Description: Portland Indie Con is a locally-produced celebration of self-published/small press comics and games. No TV or movie stars. No exhibitors hawking unlicensed prints or stickers. Only genuine indie creators and their fans​.
Craig Thompson is a graphic novelist best known for Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), and Space Dumplins (2015). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Craig will debut the first installment of his 12-issue serial, Ginseng Roots , at the show. www.dootdootgarden.com
Matthew Nielsen, known online as ‘Nuclear Jackal’ (due to the abundance of other Matthew Nielsens out there) is a writer/illustrator specializing in comics and landscapes. A graduate of the Hereford College of Arts BA (Hons) Illustration course and a strong supporter of self-education, his latest comics work is a collaboration with writer/filmmaker David W. Edwards, Animalia Paradoxa . An exclusive con-only edition of this Nightscape -related comic will be available at PIC. Originally born in Wales to a Dan
Joseph Keatinge is the writer of Image, Skybound, Marvel and DC Comics titles including Flavor , Stellar , Ringside , Glory , Marvel Knights: Hulk and Adventures of Superman as well as the Executive Editor of Eisner & Harvey award-winning Image Comics anthology, Popgun , and Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s One Model Nation . joekeatinge.com