FINTASTIC TALES
A PREMIER GRAPHIC ARTS CELEBRATION UNITING DIVERSE VOICES, GLOBAL TRADITIONS, AND UNIQUE VISUAL NARRATIVES.
KEY LARGO • FLORIDA KEYS
Pilot Event — March 27, 2027
Manga, comics, and fine illustration meet in a vibrant cultural exchange at the gateway between the Caribbean, North America, and beyond. Explore the future of global icons.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
& comic festival
KEY LARGO
Where stories cross borders.
Fintastic Tales celebrates the art of comics and graphic storytelling while exploring how artists from different cultures see, imagine, and reinterpret the world around them.
Featured Graphic Novel
Stories Without Borders
Discover a French graphic novel exploring Hemingway, Cuba, the sea, and the complicated relationship between an American writer and the places that shaped his imagination.
An international publishing project supported by Fintastic Tales.
Why Key Largo?
Because stories travel.
Key Largo sits at a fascinating crossroads, between the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the wider Americas.
For generations, these waters have carried explorers, travelers, immigrants, artists, writers, and dreamers across borders.
Fintastic Tales brings that spirit of movement and cultural exchange into the world of comics and graphic storytelling.
Here, stories don't simply stay on the page. They travel from one culture to another, and sometimes become something entirely new along the way.
Key Dates
March 27, 2027
Pilot Event – Key Largo
The first Fintastic Tales gathering at the Caribbean Club, bringing together comics, graphic novels, artists, storytellers, and the community for a first glimpse of the festival's future.
2028
Official Festival Launch
Our first full-scale festival, expanding the conversation through graphic novels, comics, manga, illustration, artists, authors, workshops, exhibitions, and international perspectives.
Beyond 2028
From Key Largo
To The World
Growing Fintastic Tales into an international platform for graphic storytelling and cultural exchange
Fintastic Tales begins in Key Largo
The northernmost island of the Florida Keys is more than our setting.
It is our starting point, a place where the United States meets the Caribbean, where stories have crossed the water for generations, and where the landscape itself has inspired writers, artists, filmmakers, and adventurers.
Our festival grows from a genuine connection to the Florida Keys community, while looking outward to artists, authors, publishers, and storytellers around the world.
Rooted in Key Largo
Become a Founding Artist
Fintastic Tales is being built from the ground up — and we want artists, authors, illustrators, cartoonists, manga creators, and graphic storytellers to help shape what comes next.
Founding Recognition
Be recognized as one of the creators helping launch Fantastic Tales
Festival Visibility
Connect your work with audiences, publishers, fellow creators, and future festival programming
Creative Community
Become part of a growing network of artists and storytellers connected by comics, graphic storytelling and a passion for stories without borders
Join the Journey
Join the Journey
Every graphic story begins somewhere.
A sketch.
A character.
A page.
An idea.
Fintastic Tales is still writing its first chapter. Bringing together artists, authors, readers, publishers, and audiences as we build a new destination for comics and graphic storytelling in the Florida Keys.
And this is only the beginning.
