This year should be one of our best conventions yet! Check back soon for schedule updates and new exhibitors.
You can find our evolving guest and exhibitor list below.
Alaska Robotics
Your favorite comic shop will feature signings from Cara Bean, Casey Silver, Dimi Macheras, Erika Moen, Gillian Goerz, Jarad Greene, Jessixa Bagley, Kazu Kibuishi, Matthew Bogart, Raina Telgemeier, Ryan North, and Scott McCloud. They will also have con shirts, art supplies, and games.
Alex Barsky
Alex Barsky is an independent animator and risograph printer based in Seattle, WA. She co-runs Zine Hug, a studio that makes comics and animation, and is currently the program lead of Animation at Cornish College of the Arts.
Allison Conway
Allison Conway grew up in the woods of Lake Geneva, WI and has always had a passion for animals and living organisms of all sizes. Her illustrations are inspired by swamps and delve into worlds hidden within worlds, like wildlife concealed in grass or microorganisms that are impossible to see. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration in 2016. She has worked with clients like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Yale University, and for over two years has published a comic strip in Vice about a pillbug named Millie. She has published three graphic novels. Her first book, The Lab, was published in 2020 with Top Shelf Productions, The Island was published 2023 with Fieldmouse Press and her latest book, A Pillbug Story, was released this year from Black Panel Press June 2024.
Allison Bannister
Allison Bannister is a cartoonist and comics scholar living and working in central Kansas. She teaches writing for a living and makes comics when she’s able. Recent work includes serving as an Assistant Editor on the TO Comix Press anthology The City We Chose and chipping away at her ongoing webcomic At the Inn. She has two cats. You can find her online at Basictelepathy.com and @basictelepathy on most social media.
Aria Villafranca
Aria Villafranca is a Filipino-American and trans comic artist and editor from Ewa Beach, Hawaiʻi. In her free time, she self-publishes her own work, and is currently working on her ongoing series Paint Nothing!!. She also illustrated the Ignatz-nominated comic In the Shadow of Giants. In her other other free time, she likes to take walks with her Yorkie and drink coffee.
She is based in Pasadena, CA, and currently works as an editor for WEBTOON Entertainment.
Audrey Meeker
Audrey Meeker is a comic artist and editor based in Athens, Georgia. Her notable works include “SWING” (Fiewel & Friends, October 2024) and “The Deep End” (produced for the 2023 ShortBox Comics). She’s currently working on her next middle grade graphic novel “Last One Picked” (Feiwel & Friends, 2027) and her debut YA graphic novel “GROUNDS” (Feiwel & Friends, pub date TBD). When she’s not drawing, she’s powerlifting, sleeping, or trying to like black coffee. Audrey is represented by Jessica Mileo from Inkwell Management.
Bekka Mueller
Bekka is a queer comic artist living in Minneapolis, MN. They make autobiographical comic strips about the silliness of daily life as well as fiction comics about fresh starts, love, friendship, and often the supernatural.
Blayne Fox
Blayne Fox (she/they), an award-winning illustrator with over a decade of experience, brings stories to life through vibrant digital paintings. From her LGBTQIA+ webcomic debut to freelancing for NatGeo Kids and Discovery Channel, Blayne earned representation with Illustration Online LTD. Her award-winning illustrations for clients’ picture books led her to join Astronewt Studio, the sole artist crafting the sequel to their middle-grade graphic novel Lucille. Leaving the studio in 2025, Blayne is developing personal projects and seeking literary representation and/or a new studio to call home. Beyond art, Blayne engages with her community by volunteering at a cat rescue, leading a late-night figure-drawing group, and hosting a Drink n’ Draw for local artists.
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.
Casey Silver
Casey Silver has spent his life discovering, creating and telling stories. A writer, artist and designer based in Seattle, WA, Casey has created graphic content for Image Comics, Dynamite Publishing and Z2 comics as well as creating his own visual entertainment since co-founding 80% Studios in 2010. He is hard at work on book two of 80% Studios’ newest project, Chickaloonies. Casey currently resides in Seattle, WA.
Cassidy Wasserman
Cassidy Wasserman is a middle grade and kidlit cartoonist, making her graphic novel debut with On Guard! When she’s not creating, Cassidy enjoys épée fencing, listening to musicals, and agility training with her dog, Zag. Cassidy lives in the mountains of Maine, where she is working on her next graphic novel.
Cat Farris
Cat Farris is a member of the Portland, OR comics collective known as Helioscope. She loves bears and spooky stuff, as evidenced by her art for the graphic novels MY BOYFRIEND IS A BEAR, THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR, and UP TO NO GHOUL. Cat has also drawn two Plants vs Zombies comics, and is currently drawing a slapstick supernatural western webcomic called THE GREAT TRAIN HAUNTING.
Chris Yates
Chris is a multimedia artist living and working in Butte, Montana, who specializes in wooden jigsaw puzzles, but is excited to explore new avenues of creativity.
Crystal Jayme
Crystal Jayme (aka Scotty) is a Freelance comic artist from El Paso, Texas! She the author of three webcomics on Hiveworks and is currently illustrating two Middle Grade Graphic Novels for Harper Alley’s new series “I Witnessed”. The first being the Lizzie Borden Story coming out March, 2025, and last, The Great Train Robbery coming out 2026.
Cydney Cherepak
Cydney is an illustrator and comic artist from Kansas City, Missouri. Her work explores themes of growth, wonder, exploration in our world and imagined worlds, character development, and communication. This takes form in comics, illustration, printmaking, zines, sketchbooking and whatever new media she is interested in.
Cydney spends most of her time drawing alongside her graphic designer husband, their spotted pitbull, and their two cats in a small studio filled to the brim with screenprints, houseplants, and an ever-growing collection of graphic novels. When she is not drawing in her studio, Cydney works with young illustrators as an Assistant Professor of Illustration at the Kansas City Art Institute. In school and at comics or zine events, she loves how illustration, comics, and storytelling bring people together and build community.
Dave Kellett
Dave is the cartoonist of the comic strip SHELDON, the sci-fi graphic novel DRIVE, the director of the comics documentary STRIPPED and the co-host of the podcast COMICLAB. He’s most famous for his small-batch, bespoke high-fives.
Decaffeinated Designs
James Kelly, Juneau-based Alaskan artist and the creative mind behind Decaffeinated Designs, offers a one-of-a-kind collection of custom stickers and catchy slogans. From local flair and pop culture tributes to outdoor-inspired vibes, each design reflects his passion for creativity. For over 10 years, Decaffeinated Designs has been ‘illustrating dreams one cup at a time,’ bringing fresh, unique artwork to life with every design.”
Derek McHenry’s PixelVerse
A wide variety of pop culture pixel Art made with Perler Beads.
Dimi Macheras
Dimi Macheras is an Ahtna Athabascan visual artist and Chickaloon Village Tribal Citizen. He was raised by his storyteller Mother, Patricia Wade and taught Ahtna cultural values and traditions by his Grandmother, Clan Elder, Katherine Wade. An alumni of Ya Ne Dah Ah School, Alaska’s first Tribally owned and operated full time K-12 school, Dimi began his journey as an artist illustrating his family’s Traditional Ahtna stories into graphic novels. He also helped design Ahtna language learning computer programs for Chickaloon Village’s Education Department. He has teamed with storytellers and culture-bearers from other tribes to help turn their legends into graphic novels. In 2010, he co-founded 80% Studios, and has self-published a variety of projects, including in the recently released graphic novel Chickaloonies: First Frost. Dimi currently resides in Seattle, WA.
Dylan Meconis
Dylan Meconis is a cartoonist, author, teacher and designer from Portland, OR. She creates stories and art for readers of all ages!
Erika Moen
Erika Moen creates nonfiction and educational comics about sex, sexuality, and being a human. She is best known for co-creating with her husband, Matthew Nolan, the book “Let’s Talk About It” and the web series “Oh Joy Sex Toy”
Esme’s Happy Headbands and Vintage Journals
Esme’s headbands make people happy! Choose your creatures and change them at your whim. Esme’s journals, made from old books, are one-of-a-kind. No lines — just lots of open space for journaling and drawing. Made by an 11 year old and loved by everybody!
Friends of the Juneau Public Libraries
Become a member and support the mini-con and many other great events throughout the year!
Friends of the Library totes and t-shirts also available for purchase -cash only.
FuzzzDream Art
I’ll be sharing a collection of my artwork created with care and inspiration. I hope you find something you like!
Gianna Meola
Gianna Meola is a multidisciplinary artist from Upstate New York currently based in Brooklyn. She has worked professionally in comics, illustration, and animation, as well as print making, specializing in risograph and screen printing. Gianna combines themes of nature with urban environments and has appeared in several anthologies, as well as illustrated a YA graphic novel. She runs her own merch shop and teaches as well at several different institutions.
Gillian Goerz
Gillian Goerz (pronounced Jillian Gertz) is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. Her first graphic novel Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer (Dial, 2020) received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, was included in the New York Public Library and CBC Books’ Best Books of 2020, and was praised in the New York Times Review of Books. Her follow up, Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall, won the Doug Wright Award for exceptional comics for kids andwas published in Dec, 2021.
Gillian loves drawing and talking about comics and the creative process with kids and people of all ages. See more of her work, or book her to speak at gilliang.com. See art and behind the scenes photos on instagram @GillianGDotCom
GloInk
Glo Ramirez is a Puerto Rican artist and small business owner who has proudly called Lingít Aaní home for the past eight years. Glo thrives on exploring the realms of illustration, set design, prop mastery, and wearable art.
As a community collaborator, Glo has worked with local nonprofits and enjoys sharing her passion for art by teaching dynamic classes and workshops. As a member of Heads in the Clouds, an all-women’s studio collective in downtown Juneau, Glo contributes to a vibrant creative space that invites collaboration and fosters inclusion.
Grace Desmarais
Grace Desmarais is a cartoonist and illustrator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is inspired by history, magic and romance. She regularly self publishes mini comics and designs stationery.
When she’s not making romance comics, Grace spends most of her time writing fan-fiction or re-playing Dragon Age.
Hollie Roselle
My art is usually of nature, cryptid and mythical creatures.
Jarad Greene
Jarad Greene is a cartoonist originally from Lutz, Florida, who now lives in the curious village of White River Junction, Vermont. In addition to his own comics, Jarad works on staff at The Center for Cartoon Studies and has helped color many graphic novels for younger readers. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels A-Okay, A for Effort, and Scullion: A Dishwasher’s Guide to Mistaken Identity.
Jaromir Stoll
Jaromir Stoll (they) is a queer folklorist who makes autobio comics on the ineffable in life and environment comics on histories of hiking, preservation, and ecological loss. They research comics scenes in India, with a focus on labor and community-building, and, since 2017, have been Head of Science, Math, & Social Science at Columbus College of Art & Design, where they have taught in the Comics program. They run the Columbus Comics & Zines Society, and are an avid forager, gardener, textile artist, cryptid lover, and poet.
Jessixa Bagley
Jessixa Bagley is an award-winning children’s book author/illustrator. She has a background in fine art and comics. She has had work featured in publications such as: New American Paintings, Nickelodeon Magazine, and Highlights Magazine. Her debut picture book, Boats for Papa, received numerous accolades and awards including an SCBWI Golden Kite Award for best picture book text and a Washington State Book Award. Her picture book Laundry Day received an Ezra Jack Keats Honor Award for writing. Her graphic novel DUEL received a 2024 Washington State Book Award. Many of her books are also Junior Library Guild Selections. In her work, she is drawn to animals and emotional themes inspired by her own experiences. Jessixa also teaches and speaks both domestically and internationally about writing and illustration. She often illustrates for other writers and collaborates with her husband, Aaron Bagley. Jessixa lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and son.
Juneau-Douglas City Museum
Come by the Juneau-Douglas City Museum table to play with vintage toys, peruse local art and museum souvenirs, and find information on summer activities!
Juneau Public Libraries
Juneau Public Libraries is excited to be a part of Minicon sharing a selection of comics, graphic novels, Manga. See some of our newest titles – and also some classics. Fun photo opportunity! Take your picture with our giant library card and speech bubbles.
Kat Klockow
Kat Klockow started as a cartoonist, became an editor, and now runs Corpse Flower Press, a small publisher of horror and occult-themed comics. Her current works are the horror-comedy Mercy Brown Needs a Friend and the artist for Zombio: A Space Adventure. Kat is also the host of the Hometown Haunts Podcast with her friends Christina Wald and Jen Koehler.
Find her @redcatcomics or @corpseflowerpress
Kaycie Dunlap
Kaycie D. is an artist, writer, and self-proclaimed Pokemon Master. Her main art disciplines include comics, animation, visual development, and game art. She currently lives in Virginia, working on her webcomic, “B-SIDE You”.
Her hobbies include bar trivia, walking dogs, and playing guitar. You can also find her on the podcasts “Animorphs Anonymous” and “Late Starters: A Pokemon TTRPG Podcast.”
Kaylee Rowena
Kaylee Rowena is a comic artist and illustrator from NYC who loves telling ghost stories. Find her online at kayleerowena.com!
Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the New York Times Bestselling Amulet graphic novel series, published by Scholastic Graphix. Amulet has more than 10 million copies in print and has been translated into 23 languages worldwide. Amulet: Waverider is the 9th and final book in the Amulet series. It was released on February 6th, 2024, becoming the eighth consecutive #1 New York Times Bestseller in the Amulet series.
Kazu also created the webcomic Copper, the Flight and Explorer Anthologies, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, and illustrated The Most Boring Book Ever.
Kendra Phillips
Kendra found her way to comics, illustration, and tattooing from a background in animation and footwear design. (It was not a linear path.) When she’s not working on her webcomic, Fairmeadow, or tattooing, she can often be found running through the mountains, foraging mushrooms, gardening, or playing with her dog.
Kimberly Wang
Kimberly Wang is a queer illustrator and cartoonist is currently based in New York. Outside of working in the animation industry as a background designer, they draw fantasy and speculative fiction comics with a surreal edge. When not drawing or daydreaming about comics, they enjoy videogames, knitting, and other crafty activities.
Lucy Knisley
Lucy is the bestselling author/artist of numerous graphic novels about food, family, cats and babies.
Maggie Vicknair
Maggie G. Vicknair is a comic book artist based in New York City, where she lives with her three-legged cat Marlowe. She’s been self-publishing comics online and in print for over ten years. Her work often focuses on fairy tales, the gothic, and messy, messy women. Currently she’s been working on an ongoing webcomic called Horror Hospital School, a horror story about a school that is also a hospital, and her most recent finished project is a zine about lesbian vampire films from the 1970s.
Mai Linh (June) Dao
June Dao is a Vietnamese comic artist and illustrator currently based in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from SCAD in 2023 with an MFA in Sequential Art and has previously worked with DC, Webtoon and Tapas. When not drawing and working her day job, she’s trying to catch up on sleep, playing FF14 and reading way too much fanfiction.
Matthew Bogart
Matthew Bogart, acclaimed cartoonist behind the slice-of-life series “Incredible Doom” — hailed by Vanity Fair as one of the year’s best and nominated for the Oregon Book Award. The series explores the tumult of adolescence entwined with the birth of early internet.
Mel Gillman
Mel Gillman is an award-winning graphic novelist, comics professor, and colored pencil artist. They are the author of As the Crow Flies (Iron Circus Comics), Stage Dreams (Lerner/Graphic Universe), and Other Ever Afters (Random House Graphic). An avid forager and woods-person, they love drawing comics about the weird stuff they cook with acorns and berries and wild mushrooms. Mel currently lives in San Francisco, where they are department chair of the Comics BFA and MFA Programs at California College of the Arts.
Mike Heiman
Mike Heiman is a game designer and long-time Juneau resident who moved here as a kid in the late 70s. He has been teaching in the Juneau School District since 2000 and always uses games and game design in his classes. He has designed multiple published games, most of which are in the solo (one-player) category. He and his wife and son love to travel, and take small games with them on every road trip and camping trip.
Come check out his newest creation!
Miranda Harmon
Miranda Harmon is a cartoonist based in Los Angeles, California, where she works in animation as a background designer and story artist. She illustrated and wrote several graphic novels for young readers including Spring Cakes and Market Day (Holiday House), and the Mayor Good Boy series (Random House Graphic). She also makes journal comics, self-published zines, and riso prints. She loves drawing cute creatures, night skies and magic.
Musical Menagerie
Come experience the Menagerie of critters crafted of Musical Notation! Where every line and every stroke is a different music note <3
Nur Schuba
Nur Schuba is a Turkish-American illustrator, editor, geoscientist… And maybe also a shivering anxious chihuahua? No one knows for sure. She lives in Austin, TX. Nur does geological research by day and makes comics by night.
ItsRaspbeary by Olivia Caldwell
Do you like fun stickers? This is the table for you!
Platypus Gaming
Join us for some fun and exciting board games with people excited to show and teach you dozens of games both new and old.
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award–winning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, the adapter and illustrator of the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels, and, with Scott McCloud, the co-creator of The Cartoonists Club. Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier is based on an exhibition that was held at The Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and will be published in October 2025. Raina lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rebecca Hsieh
Rebecca Hsieh (pronounced shay or xie) is a fiber artist from right here in Juneau! She is originally from many places including Hong Kong, Guam, and Boston. Inspired by her surroundings, favorite foods, social justice causes, and community, Rebecca creates with all sorts of mediums and loves combining them.
Richard Mercado
Richard Mercado is a Filipino comic artist currently residing in Savannah, Georgia. He mainly focus on making comics with gay narratives for Filipino young adults. His first U.S. graphic novel, COMING OUT PERFECT, is coming out in 2026 with Scholastic Graphix. He was recently nominated for the 2023 Ignatz Awards for Outstanding Story for his minicomic I OWE IT TO MY PARENTS TO NOT COME OUT.
Ryan Dunlavey
Ryan Dunlavey is a cartoonist best known for drawing Action Philosophers, Action Activists, The Comic Book History of Comics, The Comic Book History of Animation and many more non-fiction comics that were all co-authored with his long-time creative partner, writer Fred Van Lente. He’s also drawn (and sometimes written) comics for Marvel, Dark Horse, Z2 and LINE Webtoon and self-publishes the one-person underground anthology My Bullshit. He lives in New York City and is allergic to cats.
Ryan North
Ryan North‘s recent work includes the non-fiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Fantastic Four series for Marvel. He’s an internationally-recognized multiple-New-York-Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into 16 different languages, and as a linguist, he’s very happy about that. He lives in Toronto, where he once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news.
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud has been making comics professionally since 1984.
Depending on who you ask, he’s either comics’ leading theorist or a deranged lunatic, but continues to find life very interesting and the ideas that he’s raised continue to provoke reactions throughout the comics community and — increasingly — beyond it. Pick up Understanding Comics (or look for it at your local library) to begin finding out why.
Shannon Durbin
Shannon Durbin is a comic artist who grew up in the Pacific Northwest outside of Seattle and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Shannon earned her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her art practice has explored narrative themes through the mediums of drawing and painting, and then moved into the medium of comics. Her comics are mainly concerned with stories that focus on the relationships between young women, how they navigate their worlds and adapt to change. Her main project is “niteswimming,” a coming-of-age comic series about Anne, Lo, and their high school friends and enemies navigating misadventures, religious cults, and busted romances against the backdrop of grunge, punk rock, and the AIDS crisis in the outskirts of 90’s Seattle. She is part of the DoP comics collective formed from Paul Karasik’s 2022 Workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Her work can be found on her website and is distributed by Semiotext(e).
Summer Christiansen
Summer A.H. Christiansen‘s booth is all about writing! Need some inspiration for your next writing or art adventure? Want a cute bookmark to place in your book? Or just want to discuss creative writing? Swing by!
Tom O’Brien
Tom O’Brien is a 2014 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies MFA program and works as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator. His non-fiction comics have been published in the natural science anthologies Awesome ‘Possum 3 and 4 as well as the Vermont alternative weekly paper Seven Days. In 2020, he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the The New York State Council on the Arts for his project Get to Know Your Knife. In 2019 he finished The Liquor Cabinet, a non-fiction comics about the world most popular liquors.