SFZF2024 Guest of Honor
& Invited Guests
Eddie Ahn
Guest of Honor
Thinking Captions Reading (Fri., Aug. 30, Silver Sprocket, 6-7:30 pm)
Q&A (Sep. 1 at City View at Metreon, 3-4pm)
We are thrilled to announce Eddie Ahn as our 2024 Guest of Honor.
Ahn is a self-taught artist and creator of ADVOCATE, a graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House, in April 2024. For over 15 years, he has served as a nonprofit attorney and the executive director of Brightline Defense, a San Francisco-based environmental justice nonprofit. He has also served as an AmeriCorps member, teaching arts and public speaking classes for elementary students in Oakland Chinatown. In addition to his nonprofit work, his art is displayed on utility boxes and walls throughout the city, and he has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.
Instagram: instagram.com/ehacomics/
Website: tinyurl.com/advocate-eha
Thinking Captions Zine Reading
Friday, August 30 from 6 - 7:30 pm at Silver Sprocket
The following guests were invited by Eddie Ahn
Jane Gorelik (wah.ah.ah) is a comic artist, illustrator and designer born in SF and based in LA who blends the thrills of horror, sci-fi, and anime into vibrant illustrations. Their comics delve into dreams, the strange, and yearning; they love the delightfully weird and embrace a touch of cringe. Their passion for fantastical worlds translates to their professional work as well – you can find their art in animated shows such as Scavengers Reign, Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, and Common Side Effects.
Mary Shyne is a cartoonist living in Sonoma County. By day she works as a staff artist at the Snoopy Studio, and by night she draws YA graphic novels about Midwestern teens. Her debut graphic novel You and Me on Repeat comes out May 2025 from Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.
Raty Syka is an illustrator, comic artist, and printmaker based in Santa Cruz, CA, with an academic background in sociocultural anthropology. As a candidate in UC Santa Cruz’s Environmental Art & Social Practice Program (MFA ‘24), Raty has been interested in creating visual media that conveys issues at the heart of agriculture and sustainability in surprising ways. Current research interests surround sheep and goat grazing for wildfire prevention throughout the state of California.
Sophie Wang (or Shuf, she/her) is a researcher, educator, artist, and zine gremlin based in Minneapolis and with roots in LA. She makes zines/comics/art that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and forms of knowledge-making, as well as other themes like unions, immigration, and drinking too much coffee. Her work covers topics ranging from equity and exclusion in science museums to campaign demands against predictive policing in LA.