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Katie-Zhang

The Centre for Stories and PCAF are thrilled to announce Katie Zhang as the recipient of the recipient of the 2024 Comic Creator Hot Desk Fellowship. A huge congratulations to Katie!

Also featured below are work from Frankie Stevo and Ali Marbeck, who were both highly commended for their outstanding submissions. The panel were astounded by the top-notch quality of applications across the board.

Thank you to everyone who applied, we sincerely hope to get to read all of your comic projects someday!

Come down to the 2024 PCAF Market Hall to see more of Katie, Frankie and Ali’s work alongside over 100 other amazing creators!

We have an important statement about AI

Perth Comic Arts Festival is a volunteer-run not-for-profit founded to celebrate and support the craft of comic arts. We’ve grown over the past eight years into a larger professional organisation with year-round programming and partnerships to better support our tremendous community of creators and readers.

As technology evolves, so do the options available to produce comics. PCAF embraces new tools, especially if they can save creators from some of the physical toil that is required of such a laborious art form. But in the case of generative artificial intelligence,* as part of our responsibility to our community, we must take a formal stance.

Read the full statement here.

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The Market Hall is a celebration of the comic making community from across WA and beyond, and every year we’ve been thrilled to welcome more and more creators in to join us.

This year we’re pleased to announce that the Market Hall (Sunday July 28th) will be joining Academy Day (Saturday July 27th) in being hosted at the State Library of Western Australia, which means we’ll have even more room for EVEN MORE COMICS!

Follow the link below to get your application in before midnight on February 29th, and don’t hesitate to get in touch with us via email at markethall@pcaf.org.au if you need any help or have any questions!

Apply Here!

Centre-for-Stories

We’re so proud to be collaborating with the Centre for Stories on a paid residency for a comics makers in Western Australia to produce work to share at this year’s PCAF!

The fellowship is open to a Western Australian comic maker who is writing and drawing a comic. The recipient will be given a dedicated desk at the Centre for Stories, invites to attend workshops and events, a free table at the 2024 PCAF Market Hall to promote your work, along with a $1500 stipend and $200 printing allowance.

Applications are open until Sunday the 25th of February 2024.

Head on over to their website for a full rundown: https://centreforstories.com/announcing-comic-creator-hot-desk/