Carla Speed McNeil is the author and artist of Finder. She started working in comics in 1997 and hasn’t stopped since. She has also worked on a variety of projects like providing art for Queen & Country: Operation: Stormfront from Oni Press, adapted and drew Pendragon: The Merchant of Death (based on the prose book by D. J. MacHale) for Simon & Schuster, and drawn fan-favorite Frank Ironwine for Apparat/Avatar, as well as two pages of Transmetropolitan for DC/Vertigo, both by Warren Ellis. Bad Houses was released in 2013 by Dark Horse Comics, after which she began a long series of collaborations with writer Alex De Campi, including Ashes, My Little Pony (IDW), and No Mercy (Image) beginning April 2015. Other smaller projects have included drawing Legends of Red Sonja (Dynamite), the short story Here. In My Head (with writer Elizabeth Genco) for from Image, and shorts in notable anthologies such as The Sleep of Reason and Cautionary Fairy Tales of Africa. She has won an Eisner Award, Ignatz Awards, the Kim Yale New Talent Award from Friends Of Lulu, the L.A. Times Book Prize for graphic novel in 2012, and three Stumptown Comic Arts Awards.

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Journey into Fantasy
Friday September 25, 2026 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Room: 338
Fantasy comics can take readers into worlds they never dreamed of – and in this panel, three masters of that genre will talk about what fantasy means to them. Join Brett Bean (D’Orc, I Hate Fairyland), Colleen Doran (The Sandman, Snow, Glass, Apples), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Pendragon: The Merchant of Death), and Erica Schultz (Rogue, Spawn: Rat City) as they discuss their comics’ worlds with moderator Bob Harrison.
Sunday September 27, 2026 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Room: 339–342
When they’re not drawing comics, these cartoonists can be found teaching the next generation of artists. What drives them to teach, and what lessons do they learn in the classroom? Find out from Jamal Igle (Molly Danger, The Wrong Earth), Klaus Janson (Daredevil, Detective Comics), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Queen and Country: Operation Stormfront), and moderator Bob Greenberger.
