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

The 2025 Black &amp; Brown Comix Arts Festival is now offering a special 25% discounted rate on exhibition booths and spaces for a limited time only. So, sign up today for BCAF.

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

<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>

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.

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.

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

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.