Adriana Melo

Known For

Wonder Girl, Star Wars: Empire, Ms. Marvel

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Adriana Melo has worked for Marvel, DC, Image Comics, and Titan Comics. Some of the books she has worked as a penciler/artist are: Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Star Wars: Empire, Rose & Thorn, Witchblade, Miss Marvel, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Female Furies, Plastic Man, Dr. Who: New Adventures of the Ninth Doctor and Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica. You can find her most recent work in the DC Comics ongoing series Wonder Girl with Joelle Jones and in Superman: Action comics.

Adriano di Benedetto

Known For

Powers of X, Inferno, Hunt for Wolverine

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Adriano Di Benedetto is mostly known as the inker of important "X-Titles" such as Powers of X, Inferno, Hunt for Wolverine and Uncanny X-Men. After a successful run on important Marvel titles such as Daredevil, Captain Marvel and many others, began inking for DC Comics' Batman, Joker and most recently, Wonder Woman: Evolution.

Afua Njoki Richardson

Known For

Black Panther World of Wakanda

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Afua Njoki Richardson is an Eisner award-winning American illustrator, musician, and storyteller. She has employed her passions for almost three decades, bringing her unique experiences and passion for storytelling to everything she makes. Afua's comic career launched on the Pilot Season Reader's Choice series entitled " Genius" Published at Top Cow / Image comics written by Marc Bernardin. Afua toured as a background singer opening for Alicia Keys, Outkast, John Legend, Parliament funkadelic Ciara, and Keith Urban, appearing on Soul train and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In 2018 She Starred in "Br'er Soul," a three-man broadway show with the godfather of 70's Action Cinema, the late Sir Melvin Van Peebles. Afua's Covers on Black Panther, World of Wakanda, and the insertion of the Adinkra Symbolism into the MCU with writer Roxanne Gay and Yona Harvey marked the first-ever African American All-Female team to pen a story for Marvel comics. She's the recipient of the Nina Simone ' Strong gifted and black' award for artistic excellence making her one of the few black /indigenous women to pencil ink and color a comic for Marvel DC and Image comics. Afua's latest works appeared in HBO's Emmy award-winning mini-series Lovecraft Country as the artist who teaches dimensional explorer Hippolyta Freeman, aka Orithya Blue, how to draw comics, earning Afua an on-screen shoutout in the season finale. Afua's unique style and cultural influences are seen and felt in her covers, color pallets, and stories. Her much-anticipated series, Aquarius the Book of Mer, will feature her writing, illustrations, and musical attributes woven into the pages.

Alitha Martinez

Known For

Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Nubia

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Alitha Evelyn Martinez is the Eisner Award and GLAAD Award winning artist of the Black Panther: World of Wakanda series. Her professional career began in 1999 penciling Iron Man for Marvel Entertainment. Since then, she has worked on titles like X-Men: Black Sun; Marvel Age Fantastic Four; Black Panther and Black Panther: World of Wakanda; X-Men Gold Annual; Moon Girl; Mark Morales Spiderman; and Fearless; Voltron; NBC’s Heroes; New 52 Bat Girl; Archie Comic’s New Crusaders and Riverdale; Omni for Humanoids; WWE Superstar, WWE Slam City, and Barbie for Paper Cutz. Recents works include “It’s a Bird” and Nubia for DC comics and the up-coming title The Science of Ghosts for Legendary Comics. In her spare time she works on her creator-owned titles Yume and Ever, and Foreign, published through her company, Ariotstorm Productions, LLC. She is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Finally, it’s official! she is a writer too, her longest, deepest-held dream. She has two stories for Epic under her belt. The most rewarding part of my career is participating in the US State Department’s World Speaker Program. She travels to parts unknown to teach comic book workshops and bring the art of storytelling to people who would have no other way of getting such information. She was once in the same position, practicing a craft that she didn’t know was a profession. She loves representing her country and herindustry.

Amanda Conner

Known For

Harley Quinn, Lois Lane, Codename: Knockout, Birds of Prey, X-Men Unlimited, Gatecrasher (Blackbull Comics), The Pro

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Amanda Conner has worked on many of the top titles in comics. She continuously produces cover work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and an assortment of independent titles. Her involvement with DC and Warner Brothers for the Harley Quinn animated series are evident. Amanda’s work can also be seen in such places as ABC’s Nightline, New York Times, Mad Magazine, Arm & Hammer, PlaySchool, and Nickelodeon. She has also done monthly spot illustrations for Revolver magazine. She has enjoyed a huge success with DC Comics title Harley Quinn with Jimmy Palmiotti. Her collaboration with pop sensation Ingrid Michaelson was industry celebrated. Her work has been spotlighted on the award-winning CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, where her artwork was used for multiple episodes.

Anthony Marques

Known For

Batman, Green Hornet, and Ghostbusters

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

When it comes to the history and art of comic books, Anthony Marques is a prime example about everything there is to love about the art form. A graduate of the iconic Joe Kubert School, he began his career working for MADA Design in New York City before returning to the New Jersey school as an events coordinator. While working at the art school, Marques branched out into editing and managed to work with numerous publishers, including DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. A true student of the medium, he was able to bring new and exciting visions to life as an artist for beloved characters such as Batman, Green Hornet, and Ghostbusters. In addition to working on numerous projects with these companies, he became an instructor at The Joe Kubert School before eventually becoming President and owner of the institution. There he works with instructors to usher in the next generation of comic book creators. Marques also owns and operates the historic comic shop, Dewey’s Comic City in Dover, New Jersey, offering a slice of comic book history to lovers of the genre from someone with experience and passion in some of the most famous works.

Bill Morrison

Known For

The Simpsons, Futurama, The Beatles Yellow Submarine

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Bill Morrison is known throughout the world as a major artist for several beloved animated properties, most notably The Simpsons, Futurama, The Beatles Yellow Submarine, and many of Disney’s most popular films and characters. Morrison is very well known among Simpsons fans through his decades-long stint as Creative Director at The Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s publishing company, Bongo Entertainment. He has also drawn thousands of Simpsons images for advertising, promotion, limited edition fine art, and a mountain of merchandise including T-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging, books, calendars, and album covers. He has also produced designs for episodes of the TV series as well as The Simpsons Movie. Bill began his career in Hollywood as an illustrator, painting dozens of movie posters including many for Walt Disney Pictures. The list of classic film posters by Morrison includes House, Blood Diner, The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, The Land Before Time, The Jetsons Movie, and many more. When Matt Groening founded Bongo Entertainment, Bill was on board as art director and drew the very first Simpsons comic. He soon took on the role of Creative Director, editing Bongo’s entire book and comic output, and writing and drawing stories and covers. Bill also worked with Groening on early character designs for the Futurama TV series and served as series Art Director. And he recently worked as character designer and development artist on Groening’s Netflix series, Disenchantment. Most recently, Morrison wrote and drew a graphic novel adaptation of The Beatles Yellow Submarine for Titan Comics, and was Executive Editor of MAD Magazine.

Chris Burnham

Known For

Batman Incorporated, Die!Die!Die!

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Chris has done multiple Stories for DC Comics such as the Death of Robin. In addition he was the creator of the much loved Manhattan Projects Image comic and most recently just completed work with Robert Kirkman on a creator owned series.

Dan Parent

Known For

Archie, Die Kitty Die

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics. A graduate of The Kubert School, Dan has been working at Archie Comics for 35 years. His writing of the Love Showdown series from 1994 received widespread attention. Dan has also written and/or illustrated for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Felix the Cat Productions, Mattel, IDW, Boom, Valiant Comics, Chapterhouse comics and Harpercollins to name a few. Dan created Archie’s first openly gay character, Kevin Keller. . Kevin Keller has become Archie Comic’s most popular character in decades, who is also a key character on the TV series, Riverdale. Kevin Keller was given his own solo book in 2011. Dan recently created a 700-page plus KEVIN KELLER OMNIBUS, which will be out in early 2022! Other notable series Dan has worked on are Archie Meets Kiss , Archie Meets Batman ’66 , Archie vs. Sharknado! And Red Sonja and Vampirella Meet Betty and Veronca .Dan won the 2013 GLAAD award for outstanding comic book (Kevin Keller) and is also a Harvey Awards nominee. Dan is co- creator of the hit series, DIE KITTY DIE , which was a huge kickstarter success and is now being published by Chapterhouse Comics. Dan’s current project is handling the art chores on many of Archie Comic’s 80th Anniversary projects, including a revamp of Everything’s Archie and a series of “What If” stories featuring Betty and Veronica.

Dave Aikins

Known For

SpongeBob, Blue's Clues & You, John Cena's Elbow Grease, Dora The Explorer, Zombies!!!

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Dave Aikins is a children’s book illustrator & Nickelodeon publishing artist, who has illustrated 200 books featuring SpongeBob, Paw Patrol, Blue’s Clues, Top Wing, Shimmer & Shine, Blaze, Dora The Explorer, Cat in the Hat, & John Cena's Elbow Grease

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Dave Franchini is the Publisher for Zenescope Entertainment and also a comic book writer best known for Belle: Beast Hunter, Cinderella Serial Killer Princess, and Grimm Fairy Tales (Zenescope's flagship series). He was born and raised in Philadelphia and still resides in the area. He started with Zenescope over a decade ago.

David Angelo Roman

Known For

Rick and Morty

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

David Angelo Roman is a Rick and Morty comic book artist under Adult Swim, Oni-Press and Cryptozoic. He has also created art for Lucas Film, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Marvel Premier, and Steven Universe under Topps, Upperdeck and Cryptozoic.

David Crownson

Known For

Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Born and raised in the exotic town of Frenchtown, New Jersey, David Crownson is the founder of Kingwood Comics where he publishes and distributes his comic book series Harriet Tubman Demon Slayer , and the upcoming Nightmare In Newark and Killer Bee. He's also an actor appearing in the award winning series Bubbly Brown Sugar. Recently , Crownson signed a development deal with Prentice Penny to produce Harriet Tubman Demon Slayer as tv series at Disney.

David Walker

Known For

Bitter Root, Naomi, The Black Panther Party

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David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. Walker is best known for his work in graphic novels and comics, which includes the Eisner Award and Ringo Award-winning series Bitter Root (Image Comics), and the Eisner Award-nominated series Naomi (DC Comics), and the critically acclaimed graphic novel The Black Panther Party (Ten Speed Press). His most recent project is The Hated, soon to be a Netflix series. He has written for Marvel Comics (Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Deadpool) and DC Comics (Cyborg, Young Justice). 

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Howard Chaykin is an acclaimed comic book writer and artist with credits such as American Flagg!, Star Wars, and Hey, Kids, Comics! He has worked extensively at Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Image comics from the early 1970s through the present day.

Ian Glaubinger

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Ian Glaubinger; a professional doodler whose work draws inspiration from the past, especially the aesthetics of the 1940s through the 1960s covering things like pop culture, Americana and Tiki culture. Ian has created original work for licenses and properties such as Star Wars, Marvel, Ghostbusters, Looney Tunes, Ninja Turtles, Halo, Disney, Rick & Morty, Bob's Burgers, Ren & Stimpy, NHL, NFL and many more. His art appears on a wide range of mediums that includes limited edition screen prints, posters, apparel, comics, home decor, toys and more.

Jamie Tyndall

Known For

White Widow, Grimm Fairy Tales, Red Sonja

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Jamie Tyndall is a Canadian - American Comic book artist that is known for his depictions of strong, sexy female characters. He does the pencil, ink and color for most of his very detailed work. He is also very lucky to work with some of the best colorists in the industry. Jamie Tyndall graduated with an honors degree from the University of Toronto in art and history coupled with another degree from Sheridan College of Art in Toronto. Partnering with the imaginative writer, Benny Powell, they created Absolute Comics Group in 2017. His amazing fans jump started the home of White Widow to on the indie comics charts with the release of White Widow #1. Jamie Tyndall has had the honor of working with Zenescope , IDW Entertainment, Valiant Entertainment, Coffin Comics, Contraband, and Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment. Various titles in his cover portfolio include GI JOE, Transformers, My little pony, TMNT, Archie, Grimm Fairy Tales, Red Sonja, Alice in Wonderland, Ninjak, Godzilla and Danger Girl. I have also done concept and promotional work for FOX STUDIOS on movies such as Deadpool, X-men and Logan

Jeremy Holt

Known For

Made in Korea, Virtually Yours

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Jeremy Holt is a non-binary author whose most recent works include Made in Korea, Virtually Yours, Before Houdini, and Skip to the End. They have received high praise from Brian K. Vaughan (Y the Last Man, Saga, Runaways), as well as magician and NYT crossword constructor David Kwong.

Jimmy Palmiotti

Known For

Harley Quinn, Jonah Hex, The Pro, Gatecrasher, Painkiller Jane, Daredevil

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Jimmy Palmiotti is an award winning writer, editor and character creator with 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, and Warner Brothers. Co-founder of such companies as Event Comics, Black Bull Media, Marvel Knights, a division of Marvel Comics, and Paperfilms (partnered with Amanda Conner). He is involved in the hit series Harley Quinn and DC Comics relaunch into the Wal-Mart nationwide stores, Jonah Hex. Several of his contributions for both DC and Marvel can be found in major motion pictures and TV series for Marvel and DC, including Black Panther, Daredevil, Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn animated.

Joe Prado

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Joe Prado started his career back in the early 90s working as a professional comic-book artist and illustrator on the Brazilian Market. During that period he produced hundreds of Fantasy, Horror, Super-Heroes and Sci-Fi illustrations and comics for a myriad of publishers, books and magazines. He's also known as the co-creator of the comic book mini-series UFO Team, with the writer Marcelo Cassaro. In 2004 he started to produce comics for the US market. Among his credits are Action Comics, Superman, Green Lantern, Birds of Prey, Rann/Thanagar War, Teen Titans, The Warlord, Red Sonia, The Phantom, and many others. In 2009 he began his 11-years partnership with the amazing artist, Ivan Reis on Blackest Night, which led them to Brightest Day, and then their World-Renowned run on Aquaman and Justice League. All four series with the star-writer Geoff Johns. After that, Joe worked on books such as Multiversity, Cyborg, Justice League America, The Terrifics, Batman, Detective Comics, Womder Woman, and Geiger. Joe is also the recipient of two Inkwell Awards, in 2016, won the Inkwell Awards for “Favorite Inker”. And in 2018 for “Props - Talent who deserves more attention”, being nominated for the prestigious awards several times. In 2021, became an Official Ambassador for the Inkwell Awards. In 2020, became one of the teachers of the On-Line Studies of the World-Renowned art school, Joe Kubert School for Cartooning. 20 years ago Joe started to work as an agent on the very first Brazilian Comics Agency, called Art & Comics International, and that’s when he found his second biggest passion, helping artists. Joe was also the co-founder of Chiaroscuro Studios, which he left early in 2022 to create and spearhead Prado's Art & Design Studios, representing dozens of comic-book artists in the American and European Markets.

John Livesay

Known For

Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Slow City Blues

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

John Livesay was born in Detroit Michigan and has been a professional comic book artist for the last 28 years. He has worked for just about every comic publisher out there, including Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, and Valiant. He’s also worked on some of the most popular and classic characters in the history of the medium, such as Spider-Man, The Avengers, X-Men, Batman, and The Flash. John lives in Southern California with his wife, Felicia, and daughter, Olivia. He’s a huge collector of comics and comic art and has long run out of places to store all his long boxes.

Katie Cook

Known For

Star Was children books, Nothing Special

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Katie Cook is the creator of the comic Nothing Special on LineWebtoon, an all-ages adventure about a girl, a boy with fairy wings and a dead Radish. It’s her favorite thing and you should read it. Katie also wrote and drew the webcomic Gronk: A Monster’s Story, which lost several awards but is still delightful. Katie spend several years as one of the primary writers on IDW’s My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and has also done projects with Marvel, Boom! and more (sorry for referring to some of you publishers as “and more”). She’s also illustrated several Star Wars children’s books for Disney LucasFilm Press and created artwork for the Disney Wonderground Gallery. Artist and writer! Double threat!

Khoi Pham

Known For

Teen Titans, Marvel's Mighty Avengers

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Khoi is a freelance illustrator. His works include DC's Teen Titans, Marvel's Mighty Avengers, X-Men Legacy, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Chaos War, Incredible Hercules, Gambit, Mighty Thor, X-Factor, and Topcow's Cyberforce. He is also featured in Image's Wonderlost and Outlaw Territory.

Kwanza Osajyefo

Known For

BLACK, Ignited, Humanoids

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Kwanza Osajyefo is the creator and author of BLACK, a story that asks, "What if black people had superpowers?" He's worked in comics for nearly two decades and began his career in Marvel's online department before moving into other media roles. Kwanza later returned to comics to launch DC Comics' web imprint and digital publishing initiatives. Aside from his own projects, Kwanza is a creative architect of Humanoids' H1 Comics line. He helped create their flagship titles, Ignited, Omni, and Strangelands and co-wrote Ignited with comics legend Mark Waid.

Maika Sozo

Known For

Vampirella, Red Sonja

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

SOZOMAIKA is a freelance digital illustrator, concept artist, and 3d generalist. She is best known for her character illustrations that draw inspiration from her eclectic tastes in fashion, noir and eastern culture and media. She has produced illustrations and designs for various companies including Underarmour, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Image Comics, and Riot games.

Marcio Fiorito

Known For

Wheel of Time, Marvel Action Avengers

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Marcio Fiorito is a Brazilian comic book artist and has been working in the industry for almost twenty years. Besides acting as an illustrator for books, tabletop RPG games and advertising, he has produced art for many comic books companies such as Valiant Entertainment, Marvel Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. He is currently the regular artist on the NEW Archer & Armstrong Forever, for Valiant.

Marco Santucci

Known For

Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Marco Santucci, was born in Arezzo in 1974 and he lives in Italy. He started training himself in the world of professional comics at the age of 16. In 1998 Marco started his first big work in the Sergio Bonelli Editore on the series, “Mister No”. For Sergio Bonelli Editore he also worked on series like Tex and Dampyr. From 2008 to 2011 Marco worked for Marvel comics on “Secret Invasion: Spider-man” , “X-factor”, Siege: Spider-man and Captain America: forever allies miniseries. On 2011 Marco worked on a couple of French volumes of a series entitled "La Mandragore", written Sylvain Cordurie From 2015 he's worked more for the American market. Marco has worked with Titan Comics ( cover artist for Assassin's Creed and Tekken series), Dynamite ( cover artist for Sheena, Red Sonja and regular cover artist of the Pathfinder: Spiral of Bones series) and Upper Deck ( various project about Marvel characters). In the recent years he's working for DC Comics on various titles ( on interiors and covers), among them Superman, Injustice: Gods among us, Injustice 2, Justice League, Wonder Woman, Green Lanterns, Shazam! , Swamp Thing , Green Lantern (new series), Teen Titans, Batman Beyond, Endless Winter (miniseries).

Maria Laura Sanapo

Known For

Bombshells, Red Sonja, Dynamite

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

DC artist who has worked on Bombshells. She is currently working on Red Sonja and other Dynamite titles with past works on Wonder Woman.

Mike McKone

Known For

Teen Titans, Amazing Spiderman

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Hailing from England, McKone's first published work was for DC Comic's Justice League of America and Marvel Comic's Punisher series. In the years since, he has illustrated almost every major character for the two big published, including lengthy runs on Teen Titans, Amazing Spider-man, and Fantastic Four. Recent projects were the Avengers graphic novel: Endless Wartime and Justice League United. Now residing in the US, McKone is working on a creator-owned project while providing covers and merchandising illustrations for clients such as Marvel, DC, Dynamite, Valiant, Dorling Kindersley, and Converse.

Ralph Tedesco

Known For

Grimm Fairy Tales, Van Helsing

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Co-founder, Editor-in-Chief and Writer/Creator at Zenescope Entertainment, Inc.

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SPECIAL DETAILS: Christopher Reeve Legacy Reunion

Robert Venditti is a New York Times best-selling author whose characters and concepts have been adapted to film, television, and video games. He saw Superman II when he was seven years old and instantly became a lifelong fan. Venditti has written hundreds of comics and graphic novels for Disney, Valiant Entertainment, DC Comics, and others. His most recent projects include World of Krypton and Superman ’78, an all-new story set in the universe of the original Superman films.

Scott Hanna

Known For

Spider-Man, Detective Comics starring Batman

APPEARING: Fri Sat Sun |

Instructor of fine art drawing, heroic figure drawing, inking with croquill & brush, human & animal anatomy, sequential art & cartooning, watercolor/acrylic/pastel painting, Scott Hanna is a busy professional artist & top inker in the graphic novel industry. His drawing & inking work appears monthly in print for a number of superhero graphic novels and comics. One of the most prolific artists in the field, Mr. Hanna has inked well over 200 graphic novels for the top two publishers in the industry, or approximately 23,000 pages of graphic art. At Marvel Comics, Scott’s worked on all the top characters at the company, including the Avengers, Spider-Man, IronMan, the X-Men, Wolverine, Avengers vs. X-Men and the Hulk. He’s drawn Spider-man for fifteen years, working on almost every title starring the wall-crawler. At DC Comics, he worked on many of their major titles, including Superman, Justice League, Green Lantern Corps and Suicide Squad and most notably a five year run on Detective Comics starring Batman. Scott Hanna was awarded "Favorite Inker" & "Most Adaptable Inker" at the 2018 INKWELL award ceremony, becoming for the third time the most award winning inker in the entire history of the INKWELL awards. Scott also received the 2017 Inkwell Awards for "Favorite Inker" & "The Props Award", 2012 Inkwell Awards for "Most Adaptable Inker" and "Props Award, 2011 Inkwell Awards for “Favorite Inker” and “Most Adaptable Inker”, the 2010 Inkwell Award for “Most Adaptable Inker”, the 2005 Wizard Fan Award for “Best Inker” and the 2002 Eisner award for “Best Serialized Story” - Amazing Spider-Man #30-35: “Coming Home”. His work appeared in the Smithsonian Institute’s 9/11 anniversary exhibit in Washington DC with artwork from the book HEROES. His art was featured in the 2017 San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum exhibit and show catalog "A Tribute to Mike Mignola's Hellboy" - He had a one man show at the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, MA - "the Art of Scott Hanna", was the featured Artist in Residence at ArtsQuest SteelStacks, has done numerous group exhibitions, and his art was featured in a 2010 exhibit at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in NYC.

Simon Bisley

Known For

ABC Warriors, Sláine, Lobo

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Bisley first became well known in England and Europe in the 1990s for his rough-edged Frank Frazetta-style painted artwork in the pages of the premiere British anthology series 2000 AD, on such titles as Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors, Slaine. He also became a regularly contributor to Heavy Metal magazine. Bisley's style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-mediums, was strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, William Turner and fellow A/P/AVP-comics contributor Richard Corben. He also took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art. In turn he and his work has inspired various forms in media, including the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit", and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. Bisley was born in 1962. While still a student, Bisley did a painting of a robot holding a baby that he sent to the offices of 2000 AD. The image was seen by writer Pat Mills and inspired him to relaunch the ABC Warriors strip, with Bisley as artist, in 1987. Following this, Bisley took over drawing of Sláine. In America Bisley grew to fame as the artist of the Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham crossover (for he which he won the Eisner Award for Best Artist), a number of Lobo miniseries (with his take on the character considered to be definitive), Hellblazer, Doom Patrol, The Demon, Swamp Thing, Sandman and others, all for DC Comics. Bisley has also worked on a number of major and indie comics projects including his story Bad Boy with Frank Miller for Oni Press. He has also worked for Marvel, Image, Dark Horse (for whom he has also worked on the Grendel series) and other publishers. He is most famous for his painted cover art, but also often contributes pencil and ink interiors. As of 2007, Bisley is still an occasional contributor to the comics magazine Heavy Metal. He has also worked on album cover art for such bands as Danzig, King Prawn and Mortal Sin.

The Kubert School

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The Kubert School is passionate about providing you a truly personalized education, one that stretches the limits of your talents and potential. With a specialization in Cartoon and Graphic Art the graduating student leaves the School with a developed understanding and an enlarged imagination stirred by an established work ethic, with the passion and drive to be an artist for years to come.

TJ Sterling

Known For

Okemus, RAE Comics

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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.

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Wilfredo Torres is an American Cartoonist and Illustrator based in Atlanta. Wilfredo has been working professionally for over a decade and in that time has collaborated with some of the most acclaimed and prolific Writers in Comics and has been the Artist on books such as SUPERMAN ’78 (DC Comics) BANG! (Dark Horse Comics) BLACK HAMMER: THE QUANTUM AGE, JUPITERS CIRCLE, THE SHADOW: YEAR ONE as well as BLACK PANTHER, LEGION and MOON KNIGHT (Marvel Comics)

William Messner-Loebs

Known For

Wonder Woman, The Flash, Thor

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William “Bill” Messner-Loebs is an American comic book artist and writer from Michigan who wrote runs of series published by Marvel, DC, Image, Comico, Aardvark-Vanaheim, Dark Horse, and other comics publishers. Bill worked on the following titles; Jonny Quest, Jezebel Jade, Doctor Fate, The Flash, Thor, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Jaguar, Wasteland, Wonder Woman, Grim Jack, The MAXX, KISS: The End among others. Additionally he has both written and drawn original creator-owned works, such as Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire and Bliss Alley - Alchemy at Street Level. He received an Inkpot Award in 1987, the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for his work on The Flash in 1992, was nominated for an Eisner Award as Best Writer for Johnny Quest in 1998, and was given the Bill Finger Award for Writing Excellence in 2017. Bill is currently working with Michigan based indie comic, YEET Presents.