New Date for SPACE 2020!

SPACE 2020 will  now be on July 11 & 12, 2020.

SPACE Exhibitor Bios- Part 10 and Final!

Unhinged Twins:

The Unhinged Twins have been a collaborative art duo since 2012, and sisters... well, their whole lives! They specialize in both traditional and digital character illustrations. They like all sorts of anime, videogames, cartoons, and comics, and all the inspiration it gives them for their own artistic endeavors! At conventions, they're known for their 'at-con commissions', their friendly and open personalities, and how much they look alike! Go figure!

Vagabond Comics:
Vagabond comics is a periodic and independently published comics anthology. Much like a campfire serves as a gathering place for the wild tales of ragtag travelers, we aim to provide a unified, storytelling platform for a diverse collection of voices. This anthology is curated by Sequoia Bostick and Amalia DeGirolamo.

Rob Weingartner:
Rob is a full time artist living in a 1780s pioneer village who loves comic books

YACA (The Young Adult Creators Alliance):
YACA (The Young Adult Creators Alliance) is foundational effort of young creators and artist telling their stories and sharing their art from their lens and point of view.

Joe Zabel:
Joe Zabel is an author, cartoonist, and painter best known for his work illustrating American Splendor by fellow Clevelander Harvey Pekar. Zabel published the mystery comic series The Trespassers, created webcomics for Modern Tales, and was the editor of The Webcomics Examiner.  Recently Zabel has focused on comix-related paintings and short fiction.

...And least but not last ...Michael Anthony Carroll:
Michael Anthony Carroll is a lifetime resident of Columbus Ohio. He started making comics when he was ten, and self publishing his own minicomics in his 20s. He's best known for AsthmaAttack, R.A.In.B.O.W, and leaving ninja sketchcards around central Ohio. He also created "The Cute Ninja Coloring Book". You can find him online at Instagram as @carrolltoonz and on Facebook under his name.

SPACE Exhibitor Bios- Part 9

Part 9

Jessica Robinson:
Jessica Robinson is an artist and writer from Columbus, Ohio. Since graduating CCAD in 2011, she's been freelancing with a focus on comics, gaming, and geek culture. Her most notable work is “Roxy,” a slice-of-life humor comic that focuses on the funny side of social anxiety and awkwardness. Outside of “Roxy” her artwork takes on a more serious aspect, focusing heavily on sci-fi, gothic and fantasy themes. But her best-known work showcases a wry sense of wit and relatable humor. Her dream is to someday make a living self-publishing and doing concept art for role-playing games.

Ray Schierloh:
Ray Schierloh is a software developer living in Columbus, OH.   On the side he wrote his first graphic novel, The Search, records music, and is working on developing a video game.   He loves any way he can find to exorcise the creative part of his mind.

Sequential Lust Comics:
Sequential Lust comics explore desire in its various forms.

Ian Shires:
Making comics and zines since 1986, can't seem to stop!

Lee Smith
Lee Smith is the creator of the only Ohio history mini-comic, Ohio Chronicles.  He also is creator of the wildly amusing Sammy Spiffy Super Robot & Calculator Chicken.  If that weren’tenough, he works on the tiny, but mathematically challenging Cosine Cadets!

Cristian Spicer:
Cristian has been drawing since his early schoolboy years.  Now on his final year of high school, his interest in different mediums has escalated to include video editing, game design and art recreations.  His current comic project, Da Cat, is a backup story in the CinciGnat mini comic.

Caleb Thusat:
Caleb Thusat is the self-published creator and writer of Alter-Life, ZED, and Nook. A former filmmaker turned comic book creator bringing unique and exciting stories to the vast world of the independent comic industry. He has taken the comic crowdfunding world by storm over the past few years, running 9 successful comic book kickstarter campaigns raising over $50,000 to create 3 different original series with plenty more to come! 

Truck Stop Comix:
Truck Stop Comix is a group of friends and family. We are artists and creators. The name Truck Stop came about 15 years ago when we dreamed of doing something like this for the first time. Now, years later, we finally did it!

SPACE Exhibitor Bios- Part 8

Pigbone Comics:
Pigbone Comics is a married creative team based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. They are fixated on crafting chilling tales of terror filled with ghoulish glee.

They are debuting the first issue of Arcana: Vaquero  a horror western choc-full of guns, ghouls, and gore.

Nate Powell:
Nate Powell (b. 1978, Little Rock, Arkansas) began self-publishing at age 14 and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. He is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award.

His work includes the new graphic novel Come Again and civil rights icon John Lewis’ graphic memoir trilogy March, as well as You Don't Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence Of Our Friends, The Year Of The Beasts, and Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero.

Powell’s work has received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Sarah Allen Reed:
Sarah Allen Reed is a prolific cartoonist, author, and musician. She is perhaps best known as the author of the experimental comix series Tabula Rosetta, as well as for being the driving force behind the often enigmatic publishing entity and art collective known as The Blackwork Organization. When she’s not busy writing in the back of an Econoline van, plinking away at a coffee shop, playing her bass guitar in the moonlight, or wandering throughout the United States, she can often be found painting, arranging flowers, cooking, working out, studying theology and the occult, or spending time with her found family and their numerous animals.

Rehab Ghost:
Rehab Ghost is a small, spooky comics studio trying to launch our first work, home to an aspiring writer and first time comic artist. Our work features subjects from the underworld to the dark recesses of the human psyche, but not without having a little fun.

Carlos Rivera:
Carlos only wants to be your friend. The best way for him to accomplish this to buy one of his books or attend The Youngstown Indie Creators Expo...(or Yo-ICE for short) Stand up Comedian, artist , writer, Doctor Who fan, stud and police officer.

Allison Richmond-Leeth:
Allison Richmond-Leeth, or Alla, is a Columbus based comics artist who loves all things cute, girly and magical. She is starting up her own self-publishing company named Soft Peach Comics, and she currently has one comic called “Jazz”. She is unveiling chapter two of "Jazz" at SPACE this year. Alla has been hard at work making comics the past year, and you can follow her work on her instagram @allas_art and @soft_peach_comics..

Jessica Robinson:
Jessica is a local artist and writer. In 2016, she created Roxy, a webcomic about one woman's struggle to be an adult in the face of extreme social awkwardness.

Lee Rosado:
Lee is a young aspiring and growing illustrator and comics artist from Columbus, Ohio.  When not constantly drawing you can usually find them composing music, cuddling their cat, or playing splatoon and pokemon.

SPACE Exhibitor Bios- Part 7

Michael Marcus:
Michael Marcus is a comic book author, game designer, surrealist, and hypnotist who has been coming to SPACE since 2007.  He brings with him all manner of experimental projects--come see what he's brought this year!

Kevin Marion:
Kevin has been documenting the adventures of CinciGnat, an all-ages minicomic which is easy for anyone to color. Each issue hits the streets quarterly, giving CinciGnat time to recuperate between battles.  Also check out Kevin's line of Recycled Comics including remastered comic covers, pinback buttons and one-of-a-kind pop culture creations.

MeSseD:
MeSseD is the nickname for the Metropolitan Sewer District.  The comic book features a sewer
worker named Lilliput.  She’s our tour guide to the weird, wet and wild world beneath our feet.  

Citybeat named us the “ Best Reason to Get Your Mind in the Gutter.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that "Lilliput... is tough and enterprising. She is fearless and unflappable. Lilliput is a hero for all of us."

Daniel Miles:
Originally from Massachusetts, Daniel Miles moved to Columbus, OH in 2011 for grad school, and has been living there ever since.  Tale of the Taira is his first comic book project, an adaptation of a medieval Japanese epic, co-written with Ben Flebbe and illustrated by Milan Mišic and Miloš Trajkovic.  The first full volume was funded via a successful Kickstarter in March 2018, and Dan is excited to be sharing these stories with a wider audience.

Violet Mitchell:
At age three & a half Violet is one of the youngest creators at SPACE.  She has a new book collaborating with Kurt Dinse, Chelsea Fields, Michael Neno, Dan McCloskey, Jared Catherine, Nate McDonough, JM Hunter, Jason Young, & Shawn Atkins that’s a stylistic sequel to her award winning “There Was An Accident” from last year.

Brian John Mitchell:
Fifteen years & well over 100 mini-comics in, Mitchell continues making comics the size of a pack of matches with stories of horror, science fiction, & speculative biography. 

Neil Moherman:
After retiring from the world of competitive bearding, Neil Moherman needed something to take up his free time. Neil started writing comics in 2017  with his first creator-owned comic Cog & Flame. By day he writes processes about reptile care and breeding, by night he is writing fantasy comics under the name Neil Moherman Comics. Stop by and talk about comics, beards, lizards, table top games, or whatever your heart desires.

Robert Monsarrat:
Raised on a steady diet of monster cinema, CCAD grad Robert Monsarrat knew from a young age that writing about these beasts was his lucky lot in life. "Dinosaur Demigods" is his attempt to pay homage to such greats as Ray Harryhausen, Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya, all while making his own stamp as well. Follow along, won't you?

Maryanne Rose Papke:
Maryanne Rose Papke has been self-publishing short comics since 2010. Her comics are usually weird, often silly, typically cute, sometimes sad, and occasionally epic. She currently has more than 10 minicomics in print.

Steve Peters:
Steve got his start publishing Awakening Comics (also the name of his publishing line) after a grant from the Xeric Foundation. His comic book and accompanying CD soundtrack, Chemistry, won the Gene Day Memorial Prize in 2006. His current ongoing series, The Comiverse, a sci-fi rom-com about a comic book shop in a space mall, won a SPACE Prize in 2012. The Comicverse has 2 spinoff series with much more to come!

SPACE Exhibitor Bios - Part 6

Winifred Kehl:
I'm in love with the natural world and I make comics about science!

Jordan Kirian:
Writer and cartoonist Jordan Kirian publishes both comic books and weekly web comics, as well as various comic projects (like zines), through the mantle of Hot Cakes Comics. Titles include Short Stacks (an anthology book) and Something Like Water (an auto bio web comic). Hot Cakes Comics is always looking to play with format to produce new comics for readers.

Becky Jane Krotts:
Becky Jane Krotts is a proud dork who likes to play pretend artist. She creates pieces to capture the feeling of childhood magic and imagination that is often lost as we get older but still lives in each and every one of us. She enjoys all mediums but most recently chalk, oil, paints, and ink.

Patrick Lay:
Patrick Lay (he/him) is a cartoonist from Northwest Ohio.  He gets just as excited about sad things as he does about happy things (imagine a Golden Retriever raised by cats).  His comics are teen and all-ages stories about our relationships with each other and the ups and downs of a wild world.  He earned a B.S.F.A in Oil Painting from Valparaiso University and recently earned an MFA in Comics from the California College of the Arts. Patrick is currently working on his first webcomic, Screaming Mimi Kids, which updates every Sunday, and a graphic novel, Ramble.

Aaron Lindeman:
Aaron Lindeman is a freelance artist from Piqua, OH. He writes and illustrates the comic The Fisherman. He also creates fantasy prop items, various illustrations, and whatever catches his interest at the moment.

Craig Lindsley:
Craig Lindsley has had a love of comics since early in his childhood. In 1991, Craig earned his Associate Degree in Commercial Art. After gaining some experience in that field, Craig returned to school and attained a Bachelor Degree in Art with a minor in Education. He formally taught art to Middle Schoolers at Horizon Science Academy. Craig is a member of the Parma Area Fine Arts Council, where he teaches “How to Draw Superheroes.” He donates artwork to a near-by comic book shop that raffles the items to raise funds for a local food bank.  Craig and his wife serve regularly at their church, where, he also donates pieces for their yearly “Back to School Fest.” When Craig isn’t creating he is enjoying time with his adult children and 3 cats.

Pära Low:
Pära makes comics, zines, illustrations, and more. Her work is currently focused on Asian mythology, but she likes to delve into a variety of different topics. Her comics often cover psychology, philosophy, and culture.

Christopher MacMillan:
After 30 yrs working in the herpetology field breeding Amphibians, Inverts & Reptiles, I found myself returning to my other true love - Art. I’m as feral in this field as the other.

Christopher MacMillan:
After 30 yrs working in the herpetology field breeding Amphibians, Inverts & Reptiles, I found myself returning to my other true love - Art. I’m as feral in this field as the other.

SPACE Exhibitor Bios - Part 5

Courtney Hahn:
Hailing from Indiana, Courtney tends to write a lot about space, loneliness and cowboys. Weird right?

McKenna Henson:
Located in Columbus, Ohio, Mckenna is a hard working cartoonist and illustrator. She specializes in digital and traditional art, doing commissions as a side job. Often times you'll find her in a nearby coffee shop working on comics, drawings or sketches. In her down time, shes usually with her family, or working prolifically on her school work.

Stephen Hines:
Stephen Hines was spawned, and currently lives, in Ohio. When he’s not infiltrating the system by teaching high school English, he’s holed up in his home writing. So far he’s published one graphic novel (Valedictorian USA: Vol. 1), a young adult novel (Hocus Focus), a short story in a dystopian sci-fi anthology (Das Krakenhaus Publishing) called The End of the World as We Know It, a one-shot surrealist horror comic (Icon-O-Plastic), and has several ongoing comic book series (Valedictorian USA, Crackerstacker, Zombie Fabulous!, and The Soccer Mom Killer). His memoir, Rebirth Defect: My Journey From Catholic Altar Boy to Teen Atheist to Adult Christian Metal Evangelist and Back to Atheism, was released in June of 2017 and will surely alienate the few friends he still has.

J.M. Hunter:
Originally from Southern California, J.M. Hunter is a recent transplant to the Columbus area after envisioning his purpose here for the last several years. Currently teaching and focused on The Young Adult Creator's Alliance, (YACA), J.M. Hunter and family are enjoying introducing creating comics and art to the next generation and Columbus's unsuspecting comic fans. Strap in!

Russell Jackson:
Russell Jackson is a writer and illustrator from the neighborhood of Louisville, KY inspired by everything from Francis Bacon to Futurama. His current project, Crawling Chaos, is an affectionately parodic take on the horror of H. P. Lovecraft and the over-the-top bravado of heavy metal. He is also known for his portraits of musicians, painted directly onto vinyl records.

Jinx:
Jinx is a young artist from Columbus, Ohio. She has been drawing ever since she was a little kid and specializes in illustration and general digital art. She loves to draw pieces based off shows and games she enjoys and loves to put her own personal twist on them as well.

Canada Keck:
Ruminera Comics, created by Canada Keck, is an on-going series of comics that look at both the darkness and the light in her experiences.  Canada is a sociologist by training who started writing comics about five years ago, when she stayed up all night and wrote a 24-page comic in 24 hours.  Since then she has self-published six autobio comics as well as having several short comics appear in anthologies.  She has edited five anthologies for the Sunday Comix group, as well as curating exhibits of comic art for Wild Goose Creative, including the Comics vs Art show, which is in its third year.  She engages in community outreach, hosting kids’ tables for creating comics at various events as well as teaching comics workshops for children.  In her spare time, she makes the best cat toys in the universe, as well as a host of other tentacled creatures.

SPACE Exhibitor Bios - Part 4

Terry Eisele:
Terry Eisele has taught English for over twenty-five years in places as far flung as the Czech Republic, Switzerland, California, and Ohio. He is currently a professor at Columbus State Community College. He received a master’s degree in comparative cultural studies from the Ohio State University. Terry is the writer of the three-volume graphic novel, With Only Five Plums, which tells the life story of a Czech holocaust survivor who he interviewed three times in the mid-1990s. His latest project, Far Tune, is a coming-of-age graphic novel about a fourteen-year-old Somali refugee girl living in Columbus, Ohio. He reads comics, supports Arsenal Football Club, and writes in his spare time.

Matthew Enstrom:
Matthew is a artist, comic creator, film maker and youtuber. Comics include sci-fi/ comedy  / horror. He has created mini comic Super Foxy and the first full size comic Cryptid Adventures featuring Bigfoot. Matthew also likes meeting like minded artist and fans.

Mike Eshelman:
Mike’s love of indie comics started in the 80s, when he was an assistant manager at Wizard of Comics in Columbus OH, and spent most of his day reading everything on the shelves.  Today, he pens tales of weirdness.  His first standalone horror title, “Camping”, a story about the boundaries of friendship pushed by the ultimate test, won the inaugural “Frightee Award” for best written fiction, followed by “Euphorium”, the first a comic experiment in non-collaboration.  His most recent horror title “ProLife” was nominated for “Best One Shot” and “Best Writer” for the 2015 Ghastly Award.  He also writes and draws mini comics; including the “6th St. Saloon” series, a collection of all his dumb moves from his barfly days and the mini “Cavemen Love Breasts”.  Upcoming titles include “Lap 666”, a homage to a dead musician, starring Satan (as himself) and "God Complex", an experimental horror title that questions the ethics of the reader for a change.

Matt Feazell:
Matt Feazell has been making minicomics since before the Reagan administration. His comics and spot illustrations have appeared in Disney Adventures and Nickleodeon Magazine. His regular weekly series, "The Amazing Cynicalman" appears in two Michigan newspapers (the Hamtramck Review and Flint Comix & Entertainment) as well as at www.cynicalman.com. Winner of the 2010 Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo SPACE Prize for best minicomic ("Board of Superheros™") and 2005 SPACE prize for Lifetime Achievement. 

Michael Fehskens:

Pennsylvanian author and illustrator. Graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design, and spent many years creating with Columbus Metropolitan Library. Produced many colorful stories of animals and cosmic nonsense. www.michaelfehskens.com

@therexcomplex

Joseph Freistuhler:
Joseph Freistuhler is a writer/illustrator from the wastelands of northeast Ohio. He started making comics as a by-product of his mid-life crisis and has created the comics The Not So Golden Age and En Ténèbres. Joseph has also contributed to the comic anthology series, Ugli Studios Presents. When he’s not making comics, Joseph spends his days in an office chained to a cubicle.

J. Andrew Gilbert:
llustrator and graphic designer, J. Andrew Gilbert was born and raised in Brazil. In 4th grade he took a drawing class and ever since has pursued a career with illustration and graphic design. Always a dreamer bubbling with emotions, he felt illustration and graphic design made it possible for him to communicate emotions and concepts in different ways from the written or spoken word.
He is exploring the comics format through Orange Unicorn and children’s books illustration through his passion project Giant’s Quest

Brian Gleine:
Former art teacher who now writes and illustrates comics and children’s books in his spare time.  Grew up on super heroes and fantasy and is channeling that pretty hard into his work. 

Sami Gyekye:
I like having fun. Making comics is fun...….. Sometimes.

2019 SPACE Exhibitor Bios - Part 3

Joel Cramer:
Joel Cramer is a local artist and creator of "Adventures of Honzy and Joel", an all-ages friendly comic book series.

Kelci Crawford:
Kelci Crawford is a comic artist and illustrator based in southeast Ohio, and creator of Validation, Johnson & Sir, Charlie & Slow, and Thoughtful Dinosaur. When not making comics, Kelci likes to drink tea and play tabletop role-playing games with friends.

Flor de Canela:Flor de Canela is a vivacious Latina woman who is a self-taught, degree certified artist with over 20+ years' experience in creating illustrations, graphic arts, & fine arts in various media. Her creative nature has fueled an enthusiastic passion for the arts and everything she does. Flor appreciates being a part of the vibrant and ever-growing Columbus art/cartoonist community.

In 2016, she debuted her first comic series: Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics at the Columbus Independents Day Festival, solidifying her lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist. She has since published numerous SUUC comic strips online and put together two collections. Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics has been described as “an eclectic collection of comics, featuring Flor's insights, flights of fancy and quirky sense of humor."

Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics is published through French Toast Press, a collaboration with her husband and studio mate, Max Ink (writer/artist of the Blink graphic novel series and Thinklings auto-bio comics). Flor and Max are Creative Consultants for each other’s works, and while Max is Flor’s writer/story editor, she is his colorist/tone artist. French Toast Studios is also the entity which Flor and Max use when they create original comics together and when they collaborate on freelance and commission works.

Sean Dempsey:
Sean graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Sequential Art. His independent comics focus on curiosity and adventure through traveling or misfit characters. Whether in a comic, illustration, or cartoon, Sean’s stories embrace a balance of innocent and cynical protagonists. He hopes to create diverse, relatable characters that the audience can witness their inner growth, discovery, and individuality.

Nicholas Denham:
Nick is a musician, wannabe artist, and comic book fanatic.  He has aspirations of sharing self published works with anyone willing to read them.

Christopher Dillon:
Christopher Dillon, also know as CNDillon, creates paintings, drawings, illustrations, graphic designs, murals, and a variety of other art-like things. Many of the images are based in science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, pyschedelia, surrealism, animals and nature. After a brief hiatus, Christopher is delving back into illustrated narratives that may be loosely described as "comics" or "graphic novels." New works are on the way and will be debuted this Spring of 2019.

Anthony Dortch:
In 2009, Anthony Dortch began working on a project called The Privileged Series. He traveled to Tybee Island, GA to work with Anthony Canney (fashion designer), Tim Cabel (hair/makeup) and Julie Simser (photographer) to do the first shoot. The goal was to represent differences between the rich and the poor through a surrealistic art form.
In 2010, The Privileged Series exhibited at Touchstone Gallery (Washington, D.C.) and soon after traveled to galleries around the United States.
In 2012, The Privileged Series exhibited at Distinction Gallery (near San Diego, CA). Dortch partnered with Keifla Antonio and his team to take the project to the next level. The team painted models, bringing the outrageously colored characters to life.
In 2013-14, The Privileged Series evolved into PURE, a fumetti style comic book. Body painted models became the characters in a fictional world.
In 2015, 3:05 AM Collaborations emerged. 3:05 AM Collaborations AKA 3:05 was the brain child of Anthony Dortch (creator) and Michael Coslow (director). The duo would travel to Italy, France and across the United States painting people for short videos.
In 2016, Anthony suffered a major stroke. While in recovery he made the plans to produce his first feature length film, PURE: the movie.
​In 2017, with the help of Robert Rivera (director) and Ben Choobinay (screenwriter) production started. Also, Anthony split the original concept of PURE's storyline. PURE, the graphic novel, became several comic book series.
On 3-05-18, 3:05 screened a directors's cut of PURE: The Movie at Green Lantern. RATED M - MATURE.
Throughout 2019, 3:05 will be releasing Run!, The Kinky Devil, This Is A Man's World, PURE AF, Lil Kill & The Samsara Filter, and Phoenix Rising. Stay tuned for the continuing adventure.

Nick Dutro:
Nick Dutro is a writer and editor for a newspaper in Northwest Ohio and reads a lot of comic books and listens to too many podcasts in his free time. He is a graduate of Ohio Northern University with a BA in Journalism. He lives in Tiffin with his wife and two-year-old daughter.

SPACE 2019 Exhibitor Bios - Part 2

Glenn Brewer:
Glenn Brewer graduated with Honors and a BFA in Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design. He has created illustrations for numerous companies and publications including TSR Inc, Visionary Entertainment  Studios, New Orleans Tribune, Frost illustrated, Tygeron Graphics, Graphic Classics, Mythworlde Media, Aramark, and Unchained Spirit Enterprises, a children’s book publisher.  Brewer is best known for the six-part comic series Askari Hodari, which he wrote, illustrated and published. Askari Hodari was nominated twice and eventually won the Howard E. Day Prize.  Brewer also was also nominated for a Glyph Award in the Best Self-Publisher category for his Askari Hodari series.

Abby Cali:
Abby Cali is an author, illustrator, and educator living in the great city of Cleveland. She runs outreach and education programming at Zygote Press, a cooperative printmaking studio on Cleveland's east side, and writes and illustrates both humorous and somber comics featuring underrepresented protagonists and themes. Her work has been published in Vagabond Comics anthologies and displayed in galleries around northeast Ohio.  She is also the illustrator for the two player card game Welterweights. Her work can be seen at www.abbycali.com.

Mathew Calvert:
Marcus V. Calvert is a native of Detroit who grew up with an addiction to sci-fi that just wouldn’;t go away. His goal’s to tell unique, twisted stories that people will be reading long after he’s gone.  For him, the name and the fame aren’t important.  Only the stories matter. His books are available on Amazon.com and Kindle.
You can also follow him on Facebook and/or Patreon:
* Facebook: @MarcusCalvertAuthor
* Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IVillain

Brian Canini:
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio Brian Canini has been cartooning and creating stories ever since he took hold of his first crayon. Allowing his imagination to grow has enabled him to create worlds of characters of all shapes and sizes.  He follows his belief that to create comics the art style must feel right for the story and this has led him to harness a vast array of styles and techniques in an ever growing number of genres. Through his efforts in self-publishing he has created the award-winning autobio graphic novel Fear of Flying, the critically-acclaimed crime comic Ruffians, and is one half of the team duo that produces the award-winning webcomic Drunken Cat.

Khaila Carr:
Hi! I’m Khaila, ½ of Jellow Fever! I work as a freelance artist, and I like to draw comics and illustrations from my everyday life. My comic and design work has been featured in CCAD's Spitball Comic Anthology issues 3 & 4, I've exhibited and promoted under the anthology at SPACE, CXC, and SPX. I make zines under Jellow Fever, which is a small press zine company that I started with my partner, Tyler. Were hoping to help build a community of creators through zines, comics, art, and experience.

Heather Charley:
Heather Charley is a collaborative illustrator based out of Chicagoland.

Abigail Connor:
Abigail Connor is the co-creator and co-writer, with her father, of the comic book series The Electric Team, and the writer and artist of the award-winning mini comic The Electric Team: The Food Adventure. She is a member of the Cincinnati Junior Roller Girls, a Girl Scout, and a pianist. She plans to one day be an artist, a teacher, or a veterinarian for turtles and frogs.

Leighton Connor:
Leighton Connor is the co-creator and co-writer, with his daughter Abigail, of the comic book series The Electric Team. He is the author of the Ross Fulton stories, the creator of the web comic Laser Brigade, and the illustrator of Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation. He is a co-founder of Hex Games, and has written numerous RPG books, including Laser Ponies and Leopard Women of Venus.

SPACE 2019 Exhibitor Bios -Part 1

80 Proof Comix:
80 Proof Comix has been around since the late 80's in various forms. In 2007 it began a true storyline (Days of Bewilderment) featuring past characters put in a new situation. Taking bits, pieces, fragments, and experiences from working in the DD/Mental Health group home setting, I've worked on creating a comedic realistic look at the staff that work at these homes and some of the situations they face (without getting on a soap-box). This story has been completed and 80 Proof moves on with a new book ()Nights of Bedazzlement.

M. Jacob Alvarez:
M. Jacob Alvarez is the author of the Graphic Novel Chinatown Bus and the gag comic collections "The Codependent Tree" and "What A Way To Go." His cartoons have been featured in "The Philadelphia Secret Admirer" and D.C.'s "Magic Bullet" Anthology. He is currently working on comic book literary reviews and a Graphic Novel he describes as "Like the movie Cocoon with Charles Manson."

Gregory Baldridge:
Gregory Baldridge is a teacher who has taught elementary and middle school in New Mexico, Louisiana, and Ohio. He writes and draws Teech, a comic about the classroom and the factors around it. He lives in Columbus with his wife who studies comics at the University of Ohio and their two dogs.

Matthew Barron:
Author Matthew Barron spends his days mixing and analyzing human blood as a medical technologist in Indianapolis Indiana. Matthew's diverse fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. He's released three graphic novels: The horror-adventure Temple of Secrets in 2014, its sequel The Brute in 2018 and teen super heroine Harmony Unbound in 2016. He also wrote and produced a short play for the 2015 Indianapolis Fringe festival and is working on another. His sword sorcery book, Valora; dystopian novella, Secular City Limits; and kids book, The Lonely Princess, are also available. For more information, visit http://www.submatterpress.com

Suzanne Baumann:
I've been going to SPACE for, like, two decades now and have populated my convention table with more and more comics over time. I keep coming back because I like the exhibitors and I especially like the attendees -- come by and say hello!

Derek Baxter:

Derek Baxter draws, works and lives in Columbus, Ohio. He has been part of the Drunken Cat Comics duo since 2001, when he and Brian Canini teamed up to write and draw comics as high schoolers. He does a weekly webcomic on the Drunken Cat Comics website and occasionally writes and draws minicomics, such as The Life and Death of Mr. Burger and Gomibako. You can find his work at www.drunkencatcomics.com

Blind Alley Comics:
Hailing from Lansing, MI, Blind Alley Comics' mission is to rock the world of comics with its mind-boggling original stories and art. Co-conspirators Rick Schlaack (The Human Cannonball) and Joe Haines (The Strange Adventures of Bone Boy) want to bring amazement, thrills, and happiness to their audience with every issue.

Bonfire Comics:
Bonfire Comics is a collective of cartoonists that publish a yearly anthology under the Bonfire name. We are home to many up and coming cartoonists whose works are pushing the boundaries of what comics can be.

Brent Bowman:
Brent Bowman is a graduate of the Columbus College of Art And Design with a degree in Illustration. A lifelong comics fan, Brent has been drawing since he was old enough to pick up a pencil. His work has appeared in publications by Image Comics, Caliber Press and NBM Publishing. Brent has been nominated for the prestigious YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Award and the ALA Amanda Bloomer Award. He has also won the small press SPACE prize in 2015, 2017 and 2018 for his comics work in both graphic novels and short form comics. He lives in Columbus Ohio with his wife and two boys. You can check out his work at The Art of Brent Bowman on Facebook or his online portfolio at https://sites.google.com/view/brentbowman