Programming

                                                   SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15TH

CHARACTER DESIGN 101: CALLING KIDS OF ALL AGES!

With Alexandra Bowman

Saturday Feb. 15, 11 AM 

Come learn how your favorite illustrated characters visually "work" through surprisingly simple techniques and principles that you can learn, too! Learn the how-to and draw your own characters in this playshop led by a syndicated cartoonist. 

With Alexandra Bowman, named by Politico to be one of "the nation's top political cartoonists." 



2025 KEYNOTE PANEL: BATTLING HATE

With Ann Nocenti, Danny Fingeroth, Alisa Kwitney, Rags Morales, and Keith Williams. Moderated by Roy Schwartz.

Sunday Feb. 15, 12:30pm

Join this amazing lineup of industry heavyweights to discuss comics as tools of personal expression and social reform, how they’ve been used throughout their history to comment on issues, raise awareness and foster empathy, and what’s changed in the conglomerated industry.




WRITING, EDITING, & WRITING

Saturday Feb. 15, 2pm

Two longtime writer/editors discuss writing, freelancing, cult sci-fi writers, midcentury New York City, wigs, hats, helmets, helmets with wings, and All Things Comics. Alisa presents her new comic, HOWL, a 1950s sci-fi vision based on her mother’s life; Stuart will just babble about his new book, CAPTAIN AMERICA FOR DUMMIES (hey, just in time for the new movie!), unless you ask him about something else. Warning: wholesome, good-natured swearing.