NEW OAX 2026 ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE AT 12TH COMIC ART LIVE

During separate Comic Art LIVE (CAL) panels, it was announced that OAX 2026 will now add A2X and GAX, as well as IC3@OAX.

The Animation Art Expo (A2X) housed within OAX will present original artworks from the amazing and diverse world of animation and cartoons, predominantly from Japan and the United States. These artworks include cels, backgrounds, storyboards, model sheets, production drawings, and other production art. You can hear more about A2X from our CAL panel on animation art starting at the 48:11 mark HERE.

The Game Art Expo (GAX) housed within OAX focuses on original artworks created for video games, pinball machines, board games, and other gaming categories including conceptual, box, cartridge, backglass, playfield, promotional, and advertising art. You can learn more about GAX from our CAL panel on game art HERE.

Indie Comics Creator Con (IC3) is now a part of OAX and will focus on showcasing established and legendary independent comic book creators, as well as up-and-coming indie talent. You can learn more about IC3@OAX from our CAL panel highlighting Athenaeum Comic Art HERE. 

NEW PRE-SHOW COMMISSION OPPORTUNITIES

This past weekend during live CAL panels on our CAF+ YouTube channel, we brought on a number of OAX 2026 artists for interviews and to announce their pre-OAX offerings. Here’s a list of those artists with links to their individual pre-OAX pages on the OAX web site. 

• MATTHEW ALLISON    
• JULIE BELL – ALMOST GONE
• JOSH CASSARA  – SOLD OUT
• MAXI DALL’O
• ADI GRANOV  – SOLD OUT
• JAMIE JONES
• ADAM KUBERT – SOLD OUT    
• JAMES MARTIN
• MORITAT    
• SIYA OUM  – SOLD OUT
• GEORGE PRATT    
• JOE QUINONES
• JONATHAN WAY$HAK  – SOLD OUT

The Original Art Expo (OAX) will take place in Orlando, Florida from February 20-22, 2026. OAX is the premier narrative art-focused event in the world that exclusively showcases original comic book, illustration, collector card, comic strip, game, animation, and other visual storytelling art. The show is an intimate, intense, and immersive three-day art fair and trade show hybrid focused entirely on this emerging and important art collecting category.

OAX is also home to the newly created Jack and Roz Kirby awards, which will be an annual award recognizing innovation from excellence, and humanity in the narrative arts. More information at the OAX website, and you can read our recent joint press release here.

   

Cartoonist Nate Powell, best known for his work on the original MARCH and RUN graphic novels, signs at Carol & John’s Comic Shop in Cleveland, OH on Saturday, November 29th at 6pm.

Carol & John’s Comic Shop
17462 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44111
(216) 252-0606

   

Writer PHILLIP K JOHNSON (Hulk, Action Comics, Last God) signs THE INFERNAL HULK #1 at Third Eye ANNAPOLIS on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 7PM-8PM.

More details on Facebook!

Third Eye Comics | 209 Chinquapin Round Road, Annapolis, MD 21401 | (410) 897-0322

   

Cosmic Monkey Comics is excited to have Wyatt Kennedy signing copies of his new comic, Wiccan: Witches Road, Wednesday, December 3rd from 4-6pm.

RSVP on Facebook!

Cosmic Monkey Comics
5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97213
(503) 517-9050

   

We are SUPER EXCITED to announce our THIRD OFFICIAL GUEST for the 2026 Charlotte Mini-Con, MR. RICK LEONARDI!!!
Rick’s art has graced countless titles over the years, from Cloak & Dagger to Spidey 2099 for Marvel, as well as Batman Beyond and Nightwing for DC!

He also has a Kickstarter for his NEW BOOK “Blue Angel” as well as a Sketchbook that will deliver in January! If you back it in the next five days, you should have it in hand just in time to get your copy signed at the 49th Anniversary Charlotte Mini-Con on Saturday, January 31st!!

RICK’S BLUE ANGEL/SKETCHBOOK KICKSTARTER (Get yours ordered ASAP!):

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!

More info on our website.