Laker Con

Sunday, September 29, 2024
All day
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

Laker Con is a three-day comics convention held at the Mary Idema Pew Library in the GVSU Allendale Campus. Our mission is to celebrate comics literacy, the scholarly merits of sequential storytelling and exalt the visual art of storytelling. This event is free and open to the GVSU community and the public.

Friday (9/27) from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Saturday (9/28) from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sunday (9/29) from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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This event is recurring on Friday, September 27, 2024 and Saturday, September 28, 2024.

Location Information

Laker Con will take place in the Grand Atrium on the lower level of the Mary Idema Pew Library.

Parking Information: How to Obtain Your Free Visitor Permit for Laker Con

GVSU is a permit-only campus. Visitors may obtain one from University Library staff, the Parking Service office, or utilize the pay-to-park locations.

** Active Students, Faculty, and Staff are not eligible for visitor permits. Please visit the student and faculty/staff permit pages for more information.**

GVSU Parking Regulations Apply. Please see GVSU Parking for details on visitor requirements.

Guests and visitors may utilize the pay-to-park areas marked in green on the campus maps. When parking in pay-to-park, we highly recommend using ParkMobile.
If you would prefer a permit at no cost, visit the Service Desk on the first floor of the Mary Idema Pew Library to get a parking permit from Library staff when you arrive on campus or email [email protected] to receive a pass by email you can print and place in your vehicle in advance.
A parking permit is required for Laker Con Weekend (from 09/27/2024 - 09/29/2024.) The visitor permit is valid in Lot H3, Lot H4 ONLY. The permit must be printed and displayed on the dashboard of each vehicle. It must be placed on the lower left corner (driver's side) of the dash.
ADA parking is available in the Kirkhof Center (KC) Parking Lot.

More wayfinding information can be found at campus maps.

Download parking map for the Allendale Campus

Contact Information

Durwin Talon
Coordinator, Illustration, Department of Visual and Media Arts
[email protected]

Stacey Burns
Programs and Outreach Manager, University Libraries
[email protected]

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This event was added to the calendar by Stacey Burns (burnssta@gvsu.edu) on Friday, May 10, 2024 and was last updated on Friday, September 6, 2024 at 4:41 p.m.