Pitchfest is Back!

Get your pitches ready!  KCU Pitchfest is a gallery showcase of unpublished graphic novel projects that are reviewed by a panel of top agents and editors!  It’s a great opportunity to get your story out there and into the eyes of the best in the business.

Here’s what you gotta know:

  • Submissions are open between February 21st – March 7th.  You’ll get your ticket for the event on our website and submit your pitch from there.
  • Then a jury of distinguished agents and editors will review all of your submissions and vote for their favorites!
  • On March 29th, we host the main event!  We reveal our 2025 KCU Pitchfest Gallery along with our winners!  We also host an industry panel with our judges to help you take your pitch to the next level.
  • But why keep the fun just to ourselves?  After the main event, we share the Pitchfest Gallery with agents, editors, and art directors across the industry!

KCU Pitchfest is one of our most beloved events and we are so happy to be bringing it back in 2025.  So sharpen those pencils and put your writing caps on, Pitchfest is only a few months away!  Bring it on!

Let’s spread the word! (:

About Janna Morishima

Janna Morishima is the founder of Kids Comics Unite and a literary agent who specializes in graphic novels and visual storytelling. She started her publishing career at Scholastic, where she was one of the co-founders of the Graphix imprint. She then became director of the Kids Group for Diamond Book Distributors, where she worked with publishers such as Marvel, Dark Horse, and Oni Press, and helped launch Françoise Mouly’s Toon Books imprint. In addition to her background in publishing, she has worked as an associate producer for documentary films, and as an assistant teacher in a kindergarten and a teacher in a high school for teens in the juvenile justice system. She later launched and ran the NYC Department of Education’s “NYC Reads 365” literacy initiative.

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