Isabella Rotman is a cartoonist and illustrator living and drawing in Maine. Her art is usually about the ocean, women, crushing loneliness, people in the woods, or sex. She is the author of A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent , illustrator and co-author of Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up , and creator of This Might Hurt Tarot , a modern and queer 78-card tarot deck. Location: Maine Sage Coffey is a trans non-binary cartoonist living in Chicago, IL. They're the creator of Wine Ghost and have been published in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Nib, as well as multiple award-winning comics anthologies including Comics for Choice . Sage is best known for their work on the GLAAD Award nominated video game BUGSNAX , editing Sweaty Palms Anthology , and illustrating on one of Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2021, I AM NOT A WOLF. They love orange blossom tea. Website: sagecoffey.

com. Location: Chicago Marnie Galloway is an cartoonist and artist best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless graphic novel In the Sounds and Seas , as well as the comics Burrow , Particle/Wave , and Slightly Plural. Her comics have appeared in Best American Comics, The New York Times, PEN America, Mutha Magazine, Saveur Magazine, and Ask Magazine, where she worked as staff cartoonist for 9 years. She formerly served as an organizer of the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), and currently teaches comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is working on her next graphic novel. For more information, visit www.marnie-galloway.com. Location: Chicago.