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.