4th Annual Kids’ Comic Con!
Register for our 4th Annual Kids’ Comic Con on March 19th, from 10 am-3 pm, featuring workshops with professional writers & illustrators, including Eisner & Harvey Award nominated comic book writer, Marc Sumerak, Jake Kelly & John G. (Lake Erie Monster), Bryn Adams (Crooked Cuyahoga), Sequoia Bostick & Clare Kolat, independent artists, Lee Smith (Ohio Chronicles),Miguel & Michelle Hernandez (PHTPStudio).
Many of our guests were featured in Scene Magazine’s Fourth Annual Comics Issue.
Workshops will cover both aspects of comic creation: drawing and writing, as well as the ever-popular “Create your own comic character in clay.” This year, Lake Erie Ink will also facilitate a panel on “Girls and Women in Comics–as Characters and Creators.” Marc Sumerak, comic book writer and editor for Marvel, DC, and IDW (The Avengers, Spiderman, Power Pack, the Fantastic Four, The Hulk, and Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius), is our opening keynote speaker.
Doors open at 9:30 for registration or register online.
- Admission is $10 but scholarships are always available.
- This event is for youth ages 8-18. Younger writers may attend with their adult.
- Adults welcome if accompanied by a kid or with a teacher ID.
- Lunch will be sold onsite or you may bring your own.
- Comic books and graphic novels for sale.
- Giveaways and door prizes!
- Costumes encouraged but superheroes and super-villains are asked to leave their weapons at home.
The fourth annual Lake Erie Ink Kids’ Comic Con is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.