HOW IT ALL BEGAN...
ELCAF 2012 was the very first East London Comics and Arts Festival launched on June 17 last year with a curated day of talks, screenings, live drawing events and the best spread of creative publishers and collectives! We made this little video of it for you. ELCAF 2013 will be in a bigger venue with even more exciting events and talks. If you would like to apply to take part go to the apply page. Hope to see you there!

Applications now closed!

Thanks for all your submissions, we are sifting through all the applications and fine-tuning what is looking like a fine list of exhibitors. We will be announcing everyone involved shortly, so keep checking in!

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Deadline extension!

After a bundle of requests, we have extended the deadline for applications to ELCAF 2013 until Tuesday 30th April, a whole extra week to apply! Don’t miss your opportunity and get your application in soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Andy Rementer’s poster for ELCAF 2013!

And here it is, Andy’s fabulous poster for this year’s edition of ELCAF featuring all the details you need. Don’t forget applications are still open until the 24 April and tickets for the event are available here!

Welcome to ELCAF 2013 – Applications are now being accepted!

Hello world!

Welcome to Elcaf 2013! We are very pleased to announce that on June 22nd, we will again present a carefully curated fair with the very best of comics and graphic art from across the globe in the new, even more stunning, venue the infamous York Hall in Bethnal Green.

This year we have brought on board people from the expert team behind the successful Friday Late events at the V&A to bring a thrilling programme of talks and events for all ages to the festival.

Our artist-in-residence this year is fantastic multi-talented Andy Rementer and we are looking forward to reveal his poster for this year’s event imminently.

From this week on, we will be announcing regular updates to the programming of the festival and which of your favourite illustrators and artists might be in attendance so keep your eyes peeled to make sure you don’t miss out on anything!

And of course we are now accepting submissions from all you talented collectives and publishers! The deadline is the 24th April and we can’t wait to see who will be part of it this year.