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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Big Comic Show at the Pickerington Library

Exhibitors include:
Glenn Baskin
Brent Bowman
Alex Clark
Bob Corby
Molly Durst
Ken Eppstein
Terence Hanley
Stephen Hines
Travis Horseman
Max Ink
Lora Innes
Canada Keck  
Michael Neno
Andrew Pena
Lis Huey
Jasmine Rajavadee
Meg Syverud
Valerie Starr
John Steventon
There are still a few spots left for exhibitors.
http://www.pickeringtonlibrary.org/content/big-comic-show-2014


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Tired, Sore & Hoarse

I’m tired, sore and hoarse today… but it was worth it. After seeing all the creative energy this weekend I’m excited to start new projects and start working on SPACE 2015.  I couldn’t ask for a better community of friendly people enjoying our common love for the comics medium. It keeps me going.

Thanks to all the exhibitors for making SPACE such a joy to put on each year and everybody I sucked  into doing panels which provided all the great programming.

 

 

Also thanks to Nate Powell for allowing us an early look at March Book Two before anybody else.  Nate and Ken Eppstein also deserve a hardy thanks for being troopers for singing the night away and then getting up in a few hours to make us look good on local TV.

Thanks to Stang and the crew at the Laughing Ogre for the great party Friday night and to Caitlin McGurk (the unstoppable force) and Kafe Kerouac for the comics reading and karaoke after party on Saturday.

 

Thanks to all the people who came to see all the  incredible work. 

I‘d like to especially thank my wife, Kathy, my brother, Ron, my son, Bob  and Fate Spears for running the show with me.  (Check out the great work Fate does with the Comic Book Connection Initiative https://www.facebook.com/CBCI.Cols

Hope everybody had a safe trip home and hope to see you all again next year.

Bob Corby

 

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SPACE Exhibitor Bios Pt. 8

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, colorist on Ehmm Theory from Action Lab Entertainment. He also selfpublishes

a variety of Make Your Own Comics, ABC books, and other comics. You can

find more at StrutzArt.com.

KT Swartz
1876. The newest, sleekest, top-of-the-line train draws a host of

colorful characters on its maiden journey. But what starts out as a peaceful ride

along the rails turns into war when the infamous Red Gang attacks.

What these passengers don't know is that someone hired the Red Gang to rob the

train. The only question is why?

JTW
JTW has been creating mini comics since his pre-teens but,started

doing comics seriously in 2004, when he self-published his first zine/comic

Lunchbox. Since then, as one part of the Local DC Conspiracy comic scene, he has

done work for various anthologies and small press publishers, as well as

continuing his own comic series Black Dayz. He will be showcasing a ton of highly

inventive comix at different conventions, so feel free to keep an eye out for him.

He is also an accomplished illustrator dabbling in acrylics, and Music production/

DJing in the Musique Concrete/Soul Jazz/Hip Hop genre. 

Rochelle and Adrienne Westmoreland

Rochelle and Adrienne are 2 sisters who do various art work and zines."

Max Wheeler
Gnarly As I Wanna Be makes independent prints, music, zines,

comics and more.

Gnarly As I Wanna Be makes independently made comics, zines, books and prints. We

also put out records.

 

Katherine Wirick
Katherine’s topics of interest include war, trauma and baseball. She won the 2012 SPACE Prize for No One is Safe. She is currently working on Nervenkrank.

Dave Woodward
Gordie Gnomo is about a woodland gnome who has spent a long part

of his life on the road as a wandering nomad. After unexpectedly discovering the

first town he's seen in years, Gordie is determined to settle down and establish

his life as an adult for the first time ever, but is in for a rude awakening to

how difficult it will be.

Bruce Worden
Zombies at Woodstock. (that's the REALLY short description!)

Blending comedy, action, and rock-n-roll, "Woodstalk" is the forgotten story of

the zombie outbreak at the seminal music festival of the 1960s.

 

Jessi Zabarsky
Jessi Zabarsky makes comics about food, bunnies, and cool girls.

You can find more things to look at and links to buy them at jessiz.com

 

Jeff Zwirek
Jeff Zwirek, a.k.a Jeffrey Antacid, a.k.a Jeff Z is a self-publishing cartoonist. His comics work includes Jack Rabbit, Black Star, Pinstriped Bloodbath, and Burning Building Comix. He has received a nomination for an Ignatz award, and his comics have been named "Notable Comics" multiple times by the Best American Comics anthology. He's also one of the organizers of CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. He lives and works in Chicago, with his wife and two sons.

 

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SPACE Exhibitor Bios Pt. 7

John Porcellino
John Porcellino was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five 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 South Beloit, Illinois.

Nate Powell
From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a caregiver for adults with developmental disabilities. Powell began self-publishing comics in 1992 at age 14. He graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1996, briefly attended George Washington University in Washington, DC, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2000 after receiving the Outstanding Cartooning Student award and the Shakespeare & Company Books Self-Publishing Grant, with which he funded the first issue of Walkie Talkie.  Powell lived intermittently in central Arkansas while calling East Lansing, Michigan, South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island home from 2001 to 2003. He settled in Bloomington, Indiana in early 2004.
His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Artist, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Fiction category. It received the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, and was also nominated for Best Writer/Artist and Best Lettering.
In 2013 Top Shelf Productions published March, an autobiographical graphic novel trilogy about the life of civil rights leader and United States Congressman John Lewis, written by Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and illustrated by Powell.
Powell has worked on the graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan's The Heroes Of Olympus:The Lost Hero, while working on his own next book, entitled Cover and the short comics collection You Don't Say.

Stu Rase

ROCKET MONKEY is the story of an alcoholic monkey and his ability

to turn invisible when exposing himself. Oh. It's also about his quest to become

the greatest hero Chicago has ever seen.

THE UNDAD is a charming tale about a zombie father and his relationship with his

quite-alive daughter.

Joseph Remnant
Joseph Remnant is a Los Angeles based cartoonist, who writes and

draws the comic book series, BLINDSPOT. The 3rd issue was recently published by

Kilgore Books. He's currently working the graphic novel, CARTOON CLOUDS, which is

being serialized at TheExpositorComics.com

Jonathon Riddle
Jonathon Riddle has been writing and drawing comics since childhood, his first comics work being an adaptation of The Return of the Jedi rendered in crayon at the age of four. He is a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design with a major in illustration. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he is a regular contributor to the Ohio-based comic anthology “Oh, Comics!” With Only Five Plums is his first graphic novel.

Ryan Ruffatti

Ryan Ruffatti is glad to be back making comics again escaping the

pressures of the day job to bring pen to paper and create cute doodles. He is

currently working on his on going series Shift and Approaching the Middle.

Sarah Winifred Searle

Sarah Winifred Searle is a cartoonist and cat wrangler from New

England. She was Children's Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library where

she created Under the Apple Tree, a historical coming-of-age graphic novel, and

has some work in Fulcrum Publishing's upcoming Colonial Comics anthologies.

Melody Moore is an Ohio native cartoonist, illustrator, and game developer. She's

currently working on a supernatural-themed comic series about a girl named Olive

and a mystery game project with Los Muertos Games.

K. Sekelsky
K. Sekelsky is an illustrator and author from Johnstown, PA. She wrote and illustrated The Time Traveler's Pocket Guide, and has produced a number of webcomics and minicomics over the years. 

Lee Smith
Lee Smith has been producing Ohio Chronicles for 3 years. 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.

Marky Starr

Marky Starr has co-created the comics Hammerhead-Head, The Last

Messiah, and Football Dad alongside Mack White. He also co-created The Nocturnal

Mission alongside Italian artist Detrocboi.

Talcott Starr

Rescue Archaeology is a blend of memory, imagination, and observation, filtered

through poetry and poured into a comic. 

Valerie Starr

Octopus Story follows a curious octopus--an adventurous creature who is enjoying

learning about the world around it--who becomes bored with the ocean, and sets off

on a journey through the everyday world. It encounters new people, places, and

modes of transportation, and gains the companionship of one black kitten along the

way. Brave, and a little stubborn, Octopus's first experience outside the ocean

has given it a taste for future adventures.

John Steventon
HappyGlyphs Comics is the home of Cartoonist and Illustrator John

Steventon's creativity, including his two comic strips The Inquiring Minds and

Knight and Day.

 

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