After the Sunday panels, join the Ladies of ELS Game Day for an after hours event open to everyone 18+! They will be offering trivia via Jackbox games. The games that they will play are Fibbage 3, You Don't Know Jack Full Steam, Trivia Murder Party, and (time permitting) Trivia Murder Party 2. The suggested donation to be a participant is $20.00 (limited to 8 ) and to be in the audience (you can still play) is $5.00 (limited to 20). All the money will go to keeping LadiesCon free.

Community is important for health and wellness. When COVID restricted how we could interact, we got creative. Our panelists will share their diverse experiences in fostering connections during COVID--as cartoonists, gamers, writers, and more. How do you continue to connect without face-to-face interaction with the members of your community? What are some of the challenges of community in these uncertain times? How can you help your existing community to support each other and the world around you? Our panelists will offer approaches to finding an online community, establishing one, and ways to have fun together virtually.

Erica Henderson speaking! I’ve worked with a lot of comic scripts. I’ve drawn them, edited them, co-written, and written outright. I’ll share with you what I’ve learned from having been on all sides of the process.

An exploration of comics made out of unconventional materials--- such as paper cutting, clay, embroidery, etc. We will show and talk about examples from various artists as well as some of our own unconventional material comics projects. We will also discuss best practices/approaches and possible complications that come with creating your own unconventional material comic! This is an all-ages panel.

The industry has begun a new era. With the COVID19 pandemic, comics like all other forms of multimedia is learning how to evolve with the times. This panel will discuss the overall effect on creators as well as how we can usher in new crops of professionals as change become more and more vast.

This panel explores how immigrants are portrayed and perceived, in their own words as well as others'. From struggling for and against assimilation, forming and abandoning identities, and maintaining or casting aside their heritage, immigrant stories and triumphs have shaped the foundation of human experience and are as powerful and relevant as ever. Let's take a look at immigrant narratives in pop culture from superheroes and indie comics to movies, shows, and books. Our panelists include immigrants and children of immigrants; also, our panelists include people of color, women, LGBTQ persons, and two Boston-area cartoonists.

We're hosting another edition of Virtual Drink, Draw & Pole this year after Ladies Con: Virtual Edition! Tickets are a suggested price of $25. Proceeds go to our new WinC Media Fellowship that helps support up and coming professionals in the comic book industry!

Education does not need to be held up by the same ivory towers that it has been for generations. Join us as we discuss using comics and pop culture to deeply engage students academically and to teach student-centered culturally sustaining lessons that will follow your students for years to come. This workshop will be a dynamic discussion of how pop-culture, CST, and education collide. Be prepared to delve into educational and racial justice and its intersections with pop culture and comics. This can change your pedagogy. Come learn and collaborate with us!

How do you develop your style? Mad Rupert (Sakana) and Ngozi Ukazu (Check, Please!) talk about finding inspiration in their favorite works and how they turn that inspiration into art that's in a style of their own.

Comics In Color is a safe space where you can come and get your nerd on about illustrated stories by and about people of color.

For those who love their romance or romantic drama with a side of superheroes and villains. This panel will be a discussion about some of comics favorite and most hated relationships in comics, why they work, or don't work.

In this panel, comic creators Kristen Gudsnuk, Mildred Louis, and Steph Mided discuss the Magical Girl genre - from its lasting legacy to the influence it has had on their life and work.

How do you turn personal experience into a game for others to play and enjoy? Meg Stivison and Harold Sipe have explored this question for the last two years at Small Monster Games. In Takeout, they turned Meg’s expat experiences of Chinese language, culture and food into a casual card game. Harold has loved horror stories since he read his first Stephen King paperback. Can game mechanics express that love and share the experience of scary stories? How can personal experiences translate into accessible, inclusive game play? How do social games share a story?

Experienced creators Tana Ford and Kristen Gudsnuk talk with moderator Jill Carter about their experiences in both indie or self publishing and then working for more mainstream publishers. What adjustments needed to be made? What lessons were learned or had to be unlearned? And what are the pros and cons of working in each?

We are playing online comics games! All ages. We will play "Pokemon drawing from descriptions" and Skribbl.io. Come watch us flail and draw cartoons LIVE!

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more of us are finding ourselves working from a distance. For many creators, this isn't new territory. What advice can comic creators share with those of us who are adjusting to this new way of working? What are the unique challenges creators are experiencing during COVID? In this panel, Ming Doyle and Tana Ford discuss their own experiences working apart but in collaboration with others.

Black Comics Chat Podcast will host a special Ladies Con Edition of their a weekly live stream of classic Saturday morning cartoons!

Graphic medicine is a field, a sub-genre, and a way of thinking about health through the medium of comics. Ranging from memoirs to educational comics and beyond, works of graphic medicine aim to convey the humanity often lost in the practice of healthcare by giving visual voice to the unspoken. Join us for a short introduction to graphic medicine, followed by insights from comics creators working in the field: Liz Bolduc Sux, B. Erin Cole, Tatiana Gill, and Lilly Taing. Moderated by Cathy Leamy (with thanks to Matthew Noe for behind-the-scenes organization).