MICE 2025 Contributors

Julie Lerche

Julie Lerche is a graphic novelist from Nashville, TN and now resides in Boston, MA. She graduated from SVA in 2020 and received a BFA in Cartooning. In her free time she enjoys yarn projects, playing D&D, and putting salt on things that don’t need salt.

Lucy Kagan

Lucy Kagan is a comic artist and textile designer from Raleigh, NC, who graduated from SCAD with a BFA in Sequential Arts, with a minor in Fibers in 2013. Her whimsical watercolor work centers on the everyday magic of the natural world, often with themes of how humans feel alienated from nature and struggle to feel connection again.

Cameron Mukwa

Cameron is a children's book illustrator working in graphic novels and other media. He loves to make work that represents people of all backgrounds.

Atla Hrafney

Atla is a cool comics creator from Iceland, the writer of the webcomic Gzhel Guardian, and co-founder of the Icelandic Comics Society.

Bones Leopard

Bones currently resides in Holyoke, MA with their two cats. They work across many genres and just published their first nonfiction graphic novel last year. They're hoping to launch a webcomic at the end of the year.

Scout Underhill

Scout Underhill is a storyteller who enjoys weaving a tale through sequential art. Their debut graphic novel, DNDOGGOS GET THE PARTY STARTED, earned a Kirkus starred review. They live in Nashville, TN with their hoard of dogs.

Cindy Harris

Cindy Harris is a Mexican American comics artist, letterer, and illustrator currently based in Kansas City. She enjoys exploring themes of identity and growth, and especially how they intersect with fantasy, horror, and history.

Sam Migliore

Sam Migliore is a cartoonist based out of Long Island, New York. They love making stories about anything fantastical or weird. They also enjoy making autobio comics. Their most recent work, Anything to Make It Stop, focuses on their experiences with extreme period pain.

Knack Whittle

Nakata "Knack" Whittle is a (NYT Bestselling!) cartoonist originally from Kentucky, now based out of northern Maryland. Their favorite stories and things to work on are horror, fantasy (modern and classic), historical fiction with a twist, and sci-fi stories. Bonus points if these genres are studded with queer themes, unique world-building, complicated interpersonal relationships, and found family. In their spare time they can be found babying their cat, playing TTRPGs, and exploring historical sites along the US east coast.

Mika Khaytin

Mika Khaytin (GoatPunch) is a NYC-based cartoonist with a background in science and education. Their work primarily focuses on the different relationships we encounter in our lives, whether they be familial, platonic, or romantic, and the way these relationships shape who we are as people.

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Cameron Mukwa

Cameron is a children's book illustrator working in graphic novels and other media. He loves to make work that represents people of all backgrounds.

Cindy Harris

Cindy Harris is a Mexican American comics artist, letterer, and illustrator currently based in Kansas City. She enjoys exploring themes of identity and growth, and especially how they intersect with fantasy, horror, and history.

Emily Riesbeck

Emily Riesbeck is a monster, a haunted doll and an author all in one convenient package. She was born and raised in McHenry, Illinois and live in Chicago with her polycule and cat. She believes in ghosts, aliens and, despite everything, love. Emily's work includes the graphic novels It's Your Funeral, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl, and Mountain.

Julie Lerche

Julie Lerche is a graphic novelist from Nashville, TN and now resides in Boston, MA. She graduated from SVA in 2020 and received a BFA in Cartooning. In her free time she enjoys yarn projects, playing D&D, and putting salt on things that don’t need salt.

Knack Whittle

Knack Whittle is a cartoonist and comics educator originally from Kentucky, now residing in northern Maryland. They most recently illustrated three volumes of the NYT Bestselling series Sweet Valley Twins, but have yet to debut with an original work. In their spare time they can be found babying their cat, playing TTRPGs, reading/watching vampire media, and exploring historical sites along the US east coast.

Lucy Kagan

Lucy Kagan is a comic artist and textile designer from Raleigh, NC, who graduated from SCAD with a BFA in Sequential Arts, with a minor in Fibers in 2013. Her whimsical watercolor work centers on the everyday magic of the natural world, often with themes of how humans feel alienated from nature and struggle to feel connection again.

Marsh Kaleidoscope

A Mexico-born comic artist and writer living in Ohio. Loves to make scary cute art and character designs. In their free time, they play video games, watch weird video essays and loves to try new cooking or baking recipes.

Melissa Capriglione

Melissa Capriglione is a comic artist and illustrator who loves cats, jfashion, death metal, and lesbians. She graduated from Herron School of Art and Design in 2017 and published her first graphic novel, "Basil and Oregano" with Dark Horse in 2021.

Mika Khaytin

Mika Khaytin (GoatPunch) is a NYC-based cartoonist with a background in science and education. Their work primarily focuses on the different relationships we encounter in our lives, whether they be familial, platonic, or romantic, and the way these relationships shape who we are as people.

Robin Easter

Robin Easter is a cartoonist and illustrator who graduated from SCAD with a BFA in Sequential Art. They are also a grown-up theater kid, former camp counselor, and walking encyclopedia of random facts. Robin currently lives in PA with their cats and more dice than any reasonable person should own.

Spekterjester

Spekterjester (aka Spooky) is a Filipino-Canadian illustrator working in comics and animation. A graduate of OCAD Illustration, their past work includes Lycan's Nocturne (webtoon, 2017-2021).They are currently working on their next webtoon, A Sanguine Cabaret (set to release 2026). In their spare time they like to draw their OCs, play TTRPGs and sing their lungs out at concerts.

Xed Kim

Xed used to dabble in long form fancomics and now make short form original comics. They are preoccupied with the concept of a fish at the moment.