Laker Con 2024, will take place Friday, September 27 to Sunday, September 29, 2024.

We will have guest artists, workshops, panels, talks, a costume contest and an artist market.

New to 2024, we will have a paper session where GVSU comic students scholars can share papers on comics. We will also have gallery of original comics stories. Check in to this site for updated information!

Expanded Art market

For Laker Con 2024, we will have over 50 tables in the Main Atrium at the Idema Pew Library for GVSU students, alumni and others to sell and share their art, stories and curiosities! 

To register, please use the following link:

https://tinyurl.com/2024LakerConArtistMarket

We will begin notifying artists by May 1, 2024 about their acceptance into the 2024 Artists Market.

Call for Papers and Stories

Laker Con 2024 is now accepting 100-to-250-word abstracts for papers, presentations and panels on the critical influence, historic importance or storytelling power of comics, sequential storytelling, or juxtaposed image-based narratives. We will collect final essays, analyses and reviews on comic theory and comics creation for publishing. Accepted papers will be presented during Laker Con 2024. Speakers will have 30-minutes to present with a 15-minute Q&A at the end (45 minutes in total).

We also encourage creators to create a four-to-six page story to premiere at Laker Con 2024. These written and visual narratives will be shown in a gallery format and presented to a live audience as well as a jury comprised of editorial and working professionals.

 

Comics Papers

https://tinyurl.com/LakerCon2024Papers

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives from current students at GVSU in reviewing to storytelling or design of notable comics works. Subjects include (but are not limited to) analysis on historical significance, literary relevance, social commentary, cultural/narrative intersectionality, technology, methodology and practice.

 

Comics Stories

https://tinyurl.com/LakerCon2024Comics

We also seek short stories created from GVSU students (individually or in partnership) that can be presented in part or in its entirety on gallery walls as well as projected. Traditional comics, zines (printed out and displayed), and digital, web and multimedia comics (displayed on monitors) are welcomed.

 

Submit Comics Abstracts by Friday, May 31, 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

Submit Comics Story Ideas by Friday, May 31, 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

All submissions will undergo a transparent review process.

Authors and creators will be notified of participation with final papers and stories completed by: Monday, September 2, 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time.