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 list below.
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.
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.
Dylan Meconis
Dylan Meconis is a cartoonist, author, teacher and designer from Portland, OR. She creates stories and art for readers of all ages!
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
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.
Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and illustrator of the Amulet graphic novel series. Kazu also created the webcomic Copper, the Flight and Explorer Anthologies, and Daisy Kutter: The Last Train.
Lucas Elliott
Lucas Elliott is a cartoonist and illustrator based right here in Alaska. The first graphic novel he ever illustrated, MOOSE, came out back in 2014 and since then, he’s worked on a variety of comics and projects seen around the state. Currently he’s illustrating the graphic novel, SPY GRANDMA, which is slated to come out in 2026.
When he’s not working on that, He’s teaching Illustration and Graphic Design at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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.
Olivia Li
Olivia Li is a cartoonist, organizer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist living in Queens, NY. She is particularly interested in telling coming-of-age and self-discovery stories of queer characters of color, usually with a pinch of magic. Outside of her personal art practice, her passion is working to benefit artist (and particularly comic creator) communities at large, as Director of Logistics at MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) and co-founder of the monthly NYC Cartoonist Meetup. Olivia is currently working on her debut graphic novel, The West Middle Mirror, with Andrews McMeel. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Visual Narrative program.
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.
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 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.