• Location: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Jacob Burns Moot Court Room

• Description: The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal invites you to our annual Spring Symposium and first ever Comic Law Con on legal issues facing comic book creators and publishers. Issues and topics to be discussed will include publishing agreements, collaboration agreements, services agreements, and key legal and business issues for the comic book industry. The event will consist of two panels, each comprised of creators, practitioners and comic book publishing executives. First will be Perspectives on Transactions in Comic Books, and the next will focus on business and legal issues, with a question and answer discussion and a reception to follow. Food and drinks will be served.

• Panelists:
  • Karen Berger, award-winning editor and founder of Vertigo
  • David Gallaher, comic book artist and author of The Only Living Boy
  • Larry Hama, artist and writer for GI Joe and Wolverine
  • Lillian Laserson, sole practitioner and former General Counsel of DC Comics
  • Paul Levitz, writer and former President & Publisher at DC Comics
  • Bob Sikoryak, comic book artist and author of Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel 
  • Jeff Trexler, associate director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School

• Moderators:
  • Thomas Crowell, partner at Lane Sash & Larrabee, LLP and author of The Pocket Lawyer for Comic Book Creators
  • Brett Frischmann, director of the Cardozo Intellectual Property & Information Law Program

See you there!