Leadership
Jen Bateman • Stephen Henninger • Matthew Walkosz • Eric Childs
Jen Bateman, MNCBA President and Creative Director
Jen Bateman, MNCBA President and Creative Director, with their original 11" × 17" ink artwork for a 2024 MNCBA promotional poster.
Jen Bateman is a veteran of the independent comics and webcomics community with over 20 years of experience in online branding and marketing, self-publishing, and website building. In addition to being an accomplished cartoonist and illustrator, their professional work experience includes small business administration, best operating practices, team management and training, and leadership roles.
Jen grew up in Houston, TX, and moved to Saint Paul, MN, in 2015.
Jen's primary focus as leader of the MNCBA is to archive and preserve the Minnesota comic book community's past while building a vibrant, sustainable origanization that will help support the community long into the future.
Stephen "Sparky" Henninger, MNCBA Vice President
Stephen Henninger, MNCBA Vice President, at SiouxperCon 2024
Stephen Henninger's day job is Kitchen Coordinator at an Intensive Residental Treatment Services (IRTS) facility. His goals are to bring unique comic book-related content to the MNCBA newsletter, and to make MNCBA events the best comic book conventions not only in the state of Minnesota but the entire Midwest. Over the past 40 years, he has been involved with every aspect of the Minnesota comic book community except owning a comic book shop himself.
