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Adams |
Eric Adams is best known as the creator and self-publisher of LACKLUSTER WORLD, a satire about a man with albinism fending off his fanatically religious siblings while using vandalism and his journalism career to change the world before it changes him. It has been nominated for the 2004 Howard E Day Prize and the 2008 S.P.A.C.E. Prize. He is also the writer of REFLECTION, a 2009 S.P.A.C.E. Prize winner; the artist of STUART, which ran in the FOUR STORIES anthology and NEGATIVE BURN; and a contributor to Newsarama.com, writing SEQUENTIAL SMARTS, a thorough series of articles about the business and marketing comics from the self-publisher perspective. Check out Eric and his work at www.ericadams.net and www.lacklusterworld.com |
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Alamy |
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| Jon |
Alderink |
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Allen |
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| Mahmud |
Asrar |
Mahmud Asrar is an Austrian comic book artist living in Turkey best known for co-creating and drawing the critically acclaimed Dynamo 5 series from Image Comics. Currently he is working as a penciler for Marvel on various projects. His published work include Nova, She-Hulk, Avengers: The Initiative, Thunderbolts and soon, Siege - Young Avengers. His work can also be found in other publications by DC, Zenescope, Rittenhouse and others. For more information please visit anjum.deviantart.com. |
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Atkins |
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| Brian |
Babendererde |
Brian is the creator of the graphic novel Soul Chaser Betty. Originally published as a webcomic, the book was a launch title for www.GraphicSmash.com, a spin off of the popular Modern Tales website. Betty appeared on the site through 2004, becoming one of its most popular series. In 2007 Betty was collected into a “director’s cut” Graphic Novel. Brian is also a veteran of the video game industry with over 20 titles to his credit, including Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity (Named in the top 25 of the “Best 50 Games Ever Made” by PC Gamer) ,the cult classic Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, and PSI-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, which was named by Game Informer as one of the “25 Games That Defined The XBOX Experience.” Brian currently lives in the suburbs of Chicago, where he continues to work as a freelance game designer and artist. His work has been featured in the book Visual Storytelling: The Art and Technique by Tony Caputo. An online gallery of his work is available at www.twilighttangents.com. |
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Baker |
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| Jeff |
Balke |
I actually got my first coloring gig off Myspace just by posting some color work up. It was my own creations I was coloring, but I got more comments on my colors vs my illustrations (hmmm). So from them on I decided to color. A few people in the industry commented and gave me some work to color just to start building up my portfolio. While doing that, I had After Hours Press contact me and say they would like me to color Foxwood Falcons cover to cover. 2007 really started my career in coloring comics. Since then, I’ve worked on the Sire, Velvet Rope, Jesus Hates Zombies, The Secret Cross, Talon (just to name a few). Currently I’m working on a graphic novel called FootSoldiers and working on a few projects with Art Baltazar and Franco. In 2008 I created something called Sketch Coloring. This is my way of creating a sketch for someone at a show or signing. Sketch Coloring is when you bring up a sketch cover of any comic (or really anything black and white including sketches) and I color it right there on the spot. I’ve so far colored sketch covers, sketches, posters, prints, t-shirts to even a small stamp. The possibilities are endless. But this is my way of creating something “ONE OF A KIND”. |
| Art |
Baltazar |
Check this out! Art is a super-cartoonist machine from the heart of Chicago! He's all about the peace, love, and joy. He defines cartoons and comics not only as an artstyle, but as a way of life. Art started his funky secret art studio in 1994 with the his self-published comic book ..."The Cray-Baby Adventures". Since then, he created other comics such as "Gyro-Man", "Captain Camel & the Space Chicken", "Jimmy Dydo", "Lunar Lizard", "Meteor Mite" and the famous, "Patrick the Wolf Boy". This guy shows no signs of stopping! Artie has also had a few gigs with Warner Bros. and had a monthly comic strip in Disney Adventures Magazine called "GORILLA GORILLA"! Art has some cool character design skills and has recently completed the "Big Amoeba" graphic novel for Platinum Studios. Currently, Artie is the creative force behind The New York Times Best Selling Eisner Award Winning DC Comics' TINY TITANS and Co-Writer for Billy Batson and the Magic of SHAZAM! From small press to mainstream in a heartbeat! Art is living the dream! He stays home and draws comics and never has to leave the house! He lives with his lovely wife, Rose, big boy Sonny, little boy Gordon, and little girl Audrey! Right On! |
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Barta |
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| Ryan |
Benjamin |
Ryan Benjamin has been a professional comic book artist since 1993 for Image, Marvel, Darkhorse and DC Comics. His titles include: Gen 13, Union, WildCATS, Storm Watch, Grifter, Phantom Guard, Vagabond, Iron Man, Uncanny X-men, Cable, Gambit, Ghost, Bat Girl, Star Wars, Grifter/Midnighter, Batman and the Outsiders, Batman. He is currently on Pancratia. |
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Bice |
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| Steve |
Bird |
Steve's family took a terrible, rainy, cold Florida vacation when he was a kid. The 7-Eleven near the hotel sold comics. Fast forward about twenty years later and Steve began inking for DC and other companies. Credits include Robin, Blue Beetle, The Outsiders, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Hard Time, Hunter: The Age of Magic, Detective Comics, Checkmate, Birds of Prey, Nightwing, and more. Steve lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife and daughter |
| Andy |
Brase |
Andy is an artist best known for his dark character, creature and cover illustrations done in his intense and unique inking style. His cover art has appeared on many comic books for companies including Dark Horse, Marvel and Image Comics. He has also done art in numerous other areas including RPG book art, album art, concept design, T-shirt design, card art, private commission art and personal work. Andy's work has been featured several times in "Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" and in the Spectrum Exhibition at the Museum of American Illustration in New York City. In comics Andy has done cover art for Daredevil (upcoming), Hulk, Kull, The Darkness and many other titles. |
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Bright |
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| Reilly |
Brown |
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| Steve |
Bryant |
Steve Bryant is the Eisner and Manning Award-nominated writer-artist behind Athena Voltaire and has also completed projects for IDW, Moonstone Publishing, Classical Comics and Disney's Kingdom Comics. Additionally, he is a member of the collective comics art blog Comic Twart. |
| Jon |
Buran |
Jon Buran joined the comics scene in 2007, bringing a fresh, kinetic style to titles such as Tales of the TMNT, Adventures of Spawn, World of WarCraft, Midnighter, and many others. Inspired by comic greats Jim Lee, Arthur Adams, Walter Simonson, Moebius and Joe Madureira, Jon has developed his craft through hard work and extreme attention to detail. He's currently hard at work on projects for Wildstorm and DC Comics. |
| Chris |
Burnham |
Chris Burnham once drew something so disgusting that it made his colorist nauseated to the point that he puked while changing his daughter's diaper. True. Burnham is currently working on super secret projects with Joe Casey and Peter David, and he's quietly hoping to induce them to vomit on their respective children. Or each other's children... that would be a hell of a story. Burnham drew some pretty gross stuff in the pages of X-Men: Divided We Stand, Elephantmen, and Nixon's Pals, but his work on the Marvel Mystery 70th Anniversary Special, though pretty spiffy to look at, was relatively tame. |
| Jeff |
Butler |
While attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeff Butler crossed paths with Nexus writer, Mike Baron. Together, they created The Badger for Capital Comics. Not long after, Jeff joined the renowned art department of TSR, Inc. (the makers of the Dungeons&Dragons Role Playing Game.) During his tenure there, Jeff was the primary artist for the popular Marvel Superheroes Role Playing Game, and also contributed art to numerous other TSR fantasy games and books. After 5 years, Jeff left TSR to return to comic art. In 1989, he teamed with Ron Fortier to bring The Green Hornet and Kato back to comics. During the ‘90s, Jeff continued to work in comics, while keeping busy with other commercial illustration. Jeff joined Madison-based video game developer, Raven Software, where he has been a senior character artist since 1997. Recently, Jeff added 3D Character Modeling to his resume. His video game credits include: X-MEN LEGENDS I & II, MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE and X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. For more information, please visit Jeff's website at: www.jeff-butler.com |
| Jim |
Calafiore |
After breaking in to big time comics at Valiant on X-O Manowar and ARMORINES, Jim Calafiore has spent extended time at both DC and Marvel, notably on AQUAMAN and EXILES. He returned to DC in 2007 for GOTHAM UNDERGROUND, and continued contributing regularly to the various Bat-books. He is currently adding his talent to Gail Simone's run on Secret Six. |
| Giuseppe |
Camuncoli |
Giuseppe Camuncoli, also known as Cammo, was born in Italy in 1975. He breaks out in Italy in 1997 with the self-published BONEREST, later translated and published in the US by Image Comics, written by Matteo Casali. After a few more Italian productions, he gets noticed in 2000 by Vertigo editor Heidi McDonald, who gets him his first American assignment, on the SWAMP THING series written by Brian K. Vaughan. Since then, he's worked nonstop for DC Comics and Marvel, notably on titles like HELLBLAZER, SPIDER-MAN'S TANGLED WEB, VERTIGO POP: BANGKOK, THE INTIMATES, BATMAN, CAPTAIN ATOM: ARMAGEDDON, MS. MARVEL SPECIAL, 52, JONAH HEX, IRON FIST SPECIAL, X-INFERNUS and INCREDIBLE HULK. Recently, he splits his artistic duties between the Marvel hit DARK WOLVERINE (written by Daniel Way and Marjorie Liu) and the Vertigo milestone series HELLBLAZER (written by Peter Milligan). He's also the artistic director (and teacher) at the "Scuola Internazionale di Comics" of Reggio Emilia, city in which he lives with his wife Jessica. |
| Eric |
Canete |
Eric Canete is an illustrator and designer working in the animation and comic book industries. Some of his past projects include (in animation) Aeon Flux, Men In Black, Dark Fury, The Batman, Justice League Unlimited, Ben10 and (in comic books) Cybernary 2.0, Iron Man: Enter The Mandarin, Comic Book Tattoo, The End League, Amazing Spider-Man, and Luke Cage. |
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Cannon |
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Carbon |
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Castaneda |
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Castellano |
| Michael |
Champion |
Michael Champion is a freelance illustrator born and raised in Texas. He is currently the artist and writer for the forthcoming indy comic book series The Crusade, which is a historic fiction tale based on the First Crusade. |
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Chan |
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| Jim |
Cheung |
Originally hailing from the UK, Jimmy now resides in Florida, pencilling exclusively for Marvel Comics. He is currently working on a new Young Avengers project with Allan Heinberg as well as providing covers for the Secret Warriors series. His past projects for Marvel have included Iron Man, X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, Illuminati and New Avengers, and he Is responsible for co-creating the Young Avengers and Scion for CrossGen Comics. |
| Cliff |
Chiang |
Cliff Chiang's artwork has been hailed for its "fluid and confident storytelling" and "sweeping linework and nuanced style." Graduating from Harvard University with a joint degree in English Literature and Visual Arts, he worked in editorial at Disney Adventures Magazine and Vertigo/DC Comics before making the leap into freelance illustration. Previous works include Human Target, Green Arrow & Black Canary, and Doctor 13: Architecture & Mortality. He recently collaborated with rock legend Neil Young on the Greendale graphic novel for DC/Vertigo. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Frank |
Cho |
Frank Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and at the age of six, he and his family came to the United States. Cho never had any formal training in art and taught himself to draw and write by reading art books and comics. At the University of Maryland, he created the award winning college strip, University 2 (University Squared), which ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback. Upon graduating from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor degree in Nursing, he signed with Creators Syndicate Inc. His Liberty Meadows was distributed worldwide and was also published as a comic book from Insight Studios Group. In an unprecedented move in comics history, Cho voluntarily discontinued the newspaper strip in favor of comic book distribution only. In 2002, Cho has moved the hugely successful Liberty Meadows comic from Insight Studios Group to Image Comics. He has number of projects scheduled, including upcoming exclusive Hulk and New Ultimates with Jeph Loeb for Marvel Comics and Dragon Line and Zombie King for Image Comics. |
| Mike |
Choi |
Mike Choi is a Marvel exclusive penciler. He has drawn primarily for the X-Universe over the last three years on titles such as X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, and the X-23: Target X mini-series. He started working in comics as a 24 year-old intern at Top Cow Productions after spending two years as a management consultant at IBM, which he misses only never. |
| Yildiray |
Cinar |
Cinar was born in 1976 based in Istanbul, Turkey and finished Cartoon Animation department of Anadolu University located in Eskisehir between 1994-1998. Although he worked in the field of animation for commercial films, his real creative interest was on comic book creation. He helped create a photocopy-fanzine publishing group called Capa Comics Group in 1997, to which he has continued to contribute on occassion. Capa Comics group has established links with several bigger publishers today and both Yildiray and his colleagues have published their work in national magazines. Cinar started producing for the American comic book market in 2002 with Digital Webbing Press and illustrated stories of Nothingface and Fist of Justice which appeared in numerous issues of the anthology Digital Webbing Presents. He has also produced the art for a graphic novel published by Digital Webbing titled Nothingface with writer Kel Nuttall in 2004.He has reached wider recognition when he started working regularly on an acclaimed ongoing title from Image, Noble Causes with writer/creator Jay Faerber between issues 27-40. He also did a short story for Savage Dragon and appeared in Dynamo 5. After getting work at DC Comics, with a run on Teen Titans and Ravager, it was announced that he would be the main artist on the sixth series of Legion of Super-Heroes with LSH veteran writer Paul Levitz. |
| Amanda |
Conner |
Amanda Conner started out working as an illustrator for New York ad agencies Kornhauser and Calene and Kidvertisers. She worked on a number of launches and campaigns including Arm and Hammer, PlaySchool and Nickelodeon; however, loving comic books and cartooning the most, Amanda found herself working with Marvel on their Barbie and Disney lines. At the same time, she was illustrating Soul Searchers & Co. for Claypool Comics and was soon working on other Marvel projects, such as Excalibur and Suburban Jersey Ninja She-Devils. Amanda then moved on to do what is probably her best known work -- several years as penciler on the hit series Vampirella for Harris Comics. While illustrating Vampirella, Amanda worked with the top writers in the field, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Warren Ellis. Continuing to expand her horizons, Amanda illustrated the best-selling Event Comic Painkiller Jane vs. The Darkness and went on to work on Painkiller Jane #0. She also wrote and illustrated a story for Kid Death and Fluffy. Since then, Amanda has moved on and has worked on many of the top titles in comics such as Lois Lane, Codename: Knockout, Terra and Birds of Prey for DC, X-Men Unlimited for Marvel, co-created Gatecrasher for BlackBull Comics, and The Pro, a creator-owned book for Image with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Amanda's work can also be seen outside the comic book world in such places as ABC's Nightline, The New York Times, and Mad Magazine. Amanda’s current work can be seen in Powergirl monthly for DC Comics as well as the Supergirl series for Wednesday Comics. |
| Katie |
Cook |
Katie Cook is a popular artist among Star Wars fans. Her work can be seen in many Topps Star Wars Trading Card sets, Star Wars how-to-draw tutorials, and webcomics for The Clone Wars on starwars.com. She's also done licensed work for The Lord of the Rings, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Heroes, and -- soon -- Fraggle Rock! A fan favorite and a huge nerd, her work can be found at www.katiecandraw.com. |
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Crowley |
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Dale |
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| Peter |
David |
Peter David, self-proclaimed "writer of stuff," is probably best known for his award-winning twelve year run on "The Incredible Hulk." He currently writes "X-Factor" and "Stephen King's The Dark Tower." |
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Davis |
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de Landro |
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| Kurt |
Dinse |
Exchanging a life of sleeping on people’s floors and malnutrition, for sitting behind a small table peddling his self-published comics, Kurt Dinse (pronounced dinz) finally has found his calling. Comics and nerddom have always been a major pat of Kurt’s upbringing, but it was only five short years ago that his creative processor was resurrected in the form of a “Mildly Autobiographical” mini comic called “One Year in Indiana”. A tale of loss, confusion, and a new life on a college campus in the Hoosier State. The stories became so easy to write, draw and publish that he has been continuing to tell his bizarre tales ever since then. His stories of his wacky misadventures the 19th state have been featured by Young American Comics and Fan-Atic Press. |
| Colleen |
Doran |
Colleen Doran is an illustrator with hundreds of credits for clients including Lucasfilm, The Walt Disney Company, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, DC Comics, Reader’s Digest, Scholastic, and many more. She was artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC where she lectured on Hokusai and ukiyo-e prints and their relation to pop culture and manga. She has also lectured on graphic novels in arenas as diverse as the Singapore Writers Festival and the American Library Association. Further, she has illustrated the work of Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. Currently, she is working on two original graphic novels for Vertigo, one by Warren Ellis called Stealth Tribes, and another by the Eisner-nominee Derek McCulloch entitled Gone to Amerikay. She is also artist for an upcoming original graphic novel for publisher Houghton Mifflin with best-selling novelist Barry Lyga. Other credits include Wonder Woman, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Factor, Captain America, Teen Titans, and officially licensed illustrations for Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings. Her graphic novel series A Distant Soil, published by Image Comics, was listed among the 101 best graphic novels of all time and has tens of thousands of readers online. |
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Dorman |
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| Dan |
Dougherty |
Dan Dougherty is a writer/illustrator living just south of Chicago. His comic strip Beardo chronicles the misadventures of a coffeehouse barista trying to make a career for himself in comics. Beardo is collected in two graphic novels, and is featured daily in the Southtown Star and Daily Illini newspapers. For more on Beardo, visit www.beardocomics.com Dougherty is the illustrator of the ongoing zombie/western series Rotten, written by Mark Rahner and published through Moonstone. He also is the illustrator of the forthcoming graphic novel The Apocalypse Plan, written by Rafael Nieves and published through Transfuzion. Along with co-author Garrett Anderson, he is releasing his graphic novel Newton's Law as a weekly webcomic on www.webcomicsnation.com . |
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Dunlavey |
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Dunn |
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Eltaeb |
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| GW |
Fisher |
GW Fisher is marking his 12th year on the Convention circuit, meaning of course that he’s either a very popular fellow or that he’s simply getting on in years. The NJ native has worked on a host of projects in his long career, most recently inking Jim Valentino’s ShadowHawk for Image Comics & penciling & inking for Marvel Comics Licensing. His gregarious nature and dynamic line-work have made him a fan favorite from Seattle to New York, with stops at over 14 other shows in-between. GW and his wife Fran live in NJ where they visit their grandson Daniel, but love to spend time in Florida visiting their grandson Nathaniel. At his advanced age you can imagine the hilarity… |
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Fishman |
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| Matthew J |
Fletcher |
Matthew J. Fletcher is a Connecticut based artist working primarily with pencil, ink, and watercolor. In a distinctly angular and sketchy style all his own, Matthew adeptly uses superheroes, robots, monsters and farm animals to create images that range from socio-political commentary to traditional comic book pin-up art, and everything in between. Never afraid to challenge the viewer, Matthew enjoys twisting (sometimes violently) established and recognizable characters and images in order to wake something up inside of the viewer and make them think. |
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Fowler |
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Freeman |
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| Gary |
Friedrich |
Gary Friedrich worked as a member of the Marvel Bullpen staff and as a Marvel freelance writer from 1966 to 1978. During that period, he wrote most of the Marvel characters including Iron Man, Captain America, Daredevil, Spider-Man, X-Men, the Hulk and many others. He served a long stretch on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos and created two other Marvel war series, Capt. Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders and Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen. He also wrote a brief series featuring the western Ghost Rider with Sgt. Fury partner Dick Ayers as well as the Monster of Frankenstein series with Mike Ploog. But Friedrich is best known for creating the flame-skulled, motorcyle-riding hero the Ghost Rider in 1971, the character portrayed in the recent movie by Nicolas Cage. He lives in the St. Louis, Mo. area with his wife, Jean, and daughter, Leslie and is looking for opportunites to resume his career as a comics writer. |
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Frison |
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Gallagher |
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Galloway |
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| Ron |
Garney |
Ron Garney has been a professional comics illustrator since 1989. Over the course of his career, he's built a large fan following, tackling some of the industry's greatest characters including the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer, X-Men, JLA, Captain America, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, and G.I. Joe. He's been nominated twice for the industry's coveted Eisner award, for best penciler and best serialized story for Captain America with Mark Waid. Ron has also worked in the film industry, notably on I Am Legend as costume illustrator, and he currently illustrates Wolverine: Weapon X alongside Jason Aaron. Ron lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children. |
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Gianni |
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| Joel |
Gomez |
Starting out as a background artist at Top Cow Productions, Joel Gomez has done work on Tomb Raider, EVO and Witchblade, before moving onto Aspen Comics with Soulfire and Iron and the Maiden. Currently, he is at WildStorm Productions as a full-time penciller on such titles as Wetworks and The Lost Boys. Joel enjoys playing videogames with his wife Beth when he's not drawing comics. |
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Gould |
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| Sanford |
Greene |
Sanford Greene has been in the comics and design industry for over 8 years. He has done design work for companies such as Warner Brothers, SONY, Hasbro, SEGA and Nickelodeon. He's worked on such comics as Deadpool 900, The Hulk and Marvel Adventures Spiderman for Marvel Comics. He has also worked on projects for DC Comics such as Wonder Girl and Legion of Super Heroes. He is currently working on Deadpool team up. |
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Gross |
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Gunderson |
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| Gene |
Ha |
Gene Ha is a comic book artist mainly known for his superhero stories and covers. He started off drawing books such as Cyclops and Phoenix for Marvel and Starman for DC. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, Top 10 and its prequel, The Forty-Niners. Both projects won Eisners, the highest award in American comics. In 2008, he won his third Eisner for Justice League of America #11 with writer Brad Meltzer. He is currently doing a series of painted covers for DC's Blackest Night: JSA and Kevin Smith's Batman: Widening Gyre. Along with writer Bill Willingham, he's diligently working on Backroads for IDW, a modern fantasy graphic novel. Gene Ha's work has been reprinted in countries as far flung as Poland, France, Brazil, and Japan. Gene Ha lives outside Chicago in Berwyn, IL with his lovely wife Lisa and their two beagle bassets. Since college he's tried to avoid temptations that will distract him from drawing more comics, and thus never mastered using a game controller with more than one button. Sad but true. More info about him can be found at www.geneha.com and www.facebook.com/geneha. |
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Hassan |
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Haun |
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| James |
Heffron |
James Heffron is a Russ Manning nominated writer/artist and publisher of Lawdog Comics. His projects include Territory 51, Gangs of Camelot, Anna Arky, Feast of Fools (upcoming from Radical Comics) and It Tolls for Thee. |
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Heike |
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Heike |
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Hepburn |
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Hester |
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Hoffman |
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Horn |
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Howard |
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Huddleston |
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| Terry |
Huddleston |
Terry Huddleston is an pencil artist, inker and color artist for Big Bang Comics. Terry also has has one America's largest selections of nostalgic pin-up art that hearkens back to the late 70's early 80's with a new school twist. Check out Terry's art at thuddleston.deviantart.com |
| Adam |
Hughes |
Born Cinco de Mayo during the Summer of Love in Riverside, NJ, Adam escaped to Atlanta in the early 90s, when such things were possible. Starting his comics career in 1987, Adam has drawn for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and many other companies. He has also done work for Lucasfilm, Warner Bros., and Joss Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions. He's drawn everything from Star Wars to Star Trek and Indiana Jones to Tomb Raider. His run of covers on Wonder Woman won multiple Harvey Awards and an Eisner. He's also won both the Gold and Silver Spectrum Awards for Comics. Adam is currently working on many projects, including a hard-cover collection of his work for DC Comics over that last 20 years. He also enjoys designing statues for Sideshow Collectibles. |
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Hyman |
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Igle |
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| Eric |
Jimenez |
Eric Jimenez was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he currently resides. He studied painting at DePaul University and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Studio Art. He’s been drawing since before he could read. His credits include pencils and inks for BOOM! Studios' "Warhammer; Defenders of Ultramar" and writing, penciling and lettering his creator-owned title, "Temporal," for SlipStream Comics. |
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Jones |
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| Jim |
Keefe |
A graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, I started my career as the colorist in the bullpen of King Features Syndicate coloring such world-renowned strips as Blondie, Beetle Bailey and Hagar the Horrible. While on staff, I was hired as the writer and artist of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip. My original tenure ran from 1996 to 2003. Work experience has also included teaching, most recently at MCAD. I've also taught/guest lectured at area schools on the east coast, including SVA in Manhattan and Hofstra?s UCCE Youth Programs. I currently provide graphic art for numerous syndicated features and companies. Clients include King Features Syndicate, Viz Media, Jantze Studios and Manuscript Press. |
| Ryan |
Kelly |
Ryan Kelly has been a comic book artist, illustrator, painter and art instructor for the past 10 years. He is currently working exclusively with DC Comics on projects such as The New York Four, DMZ, and Northlanders. Ryan is most known for his work with Brian Wood on the critically acclaimed series LOCAL. He has also contributed to the Eisner award-winning anthology Comic Book Tattoo and is currently producing comics under his creator-owned title FUNRAMA. |
| Tom |
Kelly |
Tom Kelly was born in Scranton PA in 1972 received a M.F.A. degree in Sequential art for the Savannah College of Art and Design and holds a B.S. degree in Graphic Design from Lycoming College in Williamsport PA. Tom, using a wide variety of classical and electronic techniques, has worked for several years producing graphic design and illustration for numerous design, production and toy companies such as Wizards of the Coast, Spin Master toys, EA games, Ritthenhouse archives and Topps. Tom’s illustrations have appeared in, Star wars Insider, Imagine Fx, Design Graphics, I.D. magazine, Black Petals magazine, Mephisto magazine, Dragon magazine, Tales of the Talisman, Thrasher, Tapout, Wired and Time Out Chicago magazine. Tom has also designed posters, album covers and promotional art for the bands Daemon Familiar, Unibrow, Nighvisions, Moses Gun and his work has appeared in the far from hear music video. Tom has done comic book work for DC comics web imprint ZUDA.com were he did his children’s story (The Stuffed Animal Sagas). Tom’s has also been published in Darkhorse presents and has been featured in the sci fi anthology Antimatter. Tom also produces a regular web comic called The Sword Of The Savage Samurai for webcomics nation. Tom has won several awards in design and Illustration such as the Wayne Wright key for excellence and the Pennsylvania Keystone silver seal. Tom currently resides in Chicago IL. |
| Mike |
Kennedy |
Mike is a seasoned (but not quite salty) video game producer who has also penned a decade's worth of comics, including several Star Wars mini-series, a growing number of Alien vs Predator books, Aeon Flux, Lone Wolf 2100, and Superman: Infinite City. He is the writer and creator of UNBOUND SAGA, a comic and video game set in a satirical comic book universe. Unbound Saga is currently available for the Sony PSP, and an HD remix will be published by Microsoft Game Studio for XBox Live Arcade this summer. |
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Khanna |
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| Doug |
Klauba |
An award-winning illustrator, Doug Klauba has created cover artwork for books featuring such famous characters as Zorro, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Doc Savage, The Spider, and The Phantom, for which he is a widely regarded fan favorite. Doug is currently painting Origins featured in the pages of Project Superpowers from Dynamite Entertainment. His dramatic style, influenced in part by the pulp magazine and movie poster art of the 1930’s and 1940’s, is known as “Heroic Deco” and has earned him acclaim from collectors and clients around the world. In addition to his publishing work for companies including Harper-Collins, Olympian Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Forbes, and Moonstone Books, Doug is also a highly sought-after commercial illustrator. He counts among his clients IBM, DC/Upper Deck, Pappasito’s Cantina, the Bradford Exchange, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bears, just to name a few. Doug’s paintings have been included in the art annuals of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art and the Society of Illustrators. His painting Mercury Jack was among the 250 works exhibited in the first Spectrum Show at the Museum of American Illustration and his painting da Vinci’s Dream was awarded Best in Show at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention. He lives and works in the Chicago area with his wife and their two boys. www.DouglasKlauba.com |
| Rob |
Kohr |
Based out of Brooklyn NY, Robert Kohr is the owner of Kohrtoons Studio (kohrtoons.com), a freelance multimedia design, production and animation company and a Flash Animator for Nickelodeon’s preschool online game animation department. His first animated short “I Am” received worldwide recognition and his second animated short “The Lift” is his first professional film (thelift.kohrtoons.com). For Nickelodeon, the Downward Doghouse and Wonder Pets Save the Day online games that he developed animation for received Silver and Bronze Broadcast Design Awards in 2005 and 2007. For Kohrtoons Studio, Robert is actively involved in creating animated assets for a number of upcoming iPhone games. |
| Lee |
Kohse |
In 1998, Lee co-founded the indie comic publisher, BloodFire Studios (bloodfire.com) and created the hit underground comic Kindergoth. Today, Lee is the Creative Director of BloodFire Studios, where he spends his time drawing and writing Kindergoth and creating new comics with BloodFire’s Chief Creative Officer, Len Wein (creator New X-Men, Human Target, Swamp Thing). Lee is also involved in developing and producing several BloodFire properties into feature films and television series. Over the years, Lee has produced art for Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox, Marvel, IDW, Indiana Jones, Angel, Nike, Reebok, and Verizon. Lee is also a regular sketch card contributor to Topps, Rittenhouse Archives, and Inkworks. Outside of the studio, Lee is a contributing author to the Photoshop Cafe, producing instructional videos on traditional painting techniques in a digital environment and is a technical adviser to several of Cengage Learning's digital art text books. When not chained to his desk, Lee practices origami and dreams of whirled peas. |
| J. Anthony |
Kosar |
J. Anthony Kosar, age 24, is an award-winning artist of multiple disciplines including painting, sculpting, and special effects through his company Kosart Effects Studios, LLC. Kosar made his debut in illustration with full painted interiors for Moonstone Books’ THE SPIDER: JUDGEMENT KNIGHT #1 which earned him the “Gold Award” in the Graphic Novel/Comic Book category in “Illustration West 48” by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. He painted cover art for BUCKAROO BANZAI and THE PHANTOM, and is currently working on covers and interiors for a 3 issue SPIDER miniseries. In Fine Art, Kosar was internationally awarded in 2009 by the American Watercolor Society, and was one of Watercolor Artist Magazine’s 2009 Top Ten “Ones to Watch.” For Special Effects, Kosar has created make-up, effects, creature suits, and props for numerous projects. In 2007, Kosar interned at Stan Winston Studio where he worked on several projects including the films INDIANA JONES 4 and James Cameron’s AVATAR. He also designs and sculpts Halloween masks for Zagone Studios. Kosar graduated as Valedictorian from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL earning his BFA in Illustration in 2008. You can view J. Anthony Kosar's artwork by visiting his Official Website at: www.kosarteffects.com |
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Kramer |
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| Matt |
Kubinski |
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| Andrew |
Kudelka |
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| Andy |
Kuhn |
Andy Kuhn has been a professional comics artist since 1994. He has worked for every major american publisher and many smaller ones as well. His titles have included MARVEL ADVENTURES, SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED, AND MARVEL TEAM-UP ( marvel comics), BLUE BEETLE, THE FLASH, YOUNG JUSTICE, and THE JOKER:LAST LAUGH (dc comics). With writer Phil Hester he co-created FIREBREATHER, the critically aclaimed series of miniseries for image comics. FIREBREATHER is currently being adapted into an hour and a half long movie of the week for Cartoon Network which will act as a pilot for a potential animated series. He is also currently at work on a new FIREBREATHER mini-series for summer release. Other recent works by Kuhn include the crime drama EASY WAY (idw), Kieth Giffen's violent opus 10 (boom studios), Robert Kirkman's high tech super-spy BRIT(image), and the short lived series REX MANTOOTH:KUNG FU GORILLA with writer Matt Fraction. His clients outside of comics have included RCA, GE, BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, CARTOON NETWORK, and UPPERDECK ENTERTAINMENT. |
| Bob |
Layton |
In 1978, with writing partner David Michelinie, Bob totally re-imagined Marvel's Invincible Iron Man, ultimately transforming it from a low-end book into one of Marvel's all-time best sellers. Their "Demon in a Bottle" storyline is now considered a milestone in comics history. Second only to his tenure on Iron Man, Bob is also known for his innovative contributions to the Valiant Comics line as Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President. Bob (with David Michelinie) returned to Marvel Comics and Iron Man in 2008, creating two, new limited series to be released in conjunction with the Iron Man motion picture. Marvel has recently released two hardback editions of Layton's classic Hercules series in conjunction with his new four-issue Hercules mini-series for 2009. Along with comics work, Bob and David Michelinie are currently collaborating on the development of properties for major motion pictures and television, including his highly successful web comic, Colony. For more, visit www.boblayton.com. |
| Leo |
Leibelman |
Leo Leibelman went to the HS of Music and Art and took a How to Draw Comic Books class under Carlos Infantino. Those classes paid off because a few years later in 1994 he began working for Marvel Comics on Savage Sword of Conan. From there, Leo worked for Acclaim Comics on Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Majick: the Gathering and Topps on Hercules. Leo eventually moved to the Great White North and found himself in the film industry while still keeping his hand in the comics business. Besides comics and film, Leo has painted covers for romance novels and has illustrated for educational CD-roms. Currently, Leo is working on films and TV shows full time. |
| Jay |
Leisten |
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| Bruce |
Levine |
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| Comfort |
Love |
Adam Withers and Comfort Love are a husband and wife creative team who both write, draw, and color the comic The Uniques, and the upcoming series Rainbow in the Dark. |
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Lozano |
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Lucia |
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| David |
Mack |
David Mack is the New York Times Best Selling author and artist of the KABUKI Graphic Novels: Including the new KABUKI: The Alchemy collection from Marvel, writer and artist of Daredevil from Marvel Comics, and the author and artist of his new children’s book THE SHY CREATURES. Mack's work has garnered nominations for seven Eisner Awards, four International Eagle Awards, and both the Harvey and Kirby Awards in the category of Best New Talent, as well as many other national and international awards and nominations. David Mack is one of the only creators to be listed in both the Top Ten Writers List, and the Top Ten Artists List in Wizard Magazine. Mack’s writing and art work on KABUKI, have earned him international acclaim for his innovative storytelling, sophisticated content, mixed media painting techniques, and page design. KABUKI is available internationally and has been translated in seven different languages, in addition to nearly two million copies of KABUKI Comics, Paperbacks, and Hard cover graphic novels in print in the U.S. alone. Currently Mack is working with the Philip K. Dick Estate to adapt the Science Fiction Master's work to graphic novels at Marvel Comics, Co-writing a new Daredevil story with Brian Michael Bendis, and writing his new children's books. |
| Jim |
Mahfood |
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| Doug |
Mahnke |
Doug Mahnke was born in the Year of the Rabbit and embarked on a love affair with comics at the age of five, having received a pile of Spider-Man issues from a rugby-playing college student named Mike who lived in his basement. A consistent interest in the medium, coupled with some art skill, landed Doug a job of drawing comics for Dark Horse at the age of 24 (the date is known precisely, as it occurred just two weeks before he wed his lovely bride). His first gig was illustrating the moody detective story entitled Homicide, written by John Arcudi. The two went on to collaborate on Dark Horse's The Mask and their creator-owned series Major Bummer, originally published by DC. Since then, Doug has worked on a variety of titles (including Superman: The Man of Steel, JLA, Batman, Team Zero, Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein, Black Adam: The Dark Age, Stormwarch: P.H.D. and currently Green Lantern) with such writers as Joe Kelly, Judd Winick, Chuck Dixon, Grant Morrison, Christos Gage, Ed Brubaker, and Geoff Johns. He resides in the Midwest with his wife and seven kids, one dog, and a bunny named Suzie. |
| Daniel |
Mann |
Classically trained, Daniel uses both illustration and traditional techniques to achieve images that border surrealism. He primarily uses oils for extensive projects and covers, but is also fluent in watercolors, charcoal, ink and pencil drawing. He is currently working for Kid Domino on titles such as “Two Worlds”, and “Dire Destiny”. Some of his clients include Cosmic Times and Post Mortem Studios. You can currently buy prints of his work as well as commission artwork from the Kid Domino website. |
| Larry |
Marder |
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| C. Drake |
McKay |
C. Drake McKay is a real M@&!K sorcerer. When she is not drawing comics about the subtle folds of the universe, she is working diligently to beam rainbows of enlightened consciousness into her human celestial brothers and sisters. She has the uncanny ability to draw the archetypes of people's souls, but she doesn't use these powers much because she says, "It is too heavy." She thinks the best thing for this planet would be contact with aliens and welcomes our new alien overlords! |
| Sean |
McKeever |
After gaining critical acclaim for his ensemble teen drama, THE WAITING PLACE, Sean got his big break writing an issue of THE INCREDIBLE HULK for Marvel Comics. Since then, Sean has written hundreds of comics for Marvel, DC Comics and other publishers, including notable runs on SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE, TEEN TITANS, SENTINEL, INHUMANS, MYSTIQUE, MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN and GRAVITY. He's even earned a prestigious Eisner Award for his character-driven body of work. Sean is most recently responsible for a pair of bonus features: "Ravager: Fresh Hell" in TEEN TITANS; and "Nomad: Girl Without a World" in CAPTAIN AMERICA. Current projects include SIEGE: YOUNG AVENGERS, FIRESTAR, and the upcoming YOUNG ALLIES series. |
| Angel |
Medina |
Angel Medina's worked in the comics world for the past 21 years, with projects including The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, Spider-Man, Spawn, Sam and Twitch, and KISS: Psycho Circus. He lives right here in Chicago. |
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Mellon |
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| Jose |
Mesarina |
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Metcalf |
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| Aaron |
Miller |
Aaron’s interest in fantasy art began small. Literally. As a kid, he couldn’t stop collecting and painting D&D minis. Aaron admits “I never even played the game. I just loved the minis and the art from the books. ”As a ‘grown up’ (or something like that) Aaron’s art career began in oils and fine art. A local restaurant would hang his work, while Aaron waited tables…a nice gig if you can get it. “Pretty soon, I got interested in computers and design, and went back to school to learn more.” And while work as a graphic designer helped pay the rent, “It took its toll on me by taking my attention away from painting and illustration. I knew then that something had to change.” That ‘something’ turned out to be IFX. “Honestly. A friend showed me his copy, and it became my transforming ‘aha’ moment.” Today, Aaron manages life drawing classes at TOJO Gallery in Chicago while maintaining his work as a graphic designer. But mostly… Aaron’s life has become all about sharing his passion for fantasy illustration--inspired by the work he sees other illustrators create; and by the pictures and images he imagines every day, in a world not too far from where Dungeons and Dragons still live. |
| Jason |
Millet |
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| Kurt |
Mitchell |
Kurt Mitchell is an independent artist and writer who has been in and around Chicago publishing for over thirty years. His work as an editorial illustrator has graced the pages of The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Chicago Sun-Times. After twelve years as a video game developer, Kurt has returned to publishing, bringing his writing and drawing talents together in his independently produced comics, graphic novels, and short story anthologies. Kurt Mitchell is currently the property of two cats who allow him to live with them on the southwest side, where they grant him leave to write and draw at their bidding in exchange for the honor of feeding them, nuzzling them, and keeping them warm and dry |
| Diosdado "Dodie" |
Mondero |
Diosdado "Dodie" Mondero is a well know international muralist turned Comic book illustrator. Originally from Manila, Philippines, he arrived in the States in 1979 at the age of 13 to begin a new life and pursue a career in art. He discovered the fantastic art of legendary artists Alberto Vargas, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Olivia to name a few, firing up his passion to polish his skills to its highest level, mastering techniques in all media and styles, both traditional and digital art. He is currently the lead art director and comic book artist for the up coming tv cartoon in production called, The Baritonios. He joined his long time friend and writer, Steve Sprovieri to develop a wacky crime drama surrounding a gang known as The Baritonios. It's legendary mystery stories with crime and exploitation from this group of street thugs. www.thebaritonios.com |
| Jonathan |
Moore |
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| Mark |
Morales |
A graduate of New York's famed School of Visual Arts, Mark Morales is a longtime comics veteran. Over the course of his 15 year career, he has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics and various others, mostly as an inker. Through the years, Mark has worked on such titles as Uncanny X-Men, Secret Invasion, Justice League, New Avengers, Thor, Daredevil, and many others. Currently he is hard at work on Siege from Marvel Comics. |
| Paul |
Mounts |
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| Jeffrey |
Moy |
Jeffrey Moy was born and raised around the Chicagoland area on a steady diet of comic books, sci-fi tv, and anime. He attended Northern Illinois University where he earned a B.F.A. in Illustration. After a couple years of trying to get into the comic book industry, persistance paid out and his big break was on Legionnaires for DC Comics. After a five year run and some work on Gen 13 and Wildstorm Star Trek comics, he moved into the world of video game concept art at Raven Software, where he currently works. His game credits include: Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, X-Men Legends I and II, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and now working on Singularity, Raven Software's own IP. |
| Dustin |
Nguyen |
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| Rafael |
Nieves |
Rafael Nieves is a 20-year veteran writer of the indy comics war, with occasional skirmishes in the maintstream. With Cindy Goff, he co-created and co-wrote the Slave Labor series Tales from the Heart, which spawned two full-color graphic novels, The Temporary Natives and Bloodlines, for Marvel Comics’ Epic line. The latter book was nominated for two Eisner awards. Nieves has written for Marvel, Caliber, Comico/Northstar, and Moonstone. Through Transfuzion Publishing, a company he co-founded with Gary Reed, Nieves is releasing the horror/thriller graphic novel The Apocalypse Plan, illustrated by Dan Dougherty. Other works include Vampire: The Masquerade; Welcome Back, Mr. Moto; Hellstorm, Prince of Lies; Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells: The Phantom, and more. His upcoming work includes the female private eye series Honey West, and the Action Boy back-up stories for Captain Action comics, both published by Moonstone, as well as a deluxe edition of the aforementioned The Bells, and a new graphic novel adapting William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Nieves lives just outside Chicago, in the lovely hamlet of Berwyn, with his wife and two puppies. |
| William |
O'Connor |
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| Daniel |
Olson |
Daniel Olson is a mustachioed laden indie comics creator based in Minneapolis, MN. Along with his wife/collaborator AJ Niehaus, he creates the series Super Maxi-Pad Girl. Additional work can be found in False Witness: The Michele Bachmann Story , Super Fantastica Comix, and Big Funny. Currently, he is working on his first graphic novel, Shenanigans. |
| Turtel |
Onli |
Turtel Onli lives and works in Chicago where he earned a BFA and a MAAT from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked in Paris in the Bande Dessine industry and has been a pioneering indie publisher, illustrator, and advocate. He has worked to add diversity to this industry with his Black Age Movement concept. His Team Blanga, Future Funk, and Sasa titles will be featured along with prints & original art. His work has appeared in Playboy, Future Funk, McDonald's, and the touring Cool Globes Collection. |
| Jimmy |
Palmiotti |
Jimmy Palmiotti is a multi-award-winning character creator with a wide range of experience in advertising, production, consulting, editorial, film writing, development and production, media presentation and video game development. Just a few of his clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lion’s Gate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, Alliance films, New Line, Spike TV, MTV, 2kgames, Midway, Radical games, Activision and THQ games. He is co-founder of such companies as Event Comics, Black Bull Media, Marvel Knights, a division of Marvel comics, and the current Paperfilms, where he is partners with Amanda Conner and Justin Gray. Together they have created and co-created numerous universes, comics , TV series and characters including The New West, Monolith, 21 Down, The Resistance, The Pro, Gatecrasher, Beautiful killer, Ash, Cloudburst, Trigger Girl 6, Thrill Seeker, Trailblazer, Ballerina, The Twilight Experiment and the TV series, Painkiller Jane. His current works includes Powergirl, Jonah Hex, Supergirl, Prototype, The Last Resort, Back to Brooklyn, Splatterman, Time Bomb, and Spartacus. |
| Dan |
Parent |
Dan’s professional career began in 1987, when he graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He was hired by Archie Comics soon thereafter, where he worked on all phases of comic book production and licensing, which included designing toys, apparel and varied collectibles. His first big comic book project was Veronica’s first solo comic. He then went on to write, draw, ( and even co-edit) various Archie titles. Going freelance in 1996, he continued to work on titles like Cheryl Blossom, Betty & Veronica Spectacular and Archie & Friends. He also worked for other clients such as Felix the Cat Productions, Marvel Comics, Disney Publications, Harpercollins and Golden Books to name a few. He also taught Humor, Design and Advertising Illustration at the Joe Kubert School for five years. Dan continues to work on various Archie titles, updating the looks of the Archie characters, especially Betty and Veronica . He also keeps busy doing web design, children’s book illustrations and spot illustrations for various publications. Dan lives in Milford, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathy, their two kids, Alexandra and Adam, plus 3 cats, Sabrina, Ginger and Jinx. |
| Paul |
Pelletier |
Paul has been drawing comics professionally since 1992. Over the last 18 years, he's penciled books including Ex-Mutants, Flash, Green Lantern, Negation, Fantastic Four, and She-Hulk and worked for companies including Malibu, DC, CrossGen and Marvel. He is now under exclusive contract with Marvel and is drawing the Incredible Hulk. Paul lives in Tampa with his wonderful wife, Danette, and their two cats, Moxie and Marino. |
| Michael |
Penick |
Michael Penick graduated from the School Of Visual Arts in 1992. After losing his senses he joined the Army and served with the 101st Airborne Division for four years. Since his return to civilian life Mike has spent the last thirteen years working as a professional artist doing just about any and everything that comes down the pipeline, including Advertising and Motion Picture Storyboards, Illustration, Comic Books, Graphic Design, Web Design, and even some Motion Graphics. Recently he has worked on a Comic Book for the America's Army video game and is about to write and illustrate a story for the forthcoming ACTION magazine. This is his first year in Artist Alley (anywhere) so be gentle with him. You can visit his website at http://www.penickart.com or his DeviantArt page at http://penickart.deviantart.com |
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Pepoy |
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Perez |
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| Mike |
Perkins |
Beginning his comic career in the esteemed pages of 2000 AD, Mike went on to illustrate sequential storytelling – in both pencil and ink – for Caliber Comics, Marvel UK, DC Comics and Dark Horse. In 2001 Mike moved to Florida to work in the studio environs of CrossGen relinquishing his pencil for inking opportunities on the multi award-nominated Ruse alongside Mark Waid and Scott Beatty, Butch Guice and Laura Martin. After a while his penciling fingers started itching again and he created Archard's Agents and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang to showcase his abilities. After CrossGen, Mike moved to Marvel, illustrating District X, Spider-Man Unlimited and the Elektra movie adaptation. This work lead to the co-creation of Spellbinders, collaborating with the magnificent Mike Carey. Whilst penciling this project Mr. Perkins was also inking Captain America and went on to pencil and ink alternate arcs on the highly acclaimed run alongside Steve Epting, Ed Brubaker and Frank D'Armata – resulting in multiple Eisner nominations, Harvey and Eagle awards. Alongside his work on Captain America Mike also illustrated mini series runs on Union Jack, X-Men: Endangered Species, House of M: Avengers and Annihilation: Conquest as well as contributing to the Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? One-shot. His most recent work has been illustrating Marvel's adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. |
| James |
Polpiboon |
James Polpiboon has been spotted in Chicago, Illinois. He has never been captured and is considered to be hungry and not very dangerous. James is an Illustrator and Graphic Designer who is wanted for creating visually stunning images that blend comic book and anime styles. His unique style is highly influenced by tv, comics, cartoons, video games and anime. A reward has been offered to anyone with information which leads to his capture and preservation. |
| Alice |
Price |
Alice Price, in addition to keeping Andy's pencil managed, is a writer for various projects. Together Alice and Andy worked for Slave Labor Graphics/Disney on Disney's Haunted Mansion comics. They are in development on their own publication, Bengalia. They currently reside in Madison, Alabama... deep within the Neutral Zone of Federation Territory. |
| Andy |
Price |
Andy Price is a penciler, Inker, Painter, and all around slave to his art table. Recent projects include Marvel 70th Anniversary Sketch Cards, Spider-Man Archives Incentive Sketch Cards, and Justice League Archives Sketch Cards. Andy has worked for DC Comics, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and Slave Labor Graphics. |
| Vicent |
Proce |
Vincent Proce is an Illustrator, Concept & Story Board artist living in Chicago. His art is executed in a multitude of styles ranging from fantasy to realism, squash & stretch to science fiction and everything else in between. Vince works primarily in the gaming industry. Some of his notable employers include Midway Games, Microsoft, Epic Games, Phosphor & Wizards of the Coast while working on such titles as Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Stranglehold, Psi-Ops, Magic the Gathering and Dungeon & Dragons, as well as several other unreleased game titles. Before starting Vincent Proce Studios in late 2009, Vincent worked as the Visual Art Director for Vogster Games. He got his start in games at Midway eight years ago and worked his way up from their first in -house Concept Artist to Visual Art Director and Concept Team Lead. Vincent has a prior history in 2d Animation as well (which somehow led to him live in India for a year) and he also did a short stint in Independent Comics, way back when. During his free time, Vince recently has been enjoying spending time re-imaging several of his favorite gaming and comic book characters as fan art. |
| Gordon |
Purcell |
Gordon Purcell is an comic book artist, perhaps best known for his Star Trek work, in particular his photorealistic renditions of the actors who play that franchise’s characters, as well as those of similarly licensed books, such as X-Files and Xena. He also has extensive superhero credits on tiles like JLA, FLASH, SILVER SABLE, AVENGERS, PHANTOM and ROBIN. |
| Eric |
Rampson |
Eric Rampson is the writer of ONCE UPON A TIME, THE SILVER BULLET, and the brand-new THE REEDEMERS, all from Ronin Studios. He's gained a bit of fame for his STORIES FOR A BUCK convention antics - he'll write a one-page story about anything you want and give you a dramatic reading of the story for a single American dollar. Eric is also a performer and director in Chicago's improv and sketch comedy community, playing with the awesome house team THE FLING at The Playground Theater. You can keep up with him at www.ericrampson.com. |
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Randolph |
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| Gary |
Reed |
Gary Reed is a veteran of the comics industry and has participated as a creator, retailer, and publisher. He was the owner and publisher of Caliber Comics, organized comic conventions, launched and operated a chain of comic book stores, served as Vice President of Todd McFarlane’s toy company, and is currently publisher of Transfuzion Publishing. As a writer, he continues his Deadworld series (now with IDW), which has been signed for a film option with a script by David Hayter (X-Men, Watchmen). He is also known for his series such as Baker Street, Renfield, Raven Chronicles as well as the graphic novels he wrote for Penguin Books. Currently, he has over 25 graphic novels published. Outside of comics, he is a Biology Professor in Ann Arbor, MI. |
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Reike |
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| Bill |
Reinhold |
Bill Reinhold is a 1982 graduate of the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago and has been a professional Comic Book Artist since 1981. Over his long career he's worked for Noble Comics, First Comics, Marvel Comics, DC comics and others. He is known as an artist drawing such characters as The Badger, The Punisher, Silver Surfer, Batman, and more. Often his work was colored by his wife Linda Lessmann Reinhold. As a comic book inker he's enjoyed working with many other artists on titles Earth X, The Punisher, The Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Wolverine, The Hulk, Batman, Green Lantern, etc. For the last ten years he has primarily inked Doug Braithwaite's pencils on various projects. Bill is currently starting work on Magnus Robot Fighter for Dark Horse Comics. More info can be found at http://www.hedrawscomics.com and http://www.facebook.com/billreinhold |
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Rich-McKelvey |
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Rieke |
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Roman |
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Rose |
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| Rachelle |
Rosenberg |
From the pages of her childhood coloring book to the pages of mainstream comics, Rachelle has always had a unique love of making art come alive. Though new to the industry, she’s taken her BFA in illustration and a formal oil painting background to quickly become an in-demand force in the world of coloring. Her colors span the pages of JERSEY GODS, Tyrese Gibson’s MAYHEM!, HACK/SLASH, GRIMM FAIRY TALES, BARACK the BARBARIAN and Disney’s CARS. However be forewarned, viewing her colors may make you think you accidentally ingested brain destroying narcotics. |
| Stephane |
Roux |
French born comic book artist Stephane Roux comes from the animation industry. The one nobody's ever heard of: french animation. Swear ta God, it exists. Anyway, after 17 years of relative fun in this business, he posts his comic-book work on the internet, where comic-book legend Adam Hughes spotted it and give his portfolio a push up to DC's art director/editor Mark Chiarello . Because he still had hope for french animation to become noticeable, one day, maybe... he stuck to it for more than a year and a half, directing the biggest hit ( hey, cool yer jets guys, it's only a french tv hit... ) of those past four years, only working his spare time on comic-book assignments, mostly covers. He gets assigned as regular cover artist for DC's Birds of Prey # 101 - 127 and occasionally on Batman Confidential# 22-25, 29, 30, Supergirl#14, 15, 33, 35, Countdown to Final Crisis# 9-11, 13, 15, 39-43, DC Universe: Decisions # 1-4, Manhunter # 23, Action Comics# 871, Superman# 682. He produced a few covers for Marvel on such titles as Gamma corps# 1-3, Amazing Spider-man Extra #2, Savage She-Hulk #4, X-Men: Worlds Apart#4 and Uncanny X-Men# 512. He's currently working, as interior and cover artist, with Paul Dini writing, on the new Zatanna series to be launched by DC comics |
| Jesse |
Rubenfeld |
A Student of the great Scott McCloud, Jesse Rubenfeld is the artist/writer of Tool Publication's comic series Into the Dust, a gritty realistic version of Wizard of Oz set in 1964 on Route 66. Jesse has also done artwork for international publications on topics such as nursing, performance, and magic tricks. Recently, Jesse has gotten into the habit of parodying famous works of art and other images, using familiar characters from popular culture like the Muppets, Superpets, and Nintendo characters. |
| Nick |
Runge |
My professional comic art career began in 2004. 2004- Small published projects written by Mike Baron (nexus). Mike got me into the comic bussiness. 2005- Detonator with Mike Baron 2006- Black Ice (artwork for the first half of the graphic novel) published by comicmix.com 2007- I started working for IDW, doing covers for Badger, and art for Angel: After the Fall #7 2008- Interiors for Angel and covers for Ghostbusters, Terminator: Salvation, Angel, Gene Simmons Phantasmagoria, and Star Trek. (all for IDW) 2009- Covers for Ghostbusters: DA, Angel, GB Holiday special (all for IDW) Cover for Mr. Jigsaw #4 (written by Ron Fortier who wrote Terminator, the Burning earth, which was Alex Ross's first comic project) In 2009, I also penciled a short Superman story called "Man of Snow" for the DC Universe Holiday Special. 2010- Ghostbusters: Valentines special covers and Ghostbusters: 4th of July special cover (both for IDW) By now, I've done over 40 covers for IDW and more than 40 other covers for books and non comic projects. I've also penciled several interior issues. Covers are my main focus (either hand painted or penciled/inked/colored in photoshop), but I'm also an interior penciler and inker |
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Samnee |
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Sayge |
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Schoonover |
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Schultz |
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| Chris |
Seaman |
Chris was inspired to draw by the cartoons he watched in the early eighties. He rushed home daily from school and lost himself in the worlds of those cartoons. Then, with the spark of his imagination and a sharp pencil, he would draw dragons, goblins, wizards and sword fighting barbarians. He worked hard until he was able to establish himself as a professional illustrator. He began his career illustrating card art for the Harry Potter Collectible Card Game (Wizards of the Coast). He has since worked on some of the top Role Playing and Collectible Card Games in the industry. His work has appeared in and on the covers of Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, Dragon Magazine, Dungeon Magazine, (Wizards of the Coast) TOMB the board game (Alderac Entertainment Group) and World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment). His work has also appeared in Imagine FX Magazine, a must have for the amateur and professional fantasy illustrator. Also, Chris’ work was awarded “Best in Show” at the 2009 Gen Con art show, the largest gathering for fantasy and science fiction gaming in the United States. Ink Bloom: How To Draw & Paint a Fantasy Adventure (Impact Books/ Spring 2010) is Chris’ third How-To book. Along with co-author Jim Pavelec, Ink Bloom is the first How To book on the market with its own unique sci-fi story. To find out more about Ink Bloom visit the official website at www.InkBloomAdventure.com To see more of Chris’ freelance projects visit him on the web at www.ChrisSeamanArt.com |
| Steve |
Seeley |
Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer living in Chicago. He has drawn for Marvel, DC, and Devil's Due. He is the creator of the comics HACK/SLASH, LOADED BIBLE and COLT NOBLE. He is the current artist of Wildstorm's WILDCATS. |
| David |
Seidman |
David Seidman has been professionally illustrating since graduating at the top of his class from the University of the Arts in 2001. His covers have graced titles such as Se7en, The Straw Men, and Charmed. David received critical praise for his interior artwork on Grimm Fairy Tales: Pinocchio, which he also co-wrote. He has been commissioned by Wizards of the Coast as well as the popular rock band Coheed and Cambria and his illustrations have been juried into into the prestigious Spectrum Fantastical Art books. |
| Jason |
Seiler |
Born in the “wilds” of Wisconsin in 1977, Jason Seiler went on to study fine art illustration at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Professionally, his first client was his High school principal who recognized his talent after he'd gotten in trouble for drawing parodies of his history teacher. She hired Jason to do caricatures of some faculty members and the rest is history! His work has been selected by the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles, and Communication Arts. Jason recently won a silver medal for his portrait of Elvis Costello for S.I.L.A.Some of his clients include, among many others, such companies as GOLF Magazine, The New YorkTimes, MAD Magazine, TIME, The Weekly Standard, Village Voice, Guitar Player Magazine, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Disney. Most recently Jason was a character designer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and painted the official movie poster for "The People VS George Lucas". Jason believes that truth and humor are the two fundamental principles of any successful caricature. Capturing the subject truthfully ensures recognition; doing so with a sense of humor ensures forgiveness. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh.... Otherwise they'll kill you." Jason currently lives in Chicago with his lovely wife, Kat, and his two irresistibly beautiful daughters, Isabeau and Ava. |
| Aaron M |
Shaps |
Aaron M. Shaps is a Chicago area writer of comics and prose, with a background in film. His most recent work includes several projects for Moonstone. He is currently developing a 3D zombie movie for Image Control Media and collaborating with award-winning artist Douglas Klauba on an upcoming illustrated adventure novel for children of all ages. He is the creator of the pulp-flavored sci-fi hero General Jack Cosmo. |
| Ian |
Sharman |
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| Gary |
Shipman |
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Smarto |
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| Cory |
Smith |
Having no formal training, but simply having passion for art, Cory Smith began his art educationin high school and continued at the local community college with Life Drawing courses where he learned anatomy that ultimately helped him develop his skills in sculpting. He also practiced in different mediums of art including pencil sketches, oil on canvas, and murals. After the introduction of Batman The Animated Series and the original new designs introduced by Bruce Timm, he was inspired by the show and started collecting the Warner Brothers Store Batman Maquettes. He was disappointed when the stores quickly closed and left all collectors in disbelief after producing only a few maquettes. Believing in himself of his skills and the knowledge of sculpting, he decided to pick up where WB left off and continued to finish the line and challenged himself to make them better in terms of quality and scale.... Many maquettes and 9 years later, he is nearing to finish his goal of sculpting the entire line. Cory has future plans to begin sculpting animated maquettes from other lines. So stay-tuned. His other interests include drawing, painting, collecting movie memorabilia, dvds, and spending time with my three sons. Ultimately, he would like to sculpt full-time as a career, and so with the help of his friends, a website was created to showcase his works. |
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Smith |
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| Uko |
Smith |
Uko Smith, a Washington, D.C. native now living in Columbus, Oh graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a degree in Illustration/ design and a minor in fashion. Uko is becoming known for his unique style for the erotic pinup and his sensual style of work. Collectors and admirers of his work have come to notice his distinctive use of line work and stylized realization. Always looking to make his work distinguished from others in the field, he blends his style of design and illustration into a very unique package that definitely separates it from others. As always admiring the female form, Uko gives great attention to the emotion and alluring look of his females whether it be the eyes, hair or clothing designs he decides to adorn them with( if any at all). His attraction to the female form “goes way back as a young child to looking through lots of Frazetta books and Playboy magazines. Inspirational artists that Uko has admired throughout the years are aformentioned Frazetta, Michelangelo, Robert McGinnis, John Byrne, Kevin Nowlan, Serpieri, Bridgman, Vargas, Petty, Nagel, Larry Stroman are just a few on the list. Buyers of his original works have included Julie Strain, Veronika of the former Echo Gallery, now called Gallery Provocateur and other noted models in the industry and followers of pinup art. Uko has published four portfolios titled “Visions of Erotica”, illustrating themes of fetish, fashion and nude modeling. There is one common theme throughout his work and that is the women that he portrays always have a strong sense of self and femininity to them. Also along with the publication of “Visions of Erotica”, Uko has also published very successful sketchbooks every year from various projects and personal artwork. Not only is he a successful artist in the erotic art market, Uko has also been published in the field of comic books and the RPG industry. After being featured in the Nov. 2005 issue of Heavy Metal, Uko’s popularity is steadily growing into one of consistency in the field. Uko has recently finished a comic featuring Bodybuilding Professional Colette Nelson. With the growing reputation of sketch cards, Uko has been a sought after artist of collectors and dealers of his sketch card work with current and previous sets of The Complete Avengers, DC Legacy, The Women of Marvel, Batman Archives, Indiana Jones Heritage and Indiana Jones 4. Uko has had the distinction of helping with the sold out efforts of DC Legacy (750) and The Women of Marvel (616) by illustrating the most of many sketch artists. Buyers are amazed that he can do so many cards and still put the kind of quality needed to garner after value markets, which is amazing in itself. He has also worked on sets involving Lucasfilm properties such as Indiana Jones and Star Wars. Currently, he is working on a graphic novel titled FX-The Lost Land, written by Wayne Osborne to be published by IDW. He is doing both the pencils and inks on this series to be published later in 2010. Uko is also doing creator owned properties while still doing freelancing works for major companies. He also teaches The Comic Book Illustration class at The Columbus College of Art & Design in which he is very excited about. |
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Smuder |
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| Doug |
Sneyd |
Doug has been under contract with Playboy since 1964 and has had nearly 450 full-page color cartoons published in the magazine. Fourteen of his cartoons appear in Playboy: The Cartoons, which celebrates 50 years of Playboy's distinctive brand of humor. As well, 30 of his Playboy originals are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada. Over the years, Doug has submitted thousands of cartoon roughs to Playboy; he selected 100 of his favorite "rejects," the best of the undiscovered Sneyds, for Unpublished Sneyd, now in its second printing. Sales of the 52-page book, along with limited edition prints and commissioned sketches, keep him busy at conventions, but he always enjoys meeting fans of his work. Visit Doug on the web at www.dougsneyd.com and www.dougsneyd.blogspot.com. A comicartfans Premium Member Gallery will open soon. |
| Allison |
Sohn |
Allison Sohn is an illustrator working primarily in the trading card industry. Allison has worked on such licensed card sets as The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Heroes, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Red Sonja to name but a few. Drawing for both sketch cards as well as printed cards, Allison has been featured in more than a dozen different trading card sets in the last several years. |
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Sotomayor |
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| Chad |
Spilker |
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| Ryan |
Stegman |
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| Bob |
Stelvic |
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| Bob |
Stevlic |
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| Rob |
Stotz |
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| Chris |
Summers |
Chris is a freelance Color Artist who has been professionally working in Comics for about 5 years – he couldn't ask for a better job. He was born in Abilene, TX and has been married for 15 year with one son. As a kid his dad really liked the old “War” comics like “Sgt. Rock, Fury and his Howling Commandos” and Thor and Conan so they were always lying around. Later on he started discovered comics on my own. He found the local comic shop and got into Judge Dread, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Elfquest. He went to college for a Graphic Design Degree anticipating a career in advertising. He learned Photoshop and other skills at school. After he left school he used these skills and more acquired online to color comics. After he began, he met other colorists online – who offered more help and critiques than any class he had taken. So far he has been blessed to work on some of his favorite titles: GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Superman, Nightwing, The Perhapanauts and more. He is eager to work on more as his career continues. |
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Sungenis |
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Telgemeier |
| Ben |
Templesmith |
Ben is a New York Times best-selling artist and writer most widely known for his work in the American comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the International Horror Guild Awards as well as the industry's top prize, the Eisner Award. He's also won a Spike TV Scream Award. As a creator, his most notable works have been 30 Days of Night (which has now spawned a major motion picture) and Fell. His other projects include the critically-acclaimed serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, as well as Welcome to Hoxford, (recently optioned by Chris Columbus) and Singularity 7, all of which he also wrote. He has also worked on the Star Wars, Doctor Who, GI Joe, Army of Darkness, Silent Hill, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer properties and produces art and design for musicians, DVD, toys, and film concept work. |
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Thomas |
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| Jill |
Thompson |
Jill Thompson is a multiple Eisner award winning comic book creator. She has been drawing comics for well over half her life and is proud to have collaborated with many of this industry's great talents. She has garnered acclaim for her work on titles such as Classics Illustrated, Wonder Woman, Sandman, Finals, the Badger, Death: At Death's Door, The Little Endless Storybook and Beasts of Burden. She is best known for creating and illustrating The Scary Godmother Series of books which not only have been adapted for the stage, but for television as well. The Scary Godmother and The Revenge of Jimmy have enjoyed yearly places on The Cartoon Network's Halloween holiday rotation. In 2008-2009 Harper Collins released Magic Trixie, Jill's latest all ages series chronicling the tales of the little witch Magic Trixie, her cat Scratches and the pupils at the Spectral Park Monstersorri School. Jill loves being an ambassador of comics to libraries and schools across the country and often conducts workshops and participates as a guest speaker whenever her schedule allows. |
| Peter J |
Tomasi |
Peter J. Tomasi, a life-long New Yorker, is an NYU grad with degrees in political science and filmmaking. Peter has helped re-imagine many characters and books over the course of his extensive and exclusive career at DC Comics as a writer and editor. Peter's newest project is the DC event BRIGHTEST DAY, which he co-created with Geoff Johns. Peter's recent writing credits include GREEN LANTERN CORPS, BATMAN BLACKEST NIGHT, THE OUTSIDERS, NIGHTWING, PHANTOM STRANGER, BLACK ADAM THE DARK AGE, FINAL CRISIS REQUIEM, and many others, including his critically acclaimed original graphic novel LIGHT BRIGADE and the recently concluded creator owned series THE MIGHTY |
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Tong |
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Tucci |
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| Christopher |
Uminga |
Christopher Uminga is a Connecticut based artist who paints and draws things that make him happy. Children with black eyes, mini superheroes suspended in time, monsters hiding secrets, and many other creatures with huge eyes and broken hearts make up the cast of misfits that Christopher sees in his head. He places them carefully onto canvas or paper to give them life and allows them to play. Sometimes we see them playing nicely but most times they play a bit devilishly. Taking inspiration from Saturday morning cartoons, comic books and all things pulp and pop culture, Christopher creates a twisted little world to call his own. |
| Jim |
Valentino |
Jim Valentino was born in the Bronx, New York on October 28, 1952. He started his career in the late 1970’s creating small press, self-published comics such as Christmas Comics, Kid Stuf’ and others. His work soon came to the attention of Dave Sim and Deni Loubert who published his first full color series, normalman, in 1984 under Aardvark-Vanaheim. In 1985, the title moved to Loubert’s Renegade Press, where his second series, the eponymous titled, Valentino, was launched. Valentino worked as a storyboard artist for various animation features and upon returning to comics began working for Marvel where among other work, most notably the What If? series, he re-created the Guardians of the Galaxy. Leaving Marvel with several other artists, he co-founded Image Comics for which he created the ultra-violent HIV infected vigilante, ShadowHawk. Under the Image banner he published Vignettes, a collection of his earlier auto-biographical work and the Eisner Award nominated A Touch of Silver. Valentino served as Image publisher from 1999-2004, changing the face of the company into one of the most stylistically diverse in the industry. He brought in such renowned authors as Brian Michael Bendis, Warren Ellis, Jim Mahfood, Scott Morse, James Robinson, John Romita, Jr., Joesph Michael Linsner and many more. Valentino has done work, either as writer, artist or both for virtually every publisher in the comics field, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Cartoon Art Museum, HERO Initiative and Image Comics, Inc. as well as on the original steering committee of Free Comic Book Day. In 2008 he founded Silverline Books, dedicated to publishing family-friendly books that bridge the gap between traditional story books and graphic novels. Jim’s proudest achievement are his two grown sons, Aaron and Joel. |
| Fred |
van Lente |
Fred Van Lente is the New York Times bestselling author of Incredible Hercules (with Greg Pak) and three entries in the Marvel Zombies series, as well as the American Library Association award-winning Action Philosophers. His original graphic novel, Cowboys & Aliens (co-written with Andrew Foley), is being adapted into motion picture form by Dreamworks and Universal starring Daniel Craig. Van Lente's other comics include Comic Book Comics, MODOK's 11, X Men Noir and Amazing Spider-Man. |
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Vargas |
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Varitek |
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| Alessandro |
Vitti |
Born in 1978, he began his career as an illustrator for the most important Italian publishers, like Zanichelli, Paravia, Giunti and working for some advertising companies. In 2004 he started working in the comics field, beginning in France with Soleil Production and in Italy with Sergio Bonelli Editore with their series "Brendon". He's actually working for Marvel on the pages of "Secret Warriors" and for Top Cow on the "Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box" miniseries. |
| Tyler |
Walpole |
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| Jeff |
Wamester |
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| Byron |
Wilkins |
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| Adam |
Withers |
Adam Withers and Comfort Love are a husband and wife creative team who both write, draw, and color the comic The Uniques, and the upcoming series Rainbow in the Dark. |
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Wood |
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| Rus |
Wooton |
Rus Wooton has been working in comics since 1998 when he was the Web Designer and Online Assistant Editor for Wizard Entertainment. He's been lettering comics since 2003, as part of Virtual Calligraphy for Marvel, and on his own for Image (Walking Dead, Invincible, Jersey Gods, Gødland, etc) and Dark Horse (Fear Agent, The End League, Gigantic) and Radical (The Last Days of American Crime). He's also now writing and illustrating his own creator-owned book, Blacksmith Jones, due out later this year. |
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Wyzgala |
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Yeung |
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| Skottie |
Young |
Skottie Young is the artist of Marvel Comics critically acclaimed and New York Times Best Selling Book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Skottie has become a fan favorite at Marvel over the years with his unique and energetic versions of all the characters you love from Spider-Man and New X-Men, to Wolverine and Deadpool. In the coming year, he will be continuing his epic adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz novels as well as entering the world of webcomics with his creation, Sam Heck. |
| Buzz |
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Although known for his depiction of the beautiful ladies of comic, Buzz's work has also graced many comic book titles such as JSA,ATOMIKA,VAMPIRELLA,LUNA and SHI to name a few. A very popular and sought after commission artist amongst the Art collectors and the comic-book convention circuit. Buzz is also a multi EMMY award winning commercial artist who has worked with CBS, FOX, Los Angeles LAKERS and The United States Marine Corp. |
| Candle Light Press |
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Candle Light Press is a group of current and former Iowans who have been making comics and graphic novels together for 15 years. They currently have twenty-six graphic novels in print, including ZOO FORCE: We Heart Libraries ("the most outré comics this side of The Maxx"--BOOKLIST), NIKKI HARRIS: CYBERMATION WITCH ("leaves you wanting more"--COMIC BOOK BIN), and SPROCKET: GAPS IN FILM ("a well-written parody of film guides"-- YNDICATE PRODUCT COVERT HQ). CLP will have a con-exclusive postcard for the first hundred visitors to the table, as well as new works by Carter Allen, Will Beard, Will Grant, Jeremy Smith and John Ira Thomas. |
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Fan-Favorite illustrator best known for his renditions of attractive SuperHeroines. His images have appeared in the pages of Marvel, DC, and countless other publications in and out of comics. Some of the latest Franchesco! Femme Fatales... can be seen gracing Zenescope's Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Lee Falk's the Phantom. |
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| Chris |
Kuchta |
Chris Kuchta is a Art Instructor and Freelance Illustrator hailing from Lafayette, Indiana. A graduate of American Academy of Art in 2000, he has since studied art all over the globe. In 2004 he opened the Kuchta Academy of Fine Art and Illustration and has been teaching Academic Drawing and Painting as well as Digital Art and Graphic Design. As well as teaching, he has also worked as a freelance illustrator and portrait painter. His current projects include a series of movie monster paintings and prints, concept illustration for film and animation, storyboarding and a comic graphic novel entitled Escalation. When not drawing and painting he can be found with his wife Lori and two cats Vincent and Hop. |
| Justin |
Castaneda |
Justin Castaneda is a writer and illustrator from the south side of Chicago. He studied animation at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg where he earned his degree in Media Art. Since then, he has sparked an interest in children's books. In 2007 he published his first in a series entitled, When I Was Little..., a picture book of his fondest childhood memories. The following year he published the cleverly titled sequel, When I Was Little Too, which carried on the tradition of re-living one's youth. During 2009, he held a submission contest asking people to share their favorite childhood memories. The selected entries would become the focus for his third book, When You Were Little, set to arrive in Spring of 2010! |