Final night time Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) held their CXC 2022 Announcement Celebration, an occasion at which the group unveiled their lineup of particular visitors for this 12 months’s pageant. Set to happen October sixth by means of ninth, the visitor line-up options two-dozen figures from internationally of comics, together with Keith Knight, Maia Kobabe, Ron Wimberly, Trina Robbins, and plenty of extra.
Right here’s the total record of CXC particular visitors:
Vincent Alexander (Musical Man and the Magic Kazoo)
Paige Braddock (Peanut, Butter, and Crackers, Jane’s World)
Barbara Brandon-Croft (The place I’m Coming From)
Peter Gallagher (Heathcliff)
Tom Gauld (Goliath, Revenge of the Librarians)
Laura Harrison (The Limits of Imaginative and prescient)
Myisha Haynes (Anne of West Philly)
Paul Jenkins (Wolverine: Origin, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Mathew Klickstein (See You at San Diego: An Oral Historical past of Comedian-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Tradition)
Keith Knight (The Okay Chronicles, The Knight Life, WOKE)
Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer: A Memoir)
Trung Le Nguyen (The Magic Fish)
MariNaomi (Life on Earth)
Lee Marrs (The Additional Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Woman Blimp)
Ingrid Ochoa (The Kiss Wager)
Ed Piskor (X-Males: Grand Design, Cartoonist Kayfabe)
Trina Robbins (Wimmen’s Comix, Marvel Girl)
Jim Rugg (Hulk: Grand Design, Cartoonist Kayfabe)
Frederik L. Schodt (Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics)
Maria Scrivan (Nat Sufficient)
James Spooner (The Excessive Desert, AFRO-PUNK)
Steenz (Coronary heart of the Metropolis)
James Sturm (Off Season)
Ronald Wimberly (LAAB Journal, Prince of Cats)
CXC 2022 would be the first time the pageant has been held in-person since 2019, with the previous two years’ festivals held nearly on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an announcement accompanying the visitor record announcement, CXC cofounder and inventive director Jeff Smith and CXC govt director Jay B. Kalagayan each expressed their enthusiasm at bringing the occasion again in-person this 12 months:
“Each fall, the comics and cartoon artwork neighborhood in Columbus comes collectively for CXC, and as soon as once more we have a good time this stunning, advanced artwork kind and the masters who make it,” stated Jeff Smith, CXC’s co-founder and inventive director, and writer of the Bone and Tuki graphic novels. “We now have an unimaginable visitor record from around the globe, and we now have occasions and actions deliberate for anybody who likes cartoons—which is everybody!”
“I invite audiences to make use of the CXC Competition as a chance to broaden their horizons,” says Jay B. Kalagayan, govt director of CXC, “Come discover out what work hasn’t been in your radar that may converse on to this second in your life, or to catch on to work that’s going to seize main consideration within the subsequent 12 months.”
CXC 2022 shall be held in Columbus, OH from October sixth by means of ninth.
