ReadLocal Author Fair

Marion Public Library The Marion Public Library is hosting the 6th ReadLocal Author Fair on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 11 am to 2pm. The purpose of the author fair is to showcase Ohio/local authors and their work to the community. Each selected author will be provided a table space for presentation and book signing. Authors will be responsible for selling their own print works at their table.The fair will begin with a speaking engagement by our featured author, Wes Molebash, with the public author fair to follow immediately thereafter, and the fair will close at 2:00 pm. If you are interested in participating, please fill out an application and return by July 1, 2026 to reserve your space*.Wes Molebash has been drawing comics since the 5th grade. When he was 10, his mom bought an instructional video cassette that taught him how to draw newspaper comic strips. Wes watched that video until the tape wore out! Thanks to that video, he started drawing his own comics and sharing them with his friends and teachers at school. Later, in high school, Wes' cartoons were published in the school newspaper. When the managing editor of the local newspaper came to speak to the journalism class, he noticed Wes' comics and invited him to publish a daily comic strip in the Chillicothe Gazette. It was a wonderful experience for the young cartoonist.Time passed, and in the mid-2000s Wes started pitching comics to comic book publishers. He landed a gig drawing a semi-daily web comic for a