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.
How do you make a newsletter that your fans want to read? This panel is for you! In How to Make a Newsletter Your Fans Love to Read, this informational panel will cover the basics of starting, running, and maintaining a newsletter to share your work and build community with your readers. If you have […]
What’s the right choice for binding your comic? What kinds of special effects do you want on the covers? What even is a DPI? This panel seeks to answer some of those questions and more. Book designers and pre-press workers Carina Taylor and Hye Mardikian will speak to moderator Joan Zahra Dark about what you […]
We know comics are a form of radical self-expression, but many of us don’t feel that way about our own. Join us for a workshop to challenge your writing and comic-making skills to create something beautiful, rich, and uniquely you. You will be guided step by step and finish with a one page comic that […]
Live round table with Jordie Bellaire. Jordie will critique the coloring portfolios of participants as a group. All skill levels welcome. For cartoonists and those with interest in becoming professional colorists. If you’d like to submit your portfolio for review, please follow this link to the submission portal! Catch a replay of this event on […]
A lot of artists dislike drawing backgrounds. Partly because they are a lot of work but also because the characters and the story are the FUN part of making a comic. This panel is to go over how to approach backgrounds in a way that treat them as extensions of the characters and characters unto […]
Do all of your dramatic scenes sometimes feel a little flat? Do they sometimes feel like they’re over-the-top and a little too MUCH? Well there’s a time for drama and there’s a time for melodrama, and finding that line is often a balancing act between script, dialog, pacing, paneling, camera, balloons and art composition. In […]
Webcomic Day is an online, community-oriented event organized by NIF’s friends, the Screen Tones Cast! What is #WebcomicDay? Webcomics have been around since the very early stages of the internet, and from then, have steadily grown in popularity over the years. From readers to creators, webcomics have made a sizable impact on the creative community […]
Small or large, webcomic collectives have a rich history, and can help independent webcomic creators combine their skills as a group to make the path much easier! Join Delphina, Max, Darwin, Eliushi, Sskessa, and Kimmy of the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective in this one-hour discussion and Q&A session about what a webcomic collective is, the various […]
A rundown on what RSS is, how webcomics can utilize it, and how readers can organize what they’re reading. This event is for webcomic creators and readers alike. Catch a replay of this event on the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel!
Join Lacey of LIES WITHIN, Nero of ULTRAVIOLENTS and SPLIT CHECK, Bob of INTO THE SMOKE and DEMON OF THE UNDERGROUND, and Kody of KEEPING TIME as they chat about the different ways they approach crafting their webcomics. Each artist will share snippets from their process at varying stages: from script and thumbnails to pencils […]