2024 SPECIAL GUESTS

KEITH KNIGHT

Keith Knight is one of the funniest and most highly-regarded cartoonists in the United States. For some 30 years, he has been creating three popular comic strips: the Knight Life, (th)ink, and the K Chronicles. His life and cartoons are the inspiration for the popular Hulu streaming-series "Woke," now in its 2nd season. Knight also serves as the show's co-creator, writer, and executive producer. A rapper, social activist, educator, and father, Keith is part of a generation of African American artists who were raised on hip-hop, infusing their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics, and race. His art has appeared in various publications worldwide, including the Washington Post, the New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, the Nib, Ebony, ESPN the Magazine, MAD Magazine, and the Funny Times.

SAM SZABO

Sam Szabo is a beautiful cartoonist and printmaker from the North Shore of Boston. She has hand-printed and self-published dozens of zines, ranging from autobio comics to gag cartoons. Her first book, Enlightened Transsexual Comix, was published in 2023 by Silver Sprocket. Sam currently resides in Chicago. She has seen Phish live twenty-seven times.

TRUNG LE NYUGEN

Trung Le Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota. Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic. He has also contributed work both as an author and as an artist for a variety of comics publishers, including DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel. Trung has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy).

He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raises a small flock of very spoiled hens.

RONALD WIMBERLY

Ronald Wimberly is an American cartoonist. He has published several graphic novels, as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse Comics. Wimberly was the 2016 Columbus Museum of Art comics resident, and was a two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême's Maison des Auteurs. He is the recipient of the 2008 Glyph Comics Award, and has been nominated for two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Founder of LAAB Art Newspaper and the recently released Gratuitous Ninjas from Beehive Books, Wimberly’s work is celebrated for his unique style and sequential design.