This year the Portland Book Festival brings a whole bunch of comics-related content to PDX, including appearances from Raina Telgemeier and Kevin Huizenga, and panels with Kelly Sue DeConnick, G. Willow Wilson, Faith Erin Hicks, Graham Annable, Dylan Meconis, Jonathan Hill, Aron Nels Steinke, and Carson Ellis! Selected panels are listed below, and the full day’s schedule of events can be found at the event page!

Note: Most panels take place in locations near to the main Portland Art Museum event site.

9:20 am

• The Shortest Day
  Carson Ellis
  Oregon Historical Society Kids’ Stage, 1200 SW Park Ave.

9:30 am

• Words & Pictures: Making Children’s Literature
  Graham Annable, Mina Javaherbin, Lena Podesta, mod. Heidi Schulz
  Portland Parks Foundation Tent, Shemanski Park, 1010 SW Park Ave.

10:00 am

• Scholastic GraphixCon: Middle Grade Graphic Novels
  Gale Galligan, Jennifer L. Holm, Molly Knox Ostertag, Aron Nels Steinke, Raina Telgemeier, mod. Jonathan Hill
  Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave.

11:30 am

• Star-Crossed: Love & Friendship
  Faith Erin Hicks, Sabina Khan, Abdi Nazemlan, mod. Natasha Forrester Campbell
  The Old Church YA Stage, 1422 SW 11th Ave.

12:15 pm

• Hit Like a Girl: Three Marvel Writers
  Gabby Rivera, G. Willow Wilson, Kelly Sue DeConnick
  Portland Parks Foundation Tent, Shemanski Park, 1010 SW Park Ave.

1:00 pm

• Last Chance: Endings & Beginnings
  Faith Erin Hicks, Jennifer Dugan, Rainbow Rowell, mod. Alicia Tate
  The Old Church YA Stage, 1422 SW 11th Ave.
• Peter & Ernesto: The Lost Sloths
  Graham Annable
  Oregon Historical Society Kids’ Stage, 1200 SW Park Ave.

2:10 pm

• Science Comics: Wild Weather!
  Jonathan Hill, MK Reed, mod. Elleona Budd
  Oregon Historical Society Kids’ Stage, 1200 SW Park Ave.

3:00 pm

• OPB’s State of Wonder: The Bird King
  G. Willow Wilson, mod. April Baer
  Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave.

4:45 pm

• Stranger Things: Fiction from the Edge
  Molly Gloss, Kevin Huizenga, Karen Thompson Walker, mod. S. Zainab Williams
  Miller Gallery, Portland Art Museum, 1119 SW Park Ave.

5:10 pm

• Facing the Past: Middle Grade Novels
  Dylan Meconis, Renée Watson, mod. Heidi Schulz
  Oregon Historical Society Kids’ Stage, 1200 SW Park Ave.