Lit Con 2025: Your Ultimate Guide to Events, Activities, and New Reads

Last year's first-ever Lit Con was a huge success, helping to introduce thousands of people to graphic novels and manga. Prince William Public Libraries is excited to bring Lit Con back from April 21–May 4. This year's Lit Con will once again celebrate and feature these genres with programs, activities, and fun for all ages.

Highlights include:

Super Art Fight
All Ages/Families
Haymarket Gainesville: Saturday, April 26, 2:00 p.m.
Montclair: Saturday, May 3, 2:00 p.m.
Super Art Fight is the greatest live art competition in the known universe where two or more artists battle against each other on a giant canvas. You be the judge and help determine the winner of the Art Fight!

Mod Podge Mania
Grades 6–12
Montclair: Tuesday, April 22, 4:00 p.m.
Central: Monday, April 28, 5:30 p.m.
Bull Run: Tuesday, April 29, 5:00 p.m.
Haymarket Gainesville: Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 p.m.
Transform manga book pages into personalized works of art! In this hands–on activity, use Mod Podge to adhere your favorite manga pages to wood shapes, frames, or placards. All materials are provided.

Dice Delight
Young Adults/Adults
Haymarket Gainesville: Monday, April 21, 5:30 p.m.
Bull Run: Tuesday, April 22, 6:00 p.m.
Montclair: Wednesday, April 30, 5:00 p.m.
Make tabletop game dice sets with us! Design and create your own dice sets with ease and precision. Registration required. 

If you're interested in reading more manga series and graphic novels, here are new titles that just hit our shelves:

A classic manga, "Orochi," was published almost 55 years ago. A connected series of short stories rather than a single story like most manga, "Orochi" was written by Kazuo Muezu and is considered one of the most notable horror mangas ever published. The original nine stories have recently been republished in a four-volume set.

A new graphic novel series for young readers, the "Mapmakers" series has three volumes so far. This series follows a young girl named Alidade who lives in a land called "the Valley." Alidade discovers a magic map that gives her access to knowledge and power and starts her on a quest to save her home. This series is a great introduction to fantasy for kids.

One of the most popular manga of the recent past was the 72-volume "Naruto." We already carried this series, but recently, we acquired some replacements for missing volumes. We have also begun carrying the sequel, "Boruto," featuring the titular character, who is the son of Naruto. This series is up to 23 volumes, with more to come.

Some other long-running and familiar manga series are getting new volumes and new copies to fill in gaps–that includes the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" manga series, which finished over 20 years ago but continues to find new readers, so we have added new copies for missing volumes.

There are many other new manga series and graphic novels for all ages, including adventure, mystery, horror, romance, and more. Discover a whole new way of reading! Place a hold on any of the titles mentioned in our Online Catalog at pwcva.gov/library or stop by one of our libraries to browse and see what titles interest you.

Flip through the pages of Explore or search “Lit Con” in our Online Events Calendar to plan your experience! to see more than 30 Lit Con programs coming to you in two action-packed weeks, including Take and Makes and Free Comic Book Day programs on Saturday, May 3, at Dumfries and Manassas City Library.