Author: Vero

• October 15: Two Comedy Deadlines

  Upcoming Deadlines The Toronto Sketch Fest deadline is October 15 Winnipeg Comedy Festival submissions are also due October 15

  Vero

  October 12, 2025

  Reminders

• Meeting the Parents: A Sci-Fi Love Story

  

  Tensions arise when an alien brings her human fiancee home to “meet the parents.” “Meet the Creatures” was an official selection of the Nickel Independent Film Festival (2023), the Reel Love Film Festival (2023), the ReelOut Queer Film Festival (2024), and the Halifax Animation Festival (2024). Created for the Nickel Independent Film Festival 48-Hour Sci…

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  October 6, 2025

  Animation, Funny, Shorts, Video

  48-hour film challenge, aliens, amateur film, Animation, Funny, gay, heartwarming, lgbtq, queer, romantic, sci-fi, short animation, short film, Shorts

• Autopsy of a Comic Arts Fest

  

  Looking Back: The St. John’s Comics Arts Festival 2025 A Soft Rock Report The St. John’s Comics Arts Fest is dead. Long live the St. John’s Comic Arts Festival! I come not to bury the festival coordinators, but to praise them. I had a great time, despite my own neuroses. This year, MUN hosted the…

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  September 30, 2025

  Blog, Comics, News, Soft Rock Report

  Comics, comics art, newfoundland, News, nl comics, zines

• WordPress Told me I Should Do This

  

  I thought there’d be a lineup for the punch, but like this joke… there is no punchline I get notifications from WordPress throughout the week telling me to “create something today” and I always ignore them. This is my failing. I opted-in to the notifications because I wanted to create more, so it’s bad I…

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  September 28, 2025

  Blog, Comics

  Blog, Comics, doodles, highsbelowzero