The fifth annual Non-Fiction Comics Festival will feature panel discussions, workshops, and exhibiting cartoonists creating non-fiction and autobiographical work, with special events and workshops held throughout the entire weekend!
2026’s Special Guests include:
Gemma Correll, Mike Dawson, Tillie Walden, Jonathan Todd, Hazel Newlevant, Sanika Phawde, Caitlin McGurk, Daryl Seitchik, Vivian Li, Katy Doughty, Stephanie Stalvey, and Camila Kerwin.
From science to politics, history to health care, cartooning has exploded as a legitimate medium for exploring non-fiction topics and the textures of lived experience.
With roots in the Vermont Folklife Center’s Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest (2017, 2018 & 2019) and their partnership with the University of Vermont, the Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium (2017 & 2018), NCFS celebrates the full scope of non-fiction cartooning with the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont.
2026 Poster by Christine Tyler Hill, Creator of The Cloud Report
