SPACE Exhibitors Part 6!

Lee Smith:

Lee Smith has been producing Ohio Chronicles since 2011. An Ohio University graduate,

Lee was an elementary school classroom teacher for 20+ years in the Columbus City Schools. His interest in helping students learn through comic books inspired him to create a comic book series devoted to the history of Ohio. Each of the bi-monthly issues features a historical narrative, an informational background comic and primary sources based on a specific historic event. Ohio Chronicles has been featured in newspaper articles throughout Ohio and is available at numerous Museums across the state.

Sarah Sobole:

Sarah Sobole is a cartoonist from Cleveland, Ohio. She is passionate about the power of cuteness.

Tyler and Sara Sowles:

Killustration Studios is comprised of Tyler and Sara Sowles. Both are graduates of Kendall

College of Art and Design and work together on indy and self published comics, fan prints and other

freelance art ventures. Tyler primary does the pencils and inks and Sara digitally colors, letters and does

layout and graphic design. Their current titles that they work on together include Hank Steiner: Monster

Detective, Durontus, and Tandoori Apocalypse. Tyler is also is the lead artist on Fallstreak and (Arcana's)

The Numbered.

 

 

Brian and Brandon Spicer:

The Spicer Brothers Spotlight

Adrian Coburn stood out as an example of what one good cop could do in a city rotten to its core with

corruption. His crusade to clean up the city drew the unwanted attention of those who didn't want the city

saved, and they took everything away from him. Now, physically disfigured, psychologically maimed, and

legally dead, Coburn continues his crusade against the corrupt as Mulciber, a vigilante intent on purifying

his city with fire. This issue spotlight's Mulciber's earliest appearance in PLB Comic's Halloween Special aswell as work The Spicer Brothers have done for PLB Comic's vigilante, The Fall. It also includes a brand new ten page Mulciber story.

Tom Spurgeon:
Tom Spurgeon is the owner and operator of The Comics Reporter.

 

Dan Stafford & Kilgore Books:

Kilgore Books & Comics is a micropress from Denver, CO. We've been a bricks and mortar

shop since 2008, and have published comics since 2010. Our lineup includes Noah Van Sciver's 'Blammo' series, the John P. documentary, 'Root Hog or Die', the handwritten interview collection 'I Hope This Finds You Well', 'Blindspot' by Joseph Remnant, and a handful of others.

Ben T. Steckler:

Ben T. Steckler has been writing and drawing mini-comics since 1995. He's published the series "Ska-Toons", "Get BenT!", and "Unshaven Chi". He's also produced many popular one-shot minis, including "Yugo-Girl", "Fluffy The Pet Fart", "Quincy the Scaredy-Cat", and "Peeps et Beans". He's published a series of popular parodies of Jack Chick tracts, and was nominated in 2001 for the Ignatz Award as "Promising New Talent". In recent years, he has turned to Stand-Up Comedy, through which hemet the Bizarre Heath Walkemeyer, the subject of his latest comic, "Stand-Up Comics presents: In-Bred."

 

 

Steve Steiner:

 

Mullet Turtle Comics features humorous comics from the mind of Steve Steiner ...which are about neither mullets nor turtles. Books and more can be purchased at mulletturtle.storenvy.com

Jason Strutz:

Jason Strutz is the illustrator behind the Cask of Amontillado and upcoming The House of Montresor graphic novel with Enrica Jang from Red Stylo Media, The Order of Dagonet from Action Lab Entertainment. He also self-publishes a variety of Make Your Own Comics, ABC books, and other comics. You can find more at StrutzArt.com.

Tim Switalski :
A sequential adaptation of the song "I Hung My Head", chronicling the consequences and guilt of a carless action and the inevitability of the end.

Joseph Tenney:

KnightHarsher/RetroForce is the result of a decade of repressed superhero fantasy. Based on a collection of sketches & stories once committed only to journals, Joseph felt a deep desire to present them in sequential form. Fearing that he would forget about is Original Characters, and in essence himself. 

Evan Thomas:
Stheno the Gorgon, sister of the once-legendary Medusa, wanders the vibrant new world that has risen in the wake of Olympus' destruction, searching for her monstrous siblings.

 

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SPACE Exhibitors Part 5!

 

J.M. Hunter:

 

J.M. Hunter (°1977, Montclaire, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, Hunter touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.

His artworks often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His works are presented with the aim not to provide an idealistic view but to identify where light and the environment are important. The energy of a place and its emotional and spiritual

Andy “Shaggy” Korty:

Andy “Shaggy” Korty learned to read because of comics; so they are VERY important to him.Andy has been drawing and writing stories most of his life.  He graduated from the University of St. Francis with a B.A. in Fine and Commercial Art – focusing in Illustration. He has worked in news print and large format signage but his passion has always been creating comics. Weather it is with a team or on his own; Andy loves to make them.Andy has studied the business techniques from everyone from big companies, to individual creators. He has also recently become the Business Manager for Empire Comics Lab. Below is a bibliography of Andy’s printed works:
Fred & Jesse – Co-creator, Writer
Don Clemmer’s For Real – Co-creator, Artist
The Manor – Creator
Lafayette: Our Cancer Year – Cover Artist, Writer, Artist, Letterer
P.I. Jane Vol. 2: The Weird Cases – Guest Artist
A Priest in the Family – Artist
Punching the Clock Vol. 3 and 4 – Guest Artist
Cemetery Plots #1 – Writer, Artist, Letterer
Tales of the Wolfman – Artist, Letterer (Due out in December)
Ned: the Monster Under the Bed – Artist (Due out in December)
Andy has also done crossovers with his comic The Manor and other comic strips such as On the Grind, Punching the Clock, P.I. Jane, Hard and Soft Taco, Platrick and Swampie. He has been a guest writer and/or artist for The Deadlys, Monsterhood, Cynical Stew, and Say What!?!. These remain only published online.
You can read more of Andy’s adventures at WelcomeToTheManor.com

Michael Neno:

 

Michael Neno has been writing, drawing and publishing comics for over 25 years. He also freelances writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, painting and designing. Some of his many clients include: Burger King, Airship 27, Dark Horse Comics, the Tulsa Oklahoma Boy's Home, Cracked Magazine, Caliber comics, Moosepath Press, the YMCA, Paul Pope's Horse Press, Frankie's Pizza, ABCO printing, Asia's Hope, Headshrinker's Press, and SPACE! Neno won a Xeric Grant to publish ReactionaryTales, the debut of his Signifiers Universe.

Chris "Uncle Staple" Nicholas

"Chris “Uncle Staple” Nicholas is the founder and lead organizer of STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo, the premiere indie-comics show of the Southwest, held annually in Austin, Texas since 2005.

 In collaboration with artist David Lamplugh, Chris has self-published the comics That Damned Cat, (a supernatural black comedy inspired by the true story of the cat that knows when you are going to die) and You Chose Right The First Time (a 240 page crime-noir epic set in 60’s Chicago), both of which will be appearing at S.P.A.C.E. for their very first time!"

 

 

Arley Owens:

 

Arley Owens, Founder of Earth Team Green and CEO/President of Earth 1 Eco-Enterprises, is passionate about environmental education and set a goal to use eco-storytelling to reach and teach the next generation about how to protect and respect the environment. To accomplish this goal, Arley created an eye catching, attention holding, bold new Eco-Thriller Comic Book Series titled “Earth Team Green.”  Arley has introduced his comic books to over 3000 students at schools to include; Hedges Elementary, Prospect Elementary and Malabar Middle School, located in Mansfield, Ohio, Hannah Ashton Middle School and Summit Road Elementary School located in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Buckeye North Elementary School, located in Brilliant, Ohio, Century Oaks Elementary School, located in Elgin, Illinois and Thurgood Marshall Academy, located in Washington DC.  Arley has made presentations on Earth Team Green’s, “Eco Thriller Comic Books for the Classroom Edutainment System,” at the Environmental Education Council of Ohio Conferences the Ohio Association of Litter Prevention and Recycling Professionals Conference and at the National Recycling Coalition Annual Conference. The Earth Team Green Eco-Thriller Comic Books Series has seven issues in print. Arley is presently writing the Screen Play for a feature length movie, “Eco-Warriors of The Rainbow – Earth Team Green,” which will be filmed in Ohio.

Arley is a graduate of The Ohio State University with BA in Communications and holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Phoenix.  Arley serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Ohio Recyclers. Arley is a former employee of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention  where during tenure his “A Team” created and implemented statewide award winning  environmental awareness and education programs to include Plant Pride Not Litter, Recycle with Ohio Zoos and Pride In Public Housing. His staff, under his supervision, created the Recycle, Ohio! Program and Lucky The Lady Bug, Ohio’s First Lady of Litter Prevention. Arley was recently recognized by the Association of Ohio Recyclers as one of the nine individuals and three businesses who have made a major impact on Ohio’s Recycling Industry. Arley is a twenty year resident of Reynoldsburg and is an active Board Member of the Slate Ridge Civic Association. He is married to Audrey Owens and has two sons Kevin and Ryan.

Maryanne Rose Papke:

Maryanne self-publishes a number of weird and cute, sometimes epic comics. Of note: the mostly silent story of Ghost Castle, and the whimsical adventures of the stick figure, Tile. 

Randall Pare:

Speakeasy Primates is an independent multinational cooperative creator studio. We are proud to present a variety of independent small press offerings for sale. Our member artists and writers have collaborated on some fine limited edition art prints, short story and novella anthologies, poetry collections, comics and graphic novels.

John  Porcellino:

JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over thirty years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden (2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”

Porcellino’s work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, and Korean. He currently lives in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Stu Rase:
Stu Rase is a thirty-something High School teacher, freestyle rapper, and comic book writer. He's the author and artist of two books: Teacher Strips, auto-biographical humor about memorable moments in his classroom; and The Undad, an all-ages book about a zombie father trying to raise his daughter.

Before becoming a teacher, Stu performed all over the country as an improvisational comedian. After becoming a teacher, he's given up on most of his dreams, had a kid, and spends his free time huddled over an art board desperately clinging to his youth.

Ashley Ribblett:

Ashley is a full time nerd/part time illustrator currently living and practicing her craft in Cleveland, OH. She loves drawing anything and everything weird, sexy and weirdly sexy. In her free time she also co-runs the Cleveland branch of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School and makes crazy drawings with her cool circle of art pals the Scribble Nerds!
Find her on instagram @tentaclees or her art blagh ARIBBLETT.BLOGSPOT.COM

Lorenzo Ross :

A native of Chicago, Lorenzo Ross writes and draws several titles for Alternative City Comics including Complicated Hair, a slice of life strip featuring hipsters & misfits working retail in an art supply store, Ninja Bunny Assassin, a web comic and Awesome 5!, a lighthearted satirical take on the super-hero genre. More examples of his work can be seen at www.alternativecitycomics.com and http://ninjabunnyassassin.tumblr.com Books, prints and more are available on www.etsy/store/psychicunicorns

Bri Rudd:

Bri Rudd has a webcomic. It's called Oh No, Bri, because that's what your friends say when they find out you usually eat scrambled eggs for dinner. Or you spend a WILD weekend re-watching Leverage. Or you explain, pretty insistently, what is important in a good brownie. Find her at brirudd.com

Alissa Sallah, Juan Argil, Amelia Sealy & Chris Passabet:

We are a team of students from CCAD who have been studying comics and are selling an assortment of comics and prints!

Ian Shires:
Ian continues to strive to promote small press, self published, indy stuff, in new and innovative ways as he has been doing for almost 30 years now.

Christine Skelly:
Christine Skelly is an illustrator and writer of comics, currently illustrating Mt. Olyphant, written by Jake Ziemba. She is also working on several illustrated short stories, such as Felis Leon, and a zine series titled Modern Mythos.

Ted Sikora:

Ted Sikora is the creator, co-writer, colorist and letterer of Apama The Undiscovered Animal which tells the offbeat story of the Cleveland’s own resident superhero. Ted also directed, co-wrote, and co-produced the independent feature film, Hero Tomorrow. which debuted at Comic Con International and was featured on IFC, Attack of the Show and Films In Review. He calls both Cleveland and Akron his home. See more of Ted’s work at www.ApamaNation.com and www.HeroTomorrow.com

 

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SPACE Minicomics Celebration!!!!

 

We're really kicking the Minicomics Celebration into high gear with 30 new minicomics!http://www.backporchcomics.com/minicomics01.htm

 

SPACE Exhibitors Part 4!

Troy Boyle:

Troy Boyle (b.July 28, 1966) is an American comic book artist and writer. Boyle has worked for Image Comics, Desperado Publishing, Caliber Press, and Boneyard Press. Some of Boyle's comic book art is included in Mysterious Visions Anthology, Ppfszt!, Tribute, and The Return of Happy the Clown. He most recently provided artwork for David Gerrold's comic "A Doctor For the Enterprise!"

Kevin Czap:

Czap Books is a one-person publisher/distro operating out of Cleveland, OH. The goal is to expand the scope of Kevin Czap’s self-publishing to serve as a vehicle for comics work that teases the boundaries of the form. The work itself tends toward the design and poetic side of comics. Described as “the Comics Mom,” Kevin sees Czap Books as a growing family of artists to be supported and nurtured

Tyne Lowe and Nora Burghardt:
Tyne Lowe and Nora Burghardt like making books with words and pictures in them. Tyne enjoys making crooked little autobiography comics, drawing cats, and making stamps. Nora enjoys drawing

fractured faces, binding books, and sometimes calligraphy.

Trico Lutkins:

Source Point Press is an independent press that publishes anthologies, novels, chapbooks,

comics, and graphic novels. We're a small business looking to contribute big things to the world of art and

writing. We hope you'll join in on our creative endeavors by picking up a book and letting us know what you

think!

Sarah Machicado:

Sarah Machicado is a graphic designer based in south Florida. She specializes in visual

branding, package design, illustration and designing zines. Sarah is currently a game artist at

Upsidedownslide and works as a graphic designer at a tech start-up company called Magic Leap.

 

 

Steve Mancione:

Steve Mancione is a Chicago based artist and life long resident of the Windy City.  He has worked in many mediums, including painting and printmaking, but his passion is graphic narrative--namely--comics.  After a trip through art school at Eastern Illinois University, he moved on to Columbia College's Book and Paper program as a graduate student and received his MFA. He has published a short story in Columbia's comic anthology Linework in 2010 entitled Have a Nice Trip.  Steve self published his next story  Blue Collar Black Sheep as a large format gallery show, exhibiting the 44 pages of comics printed on his own hand made paper in 2011 at Arcade Gallery in Chicago.  In 2012, he started drawing and co-writing his own book Career Suicide, which debuted at CAKE in 2013.  He has participated in many group gallery shows and continues to work on new issues of Career Suicide as well as developing a new series to be named soon... www.hiredgunart.com. 

Lauren McCallister:
Lauren McCallister makes weird drawings and comics about her life and the lives of others. You should read them.

 Bob McHenry / MixmeH Hyperworld:
A highly evolved alien race creates an entire world designed to hold prisoners from all over the universe. The planet has an Artificial Intelligence that creates Wardens to maintain the prisons and keeps the system intact. 1000 years go by and the planet becomes a home; all who call the planet forget its original purpose.  MixmeN Hyperworld tells the story of the wardens, the factions they’ve fallen into, and how each battles the other to protect theie own version of right and wrong.

Andrew Meyerhoefer & Seth Kumpf:

Ragged Rider: Tales of a Cowboy Mummy features the humorous all-ages Weird West

adventures of a mummified bounty hunter and his one-eyed horse, Neighclops.

T. Perran Mitchell:
T. Perran Mitchell is the Creator of The Chronicles of the Tal Nor a high adventure comic

published quarterly. It combines the the wonder of The Lord of the Rings with the drama of Law and

Order. In addition to creating his own comics, T. also is a letterer have worked on comics for Firestorm

comics and R-Comics.

Chris Monday:

I make comics and art. Primarily I have been focusing on my series, "Drink More Water."

See some online for free at chrismonday.com, and check out the printed issues for some other content. #3 will be out soon.

Joseph Morris:

 

Joseph Morris is the Owner and Operator of TORC Press, a small press publisher based out

of the middle of nowhere in Southern Illinois. His comics include "The Hot Fudge Sundae Adventure Club",

"Skull Mob", and "SDF". He's currently creating his own cross over event comic just for the heck of it.

 

 

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SPACE Exhibitors Part 3!

 

Dustin Goebel:

I'm a Columbus based graphic artist and illustrator. I Graduated from CCAD in 2007. I was a contributor to Nix Comics Issue 2 and released my own title Beyond Dead last year. Outside of comics I am a graphic artist/chalk artist for Whole Foods Market. I've also dabbled in a little freelance with companies like Madtree and Jameson Whiskey.

 

Sophie Goldstein:

Sophie Goldstein is a 2013 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies.  In 2014 she won an
Ignatz Award for her mini-comic, House of Women, Part I. Her first book Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, co-written with Jenn Jordan, was self-published in 2013 with funding from Kickstarter. Her second book, The Oven, was released by AdHouse Books in April, 2015. Sophie has also illustrated a children's book, Poopy Claws, written by Gene Ambaum. Her work has appeared in various publications including Best American Comics 2013, The Pitchfork Review, Maple Key Comics, Sleep of Reason, Symbolia, Trip 8 and Irene 3.
Jack Gonzalez:

My Comic is about a depressed unicorn who is contemplating suicide. It is a dark comedy that follows his story as he journeys to find a meaning to his life. However, as the story progresses he attempts form connections with family and friends, only to realize that they are even more dysfunctional than him.

Todd Goodman:

Old World Comics will be celebrating its 5th. Anniversary in 2015! Founded by head writer, creator and  founder Todd Goodman, Old World Comics hosts such diverse comics and books as the comedic superhero title, The Powers that Be! with artist Cory Butler, the best-selling All Hallows Eve with illustrator Andrew Henry and Empty Skull with Marcelo Briseno, The Book on Me, Catacombs, Out There and Smells like Pulp Comics. The company website also features the monthly web comic, Old World Office. Visit all the Old World sites at oldworldcomics.com and oldworldoffice.weebly.com.

Gordon Harris:

Gordon Harris lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife Judy, twin daughters Violet and Silver, and three gerbils whose names escape him. Gordon’s day job is NOT writing, drawing and painting comic books or graphic novels. He’s always had a desire to, but it seems like a lot of work, so instead his day job consists of watching TV shows like Curious George or Wild Kratts and writing promos for them - among other menial tasks.

Dave Hearn:

Empire Comics Lab began as a loose knit group on Facebook and has grown into a force for comics excellence. Their first comic, "Cemetery Plots", is a horror anthology in the vein of the greats from EC. Since publication, ECL has expanded to include Action, Humor and Slice of Life comics in print and on the web at www.EmpireComicsLab.com Long Live the Lab!

Alex Heberling:

 

Alex Heberling has been making comics for the internet since 2005! She is currently working on her creator-owned comic, The Hues, which is about magical girls fighting aliens. This year, she will have the first print collection of The Hues, which she Kickstarted earlier this year!

R. Hendricks:

 

Comics by R. Henricks include  The Washington Tragedy Part One, Legends of Baseball, Stranger Two Stranger Volumes 1-5, and The Disappearance of Gordon Page, Jr.

 

Luke Herr and Joe Hunter:

Luke and Joe previously worked on the well liked webcomic Changeling but now they just work on separate projects as comic bros. Joe is currently working on the Paradoxicals with Andrew Ihla and Radical Guardian Skater X with Chris Sims. Luke is currently working on Super Slasher with Nick LeBlanc and a few other projects with other people.

Daniel J. Hogan:

"The spelling is pretty good and I'm usually drawn on-model." - No Filter Fox, cast member of Clattertron, the weekly offbeat humor comic by Daniel J. Hogan. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @danieljhogan.

Travis Horseman:

 

Travis was born in Springfield, Ohio, and discovered comic books at the age of six. Since then, the course of his life has been shaped by his love of comics, theater and classical history. In addition to being   writer, he has been an actor, a director, a produced playwright, and occasionally, all three at once. After writing the first draft of Amiculus as a ten-page play in college, he began adapting it as a comic in 2007, intending it to be a short 32-page project to test the waters for a longer series. Six years and 162 pages later, it has become an epic unto itself. Travis currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Gideon Kendall:

 

Gideon Kendall has been a professional illustrator for 25 years, producing picture books, chapter books, advertising and editiorial illustration, posters, album covers, animation, and oh yeah, also comics. He is the writer and artist of WHATZIT, as well as co-creator (along with Doug Latino) of WAIT...It Gets Worse, an ongoing collection of short autobiographical stories. Both of these comics, as well as Gideon's fine art prints, are available at: www.WHATZITCOMIC.com you can also read some of his stuff for free online at: http://activatecomix.com/creators?id=67

Jeremy King:

Page 4 Yeti, or P4Y, is a small press comic book publisher based in Maysville, Kentucky. Founded in late 2013 by writer Jason Davis and writer/artist Jeremy King, P4Y's mission is to provide an alternative for readers tired of the usual superhero fare. Debuting with the short horror comic Midnight Snack in October 2013, P4Y has been creating the alternative western Not Dark Yet ever since. Visit them on the web at www.page4yeti.com

Matt Kish:

Matt Kish lives in southwest Ohio with his wife and their two frogs. He talks to planets.

Clare Kolat:

The ongoing tales of Spiffy the Spacegirl follow Spiffy, a bounty hunter or as she prefers to say, "retrieval specialist," on her adventures around the galaxy. In episode 1 she meets a less than appealing character in a space cantina. While she doesn't shoot first, she certainly lets the them know what she's all about! More episodes to come!

Kris Lachowski:

"Kris (not Kristopher) Lachowski (Pronounced like “The House Key” except the English word “the” is replaced with a Spanish word for “the”, which at least according to Google Translate is sometimes “La”. If that’s not correct I don’t know what to tell you, I don’t speak Spanish, and you’ve taken us waaaaay off topic. ) …anyway… Kris makes silly drawings, which are often juxtaposed with inane words published under the imprint “Mean Goat Comics”. Doing so brings amusement and fulfillment to his life and I… I mean he (‘cuz Kris is totally important enough to not write his own bio-blurb) hopes others enjoy his silly words and inane pictures as well. "

Josh Lindner:

Sam would love to see the world someday. The only problem being he is terrified of almost anything. But as luck would have it, Sam's friends love to give him the gentle- yet very firm - push he needs to move forward. You take a step through a door and it could take you anywhere, it could show you the world, but maybe not our world.


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