Approved Education Panels Denver Comic Con 2018

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1 Approved Education Panels Denver Comic Con 2018 Thank you for your participation in Denver Comic Con! Included below is a comprehensive list* of educational conference sessions and panels available to Denver Comic Con attendees. These sessions span all educational interests and topics related to pop culture, including comics, graphic novels, history, pedagogy, TV/film, literacy, and plenty more. All sessions are minutes Please note that panel times and locations are subject to change. We strongly recommend you pick up a Souvenir and paper program in order to see full panel descriptions and to make use of the maps. We also recommend that you download the Pop Culture Class App in order to create a schedule of panels to attend and receive advance reminders about events and activities, as well as stay updated on any scheduling changes that may occur. *This list is not available in the online/printed program schedule or the App.

2 ART Creating a Superhero Uniform w/ Pro Kid Artists 10:30 All Age Stage Digital Sketching and Coloring in Photoshop 10: Making Comics for Kids 11: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 11: Imagination Creation - Kids Draw with a Pro! 11:30 All Age Stage Draw What You Want - Drawing Demo 11: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 12: Intro Dynamic Figures with Freddie Williams II 12: Friday 6/15 Manga U: Learn to Draw Workshop! 1: How Comics are Made: From Start to Finish 1:30 All Age Stage High Contrast Light Focused Illustration 1: Kids Draw Garfield with Jim Davis! 2:30 All Age Stage Drawing Realistic Women with Terry Moore 2: Animate at Home! 3:00 8-Bit Lounge Adapting TV, Movies and Toys to Comics for Kids 3:00 DCCP1 Character Animation 3: Realism vs Cartoonism - Primer from a Comics Pro 3:00 502/503 Coloring Demo with Laura Martin 3: Developing an online Portfolio 3: How To Support Small Artists 4: Action & Adventure Comics Creators 4:00 DCCP1 Chrissie Zullo - Art Demo 4: Digital Art Process of Nidhi Chanani 4: Why We Make Comics for Kids 5:00 DCCP1 Artist Demo with Cat Staggs 5: Working in Animation 5:30 504

3 Saturday 6/16 ART Scholastic All-Stars Drawing Comics Workshop 10:30 All Age Stage Making Manga: Adapting Eastern Media for a Western World 11: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 11: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 12: Draw Your Favorite Disney Characters with Artist Greg Guler 12:30 All Age Stage The Art & Style of Paul Pelletier 12: Manga U: Learn to Draw Workshop! 1: Digital Drawing on tablets 1: Let's Make a Comic! 2: Drawing Demo with Ron Randall 2: Creating an Eye-Catching Comic Page with Freddie Williams II 3: Water Soluble Graphite Demonstration 3: Drawing Demo with Tony Fleecs 4: Draw Ponies & Cartoon Characters with Thom Zahler 4: The Artist/Gallery Relationship: How an Art Gallery Can Help Build Your Career as an Artist 5: Draw Tentacle Kitty! 5:30 All Age Stage Stranger Comics: How To Take an Idea from Concept to Creation 5: Drawing Superheroes and Creating imovies! 6: Emil Acevedo - Stop Motion Animation 7: Creating Great Cartoon Characters 10:00 505/506

4 ART Sunday 6/17 Live Digital Drawing w/ Pro Kid Artists 10:30 All Age Stage High Impact! Using the Elements and Principles of Design to Create Dynamic Illustrations 10: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 11: Draw the DCC Super Team 11:30 All Age Stage Coloring with Copics: How to Blend 11: Creating Fantastical Creatures Workshop 12: Freelance to Independent 12: How Can I Have a Career in Comics? 1:00 8-Bit Lounge Independent, Creator-Owned projects 1:00 DCCP6 Manga Layouts for Advanced Artists with Alex Miller 1: Creating Manga with KIds 1:30 All Age Stage Your Art Sucks! 1: Art of the Comics Cover 2: Drawing Demo with Craig Rousseau 2: Teens: Pursue Your Passions & Don't Worry About Everyone Else 2:00 8-Bit Lounge Guest Demo with Billy Tucci 2: Do What You Love - How Tentacle Kitty Created Their Own Company 3:00 8-Bit Lounge Valiant Presents: The Craft of Comics 3: Drawing Demo with Jose Pimienta 3: SketchUp for 3D Printing 4:00 603

5 Friday 6/15 DIVERSITY/GENDER ISSUES Careers Without Colors/Success Regardless of Race 11:00 8-Bit Lounge On Being a Fat Fangirl 11:30 DCCP3 Is This A Kissing Book? 11:30 402/403 The Power of Disability: Disability in Comics and Film 11: LGBTQ in Comics - Welcome to the 21st Century! 12:00 DCCP1 Women in Pop Culture: Representation, Reflection, and Revolution 12: Are all LGBTQ represented? "Let's Have a Kiki at DCC!" 12: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Black Boy 12:00 8-Bit Lounge Making a Scene, Making a Statement: Using Narrative to Empower Teens 12: Who Run The World? Girls! 12:30 402/403 Creating Transcendent Women Comic Characters 1:00 DCCP1 DMC Talks to Teens 1:00 8-Bit Lounge Girls Are Heroes of Their Own Stories: Can Harley Quinn Save Lives? 1: I Am Alfonso Jones - The Book That Should Change GNs Forever 1:00 502/503 Why We Fight: The Science Behind Fandom-Based Social Activism 1: Writing Comics for ALL Kids 2:00 DCCP1 Gender/Diversity in Art and Comics 2: (PCC) Representation Book Shelf: Building A More Diverse Comics Class 2: Indigenize Education 2:30 DCCP3 Masculinity Double Take 2: How to Write Diversity 2: Promoting Women in STEM Through Pop Culture Representation 3: The Dark Side of Fandoms: Harassment and Bullying in Fan Groups 3:00 DCCP6 Writing Women in Sci-Fi/Fantasy: From damsels in distress to badass warrior queens 3:00 406/407 Teenagers and Pop Culture Discussed by Teenagers 3: The Non-Binary Monologues Project 4:30 401

6 Comics with Cultural Conscience 5:00 502/503 "Girl Power GNs & Books: Middle Grade Fiction for Girls (and Boys)" 5: Transgenders in Comics 6: DIVERSITY/GENDER ISSUES Saturday 6/16 Stop Writing "Strong" Women Characters! 10:30 402/403 The Strength of Diversity 11:00 DCCP4 Diverse Comic Creators - Is the Industry Changing? I 12:00 DCCP1 Comic Justice: Exploring the Relationship between Comics and Social Justice 12: Anyone with XX Chromosomes Might Like These Comics, Too! 1:00 DCCP1 Girls - You Can Have a Pop Culture Career Too! 1:00 8-Bit Lounge The Indiginarium: Unlocking the Indigenous Imagination 1: We Can't Have Nice Things : How Fandoms React When the Creator Turns Toxic 1: When Nerds Become the Bullies 1:30 DCCP3 Leave It To Little Beaver: Indigenous Identity in the 20th Century 2: Never Doubt What No One is Sure About: Bookmaking in Multi- Cultural Lit 3:30 402/403 Women in Geek Industry - Anne Wheaton, Jessica Chobot & Bonnie Burton 4:30 DCCP5 Real Women, Real Strength. Writing Realistic Female Protagonists 4:30 402/403 Just Which Is The American Way'...?; Race, Gender, and Representation in Pop Culture 4:30 401

7 DIVERSITY/GENDER ISSUES Sunday 6/17 The Women Behind the Webb Space Telescope 10:30 DCCP3 DMC Goes Solo 11:00 DCCP1 Welcome to Wakanda 11: Reverberating Vibranium; the impact of race and gender via characters from Black Panther 11: It's Okay to be Geeky and Gay! 11:30 8-Bit Lounge Inside the Diversity Prism: Confronting Hierarchy and Erasure 11:30 DCCP3 Diverse Comic Creators - Is the Industry Changing? II 12:00 DCCP1 Creating Inclusive Comics 12:00 DCCP6 Diverse Voices Assemble! To Shake-up Storytelling 12:30 402/403 Unleash Your Inner Wonder Woman 12:30 DCCP3 Writing "Otherness" in Fiction: Appropriation versus Representation in the Fight Against Xenophobia 1:00 406/407 "Playing with Gender: kids and scholars talk back to today's action figures." 1: Does Representation Matter? An educational conversation about the impact of representation in movies & comic books on kids. 1: Indie Comics Anyone with XX Chromosomes Might Like Too! 2:00 DCCP1 Telling Their Stories through Graphic Novels: Views from Behind the Fence 3: Social Causes in Comics 3:00 DCCP1 Writing Against Xenophobia: "Otherness" in Fiction 3:00 406/407 POC Nerds Unite in the Lab: Importance of Representation in Nerddoms 4:00 8-Bit Lounge Out in STEM Presents: The Astonishing Queer Scientists and Engineers 4:00 607

8 FILM/TELEVISION Friday 6/15 Ask A Pony 10:30 DCCP3 "The Where it Happens": History and Politics in American Pop Culture 10: The Emerging Filmmakers Project 10: Stranger Rick & Morty Things: Identity in an Infinite Multiverse 12: Drafthouse Presents - Hitchcock at :00 505/506 The Jedi Religion: Daoist and Buddhist Themes and the Jedi Order. 12: Stranger Things - The Horror of Alternate Realities 12: DFS Shakespearean War in the Stars Episode IV 1:00 505/506 Sounds of Star Wars: Characters, Klaxons, and Aliens 1:00 DCCP2 I Sing and I Know Things: A Look Into Geeky Music 1:30 DCCP3 Comics and Coping: Using Pop Culture to Process Trauma 1: Scared Silly 1:30 402/403 Feeling Supernatural: The Representation of Mental Health in Pop Culture 2:00 DCCP4 Nick Maley - Behind the Mos Eisley Cantina Creatures 2:00 505/506 So You Want to be an Actor? 2:00 8-Bit Lounge Drafthouse Presents - Science Fiction: 2001 at 50 2: DIY stunt driving and explosives in film 3: Anime Openings East VS West 3:30 DCCP3 Star Wars Books 4:00 DCCP4 Endless Henchmen and Superhuman Scuffles: the difference between Screen-fights and Street-fights 4: Black Mirror and the Evils of Technology 4: The History of the 90's Afternoon Animation Block 4:30 DCCP3 Disney vs. Real Fairytales 5:00 DCCP6 Adam Cayton-Holland in the Lab: Class clown Hits the Big Time 5:00 8-Bit Lounge Drafthouse Presents - The Golden Age of Horror 6:00 505/506 Comics Explained Podcast Recording 6: Voice Actors! 7:00 505/506

9 FILM/TELEVISION Amateur to Professional: How to get into filmmaking 10: Ten Points to Fandom Games: Using Fandoms to Connect Your Community 11:00 DCCP6 The Voice of Star Wars 11:00 8-Bit Lounge The Failure of Star Wars 11: Saturday 6/16 Stunt Demo with kids 11:30 All Age Stage Supernatural: Castiel and the Hero's Journey 11: The Wisdom of Walt 11:30 DCCP3 Stuntwomen 11: TV Guidance Counselor 12: Sounds of Star Wars: Lightsabers, Ships, and Blasters 1:00 DCCP2 The Truth Is Out There 1: Vince Gonzales - Breaking into the Film Industry 1: How Can I Become a Voice Actor? 2:00 8-Bit Lounge DFS Shakespearean War in the Stars Episode V 2:00 505/506 Wonder Woman in Comics 2:00 DCCP6 Colorado Symphony Presents: The Music of Star Wars - The Last Jedi 2:30 DCCP3 Practical Creature Effects 2: Finding Your Own Character's Voice 2:30 All Age Stage Leadership Lessons From Star Wars 3: Shakespearean Star Wars 3: Yoda Comes to DCC's Kids Lab 3:30 All Age Stage Postcards from the Underworld 3:30 DCCP3 Grove and Lew - Stunt Oscars 3: DFS The Future of the MCU 4:00 505/ Things I Hate About You - Kiwi Smith 4: Star Wars: The Fans Strike Back 4: John Eaves - Designing Discovery 5:00 505/506 TV Will Rot Your Brain - Real Truths About the Boob Tube 5:30 402/403 RWBY Panel 6:30 504

10 Monster Squad Documentary 7:00 505/506 Nick Maley - Lifeforce: Behind the FX 8: Animation Annotations - Easter Eggs in DC Animation 9:00 505/506 Strange Coffee Animation Project 9: Sunday 6/17 FILM/TELEVISION John Eaves - Props of the MCU 10: Part Of Your World: Disney's Empire And Why We Shouldn't Let It Go 10: Nick Maley - Do or Do Not, There is No Try 11:00 505/506 DFS The Evolution of the Teen Movie 11: Vince Gonzales - From Production Assistant to Producer 12: Team Dynamics of the Avengers: A Psychological Review 1: Nick Maley - Untold Story of the Creation of Star Wars' Yoda 1: DFS Shakespearean War in the Stars Episode VI 2:00 505/506 Religious Themes in Star Wars 2: Writing a horror film - Cargill 2: Finding Your Own Character's Voice 2:30 All Age Stage DFS The State of Star Wars 3:00 505/506 Top 10 Buffy or Angel Episodes (that inspire us to be strong) 3:30 DCCP3 Creating Your Own Web Series 3: A Rose From Concrete: Examining Posttraumatic Growth in Media 4: Skinwalker Ranch Panel 4: FanFiction Yoga for Kids! 5:20 All Age Stage

11 GAMING & TECHNOLOGY History and Mystery of Horizon Zero Dawn 12:30 DCCP3 Building Your Own Awesome LEGO Creations 1:00 DCCP6 Friday 6/15 Dungeons & Dragons in Pop Culture: Demogorgons! Roll Initiative 1: RPG World Building 2: Gaming For All: The Sensory Gaming Project 3: Roll for Initiative: Role-Playing Games In Library and School Programs 4: High Tech, Low Lives: Putting the Punk in Cyber 5: Saturday 6/16 Augmented Reality and Beyond 12:00 8-Bit Lounge World Building 101: Designing Your Homebrew Tabletop World 12: Robots, Coding and Comics! Introducing Pop Culture through hands on computer coding utilizing robots 3: Articulating the Action Figure : Toys and Action Figures Roundtable Discussion 3: Game Settings: Create Your Own & Avoid Writing the Mary Sue 4: Never Grow Up: How Adult Fans and Collectors have Created an Industry 4:30 DCCP3 3D printing and You 11: Roller Derby in Pop Culture (and at DCC!) 5:00 DCCP1 Sunday 6/17 Automata: Machines Mimicking Life 12: Hello, Friend: Trust, Technology and Revolution in Mr. Robot 2: Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Finding Cultural Value In Rock Stars, Video Games, TV Series, And Comics 4:30 401

12 SCIENCE Friday 6/15 Saturday 6/16 NASA - The Sound of Science 10:30 DCCP5 NASA - Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System 11:30 DCCP5 NASA - The Future of Spaceflight 12:30 DCCP5 NASA - Scientists vs. Sci-Fi Authors - Is Sci-Fit Lit Legit? 1:30 DCCP5 Get Fit for Justice: Finding YOUR Superhero Bod 2:00 DCCP6 NASA - Planet 9: Does it Exist? 2:30 DCCP5 NASA - Jupiter! 3:30 DCCP5 WOW! Science with Science Matters 4:30 All Age Stage NASA - What's Next for NASA? 4:30 DCCP5 NASA - Extreme Scientists 5:30 DCCP5 Pokemon and Biology 10:30 DCCP3 NASA - Armageddon or Are-Mistaken? 10:30 DCCP5 SCIENCE: The Next Generation 10: Cyberdyne is here! Genetic Engineering & Cybertech in Fiction 11:30 402/403 NASA - The Science of Star Wars 11:30 DCCP5 Alien Life - You'll never see them coming. 12: Jupiter's "Small" Moons (NASA) 1:30 All Age Stage NASA - Exploring Antartica 1:30 DCCP5 NASA - How to Work for NASA 2:30 DCCP5 Real Science in Science Fiction 2:30 402/403 How to Work in Science Without Being a Scientist (NASA) 3:00 8-Bit Lounge NASA - The Weird Worlds of Saturn & The Death of Cassini 3:30 DCCP5 The Science of Science Fiction - Using Pop Culture to make Science Accessible 64: WOW! Science with Science Matters 4:30 All Age Stage Middle-Grade Scifi - Gateway to STEM and Beyond 4: Science of Superheroes 5:30 303

13 SCIENCE Sunday 6/17 Exoplanet Astronomy: What's next! 10:30 DCCP5 NASA - Science of Doctor Who 11:30 DCCP5 UFOs in Pop Culture 12:30 DCCP5 More Human Than Human 1: NASA - Women in Science 1:30 DCCP5 NASA - How do you poop in the Antarctic? 3:30 All Age Stage The Climate Crisis Calls: Superheroes Wanted 4: WOW! Science with Science Matters 4:30 All Age Stage Kitchen Chemistry 101 5:00 304

14 TEACHING/PEDAGOGY Friday 6/15 (PCC) Welcome to Fandom, Teach: Educator's Guide to Navigating Denver Comic Con 10: Literacy and History in Education Through Comics 10: Starting a school Comic Book Club 10: The Power of Comics to Transform Your Class 11:00 502/503 You Have Died of Dysentery: Meaningful Gaming in Education 11: Superhero, Villain and Monster Cells. Oh My! 11: (PCC) Following the Panels: A Primer on Teaching the Art of Comic Analysis 11: Webcomics as Progressive Conversation Starters: Woman World and Kimchi Comics 12: (PCC) Creating Standards-Based Lessons Plans for Graphic Novels 12: Sci-Fi Fridays - STEM Collaborative Learning at the Elementary Level 1: (PCC) Intro to Graphic Novels - for Teachers New to the Comics Medium 1: Comics Kids Should Be Reading 2:00 502/503 History in the Making 2: Comics, Literature and Telenovelas: How Pop Culture Can Enable Emerging Bilinguals and English Language Learners 2: (PCC) Illustrating Empathy: How Comics can Breed Kindness and Understanding Friday 3: Garfield Teaches Digital Citizenship 3: Graphic Novels Kids Should be Reading 4:00 502/503 Revamp Your English 101! How to Generate Critical Thinking through Comics and Speculative Texts 4: Solution Squad: How to Create and Implement Educational Comics for the Class 4: (PCC) Using Comics in the STEM Class 4:30 301

15 Friday 6/15 Mario Teaches Everything: Entertainment Games in Education 5: Empowering Children To Change Behavior Through Social Narratives 6: Pop Culture in the Gifted Class 6: POW! A Splattering of Comics in a Secondary Class 6:00 502/503 Comics in Education and Media 6: Technology in the Art Class 6: TEACHING/PEDAGOGY Saturday 6/16 (PCC) Welcome to Fandom, Teach: Educator's Guide to Navigating Denver Comic Con 10: Literacy and History in Education Through Comics 10: You Could Save the World: Using Wonder Woman to Teach History, Past and Present 11: (PCC) Following the Panels: A Primer on Teaching the Art of Comic Analysis 11: (PCC) Creating Standards-Based Lessons Plans for Graphic Novels 12: The Hero in All of Us: Empowering Students through the Modern Mythologies of Moana, Black Panther, and Sherlock Holmes 1: (PCC) Intro to Graphic Novels - for Teachers New to the Comics Medium 1: (PCC) Teaching the History of LGBTQ Graphic Novels in the Class 1: A Teaching Toolkit: Adding Game-based Learning to your Course without Starting from Scratch 1: History in the Making 2: (PCC) Illustrating Empathy: How Comics can Breed Kindness and Understanding Friday 3:30 301

16 Saturday 6/16 Solution Squad: How to Create and Implement Educational Comics for the Class 4: Mighty League of Acceptance: Using Pop Culture to Engage and Educate about Autism 4: Feminism in the Class: Using Pop-Culture to Help Students Understand Difficult Ideas 5: Daring Adventure Storytelling: Using Comics & Pop Culture in Unusual Spaces 5: Pop Culture in the Gifted Class 6: Environmental Literacy Through Comics 6: Using Role Playing Games in the Class 6: (PCC) Welcome to Fandom, Teach: Educator's Guide to Navigating Denver Comic Con 10: Sunday 6/17 TEACHING/PEDAGOGY Cosplay, Comics, and Nerdery in the Mathematics Class 10: (PCC) Books As Flint: Using Graphic Novels to Spark Activism 10: Letting Your Banner Fly High: Students Find Their Own Voice Through Creating a Graphic Novel 11: (PCC) Tools of Adversity: Helping Students Find Themselves In The Comics Medium 11: The Star Wars that I Used to Know: A Workshop for Teachers on Using Fan Theories and Debates to Explore Critical Reading and Rhetoric 11: I Can Always Escape : Mental Illness, Trauma, And The Seemingly Inescapable 12: Popular Culture in Secondary Education 12: (PCC) The Graphic Memoir: Teaching Identity Through Modern Biographical Comics 12: Empathy for the Devil: How Discussions on Pop-Culture Villains Can Create Spaces for Political Discourse in the Class 1:30 401

17 Sunday 6/17 (PCC) No More Capes - Moving beyond Superheroes with Class Comics 1: Illustrated Education: Drawing on Comics in the High School Class 2: (PCC) Bullying: Using Comics to Help Cope 2: We Can't Repel Data of that Magnitude!: Using Star Wars to Teach Research and Writing 2: Superkid Syllabus: A Reading List for Heroes-in-Training 3: Learning To Splash: Getting Comics To Crossover Into The Class 3: (PCC) Teaching Fables and Mythology through Graphic Novels 3: Teaching through a Pop Culture Assemblage: The Necessary Complexity of Popular Culture in the Class 3: Social Sciences in Worlds that Never Were: Using Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature in the Class 4: Necessary Triggers 4:30 301

18 WRITING/LITERATURE Friday 6/15 It's the End of the World As We Know It! Well...sort of. 10: To Plot or Not 10:30 DCCP6 YA I Like YA - What About It? 10:30 402/403 "Shipping" in Comics - Creators bringing characters together 11:00 DCCP1 Steemit: Writing on a Blockchain 11: Best Baddies are More Than the Hero of Their Own Story. 11: All Star Kids Graphic Novels (Scholastic Books Spotlight) 12:00 DCCP4 Storytelling Through Comics 12:00 502/503 Morality and Culture in Fantasy Fiction 12: Developing Unique Characters for YA Fiction 12:00 406/407 Indie Book Publishing - What's It's All About 12: Books Kids Should be Reading - from Childrens to Mid Grade 1:00 DCCP4 Short Stories, Ender's Game, and Star Trek...Oh Myyy! 1: I Am The Vengeance! I Am The Night! I Am [A Comic Book, A Movie, A TV Series, and Seven Different Action Figures]! ; Adaptation and Pop Culture Texts 1: Letters Written From Hell - The Horror Writing Process 1: Return to Middle-earth with DeLace and Friend 1: "So You Want to Write Nerd Poetry?" 2: Common writing pitfalls & how to avoid them 2: Making History Come Alive for Teen Readers 2:00 406/407 Comic Book Storytelling with Ron Randall 2: Our Secret Monstrous Obsession 2:30 402/403 How does the Hero/ine save the [Endangered Item]? 3:00 DCCP4 Page 23 Keynote Conversation with Writer Amy Chu 3: What a Character! 3: Books Kids Will Love - Read with the Creators! 3:30 All Age Stage Let's Get Ready to Rumble: Combat in Science Fiction & Fantasy 3:30 402/403 Writing for Young Adults: Let's Talk About YOUR Book Ideas! 4: Finding creative inspiration in the mundane 4:00 406/407

19 Friday 6/15 Best Supporting Sidekick: Supporting Characters in Science Fiction & Fantasy 4:30 402/403 How to make believable characters 4: So you've written a novel. Now what? 5: In Want of a Wife: a Pride and Prejudice RPG 5: Launching Your YA and MG Novel Series 5:00 406/407 Magic in Books, Life & Real World 5:30 402/403 Avoiding Cardboard Villains: How to Write Villains that Engage & Intrigue Readers 6:00 406/407 WRITING/LITERATURE Saturday 6/16 Dueling Club: Harry Potter Scholars Debate Canon, Controversies, and Creators 10: Self-Pub Ain't Just Writing 10: Weaving Science, Technology & Magic into Storytelling 11: Re-Imagining Myth in YA Fiction 11:00 406/407 Query Rescue: Fine Tuning Your First Author Impression 12:00 DCCP6 Worldbuilding and Storytelling 12:00 DCCP4 Project Syllabus Workshop 12: The Hero's Journey & Why It Works in Storytelling 12: Dystopian YA Novels - Building the Apocalyptic Vision 12:00 406/407 I Need My Space! 12:30 402/403 Creating Believable Monsters 12: Word Magic: Defining Harry Potter's World 12: Ask A Literary Agent! 1: Veterans of the Writing Wars 1:00 406/407 Western Themes in Sci-fi and Fantasy 1: Romance, Feminism, and Sex in Fiction 1:30 402/403 When can I call myself a writer?: How to Stop Feeling Like an Imposter 2:00 DCCP4

20 Saturday 6/16 7 Secrets to Creating Bloodcurdling Monsters (writing workshop) 2: One Day, You Will Be Old Enough To Read Fairytales Again 2:00 406/407 (PCC) Ask Me Anything session with comic industry-leading publishers and editors! 2: A Whole New World - Or Is It? It's All In the Details 2: Alternate Futures 3:00 406/407 Lumberjanes Comic: Role Model or Simply Entertaining Read for Kids? 3:00 502/503 Manga Publishing: Comparing Japan and U.S. 3:00 DCCP4 Launching the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards 3: From Guardians of the Galaxy to The Orville - The Space Comedy Drama 3: Comic Book Storytelling with Dean Haspiel 4:00 406/407 Fictional Venoms and Their Non-Fictional Counterparts 4: Careers in Writing Comics 4:00 8-Bit Lounge Why You Should Have Villains of All Stripes 4: Fan Fiction & You! Q&A Panel 5: Writing Comic Script with Mairghread Scott 5: Not Just Novels - Writing Different Lengths 5: Three Rules for Protagonists 6: Becoming an Authorpreneur: The Business Of being A Writer 6:00 406/407 Page 23 Lit Con - Cocktail Party 7: Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards - You're Invited! (Followed by Private Reception ) 7:00 DCCP3

21 WRITING/LITERATURE Sunday 6/17 Teen Writers: Overcoming Insecurity and How to Think Up Ideas! 10:30 8-Bit Lounge Teen or YA... Does it Matter? 10:30 402/403 First Steps in Self-Publishing 10: Rebirth of the Hero's Journey 11:00 DCCP4 Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes: Who would you want saving you? 11: It's a Mystery to Me! 11:30 402/403 Super Heroes and the Novella 11: Writing From the Shadows 12:00 406/407 Why You Actually Don't Hate Superman 12: To Boldly Go : Making Meaning by Making Comics 12: Book to Film: How well were your favorites adapted for the big screen? 12: Creator of Bone - Jeff Smith reads his newest book, Smiley's Dream 12:30 All Age Stage Old plot, New Twist 12: How To Protect Your Work 1: Witches and Ghosts - Pop Culture Staples 1:30 402/403 Fictional Biology and Creature Design 1: The Devil is in the Details 2:00 DCCP4 A Spoonful of Sugar: Brilliant Stories for Fierce Hearts 2: What's in A Name? 2:00 406/407 Leave Your Party at Home - Political Intrigue in Fiction 2:30 402/403 Short Stories Go A Long Way 2: Never Laugh at Live Dragons 3:30 402/403 The Subtleties of Symbolism 3: Why Tolkien Still Matters 3: Build a Marketing Plan for Your Creative Endeavor: Start Earning Money with What You Love 4: The Fall Preview of Macbeth and Dracula for Manga Classics 4: Writing a SciFi/Fantasy Series: Keeping the Magic Alive from Book to Book 4:00 406/407

22 Sunday 6/17 The Many Faces of Fantasy 4:30 402/403 The Power of Escapism 4:30 DCCP3 Taming the Scrivener Beast 4: Debate: Should Batman Kill the Joker? 5: Want to Write SFF? How to Survive Academic Writing Programs 5: Polishing You: Finding and Staying True to Your Unique Writing Style 5: Tackling Novel Writing Demons 5:00 406/407 Zero to Hero: How to Be a Real-Life Superhero 5:30 DCCP3