SLICE 2025 Event Poster by Alain McAlister – available for purchase at Opening Night and Expo Day!
SLICE 2025
When: October 18, 2025, 10am – 5pm
Where: The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108
Free and open to the public!
Plan Your SLICE!
Parking at the Sheldon
Parking is available at the Fox Theatre lot and the Fox Theatre parking garage on Washington Boulevard, and at meters along Washington, Olive Street and North Spring Ave.
Special Guests
Ngozi Ukazu
Ngozi Ukazu is a New York Times–-bestselling and award-winning author and the creator of Check, Please!, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever. Her other works include the young adult graphic novels Bunt! with artist Mad Rupert and Barda and Orion with DC Comics. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing in the Arts, and received an honorary MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. She enjoys giving talks at colleges and all things fandom. Her cartoons regularly appear in The New Yorker.
Trung Le Nguyen
Trung Le Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese American cartoonist, artist, and writer from Minnesota. Trung’s first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, was published in 2020 through Random House Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He has also contributed work both as an author and as an artist for a variety of comics publishers, including DC Comics, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, Image Comics, and Marvel. Trung has been nominated for an Eisner, a prize at Angoulême (France), and a GLAAD award, and has won two Harvey Awards and a Romics (Italy). He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raises a small flock of very spoiled hens.
Rori
Rori is a cartoonist, designer, and illustrator from St. Louis. Her illustration work has been the focus of two major exhibits and accompanying publications with the Missouri History Museum: Beyond The Ballot, celebrating the centenary of women’s suffrage in America,; and Coloring STL, showcasing St. Louis architecture. As well as several self-published comics, her sequential art has been published by IDW, Image Comics, and Z2. She has two forthcoming graphic novels in the works, History Comics: Titanic (First Second) in summer 2026 and Wuthering Heights (Andrews McMeel) in winter 2026, both with writer Gibson Twist.
Featured Guest
Karenza Sparks
Karenza Sparks is a multidisciplinary designer, comics creator, animator, and fossil hunter from Cornwall. She has a particular interest in gamification, story telling, interactive experiences, and participatory artworks. Sparks graduated from Kingston school in 2020 and is based in Cornwall. The Corus Wave is her first graphic novel.
Exhibit Hall Map
Exhibitors
Opening Night Ceremony
Expo Day Programming
10am: SLICE BEGINS
- Tote Bag Screenprinting with Candice Corgan begins (First Floor Entrance)
10:30am
- Author Signing: Rori at Left Bank Books table (Sponsor Hall)
11am
- Panel: Ink and Drink Anniversary (Ballroom)
- Workshop: Create Your Own Reading Journal with Central Print (Workshop Room)
11:30am
- Author Signing: Karenza Sparks at Betty’s Books table (Sponsor Hall)
12pm
- Clickety Clack Typewriters demo (First Floor Entrance)
- Blues Fired Pizza food truck arrives (Outdoors, Front Entrance)
12:30pm
- Panel: Daily Comics Changed My Life with Rori (Workshop Room)
- Panel: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Magic Fish with Trung Le Nguyen (Ballroom)
1:30pm
- Author Signing: Trung Le Nguyen at Left Bank Books table (Sponsor Hall)
2pm
- Panel: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at FLIP! with Ngozi Ukazu (Ballroom)
- Workshop: Bilingual Zines with David Velasco (Workshop Room)
3pm
- Author Signing: Ngozi Ukazu at Betty’s Books table (Sponsor Hall)
- Food Truck leaves
3:30pm
- Workshop: Top 10 Accounting Tips for Artists with the VLAA (Workshop Room)
- Panel: Science and Comics with Karenza Sparks, J. Marshall Smith, and Blue Delliquanti (Ballroom)
5pm: SLICE ENDS
Safe Space Policy
SLICE is a safe space, which means that it is intended to be a welcoming, engaging, and supportive environment free of oppressive actions, behavior, and language. Participants and attendees are asked to consider how their language and behavior impact others in attendance.
The following guidelines will help SLICE be a safer space:
• Respect people’s physical and emotional boundaries.
• Always get explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing boundaries.
• Respect people’s opinions, beliefs, differing states of being, and differing points of view.
• Be responsible for your actions and aware that they may have an effect on others regardless of original intent.
The following actions and forms of discrimination and abuse will not be tolerated:
• Racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and all other forms of discrimination
• Theft of money or property
• Physical, verbal, or mental abuse
• Sexual harassment or inappropriate/unwelcome comments and behaviors
• Disruptive or disrespectful behavior
• Causing a participant or attendee to feel distressed or unsafe
Should an issue arise with a participant or attendee during the Expo, please come to the information table and ask for a SLICE organizer. Organizers will be available to hear these concerns and find a solution that is in the best interests of making the community and the event a safer space. The SLICE organizers reserve the right to ask any attendees who are violating the safe space policy to change or address their unsafe behavior or language, or leave the event if necessary.
COVID-19 Policy
Masks are strongly encouraged for all attendees, exhibitors, and staff at SLICE. In order to protect immunocompromised folks in our community, we ask that you wear your masks in the expo hall.
SLICE recommends testing for COVID-19 within 48 hours prior to the event. If you test positive the day of the event, please do not attend.
SLICE staffers will provide free KN95 masks to those who need them. The Sheldon is equipped with HVAC filtration that meets CDC ventilation guidelines for COVID-19. We will also be supplying two portable HEPA air scrubbers to improve filtration in the expo hall. We are providing outdoor seating options and encourage guests to eat outside.
Thank you to the Cartoonist Cooperative for publishing the Masking Initiative and Resources guide, which was crucial to our planning!