2025 Market Day late stallholder applications

Use this form to apply to be a stallholder at the Papercuts Comics Festival 2025 Market Day. Please read it carefully, even if you have been a stallholder at Papercuts before, as some conditions and options have changed.

If you need to save a draft of your application and return to it later, there is a Save as Draft button at the bottom of the form. (This button is not clickable until you have responded to at least one question.)

Please contact us if you have any questions about any aspect of this form.

The Market Day will be held at Adelaide Town Hall (128 King William St, Adelaide, South Australia) on Sunday 14 September 2025, from 11am to 5pm. It will be FREE ENTRY to the public.

Section 1

Are you applying on behalf of any type of business/organisation that has two or more full-time employees?

Yes (e.g. major publisher, comic book store, university)No (e.g. individual creator, creative team, artist collective, small publisher, sole trader)

Stallholder cost

The stallholder fee for anyone representing an organisation with two or more full-time employees is $250.

If your application is accepted, you will be required to pay this fee by bank transfer in advance of the festival in order to secure your place.

Stallholder cost

There is NO FEE for anyone in your category to be a stallholder at the Papercuts Market Day.

However, if your application is accepted, you will be asked to pay a $50 deposit in order to discourage no-shows. (We will make exceptions for those in difficult financial circumstances.) This deposit will be refunded in full after the event, or forfeited in the event of non-attendance (unless caused by illness or exceptional circumstances).

Section 2

To be eligible to be a stallholder, you must:

have comics as the focus of your stall
(For our purposes, ‘comics’ are defined as stories told in a series of pictures. You can stretch the definition if you like, but the event will be targeted at comics readers who may not be persuaded by your arguments. We do welcome comics in all formats, from hand-stapled photocopied minicomics to hardback graphic novels. Anthologies that feature comics alongside prose or other mediums are also welcome.)
agree to the Papercuts Comics Festival fan art policy
(see the policy for more details and guidelines on what constitutes fan art)
agree to the Papercuts Comics Festival policy on AI-generated art and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (updated 1 March 2025).

What do we mean by “comics must be the focus of your stall”? Here is an illustration:

Yes, comics will be the focus of my stallIf you are a solo creator, member of a creative team or member of an artist collective, the comics must be your work or that of your team/collective.
If you are a publisher, distro or any other type of organisation, at least 50% of the comics on your table must feature at least one Australian creator

I agree that I will not sell or display unlicensed fan art at the Market Day.

I agree to abide by the Papercuts Comics Festival policy on AI-generated art and NFTs (updated 1 March 2025).

Section 3

Questions in this application about you are for contact and statistical purposes only.

First name *

Surname *

Artist name (if you publish under a pseudonym) or publisher/distro name (if you are applying as a publisher or distro)

Email address *

Phone number

Where do you live? *Metropolitan AdelaideRegional South AustraliaElsewhereUnsure whether you’re in metropolitan Adelaide? Check this map.

Demographic data

We aggregate responses to the following question to report demographic statistics. We will never reveal demographic data about an individual without their permission.

Do you: *Identify as LGBTQI?Identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander?Speak a language other than English at home?Identify as a person with disability?Identify as neurodivergent?None of the abovePrefer not to sayYou can check as many as apply.
Note: Disability refers to any long-term health or medical condition that regularly restricts or limits activities.

Access requirements

Adelaide Town Hall is an accessible venue. See the venue’s website for more details. If you have access requirements you want us to be aware of, this is the place to tell us.

Do you have access requirements that you need us to be aware of? *YesNo

What are your access needs? *Please provide as much detail as we will need in order to comfortably accommodate you at the Market Day

Section 4

Questions about your work may be used for table placement (e.g. to seat all-ages-friendly creators together).

Are you a solo creator, member of a creative team or artist collective, or a publisher / distro / other organisation? *Solo creatorMember of a creative team (collaborating on comics)Member of an artist collective (creating comics separately)Publisher / distro / other organisation

If you are a member of a creative team or an artist collective, who else is in the team or collective? *Enter the full name of every other person contributing to the comics that will be on your stall. Separate the name of each person with a comma.

Will other member/s of your team or collective be tabling with you? *YesNoUnsureOnly one member of each team or collective should submit an application unless you each wish to table in separate spaces.

If you are a publisher, distro or other organisation, at least 50% of the comics you will have for sale at the market day must feature at least one Australian creator *I agree

What is your website?Only enter your website if it represents the comics you will be selling

What social media account, if any, do your use for your comics?Enter as many as apply, separated by commas

How many different comics will you have for sale at the market day? *1-45-1010+This refers to different titles, not the number of copies of each title you will have for sale

What age range are your comics aimed at? *All agesTeen+ (mild profanity, partial nudity, and/or violence)18+ (strong profanity, explicit nudity, sex and/or gore)Please select ALL that apply

Have you been a stallholder at Papercuts previously? *YesNo

Will you have any new comics since the last time you were a stallholder at Papercuts? *Yes, definitelyI hope soNo

Section 5

There is one stallholder option available:

Standard (table surface 91cm wide and 75cm deep)

Further details:

This includes a trestle table, black tablecloth and one chair.
The trestle table will be connected to that of an adjacent stallholder.
No backing boards / stall dividers will be provided.
No power outlets will be available to stallholders.
You cannot attach or hang anything on the walls of the venue.
Stallholder table displays must not exceed 60cm above the tabletop.
Large pull-up banners and other freestanding displays are only allowed behind your trestle table (not on it, in front of it or beside it).

If you wish to be placed next to another creator but are not a creative team or part of the same artist collective, you must both apply separately. Include a note about the creator you wish to be next to in the Anything else you’d like to tell us? field below, and if you are both accepted then we will do our best to place you together.

What stallholder option are you applying for? *Standard

Do you have Public Liability Insurance (PLI)? *YesNoYou do not have to have your own PLI, but knowing who does will help us budget for our own insurance cover

Table location

The Papercuts Market Day is located in the Adelaide Town Hall’s auditorium and foyer, which are next to each other on the 1st floor and joined by the main door to the auditorium. Approximately 80% of tables are in the auditorium and 20% in the foyer.

The auditorium is a larger room and can get quite loud during the Market Day. If you are sensitive to noise, we recommend that you ask to be located in the foyer. We aim to ensure that foot traffic is directed equally through the auditorium and the foyer.

Note: A Quiet Room will be accessible throughout the Market Day, adjacent to the foyer.

Above: The auditorium at Papercuts 2023 (top) and the foyer at Papercuts 2023 (bottom).

Photos by Rosina Possingham.

Preferred table location *AuditoriumFoyerNo preferenceWe will endeavour to meet all requests if possible.

Commitment to full day

The Papercuts Market Day will be open to the public from 11am to 5pm. Empty tables during the event’s opening hours can create a bad impression with punters and other stallholders, so we prefer that you are able to commit to keeping your stall set up for the entire duration of the Market Day. However, we understand that some stallholders may not be able to do so (for medical reasons etc.) Knowing who might have to pack up early will help us place stallholders appropriately.

Are you able to commit to keeping your stall set up for the duration of the Market Day (11am to 5pm)? *YesNo

Why not? *

Section 6

Anything else you'd like to tell us?

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Illustrations on this page by Owen Lindsay.

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