Kids Comics Pitchfest 2026 Showcase
Comics creators from around the world submit their unpublished projects to be previewed online by editors and agents. A panel of judges (click here to see the juror list) select the top pitches. Projects are archived here so that industry pros may view them and discover new talent.
The Ballad of Meteor Pete
There was a time when legends walked the spaceways! Meteor Pete McGraw was the most legendary of all—but now he's reduced to busking for coins on a grubby space station. A group of kids are drawn in by his eccentric ways, and he starts to regale them with tales of his adventures across the solar system—gondoliering on the canals of Mars, working in a green cheese restaurant on the moon, courting the Queen of Venus, and, most amazing of all, discovering the legendary golden asteroid of Cashpot, guarded by dark forces that would turn your hair white to see 'em...
Age Range:
Middle Grade (approx ages 9-12)Genre:
Adventure, Fantasy, Humor, Magical Realism, Science FictionPage Count Estimate:
150-200
My Why:
Adam's had a lifelong love of tall tales of the American frontier (and other places), the ridiculous stories built up by braggarts and unreliable narrators, inflated into ridiculousness. He's also always had a fondness for science fiction, but also for the goofy 'folklore' that formed around space before it was studied scientifically--canals on Mars, heavenly spheres, and so on. So he figured, why not combine the two?
Our future is shaped by the stories we tell, and increasingly it seems like we're headed for a dreary future, so I think it's important to push back with fun and imagination, the way Pete does. He represents lying your way to the truth--why wouldn't we call someone like that a hero, by cracky?
Comp Titles:
Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero by Jeff Smith; Cleopatra in Space by Mike Maihack; Asterix by Goscinny & UnderzoAdam Prosser
Adam is a writer, artist, and editor of comics online and off. He's the writer and penciler of this project. His online comics include Dash Platypus and Nightbeach, on his Patreon, and he's the editor of the Strange Romance comics anthology. He's the newsletter editor for the Cartoonist Co-op and also podcasts far more than is healthy. He lives in Toronto with his wife under the watchful eye of a yorkshire terrier mix who enforces deadlines by barking at him.
Shiro Gauthier
Sharon Gauthier (They/Them) is a Quebec artist that picked up a pencil at age 3 and never put it down. Self-taught, they drew and/or inked and/or colored projects for several IPs including ComicHouse, Indies Auroraman and Auric of the Great White North and co-created Barbarian Queen Karybdis.