Arthur Adams

Arthur Adams is an award-winning artist who became an immediate fan favorite as the penciler on the critically acclaimed 1985 Longshot mini-series. His decades-spanning career has included cover and interior work on such titles as Batman, Superman, the Hulk, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-man, X-Men, New Mutants, Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Excalibur, Ultimate X, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Walking Dead. He's the creator, writer and artist on Monkeyman and O'Brien.  Outside of comics, Arthur has done movie, toy, and game designs, book illustrations, and provided the artwork for an X-Men themed Spaghetti-O's can.

Fabian Nicieza

Fabian Nicieza has been in the entertainment industry for over thirty years as a writer, editor, publisher and chief creative officer whose signature co-creation, Deadpool, has become one of the decade’s biggest entertainment and consumer product phenomenon for teens and adults. He has written thousands of characters and his titles have sold over 100 million comics, including X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Thunderbolts, and Robin. The children’s animated series he developed, Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten with Arnold Schwarzenegger debuted on the Kartoon Channel! in 2021. His debut novel, Suburban Dicks, published by Putnam, was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America as Best First Novel by an American Author. His second novel, The Self- Made Widow, was released in 2022.

Dave Aikins

Dave Aikins is a Nickelodeon publishing artist and over the past 25 years has worked on hundreds of children’s books for shows such as Blue’s Clues & You, SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer, Paw Patrol, and Shimmer & Shine. d

Andrew Dalhouse has always had a love for comics and coloring became his passion in high school. He has been coloring comics since 2004. He has colored for every major comic publisher. New 52 Teen Titans, Grifter, Titans Rebirth, Flash (DC Comics) Black Panther, Daredevil, Spider-Man, Storm (Marvel Comics) Space Ghost, Red Sonja (Dynamite Comics) Power Ranger/ Godzilla, Transformers (IDW) Rick & Morty (ONI).

Gerry Duggan

New York Times best selling writer of Deadpool, Hulk, Iron Man, Star Wars, Conan, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Uncanny Avengers and many more for Marvel Comics. Writer and co-creator of Dead Eyes, The Dark Room, Analog and The Infinite Horizon at Image Comics. Currently writing indie darlings, The X-Men.

Trevor Von Eeden

I was born on July 24th, 1959 in Guyana, South America, and came to the U.S. with my family in 1970. In 1976, I was offered the opportunity to become DC Comics' youngest artist, first black artist, and co-creator of their first original black super-hero to have his own title. In 2018, BL became the first black super-hero to have his own TV series. In the '80s and '90s, I drew The Batman Annual #8, The Green Arrow Mini-series, THRILLER, The Black Canary Mini-series & regular series, among other things for DC Comics, and Powerman & Iron Fist, Spider-Woman, Marvel Fanfare, and a few other titles for Marvel. In 2009, IDW published my first self-written/drawn GN, "THE ORIGINAL JOHNSON"--the first biography of "The First Black Heavyweight Champion of The Whole White World" (no typo there) Jack Johnson--that was ever written by a black man. It was fairly well received. I've been drawing digital covers for Marvel Comics for the past 3 years, while working on incoming fan commissions, and my second book, "The Story Of HERU: The First Hero"--a re-telling of the Ancient Egyptian Myth of Osiris, Isis, and Horus.

Charles P Wilson III

Charles is the illustrator and co-creator of The New York Times Best-Selling Graphic Novel The Stuff of Legend (published by Th3rd World Studios), and illustrator for WRAITH (with Joe Hill, IDW Publishing). His artwork has appeared in the pages and on the covers of numerous titles, including Tales from the Darkside, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Star Wars.

Scott James is a celebrated American comic book and gaming artist, known for his dynamic and influential contributions to both industries. He’s best recognized for his standout work on Savage Dragon (Image Comics), his creator-owned title Juiceman, Butts in Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story (with writer Dirk Maning for Source Point Press), Starship Troopers, and The Case Files of Harlan Falk (Markosia).   In the early stages of his career, Scott gained widespread recognition for his captivating art in a range of role-playing games (RPGs) and collectible card games (CCGs), contributing to iconic franchises like Dungeons & Dragons, Legend of the Five Rings (L5R), Shadowrun, BattleTech, Deadlands, Seventh Sea, and Mutants & Masterminds. Beyond the gaming world, Scott’s talent also caught the attention of Hasbro, where he created concept designs for toy lines and worked on animated series and films, including Action Man and Small Soldiers.

Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez is an Eisner, Inkpot, Diamond, and Wizard award-winning writer and artist who has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and a host of other comic book companies for nearly 30 years. A former student and later instructor at NYC’s School of Visual Arts, Jimenez is best known for his work on Tempest, The Invisibles,  JLA/Titans,  New-X-Men, Wonder Woman,  Infinite Crisis, Amazing Spider-Man,  Otherworld,  and Wonder Woman: Historia with author Kelly Sue DeConnick.  Jimenez has also worked in film, television, animation, traditional print media, and packaging design; has created large-scale artworks for public spaces, schools, and museums in New York and Chicago; lectured at universities, museums, and the Library of Congress on identity and diversity in entertainment; mentored young designers at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.  An Out 100 alum, Jimenez is considered the first out gay artist in mainstream super-hero comics and remains one of the industry’s most prominent queer creators.

Arvell Jones

Arvell Jones has been penciling for DC and Marvel for roughly forty-four years now. His earliest work can be seen in the Marvel Premiere series (#20-22,1975) with the drawing of martial arts superhero - Iron Fist! While working on the Iron Fist comic series, he, and Tony Isabella co-created the character "Misty Knight." This, along with two other characters (also co-created by Mr. Jones) Cockroach Hamilton and Parana Jones, have been featured in three Netflix's series - Luke Cage, The Defenders, and Iron Fist. His work can also be seen in these legendary Marvel titles - Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, The Avengers, GI Joe, Luke Cage, and the Daredevil!  During the early 80's, Mr. Jones also worked on the All-Star Squadron for DC Comics. Penciling such icons as Superman, Wonder Woman and SHAZAM! In 2017, he was asked to contribute his original concept art for teaser posters used to promote Marvel's 2018 Black Panther film. In May 2019 Mr. Jones was hand picked as one of Marvel's Greatest Creators and his work will be spotlighted with the reprinting of Marvel Premier #21 the first appearance of "Misty Knight!"

Greg Land

Greg has been a professional illustrator for just over forty years. The past thirty as a comic book artist. Before graduating from Indiana State University with a BFA degree, he started his professional career in the screen print industry. His lifelong dream to draw comics became a reality with a project called “Storm Quest” from Sky Comics. This led to work for DC Comics that included titles such as “Night Wing and Birds of Prey.” Shortly after, Greg began work with a new comic company called CrossGen Comics. There Greg co-created their top selling book called “Sojourn” with writer Ron Marz. Greg signed w/Marvel Comics and has been under an exclusive contract w/them ever since. Some past projects that Greg has worked on for Marvel include the “Symbiote Spiderman series, The Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man, Mighty Avengers and The Ultimate Fantastic Four, The Uncanny X-Men, Monsters Unleashed, and Weapon X”. Greg’s latest projects include a run on The All Out Avengers/Avengers Beyond and the Symbiote Spiderman series and numerous covers.

Jeph Loeb

JEPH LOEB is known for BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS, SPIDER-MAN BLUE, BATMAN HUSH, RED HULK and SUPERMAN/BATMAN as well as many others.  In TV, DAREDEVIL, JESSICA JONES, LUKE CAGE, AGENTS OF SHIELD as well as LOST, SMALLVILLE, HEROES and more.  In film, TEEN WOLF and COMMANDO among others.

Award-winning contemporary artist & illustrator FLuX (AKA John Malloy) has collaborated with Apple, Swatch, Focus Features, Paramount+, FX, Puma, Diesel, Peace Tea, and others, and his paintings are in collections, museums, and galleries around the world alongside Warhol, Koons, and Murakami. He illustrated 2 cards for Magic The Gathering’s Mirage series, “Natural Balance” & “Mind Harness”. His comics work includes the biography, "Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia & Back", his web comic memoir titled, ”Queasy", musician interview comics for Lemon Magazine, and the graphic novel, “Amnesia”. His work has received numerous awards including Creativity International, Beautiful Bizarre, Communication Arts, and Society of Illustrators.

Laura Martin

Laura Martin is an award-winning veteran of comics coloring. She got her start at Wildstorm Studios, breaking out with her work on Planetary and The Authority. She went freelance in 2000 to color Ultimate-X (Marvel), JLA, and JLA: Heaven’s Ladder (DC). In 2001, Laura accepted a supervisory position at CrossGen Comics, where she colored Ruse and Negation. In 2004, Laura returned to freelance, and has been coloring an impressive volume of comics, including Astonishing X-Men, The Ultimates, Thor, Uncanny Avengers, Stephen King's The Stand, AvX, Black Panther, and Star Wars (Marvel); Dr. Manhattan, Superman, Wonder Woman (DC Comics); Serenity and Plastic (Dark Horse); Armor Hunters (Valiant); Spawn (Image); and The Rocketeer and Ragnarök (IDW). Her projects in 2024 include The Others (CMON Games) and Megalith (Bad Idea). Laura lives with her husband Randy and their three cats in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jonboy Meyers

Jonboy Meyers is an Illustrator, Cover Artist, Concept Designer/World Builder, Sequential Artist and Writer for Toys, Animation, Video Games, Comic Books and Film. His clients Include DC Comics (Teen Titans Rebirth), Spawn (with Todd McFarlane), Marvel Comics (Inhumans), Blizzard/Activision (Hearthstone/WOW TCG) and Riot Games (Comics, World Building, Merchandise and Cinematics), Second Dinner (Marvel Snap).

Dan Panosian

Dan Panosian hails from Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and son. If he had a pet he would have mentioned it in the first sentence. But he doesn’t. Without the company of a friendly animal, he began working for Marvel and DC Comics which led him to Image Comics. From there he branched out into the video game world and eventually Film and TV. But the lure of comic books was too great and once again he was back in it’s lovely full color embrace. Not content with merely making a living drawing, he co-created “Drink and Draw”, a popular social network of artists that gather at bars, taverns and lounges. Dan created “Slots” for Image Comics with Skybound Entertainment. He created “An Unkindness of Ravens” and “Alice Ever After” for BOOM Studios. “Black Tape” for AWA and is the Co-Creator of “Canary” along with Scott Snyder for ComiXology and is a regular cover artist for Marvel and DC Comics. Sure he’s won awards but his true win is every smile he’s received from a collection of stick figure illustrations he’s produced in chalk outside his doorstep.

Ben Percy

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels — most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2022) — three short story collections, and a book of essays. He currently writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. He broke in to the industry in 2014 with a two-shot Batman story (“Terminal”) in Detective Comics, and is known for his celebrated runs on Green Arrow, Teen Titans, James Bond, and Nightwing. His creator-owned comics include Devil's Highway and Year Zero. He wrote the audio drama Wolverine: The Long Night, a ten-episode series that Apple named one of the Top 15 podcasts of the won the iHeartRadio Award for best scripted podcast. He followed this up with Wolverine: The Lost Trail and then Wastelanders: Old Man Starlord (starring Timothy Busfield, Chris Elliot, Danny Glover, and Vanessa Williams).

David Petersen

David Petersen is the creator of the New York Times Bestselling and critically acclaimed Graphic Novel series Mouse Guard.  He was the 2007 Russ Manning Award recipient for Most Promising Newcomer and has since gone on to win three Eisner Awards and two Harvey’s for his continued work on the Mouse Guard series. David has done covers for Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Jim Henson's Storyteller, Star Wars, TMNT, and Usagi Yojimbo as well as recent work for Magic the Gathering: Bloomburrow. David and his wife Julia live in Michigan.

Joe Rubinstein

Joe Rubinstein is a distinguished figure in the comic book industry renowned for his exceptional inking skills and collaborations with legendary creators such as Stan Lee, Frank Miller, and Jim Starlin, to name just a few. Joe is recognized for inking iconic comic books, such as Wolverine #1, Infinity Gauntlet #1, and the Uncanny X-Men #266. Outside of comics, Joe is an extremely talented oil painter, creating beautiful pieces that deeply reflect his passion for the arts.

Alex Saviuk

Alex Saviuk started his career at DC Comics in 1977 after studying sequential art with WILL EISNER. He became the regular artist on GREEN LANTERN and THE FLASH and also drew SUPERMAN, HAWKMAN, AQUAMAN, The ATOM, and AIR WAVE. In 1986, Alex moved to MARVEL COMICS filling in on IRON MAN 211 and became the penciler on DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH featuring The PHANTOM, FLASH GORDON, and MANDRAKE. Then, he started a 7+ year run on WEB OF SPIDER-MAN followed by over 2 more years on SPIDER-MAN ADVENTURES. In 1997-98 Alex penciled the last 12 issues of THE X-FILES for TOPPS Comics (#30-41). In 2004, he assisted WILL EISNER on THE SPIRIT MEETS THE ESCAPIST. Alex also worked on the graphic novel FEAST of the SEVEN FISHES. In 2012, Alex worked on a superhero book called STAN LEE and THE MIGHTY SEVEN. Alex also does storyboards and conceptual art for advertising agencies and the occasional feature film (NEVER BACK DOWN, THE REAPING, HOOT, and LONELY HEARTS). Currently and recently, Alex contributed pencils and inks for variant covers for Marvel and exclusive NFTs.  ALEX is also involved with penciling chapters for THE MASTERS POWER COMICS . More recently he contributed variant covers for SUPERMAN and a variant cover for WOLVERINE, as well as an homage to MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE featuring The THING and SPIDER-MAN.

Stuart Sayger

Stuart Sayger is known for his dark and moody art style. His published projects will include: Vampirella, Conan, and Alice Cooper, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT- Last Ronin Lost Years, The Joker, Red Sonja, Dejah Thoris, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Army of Darkness, KISS (the Gene Simmons rock band) ... Past high-profile jobs include: Lego Bionicle for DC Comics, Man of Steel Superman movie, and The Walking Dead. and many other well-known comics.  

Mark Sparacio

Successful illustrator, Mark Sparacio studied sequential art for three years under the legendary Will Eisner —recognized as the creator of the Graphic Novel—at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he earned a B.F.A. in Illustration and Sequential Art. While still in school, Sparacio received his first professional assignment to create a painting for the movie poster for the United Artist International film, The Draughtsman’s Contract. This opportunity resulted in a long run as a freelance illustrator in the advertising industry. After working for both Marvel and D.C. Comics, creating covers for Comics Buyer's Guide and The Overstreet Price Guide, creating paintings for card sets for UpperDeck/DC Comics and for Topps’ Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids, Sparacio is currently writing, drawing and painting covers for two American Mythology Productions on-going Comic Book Series, BOMBSHELL AND TOMMTOMM and WITCH HAMMER, which have release dates of August 2023. Sparacio will also soon be returning to his first Creator-Owned Graphic Novel Series, Chelsea Dagger for which he will be writing, drawing and painting covers as well. When he's not in his studio and needs a place to sleep, Sparacio lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida, with his wife ToniAnn.

TJ Sterling

TJ Sterling is an artist and writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Growing up he frequented local comic shops where he began to collect his first comics which would eventually inspire his signature 90’s comic style. TJ continued to hone his artistic ability and in 2001 he moved from Michigan to New York to attend art college. During college he worked for the infamous Bullpen at Marvel Entertainment. After graduating college, working at Marvel, Dark Horse and Aspen Comics, TJ started his own comic book company; RAE Comics. The first comic book produced by TJ and his team was “Okemus”. TJ debuted Okemus at San Diego Comic Con 2015 and sold out his first print run of 400 copies. Since then, TJ has garnered an amazing fanbase across the globe which he passionately serves. To date TJ has raised over $50K via Kickstarter for various titles from RAE Comics. During his off time he has freelanced for various clients such as Universal Music and DC Comics on Batman Giant #5. TJ is also a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon art.

Frank Tieri has been active in comics, tv and film for over 20 years with past work on Harley Quinn, Deadpool, Ravencroft, Pestilence, Wolverine, Red Sonja and many more.

Jim Towe

Jim Towe is a comic book artist based out of metro Detroit. His body of work includes art for Marvel titles such as Avengers Forever, X-Men, X-Force, The Amazing Spider-Man and Star Wars: High Republic.

Christopher Uminga

Christopher Uminga is a Connecticut-based artist recognized for his distinctive style. He has contributed to numerous projects for DC Comics/Warner Bros., including launching the DC Collectibles Artist Alley statue line and illustrating the graphic novel Batman’s Mystery Casebook. Chris has also lent his artistic talents to titles like Deadman, Teen Titans Go!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman/Max, Ghostbusters, Star Wars Adventures, Rick and Morty, Invader Zim, and many more. Additionally, he collaborates with Disney Fine Art and his work can be found at both Disneyland and Disney World. Chris resides in Connecticut with his wife, where he's often brushing dog hair off his clothes thanks to his furry companions, Wolfie, Ketchup, and Sandwich.

Alessandro Vitti

Alessandro Vitti is a highly acclaimed Italian comic book artist with a career spanning over two decades known for his dynamic storytelling and intricate artwork. His work has graced the pages of numerous high-profile titles for major publishers like Marvel, DC, AWA and Image Comics. Some of his notable works include: Captain America & Hawkeye, Avengers Arena, Secret Warriors, Doctor Voodoo, Iceman, Taskmaster, Winter Soldier, X-Men, Darth Vader, Marvel Zombies Red Lanterns, Suiciders: Kings of HelL.A., Batman Eternal, Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Wonder Woman. The Joneses, Red Dread, The Invisible Boy, Hardcore, Casi Metaumani, Diabolik. Vitti has collaborated with industry giants such as Jonathan Hickman, Charles Soule, Lee Bermejo, and Andy Diggle. His work is characterized by its cinematic quality, expressive characters, and detailed backgrounds.

Yoshi Vu

Yoshi Vu is a designer and artist with experience in many of your favorite shows, movies, and games! He is best known for his work on Star Wars, MCU, Invincible, The Walking Dead, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Love+Death+Robots and many more. As a fan of many things, Yoshi likes to collect "credits and crew jackets" of all his favorite properties by being a part of them... From making the Death Star II Ruins and Anchorhead in the Star Wars universe, to being a designer on his first 2d animated show, Invincible, you might not be familiar with the artist, but chances are you've seen his work!

Marcus Williams

Marcus Williams (aka MarcusTheVisual) is an Atlanta based creative who's freelance illustration and design work shaped his artistic career working with media giants like Cartoon Network, Marvel, Sony Pictures Animation, DC comics/Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon and Amazon to name a few, but soon pushed him towards co-creating and publishing the hit comic series (Tuskegee Heirs-Flames of Destiny (https://tuskegeeheirs.com/). His latest project "EyeLie Popeye" defines his entry into the comic industry as a writer/artist for one of the most well-known characters in history, Popeye the Sailor Man, for a new generation of readers. 

Chrissie Zullo-Uminga

Chrissie Zullo Uminga is a Connecticut-based artist known for her captivating comic book covers. Her work has graced titles such as DC's Trick-or-Treat and Winter Wonderland Variants, Black Canary: Best of the Best, Deadpool: Petpool, and many more. She has also contributed to Marvel Comics, illustrating covers for Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Silk, Miles Morales and Moon Girl, Ewoks, Spider-Gwen, Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Thor. She currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and their three beloved dogs: Sandwich, Wolfie, and Ketchup.

Klaus Janson began his professional career in 1974 by inking Black Panther over Rich Buckler. His work includes seminal series and characters such as Howard the Duck, The Defenders, The Avengers, Captain America, The Punisher, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Conan, Superman, Detective Comics, Batman, The Dark Knight Returns, Dark Knight: Master Race, and Von Freeze. Janson also co-created the acclaimed series Sacred Creatures with collaborator Pablo Raimondi, published by Image Comics. He authored The DC Guide to Penciling Comics and The DC Guide to Inking Comics, both published by Watson-Guptil Publications. From 1993 to 2022, Janson taught Principles of Cartooning at the School of Visual Arts. Over the past two decades, he has developed and presented numerous workshops at Marvel, DC, Savannah College of Art and Design, and various conventions across America, Canada, and Europe. His contributions to the field have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Eisner Award (1986), Golden Apple Award (1986), Inkwell Awards (2010, 2013), Harvey Awards (2010, 2016), Shel Dorf Award (2011), Inkpot Award (2012), and the Ringo Award (2023). In 2024, Klaus Janson was honored with induction into the Eisner Hall of Fame, cementing his legacy as a master of the craft.

Cancelled - John Jennings

John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and winner of the Hugo Award for his co-adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. Jennings also created Marvel’s new AfroCaribbean cosmic superhero Ghost Light with artist Valentine Delandro.