THURSDAY 7/20
5:00-6:00 Writers Workshop Book Signing, AA06
7:00-8:00 The Concept to Creation Workshop, room 11

FRIDAY 7/21
5:00-6:00 Centers and Certificates: Comics go to College (Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians), public library
6:30-7:30 Untangling the Spider-Verse, 24ABC

SATURDAY 7/22
6:00-7:00 The Science (and Schmience) of the Arrowverse, 23ABC

THURSDAY 7/20
5:00-6:00 p.m. Writers Workshop Book Signing, Mysterious Galaxy booth AA06 

7:00-8:00 The Concept to Creation Workshop, room 11
Are you passionate about writing, creating, and storytelling? Do you have a book idea, script, or project waiting to be created? This workshop features April Wahlin (author, Pandora Syndrome; winner of Searchfor the Next Elvira), Jessica Maison (author and comics publisher, Wicked Tree Press, Plastic Girl Trilogy, Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters), Doc Farrow (actor, Saved Rounds; director, Organized Crime), Laurine Price (producer/writer, Phoenix), Dr. Travis Langley (writer, Spider-Man Psychology, Batman Psychology), and TessaMcFionn (novelist, The Rise of the Stria series and Star-Crossed Negotiations).

FRIDAY 7/21
5:00-6:00 Centers and Certificates: Comics Go to College (Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians), public library
Directors and founders of university-level programs and centers for comics studies discuss the challenges they’ve encountered and the successes they’ve achieved in bringing the formal study of comics to universities nationwide. Panelists include Elizabeth Pollard (professor of History; co-director of the Center for Comics Studies), Pamela Jackson (comic arts curator; co-director of the Center for Comics Studies at San Diego State University), Susan Kirtley (professor of English, Portland State University), Travis Langley (professor of psychology, Henderson State University) and Kate Kelp-Stebbins (professor of English, University of Oregon).

6:30-7:30 Untangling the Spider-Verse, 24ABC
Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Jessica Drew, Peter Porker, and more across the Spider-Verse’s great web pull together through spider-powers and pain to protect others. Are pain, guilt, and loss really needed to make a hero, though? Who must learn the hard lesson about responsibility, who already knows, and what drives them all to do something about it? How healthy is heroism, really? Storytellers Danny Fingeroth (Superman on the Couch; Spider-Man editor) and John Semper Jr. (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) join experts Colt Blunt (The Joker Psychology: Evil Clowns and the Women Who Love Them), Elizabeth 방실 Han (Miracare Neurobehavioral Health), Brittani Oliver Sillas-Navarro (Black Panther Psychology; Stranger Things Psychology), Travis Langley (Spider-Man Psychology: Untangling Webs; Batman and Psychology), and more as they swing into the minds and motives of Spider-Man and the multiverse’s most amazing friends.

SATURDAY 7/22
6:00-7:00 The Science (and Schmience) of the Arrowverse, 23ABC