Nib & Ink Fest returns May 1st, 2026! If you’re interested in submitting an event or programming idea to be held during NIF 2026, our submission window for programming proposals will be held from September 1st, 2025 through October 1st, 2025. For more details, please see our Submissions Hub!
In the meantime, you can watch replays of NIF 2025 events at the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel.
An interactive presentation on the history of comics workers quest to organize and how efforts succeeded and failed over the century and what we can learn from their experiences to make a better comics world today. NOTICE: This event has been cancelled due to personal reasons. Thank you for your understanding!
A quickstart overview of Blender for use in creating reference material for making comics. This workshop is intended for anyone who has ever wanted to learn 3D modeling/staging and has never used Blender before. Catch a replay of this event on the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel!
There’s more to the comics industry than inks and nibs! Every day, millions of people make this industry work without ever picking up a pencil or writing a line of script. Join Hye Mardikian (pre-press/graphic designer), Kevin Wilson (web designer), and Kel McDonald (editor) in a panel talking about all the different ways one can […]
