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A Comics & Small Press Fair in Chicago
October 24th, 2026 / 11am-6pm
12 S Michigan Ave. - @chicagoathletichotel
Presented by @perfectlyacceptable

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🚢 PRETTY GOOD FEST '26 🚢
💦 Saturday, October 24th 💦

🐠 Pretty Good Fest is a one-day comics & small press festival in Chicago at the @chicagoathletichotel 🐠 This year's festival will be bigger & better than ever with special guests, programming, and more! 🐠 Presented by @perfectlyacceptable 🐠

🐋 Exhibitor applications are open until May 20th at 11:59pm 🐋 More info on our website 🐋

🐚 Poster artwork by @blimpakind 🐚 taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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✮ oddball shopping mall ✮ at pretty good fest ✮

✮ ✮ saturday october 24 ✮ 11AM - 6PM ✮ ✮

✮ at the chicago athletic association ✮

✮ shop til u drop
✮ get some @magictatty tooth gems
✮ donate to @all_chicago_tenant_alliance

✮ ✮ flyer by @ed.riv taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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PGF'26 Programming: @tarabooth in conversation with @mollycolleenoconnell 💦 Copies of Tara's latest book, Sometimes All the Time Book 1, will be available at the @2d.cloud table 🐈 Tara will also be selling & signing her prints and books at her table on the fourth floor

Tara Booth is an Eisner and Ignatz Award Winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia. Tara's candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humor on issues related to mental health, addiction, and sexuality. Known for her painterly approach to comics, often using bright colors and dizzying patterns- Booth's work has been featured in publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vice, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Best American Comics. Tara loves to travel and hike with her two dogs.

MOLLY COLLEEN O’CONNELL (b. 1986, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist, cartoonist, comics historian, educator, and amateur clown.
She strives to create a world of perverted feminist hallucinations translated through comics, print, sculpture, performance, and installation. She is currently working on two serialized comics series “Pebbles” and “the Shriekers”.
MCO’s work has been screened and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, AALA Gallery, Vox Populi, Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin, Waiting Room Gallery in Tokyo, MOHS Exhibit in Copenhagen, and at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
She has been an artist in residence at La Maison des Auteurs, Trailer Blaze, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and Colorama Clubhouse in Berlin. taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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@prettygoodfest '26 Programming: @michaeldeforgecomics in Conversation with @sarahmaeschmidt 🪵 Michael DeForge signing to follow 🔥 We will have copies of Michael's latest book with @drawnandquarterly, All the Cameras in My Room, for sale 👁️ More programming will be announced throughout the week!

Michael DeForge is an author and illustrator in Toronto. His published books include All The Cameras In My Room, Holy Lacrimony, Birds of Maine, Heaven No Hell, Familiar Face and Leaving Richard's Valley. His illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, The LA Times, The Walrus, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He's written for SSENSE, Lux Magazine and Canadian Dimension.

Sarah Schmidt is a moving cartoonist based in Chicago, Illinois. After being raised by marching band and a family gas station in small-town, Ohio, she graduated in 2014 from Columbus College of Art and Design. In 2026, she received her MFA from DePaul University. She co-founded Sunshine Mall in the summer of 2019 with partner Ian Ballantyne. In 2016, Schmidt started an independent animation screening and fanzine series called Malt Adult: a free, curated screening series showcasing animation artists pushing the medium. Currently based out of Chicago, their goal is to bring contemporary, independent animation to the Midwest. taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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PGF'26 Programming: CHRIS WARE in Conversation with JOE SWANBERG 🐋 Chris Ware signing to follow 🐳 We will have 93 copies of Chris's latest book with @drawnandquarterly,The Acme Novelty Library #21, for sale - almost a month before its official release 🫧 All Pretty Good Fest programming runs concurrently with our festival on 10/24 and is free and open to the public - more to be announced throughout the week!

Chris Ware is an artist, writer and regular contributor to The New Yorker; his book Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth was awarded the Guardian Prize, Building Stories was chosen as a Top 10 Fiction Book and Rusty Brown a Top 100 Fiction Book by The New York Times. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the MCA Chicago and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; a traveling retrospective of his work began at the Centre Pompidou in 2022 and concluded at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona in Autumn 2025; it will make its only US appearance in May 2026 at the Billy Ireland Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.

Joe Swanberg is the director of over 20 feature films, including HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, DRINKING BUDDIES and THE SUN NEVER SETS. He co-starred in and co-directed NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS with Greta Gerwig and AUTOEROTIC with Adam Wingard, in addition to acting in and directing one of the segments of the original V/H/S film. He also co-wrote and produced THE RENTAL with Dave Franco, who made his directorial debut with the project. He has directed episodes of television for HBO, 20th Century Studios and Netflix, where he created the series EASY and wrote, directed, produced and edited all 25 episodes over three seasons. As an actor he has starred in films by Ti West, Adam Wingard, Josephine Decker and Mickey Keating, and he has produced features for Lynn Shelton, Alex Ross Perry, Dustin Defa and Zach Clark, amongst many others. He lives in Chicago. taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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Save the date. October 22nd. Michael Deforge and Abe Lampert at Howling Pages!!

We are so excited to host Michael DeForge (@michaeldeforgecomics) for a comics reading and picture show from his latest book, All Cameras In My Room, out now from @drawnandquarterly. Michael will be joined by Abe Lampert (@abe_lampert) whose new book Nemesis Encounter from @perfectlyacceptable is out now.

This is a joint venture with @prettygoodfest to kick off what is bound to be their best comics and small press fair yet (Oct 24 at the Chicago Athletic Assoc).

But the Thursday prior, Oct 22nd, we're on deck. So come see comics on the big screen and hear from a couple authors. We'll have seats for all and books from the authors for sale after the reading that they'll be signing. And as always, drinks on us.

Resist the algorithm. taken in Howling Pages by @prettygoodfest

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Help us make Pretty Good Fest a Really Great Fest!!! 🌀 We are looking for volunteers for PGF 2026 for both day of and evening before the festival 🌀 Volunteers will walk away with complementary PGF volunteer shirt, tickets to our exclusive afterparty, and the glow of giving back to your community 🌀 More information + sign up form on our site: https://www.prettygoodfest.com/volunteer

ALSO: Our fundraiser reading at @quimbysbookstore is THIS FRIDAY (9/18) 🐶 Doors at 6:30 🐶 See you THERE taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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🐶 FRIDAY, SEPT 18th 🐶 NOT BAD: a comics/zine reading fundraiser for @prettygoodfest 🐶 at @quimbysbookstore 🐶

🎤 Featuring readings by @brainboogerindustries + @hinkstink + @camcollins999 + @tea.ddie + @angel.xoxoxoxox 🎤 Hosted by the Pound Puppies (@harrisonwyrick & @parker_dav) and @perfectlyacceptable 🎤

💡 Doors at 6:30 / show at 7 💡 This will be the ultimate party of the summer - do NOT miss it Chicago 💡 taken in Quimby's Bookstore by @prettygoodfest

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🐟 PRETTY GOOD FEST 2026 EXHIBITORS ANNOUNCED 🐟

🧿 Pretty Good Fest is a one-day comics and small press fair in Chicago from @perfectlyacceptable & friends 🧿 We have over 100 artists and publishers coming from Chicago and all over North America on Saturday, October 24th (two months away!) 🧿 A few more TBA as well! 🧿

💦 See you soon! 💦 Festival artwork by @blimpakind 💦 taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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🪱 PRETTY GOOD FEST '26 SPECIAL GUEST: CHRIS WARE 🪱

Chris Ware is an artist, writer and regular contributor to The New Yorker; his book Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth was awarded the Guardian Prize, Building Stories was chosen as a Top 10 Fiction Book and Rusty Brown a Top 100 Fiction Book by The New York Times. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the MCA Chicago and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; a traveling retrospective of his work began at the Centre Pompidou in 2022 and concluded at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona in Autumn 2025; it will make its only US appearance in May 2026 at the Billy Ireland Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.

🌿 Chris Ware will be at PGF promoting his new book, The Acme Novelty Library #21, from @drawnandquarterly. He'll be signing books and participating in the programming in live interview + Q&A - both the signing and interview will be free to the public. 🌿

🧭 EXHIBITOR APPLICATIONS FOR PGF CLOSE TOMORROW !!! Wednesday, May 20th, at 11:59pm :) 🧭 taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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🐍 PRETTY GOOD FEST '26 SPECIAL GUEST: TARA BOOTH 🐍

Tara Booth is an Eisner and Ignatz Award Winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia. Tara's candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humor on issues related to mental health, addiction, and sexuality. Known for her painterly approach to comics, often using bright colors and dizzying patterns- Booth's work has been featured in publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vice, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Best American Comics. Tara loves to travel and hike with her two dogs.

🐬 @tarabooth will be at PGF promoting her new book, Sometimes All the Time, from @2d.cloud. She'll be vending, signing books, and participating in the programming in a live interview and Q&A - all free & open to the public! 🐬

🔜🔜🔜 PGF exhibitor applications close THIS WEDNESDAY!!!! 5/20!!!! 🔜🔜🔜 taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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🦋 PRETTY GOOD FEST '26 SPECIAL GUEST: MICHAEL DEFORGE 🦋

Michael DeForge is an author and illustrator in Toronto. His published books include All The Cameras In My Room, Holy Lacrimony, Birds of Maine, Heaven No Hell, Familiar Face and Leaving Richard's Valley. His illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, The LA Times, The Walrus, and Bloomberg Business Week. He's written for SSENSE, Lux Magazine and Canadian Dimension.

🐠 @michaeldeforgecomics will be at PGF promoting his new book, All The Cameras In My Room from @drawnandquarterly. He'll be signing books and participating in the programming in live interview + Q&A - both the signing and interview will be free to the public 🐠

👉 ARTISTS: Pretty Good Fest vendor applications close Weds., May 20th! Thank you to everyone who has applied so far! taken in Chicago Athletic Association Hotel by @prettygoodfest

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