2019 SPACE Exhibitor Bios - Part 3

Joel Cramer:
Joel Cramer is a local artist and creator of "Adventures of Honzy and Joel", an all-ages friendly comic book series.

Kelci Crawford:
Kelci Crawford is a comic artist and illustrator based in southeast Ohio, and creator of Validation, Johnson & Sir, Charlie & Slow, and Thoughtful Dinosaur. When not making comics, Kelci likes to drink tea and play tabletop role-playing games with friends.

Flor de Canela:Flor de Canela is a vivacious Latina woman who is a self-taught, degree certified artist with over 20+ years' experience in creating illustrations, graphic arts, & fine arts in various media. Her creative nature has fueled an enthusiastic passion for the arts and everything she does. Flor appreciates being a part of the vibrant and ever-growing Columbus art/cartoonist community.

In 2016, she debuted her first comic series: Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics at the Columbus Independents Day Festival, solidifying her lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist. She has since published numerous SUUC comic strips online and put together two collections. Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics has been described as “an eclectic collection of comics, featuring Flor's insights, flights of fancy and quirky sense of humor."

Stuck-Up Unicorn Comics is published through French Toast Press, a collaboration with her husband and studio mate, Max Ink (writer/artist of the Blink graphic novel series and Thinklings auto-bio comics). Flor and Max are Creative Consultants for each other’s works, and while Max is Flor’s writer/story editor, she is his colorist/tone artist. French Toast Studios is also the entity which Flor and Max use when they create original comics together and when they collaborate on freelance and commission works.

Sean Dempsey:
Sean graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Sequential Art. His independent comics focus on curiosity and adventure through traveling or misfit characters. Whether in a comic, illustration, or cartoon, Sean’s stories embrace a balance of innocent and cynical protagonists. He hopes to create diverse, relatable characters that the audience can witness their inner growth, discovery, and individuality.

Nicholas Denham:
Nick is a musician, wannabe artist, and comic book fanatic.  He has aspirations of sharing self published works with anyone willing to read them.

Christopher Dillon:
Christopher Dillon, also know as CNDillon, creates paintings, drawings, illustrations, graphic designs, murals, and a variety of other art-like things. Many of the images are based in science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, pyschedelia, surrealism, animals and nature. After a brief hiatus, Christopher is delving back into illustrated narratives that may be loosely described as "comics" or "graphic novels." New works are on the way and will be debuted this Spring of 2019.

Anthony Dortch:
In 2009, Anthony Dortch began working on a project called The Privileged Series. He traveled to Tybee Island, GA to work with Anthony Canney (fashion designer), Tim Cabel (hair/makeup) and Julie Simser (photographer) to do the first shoot. The goal was to represent differences between the rich and the poor through a surrealistic art form.
In 2010, The Privileged Series exhibited at Touchstone Gallery (Washington, D.C.) and soon after traveled to galleries around the United States.
In 2012, The Privileged Series exhibited at Distinction Gallery (near San Diego, CA). Dortch partnered with Keifla Antonio and his team to take the project to the next level. The team painted models, bringing the outrageously colored characters to life.
In 2013-14, The Privileged Series evolved into PURE, a fumetti style comic book. Body painted models became the characters in a fictional world.
In 2015, 3:05 AM Collaborations emerged. 3:05 AM Collaborations AKA 3:05 was the brain child of Anthony Dortch (creator) and Michael Coslow (director). The duo would travel to Italy, France and across the United States painting people for short videos.
In 2016, Anthony suffered a major stroke. While in recovery he made the plans to produce his first feature length film, PURE: the movie.
​In 2017, with the help of Robert Rivera (director) and Ben Choobinay (screenwriter) production started. Also, Anthony split the original concept of PURE's storyline. PURE, the graphic novel, became several comic book series.
On 3-05-18, 3:05 screened a directors's cut of PURE: The Movie at Green Lantern. RATED M - MATURE.
Throughout 2019, 3:05 will be releasing Run!, The Kinky Devil, This Is A Man's World, PURE AF, Lil Kill & The Samsara Filter, and Phoenix Rising. Stay tuned for the continuing adventure.

Nick Dutro:
Nick Dutro is a writer and editor for a newspaper in Northwest Ohio and reads a lot of comic books and listens to too many podcasts in his free time. He is a graduate of Ohio Northern University with a BA in Journalism. He lives in Tiffin with his wife and two-year-old daughter.