Cookeville Comic Arts Festival
A Celebration of Sequential Art in the Upper Cumberland
April 26th - May 3rd, 2025 // Cookeville, TN
The Local Comics Expo
April 26th, 11 am - 3 pm
Cookeville Art Studio & Gallery
186 S Walnut Ave Suite A
Cookeville, TN
Meet local comics creators and shop from their works! ​
Free to attend, please drop on by for some community sequential art fun.​​
Exhibiting Artists
80s kid raised on Saturday morning cartoons and cheesy horror movies, all of which fed into my art and illustrated pieces.
Lorn Pup
Lorn Pup is an artist and comic enthusiast with a passion for upcycling and creating mixed media. His work often tackles themes of mental health, upcycling, and music. Using art as a way to process and express an array of emotions, his work manifests through many different mediums. By blending different materials and styles, Lorn Pup brings new life to forgotten objects. A lover of music, movies, and the outdoors, he finds inspiration in the world around him. Lorn Pup continues to channel his experiences into his art, embracing his unique journey.
I’m aiming to tell the story of a 12-year old boy monster and his single father by blending elements from genre comics, gothic literature, grunge, and Christianity.
Hyena Hell
Hyena Hell's cartooning smashes up DIY punk aesthetics with classic silver age comics in an unholy farce for people who like John Waters movies and Kafka. They usually don't write their own bio because it comes out sounding like this. They've been self publishing comics and zines for 25 years, and their DEMONS series, published by Silver Sprocket. Hyena also works with Sequential Artists Workshop as a comics mentor, which is definitely not the same thing as a cult leader, no matter what people may have told you. They embody the demonic in rural Kentucky, with two very good dogs.
Audrey McDonald is an illustrator and mixed media artist based in Middle Tennessee. They specialize in comic art and narrative illustrations. Their illustrations emphasize the human body as an element of art by embellishing line work and color. To Audrey, art is a constant journey that cannot be satiated by one medium. While they prefer drawing, they are sometimes compelled to paint, throw clay, crochet, and linocut print. Audrey's career goal is to publish a series of graphic novels and inspire others to get creative.
Joseph Christy
Just a storyteller making comics, zines, paintings.
Charles "cached" Acheson is a comics maker and educator living in Middle Tennessee. After completing his Ph.D. in Comics from the University of Florida, he began producing comics and stickers as a hobbyist. He is currently self-employed as a learning designer, intersecting his passions for teaching and creativity.
Always something about stars. Has spent the majority of their life rearranging daydreams into chronological order, and detailing these stories in whatever visual way they can. A majority through digital art, where every picture must tell a story.
Matt Knieling is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Cookeville. With a lifelong foundation in comics, cartoons, and gaming, he enjoys creating zany and. whimsical drawings. He has a passion for sequential art, producing one-shot mini comics as well as the occasional self-lambasting journal strip. He is proud to have been organizing CCAF since the first festival in 2013.