Magdalene Visaggio is the Eisner- and GLAAD Media Award–nominated writer of the cult-favorite comics series Kim & Kim, Eternity Girl, and Morning in America as well as the acclaimed graphic novel Girlmode. She is also a pretty solid guitarist. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, she now lives in New York City with her wife and cat.

Viditya Voleti is an award winning game writer, designer, and educator; creator of Bloodbeam Badlands, Space Goblins!, and LONGSWORD. His diverse body of work explores all aspects of play and interaction and he is always excited to make something bad. He’s worked on a diversity of projects and clients across the spectrum of the TTRPG industry from Paizo and Evil Hat to World Champ Games Co and Possum Creek.

Richard Ruane is a Philadelphia-based tabletop RPG creator and founder of R. Rook Studio. His work includes Moonlight on Roseville Beach, which won an ENnie Award in 2023, Dark Design in Verdigris, Sherwood, My Chivalric Bromance, Barrow Keep, and the forthcoming Silver Age. In addition to running R. Rook Studio, he’s the ops wizard at Plus One EXP, where he also works on developing and producing new projects. He was previously a copyeditor for White Wolf Publishing and a writer for the romance comics series Young Bottoms in Love, and created the short-lived Two Shy Guys comics series with his friend J. Brett Hopkins.

Terry Blas is the GLAAD award winning illustrator and writer behind the viral webcomics You Say Latino and You Say Latinx. He wrote Ariana Grande vs Sergeant Shade and the Clonebot Brigade, the comic book tie-in for her R.EM. fragrance. He is also the writer of Steven Universe comics for Boom, and Rick and Morty comics for Oni Press. His original graphic novels are Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom, Hotel Dare, Lifetime Passes, and Eat Your Heart Out, all of which feature queer and Mexican characters. He wrote the Marvel series: Reptil: Brink of Extinction, Nova, and Runaways as well as Wonder Woman and Vixen for DC comics. He graduated from PNCA in 2010 with a degree in Illustration.

Sara Gómez Woolley is an award-winning Latina illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her clients include National Geographic, DC Comics, Image Comics, Scholastic, and Random House.

Her ongoing project, Esperancitaʼs Mostly True Memoir—a fictionalized graphic memoir created in collaboration with her mother and art partner, Leila Gómez Woolley—was awarded by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and is slated for publication by Lee & Low Books in 2026.

Sara was selected by the U.S. State Department to represent the nation at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée dʼAlger (FIBDA) in Algeria, where she served as a cultural ambassador and head juror for the international cosplay competition. FIBDA, with over 130,000 attendees, is the largest comics festival in the Middle East and Africa.

She is a tenured faculty member in the Communication Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and teaches in the Biography and Memoir program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of the New York Society of Illustrators.

Sanika Phawde (She/They) is an illustrator, educator, cartoonist and reportage artist born and raised in India and based in Boston.

Through autobiographical comics, visual essays, drawings on location, gouache paintings and illustrated interviews her work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection, queer immigrant culture, and the ridiculousness of low-level family tension.

Archie Bongiovanni is the co-creator of the bestselling A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns, as well as the writer & artist of the homosexual slice-of-life graphic novels Mimosa and Grease Bats. Archie is debuting Sweatgasm: A Sexy Queer Truth & Dare game at Flame Con, published by Silver Sprocket and Plus One Exp. In 2020 Archie got a gay watersports joke into the New Yorker, thus completing all their life goals.

Ren Strapp is a comic artist, designer, and gender nonconforming lesbian werewolf. She grew up in Susquehannock territory and now lives on unceded land at the confluence of the Wimahl and Willamette rivers. Ren started her comics career in zines and web comics and will be a zinester until she dies. Her work is inspired by risograph printing and American traditional tattooing.

Her debut graphic novel HOW COULD YOU is all about making mistakes, being messy, and stumbling into adulthood.

Flame Con is excited to welcome voice actor Anjali Kunapaneni! Among many things, they are known for their work as Roy in Pokémon Horizons, Alma in Monster Hunter Wilds, Kiruko in Heavenly Delusion, and Lemon in Mashle: Magic and Muscles. You can also hear them in Jujutsu Kaisen (Yuki Tsukumo), Genshin Impact (Dori), Honkai Star Rail (Sushang), Heaven Official’s Blessing (Shi Qingxuan), and much more! As a writer, Anjali contributed to the upcoming Date Everything!, releasing June 17.

Marin has a passion for talking and language, which has led to a fruitful career in foreign dubbing and ADR. Marin is a voice actor and writer working out of Los Angeles known for their work as Nimbus in DESTINY 2, Athena, Alecto and Tisiphone in Supergiant Games’ HADES, Athena in HADES 2, the Caretaker in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Abyss in MASHLE: Magic and Muscles, Namari in Delicious in Dungeon, Minato in RANMA 1/2, Nasiens in Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Thrud and Benzaiten in RECORD OF RAGNAROK, Enkidu in Fate/strange Fake and Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia, Opal in Pokemon: Master Journeys, Amanda O’Neill in Little Witch Academia, Mossan in FLCL: Alternative/Shoegaze, Fiora in Fire Emblem Heroes, Kyosuke in Madoka Magica, Gloxinia in Seven Deadly Sins, Izanami in B: The Beginning, Satoshi in Anohana, Ursula in Spirit Chronicles, Recon in Sword Art Online, Viola in Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, Mirina in Etrian Odyssey V, as well as in projects like DEAD SPACE (2023), World of Warcraft, FENA: Pirate Princess, Yashahime, Junji Ito Maniac: Tales of the Macabre, Fate/ZERO, CANNON BUSTERS, Ranking of Kings, Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU. When Marin isn’t behind a mic, they can usually be found working pre-production or as the english script adapter on projects like RANMA 1/2, SHOGUN, The Fable, KENGAN ASHURA, Kakegurui Twin, CANNON BUSTERS, Persona 5: The Animation, Lupin the 3rd: The First, Promare, Visitors and Gundam SEED/DESTINY.