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Welcome! This page is a record of meeting minutes for the Foghorn Comics Collective. Meeting MinutesMay 2025 - the following minutes were provided by Veronica Post in an email to our member list.May meeting recap!
Good time had by all at Alderney Landing library Three cheers to Humberto for organizing the May Meeting! Timbits and sweet treats abounded in the Maxine Tynes room of the Alderney Library on the evening of May 22, 2025. Veronica Post discussed the creation of the Comic Creators Society and answered questions from attendees.DCAF “Panel and workshop” day was discussed, with suggestions from attendees on what topics they were interested in seeing at this year's festival. And general discussion on various topics buzzed around the room. Rob Hansen brought tote bags and stickers emblazoned with the bold “Society Seal" logo and they were offered especially -and for one night only- to people in attendance for $5. Three cheers to Rob for getting those bags and stickers printed at the NSCC print shop! The remaining bags will be sold for $15 at various festivals and events to raise money for the DCAF “Panel and workshop day”.Great to see everyone who came! TOP STORIES Comic Creators Society is Formed! 
Fundraising for DCAF workshop and panel discussion day continues apace
In March 2025, Scott Marshall, Veronica Post, Sal Sawler, JJ Steeves, and Vivian Zhou registered the Comic Creators Society of Nova Scotia as a non-profit society with the Nova Scotia registry of joint stocks. CCSNS’s main purpose is to fundraise for panels, workshops and accessibility features for DCAF 2025! Membership to the CCSNS is currently limited to the board of directors. The reason for this is as follows: Nonprofits cannot pay members for services without being subject to scrutiny for conflict of interest. We are limiting our membership to enable us to benefit the largest number of people with potential paid opportunities. Another reason is that we are very new to this and still getting the hang of things. If we do make a mistake, it will only affect the 5 current members and we feel more comfortable with that. Another reason is that to meet quorum it is easier to arrange meetings and pass motions with a smaller number of people, making us more efficient. That being said we are currently open to suggestions for DCAF, especially Foghorn/meet-up members! Check out our website at ccs-ns.org DCAF 2025 Panels and workshops will astound at this free event!
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is a free annual event in Alderney Landing. Taking place this year on August 9-10. August 10 is vendor day, with approx. 65 tables for artists. August 9 is reserved for panel discussions, presentations and workshops in the Alderney Library that are open and free to the public. The Comic Creators Society (more information in the article above) is organizing the August 9th events, and we are fundraising so we can offer panelists and moderators an honorarium in keeping with other comic festivals around the world. The Comic Creators Society is open to suggestions for panel discussion topics, presentation and workshop ideas, as well as panelist and moderator suggestions! The Society also requested a vendor table for Foghorn members who have a zine or two of their own to sell! There is no cost to you, all you have to do is show up at the festival with your zine, comic or print and be open to helping at the table! A tally will be kept of sales, in cash only, and creators must present themselves at the end of day to pick up their profits and leftover art. Do you have panel discussion, workshop, presentation, panelist or moderator ideas? Fill out this form! 
Foghorn Issue #1! Much anticipated comic anthology soon to be released!
Foghorn Comics #1 is an anthology of comics created by us, the Foghorn Comic Collective (aka comic meet-up group) The first issue is on the theme of “blood” and has been edited and collated by the intrepid Scott Marshall of Black Rocks Books (publisher). What do I do to get my greedy hands on this anthology, you ask?? Well, wonder no further! Once the final draft is finished, Scott will make it available as a PDF for download and a link will be sent to this mailing list! The PDF will be printable, so members can collate and staple the books themselves or we can organize a small party and do that together. Updates to come! [Update from Scott: the comic will be available in print soon and is available now as a PDF download for contributors.] We Need More Writers! Comic Book Writers Circle
I’ve just signed some more people up for our group, so we are expanding. But we had our smallest turnout yet at the last meeting on May 15. To entice you, here’s what can happen to your own work with a little bit of magical, rainbow-coloured feedback: Lil’s comic was already quite good! But now the first few pages are quite different. In April, most of us had thoughts on how to give proper context for the action in the first moments of the comic, as well as context for the space and the characters moving through it. Here’s the draft we saw at the writer’s circle:
And here's the updated version, which lil brought to the monthly meet-up on Thursday:
Lil also changed the ending, adding a whole page after many of us were unclear what the protagonist was looking at. Take a look: First Draft 
Second draft with added page 
Thank you Lil for sharing! Any of you can bring your work, whatever quality you think it is, and we'll read it thoroughly, give you a sprinkle of compliments and a pinch of critique to make your work even better. So come on over! The next dates are: Thursday, June 19, 6:30 p.m. at the Oxford Taproom on Quinpool Road. Tuesday, July 8, 6:30 p.m. at the same place. Might not have one in August for DCAF. If you want a deadline to force yourself to have something semi-finished for DCAF (Aug. 9 and 10), then use the June date for your first draft, and bring the story again in July and you'll have two rounds of prep! Cheers,
A Good Word 
Happy news of the month
Vivian Zhou, an illustrious member of the Foghorn Collective, has released their second book in the fantastic ATANA series! Available in bookstores now! Upcoming! Events to look out for
June Meet-up! Monday June 23rd 5:30-8:45pm: Halifax Central Library, BMO Community Room. DCAF Caricature Fundraiser- LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! Canada Day-July 1: Vivian Zhou and others will be heading to the Halifax Waterfront to do by-donation caricatures to raise money for the DCAF Professional Development day! Funds raised will go towards paying panelists and moderators. If you have experience drawing caricatures on the fly and would like to volunteer, please email comicsocietyns@gmail.com Festivals: Y-Con: Yarmouth Mariners Centre, May 30-June 1 TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL: June 7-8 at the Metropolitan University Mattamy Athletic Centre EAST COAST COMIC EXPO: June 13 and 14 at the Moncton Coliseum MONTREAL COMIC CON: July 4-6 at the Palais des Congres SAPPY FEST: Sackville, NB, August 1-3 Zine Submissions: Sunscad Zine Press: Ratcatchers. Call for text and art based works, submission date May 25! If you have a suggestion for the newsletter, please fill out this form. |
