Web Comicon 2024

The first ever WebComicon is coming to Metro Detroit August 3-4 at the Rust Belt Market in Ferndale.

This event will feature some of the most popular artists on the internet including Nick Seluk (The Awkward Yeti) Sarah Anderson (Sarah’s Scribbles) Dave McElfatrick (Cyanide and Happiness) Jim Benton (Catwad Dear Dumb Diary) Reza Farazmad (Poorly Drawn Lines) and more.

WebComicon will give fans an opportunity to meet their favorite artists get autographs and personalized sketches take pictures discover new artists and interact with the artists in a way they never have before.

There will be special panels featuring the various artists for fans to learn more about them ask questions and even watch a few of them at work in some live drawing games.

On Sunday kids will get in free and there will be specific panels and activities geared towards the younger fans.

Those interested in attending or learning more about the event can go to webcomicon.net to purchase tickets see a list of artists attending and email questions to the event coordinators.

The event is the brainchild of local artist and author Nick Seluk a New York Times best seller of the Heart and Brain comic series as well as three Scholastic Children’s Books. Nick who goes by the artist name the Awkward Yeti is a lifelong Michigander who pursued his dreams of making his art into a career and started his own company in 2013 based in his hometown of Northville.

Host or Publisher The Awkward Store