Althea will be vending at GLADCON ’24. A Queer indie comics, arts & crafts market. Glad Day Bookshop Saturday June 15, 2024 1-4 PM One day only! Please support indie makers and one of the oldest gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer bookstores in the world - they need our support to keep open! |
![]() Panagawid - a new komik by Althea Balmes launches at TCAF! “Feeling depleted and lost in the city, Tala finally connects with her ancestors who takes her on a journey of spirit retrieval. Inspired by the Ilocano soul retrieval practice.” Althea will be reading Panagawid this Saturday April 29th at TCAF - the Toronto Comics Festival. Please drop by and pick up a copy: PWYC $10 min. April 29th, 2023 3:00 PM EST Toronto Reference Library 798 Yonge St., Discussion Room (3rd floor) Free event
![]() Thanks to Ysh Cabana for writing about the Komiks Zine Fair in The Philippine Canadian News. Read article "Toronto-based artists Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and Althea Balmes have been hosting pulp fiction weekly meet-ups since July 2017. Participants have been encouraged to network, to create and bring their comics/komiks to completion..Zines, tiny photocopied and stapled books that are often with political text and images, deck the Lillian H. Smith Library branch. Kwentong Bayan Collective believes that a new model for komiks and pop culture events will take shape over time." We're celebrating the 1 year anniversary of our weekly Comics / Komiks Meet-Up at the library with a Kwentong Bayan - Komiks Zine Fair!!
All-ages activities include short films about comics, button-making station, merch tables, a Filipino Komiks reading corner, & raffle prizes. Saturday July 21, 2018 1 PM - 4:30 PM Lillian H. Smith Branch - Toronto Public Library 239 College St. (at Spadina), Meeting Room A, Lower Level FREE EVENT Thanks to our community partners, the Toronto Public Library -Lillian H. Smith Branch, The Beguiling Books & Art, and Comics/Komiks Meet-up artists. Please join us!
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