SPACE 2025 Exhibitor Bios Part 9

 

Brandon Spicer:
“Battlefield Comics was founded by illustrator Brandon Spicer. 
Brandon is a freelance illustrator based in central Ohio. He discovered his love for comic book art when he was a young child and was inspired by artists like J.Scott Campbell, Frank Cho, Jim Balant, Adam Hughes, Todd McFarlane, Tim Vigil, Stephen Gammell and too many others to list, but all equally just as important.
From 2000-2004 he contributed miscellaneous art for “Dungeon Crawler Magazine” which was nominated in 2001 for a 2000 Origins Award for Best Amateur Game Periodical.
In 2008 he began working with comic book publishers, penciling and inking sequential art, pin-ups, covers and illustrations. He has contributed to multiple books by PLB Comics and is the winner of the Critters Annual Readers Poll in 2020 for “Best Books Cover Artwork.”

Kelsey Spade:
Student at CCAD.

Joshua Ray Stephens:
Joshua Ray Stephens makes comics that have been beamed to him from a future dystopic timespace

Katie Starr:
Katie Starr is a cybersecurity analyst and budding comics writer and artist. She is the co-founder of Comics in the Circle, a local comics meetup-group for adults to sit and draw comics, and she hopes to continue fostering the ever-growing Cleveland comics-making scene. Katie has recently started self-publishing her work, including personal zines such as Crickets, humor comics based on manga such as Pronomore, and animating her finished comics.

Steven Stothard:
PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books and comics for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. Founded in 2007 by a small group of people with decades of publishing, media, and organizing experience, we have sold millions of copies of our books, most often one at a time, face to face. We’re old enough to know what we’re doing and young enough to know what’s at stake. Join us to create a better world.

Steve Steiner:
Steve Steiner makes a variety of weird and humorous comics and zines. He is currently working on his series Odd Clods, collections of strange comics printed on over-sized broadsheet newspapers.

Jaromir Stoll:
Jaromir Stoll (they) makes comics and zines on ecology, grief, and the ineffable in life. They also research comics cultures in India and are co-editing the upcoming book, Turn the Page! Illustrating India's Comics Scenes.

Tae:
Taè is a southern emo, erotic author, and gore whore. Her work focuses on emotionally volatile girls, their romantic exploits, and the horror that ensues. SNUFFED is her first published comic.

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Chandu Tennety:
Chandu Tennety is a self-taught artist and has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He lives in Ohio with his musician spouse and daughter (an artist in her own right) and loves to linger in the spaces between reality and metaphor.