Mike Madsen:
Mike Madsen makes the Internet slightly worse with his website Aceman Spaceman.
He is also a founding member of Cowboy House.
Mark Mariano:
MARK MARIANO is a children's comic book artist based in northern New Jersey. He
is the creator of the books Flabbergast and Happyloo, and his work has won
awards like the 2011 Wowie Zowie Award for Best Webcomic: The O>MATICS Rock
and Read and the 2010 Silver Moonbeam Award for Best Graphic Novel:
Flabbergast: Science Friction. He shares his passion for the medium through
teaching events with the Kids Comic Con, guest speaking at Rutgers University,
classroom visits, working with the Ronald McDonald House, and the Christopher
Barron Live Life Foundation.
Joe Mochove & Rusty Rowley:
Rusty and Joe produce the comic, Full Sanction, as well as the zine, Dirt
Worse. Rusty was born in the ghettos of
Lithuania and lost both hands in tragic pigeon breeding accident. Joe was found
in an abandoned refrigerator at the age of 12 and teaches privileged children
how to love. They are also personal beasts who cast a warming light of magic
upon the world. Come bask in their mighty glow.
Monkeys Retreat :
Darryl and Ro-Z Mendelson of Monkeys Retreat have been distributing and
retailing small press independent comics since 1975. They actually started
selling underground comix in 1968.
Joseph Morris:
Joseph Morris is Owner/Operator of TORC Press, a Small Press Comix Publisher
based out of the middle of nowhere. He
is compulsively driven to create bizarre comix.
Lots of bizarre comix. He is
currently focusing on four books: "Clown & Penguin", "Death
Moth", "SDF", and "Pulp Horrorshow". He also loves tacos.
Sarah Morton:
Sarah began her illustrious career as an artist in Kindergarten, when she would
accept candy in return for doing other kids’ art
projects (a gig she would continue through high school). In college, she was an
art student for exactly one semester before moving on to other endeavors
like photography, journalism, photojournalism, and urban planning. She now
lives in Chicago and raises money for a non-profit during the day.
In her spare time, Sarah is currently working on Volume 3 of Seasonal, a
graphic novel about imploding relationships within a big box store in suburban
Utah. Next, she plans to start a series of autobiographical comics based on her
aforementioned career experiences. You can see more of Sarah’s work at sarahannmorton.com.
Dara Naraghi:
Dara Naraghi was born in Iran and educated in the United States. An Ohio State
University alum, he works in the information technology field, but his passion
is for the comics medium. His debut graphic novel, Lifelike, has garnered many
positive reviews, from the likes of award-winning novelist Cory Doctorow, and
cartoonist Sam Kieth. His other notable graphic novels include the Terminator
Salvation official movie prequel, and Witch & Wizard: Battle for Shadowland
(both New York Times Bestsellers), as well as works for Image Comics, IDW
Publishing, Dark Horse, and DC Comics. Dara is also a founding member of the
comic book writers/artists collective known as PANEL, with whom he has produced
19 volumes of their comics anthology. Dara lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife,
daughter, and the world’s sweetest hound dog.
Michael R. Neno:
Publisher since 1987 of fine comics and publications. Creator of the online
strips Quacky Pig and Friends, The Mesh and Freak Cave. Publisher of The
Signifiers, Quacky Pig and Lovey Dovey coloring books and the Xeric
Award-granted Reactionary Tales. Have freelanced for Dark Horse, Nix Comics
Quarterly, Paul Pope's Horse Press, Caliber and Cracked Magazine. Have
illustrated novels for Airship 27 and created posters for musicians like Dawn Landes,
Moon High and Billy Cash.
Maryanne
Papke:
Silly, cute, short comics, and new this year: Gay Vikings!
John Porcellino:
JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has
been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for
over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics,
begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a
Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories
about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in
2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles
his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix
and Map of
My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview
of the zine's first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden
(2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals.
According to cartoonist Chris Ware, "John Porcellino's comics distill, in
just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive."
Porcellino's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish,
Italian, and Korean. He currently lives in South Beloit, Illinois.
Joseph Remnant:
Joseph Remnant is a Los Angeles-based artist/cartoonist whose comics and
illustrations have appeared in Arthur Magazine, Juxtapoz and The New York
Times. He's the creator of the comic book series "Blindspot" and was
a frequent collaborator with the late, great comics writer, Harvey Pekar.
Remnant began illustrating short stories with Pekar for Smith Magazine's Pekar
Project which led to him being asked to illustrate the full length graphic
novel, "Harvey Pekar's Cleveland." It was released April 2012 by Zip
Comics and Top Shelf Productions. He is
currently working on a new graphic novel titled, "Cartoon Clouds,"
which is being serialized on the comics website, theexpositorcomics.com.
Jonathon Riddle:
Jonathon Riddle has been writing and drawing comics since childhood, his first
comics work being an adaptation of The Return of the Jedi rendered in crayon at
the age of four. He is a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design
with a major in illustration. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he is
a regular contributor to the Ohio-based comic anthology “Oh,
Comics!” With Only Five Plums is his first graphic novel.
Lorenzo Ross:
Lorenzo Ross is a cartoonist and painter that lives in Chicago. Complicated
Hair is based on his years of working at retail art supply stores and the cast
of characters he encountered. Awesome 5! is inspired by an admiration of the
superhero teams of the 50's and 60's along with the sarcasm of adult swim.
Alternative City is a somewhat darker disjointed tale in the vein of Twin
Peaks. If you would like to read weekly installments of any of these comics
they are available at www.alternativecitycomics.com.
K. Sekelsky:
K. Sekelsky is an illustrator and author from Johnstown, PA. She wrote and
illustrated The Time Traveler's Pocket Guide, and has produced a number of
webcomics and minicomics over the years.
Chad Sell:
Chad works in a variety of styles on a lot of different comic projects, but
most people know him because of his work depicting the drag queens of Rupaul's
Drag Race! (yeah, he's as perplexed by that as you are.)
Sam Spina :
Sam Spina made a daily diary comic for three years and stopped but still does
it sometimes. He also won a xeric award
for his comic, Fight (a comic about fighting).
Talcott Star:
Rescue Archaeology is a blend of memory, imagination, and observation, filtered
through poetry and poured into a comic.
Octopus Story follows a curious octopus who is bored with the ocean on an
adventure through the everyday world. It encounters new people, places, and
modes of transportation. and gains the companionship of one black kitten along
the way.
Ben Tiede:
Ben Tiede went to the University of Saint Francis where he studied
Animation. Inspired by his two childhood
heros, Bill Waterson and Jeff Smith, Ben has thrown his hat into the cartooning
ring.
J. Tungol:
J. Tungol is the writer/artist of "Death to Dinksville," a
conspiracy-zombie-slasher-whodunit!
Christina Wald:
Christina Wald is an illustrator, industrial designer and most of the time
works on children’s books and toys.
Pop Smoothie: Strange tales from the Blender is a comic that is a
distillation of the pop-culture invading her brain. She has the TV on too much
as background noise
Yes, she did a lot of illustration for RPGs and CCGs in the 90s (some of the
art is posted here: http://christinawaldgames.blogspot.com/
She lives in Cincinnati with my toy engineer husband Troy (Fun Factoid: Troy
used to be on the Batman team at Kenner Toys and also designed toys for
Ghostbusters, Rat Fink, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean and many other
lines) and 2 cats (they dont design anything
really).
Jacob Warrenfeltz:
Jacob Warrenfeltz is an illustrator in Takoma Park, Maryland. He illustrated stories in various issues of underground comics
Plastic Farm, Red Chapel, Fubar, Slambang, The Alberic Heresies, Trickster: Native
American Tales, Iconoplastic, The End, and District Comics (just to name a
few).
Jacob is also a founding member of the D.C. Conspiracy, a Washington D.C.
independent comics creators group, a co-op publishing group creating genre
themed anthologies like horror anthology Shear Terror, the exquisite corpse Dr.
Dremo, and the gritty The Spoils of Crime.
He is a regular contributor to the group’s current
project, The Magic Bullet comic newspaper.
Debuting at SPACE is Villains Galore, the story of a semi-retired super
villain's attempts at a normal life.
Eric Watkins:
Eric Watkins is the creator of the titles Chosen & Forsaken and the
forthcoming series Mars and The Man in the Kitty Coat. Eric helped found Broken
Icon Comics in 2009 and Tri-State Comic Con in 2012 with his business partner,
James Maddox.
Watkins is constantly taking his love for the comic book genre to new heights.
Watkins is not only one of the key producers on his upcoming projects with
Kevin Steward, Todd Beistel and Ezequiel Pineda, but also devotes a large
portion of his time to the creation, execution and publication of others in the
independent comic world.
Katherine Wirick:
Everyone in my comics is dead.
Jeff Zwirek:
Jeff Zwirek, a.k.a Jeffrey Antacid, a.k.a Jeff Z is a self-publishing
cartoonist. His comics work includes Jack Rabbit, Black Star, Pinstriped
Bloodbath, and Burning Building Comix. He has received a nomination for an
Ignatz award, and his comics have been named "Notable Comics" multiple
times by the Best American Comics anthology. He's also one of the organizers of
CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. He lives and works in Chicago, with
his wife and two sons.
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