Alaska Robotics
Your Mini-Con hosts. We will be at the con with a large selection of comics, games, artwork, and lots of other fun things. See our stuff at Alaska Robotics.
Guests & Exhibitors
May 9, 2026 @ Alaska State Museum
Alieha Dryden
Alieha Dryden is a comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific NorthWest. Her work presents fantastical and ornamented worlds through stories focused on magic, queer life, and brave young women. Such tales can be found in collaboration with the Boise Public Library and several anthologies.
Allie Pascal
I’m a cartoonist, illustrator, and fledgling x-ray tech who’s been making zines and comics for years! I’m based in the San Francisco Bay area and share my work mostly online but also at local cons. I’m interested primarily in historical and mythological subjects, and enjoy vintage patterns and aesthetics mixed with playful cartoony styles.
Allison Conway
My name is Allison Conway and I am an illustrator, cartoonist, and bug enthusiast living in Brooklyn, NY. I graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration in 2016. My detailed illustrative style explores the serious and the fanciful, often combining elements of both horror and humor to convey my message.
B. Nico Ilo
B. Nico Ilo is an Alaska Native illustrator and painter. He works in gouache, in ink, and digitally. Regardless of medium, his work is graphical, stylized and primarily character-focused and narrative-driven.
Bobby Timony
Artist Bobby Timony is known for his expressive characters, artistic versatility and sense of animated whimsy. He is the illustrator of DC Comic’s League of Super-Pets, the Great Mix Up, an original graphic novel starring Krypto and Ace the Bat Hound.
Bobby has illustrated multiple sets of Disney trading cards for Topps, featuring favorites like Robin Hood, Darkwing Duck, the Rescue Ranger, and more. Other credits include Misfit Island for Broken Oar Comics, The Simpsons for Bongo comics, as well as the Sequels for Fanbase Press, and won an Independent Book Publisher’s Award Gold Medal for his work on Monster Elementary.
Along with his brother, Peter, he co-created the multiple Harvey Award nominated paranormal detective web-series The Night Owls for DC Comics. Night Owls was nominated for Best New Series and Best Online Series, and earned Bobby a nomination for Best New Talent.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!
Brandon Wagner
Brandon Wagner was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994. After finding a stack of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips hidden away by his parents, something in his six year old brain changed forever and his journey with art and illustration began. He graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 with a focus in comics and graphic illustration and returned home to Cincinnati the same year. While at home during the Covid epidemic, Brandon worked on his comic “The Good Knights” and published 3 twenty-five page stories on Tapastic for free in the course of a year. In 2021, Brandon became the lead coordinator for Cincinnati Comic Creators, a social group who meets up monthly to talk shop and show off current projects.
Cassidy Wasserman
Cassidy Wasserman is an author/illustrator living & working from her home studio in the mountains of Maine.
Like many artists, She has loved creating since she was little. Cassidy began making comics and stories about her cats and neopets in MS Paint.
Cassidy’s debut graphic novel “On Guard!” came out in June 2025 to a spot on Amazon’s Best Of Children’s Books for June list. She is currently working on her next graphic novel.
When not creating, she enjoys epee fencing, agility training with her dog, and listening to musicals.
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.
Charlotte Fleming
Charlotte Fleming makes art about the small, the quirky, and seemingly mundane. Both the silly and the serious are always welcome. She likes to observe/illustrate moments where the manmade and natural world meet in absurdity or delight. She has an MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture from Washington University in St. Louis and has shown her tiny books/zines at Small Press Expo, BOOKSMART, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Non-Fiction Comics Festival, and more. She loves pencil best and is always looking for a good tree to sketch.
Courtney Scriven
Courtney (Fawnduu) is a lesbian comic creature living in Upstate NY. A fierce love of animals, nature, and queerness are the throughline of her stories and work. She spends her days caring for her ecceletic collection of pets, enjoying the outdoors and of course, writing and drawing comics.
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.
David Malki
David Malki ! started creating Wondermark comics in 2003 and, improbably enough, hasn’t yet stopped. Wondermark is a silly, smart, sarcastic humor strip created collage-style from Victorian-era woodcuts and engravings, making it technically A COLLABORATION WITH THE DEAD.
Wondermark books have twice been nominated for the Eisner Award for “Best Humor Publication.” It’s possible this was a clerical error once, but TWICE?? Wondermark is also responsible for adding the word “sealioning” to online discourse, and David is very sorry about that.
His latest project is a Frankenstein-inspired card game called Bolted!, which is all about making friends out of individual body parts.
Decaffeinated Designs
James Kelly is an Alaskan artist, full-time career firefighter, part-time designer, and full-time dad of two. He grew up in Nome and Ketchikan, went to college in Fairbanks, and missed Southeast Alaska so much he came back and settled in Juneau.
James has always loved stickers he just hated that none of them could survive real life in Alaska. Between soaked Nalgenes, sideways rain, and vehicles that never actually dry, most stickers didn’t stand a chance. So naturally, he decided to fix that.
After a few cups of coffee, and absolutely no tolerance for cutting corners Decaffeinated Designs was born and has been going strong for 15 years. These stickers are waterproof, weatherproof, and tough enough to survive Alaska, kids, firehouse abuse, and whatever else life throws at them.
When he’s not on shift or chasing kids around the house, James runs his part-time design business creating funky, bold, waterproof stickers built to last. His designs are made to be used, abused, and loved, just like the Alaskan lifestyle that inspired them.
Devon George
Devon George is a background, game, and comic artist living in the Greater Boston area. They work on a menagerie of different projects including video and tabletop games, animation, and comics. They have an ongoing humor/slice of life comic called A Very Day. When not scribbling away, you can find them playing TTRPGs, weaving, or daydreaming about the next cool think they want to draw.
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.
Ellie Black
Ellie Black is a cartoonist from Maine who lives in Brooklyn. They are best known for their single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker, though they may show you their long-form comics if you ask very nicely.
Emilie Kelly
Emilie Kelly (she/they) is an indie comics creator currently based in Portland, OR. Her background in cultural studies and media studies encourages her to explore mixed-media, audience perspective, and the power of the story. Her current project is Things Are Afoot! (2024-present), a mystery/horror graphic novel about the ‘Most Isolated Town in America’. Her feature-length student documentary, The Grand Trans-American Cornhole Quest (2022), explores what it means to be an American, and received an honorable mention at the Student Independent World Film Festival (SWIFF).
As a character designer and concept artist, she has completed over 250 pieces for a variety of clients, including album covers, pitch deck art, tattoo designs, murals, and children’s book illustration.
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.
En Nelson-Correia
En is a comic artist with a background in animation, graduating from Calarts in 2020. In 2022, they moved to Portland, OR and returned to their childhood love of camping, hiking, and exploring the wilderness. Most of their work revolves around nature in some way or another.
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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.
GloInk
Hi, I’m Glo Ramirez!
I’m a Puerto Rican artist and small business owner, grateful to be a guest on Lingít Aaní. My creative practice spans illustration, set design, prop making, and wearable art. I love exploring where these disciplines intersect and what new possibilities emerge.
Over the years, I’ve collaborated with local nonprofits on meaningful campaigns and discovered that community work fuels my creativity. Teaching workshops and being part of different collectives keeps me inspired and grounded in what matters most.
Each piece in this catalog brings the vibrant, playful spirit of my illustrations into wearable and functional form. I’m excited to share this collection with you and hope you find something that resonates.
Gwen Moore
Gwen (aka GEM) is a comic artist and editor who loves experimental formatting and the potential for what a comic can be. Zines, mini-comics, and book-arts are their bread and butter. Within these books, they’re dedicated to exploring different truths of the human condition and the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Hollie Roselle
Hand painted totes and small bags, original art work, stickers and more!
Hollis Kitchin
Hollis Kitchin is a multidisciplinary artist. She primary works with watercolors, and also creates repeating patterns for fabric and other surfaces. She also owns the bra store in Juneau.
ItsRaspbeary
ItsRaspbeary is an artist, digital content creator, and a massive nerd. Primarily focusing in the art of stickers, you can find a wide assortment of silly, cute, and fandom-based stickers. Not only will you find her hunched over an iPad drawing, you can also find her rambling away on her YouTube channel where she shows off her art and talks about art tips and other things occurring in her life.
Jaromir Stoll
Jeremy Stoll is a queer comics creator and folklore scholar committed to storytelling on the ineffable in life who is currently Associate Professor of Social Science at CCAD. Their recent comics include experimental work like Home Is A Warning, ecology comics like Meeting Plants on Qizhjeh Vena, and queer autobio like “Morphing Memory” in Futures of Cartoons Past: The Cultural Politics of X-men the Animated Series (2026). They organize comics events like the weekly Cbus Comics & Zines Society Drink & Draw and recent The Horrors of Living: Ohio Queer Comics gallery show and anthology. Their research has appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art; Marg, A Magazine of the Arts; and the Routledge Companion to Comics, among other platforms. Their recent publications include The Comics World: Comics, Graphic Novels, & Their Publics, with Benjamin Woo, and the forthcoming Turn the Page: Illustrating India’s Comics Scenes, with Shreyas R. Krishnan, Vidyun Sabhaney, and Mara Thacker.
Jason Poland
Jason Poland is a cartoonist who has delighted readers with his heartwarming and hilarious comics for the past two decades. His breakout series, Robbie and Bobby, spanned over a thousand strips. Currently, he makes the fang-tastic webcomic, My Dad is Dracula. Jason lives in Houston, Texas. http://www.mydadisdracula.com
Josh Greathouse
A loud fun caring guy. I will keep the bears away and do my best to make other laugh.
Julie Lerche
Julie Lerche is a graphic novelist from Nashville, TN currently residing in Boston, MA. She graduated from the Manhattan School of Visual Arts in 2020, and received a BFA in Cartooning. She has worked on projects for HarperCollins, Scholastic Graphix, and High Noon Books. She is currently pitching a book about her experience going to Camp Oasis as a kid, a camp that specializes in accommodating kids with IBD conditions like Crohn’s Disease and Colitis. In her free time she enjoys yarn projects, playing board games, and putting salt on things that don’t need salt.
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, Tapas and currently Abrams Books. Co-founded an comic anthology group Utot Komiks in 2021 with Dani Chuatico, Aria Villafranca and Richard Mercado!
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.
Enter prize drawing which will take place each hour!Juneau-Douglas City Museum
The Juneau-Douglas City Museum fosters among its diverse audiences an awareness of Juneau’s cultural heritage, values and community memory so we may draw strength and perspective from the past, inspire learning, and find purpose for the future. As a public trust, we collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit those materials that document the cultures and history of the Juneau and Douglas area.
Kat Klockow
Kat Klockow started out as a cartoonist, became an editor, and now runs Corpse Flower Press, a horror and occult-themed small publishing business. Her current works are “Hex Me Again” a monstrous retelling of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and is the artist for the middle grade graphic novel “Zombio: A Space Adventure.” She is an art teacher at Happy Time Studio in Issaquah, Washington, specializing in teaching kids how to make comics and manga.
Find her @redcatcomics
Kaycie Dunlap
Kaycie D. Is a hermit residing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains with her partner and two terrific tabbies. During the day, she walks dogs and works on her gay music webcomic, “B-SIDE You”, and at night she makes TTRPG and book review podcasts with her amazing pals.
Lindsay Hornsby
Lindsay Hornsby is an author-illustrator who loves making silly comics! She has both an MFA and BFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a minor in Creative Writing. Lindsay’s been self-publishing comics for many years online and as printed books and minis. When not making comics, Lindsay builds things for the internet or crochets cute things for real life! She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her super awesome husband, grade-school kiddo, and a stack of pets.
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.
Masha Zhdanova
Masha Zhdanova is a cartoonist, comics critic, writer and community organizer, born in Russia and raised in New Jersey. She is a reviews editor at Comics Beat and a co-organizer of the weekly Jersey Art Meetups at the Arts Council of Princeton, New Jersey, as well as an independent cartoonist. Her work explores the intersections of queer diasporic identity with staple genre fiction conventions.
Matthew Bogart
Matthew Bogart makes slice-of-life comics explore how hope and heartbreak quietly coexist — in small apartments, broken friendships, and late nights online.
He is best known for the graphic novel series Incredible Doom, which follows a group of teens navigating the early internet and the weirdness of adolescence, and The Chairs’ Hiatus, a story about two best friends-turned-rock-stars whose bond is tested by fame and secrets.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Mercedes Campos López
Mercedes Campos López was born in Mexico and is currently based in Virginia. She has a BA in biology from Oberlin College and an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is the creator of the MICE mini-grant awarded comic Sleepover Sleuths. Her works have a broad area of interest from comedies about witches to science comics about the current pandemic. She is very passionate about using comics in education and science communication. She loves baking competition shows and dogs.
Mike Heiman
Mike Heiman is a middle school teacher, avid gamer, and game designer.
Mo McMasters
Mo McMasters is a comic artist living in Los Angeles who also runs the risograph studio Pretty Guts Press. They’ve made comics about clown cryptids from outerspace, post-apocalyptic mental health crises, and freak accidents with bees.
Moss Maiden
Moss Maiden’s Goblin Market: A variety of original designs featuring mermaids, wizardry and whimsical animals in jaunty outfits.
Natalie Wojtala
Local comic artist
Neil Brideau
Neil Brideau (He/Him) is a Miami-based self-publisher of all-ages comics about friendship. He runs the minicomics distro, Radiator Comics, and was a founding co-organizer of the Chicago Zine Fest and the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE). Neil has served as a juror for the Ignatz and Kinnard awards, and worked at Quimby’s Bookstore for six years! Neil likes coffee, board games, bicycle rides, soccer, and vegan baked goods. He is left-handed.
Noah Jodice
Noah is a cartoonist and zine-maker currently working in Tucson, Arizona. His self-published work focuses on our social relationship to image-making and often explores personal anxieties or complex systems through narrative cartoons. He frequently collaborates on community justice-oriented zines and comics with both national and local advocacy groups. He is the 2025–26 Applied Cartooning Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies and his work has appeared in annuals from American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators.
Platypus Gaming
Best Board Gaming in all of Alaska! Join us for a minute (or more!) for some fun board games. We love to introduce (and teach) our favorites!
Reccashay Studios
Cute crocheted goodies! Capybaras with fruit hats, frog wizards, cat boba tea, and more. So squishy! So cute!
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.
Ryan Dunlavey
RYAN DUNLAVEY is the artist and co-author of Action Philosophers, Action Presidents, Action Activists, The Comic Book History of Comics, and the Comic Book History of Animation, all made with his frequent collaborator Fred Van Lente. Ryan also co-authored the graphic novels Dirt Candy: A Cookbook with chef Amanda Cohen, Li’l Classix with writer Grady Hendrix and has drawn graphic novels for “Weird” Al Yankovic, Cheech and Chong, Motörhead and the estate of Chris Farley. As a solo creator Ryan wrote and drew M.O.D.O.K. for Marvel Comics and the self-published series Bad Guy and My Bullshit. He probably needs a nap.
Sara Ryan
Sara Ryan (they/them) is the author of the middle-grade novel Mountain Upside Down, the graphic novel Bad Houses with art by Carla Speed McNeil, young adult novels The Rules for Hearts and Empress of the World, and various comics, short stories, and essays. They are on the faculty of the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and part of the editorial team at Crucial Comix.
Shannon Durbin
s.k.durbin is a Los Angeles-based comic artist who grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is the writer and artist of “niteswimming,” a coming-of-age comic series about high schoolers Anne and Lo 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.
Shannon earned her B.F.A. from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She is a member of the DoP comics collective. Her work can be found at https://shannondurbin.com, at small press events, and is distributed by Semiotext(e).
SHI Summer Camps
Sealaska Heritage Institute run summer camps for high school and middle school students including: Atnane Arts Camp June 15-26, Middle School STEAM Academy June 15-19, High School STEAM Academy July 6-10 (Salmon Genomics) and July 13-17 (Anatomy & Physiology). Applications open now until May 15!
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.
Sonic Press
Physical media record label selling new release(s), accessories, used records, cassettes, and CDs.
Statt Studio
Wildlife & nature photography mixed with some digital illustration topped with a pun or two. Art prints, photo prints, cards, stickers, bookmarks etc.
Tanya Dorph-Mankey
Tanya Dorph-Mankey is an illustrator and cartoonist, born, raised, and currently residing in New York City. She graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 2014, receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in Print Media. Her work focuses on topics such as gender, sexuality, and love, and she has most recently been recognized due to her work involving professional wrestling. She is currently working on her first graphic novel, Count the Lights.
Tayden Kovac
Tay is a lesbian artist and writer from a Bosniak immigrant family, currently based in NYC. When she’s not making art for queer anthologies, she’s working on her indie dark fantasy comic, Blind Wolf Bleeding Lamb. She would much rather be laying in a hammock right now. Big on cats and a good ghost story!
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.
Vic Hill
Vic “Iddstar” Hill (they/them) is a British comic, concept, & storyboard artist, illustrator, and visual storyteller currently based in Denver, Colorado. They create comics, animations, illustrations, tabletop gaming worlds, run D&D games, and tell stories!
Vic is an award-winning storyteller, with over 16 years of experience across a broad range of media, including comics, animation, live action filmmaking, marketing, and music. They have a colourful portfolio of professional and personal projects with a variety of different styles and mediums and are always seeking to meet fellow creators and collaborate on exciting new projects.
Virginia Potts
Virginia Potts is a Juneau born artist with a BFA from the University of Hawaii Hilo. She enjoys drawing nonhuman humanoid creatures as a way to explore her personal past struggles.
Wolfa Kaur
Wolfa Kaur (any/all pronouns) is a fiber artist based in the Juneau, Alaska area. She was raised Sikh and his designs draw inspiration from mehndi and plant life. They’ll mainly be selling crochet earrings along with various trinkets.
