BCAF Stories

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At Comic-Con 2024, the Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) hosted a compelling panel titled "Black Superheroes, Black Power Fantasies, Double Consciousness, Oh My …," featuring scholars Stanford Carpenter, John Jennings, Ajuan Mance, Yvonne Chireau, and Brittany Oliver Silas Navaro.

The Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) successfully launched a new relationship with Rice University and Comicpalooza, Texas' largest popular culture event.

Over 300 families gathered at San Francisco’s Aquarium by the Bay on Pier 39 for the vibrant 5th annual Sankofa Days event.

The panel, entitled "Ancient and Contemporary Black Religion in Comics," featured notable voices in the field: John Jennings, acclaimed for his graphic adaptations of Octavia Butler's works, including <i>Kindred</i> and <i>The Parable of the Sower</i>, and BCAF's own Stanford Carpenter, a scholar of comics and culture.

USA Today, a giant in the realm of news and cultural commentary, has spotlighted BCAF as one of America's for the 10 Best Art Festivals.

<p>Recently named one of America’s Ten Best Art Festivals by USA Today in 2024, BCAF’s new alliance with Comicpalooza marks a significant step in its mission to elevate the visibility of diverse voices in the arts.</p>

USA Today, a giant in the realm of news and cultural commentary, has spotlighted BCAF as a contender for the prestigious title of Best Art Festival in its 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.

See the BCAF2023 Program Schedule Here!

Together, love wins. Together, peace wins. Together, justice wins.

David Walker, co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival and three-time Eisner winner, will be at BCAF2023...

BCAF hosted the <b>Ethnogothic: Horror and Conjure in Storytelling</b> panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

BCAF hosted the <b>Diversity and Comics: Multimodal Media and Comics</b> panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black &amp; Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) joined with New York Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival in a series of programs including an encore presentation of its critically 2020 acclaimed panel entitled, <b>Afrofuturism and Black Religion: Connecting Imaginations</b>

BCAF22 went virtual for the second year, due to the rise of COVID concerns. But, BCAF's Sunday Vitual Spotlights featured the Hugo Award-winning duo of John Jennings and Damian Duffy.

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) and the Chicago History Museum launched a new program for Black History Month entitled: Comic Arts Against Erasure

There is no more important safeguard in our democracy than the protection of every American citizen’s right to vote...

Executive Director Aaron Grizzell Issues a Statement on answering the call to focus on securing the fundamental right to vote.

The theme for 2022 answers the call to focus on securing the most fundamental right to vote.

NorcalMLK Foundation announces the return of in-person events for the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations...

On Saturday, July 25, the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel...

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel entitled, *Afrofuturism and*...

A co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival has won the 2020 Will Eisner Award...