BCAF News

BCAF Nominated as One of America's Best Art Festivals

USA Today, a giant in the realm of news and cultural commentary, has spotlighted BCAF as a contender for the prestigious title of Best Art Festival in its 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.

BCAF2023 Program Schedule

See the BCAF2023 Program Schedule Here!

Freedom, Justice, and Beloved Community

Together, love wins. Together, peace wins. Together, justice wins.

BCAF's David Walker Wins Two Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic-Con 2022

David Walker, co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival and three-time Eisner winner, will be at BCAF2023...

BCAF Comic-Con Ethnogothic Panel Features Best-selling Authors and Creators

BCAF hosted the Ethnogothic: Horror and Conjure in Storytelling panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

BCAF Comic-Con Diversity and Comics Panel Looks at Multimodal Media and Comics

BCAF hosted the Diversity and Comics: Multimodal Media and Comics panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

BCAF joins with Carnegie Hall in its Afrofuturism Festival

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) joined with New York Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival in a series of programs including an encore presentation of its critically 2020 acclaimed panel entitled, Afrofuturism and Black Religion: Connecting Imaginations

BCAF22 Goes Virtual with Spotlight Showcase

BCAF22 went virtual for the second year, due to the rise of COVID concerns. But, BCAF's Sunday Vitual Spotlights featured the Hugo Award-winning duo of John Jennings and Damian Duffy.

BCAF and Chicago History Museum Launch Black History Month Program

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) and the Chicago History Museum launched a new program for Black History Month entitled: Comic Arts Against Erasure

Make Your Voice Heard

There is no more important safeguard in our democracy than the protection of every American citizen’s right to vote...

Statement on Voting Rights

Executive Director Aaron Grizzell Issues a Statement on answering the call to focus on securing the fundamental right to vote.

Toward Justice

The theme for 2022 answers the call to focus on securing the most fundamental right to vote.

MLK22 Press Release

NorcalMLK Foundation announces the return of in-person events for the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations...

BCAF Hosts its Third Diversity and Comics Panel at San Diego Comic-Con

On Saturday, July 25, the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel...

BCAF at Comic-Con@Home with Afrofuturism and Black Religion Panel

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel entitled, *Afrofuturism and*...

BCAF's David Walker Wins the Eisner Award

A co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival has won the 2020 Will Eisner Award...