September 2025 News and Events

Dear friends,

SLICE is almost here!

In less than a month, St. Louis Independent Comics Expo will be here with an Opening Night at The Sheldon on Friday, October 17, and a full Expo Day on Saturday, October 18. Read more about both events below!

As always, follow SLICE on Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook for all the news.

Sincerely,

Mr. Slice
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Friday October, 17th – Opening Night

6:00 – 10:00 p.m. @ The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries Ballroom

SLICE 2025 officially kicks off with our Opening Night on Friday, October 17, 6–10 p.m., at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries! You won’t want to miss the party, taking place in the ballroom of our Saturday expo venue. Like the expo, this event is free and open to the public.

6:00 p.m. – Join us for happy hour at the Sheldon Ballroom. Catch the debut of our SLICE 2025 poster with signings by the artist. Mix and mingle with friends in the St. Louis comics scene and independent creator community.

6:45 p.m. – Panel discussion with our 2025 special guests: award-winning author and the creator of Check, Please!, Ngozi Ukazu; award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer Trung Le Nguyen; and Rori, a St. Louis cartoonist, designer, and illustrator whose work has been the focus of two major exhibits with the Missouri History Museum. Panel moderated by Shreyas R Krishnan.

8:30 p.m. – Presentation of our second annual Local Best in Show Award, sponsored by the MFA-IVC program at WashU, and announcement of the evening’s raffle prize winner.

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Saturday, October 18th – SLICE 2025 Expo Day

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. @ The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries.

Free and open to the public, SLICE returns with over 100 vendors from St. Louis and beyond! Alongside our vendors, we’ll also have special guest spotlights, panel discussions, workshops, screenprinting, and activities galore.

Special & Featured Guests

Ngozi Ukazu: award-winning author and the creator of Check, Please!
Trung Le Nguyen: award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer
Rori: St. Louis cartoonist, designer, and illustrator whose work has been the focus of two major exhibits with the Missouri History Museum
Featured guest Karenza Sparks: multidisciplinary designer, comics creator, animator, and fossil hunter from Cornwall, UK

List of Exhibitors

See who’s coming to SLICE! Perhaps your new favorite artist?

Policies

Review our safe spaces policy and our covid-19 policy. Masks are strongly encouraged at SLICE!

Expo Day Programming

Panels and Lectures
11:00 a.m.: Ink and Drink 15-Year Anniversary Panel
12:30 p.m.: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Magic Fish with Trung Le Nguyen
2:00 p.m.: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at FLIP! with Ngozi Ukazu
3:30 p.m.: Science and Comics with Karenza Sparks, J. Marshall Smith, and Blue Delliquanti

Workshops and Activities
10 a.m.–5 p.m.: Tote Bag Screenprinting with Candice Corgan
11:00 a.m.: Create Your Own Reading Journal with Central Print
12–5 p.m.: Clickety Clack Typewriters demo
12:30 p.m.: Daily Comics with Rori
2:00 p.m.: Bilingual Zines with David Velasco
3:30 p.m.: Top 10 Accounting Tips for Artists with the VLAA

Book Signings
10:30 a.m.: Rori at Left Bank Books table
11:30 a.m.: Karenza Sparks at Betty’s Books table
1:30 p.m.: Trung Le Nguyen at Left Bank Books table
3:00 p.m.: Ngozi Ukazu at Betty’s Books table

Food and Drink
12–3 p.m.: Blues Fired Pizza food truck

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Thank You, SLICE 2025 Sponsors & Partners!

A heartfelt thanks to our sponsors and partners that made this year’s St. Louis Independent Comics Expo and all of our free seasonal programming possible.