Comic Fan Fest was a boom-pow pack of fun
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Over the weekend, Catherine Merigliano, left, and her sister Maria set up shop at the Frank Sarris Public Library’s second-annual comic Fan Fest. Catherine, a senior at Pine Richland, started Repurposed Toys, an Etsy shop filled with handmade toys, jewelry and succulents made from old toys, in the middle of last year’s global pandemic.
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Melissa Aird poses beneath a handmade Nimbus 2000, a broom every Harry Potter fan knows well. Aird crafts literature and pop culture home decor from polymer clay, for sale on Etsy and at festivals. Among those items on display at the second-annual Fan Fest were magic Potter-inspired wands, jewelry and door signs.
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Barrett Schilling, 10, of Canonsburg talks with freelance artist Anad, who has created minor work for both Marvel and DC Comics and for Apple. Schilling, who attended the Fan Fest Saturday with his mother, Rachel Schilling, said his favorite comic character is Venom.
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Barrett Schilling, 10, and his mother Rachel Schilling, both of Canonsburg, talk with local freelance artist Anad at the Frank Sarris Public Library’s second-annual comic Fan Fest Saturday. Barrett browsed Anad’s portfolio and spent time discussing the work with the artist.
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Local caricaturist Clarence Butler began his career in art at Canon-McMillan’s prom in 1982. Over the weekend, he chatted with attendees to the second-annual comic Fan Fest at the Frank Sarris Public Library while capturing their essence in caricature form.
For the second year, Frank Sarris Public Library hosted Fan Fest, an event for comic fanatics of all ages. The weekend kicked off Friday, Oct. 1 at the Trolley Museum in Washington and the fun continued all weekend long at the library, where crowds gathered – some in cosplay – to browse arts, crafts and collectibles for sale by vendors, have a caricature drawn by local artist Clarence Butler and meet Disney artist Patrick Block and cartoonist Jo Wos, whose Mazetoons appears daily in this newspaper. Attendees also enjoyed the FSPL’s escape room and had fun playing classic Nintendo games.