Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash is a cartoonist currently living on the East Coast. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, VICE, The Nib, and various other publications. She’s currently working on her Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, published by Silver Sprocket, as well as a graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Arantza Peña Popo is a queer Afro-Colombian artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her colorful, mostly risographed comics and zines explore autobiographical and fiction narratives of queerness, disassociation and mental instability.

Blue Delliquanti

Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novels Meal (with Soleil Ho), Across a Field of Starlight, and the graphic novella Adversary. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art 

and Design.

Ethan M. Aldridge

Ethan M. Aldridge is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. He is the creator of the gothic mystery novel Deephaven (A New York Public Library selection for Best Books Of 2023, A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection), the fantasy graphic novel duology Estranged (a JLG selection, Indie Bestseller, and YALSA Great Graphic Novel For Teens), The Legend of Brightblade (an American Library Association pick for Best Graphic Novels For Children), and more. Ethan was raised in a small town in Utah. Growing up, Ethan’s favorite things to draw were monsters and whatever dinosaur he liked that week. He now does more or less the same thing for a living. Ethan now lives in New York City with his husband, Matthew, and their dog, Kitsune.

Ethan has had the pleasure to create work for HarperCollins Publishers, Marvel Comics, Abrams Books, and Penguin Random House.

Mad Rupert

Mad Rupert is less than 5 feet tall and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She got her start in online comics over a decade ago, and authors two ongoing webcomics. She has worked extensively on comic adaptations of Cartoon Network properties like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe. She was also the artist on BUNT!, a YA graphic novel written by Ngozi Ukazu and published by First Second. 

Beth Hetland

Beth Hetland is a Professor, Adj. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches several comics and comics adjacent courses. She is an alumni of both The Center for Cartoon Studies and SAIC. She has a variety of solo projects as well as collaborative works with her best friend, Kyle O’Connell. Her forthcoming book with Fantagraphics, Tender, is a psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision of a picture-perfect, curated life.

Mattie Lubchansky

Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator. 

They were the Associate Editor of the Eisner and Ignatz-winning publication The Nib, and the author of Boys Weekend and The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook. They live in beautiful Queens, New York.

Joe Sutphin

Joe Sutphin is an illustrator of books for kids such as Andrew Peterson’s treasured Wingfeather Saga, The New York Times bestselling Word Of Mouse by James Patterson, the bestselling newly envisioned edition of Little Pilgrim’s Progress (moody Publishers) and the official graphic novelization of Richard Adams’s timeless classic, Watership Down (Ten Speed, 2023). His love of nature, and of the living creatures in the fields and woods around his home, has informed his art for much of his life. Joe lives in a barn in Ohio with his wife Gina and a bunch of cats.

Wendy Xu

Wendy Xu is a bestselling, award-nominated Brooklyn-based 

illustrator and comics artist. 

She is the creator of Infinity Particle (2023, HarperCollins/Quilltree), Tidesong (2021 HarperCollins/Quilltree) and co-creator of Mooncakes, a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Oni Press. Her work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places. 

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