2023 is the first year Little Deer Comics will be open in Stoneybatter during the Stoneybatter Festival!
The festival is closing down Manor Place for events so join us out front for a day of drawing and music!
About us: Little Deer Comics is an independent comic book shop in Stoneybatter, started with the goal of expanding the self published and small press comic book presence in Dublin and hopefully grow the audience as well! We got our start as a market table in Pender's Market in 2019 and now have a retail space in the former Maureen's at 57 Manor Place beside Slice Cafe.
https://littledeercomics.ie
Twitter: @littledeercmx
Instagram: @littledeercomics
12pm-2pm: PET PORTRAITS with AARON LOSTY
Silly or serious, you decide! Aaron Losty is a cartoonist based in Ireland. His recent works include Clearwater, Ploughman, Blaze Beyond The Pale and The Last Scarecrow.
Aaron Losty: https://www.aaronlosty.com/
Twitter: @AaronLosty
Instagram: @aaronlosty
1pm - 3pm: ALL-AGES COMIC JAM with DUBLIN COMIC JAM HOST KATHERINE FOYLE! Collaborative comic making and improvised sequential storytelling. Drop-in and add your panel to the ongoing story!
Dublin Comic Jam http://dublincomicjam.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @dublincomicjam
Instagram: @dublincomicjam
1:30pm - 3:30pm: CLASSICAL / FLAMENCO GUITARIST ARASH KAZEMI! Arash Kazemi was born in 1990 in Barcelona to a Franco-Spanish mother and an Iranian father. When he was eight the family moved to Dublin, Ireland, where his talent for music soon became apparent and he began his musical education. He has developed an intriguing and unique fusion of classical / flamenco / bossa nova that has thrilled audiences throughout Ireland.
Spotify: https://sptfy.com/arashkazemi
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArashKazemi
Web: https://www.arash kazemi.ie/
3pm - 5pm: SMALL TRANS ARTS & CRAFTS! Join the Small Trans Library for some relaxed, unguided arting and crafting in the company of queer artists. Fun and easy materials will be provided including trans poetry excerpts for collages, crayons and markers to colour comics by trans artists, and plasticine to try modelling little (trans?) creatures. Doodle, tinker, scrunch and scribble to your heart’s content.
Small Trans Library Dublin: https://smalltranslibrary.org
Twitter: @translibdub
Instagram: @translibdub
3pm - 5pm: LIVE PORTRAIT DRAWING with PHILLIP BARRETT! Philip Barrett is a comic artist, illustrator and designer originally from Co. Donegal. In 2017 Philip illustrated the Limerick-set graphic novel ‘Savage Town’ with the writer Declan Shalvey and published by Image comics. He drew the O’Brien press children's book best-seller ‘Where’s Larry?’ and its follow-up ‘Where’s Larry this time’. His illustrations and comics have appeared in publications as diverse as the Irish Times and Rabble.
Phillip Barrett: http://www.blackshapes.com
Twitter: @philip_barrett
Instagram: @ralph_bitterip