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.