Join us for the 2025 Festival | JULY 12 + 13 | State Library of WA

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Guest Announcement: Reimena Yee

Please join us in welcoming one of our talented guests and 2024 poster artist – Reimena Yee Reimena is a strange and fancy graphic novelist, illustrator and designer originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and currently based in Melbourne, Australia. She is also the curator behind the upcoming Comics Devices Resource and the co-founder and co-organiser … Read more

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Guest Announcement: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Please join us in welcoming our first guest of 2024 – Rosemary Valero-O’Connell! Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a cartoonist and illustrator born in Minneapolis, raised in Zaragoza, and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She is the co-creator of acclaimed graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, alongside Mariko Tamaki, and the sole creator … Read more

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Volunteer Applications Open

The Perth Comic Arts Festival is looking for volunteers! As a non-profit event, we depend on our amazing volunteers for our festival to run smoothly. This year we need some limited assistance on Saturday the 27th for Academy Day and as many helpers as we can get on Sunday the 28th for Market Hall Day. … Read more

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The Best Australian Yarn

We’re excited to share this wonderful opportunity with our PCAF community! ‘The Best Australian Yarn’ short story competition returns and with our support, is including ‘Comics‘ as a category for the very first time. There are $6,000 of prizes to be won in the comics category with entries closing on the 12th of August. Head … Read more

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Comic Creator Hot Desk Fellow

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 … Read more

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