SLICE 2024
When: October 26, 2024, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Where: The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108
Free and open to the public!
Get to SLICE!
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.
Special Guests
Mattie Lubchansky
Cartoonist
Queens, NY
Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist living in beautiful Queens, NY. They are the former Associate Editor of the Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning publication The Nib, and the author of Boys Weekend (Pantheon, 2023) and The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021).
Jamila Rowser
Writer and owner of Black Josei Press
North Carolina
Jamila Rowser is an award-winning Queer, disabled, and Afro-Latina writer, editor, and publisher. She’s known for her award-winning debut graphic novel, Wash Day Diaries, co-created with Robyn Smith and as the founder of Black Josei Press. Jamila lives in North Carolina but reps The Bronx.
Nadia Shammas
Writer
Toronto, CAN
Nadia Shammas is an award-winning multidisciplinary Palestinian-American writer, artist, and game developer raised in Brooklyn, NY and now resides in Toronto, Canada. She is best known as the co-creator of SQUIRE, an original Middle Eastern fantasy graphic novel, alongside Sara Alfageeh. Nadia may also be recognized by a variety of writing on Ms. Marvel, Batman, and the recent DEAD BY DAYLIGHT comics. Their work seeks to decolonize genre tropes and often focuses on intersections and formation of identity, memory, power, and the body. Her ultimate dream is to return home to her grandmother’s house in Bethlehem.
Featured Guests
Nate Powell
Cartoonist
Bloomington, IN
Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a new comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, Come Again, Two Dead and more.
Powell’s work has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, CXC Transformative Work Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, CNN, and NPR.
Marie Enger
Cartoonist
St. Louis, MO
Marie Enger is a Cartoonist and Illustrator based out of, omg, you guessed it – StL! They are the art-part of UNDER KINGDOM and WHERE BLACK STARS RISE, the creator of CASKET LAND and DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS, hard at work on CONTROLLED BURN, but constantly thinking about self publishing more books like Nosferatu!, WTF is THAT?!, and SUPER SECRET MYSTERY COMIC. Ask them about the Cartoonist Co-Op.
Or kombucha.
Pidge
Artist and Educator
Colorado
Pidge is an artist and educator who is the creator, illustrator, and letterer of her Ignatz Award nominated comic, Infinite Wheatpaste. She currently resides in a quiet mountain town in the heart of the Colorado Rockies with her spouse and colourist, Professor Chase Hutchison. Pidge’s other published works include contributions to Heavy Rotation and Fast Times in Comic Book Editing alongside various micro-press anthologies. She is currently working on more IWP and Skylarks, an all-ages mystery. When she isn’t drawing or teaching middle schoolers, she can be found knitting and snowboarding.
Exhibit Hall Map
Exhibitors
Opening Night Ceremony
Get excited! SLICE 2024 festivities will kick off with an opening night panel discussion featuring our special guests, hosted at the Pulitzer on Friday, October 25, from 6–8 p.m.
Like the expo, this event is free and open to the public!
Expo Day Programming
Coming soon!
Safe Space Policy
SLICE is a safe space, which means that it is intended to be a welcoming, engaging, and supportive environment free of oppressive actions, behavior, and language. Participants and attendees are asked to consider how their language and behavior impact others in attendance.
The following guidelines will help SLICE be a safer space:
• Respect people’s physical and emotional boundaries.
• Always get explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing boundaries.
• Respect people’s opinions, beliefs, differing states of being, and differing points of view.
• Be responsible for your actions and aware that they may have an effect on others regardless of original intent.
The following actions and forms of discrimination and abuse will not be tolerated:
• Racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and all other forms of discrimination
• Theft of money or property
• Physical, verbal, or mental abuse
• Sexual harassment or inappropriate/unwelcome comments and behaviors
• Disruptive or disrespectful behavior
• Causing a participant or attendee to feel distressed or unsafe
Should an issue arise with a participant or attendee during the Expo, please come to the information table and ask for a SLICE organizer. Organizers will be available to hear these concerns and find a solution that is in the best interests of making the community and the event a safer space. The SLICE organizers reserve the right to ask any attendees who are violating the safe space policy to change or address their unsafe behavior or language, or leave the event if necessary.