Geek/Art CONfluence

I (Chris) am looking forward to being on one of Ed Catto's panels at San Diego Comic Con again this year: 10am on Saturday at the San Diego Central Library!

The topic is "Student Activism Vs Student Participation"--
"In an ever-changing future that uses pop culture, comics, gaming, and more as essential learning tools, what is the best way for students to be involved? Does traditional education still work? How important is hands-on learning? There's a difference between having a seat and having a voice. Showing up is necessary, but is it sufficient? Educators who use comics, pop culture, and gaming in classrooms—including Dr. Chris Wildrick (Syracuse University), Dr. Christina Knopf (SUNY Cortland), Dr. Billy Obenauer (University of Maine), Krista Rozanski (Syracuse Libraries), Darlynne Overbaugh (First Congregational Church), and Bailey Day (Ithaca College)—discuss the challenges of teaching for an ever-changing future. Moderated by Ed Catto (Ithaca College)."

It's quite possible that I'll be using the CONfluence as an example for some of my comments :)

If you're at SDCC, come check it out! Ed always has great questions and we have a fun conversation among scholars and educators!
https://comiccon2026.sched.com/event/2Qbtm/student-activism-vs-student-participation?iframe=yes&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=dark

We'll be at Nococon tomorrow (Saturday) in Watertown.

Come by our booth, we'll have t-shirts for sale. We'll also have an art activity you can do and TEN short trivia games you can take--with some small prizes for fun.

We'll see you there!

We are excited to get these photos of many of the cosplayers (and a cat!) at the CON from photographer Pic.By.Ryan, who generously shared them with us. Pic.By.Ryan is also at the same handle on Instagram, he has been taking lots of great pics of local cons.

Also--we'll be tabling at Nococon next weekend with our 2026 t-shirts for sale as well as some interactive art/comics projects you can do.

We're selling our remaining t-shirts! Get 'em while ya can!

$20, including shipping. Just comment below or message us to order and I'll work out the payment process with you.

Here are the number we have left in each size:

3XL: 1
2XL: 3
XL: 3
L: 2
M: 4
S: 3

Drawn by our talented student Julia English.

If you took photos at the CON, and are OK with sharing them publicly--and having us possibly use them in future promotion, for instance on our website or social media--you can share them with us here.

Just drop them in this Google Drive folder. You will have to log in to Google to drop them in. If you want us to attribute your photos to your name if we use them online, then create a subfolder with your name and drop them in there. If you don't care about that, just drop them in the main folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HO0w_fZO_SU2CY-7qLnpXIIPslhHTSTh?usp=sharing

We will also be posting a folder of all of the pics taken at the cosplay photo booth, as requested by the people who had their pics taken. That will go up in the next few days.

The Geek/Art CONfluence is TOMORROW, April 19 from 11am-5pm in Schine Student Center, Syracuse University. It is FREE and open to all!

www.geekartconfluence.com