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Saturday, August 18
 

4:00pm EDT

Squad Goals: The Here and Now and Future of Diversity in Comics
Join Angélique Roché (host of Marvel’s Voices and SyFy Wire’s Geeksplain podcasts) and friends as they talk queer pop culture icons (Tessa Thompson + Janelle Monáe, anyone?), Exiles (Saldin), and what diversity can look like in comics—at Marvel and beyond.
Moderators
AR

Speakers
KA
SG
MT

Saturday August 18, 2018 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Panel A
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

5:15pm EDT

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Confounded by clones? Terrified by time travel? X-Perts Jay Edidin and Miles Stokes and guests Sina Grace and Magdalene Visaggio are here to walk you through the ins, outs, retcons, and subtext of the greatest superhero soap opera in comics, in a live episode!
Moderators
JE
MS

Speakers
SG
MV

Saturday August 18, 2018 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Panel C
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

7:00pm EDT

Memoir Comics: Picturing a Queer Self
How do comics handle memoir, by creating both narrative and visual depictions of the self? The complexities of sexuality and gender offer a unique terrain for comic artists; how do LGBTQ cartoonists in particular use memoir to make sense of the world and their place in it? How does the practice of memoir in turn affect the creation of work in other genres? Join moderator Justin Hall (No Straight Lines, Hard to Swallow) as he leads a lively discussion with comics luminaries Dylan Edwards (Transposes, Nothing Wrong with Me), Tana Ford (Duck, Silk), Sina Grace (Nothing Lasts Forever, Iceman), and Ajuan Mance (Gender Studies, 1001 Black Men).
Moderators
JH

Speakers
DE
SG
AM
M

Saturday August 18, 2018 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Panel A
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

7:15pm EDT

Comics Abroad
Join as Icelandic author and editor Atla Hrafney and English animator and author Hamish Steele discuss the themes pertinent to creators working outside the United States, the differences between American and European publishing, and how the comics community abroad comes together.
Moderators
avatar for Programming Team

Speakers
AH
HS

Saturday August 18, 2018 7:15pm - 8:00pm EDT
Panel C
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics
 
Sunday, August 19
 

12:00pm EDT

Webcomics in Twenty-gayteen
The personal has always been political, but it's never been more true than today. Join webcomics creators as they talk about their inspirations and motivations, writing personal and political content for the (sometimes scary, usually overly-opinionated) internet, and their path from web to print.
Moderators
avatar for Programming Team

Speakers
JK
ML
M

Sunday August 19, 2018 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Panel A
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

12:15pm EDT

Too Gay for this Shit: YA/Comic Crushes and Our Mental Health
Whether it's finding gentle models of masculinity (T'challa, anyone?) or fanboying over trans Peter Parker head canons and Storm's obvious need for her own movie, our queer comic and YA literature crushes sustain our mental health, even when the rest of the world feels like it's caving in. In this panel, we'll discuss (and invite the audience to share) the intersections of our queer joy and queer pain. We'll explore the ways that fictional representation (and lack thereof) can both hold our mental health together and tear it apart as we navigate queer mental health communities through representations of comic and YA fiction queerness.
Moderators
avatar for Jenn Polish

Speakers
MS

Sunday August 19, 2018 12:15pm - 1:00pm EDT
Panel C
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

2:00pm EDT

Designing X-Women IV: Age of X-cessories!
Designing X-Women: Flame Con's panel of design stars reunite to give stunning makeovers to mutants in need! Come see X-Men dressed in the finest mutant couture—from other universes! This year, the walls between worlds are breaking down, and the X-Men will take to the runway dressed for action as guest-stars in different fandoms! Also, everybody tries to rescue Jean Grey from the White Hot Mess Room.
Moderators
avatar for Joshua Siegel

Joshua Siegel

Artist, Organizer, Geeks OUT, modHERO
Josh Siegel is an artist, writer and musician known for drawing pensive portraits of superheroes under the name modHERO. He helped create Geeks OUT as a way to raise the profile of LGBT+ people in fan culture, making fandoms more fun, inclusive and safe for queer geeks of all types... Read More →

Speakers
AF
TF
DK
KW
MW

Sunday August 19, 2018 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Panel A
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

2:15pm EDT

The Sapphic Comics Confab
Finding good lesbian representation in comics is difficult. Finding good work as a lesbian who creates comics is even more difficult. Join panelists Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist, The Witch Boy), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Saving Montgomery Sole, She-Hulk), Brittney Williams (Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat!, Goldie Vance), and Tana Ford (Silk, Black Panther: Long Live the King) in a discussion led by Kickstarter's Margot Atwell about these issues and others as well as what can be improved in the future of lesbian comics. Expect a lot of talk about our favorite swords.
Moderators
MA

Speakers
TF
MO
MT
BW

Sunday August 19, 2018 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Panel B
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics

4:15pm EDT

Queer Folks Write About Comics
Believe it or not, queer folks don't just write, draw, and color comics; we also write about comics! Join us for a discussion with some of the most attending-FlameCon-est of queer comics journalists and critics, as they talk about their writing process, the state of the comics press, how queerness affects their writing (and their coverage), how they'd love to see the industry change, and where to get the best drinks after the convention closes for the day 
Moderators
MY

Speakers
JE
JH
avatar for CP Hoffman

CP Hoffman

Writer/Critic
Non-binary freelance writer (and They/Them pronoun-user) with focuses in comics/pop culture criticism, law/social justice, and gender. Bylines include: Nerdist, Comic Book Resources, Women Write About Comics, Book Riot/Panels, Fusion/Splinter, Into, HelloGiggles, etc.My article, "No... Read More →
KO
MR
CS

Sunday August 19, 2018 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
Panel B
  Presentation / Discussion, Comics
 
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