Non-Fiction comics are flying off library and bookstore shelves across the country, and we are excited to partner with the Fletcher Free Library to present the first Non-Fiction Comics Festival on October 15! Join us for a full day of cartoonists exhibiting and selling their work, panel discussions and presentations exploring nonfiction cartooning in all its many forms.

The 2022 Keynote Speaker is a graphic novelist, tattoo artist, illustrator, and filmmaker James Spooner, whose debut graphic novel, The High Desert explores growing up Black and punk in rural California. Spooner will be interviewed live by Bobby Hackney Jr. of Burlington’s legendary punk band, Rough Francis.

This event is hosted by the Vermont Folklife Center and the Fletcher Free Library, and sponsored by Vermont Humanities, Seven Days and the Center for Cartoon Studies.