A Con for a Cause
Each year student and teacher volunteers from Trenton Central High School host the Trenton Charity Comic Con, an initiative to raise money for a selected charity. In its fourth annual outing this year, students in the school’s Comic Book and Manga Club voted to dedicate the funds to the anti-sexual violence organization R.A.I.N.N. (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network).
A $5 contribution included admission to the event as well as a free randomly-selected back issue comic book — I received a 1993 issue of Valiant’s X-O Manowar autographed by artist Jim Calafiore — and your choice of two recent Free Comic Book Day books.
Located in the school’s gymnasium, the show’s exhibition hall provided a spacious venue with vendors and comics dealers lining the outer perimeter of the path around the gym and comics artists and writers arrayed along in the inner perimeter.
Comics creators in attendance included noted writer Amy Chu, Eisner-nominated artist and designer Tyler Boss, and New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland.
Also present were students and alumni from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. Third-year Kubert School student Dylan Dietrich recently won a competition held by publishing imprint Ghost Machine in conjunction with the Kubert School which gave him the opportunity to create a variant cover published by Ghost Machine for Geiger #10.
Cosplay was provided by members of the 501st Legion and a number of costumed guests.
For a additional photos from the event, see the Flickr album Trenton Charity Comic Con 2025:
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