SLICE EXPO 2026
OCTOBER 31, 2026
10AM - 5PM
@ The Sheldon Concert Hall & Art Galleries
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SLICE EXPO GETS SPOOKY
SLICE Expo 2026 returns this Halloween — a celebration of independent comics, artists, and creative community in St. Louis. Join us for a season of workshops, events, and collaboration leading up to our annual expo at the Sheldon Concert Hall on October 31.
GRAB YOUR FREE TICKETS
SLICE EXPO is free to attend! RSVP to let us know you'll be there!
Exhibitors & Exhibition Map
See who'll be showcasing their work at SLICE the SLICE Expo.
OPENING NIGHT CEREMONY
Kick off SLICE weekend at our opening night ceremony at The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries. Enjoy panels from our special guests, food, and drink!
SPECIAL & FEATURED GUESTS
Nicole Goux
Special Guest
About Nicole
Nicole Goux (she/her) is an Eisner Award–nominated illustrator and cartoonist from Los Angeles. She’s the artist of DC’s Shadow of the Batgirl and co-creator of F*ck Off Squad at Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club and Forest Hills Bootleg Society at Simon and Schuster: Atheneum. She has been published by DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Oni, and Avery Hill. Her most recent comic, This Place Kills Me in collaboration with Mariko Tamaki, is published by Abrams Fanfare. Her most recent book, Punk’n Heads with co-creator Dave Baker, arrived in shops April 2026 from Top Shelf Publishing.
Instagram: @ngoux
Bsky: @nicole.goux.bluesky
Wildstar Press
Special Guest
About WildStar Press
Founded in 2019, Akira B. created this indie publishing company to uplift the voices of diverse creatives. Their personal goal was and still is to spread stories across the globe, sharing a message that’s not only positive but relatable to the minority in an effort to push that representation does in fact matter. WildStar Press is a small but growing press here to keep the fun in the creative process of building these stories and showing the importance of quality triumphing over quantity.
https://www.wildstarpress.com/
Instagram:
@blubat_ | @wildstarpress
Bsky: blubat.bsky.social | wildstarpress.bsky.social
Crystal Odelle
Special Guest
ABOUT CRYSTAL
Author of Trans Studies, Crystal Odelle (they/she) is a storyteller of trans/polyamorous/whore practice, writing and revising into the desire for something like a life. Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Split Lip Magazine, smoke and mold, Apogee, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Crystal was a Lambda Literary fellow and McCormack Writing Center Scholar, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. She writes RPGs at Feverdream Games and serves as an organizer at Changeling Queer Series and as a hybrid reader at Abode Press. Her writing and performances trouble the divide between fiction and reality toward liberation.
Instagram: @crystal_ography
Facebook: Crystal Odelle
Dave Scheidt
Featured Guest
About Dave
Dave Scheidt is a writer from Chicago, Illinois. When he’s not writing comic books, he likes to play video games, watch monster movies and eat snacks. He’s the co-creator of the MAYOR GOOD BOY graphic novel series published by Random House Children’s Books as well as AGENTS OF SLAM and WRAPPED UP With co-creator Scoot McMahon. He’s also worked on comics like STAR WARS, AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, BENDY AND THE INK MACHINE, ADVENTURE TIME and many, many more.
Instagram: @davescheidt
Bsky: @davescheidt.com
crucial comix
featured Guest
About Sarah
Sarah Shay Mirk (they/she) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher who is the publisher at nonfiction comics press Crucial Comix. For six years, Shay was a contributing editor at comics publication The Nib, where projects she worked on won both Eisner and Ignatz awards. They are the author of several books, including Guantanamo Voices, an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, and Making Nonfiction Comics: A Field Guide to Graphic Journalism, about the craft of making nonfiction comics (co-written with Eleri Harris). They are a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR, and are a volunteer editor with Cartoonists for Palestine. They are white, nonbinary, and queer.
Instagram: @mirkdrop and @crucialcomix
Bsky: @mirkdrop and @crucialcomix
Parking at the Sheldon
Parking is available at the Fox Theatre lot and the Fox Theatre parking garage on Washington Boulevard, and at meters along Washington, Olive Street, and North Spring Ave.