The Comics Reporter

November 9, 2012

A Small Sampling Of Major Debuts At This Year’s BCGF

There should be little doubt at this point that we're in a very strong period for small, boutique and micro-publishers of art-comics, for art comics generally, and for the festivals that suport them.

What follows is a visual sampling of books to premiere at tomorrow's Brooklyn Comics And Graphics Festival. I guess you could argue that big events like BCGF kind of shake loose a bunch of book debuts like these, but then you'll be forced to recall that it's only been about two months since the last major event on the arts-comics festival calendar, and that that event had its own host of new offerings (three good ones, for instance, and again on sale at BCGF, were from Lisa Hanawalt, Julia Wertz and Johnny Ryan).

It's worth noting that this is a small sampling, books only at a show that offers a ton of prints and related material, and all from the more traditional end of publishing. There are books out there that have only been seen on someone's tumblr, and books that won't be seen at all by anyone until about 30 hours from now.

It should be a very good day to buy books like these and so many others in Brooklyn tomorrow, with a fine holiday season of book-buying to follow. Long live print. Long live comics. Long live comics festivals.

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