Tito James

Tito W. James is a cosmopolitan comic creator who incorporates aesthetic traditions from across the globe. Tito’s goal is to create illicit entertainment that challenges, transports, and inspires young people. 

Coco Fox

Coco Fox grew up doodling in Indiana. She has worked in film, graphic design, and just published her first middle grade graphic novel, Let’s Go, Coco!, with Harper Alley.  She’s self-published a handful of punny zines and a very silly fortune telling deck. Her comics have been featured in Seven Days & Vermont Magazine, and three of her dinosaur illustrations are currently on display in The Indianapolis Children’s Museum. Coco graduated from CCS in 2020 and got her undergrad degree at Duke University. She loves witches, dinosaurs, and stories about friendship. On January 25th she will be playing Janet in the shadow cast production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Lebanon Opera House. 

Erika Moen

Erika Moen is a freelance cartoonist born June 25, 1983 and graduated with an Illustrated Storytelling self-designed degree from Pitzer College in 2006. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she has been a member of Helioscope Studio since 2008.

Having created comics for well over a decade, her work has been published by Oni, Dark Horse, Image, Villard and Scholastic, among many others.

In addition to creating comics, she also regularly teaches classes and guest lectures on the subject in high schools and colleges around the country. 

She has been happily married to Matthew Nolan since October 2008.

Caroline Hu

Caroline Hu is an artist and educator with a PhD in biology and a love for visual storytelling. After years of spending her days at the lab bench and nights at the drawing desk, Caroline now joyfully dual wields both art and science as an assistant biology professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. There she has facilitated 20+ comics collaborations between art undergraduates and research scientists from all over the world. She is also currently illustrating her first nonfiction
graphic novel with Penguin Workshop.

Tara Booth

Tara Booth is an Ignatz Award Winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia. Tara’s candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humor on issues related to mental health, addiction, and sexuality. Known for her painterly approach to comics, often using bright colors and dizzying patterns- Booth’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Vice, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Best American Comics. Tara loves to travel and hike with her two dogs.

Marlowe Lune

Marlowe Lune is a queer and trans illustrator based in Providence, Rhode Island. They create decadent and fantastical illustrations inspired by the art, fashion, and stories of centuries past. In addition to illustrating book covers, they run the Merry Blackbird Postcard Society on Patreon, and are currently at work on their debut graphic novel for Abrams Books.

Olivia Stephens

Olivia Stephens is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and writer from the Pacific Northwest. Her comics often utilize supernatural elements to explore grief, rage, and profound tenderness. Currently, Olivia is working on Darlin’ and Her Other Names, a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic that she self-publishes online. The first installment of Darlin’ and Her Other Names won the 2023 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. Olivia has also won a Fellowship Award from Artist Trust and been awarded residencies at Tin House, Mineral School, Storyknife, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017.

Yasmeen Abedifard

Yasmeen Abedifard is an Iranian artist born in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently based in Oakland. Her work is centered around storytelling mediums, including comics, illustrations, and animation. She is currently teaching in the Comics BFA program at The California College of the Arts (CCA), and has taught various workshops at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley Art Studio, Sequential Artists Workshop, and Black Mountain Institute. Her work has been featured in various spaces, such as the SF Art Book Fair, the Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2727 California, and Jack Hanley Gallery. In 2023, she won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic for Death Bloom (pub. Lucky Pocket Press). She is part of the comics collective D.R.Y. with peers Daniel Zhou and Raul Higuera, aimed at fostering community and highlighting the Bay Area comics scene. 

Alec Longstreth

Alec Longstreth has proudly self-published over 2,000 pages of his comics since 2002. 25 issues of his minicomic Phase 7 have been collected into seven books, two of which were translated into French and published by L’employé du Moi. Alec’s all ages webcomic Isle of Elsi has also been collected into two volumes. Over the years, Alec’s comics have won two Ignatz Awards, a Divisional Reuben Award from the National Cartoonist’s Society and have twice been nominated for Eisner Awards. Alec also works as freelance illustrator, animator, and digital colorist.

Mary Shyne

Mary Shyne is a Chicago-area native, who spent a decade in New York working in publishing before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She currently lives in the Bay Area where she works on all things Snoopy at the Schulz Studio. Her comics have appeared in The Nib, Electric Literature, and Solrad.

Pan Cooke

Pan Cooke is a writer and illustrator from Dublin, Ireland. He is best known for his social justice comics and illustrations, which have been widely shared across social media and focus on topics from police violence to mental health awareness. He has worked alongside Amnesty International on several campaigns and frequently collaborates with the activist group Campaign Zero. Pan combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy. His forthcoming debut graphic memoir Puzzled, which illustrates his experiences growing up with OCD, published in 2023 with Penguin Random House.