The industry has begun a new era. With the COVID19 pandemic, comics like all other forms of multimedia is learning how to evolve with the times. This panel will discuss the overall effect on creators as well as how we can usher in new crops of professionals as change become more and more vast.

Education does not need to be held up by the same ivory towers that it has been for generations. Join us as we discuss using comics and pop culture to deeply engage students academically and to teach student-centered culturally sustaining lessons that will follow your students for years to come. This workshop will be a dynamic discussion of how pop-culture, CST, and education collide. Be prepared to delve into educational and racial justice and its intersections with pop culture and comics. This can change your pedagogy. Come learn and collaborate with us!

For those who love their romance or romantic drama with a side of superheroes and villains. This panel will be a discussion about some of comics favorite and most hated relationships in comics, why they work, or don't work.

As someone new to the graphic novels/comic book creation space, Valerie is learning that there is a lot of trial and error. In fact, it’s one of the hardest things she's ever done. It made her wonder what other creators in the industry went through creating the very first published work.

On this panel, we will explore the ups, downs, anxieties, and triumphs of completing their very first comic/graphic novel.

Artist and Writers of color talk about their experiences and the importance of diverse representative storytelling.