The first Dublin Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) event of 2025 has been announced, a free one day event taking place at a new venue, The Complex, on Sunday 6th April. Comic creators are invited to apply for exhibitor space now.
DCAF run a series of quarterly small press comic art events in Dublin, Ireland, offering a great opportunity to discover small press comics. The team are excited to be hosting their upcoming event at The Complex on Arran Street, the only multi-disciplinary arts centre in Dublin’s north inner city, a venue committed to providing arts to all people and space to artists for all art forms.
Back in the city centre and all together on one day for the first time since 2019, the DCAF team continues to receive wide support from the comics community, the event’s joyous Spring poster provided by Lisa McHugo.
Further DCAF 2025 events will take place on 6th July, 5th October and 30th November.
DCAF was established in 2017, founded by Matthew Melis & The Comics Lab of the Stray Lines comic collective. It was created to showcase local comic creators and celebrate the spectrum of Irish sequential art.
The small press comic scene has been growing in Ireland for years, but Irish comic creators often travel across the globe to find Comic Arts Festivals to exhibit their work. The team felt it was time for some Comic Arts Festivals closer to home.
Small press comics can be as small as a photocopied zine and as big as Raina Telgemeier’s Smile. DCAF generally use the term to mean creator-owned, independent comics. They can be handmade, self-published or released by small press publishers.
• DCAF 11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 6th April 2025, The Complex 21-25 Arran St E, Dublin 7, D07 YY97 | Admission Free | Web: dublincomicarts.ie
The event will follow best practices for COVID mitigation
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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