Special Guests and Featured Creators

  • Eddie Campbell

    2024 Keynote Presenter

    Eddie Campbell has been making comics since the 1980s. He is the artist on Alan Moore's From Hell, being the story of the Whitechapel murders, and on his own account has had a long series of autobiographical books, containing no murders, gathered mostly in Alec: The Years Have Pants, with the recent addition of The Second Fake death of Eddie Campbell by Eddie Campbell. He also dabbles in critical history / biography, his new one being Kate Carew, America's First Great Woman Cartoonist.

    https://www.eddiecampbelldammit.com/

  • Jon Chad

    2024 Poster Artist

    JON CHAD is the author of Leo Geo, Science Comics: Volcanoes, Science Comics: The Periodic Table, PINBALL: The Graphic History of the Silver Ball, and the illustrator of Science Comics: Solar System. His newest series, The Solvers, use comics and superhero action to teach math concepts like multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals to young readers! Born and raised in Vermont, he lives with his wife and daughter, pursuing his obsessions with being a dad, giant robots, pinball, screen-printing, and bookmaking.

    www.jonchad.com

  • Caitlin Cass

    Caitlin Cass is the creator of Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S (Fantagraphics, 2024). Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Lily and the Nib. Since 2009 she has self-published a bi-monthly comic periodical called the "Great" Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent. Caitlin's work has received fellowships and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council. Originally from the Chicago area, she now lives in Omaha, Nebraska where she teaches comics and Illustration at the University of Nebraska Omaha.

    www.caitlincass.com

  • Cara Bean

    Cara Bean is an obsessive doodler, author, and art educator. Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health is her first book for adolescents. She is also the author of Draw 500 Faces and Features, and her work has been featured in Pen America Illustrated, The Women’s Review of Books, and Teaching Arts Magazine. Cara enjoys watching the beginning of complex ideas emerge from the simple act of doodling on paper. She provides interactive workshops on creativity with people of all ages and backgrounds in various public forums. Cara lives on the Southcoast of Massachusetts with her partner Matt and their dog Raisin.

    https://www.carabeancomics.com/

  • Caroline Cash

    Caroline Cash is a cartoonist from Charleston, South Carolina. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, MoMA, VICE, The Chicago Reader, and various other publications. She is currently working on her Eisner and Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo.

    https://www.instagram.com/cash_browns

  • Coco Fox

    Coco is an Indiana-born cartoonist living and doodling in New England. She loves drawing comics about science, magic, and friendship. Her first graphic novel, LET'S GO, COCO! is out now by HarperAlley. LGC stars Eleven-year-old Coco, who will stop at nothing to make new friends on her basketball team!

    www.cocofoxcomics.com

  • Jess Ruliffson

    Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist. Her debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. Her comic, Tenderness and Brutality, was nominated for an Online Journalism Award in 2023. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Freeman's Tale of Two Americas, The Gainesville Sun, The Nib, The Oxford American, Pantheon Books, VQR, Wildsam, and Wilson Quarterly. She teaches courses on the creative writing and the graphic novel at Boston University and comics studio practices at The Sequential Artists Workshop.


    https://jessruliffson.com/home.html

  • Joel Christian Gill

    Prof. Joel Christian Gill is an award winning cartoonist, historian, and educator. He wrote the words and drew the pictures in the series Strange Fruit and Tales of The Talented Tenth (Chicago Review Press), the award-winning work is a memoir chronicling how children deal with abuse and trauma: Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence (Oni Press.), and the adaptation of Stamped from the Beginning a Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X Kendi (Ten Speed Press) June 2023. He is the Inaugural Chair of the MFA in Visual Narrative at Boston University.

    www.joelchristiangill.com

  • Josh Neufeld

    Josh Neufeld is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist known for his nonfiction narratives of political and social upheaval, told through the voices of witnesses. Neufeld has been a Knight-Wallace Fellow in journalism, an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist, and a Graphic Medicine Award winner. His books include A.D: New Orleans After the Deluge and The Influencing Machine. His comics have been published by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, The Journalist’s Resource, and The Nib, among many others.

    JoshComix.com

  • Sophie Yanow

    Sophie Yanow is a queer, California-based artist and writer. Best known for her memoir and nonfiction comics, she has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Nib, and The Paris Review. Her autofiction graphic novel is The Contradictions (Drawn & Quarterly), won the 2019 Eisner for Best Webcomic and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Comics, Publishers Triangle, Ringo, and Harvey awards, and longlisted for the Believer Book Award. Her translation of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying received the Scott Moncrieff Prize. She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

    sophieyanow.com

  • Steenz

    Steenz is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. They're the cartoonist on the new graphic novel Side Quest: A Visual History of TTRPGs, the syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award-winning Graphic Novel 'Archival Quality', and is the co-creator of the Standard Comic Script. Steenz currently teaches at Webster University and SVA while editing titles from independent publishers and creators. They’re also Board President of SLICE (The St. Louis Independent Comics Expo). They live with their spouse Keya and two cats (Marko and Ripley).

    Oheysteenz.com

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