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| David Petersen | |
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David Petersen is the creator of Mouse Guard. He enjoys fantasy, folklore, myth, and legend. Even more than that he loves to draw and write about it. |
| Mike Norton | |
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Mike Norton is a long-time friend and listener of Comic Geek Speak. He's a DC exclusive artist with mega talent. He also co-hosts the Crank Cast podcast. |
| Danielle Corsetto | |
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Danielle is the creator of the web comic Girls With Slingshots. It's wonderfully entertaining. In addition she does killer sketches at cons. She's also lots of fun and super nice. Anyone who brings a giant stuffed cactus to a con with her is aces in our book. |
| Ryan Stegman | |
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Ryan Stegman was born in a drafty stable near Detroit. Ryan picked up crayons and drew on a wall; he was 18 years old. Shortly thereafter, he learned about pencils and paper. He was happy, as were his parents. After being "released" he decided that drawing comics was a good idea. He got all of his horrible drawings out of the way (well, most of them) and then got hired to do "Midnight Kiss" and covers for Markosia. He then found himself at Marvel working as the penciler and inker for the series "Magician Apprentice". Ryan has also worked on a series of sketch cards for Dynamite’s Red Sonja. Due to the restraints of a bulky ankle bracelet and poor hygiene, he is forced to stay indoors and draw. |
| Erica Hesse | |
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Erica Angelique Hesse is a self-taught/trained artist. Born and raised in New Jersey, she developed a love for comics at a young age. Growing up she would read anything from Archie to X-men comics, as she then realized she wanted to be an artist when she grew up. Fast forward many years later, she is now showcasing her work in the form of pin-up and comic book related art. She is inspired by pin-up, comic book, hot-rod, and low brow related art and photography. |
| Dave Dwonch | |
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Dave is a swingin' artist from California who can kick out some killer convention sketches. He's also a hard working comic artist who has produced an original mini-series as well as an OGN, Gnome. |
| Andrew Charipar | |
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Andrew has been part of the CGS family for years. He's a regular contributor to the Freking Sweer comic strip and an active forum member. He works on his own comic, Tales From the Corner Stone, and he does the strip, Super Mike, appearing in Comics Now! Magazine. |
| Kevin Mellon | |
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A self proclaimed "fat man with a Mohawk, careening wildly into his 30s", Kevin Mellon is a graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art. His first work, GearHead, debuted in January 2007 to critical acclaim. GearHead has recently been optioned by Darius Films with plans of making way to the silver screen. Kevin recently wrapped up work on a short story for Ape Entertainment’s popular Teddy Scares series. Kevin is currently working on 13 Steps (with writer, Phil Hester) as well as Sabre. 13 Steps debuted in August 2007 from Desperado Publishing. |
| Chris DiBari | |
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In 1999, Chris DiBari broke into the comics industry doing a cover for DC Comics' "Robin" for the "No Man's Land" event. Shortly thereafter, he did some work for Marvel Comics' "Deadpool". Chris has also done design work for Hasbro, Art Asylum Toys and 4 Kids Productions TMNT animated. In 2005, Chris co-created and drew "The Hunger" from Markosia. He recently wrapped up his drawing duties for the "Starship Troopers", ongoing series for Sony/Markosia, as well as designs for an upcoming horror movie. |
| Jeff Zornow | |
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Jeff Zornow possesses a maniacally twitching death nerve inside his brain. As a result, he suffers from horrific seizures which fuel his uncanny artistic talents. When he awakens from these debilitating attacks, he maintains his grip on reality through creating art for T-shirt companies (such as Fright-Rags and The House of Mysterious Secrets), film projects, and obviously comics. He has been stricken with this terminal case of twisted genius since 1999. His comic projects include "Gene Simmons' House of Horrors", "Vampirella Magazine", "Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery". Most notably, he created and illustrated the acclaimed "Long Night of the Full Moon". He regularly showcases his deviously creative urges in the pages of Cryptic Magazine. He is also comic-book-biographer to the mad scientist Dr. Gore. Zornow has also supplied art for many underground bands and record labels including Fondlecorpse, Gruesome Stuff Relish, Blood Freak, Razorback Records, Profanatica, Calabrese, and Ex Dementia. |
| Buz Hasson | |
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Buz Hasson attended the Art Institute of Dallas. Over the course of his career, Buz has worked on The Living Corpse, Flesh Rot: Tales of the Undead and The Eyes of Asia. With “The Living Corpse” in development for a live-action film, and a new comic distribution deal through Zenescope, Buz has been working at a feverish pace. |
| Ken Haeser | |
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Since graduating from the Joe Kubert School of Art, Ken Haeser has maintained a considerable work load on a number of different projects. Some of the projects include work on various comic titles including "The Jersey Devil", "Digital Webbing Presents", "Warmaggedon", "The Eyes of Asia", "The Living Corpse" and others. Ken is currently sharing writing and artistic duties for “The Living Corpse” from Zenescope, which has also been optioned for film. |
| Katie Cook | |
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Katie graduated from college in December of 2004 and has sinced moved on to working in a professional design studio and developing her career as a freelance illustrator. She hopes to be freelancing full-time soon, as well as hopping on the comic-convention tour bus. |
| Dave Wachter | |
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Dave has been listening to CGS for years. He made himself know to the group by his infamous postings on the forums. After we met him a few times we knew we had a great friend. In the past three years his artwork has grown more than we ever could have imagined. His ultra-detailed renderings are amazing to behold. Don't miss your chance to meet a CGS legend. |
| Sal Abbinanti | |
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Educated at the University of Southern California, Sal Abbinanti (Sam to his friends) now lives and works on the north side of Chicago. Sal has worked with such classic characters as the Atom, Swamp Thing and Conan and acquired the rights to the Atomika series in 1999. "I remember gatting hold of one of the original Soviet Atomika comics when I was a kid and I became fascinated with the whole concept. The interesting part of reading that book was that, when I was growing up, we were in the middle of the Cold War and I was living here in Chicago getting the story of the Soviet empire being this great evil. This comic was telling the story from the Soviet point of view," he recalls. "Now I get to tell this story and enhance the characters and enhance the world. On top of that, I get to work with the best in the business to pull it off." |
| Buzz | |
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Buzz was born and raised in Rangoon, Burma growing up reading his father's comics from his childhood. After moving to the United States at the age of 13, Buzz began his career as a penciler at the age of 15 at Blackthorne Publications. Later, working with Neal Adams' Continuity Studios at the age of 17. After gaining some good experience and mentoring, he took some pages to DC and received assignments working on Justice League Quarterly and Justice League International. |
| Janet & Matheus Wade | |
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Husband and wife super team! These two incredibly talented individuals are responsible for the series of OGNs, Jetta, Tales of the Toshigawa. They hail from Memphis and are part of the Memphis Mafia, a group of skilled comic artists. |
| Lin Workman | |
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SWM, 39, seeks fame and fortune by drawing funny! Lin was an artist and screen printer in the t-shirt industry for almost 20 years, and is currently a graphic artist designing monuments for West Stone Works in Memphis, TN. His artwork has appeared in "The Memphis Flyer", "Commercial Appeal", "Airbrush Action Magazine", "Amazing Figure Modeler", "Stargodz" (comic book with Conquest Studios), on Rock103 and The Outdoor Channel's websites, the MSCA (Mid-South Cartoonists Association comic "It Came From Beneath The Drawing Board", and in author Christa Michael's first book- "Ramblings With Redde: Why Does My Life Seem Like A Bad "B" Flick?".He is 1/2 of Pencil Neck Studios with partner David Beaty, and are both currently working on the comic book series "Bushi Tales". Lin was the President of the MSCA (or ElPrez) for over four years, but is feeling much better now as their VP. |
| Scott Neely | |
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Scott Neely has been a professional artist for many years now. For the last seven years, he’s been an approved "Scooby-Doo" and Cartoon Network artist (working on such licensed properties as "Dexter's Laboratory," "Cow and Chicken," "Johnny Bravo," "Courage The Cowardly Dog," "The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy," "Powerpuff Girls" and "Ed, Edd, n' Eddy"). He has also worked on "Pokemon," "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse," "Winnie the Pooh," "Strawberry Shortcake," "Bratz" and "The Li'l Learners Club." |
| Harold Jennett | |
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Harold made a big splash at CGS 300 where he drew approximately 387,000 sketches. Bring your sketch book and prepare to be wowed. |
| Angry Gnome Comics | |
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Angry Gnome Comics is the deformed child of Shawn and Stephanie Gabborin. It was started with the purpose of breathing life into the hundreds of horror stories Shawn has floating around in his twisted skull. So far it's just the two of us... but you may see more faces here soon! |
| Randy Gentile | |
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Randy Gentile is the writer and artist of the LazyComix line of comic strips. My lettering work can be seen monthly in Marvel comics like Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Wolverine, The Incredible Hulk, The Punisher, Runaways, and Black Panther. My past work includes Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Daredevil, Iron Man, and The Avengers. |
| Steve Bryant | |
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Steve Bryant is the Eisner and Manning Award-nominated writer/artist of Athena Voltaire from Ape Entertainment. As an artist, Bryant's other comic credits include 24: Cold Warriors for IDW Publishing and the forthcoming Canterville Ghost for Classical Comics. As a writer, he is readying the release of Ursula Wilde to be published by Ape Entertainment in late 2008/early 2009. |
| Brent Schoonover | |
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Brent Schoonover was born in small town called South Beloit Illinois, filling his brain with horror movies, comics, and cartoons. Choosing to draw fantastic characters as oppose to doing his homework, Brent moved to the twin cities to pursue a degree in Illustration at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Since graduating Brent has become a freelance illustrator based in St. Paul, MN by day, and comic book artist by night. His creator owned project Horrorwood was published in 2006 by Ape Entertainment. |
| Morry Hollowell | |
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The colorist is a graduate of the famed Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art and gained his first professional work at CrossGen on their Meridian series. He now resides at Marvel working on such titles as New Avengers, Civil War and Amazing Spider-man. |
| Fred Chao | |
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Most recently, Fred Chao has written and illustrated the comic book Johnny Hiro {half asian, all hero} for Adhouse Books. His illustrations have been featured in What's Up Magazine, which he also designed for some time Fred has studied writing, illustration and graphic design at Emerson College and MassArt. Currently he works as a design assistant for Box Studios. |
| Michael Finger | |
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Comic Book Writer and 3D computer modeler, Michael Finger is probably known best for his unique last name. And because he really has a PhD, he's accurately referred to as "Doctor Finger." (Just be glad he's not your proctologist.) When he's not working by day as a corporate tool, he's slaving away by night at the keyboard concocting tales about super-hero psychologists in "Super Psyche" and Amazonian woman in "The Making of an Amazon," all the while producing photo-realistic computer-generated art. Should the whole comic book thing not pan out, Doctor Finger's long term plans include capitalizing on a name tailored fit for the adult firm industry. |
| Shawn Pryor | |
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Shawn is the creator of the new webcomic/media company, PKDMedia. At the SupaShow Shawn will have issues of Mercury & The Murd (starring CGS's own Adam Murdough) and Exo-1 & The Rock Solid Steelbots, guest starring the one and only Peter Rios. |
| Jamal Igle | |
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Jamal Yaseem Igle has worked his way up the ranks from Intern at D.C. Comics to a successful penciling career. Jamal has been editor, art director, and animation storyboard artist for companies such as Sony Animation and Scholastic inc. Jamal is the co-creator of the comic book series VENTURE, along with writer Jay Faerber, published by Image Comics. Jamal's detailed pencils have graced books as varied as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Race Against Time, G.I. Joe, Green Lantern, Iron Fist / Wolverine: the Return of Kun Lun, Iron Man, Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War, Martian Manhunter, Supergirl #71, Noble Causes, and Marvel's New Warriors series. Jamal is an active volunteer with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. He teaches a class in Comics and Sequential Art at the Art Students League of New York. |
| Rich Bernatovich | |
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Rocketed from Levittown, PA to New York City, Rich dreamed of making his artistic ideas a reality. After studying at Tyler School of Art and the Actor's Studio he set out to do just that. There were many attempts at other books, films, theatre, and animation, but it wasn't until Sentinels that he finally took matters into his own hands. Deciding to self-publish Sentinels as an original graphic novel was the best/hardest thing he ever decided to do. Just ask his family and friends who think he's crazy (some of which thought this before he started Sentinels). But he wouldn't change a thing. Seeing his ideas come to life and getting feedback from readers has truly inspired him. |
| Jamie Hatton | |
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James Hatton is the creator of In His Likeness, a minimalistic webcomic about the Gods and what they think about everything on Heaven and Earth. Having taken the concept of minimalism to the point of absurdity, all of the characters within IHL are represented by dots. He has been a guest on a couple of podcasts, a couple of conventions, and a featured artist in Comics Now Magazine, and as the 'Dot Revolution (tm)' continues, there is no stopping him. As he nears his 500th strip, his next goal is to put out a few more original comics and figure out a way to make a career out of this whole comics thing. |
| Julian Lytle | |
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Julian Lytle is an aspiring illustrator from Maryland. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 2002, and has been working hard to get into the comic industry. He also likes drawing women with guns. |
| Kevin Volo | |
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Kevin Volo is the creator of Pixelstrips.com a webcomic community featuring a wide rage of webcomics from Manga to Sci-Fi to Comedy. Pixestrips.com not only has the best webcomics online, but also features comic tutorials, articles, and creator interviews. All the content on Pixelstrips.com is free, all comics, archives, turorials, everything! Kevin is also the creator of Big Iron, a western that started as a comic on Pixelstrips.com and is now being offered as a full color comic, with a forward by Jimmy Palmiotti, writer of Jonah Hex, and a cover by DC comic’s exclusive artist Mike Norton. It can be purchased at www.indyplanet.com. He has also been a colorist for Ape Entertainments Athena Voltaire, the colorist for FC9's Genie, Alias's Ted Noddleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy, and his own web comics Husk, Splash Page, and Big Iron. Some of Volo's other work includes Image Comics' Noble Causes, Round Table of America, Invincible title, and numerous editions of Angel Gate Press's Black Tide. |
| Matthew Petz | |
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With his earliest memories being of Superheroes and Giant Monsters it was inevitable that Matthew would someday work on comic books. A graduate from The Maryland Institute College Of Art in Baltimore, He's steadily been breaking his way into the seemingly impenetrable force feild that is the comics industry. Having been an illustrator and colorist on various independent comics. Most recently working on a strip for Zuda comics. He's looking forward to unleashing his first creator owned property at the CGS Super Show ! Originally from Long Island NY, He currently lives in Brooklyn. |
| Chad Cicconi | |
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Chad Cicconi is the penciller/inker for Markosia Comics' recently-announced "Baby Boomers" webcomic and upcoming trade paperback volume. He is also the penciller for issue 1 of PKD Media's "Mercury and the Murd" starring CGS' own Adam Murdough, and is a contributing artist for CGStories, and also for "Short Stack," an anthology from Angry Gnome Comics. Chad lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and is making his very first convention appearances in 2008. |
| Alexander Serra | |
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Alexander Serra is one of the rotating pencillers on Johnny DC's Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century and is also the book's regular cover artist. His other credits inlcude two issues of Teen Titans Go as well as the Eisner-nominated independent series Growing Up Enchanted with writer Jack Briglio and Slave Labor's Sleeping Dragons with writer Kevin Mason. |
| Zack Kruse | |
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Zack Kruse is a young writer who's making his first strides into the comic book industry. This year his love and enthusiasm for the medium is being brought to readers with a project that he co-created called The Contingent, issues of which will be available at the Super Show. Armed with a brain that is chock full of ideas, he has two additional projects coming up titled Two Evils and Mystery Solved!. |
| Jun Bob Kim | |
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Despite the absence of formal art education, Jun Bob Kim never lost his earliest of childhood aspiration to become an artist. At age nineteen, he served as the editorial cartoonist for the university newspaper and launched his first published sequential art, a mini series named Holy War. After an 8 year hiatus from the comics world, Jun Bob picked up the drawing tools once again in 2002 with full determination to make his mark in the world of comics. In 2008, his Nova artwork donned the cover of the premier issue of Comics NOW! magazine. In following months, Jun Bob was chosen as the penciler/inker of Ursula Wilde, working with Steve Bryant of Athena Voltaire fame. Based out of East Texas, he tries to balance his comics workload with his wife and 9 years old son, a full time job, freelance graphics and multimedia design, church and art commissions. |
| Lord Mesa | |
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Lord Mesa is a freealnce illustrator/fulltime toy designer based out of Southern California. He has contracted for various companies from EA games , toPlayboy T.V. , to Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment, to TOPPS Sketch cards. Currently he is a toy de-signer for Funrise Toys, but hislove for comics is still number one for him. |
| Pat Loika | |
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Pat Loika is an artist and writer based out of San Diego. Pat travels the country armed with his pencils, brush pen and markers, sketching at conventions and bars at whatever city he's in. He is currently working on writing his first OGN, and drawing the Blacklisted OGN. |
| Mike Imboden | |
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Mike is the co-creator and writer of Digital Webbing's "Fist of Justice" and has written stories for DW's anthology book, "Digital Webbing Presents". It was one of these stories that lead him to L. Jamal, Inc. and "Warmageddon" where he helped to create and write some of the more popular characters that grace the pages of "Warmageddon Quarterly". One character was even spun into a web-strip, "Thomas, Agent of C.H.A.O.S." that participated in Zuda Comics' monthly competition earlier this year. Next to Fist of Justice, Mike is best known for creating "Dr. Brainchild", a villain that appeared in the second issue of Zenescope's "The Living Corpse", which Mike guest-wrote for good friends, Ken Haeser and Buz Hasson. |
| Kevin Freeman | |
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Kevin is the Editor-in-Chief for Ape Entertainment, the editor for ComicsNow! Magazine, and the writer of the critically-acclaimed SubCulture, also from Ape, which continues as a twice-weekly webstrip. He's working on a short story (with Holly Mongi) for the upcoming Revenge anthology. |