The Next Panel Small Press Comics Expo takes place Friday October 24 and Saturday October 25, 2008 at the Link Gallery, adjacent to the Krannert Art Museum, on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The expo commemorates the opening of Krannert's historic comic arts exhibition Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics.

Guest artists from the Out of Sequence exhibition include:
Mama's Boyz creator Jerry Craft
Illustrator and My Hafu creator Leilani Hickerson
Whisp and Deadly Mansion of Doom co-creator/publisher Dann Tincher,
Millennia War creator Ashley A. Woods.

Special guest:
Letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

And many more local artists!

On Saturday, October 24 @ 1:30pm, Jerry Craft will be offering a cartooning workshop, FREE to the public. To register contact Chris Schaede at the Krannert Museum: 217-333-1861, schaede@illinois.edu.

The Krannert Art Museum is located at 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL, 61821.

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