COMIQUECON

ComiqueCon, the first ever convention “for women, by women,” packed the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, on November 7, reported Dave Herdon at pressandguide.com. Designed to celebrate women in comics and cartooning, nothing like it had ever been organized, and founder Chelsea Liddy decided it was time for a change. She was tired of seeing “women in comics” as a single panel at shows.

“It was time that we had a space of our own to show off what women are capable of,” she said. “There are a lot of talented women out there in the field, people need to know about all of them.”          

“Creators from across the country came to display at the one day show,” Herdon said. “Women from Connecticut to Los Angeles and everywhere in between were set up in the annex to the Museum, while the Museum proper hosted the panels and other activities. Exact attendance figures weren’t available [at the time of his November 8 posting], but early estimates were that more than 350 people had come into the show by midway through the day.”

Some of the main stage guests included: Leila Abdelrazaq, graphic artist and author of Baddawi; Nancy Collins, author of Vampirella; Marguerite Dabaie, author of The Hookah Girl; Alex de Campi, author of Smoke/Ashes, Archie vs. Predator, Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman and No Mercy; Nicole Georges, author of Calling Dr. Laura and Mikki Kendall, co-author of Swords of Sorrow.