Here are some of the approved panels you can look forward at our 2025 show. Times TBA. 

Time: TBA	From Script to Store
Presenter: ComicsBurgh	The ComicsBurgh Script to Store panel, where we talk about producing a comic and getting it into stores or direct to customers.
Time: TBA	Dragons, Cryptids, and Dinos, OH MY!
Presenter: JD Donnelly	Learn how to craft vibrant, exotic creature characters for your stories and artwork by studying zoology, paleontology, folklore, history, and a menagerie of other authors’ work. We will also dissect a dragon—from inspiration, to designing, to writing his story and crafting a maquette for drawing. In this panel, we will analyze creatures from How to Train Your Dragon, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Wings of Fire, Trollhunters, Dinotopia, Poke’Mon, A Monster Calls, The Leviathan Trilogy, Ancient Magus Bride, Wolf Children, and many others, on top of broader folklore, mythology, and literature to study how they were crafted and what makes them so compelling in the media they appear in.
Time: TBA	Worldbuilding: How to Make a Story Bible
Presenter: JD Donnelly	Whether your story is set in galaxy far, far away, a fantasy continent worlds apart, or in a world we know and love in a book or in a tabletop game, a Story Bible is a tool that helps any author organize the aspects of their world-building—the cultures, rules of magic and/or science, weather, politics, ecology, economy, and all other kinds of nitty gritty details, timelines, character interviews and designs, and more. In this lecture we will talk about acquiring the right kind of book, what kind of materials to use, what kind of information to include and how to organize it depending on the kind of story you are writing, and how to use your bible to add layers of depth to your characters and stories.
Time: TBA	Riserverse Comics: Welcome to the Weird
Presenter: Riserverse Comics	The Riserverse Comics crew share insights to our creative process, some upcoming stories, and give an introduction to some of the team.
Time: TBA	From Rejection To Noteworthy Success
Presenter: Xing Xin	The panel would cover my first hand experience of going from 200 rejections to Hollywood and success. Share my insights and help up and coming creators, spanning over 30 years.
Time: TBA	Corsets & Waist Training 101
Presenter: Cy	Discusses the necessary knowledge of fitting and purchasing a corset, provides an introduction to waist training and goes over healthy use of corseting for figure modification.
Time: TBA	Cosplay 101
Presenter: Pittsburgh Justice League	What does it mean to cosplay? Find out the basics in this beginners panel.
Time: TBA	Immortalizing the fun: The art of caricature art.
Presenter: Craig Boldman & Howard Bender	Craig and Howard have been in the comicbook business for decades. Over the years they have also transitioned to caricature art and drawing people in a way that turns them into part of the fun of comics. Hear how they got into this medium and some tips on being a caricature artist.

 

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