Hey, all:

This is just a simple announcement to state that Yes, indeed there WILL be another Comics Fest this year. I'd taken a couple months off to recover from planning and organizing last year's show, and now the organizing committee is moving forward, making plans for 2007. I can't give out any official word yet on where it will be, or when exactly, but I can tell you that we're eyeing the end of October again for a 2-day Fest (saturday and sunday). We've already approached some fantastic potential guests, and rest assured we'll be posting that info once it gets confirmed. Keep checking back for updates in the next month or so with final details on the location, dates, and exhibitor rates. Thanks for your interest!

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Hey, all! If you attended this last year's Comics Fest and wrote a report on it for your blog, or took some pictures which didn't get added to our flickr group, please let us know! We'd love to add a link to it here on the Stumptown homepage! Either reply here in the comments, or by email to info -at-stumptowncomics.com. Thanks for your help!

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Last night's opening of the Stumptown Comics Fest was a fun, low-key, relaxed time, and I believe that today will be even better! The Comix Apocalypse proved, once again, that Portland has the best cartoonists in the country, as we defended our honor against contestants from the Other coast, California, and points in between. Congratulations Team Portland!

A few small announcements:

Sadly, Phil Foglio and Matt Fraction won't be joining us at the Fest this year. Phil had a last minute conflict arise, and Matt is honoring a prior commitment to appear at a show in Kansas City. I'm hoping they'll both be able to join us again next year.

It looks like internationally-known comics-brainiac superstar Scott McCloud will be joining us today! In a surprise visit, Scott, probably best known for Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and his latest, Making Comics, will be taking a detour from his ongoing 50-State Tour to come check out Stumptown. You can most likely find him wandering the hall, or resting with friends Jenn Manley Lee and Barry Deutsch at table 77.

Second, our official photographer this year, Joshin Yamada, has started a flickr group for the Stumptown Comics Fest, and has already posted a bunch of pictures from yesterday as well as from the awesome pre-Fest party thrown by exhibitors Steve Lieber and Sara Ryan. So, if you've been taking pictures, please feel free to post them here, and if you know who someone is in one of the pictures, help us label them!

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