Third Biennial Queers & Comics Conference

School of Visual Arts

209 East 23rd Street

New York City

Friday, May 17 – Saturday, May 18, 2019

Opening reading and reception: Thursday, May 16, 7:00pm

May 16, 2019, New York, NY—The Queers & Comics Conference is a biennial, university-based LGBTQ comics conference alternating between New York City and San Francisco. This year, it is hosted in New York City, by the School of Visual Arts’ BFA Illustration and BFA Cartooning programs, Thomas Woodruff, chair, and the SVA Library. Over 140 LGBTQ cartoonists, scholars, publishers and librarians will participate in this historic event spotlighting five decades of queer cartooning.

The conference features two keynote presentations, conversations with five featured guests and 36 lively panel discussions with slideshows. This is a unique opportunity for LGBTQ cartoonists to network, build community, discuss their craft and foster new work, and for readers and fans to immerse themselves in this unique artistic community.

The Queers & Comics Conference differs from a “comics convention.” Similar to a writer’s conference, this forum allows participants to celebrate, analyze and document queer comics creators and their work.

The conference is organized by founding director and cartoonist Jennifer Camper, and Justin Hall, cartoonist and associate professor of comics at California College of the Arts.

BFA Cartooning faculty member and SVA alumnus Phil Jimenez (Tempest, New X-Men, Wonder Woman, Historia)

Paige Braddock (Jane’s World)

Featured Guests:

Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan)

Nicole Georges (Fetch, Calling Dr. Laura)

Rachel Pollack (Doom Patrol, New Gods, Mine!, etc.)

Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Skim, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Supergirl, X-23)

Magdalene Visaggio (Kim & Kim, Eternity Girl, Dazzler: X-Song, Transformers vs. Visionaries)

Thursday, May 16, 7:00 – 8:30pm

Queer Comix Live! – Cartoonists’ reading with slidesho

Free and open to the public

School of Visual Arts, 380 Second Avenue, 7th floor

After the reading there will be a reception in the SVA Library, on the 2nd floor of the same building. Registration is $20 for the two-day conference. Registration, schedule and more information can be found at queersandcomics.com. For more information and interviews, please email queer.comics@gmail.com. 

A pop-up bookstore will sell work by the panelists during the conference, organized by Prism Comics. Panel subjects cover a wide range of topics, including:

Genre – memoir, sci-fi, fantasy, manga, superheroes, erotica, health, humor, younger readers, horror, etc.

Identity – queer cartoonists of color, transgender and nonbinary cartoonists, European cartoonists, etc.

Craft – experimental comics, serialized comics, activism, worldbuilding, long-form projects, etc.

Career Building – publishing, creating webcomics, tips from pros, etc.

Education – teaching queer comics, history of QPOC comics, queer comics in libraries, etc.