Southeast Missouri State University’s The Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum will host a Cape Mini Comic Con 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12 at the River Campus, which is a one day event that will feature discussion panels, vendors, a costume contest, other attraction booths and more.

Crisp Museum director, Peter Nguyen and Amanda Rhodes, who is the assistant to Cape Comic Con founder and manager Ken Murphy, coordinated and managed the event.

The Mini Comic Con will be in conjunction with the “Heroes, Villains, Monsters” art exhibition. The exhibition will feature the art of Terese Nielsen, Rick Burchett, Paul Gulacy and William Stout. Nielsen, Burchett and Stout will be on a discussion panel at the Mini Comic Con to discuss their art and careers.

While the art exhibition is being held in the Crisp museum, the Mini Comic Con and its events will be held in the main atrium of the Cultural Arts Center and the discussion panel and other performances will be held in the Wendy Kurka Rust Theatre.

The Mini Comic Con and Crisp museum hope to add an element of education to the event through the exhibition taking place next to it and the discussion panels.

The topics will cover mainly the art industry and provide insight into its inner workings. Another panel by Dr. Joni Hand will be about the unique satirical doodles and drawing found in the margins of medieval manuscripts and how they are comparable to comic book characters.

Guests can participate to win a series of door prizes, according to Nguyen.

“People who attend will be able to receive a ticket stub that entitles them to door prizes,” Nguyen said. “We’ll be giving away posters, signed posters by all four artists who have work in the exhibition. We’ll be randomly, throughout Saturday, drawing tickets.”

Other prizes include signed comic books and T-shirts.

The event is not-for-profit and admission is free.

“I'm looking forward to the mini-con,” Rhodes said. “I greatly enjoy working on Cape Comic Con, and it's only once a year, so getting to work on this mini-con is great.The best part is the people. Meeting new people, seeing familiar faces, seeing the costumes, and all the variety of vendors — it's just a big whirlwind of excitement and fun. And of course, costume contests are always fun.”

The full schedule of events and further information can be found at the Cape Mini-Comic Con Facebook page, as well as the larger annual Cape Comic Con’s Facebook.