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Last night marked the debut of a new venue in Portland. The Apohadion is a brand-new performance space located at 107 Hanover Street, in the space otherwise known at Fort Awesome, Pat Corrigan and Dave Noyes’ studio. Jon Donnell was there and got some great shots of the new space and the three bands that christened it: Tempera, Wolf Larsen (which we got a bit of a preview of last Friday), and Gay Camp (feat. members of Planets Around The Sun/Cursillistas/White Light, Visitations/A.M. Frank, and The Orchards). Check out all of Jon’s photos from this show here. So just what is the Apohadion? Well, Portland’s only subterranean theater, of course! For an introduction, check out Pat Corrigan’s comics from The Bollard: June 1, 2007 sheds some light on the back story, and the December 6th comic revisits the name, but just piles some mystery on top. I can’t wait to see the venue myself and find out what they have coming up.
It was just a couple of weekends ago that history was made right here in Portland. Maybe you missed it if you didn’t happen to be out wandering down the quiet end of Commercial Street, before you get to the Narrow Gauge, but there was a festival going on! On Sunday, May 17th, Casablanca Comics hosted the first ever Maine Comics Arts Festival at the Ocean Gateway. It was an appropriate venue for the event, providing a lecture room for panels and then a long ascent via walkway to the main hall, filled with over 70 artists selling and signing their goods.
Cap’n Eli was representing via free soda samples and the namesake comics (bonus: lifesize cardboard “standees!”), and the Center For Cartoon Studies in Vermont was out in full force showing off the work of their students (including a bunch of Ignatz winners). Unfortunately our timing meant that we showed up just as Gabrielle Bell (who I’d wanted to meet) was speaking on a panel, and we couldn’t stick around to wait for her to get out. Maybe next year? Check out the full photo gallery from the Maine Comics Arts Festival right here! Did you catch the first of our new contributor Biscuit Wakefield’s chocolate chip cookie reviews? HillyTown aint just music, after all.
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