Abby Denson, Heather Gallagher, Dave Roman, Marc Wilkofsky

This national, not-for-profit organization is geared toward bringing more women and girls into comic books as professionals and readers, along with publicizing today's many female creators.

Check us out at www.friends-lulu.org and www.friends-lulu.org/ny, and please be sure to stop by the New York chapter's table for freebies and fun. Plus, don't miss our Lulu Jeopardy! game show this weekend...a trivia contest with prizes!

Abby Denson

Website: http://www.abbycomix.com
Abby Denson has scripted Powerpuff Girls comics, Simpsons Comics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Disney Adventures, and comics for Nickelodeon Magazine. Plus, she draws and writes her own comics, most recently Pop Secret for XY Magazine, Deadsy Cat & Kissy Kitty, and her new self-published mini-comic, Dolltopia. She rocks out in her spare time with her bands Abbymatic and The Saturday Night Things. She loves New York, container gardening, and petting her cat, Slinky.

Dorothy Gambrell

Website: http://www.catandgirl.com
Dorothy Gambrell was born on Long Island like everyone else and moved to Brooklyn like everyone else. She has been drawing the wonderful, charming (and funny!) series "Cat and Girl" on the Internet since 1999. She is afraid of dogs and house fires.

Jenny Gonzalez

Website: http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/devildoll/
A cartoonist/illustrator and a rockin' singer, New York resident Jenny Gonzalez has contributed to the multi-cartoonist 9/11 paperback, Legal Action Comics and Friends of Lulu's Broad Appeal book, among several other wild works. To check out her comic Too Negative and her other stuff, stop by her Web site.

Tintin Pantoja

Website: www.mentaltentacle.com
Tintin Pantoja is an artist/writer, and the creator of weekly Webcomics, including the fantasy story Sevenplains (featuring Loop Garrote and ancient, immortal beasts sleeping underground...!) and Jayananda. She is also a New York City student and would love for you to look at her stories and artwork on her website.

Friends of Lulu Panels

WOMEN CREATING COMICS!

Friends of Lulu, an organization which brings more women and girls into comic books, presents an engaging panel featuring several of today's female professionals speaking about creating their own comics of all types. How are the popular, innovative mini-comics produced, what's the deal with Webcomics, and how can you be part of the excitement? Abby Denson (Dolltopia; PowerPuff Girls), Dorothy Gambrell (Cat and Girl), Jenny Gonzalez (Too Negative) and Tintin Pantoja (MentalTentacle.com comics) will tell you!

LULU JEOPARDY!

Comic Book Game Show
Know your comic book trivia? Prove it at this fun game show, returning to I-CON for a second year, and win cool prizes! Anyone can win, so don't miss this event, brought to you by Friends of Lulu.

CREATE YOUR OWN MINI-COMIC

Friends of Lulu will help you produce a mini-comic book! People of all talents and ages are welcome to this free workshop, and we'll supply the materials. We just want to prove that comics are for everyone! Hosted by the lively Tim Kelly (Zook and Max). Stop by our booth for more info, and learn how Friends of Lulu brings more women and girls into comics.