John Jennings (Eisner Award winner), Quinn McGowan (Eisner nominee), Mark Nazal (Emmy Award winner), Tara Madison Avery (Ignatz Award winner), and Britton Payne (entertainment attorney) discuss creating original comics and turning them into lasting intellectual property. Practical strategies for worldbuilding, publishing, marketing, protecting your work, and growing your audience while building a comics career on your own terms will be covered. Whether just starting out or expanding an existing project, attendees will leave with tools to create, launch, and sustain their own comics IP. Moderated by Lorran Garrison (school psychologist, Little Brainstorm).