#198: Warrior-Con 2025

Warrior Con is family-friendly and jam packed comic con held at Maine West High School in the Chicago suburban city of Des Plaines which aims to support the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters.

This was the second year for the show, held on Saturday, November 22nd, and featured some National and Chicagoland’s artists and illustrators, headlined by creator/writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson, best known for his work on Superman/Action Comics, Batman and Robin, The Incredible Hulk, Alien, and 007.

I had a chance to talk with a number of the artists, authors and vendors during the event about how they came to the show and about what they had on hand for those in attendance.

Bernie Gerstmayer - Organizer - Fine Arts Teacher, Maine West High School

Minerva Fox - Artist @blue_troller

Lee and Jamie Strange Deer Press @strange_deer

Kyle Faehnrich Goons & Goblins @goonsngoblins

Art Baltazar artist artbaltazar.com

Derek Shriver - Tweaks Toys, Chicago Trade Federation

Jeff McCune and Jason Fleigel - Chicago Trade Federation

Phillip Kennedy Johnson - Comic creator/writer @phillipkjohnson phillipkennedyjohnson.com

Beth Zwolski Tobias chalk Girl @thechalkgirl

Bret Juliano - Dust Bunny Mafia @dustbunnymafia

Ryan Vila @the_vilartist

@warriorcon on Instagram

warrior-con website

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