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CXC 2020 Is October 1-4, 2020
Exhibitor applications star 2-1-20 and last through 2-28-20. Guests and theme announcements as they develop.
CXC 2019 Special And Featured Guests
NOT SURE I HAVE ALL OF THESE Natasha Alterici Ho Che Anderson Robb Armstrong Buki Bodunrin MK Czerwiec Ezra Claytan Daniels Liana Finck (Featured) Mary Fleener Jaime Hernandez Kevin Huizenga (Featured) Hellen Jo Terri Libenson Rachael Lindsay Patrick McDonnell Mike Mignola Carta Monir Terry Moore Dav Pilkey Nate Powell Hilary Price Calvin Reid (Featured Writer About Comics) P. Craig Russell Frank Santoro (Featured) The AAEC The Nib Georgia Webber
Emerging Talent: Carta Monir Transformative Work: Matt Bors for The Nib Master Cartoonist: P. Craig Russell
CXC 2018 Special And Featured Guests
GUESTS (I DON’T KNOW THAT I HAVE ALL OF THESE)
Darrin Bell Brian Michael Bendis Jessica Campbell Sally Cruikshank Michael DeForge Liana Finck Matt Fraction Roberta Gregory Olivia Jaimes Lynn Johnston Anne Koyama Hartley Lin Liniers Jason Lutes Richie Pope Jeff Smith Ngozi Ukazu Noah Van Sciver Charles Vess Georgia Webber Jim Woodring
Emerging Talent: Keren Katz Transformative Work: John Porcellino for King-Cat Comix And Stories Master Cartoonists: Jim Woodring, Jeff Smith
CXC 2017 Special And Featured Guests
ALL SPECIAL GUESTS Derf Backderf Peter Bagge Kyle Baker Lilli Carre Howard Cruse Kelly Sue DeConnick Emil Ferris Ann Marie Fleming Kat Fajardo Matt Fraction Kevin Huizenga Jarrett J. Krosczka Nilah Magruder Mike Maihack Mimi Pond Chris Sprouse Leslie Stein Alexander Stewart Chris Ware Tillie Walden Signe Wilkinson Connor Willumsen Judd Winick Chip Zdarsky Emerging Talent: Kat Fajardo Transformative Work: Howard Cruse For Stuck Rubber Baby Master Cartoonist: Kyle Baker
CXC 2016 Special And Featured Guests
ALL SPECIAL GUESTS Lalo Alcaraz Sergio Aragones John Canemaker Julia Gfrorer Brandon Graham Jay Hosler Ben Katchor Keith Knight Ed Koren Sacha Mardou Mark Osborne Stan Sakai Seth Ann Telnaes Carol Tyler Ronald Wimberly Skottie Young Garry Trudeau Charles Burns Raina Telgemeier Emerging Talent: Kevin Czap Transformative Work: Garry Trudeau for Doonesbury Master Cartoonists: Sergio Aragones, Carol Tyler
CXC 2015 Special And Featured Guests
ALL SPECIAL GUESTS
Lalo Alcaraz Derf Backderf Kate Beaton Jerry Beck Grace Ellis Bill Griffith Jaime Hernandez Dylan Horrocks Jeff Lemire Francoise Mouly Rafael Rosado Katie Skelly Jeff Smith Art Spiegelman Craig Thompson Emerging Talent Winner: Katie Skelly Transformative Work Winner: Mouly and Spiegelman for RAW Books Master Cartoonist: Bill Griffith
Exhibitor General Info From Site 100719
Exhibitors at the Expo: Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
CXC Expo And Book Fair 2019:
September 28, 11 AM to 5 PM
SEPTEMBER 29, 1 To 5 PM
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is proud to welcome an intensely curated line-up of creators, vendors and more—including several exhibitors from SOL-CON: The Brown And Black Comics Expo and a visiting group of creators from the Association Of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC)—for our one-of-a-kind Expo and Bookfair on the Second Floor Reading Room of CML Main Library (96 S Grant)! Come enjoy a world-class shopping and programming-panels experience starring 135 awesome cartoonists and publishers!
Exhibitor applications opened February 1, 2019! First Exhibitor Line-Up Announcement: April 21, 2019! Final Exhibitor Line-Up Announcement: August 1, 2019! **Although please note about the word "Final" -- we will add exhibitors if needed or to make the show better right up to the show date. This is a near-to-final group! Definitely if you don't see yourself on there yet and think you should be, contact [email protected]!**
No exhibitors have been announced yet. Check back soon!
CXC 2019 About Tab On Web Site as of 100719
Our Mission
We hope to provide an international showcase for the best of cartoon art in all its forms, including comics, animation, editorial cartoons, newspaper strips, and beyond, in a city that is a growing center of importance to comics and cartooning. We also focus on helping the next generation of young cartooning talent develop thriving careers that invigorate the industry for years to come.
To do that, we are strive to create an atmosphere of communication and shared enthusiasm between creators and audiences of cartoon storytelling so they can have serious (and fun) discussions on it as art, with the respect their creators deserve, as well as help an emerging generation of young cartooning talent develop careers that are both artistically and economically rewarding.
The Story Behind CXC
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is all about making connections between people with a passion for the art of cartoons, and that’s exactly how it all started: a conversation between friends.
As a founder and world-renowned curator of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Lucy Shelton Caswell had already helped organize a semi-annual Cartoon Arts Festival in Columbus for many years. She knew it could become more, because she knew so many influential people throughout the city and the industry that shares her passion. But two in particular knew how much support Columbus institutions offered for the cartoon arts: the husband and wife team behind Cartoon Books, Columbus native Jeff Smith and his wife Vijaya Iyer.
The three of them talked about how some cities in Europe would turn themselves over to their comics festivals, and how much each festival would spend a week showing people the best of each city offers the cartoon community, and how first-class treatment of cartooning talent not only brought in industry greats, but created an atmosphere where connections between the creators and fans could be had.
They believed Columbus was a place they could create a truly unique festival experience that could rival anything that had overseas. Being in the heart of the country, it could be the crossroads where museums and art centers, learning institutions and cultural landmarks, industry legends and aspiring creators, as well as professionals and fans could meet to celebrate cartoon storytelling like no other place on Earth.
That day, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus was drawn into existence.
As CXC began to grow, we quickly drew the support of numerous Columbus comics and arts community luminaries, such as Jenny Robb, Jared Gardner, David Filipi, and Caitlin McGurk. Tom Spurgeon joined his friends at CXC as Executive Director, and he quickly began to gather world-class talent and cultivate the programming that would resonate throughout the cartoon world.
Today, CxC is annual festival that spans 4 entire days—and stretches throughout the city. With each year, thousands more people attend the festival events— drawing even more friends and colleagues in the field to come together in support of this one-of-a-kind cartoon festival. CXC continues to do what it originally set out to do: make genuine connections between people who share a love, a passion, and a personal reason to believe in the future of cartoon art.
Thank You to Our Key Sponsors
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is made possible each year by a wide range of individual donors and corporate sponsors. As a free festival, CXC depends on the practice of giving—and we greatly appreciate the support.
For the 2019 Festival, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus is delighted to say thank you to the following major partners:
Platinum Sponsors ($10,000 or more)
Gold Sponsors ($5,000 or more)
Silver Sponsors ($2,500 or more)
Bronze Sponsors ($1,000 or more)
Individual SponsorsFred & Rebecca Perry Damsen (Gold Sponsors)Jack & Pam Beeler (Gold Sponsors)Jeff & Lucy Caswell (Gold Sponsors)Jeff Smith & Vijaya Iyer (Gold Sponsors)
We appreciate support at all levels for this year’s show, and we thank future sponsors for helping CXC continue for many more years ahead.
Our Key Cast of Characters
Rebecca Perry Damsen, Board President Rebecca Perry Damsen has 30 years of property management and real estate investing experience. She has been co-owner and president of Roger C. Perry & Co. since 1997. She graduated from Smith College in 1987, received her MBA from Indiana University in 1992, and holds a real estate license in the state of Ohio. After graduating from Smith College, she was actively involved in managing multiple condominium sites in the Boston, Massachusetts area as property manager for Saunders & Associates (Now Saunders Real Estate Inc.).
In addition to leading Roger C. Perry & Co., Ms Damsen has been very involved in community and civic service. She is past president of the Columbus Apartment Assocation (CAA), currently a trustee of the CAA, and serves on both the Public Policy Committees and is a past president of the Board of Friends of WOSU Public Media., Ms. Damsen has served on the board of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) since 2015—helping develop its mission is to celebrate the diversity of the cartoon arts and their creators across genres and forms and to highlight Columbus and its comics community for the world.
Ms. Damsen was elected Board President in Fall 2018.
Tom Spurgeon, Executive Director
Tom Spurgeon is a longtime comics industry journalist. He was editor at The Comics Journalfrom 1994-1999 and has performed a similar function producing the commentary, criticism and news web site The Comics Reporter from 2004 to present. He has won or shared in eight Eisner Awards for his editorial work and writing.
Spurgeon has co-authored two books about comics, Stan Lee And The Rise And Fall Of The American Comic Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003) and We Told You So: Comics As Art(Fantagraphics Books, 2016). He co-wrote the syndicated newspaper strip Wildwood for King Features from 1999-2002.
He has been Executive Director at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus since 2015.
Jeff Smith, Artistic Director Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series BONE. Smith solidified the 1990’s Self-Publishing Movement when he joined other self-publishers and launched a new era of independent comics publishing, a movement that captured nearly 20% of the growing comics book market.
In 1993, Smith breathed new life into the Graphic Novel format with The Complete BONE Adventures Volume One: Out From Boneville, which sold an unprecedented 50,000 copies in its first year. BONE won numerous American awards including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harveys, as well as European awards from Italy, Germany, and the French Alph Art.
In 2005, BONE was chosen to launch the first graphic novel series for children from a major publishing house, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Books.
There have been exhibitions of his work, and in 2009 Smith was the subject of an Emmy Award winning documentary called The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics.
Later works include critically acclaimed SHAZAM: The Monster Society of Evil, and Little Mouse Gets Ready, a comic for emerging readers that received a Geisel Honor in 2009. In 2013, Smith guest edited The Best American Comics anthology, and released his second major work, RASL, a dark, hard-boiled sci-fi story that focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.
His current projects include the series Tuki, Save The Humans, and a return to the Bone universe with Smiley's Dream Book.
Rebecca Perry Damsen (President)
Lucy Caswell (Vice-President)
Andrew Campbell (Treasurer)
Christian Hoffer (Secretary)
Tom Spurgeon (Executive Director)
Jeff Smith (Artistic Director)
Jack Beeler
Michael S. Brown
Jeff Darbee
Dan Gearino
Jami Goldstein
Scott V. Hoffman
Vijaya Iyer
Matthew Leppert
Rafael Rosado
Board Members
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus Museum Of Art
Cultural Arts Center
Experience Columbus
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Laughing Ogre Comics
OSU Pop Culture Studies
Short North Alliance
SÕL-CON
The Wexner Center For The Arts
Thurber House
Council Institutions
Keeping CXC Safe
Our Festival Harassment Policy
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus has a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for harassment of any kind, including but not limited to:
Stalking; intimidation; abusive behavior; offensive verbal comments; physical assault and/or battery; harassing or non-consensual photography or recording; sustained disruption of speakers, panels, signings, or other events; bathroom policing; inappropriate physical contact; unwelcome attention, in relation to, but not limited to race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender presentation, sexual orientation, age, body size, disability, appearance, religion, citizenship, pregnancy, etc.
If anyone sees or experiences harassment or otherwise has questions, please find a CXC staff member, council member, or Board member to provide a full report of the incident.
If a person engages in harassing behavior, CXC personnel will take prompt action in any form they deem appropriate, including expulsion from the event and pursuit of appropriate legal action. We also reserve the right to provide extra manpower and resources to help our attendees feel safe, whatever that may entail.
Our policy applies to EVERYONE at the events. Exhibitors, fans, attendees, speakers, guests, professionals, press, staff, volunteers, and security are all subject to our anti-harassment policy. If you see something, say something.
Volunteering with CXC
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus benefits from the hard work of dozens of volunteers, both during the festival weekend and in the weeks and months before. Volunteers assist everyone from staff to special guests to exhibitors to fans to attending VIPs, helping ensure each group maximizes their CXC weekend.
Contact Xxxxxxx Yyyyyyyyy, our Volunteer Coordinator, for more information at
SÕL-CON: The Brown And Black Comics Expo
What Is SÕL-CON?
SÕL-CON: The Brown And Black Comics Expo, is a comics festival that takes place in Columbus, Ohio concurrently with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. It focuses on creators with a Latino or African-American background. It was co-founded in 2015 by prominent scholars Frederick Aldama, John Jennings and Ricardo Padilla.
What Is The Relation Of SÕL-CON to CXC?
SÕL-CON exists independently under the greater umbrella of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. The two shows share resources and information to make sure each runs more smoothly. Starting in 2016, the shows have been exhibiting together on the festival's Saturday and Sunday at the CXC Marketplace And Expo held at the downtown branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Where Is SÕL-CON held?
SÕL-CON holds an opening reception on the OSU campus on the Thursday night of CXC Festival weekend. It runs a full day of programming and exhibiting at OSU's Hale Hall on Friday. Saturday and Sunday, several SÕL-CON exhibitors table with CXC guests at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. In 2017, SÕL-CON will host three panels over the weekend at the library focused on SÕL-CON creators and values.
How Is SÕL-CON different from CXC?
SÕL-CON and CXC are completely different shows that work together to make a greater overall experience for attendees and guests . In addition to the focused approach on creators utilized by SÕL-CON, observers have told CXC organizers they appreciate SÕL-CON's greater emphasis on community-building over business and industry advice.
Where Can I Find Out The Latest On SÕL-CON?
SÕL-CON has its own web presence at the site of OSU's Office Of Diversity And Inclusion. As part of our partnership, CXC will always try to have the most up to date SÕL-CON information on this site, and available via its social media.
CXC 2019 Special And Featured Guests
AAEC Special Guest Adebukola Buki Bodunrin Special Guest Calvin Reid Featured Writer About Comics Carta Monir Special Guest Dav Pilkey (Friday Only) Special Guest Ezra Claytan Daniels Special Guest Georgia Webber Featured Guest Hellen Jo Special Guest Hilary Price Special Guest Ho Che Anderson Special Guest Ivy Atoms Special Guest Jaime Hernandez Special Guest Jay Stephens (Wed to Fri Only) Featured Guest Mary Fleener Special Guest Mike Mignola (Fri to Sat Only) Special Guest MK Czerwiec Featured Guest Natasha Alterici Special Guest Nate Powell Special Guest P. Craig Russell Special Guest Patrick McDonnell lSpecial Guest Rachel Lindsay Featured Guest Robb Armstrong Special Guest Terri Libenson Special Guest Terry Moore Special Guest The Nib Special Guest Tom Tomorrow Special Guest Master Cartoonist Winner: P. Craig Russell Transformative Work Winner: The Nib (Matt Bors) Emerging Talent Winner: Carta Monir AAEC gave the Locher Memorial Award to Chelsea Saunders during CXC 2019.
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COLUMBUS, OH (May 22, 2017) — CARTOON CROSSROADS COLUMBUS (CXC) NAMES ITS 2017 SPECIAL GUEST LIST. TWENTY-FIVE GUESTS FOR COMICS FESTIVAL COVER RANGE OF DISCIPLINES AND LEVELS OF CAREER PROGRESSION AS PER CXC'S MISSION. FESTIVAL SET FOR SEPTEMBER 28 THROUGH OCTOBER 1 IN MULTIPLE VENUES THROUGHOUT COLUMBUS. Citing Columbus' role as a hub for world-class cartooning activity stretching back into the 19th Century, CXC Festival President and Artistic Director Jeff Smith presided over this year's Cartoon Crossroads Columbus launch party. The party was held in the packed upper room of Park Street Tavern in downtown Columbus on May 17. Approximately 60 people attended the two-hour event. The CXC Launch Party kick offs community awareness for the four-day Fall Festival, and brings with it the announcement of the show's special guest list. Special Guests for CXC 2017 are: * Derf Backderf, beloved son of OSU and a favorite member of the Billy Ireland family, esteemed comics author of runaway hits like My Friend Dahmer and Trashed! [courtesy of The Billy Ireland Cartoon LIbrary & Museum] * Peter Bagge, author of 2017's Fire: The Zora Neale Hurston Story and the alt-comics legend behind the titles Neat Stuff and Hate.
* Kyle Baker, the brilliant writer, illustrator and comics-maker whose career has straddled independent graphic novels (Why I Hate Saturn; Special Forces) and iconic runs on mainstream titles (Plastic Man, The Shadow). * Darrin Bell, longtime strip cartoonist (Candorville) turned award-winning editorial cartoonist. [courtesy of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum]
* Howard Cruse, underground comix master and author of the titanic, crucial 1990s graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.
* Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart, experimental animators/cartoonists/authors and Eyeworks animation festival organizers. Carré is a past Columbus Museum of Art & Thurber House Graphic Novelist-in-Residence. [Courtesy Of The Wexner Center For The Arts]
* Kelly Sue DeConnick, superstar comics writer (Pretty Deadly, Bitch Planet) and formidable industry advocate.
* Emil Ferris, author of 2017's graphic novel sensation My Favorite Thing Is Monsters; her personal story of artistic success may be as compelling.
* Kat Fajardo, exciting, emerging young artist and illustrator based in New York City. [courtesy of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and SOL-CON: The Black & Brown Comic Expo].
* Ann Marie Fleming, award-winning Canadian animator (Window Horses, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam) and Eisner-nominated graphic novelist. [courtesy of the Wexner Center for The Arts] * Matt Fraction, A-list mainstream comics scripter (Iron Man, Hawkeye) turned award-winning writer of independent series such as Casanova and the hit Sex Criminals.
* Jennifer Holm, co-creator of Babymouse and other series of all-ages graphic novels. [courtesy of Scholastic Books' Graphix imprint]
* Kevin Huizenga, award-winner creator of the Supermonster and Ganges series, and a comics educator at MCAD [courtesy of OSU Pop Culture Studies].
* Nilah Magruder, animation artist, webcomics author (M.F.K.) and past winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award [courtesy of Columbus Collge of Art & Design].
* Ann Nocenti, mainstream comics writing legend on Daredevil and other titles. [courtesy of Columbus College Of Art & Design]
* Laura Park, this year's winner of the Columbus Comics Residency co-sponsored by Columbus Museum of Art and Columbus College Of Art & Design; author of Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream.
* Dav Pilkey, internationally famous author and comics-maker behind the Captain Underpants phenomenon and the hit Dog Man series. [courtesy of Scholastic Books' Graphix imprint]
* Mimi Pond, one of the great writers to ever work in comics and cartoons, now a poignant comics memoirist (Over Easy) with second book on deck: The Customer Is Always Wrong.
* Dana Simpson, author of the hit syndicated newspaper strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn [courtesy of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum with the sponsorship of GoComics.com]
* Chris Sprouse, prestige-gig mainstream artist perhaps best known for his Tom Strong collaboration with Alan Moore and current work on Black Panther. [courtesy of Laughing Ogre]
* Leslie Stein, an alternative comics mainstay best known for her mix of memoir and fantasy in the series The Eye Of The Majestic Creature. Her latest book is 2017's Present, with Drawn and Quarterly.
* Tillie Walden, comics superstar-in-the-making here in support of her major book debut (Spinning, with First Second) and having recently complated a major webcomics effort, On A Sunbeam.
* Connor Willumsen, enormous drawing and comics talent best known for the beautifully rendered experimental comics on his own web site. [courtesy of Comics Workbook]
* Judd Winick, all-ages cartoonist (currently with Hi-Lo) that has enjoyed successful runs in several comics disciplines from superhero comics to memoir to alt-comics humor.
The Launch Party also marked the public debut of the 2017 CXC logo, from graphic designer Sonia Harris and illustrator Katie Skelly. The pair are hard at work on the CXC poster, which will incorporate the just-announced guest roster and their design elements. Ms. Skelly will table at CXC 2017 as a featured guest. "The core of our special guest list this year is an amazing, diverse, highly skilled crew of great comics makers," said CXC Executive Director Tom Spurgeon. "I'm really proud of the efforts of our programming committee in putting this group together and I can't wait for late September." Festival President Smith: "With this spectacular group in place, we're confident our third CXC can be our best one yet!" **** For further inquiries contact [email protected]. The show's in-progress, permanent web site can be found at www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com. Cartoon Crossroads Columbus can be followed on facebook at www.facebook.com/cartooncrossroadscolumbus/ and on twitter by finding @cxcfestival. ***** *****
Logo for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) 2017 by graphic designer Sonia Harris and illustrator/cartoonist Katie Skelly. The show is September 28 to October 1 and we’ll have announcements blanketing the beginning of summer. Very excited about this year’s show and the full poster should be spectacular! Sonia and Katie are the best.
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this was how we kicked off CXC 2016: a roundtable at the Columbus Metropolitan Club with Laurenn McCubbin leading Mark Osborne, Ronald Wimberly and Nate Beeler in a rousing discussion of process and practice.
katie skelly draws for a classroom of excited artists and comics fans at CXC 2016
the fabulous ms. carol tyler, cxc 2016
friend of CXC Robin McConnell makes use of the press rooms to record an Inkstuds podcast interview with Noah Van Sciver and Seth during the 2016 show! We’ll do our best to support journalists with whatever they need -- let us know you’re coming!
more dustin harbin, more talk and teach; cxc2016