May 8-9, 2026
Guest artists will be making appearances throughout the day at classrooms and libraries in schools all over Juneau. Please contact your school’s librarian or art teacher for more information about events at your school. Or reach out to the Alaska Robotics Gallery to get on the list for visits.
5:45pm Snacks & 6pm Variety Show @ Mendenhall Valley Library
Join us at the Mendenhall Valley Library for our FREE variety show kickoff event! It's a little bit like middle school talent show meets late night television. We have a house band and several visiting artists will share short presentations and family friendly readings.
Past shows have featured picture books, previews of works in progress, live illustration paired with live music, and snappy presentations on deep-dive enthusiasms that range from orcas wearing salmon hats to secret rules of writing detective stories to a colorful tour of ancient graffiti.
See our full list of exhibitors! Graphic novels, zines, costumes, board games, workshops, presentations, drawing hangouts and more! Things get started at the APK Alaska State Libraries, Archives & Museum building at 10am.
10 am – 5 pm
The convention floor in the APK atrium features over sixty exhibitors!
11am – Build-A-Character w/ Gillian Goerz
Gillian Goerz develops characters with prompts from the audience and talks about her character design process. Gillian is the author of "Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer," and "Shirley & Jamila's Big Fall."
12pm – Making a Book w/ Cassidy Wasserman
Cassidy talks about the process of making her debut graphic novel, “On Guard!”
1pm – Intro to Animation w/ Kaycie Dunlap
Kaycie demonstrates animation techniques using Procreate.
2pm – Making and Publishing Comics w/ Bowen McCurdy
Bones has two published graphic novels and a handful of issue comics. Join them for a drawing session and publishing talk.
3pm – Cosplay Life Drawing Session
Cosplayers are invited to pose for a life drawing sketch session. The sign-up sheet will be available at the convention. Any artists (and aspiring artists) are invited to drop into the sketching session.
10:30am – Intro to Making Comics w/ June Dao
Get out the paper and pencils and work hands-on with June Dao to make comics.
12pm – Working with Procreate w/ Vic Hill
Learn from Vic Hill how to make comics and illustrations in Procreate on an iPad.
1pm – Making Alaska Themed Monster Cards w/ Lee Post
All ages are invited to join in a fun Alaska themed activity. Create your own monster trading cards!
2pm – Significant Objects, A Writing Exercise w/ Sara Ryan
Pick out a significant object and work your way through a writing exercise with author, Sara Ryan.
3pm – Pop-Up Books w/ Sherri McDonald
Learn to create pop-up books in a hands-on exercise with Sherri McDonald.
11am – Cat Farris, Ren Strapp
12pm – Gillian Goerz, Tessa Hulls
1pm – Cassidy Wasserman, Dylan Meconis
2pm – Matthew Bogart, Shing Yin Khor
3pm – Bones McCurdy, Tessa Hulls, Cassidy Wasserman
4pm – Dave Maass, Pat Race
10am – 5pm w/ Platypus Gaming, Mike Heiman, and David Malki !