It is the first annual Free Comic Book Day in Almonte on Sat 7 May and Art In The Attic is participating ! The event is being brought to the town by the Almonte Fair Board and Action & Video Toy Store. It starts at the Almonte Fair Grounds and runs from noon to 4 pm. Families can go to over 16 stops in downtown Almonte to find their comics and colouring books.
At Art In The Attic, we will be a stop for free comics. We will also have comics for sale created by one of our artists, Jade Armstrong, who in her second year at Sheridan College. She will be also be doing comic art live !!! Small character sketches OF people coming to the stop as well as some of her own comic characters….. Jade loves making comics and is president of the Comic Making Club at the college. She exhibits at ComicCon in Ottawa and also this year will be exhibiting at the Toronto Comic Art Festival and the Small Press Expo (North America’s Premiere independent cartooning and comic arts festival) in Maryland.
Free Comic Book Day is a fantastic event for the kids and families of our community to get excited about reading and comics and comic art !!!
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