looking forward to reading. Let's hope for another one next year!

Scenes from @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social 💖

So @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social was pretty great and heck, sign me up for next year!!!💯✨

What a fantastic day this was!! I can’t believe it’s over already, a wonderful event, really well run, thank you to the organizers and volunteers - it was a great day for comics in Maine and I feel so lucky to have been a part of the very first CAMP! @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social

What’s up, Portland ME, I’m here for @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social !

I'll be here tomorrow! Super excited to meet all these insanely talented folks. Swing by the Portland Public Library between 11 and 5 tomorrow and say hi... It's FREE and IM TRYNA MAKE SUM FRIENDS.

find me tabling tomorrow at @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social table 41B! I'll have my newest volume of doggy diary minicomics as well as many other zines, prints, shirts, and some cool merch from @liminaltv.bsky.social !!! come by, say hey, and feel free to ask me about mushrooms or riso printing! <3

PORTLAND, ME! Come see us tomorrow at the Portland Public Library, table 34B! We'll have gay anime comics for you! 😘

We’ve been so busy we forgot to post here! But CAMP is happening tomorrow everyone!! Please come a visit entry is free and we’ll be so excited to see you!!

Tonight!!

CAMP tomorrow!!!

See you there!