More to come! We’ll continue to update this list guests and exhibitors are confirmed.
The Alaska Robotics Mini-Con will be on May 9th, 2026 from 10AM to 5PM at the Andrew P. Kashevaroff (APK) Building, home to the Alaska State Museum.
Alaska Robotics
I mean. Of course we’ll be there.
Bowen (Bones) McCurdy
Bones McCurdy is a cartoonist based in NYC. She has two published graphic novels, a handful of issue comics (Marvel, Mattel, etc), and self publishes indie comics on the side! Their favorite genres are horror and romance, so most of their work is some combination of the two, with a focus on queer themes. She tables at conventions several times a year as well to connect with her peers and community. Currently, she is working on the first book in her new middle-grade horror series!
Cat Farris
Cat Farris is a cartoonist from Portland, OR. She’s drawn many things over the years from the very well known graphic novel My Boyfriend is a Bear, to the extremely Indy zine series Flaccid Badger.
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.
Del Hahn
Del Hahn a nonbinary comic artist and illustrator from Indiana, currently living in Auckland, NZ. Del enjoy’s traveling when I can and go for long drives to nowhere. Del loves exploring themes of Americana, loneliness, and being curious. Recently, Del has been drawing storyboards for Mukpuddy Animation. Helping plan out animations for Kiwi and international audiences!
Dylan Meconis
Dylan Meconis is an award-winning author-illustrator of graphic novels and illustrated books, for kids and adults alike! She’s a longtime fan of Juneau’s unique heritage, community, creative culture, and its taco-stealing ravens. Her work for young readers includes Queen of the Sea, the History Smasher series (with Kate Messner), Outfoxed, and Bite Me! A Vampire Farce. Her work for adult audiences includes the series Family Man and The Long Con (with Ben Coleman and EA Denich). She’s also a designer, printmaker, book cover artist, community organizer, professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and she makes a pretty good pie crust from scratch.
Emily Swan
Swan is an artist, digital content creator, and instructor; also a big fan of TTRPGs (especially DnD). Currently, she is the creator and showrunner of the Doodle Crew art stream, co-host of Sketching Shakespeare art and discussion stream, and a member of the Art Corner stream, In Addition, and Surprise Attack Book Club podcasts.
More of Swan’s art can be found across the internet at: ‘aSwanNamedEmily‘ and airtimefornonsense.com.
Gillian Goerz
Gillian Goerz (pronounced Jillian Gertz) is a Canadian cartoonist, author, graphic recorder, 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. The follow up, Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall, published in 2021 was the winner of the Doug Wright Award, for excellence in children’s comics. Gillian loves drawing and talking about comics and creativity with people of all ages. See more of her work, or book her to speak at gilliang.com. See art and work in progress on instagram @GillianGDotCom
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.
Kazu also created the webcomic Copper, the Flight and Explorer Anthologies, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, and illustrated The Most Boring Book Ever.
Liz Yerby
Liz Yerby is a non-fiction cartoonist based out of Portland, OR. The work they are most proud of is Big Cats, a comic about their personal experiences of being too close to Big Cats (tigers, specifically) intertwined with stories of queer people in history who kept exotic cats. They also are known for writing and organizing a collaborative Klaus Nomi biography (illustrated by 22 different artists), and their lesbian peanuts fan fiction.
Lucy Bellwood
Lucy Bellwood (she/they) is a professional Adventure Cartoonist based in Ojai, California. Her projects have covered whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon, cutting-edge oceanography in the Pacific, and a voyage aboard the last wooden whaling ship in the world. She’s the author and illustrator of “Baggywrinkles: a Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea,” a collection of stories from her time as a tall ship sailor, and “100 Demon Dialogues,” a helpful, humorous guide to living with Imposter Syndrome. She’s currently working on “Seacritters!” a series of graphic novels written by Kate Milford about a crew of capybara pirates.
Ren Strapp
Ren Strapp is a comic artist, designer, and gender nonconforming lesbian werewolf. She grew up in Susquehannock territory and now lives on unceded land at the confluence of the Wimahl and Willamette rivers. Ren started her comics career in zines and web comics and will be a zinester until she dies. Her work is inspired by risograph printing and American traditional tattooing.
Shing Yin Khor
Shing Yin Khor is a multidisciplinary artist exploring mythic Americana and the American Dream, in conversation with queer immigrant identity, new diasporic traditions, and rituals of labor. Their work is anchored in a lineage of ancient physical material and practice (clay, wood, paper) and human mark-making (pencil, chisel, hand).
As a graphic novelist and cartoonist, Shing Yin Khor is the author of The American Dream?, a graphic novel memoir about driving Route 66, which was one of NPR’s best books of 2019, and the Eisner winning, National Book Award finalist The Legend of Auntie Po, a historical fiction graphic novel about a young logging camp cook in the Sierra Nevadas telling Paul Bunyan tales.
Tessa Hulls
Tessa Hulls is a Pulitzer Prize winning artist/writer/adventurer whose work illuminates the connections between the present and the past. Her graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, received the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book, the Libby Award for best graphic novel, and the Pulitzer Prize. Despite all this, she says she’s never making another book.
