Help bring 27 creators from all over the world to San Francisco for the second biennial Queers & Comics conference.
The Queers & Comics Travel Fund, a volunteer effort in partnership with Prism Comics, is raising money to support creators who could not otherwise attend and present at the Queers & Comics conference being held in San Francisco at the California College of the Arts on April 14-15, 2017.
About the Queers & Comics conference:
The Queers & Comics conference celebrates, explores, analyzes, and documents the impact, craft, history, and future queer comics and cartoonists. Queers & Comics features two days of discussion panels, workshops, readings, and comics galore, along with a multitude of off-site events. This year the conference will spotlight international and emerging LGBTQ cartoonists, the role of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the future of queer comics. Keynote presenters include Mariko Tamaki and Gengoroh Tagame.
About the Queers & Comics Travel Fund:
The Queers & Comics Travel Fund strives to financially enable those in the community that would otherwise be unable to participate due to lack of monetary means.
The funds raised this year will help cover the travel costs for 27 creators from around the globe, so that they can travel to San Francisco for this years conference. Including:
CLX (Bad Bearry, Lust, Check That, Mate!), Diana Green (Tranny Towers, Surrealist Cowgirls, Omaha the Cat Dancer (apprentice)), Emily K (sad/funny/true, When Dawn Breaks, So Too, Shall You, places you find cats), Hazel Newlevant (If This Be Sin, Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers, No Ivy League), Jason A. Quest (JAQrabbit Tales), Joamette Gil (Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Lulu & Diana, clearQuartz), Justin Hubbell (It’s Not a Race!, Let’s be Clear, Nothing Gaudy: About Your Body), Kazimir Iskander (on The Nib, on Tumblr, Kinks Through The Ages), Martina Schradi (Oh, I see?!), Rachel Dukes (Frankie Comics, Beyond, Oath Anthology of New Hereos), Rupert Kinnard AKA Prof. I. B. Gittendowne (Cathartic Comics featuring the Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé), Sophie Yanow (at The Nib, In Situ, War of Streets and Houses), Vo (Fix My Head, The Swan The Vulture, Distortion), and Yori Gagarim (Let them talk! What genitals have to say about gender - a graphic survey).