We Demand Comics
Panels of authors and artists at the intersection of comics and prose.
We Demand Comics Mini-Convention
NYC Comiconcon is finished, but you still have comicon energy? We're here for the afterparty. Come in cosplay to We Demand Comics! This in-person event celebrates the intersection of prose and comics, writers and artists. Meet fans and creators of the stories you love.
Lineup
Yvonne Chireau
Sinners Hoodoo consultant and Professor Emeritus of Religion
Newton Lilavois
Founder of Dream Fury Comics
Alisa Kwitney
Eisner-nominated author and editor, DC and Abrams Comics Arts
Ben Kahn
GLAAD Award nominated graphic novel author of Renegade Rule, Star Trek, and Overwatch
Carlos Hernandez
Pura Belpré award winning, New York Times bestselling author for Disney and Marvel
Emmett Nahil
Acclaimed author of From the Belly, and graphic novel Let Me Out
Good to know
Highlights
- 7 hours
- all ages
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
Brooklyn Community Pride Center Crown Heights
1561 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
How do you want to get there?
Agenda
Live Drawing: from Prose to Panels
N. Stevn Harris, Amie Wilensky, Bill Koeb, Raymond Salvatore, Rob Cameron (m). The artists take a piece of prose from one of our guest authors and sketch it live for the audience while discussing their process for interpreting the written word into images.
Middle Grade, and YA, and Adult, Oh My!
Alisa Kwitney, Carlos Hernandez, George Jreige, and Rob Cameron (M) While the categories stay the same, the stories that represent the popular fiction driving them have not. Why? Are the readers who made them popular aging out or moving on? What do creatives do differently when they cross into different age groups and media? We'll talk to creatives who have successfully crossed streams.
Drawing from the Well
Yvonne Chireau, Ben Khan, Newton Lilavois, and Lisa Burdige (M) Folklore in Comics and Prose. For many writers, folklore, family legends, monsters, and cultural myths carried across oceans and generations are the deep well from which we drink. How they resurface, transform, and get reinterpreted fuels some of the richest prose and comics being made today.