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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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