Motor City Comic Con May 13-15, 2005

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Anybody going to the Motor City Comic Con this weekend? I'll be there for all 3 days of the comic show. Lots and lots of great comic guests!

 

Marshall Rogers is going to be there!

 

John

 

http://www.motorcityconventions.com/motor_city_comic_con/

 

Creators:

 

Sal Abbinanti - Creator and Artist of hot new series "ATOMIKA" from Speakeasy comics.

 

Dave Aikins - Dave is the illustrator of Twilight Creations' popular "Zombies!!!" game series. His art has also appeared in the games "When Darkness Comes", "The Haunting House", and "All Wound Up." When he's not creating horror art, Dave's art gets even scarier, illustrating books for Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer", and Mirage's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Check out Dave at www.letsdrawstudio.com

 

Jennifer Alfredson - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Shawn Amberger - Creator on Non-Redundant.com.

 

David Ano - Writer of Zwol and creator of various other projects.

 

Mark Arminski - Painter and silk screen artist.

 

Roberto Armstrong - Creator on Bushi: Warrior Caste and Uprising Magazine.

 

David Arnold - Creator and writer on Mighty 1, Pendragon, Squall, Doppleganger and American Eagle.

 

Chuck Austen - Austen's career stretches back to the 1980s, when he briefly illustrated Alan Moore's superhero series Miracleman under the name "Chuck Beckham".

 

He has created several adult oriented comics, including Strips, WorldWatch and Hardball. In the 2000s he started working regularly for Marvel Comics, writing and illustrating U.S. War Machine, illustrating Elektra, and writing a number of series, including Uncanny X-Men, Captain America and The Avengers. He has also written various Superman stories for DC Comics.

 

He went on to create the independent title WorldWatch, which he claims to be like Warren Ellis's The Authority.

 

Terry Austin - Accomplished Marvel and DC inker on such titles as Action Comics, Adventures of Captain America, Alpha Flight, Batman and Robin Adventures, Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight, Captain Atom, Green Lantern, New Mutants, Superman Adventures and X-Men just to name but a few. He is re-teaming with writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshal Rogers on their upcoming return to Batman.

 

Bill Baker - Journalist and writer.

 

Derek Baillie - Creator and writer on The Venterra Chronicles and The Disciple, writer on Dream Weaver and Editor on Angel Wing.

 

Art Baltazar - Creator on Patrick the Wolf Boy and Cray Baby Adventures.

 

Jeremy Bastian - Creator on Phantom Corp. and Ye Ol Lore of Yore.

 

Scott Beaderstadt - Creator of the Troll Lords.

 

Jerry Beck - Jerry Beck, creator of Nightmare Factory Productions. Former gravestone designer turned comic book and fantasy/horror illustrator, Jerry has worked on such titles as "Evil Ernie", "The Undertaker", his own title through Image comics..."Something Wicked", as well as "Halloween" and the "Insane Clown Posse" books. He is currently working on an adaption for "Frankenstein". Go to www.nightmare-factory.com to learn more about him.

 

B Robert Bell - Crator on Cobalt: Warrior Angel.

 

Andy Bennett - Andy is the artist for Moonstone Books' Vampire:The Masquerade - Tremere and Ventrue graphic novels. He is currently working on Moonstone's upcoming Kolchak the Night Stalker / Sherlock Holmes miniseries, as well as contributing art and design to Ferret Press' critically acclaimed PANEL anthology. For more info check www.B3NN3TT.com and www.panelcomix.com

 

Justin Bleep - Creator and penciler on Brick City Bunch.

 

Pam Bliss - Creator of Kekionga, Dog & Pony Show, B-36, Those Kids! And Sparky The Dog.

 

Mark Bloodworth - Creator of Arrow Comics Night Streets

 

Mike Bocianowski - Creator on Yets!, and Chuck The Ugly American.

 

Aaron Bordner - Creator on Alice Sinn, Kreeky Playground, Monster High School for Serious Comics. He is also an accomplished Tattoo Artist and designer.

 

Brian Bowers - Creator and writer on American Eagle, T'Kona, Doppleganger, Glimmer and Champion.

 

Jennie Breeden - Creator on Devils Panties

 

Dan Brereton - He is one of a bare handful of painters left in the industry who still do comics full time. Just barely out of art school, Dan burst onto the scene in 1989 with the award winning BLACK TERROR miniseries (Eclipse Comics) and hasn't looked back since. In the last 12 years, he's produced an amazingly prolific body of work, has been nominated many times for several different industry and fan awards.

 

A MODEST CHECK LIST OF HIS WORK: The Black Terror (3 issues, Eclipse), The Psycho (3 issues, DC Comics), Interface (#8, Epic Comics), Clive Barker's Dread (graphic novel), Legends of the World's Finest (3 issues, tpb, DC Comics), The Nocturnals: Black Planet (6 issues, Bravura/Malibu, tpb: Oni press) Thrillkiller (3 issues,tpb, DC Comics), Thrillkiller '62 (48 pgs,tpb, DC Comics), Nocturnals:Witching Hour (48pgs, Dark Horse), Superman: Silver Banshee (DC Comics), Legends of The Dark Knight: Batman #114 (DC Comics), Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz (writer, tpb, Dark Horse), Buffy The Vampire Slayer: the Origin (co-writer, tpb, Dark Horse), Giantkiller (7 issues, DC Comics), Nocturnals: Troll Bridge (writer/illustrator, various artists, oneshot, Oni Press), JLA: Seven Caskets (writer/illustrator, oneshot, DC Comics), Nocturnals: The Dark Forever, The Gunwitch: Outskirts of Doom (writer)

 

Dan's work outside the comics field includes such work as the package illo for a horrible videogame called MACHINEHEAD, an album cover for TOTO's album,TAMBU, and work appearing in horrorshow rocker, Rob Zombie's album HELLBILLY DELUXE.

 

Norm Breyfogle - One of the First Comics originators. Norms work has graced the pages or Badger, Whisper, Batman, Detective Comics, Anarky, Avengers, Prime and Metaphysique.

 

Steven Brown - Creator and painter on Cybersax and Catbike.

 

Bill Bryan - Artist on the hit series Oz, Land of Oz and Dark Oz for Caliber Comics and now Arrow Comics.

 

Richard Bugbee - Artist and co-creator on Cold Galaxy.

 

Matt Busch - Fantasy illustrator and painter on such projects as Star Wars, Coven 13, Alizarins Journal, Crisis and driving force behind Planetmatt Entertainment.

 

Buzz - Buzz's highly detailed artwork has graced many popular comic book titles such as JSA, Vampirella, Horseman,Atomika,and upcoming Cavewoman special and relaunch of Razor from Emryl Entertainment.

 

Chris Caldwell - Creator on Banana-Man.

 

Ray Callicoat - Creator on Electric Church and Midnite Crusader.

 

Gabriel Cantu - Artist on Portfolio of Digital Art.

 

Erica Carter - Writer and model.

 

Shawn Coolidge - Creator of Reflections and Toon City.

 

T.C. Cor - Creator of Crome and freelance painter.

 

Joe Corroney - Joe Corroney has been providing Lucasfilm with official Star Wars artwork for related books, games, trading cards and magazines since 1997 including penciling Star Wars: Empire for Dark Horse Comics. Other comic books he's illustrated include Crimson Dynamo for Marvel Comics, Green Lantern for DC Comics, Parts Unknown for Image, Blood and Roses for Blue Line Pro, and he's currently developing Death Avenger - his creator owned title for World Famous Comics.

 

Some of the other professional publishers and licenses he has illustrated for are Dragon Magazine, White Wolf Publishing, Microsoft's Age of Empires collectible card game, Sony Picture's Men In Black, Xena: Warrior Princess, ThunderBirds: The Movie and Star Trek for the Paramount Pictures licensee, Last Unicorn Games. He is also the instructor for the Comic Book Illustration Course at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and has taught the Ohio State University's Summer Comic Book Workshop. To learn more about Joe and his artwork for visit www.joecorroney.com.

 

Matt Cossin - Creator on Defex #5, L'Infini: La Citadelle du Vide and Warstone: Abaddon Invaders.

 

Mikey Cossin - Colorist on Warstone: Abbadon Invades, Defex #5 and Gold Digger Annual #1

 

Scott Crawford - Scott is a costume designer/producer for Alienated Productions. He is best known for his realistic interpretations of comic characters. With his band of actors, Scott has appeared at conventions all over the country. Scott's work has won numerous awards including Grand Prize in the Wizard Comic Magazine Costume Contest several times. His costume design has also been seen in such publications as Access, Vampirella and Razor. Scott's wearable art has been seen onscreen in Mark Hamill's Comic Book the Movie, as well as MTV, The Sci-Fi Channel, AMC and The Late Show with David Letterman. Scott has also designed and created costumes and mascots for many organizations including Ohio State University (Brutus Buckeye). Scott is also the judge and host of the Motor City Comic Con Costume Contest.

 

Mary Cusack - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Guy Davis - Artist and writer who began his career working with Arrow Comics on the hit series The Realm. He has since gone on to work on some of the most exciting projects and with some great creators. Some of his projects include: Sandman: Mystery Theatr, The Marquis, B.P.R.D.: The Dead, Dark Horse Book of the Dead: Kago no Tori, the second French collection of The ombies that Ate the World to name just a few. He also illustrated, with painter Vince Locke, the album cover to Blues Legend Guy Davis for his recent Guy Davis: Legacy album.

 

Kim DeMulder - Is an artist, painter, inker and all around great guy, hes also lucky enough to be married to the lovely Rowena. His past projects have included Swamp Thing, She Hulk, Nick Fury nd many othe comic projects. Plus he is also a avid RPG illustrator and fantasy artist.

 

Evan Derian - Creator on Insignificant Gods.

 

George Eberhardt - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Morrus Embry - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Steve Englehart - Steve was born in Indianapolis, and went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles.

 

He was hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).

 

After that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose, The Djinn) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern [with Joe Staton], Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.

 

And once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. He went on to add a run of mid-grade books to his bibliography, including the DNAgers adventure series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school curriculum on the invention of the airplane.

 

In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. One of his contributions, The Night Man, became not only a successful comics series, but also a television show. That led to more Hollywood work, including animated series such as Street Fighter, GI Joe, and Team Atlantis for Disney.

 

He has recently re-teamed with artist Marshal Rogers and inker Terry Austin on their upcoming return to Batman. www.steveenglehart.com

 

Justin Faber - Artist for Dark Elf Designs.

 

Rudy Farchione - Independent film maker and creator of Suburban Highlife The Series.

 

Matt Feazell - Creator of The Amazing Cynicalman and Dizzy Adventures.

 

Dan Fogle - Underground publisher of Hippy Comix, film maker and Editor of the new Underground Price Guide.

 

Gnora Ford-Lepthien - Self published artist and creator.

 

Sean Forney - Creator and artist on The Portal #1 & 2, Brody: The Real American Nightmare and covers for Snow Ninja.

 

Sean Frost - Creator on Johnny Public, Dope Fiends of The Zombie Café! And A Yearly Treat.

 

Wendi Strang-Frost - Creator on Johnny Public, Dope Fiends of The Zombie Café! And A Yearly Treat.

 

Ken Gale - Producer, co-host and interviewer for 'Nuff Said!, is also a professional comics writer and editor. His first professional sale, an interview with Jerry Robinson, was published in DC Comics' Amazing World of DC Comics #4 in late 1974. During this period he started personal relationships with many comics professionals, which has been a great asset in obtaining the quality and diversity of guests for 'Nuff Said!. His first fiction appeared in Creepy #106 and he has also written for math textbooks, numerous magazine, e-zine and newspaper articles, and a number of other comic book titles including The Good Guys #7-10 for Defiant. His first radio experience was via Ed Menje at the now-defunct WHBI-FM in NYC.

 

Leslie Gauthier - Creator on Great White North.

 

Brian Germain - Creator and artist on Moonshadow, The Shoe, The Gryphon, Divine Providence, Dream Weaver and Arrow Anthology.

 

Mike Gold - One of the First Comics originators. He was the Editor in Chief and contributed to Grimjack, Badger, Whisper, Warp and many other titles. He was also an Editor for DC Comics and contributed to many titles.

 

Raven Gregory - Writer on The Gift from Image Comics.

 

Mike Grell - One of the First Comics originators. Mike has worked on numerous projects not limited to Warp, Starslayer, Jon Sable, Iron Man, Green Arrow and Warlord.

 

Robert Grove - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Chad Halcom - Creator on The Calling.

 

Carrie Hall - Freelance Illustrator and cover artist for Avatar Press and artist on Avenglyre.

 

Evertett Hall - Creator on Pot Head

 

Scott Hall - Creator on Velkro Boy

 

Christy Hans - Fantasy illustrations for Dark Elf Designs.

 

Vance Harris II - Creator on Frog & Mouse.

 

Nik Havert - Creator on Rocket Girl, The Three Keys and Syndication.

 

Gilbert Hernandez - Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez's Love & Rockets is the alternative comics success story of the 80's and 90's. If the publication of Zap #1 in 1967 "officially" marks the beginning of underground comix, the publication of Love & Rockets #1 in 1982 could be said to "officially" mark the beginning of the '80's comics renaissance clumsily called alternative comics.

 

Although the Hernandez Brothers had never published before, it took only an issue or two for them to find their highly original and distinctive voices, and within a few short years they were amassing critical notices in the mainstream media as well as international awards. Their fiction is routinely praised for its realism, complexity, subtlety, and ethnic authenticity. They are among a small handful of cartoonists whose work is the visual equivalent of the novel.

 

Both Gilbert and Jaime credit the punk rock explosion of the late '70's with broadening their horizons and leading them to reflect their personal experience in their comics.

 

Christopher Herndon - Co-creator on Living With Zombies.

 

Marty Hirchak - Creator on Pop Art Funnies, Thwak, Jokester, Teenage Alcoholics and Ditko Mania.

 

James "Erik" Hodson - Creator on Melby Comics.

 

Jason Howard - Artist on Beta Boys and The Pact #4.

 

Sarah Hyder - Creator and photographer.

 

Mike Indovina - Creator on Satyr.

 

Kirk Jarvinen - Artist on Kolchak: Tales of the Night Stalker, Aquaman Tide & Time, Marvel Trading Cards and Marvel Golden Books.

 

Jwan Jordan - Creator on The Hero Project and Spider Head.

 

Justin of World Famous Comics - Justin is the creator of the award-winning World Famous Comics website [www.worldfamouscomics.com], one of the Web's first and most frequented destinations for comic book and entertainment fans. Online since 1995 and updated daily, World Famous Comics publishes exclusive columns, comics and contests and produces interactive resources and features.

 

Along with Writer and Film Director Kevin Smith, Justin also brings to online fans the World Famous Comics Community [www.comicscommunity.com]. Sponsored by Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions and Directed by Justin, the World Famous Comics Community hosts the Internet's largest collection of official comic creator message boards.

 

Justin's most recent illustrations can be found by lucky collectors who discover his Artist Sketch Cards randomly inserted in The Topps Company's Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith movie card boxes. Justin is one of 41 official Star Wars artists chosen to contribute hand-drawn original art for these sketch cards.

 

In addition, Justin is also the real-life model for Jedi Knight Kai Justiss, a Star Wars character created by Lucasfilm artist Joe Corroney. Named after Justin and based on his likeness, this enigmatic Jedi's appearances include Star Wars Gamer, Power of the Jedi Sourcebook, Star Wars Insider and the Dark Horse comic book Star Wars: Jedi -- Count Dooku.

 

Tom Kephart - Editor on Tales of the Urban Mystics.

 

Roi Klark - Creator of Ava: Age of Aquarius and Dogstar.

 

Alan Klem - Professional Photographer.

 

K.J. Kolka - Creator on The Cardinal and a contributor to Hero TV and A Christmas Treasury.

 

Robert Kraus - Artist and game designer for Sega and Hasbro and RAK productions.

 

Chris Lane - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Kevin Leen - Fantasy artist and painter.

 

Vince Locke - Artist and inker on such hit titles as Web-Spinners #3, Deadworld, Legends of The DC Universe and The Corpse to name just a few. He also recently collaborated with artist Guy Davis on the new Legacy album cover with Blues legend Guy Davis.

 

Javier Loebe - Writer on Divine Providence.

 

Comfort Love - Creator on The League of Sequential Storytellers

 

Carl Lundgren - Is a self taught Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Rock Album cover illustrator who began his career right here in Michigan as a native Detroiter. His work can be found on more than 300 book covers and numerous album covers like Jefferson Airplane, The Who and Pink Floyd. Carl was also a co-chair for The Detroit Triple Fan Fair, the very first Comic Book convention.

 

William Messner Loebs - Is known as the creator of Journey and Bliss Alley, and as a scenarist of Flash, Wonder Woman and Dr Fate. He began his career as an artist in the underground scene, with a short story for Bizzarre Sex Comics at Kitchen Sink, as well as a back-up story for Cerebus at Aardvark. He then began working on Johnny Quest, Wasteland, Grendel Saga, War Drums, 'Tall Tales' and many other titles.

 

Marcus Margerum - Writer and artist on Genocide and Sweet Marlene.

 

Mick McArt - Independent film maker and creator of the series Captain Jolt.

 

Angela Melzak - Manga artist.

 

Jason Moser - Creator on Ellium: Hybrid, Ellium: Sword of The Dragon and Point Pleasant.

 

Dave Nestler - Painter for SQP, Chaos, Top Cow and Playboy.

 

Eddy Newell - Comicbook illustrator, Eddy Newell graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. His first published work appeared in Twilight Zone #1 published by Now Comics, but he is best known as the series artist of Black Lightning. Eddy has also worked on Werewolf the Apocalypse: GLASS WALKERS from Moonstone as well as painted covers for Moonstone's Vampire The Masquerade. He is currently working on the SHERLOCK HOLMES / KOLCHAK three-issue miniseries for Moonstone Books.

 

Nutopia - Born in Hong Kong, the lovely Nutopia fell into modeling in late 2000 when a friend invited her to a convention. She'd never been to a con before and was befriended by an actress who suggested she try modeling for fantasy art. About a month later, she was working with fantasy artist, Dorian Cleavenger. She soon found herself posing for the likes of Julie Bell, David Mack, Larry Elmorel, Andy Lee, and countless others. Since beginning my modeling career she have been featured in two books published by Art Fantastix, two trading cards, and several magazines including Star Wars Insider, Heavy Metal Magazine, and Femme Fatale. She is currently have developing and creating a comic book. See more of Nutopia at www.nutopiaproductions.com

 

James O'Barr - Creator of the hit Comic series, Movie and TV show The Crow.

 

Diana Okamoto - Editor and Publisher. Her work has been seen in Dark Horse Comics: On A Pale Horse and the upcoming 3-D Animated series; JoHammy The Female among many other published works.

 

Mike Okamoto - Mike Okamoto has been illustrating for 27 years. He was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, then attended the Parsons School of Design , in New York City, on a full scholarship, from 1971-75. He lived and freelance illustrated in NYC from then until 1991, when he moved to West Virginia at the start of his comic book career. In 1990, he met the love of his life, Diana Light. They wed in 1991. His influences range from Frank Frazetta, N. C. Wyeth and Al Williamson to Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, Mort Drucker and Carl Barks. Also in 1990 he realized another dream when he had the honor of working with Al Williamson on the graphic novel series Atomic Age for the Marvel Epic line of comics. The four issue series was created and written by good buddy, Frank Lovece, pencilled by Mike, and inked by Mr. Williamson.. In 1992, he won the prestigious Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for his painted work and storytelling skills on the Innovation Comics adaptation of Piers Anthony's classic Science Fiction novel On a Pale Horse at that year's San Diego Comic Con. In 1999-2001, he won the International Network of Golf Illustrator of the Year Award for his work in Golf Illustrated, three years running! JO HAMMY was originally conceived as a b&w pen and ink graphic novel project. But currently in production is an all singing and dancing 3D animated version, just for fun. He is also working on Zone 21 with his with Diana.

 

John E Olson - Creaor on Vendetta - The High Road To vengeance and Killkrazy.

 

Darrell O'Riley - Creator on Hotinks.com

 

John Ostrander - One of First Comics originators. John has written so many books they cant all be listed here. Some of them have included Grimjack, Suicide Squad, Manhunter, The Kents, Star Wars: Clone Wars as well as the movie adaptation of Star Wars Episode II.

 

Frank Parr - Artist and comic creator. Full bio to follow.

 

Erin Parsons - Creator and artist on The Friendliest Stars.

 

Mike Pascale - A great story teller, and once you've seen his renderings of Bru-Hed, the amply cranial protagonist of many a Schism title, you'll agree that he can do similar magic with his pencil. Mike has also been a featured artist on the Nasti: Monster Hunter series.

 

Mark A Payne - Creator on Black Vampira.

 

Connie Persampieri - Painter and illustrator.

 

Michael Peters - Artist and writer for mlpeters.com, Unbound, Legends of Camelot and various stories in Heavy Metal; Winter, LeMort, and In The Garden of The Hesperides.

 

David Petersen - Creator on Mouse Guard and Ye Old Lore of Yore.

 

Jimmy Proctor - Bio to follow.

 

Brandon Ramsey - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Rodney Rodis - Artist and creator. Full bio to follow.

 

Brent Clark Rogers - Writer on Brent Clark Rogers Guide to the DC Universe.

 

Marshall Rogers - One of the legends of the 80's. He is best known for his amazing run on Detective Comics. He has also worked on Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Wolverine, Miracle Man and other titles. His most recent comics project is Dark Detective, a new Batman mini-series he is doing with his long time friends writer Steve Englehart and inker Terry Austin.

 

Chris Ringler - Writer on Back From Nothing, Ghoulash and Bare Bones 6 & 7.

 

Scott Rosema - A professional comic book artist since 1987, a partial list of companies Scott has worked for include Marvel, DC, Valiant, Disney, Archie, Cartoon Network, TSR, West End Games and FASA. Just some of the characters and/or books he's illustrated include Batman Animated, X-Men Adventures, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Prince Of Egypt, Solar, Dextor's Laboratory, Scooby-Doo, Alladin, Spider-Man trading cards and Xena, Warrior Princess sketch-a-graph cards. His current, ongoing endeavors are fine art prints and his sketchbook collections, which include his newest "Scott Rosema-Book Of Drawings, Vol. 2"!

 

Suzanne Hiza-Rosema - A professional stained glass artist for over 21 years, Suzy is fast making her mark in th comic industry. Her renditions in stained glass of famous comic and cartoon characters, (Bugs Bunny, Space Ghost, Dr. Doom, Witchblade, etc.) are favorites at conventions with fans and professials alike. Her latest projects include some exquisite boxes as well as free-hanging medallions prtraying Joseph Michael Linsner's famous Cry For Dawn logo that Hoe is currently ofering for sale on his website. Also, she has produced stunning glass plaques and boxes depicting Billy Tucci's iconic character, Shi.

 

Rowena - Is one of the best known names in the world of science-fictionand fantasy illustration. During a career that has spanned over two decades,her paintings have appeared on hundreds of book covers, on calendars,portfolios, trading cards and in magazines such as Playboy and Omni. Books of her own work have included The Fanastic Art of Rowena,Imagine (in France), Imagination (in Germany), and The Art of Rowena.She has also been included in many anthologies, such as, Tomorrow and Beyond and Infinite Worlds. Rowena began her career in New York Citywhere she lived for sixteen years. She presently lives in upsate New Yorkgaining creative inspiration from the beautiful countryside.

 

Jesse Rubenfeld - Creator on Cross Street Blues.

 

Christopher Sanchez - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Ryan Sandy - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Stuart Sayger - Creator on Shizer In The Dark and "VS" Card Game.

 

Jerry Seward - Creator and writer on Darkeye.

 

Jeff Sinning - Creator on The Case Files of Detective Matt McIntire.

 

Paul Sizer - Creator and artist on Little White Mouse and a contributing creator to Sketch Magazine.

 

Uko Smith - Artist on DC Direct, Marvel Sketchagraph Series, Prodigy and Julie Strain: Nightmare on Pin Up Street.

 

Spain - Underground Comics illustrator on such titles as All Stars #2, Anarchy Comics, Apex Treasury of Underground Comics, Best Of Rip Off Press, Bogeyman, Cascade Comix Monthly, Tales Of Sex And Death, Zap Comics and a number of other underground comics.

 

Mark Sparacio - Cover painter on Shi, Comic Buyers Guide and Green Lantern.

 

Kelli Stakenas - Artist on The Street

 

Tony Steele - Creator on Sooper Spandex Team in Space and Rouge Herring.

 

Diana Harlan Stein - Creator on Radio Comics,Anubis Dark Desires 3 and Art!

 

William Stolpin - Fantasy Illustrator.

 

Tracy Stoops - Artist on Dark Fury and Soul Vamp.

 

John Styrk Jr - Creator on Boomtown Scabs.

 

Adam Talley - Creator on Placasant Hymns, Spasm Comics and Adventures of Graphics Man!.

 

Mark Texeira - Mark is a fan favorite artist and painter. His past work includes the Sabertooth miniseries, Avengers, X-Men, Ghost Rider, Black Panther, the X-Men Movie Magneto Comic and The Cyclops miniseries, all from Marvel Comics. Besides his work from Marvel, Mark has also done artwork for such varied companies as New York Magazine, Scholastic Books, MCI Records, Def Jam Records, DC Comics, Harris Publications, Wizards Of The Coast, Wizard Magazine, Image Publications, Black Bull Entertainment, Fleer/Skybox and Penthouse Comix. He is probably best known for his work from Harris comics, including his work on Vampirella and especially Pantha, a character which will always be linked to Mark's artwork. Mark recently did several covers for DC's Birds of Prey series.

 

Layne Toth - Layne Toth won her first art award at age 3. Now 8-years-old, she is known by others as the "hardest workin' kid in comics" and is the youngest professional artist to appear at comic book conventions throughout the USA. Named "one of the best artists at Mid-Ohio-Con 2003 and also the youngest" by the official website of "Soup Nazi" Larry Thomas of Seinfeld, she has quickly made many friends in the biz. Along with pop art & independent press guru Chris Yambar (Bart Simpson Comics / Mr. Beat) and Sergio Aragones heir Levi Krause (Spells / Levi's World), Layne collaborated on Meow-Wow! #1 and now they are working on Faith Warrior Princess #1 published by Airwave Comics. She drew 16 pages, assisted on the cover and got to help write the origin story of Itsi Kitsi -- Happy Adventure Cat for Meow-Wow! #1 and she will contribute 7 pages for Faith Warrior Princess #1. And two of her Simpsons drawings were recently published in Simpsons Comics #103. In November 2004, her art was featured on the sleeve of the Mid-Ohio-Con 25th anniversary T-shirt which doubled as the send-off design for her inaugural pro comic book release. Layne's art will also appear in Archie Comics, Yets! and Patrick The Wolf Boy in 2005. At age 7, she was by far the youngest person to ever be enrolled at Lansing Community College and began advanced sequential art classes there in fall 2004. She was mentioned with her color pictures as a "Pint-Size Picasso" in the November 8, 2004 issue of Time magazine and the January 24, 2005 issue of Sun tabloid. And Layne is continuously contacted by many big name television shows as well. On November 19, 2004, she was featured on the National Public Radio affiliate show Stateside. Her interview with Jennifer Contino appeared on www.comicon.com/pulse on St. Patrick's Day 2005. And her short documentary by John Russo (Night of the Living Dead) & John Russo's Movie Academy titled, Layne Toth: The Hardest Workin' Kid In Comics, which chronicles her first year in comics has just been released. Please visit her website at: www.sisterscomics.com

 

Dan Trudeau - Writer on Tales of the Urban Mystics and Boyman.

 

Billy Tucci - Working from a one-bedroom apartment in 1994, Billy Tucci self-published the phenomenally successful comic property Shi. And almost ten year's later Shi is still one of the industry's most popular comics. Both in her own book and with various blockbuster cross-over projects with some of the most well know Marvel and independent characters including Daredevil, Witchblade, and Wolverine. Shi's success inspired Tucci to create and publish numerous Shi offshoots and properties such as Victoria Cross, Angle Fire, Undaunted, Battlebooks and Atomik ANGELS. In 2001 Tucci, made the leap to motion pictures with Some Trouble of a SeRRious Nature, his filmmaking debut as writer, director and producer. The short comedy based on a now-famous 1947 hoax letter anonymously written by Navy Cross recipient Richard W. DeMott details the disposition of one unfortunate Vought F4U Corsair fighter plane and the Arkansas hillbillies who were determined to fly it. Some Trouble premiered at the 2002 Long Island International Film Expo where it was honored with the Best Short Film, (Video) award. The film was also selected as the winner of the prestigious Long Island Film/TV Foundation Finishing Fund Grant. Billy's next short film, Turn, as well as his first feature legth vehicle, Burning Blue, are both currently in various stages of production. Billy continues to publish Shi and has plenty of plans for his popular character.

 

Susan Van Camp - An Artist, Game Designer, Comic Creator, Writer, Daughter, Wife and anything else she can fit into her schedule. Her work has been seen in games such as Magic, Jyhad, Cuthulu, Middle Earth and a dozen more games. After this "era" she began doing art for her own game, Dragon Storm. Her comic career includes Varcel's Vixens for Arrow Comics and Caliber Press.

 

Mercy Van Vlack - Joined 'Nuff Said! as co-host when Ed took an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons. She has also been a professional comics writer, artist and creative director. Her first professional sales were writing and laying out stories for Richie Rich in 1980. Her inking has appeared in books from Malibu, Techno and DC. She also did cartoons for two anthology-style newspaper strips, Wit of the World and Wit of Women. And she has quite a few mini-comics out, mostly either x-rated, anthropomorphic or Legion of Super-Heroes satire or some combination of those three. The Celtic League American Branch has published her art in their Celtic Calendar for six different years. She is currently working on the 2004 calendar.

 

In the late '80s Ken Gale and Mercy started the independent comics company, Evolution Comics, where Ken was editor and Mercy was creative director. Mercy also pencilled, lettered and inked Green Ghost and Lotus. Evolution Comics produced two titles, Dangerous Times and New Frontiers, adding those titles to the never-long-enough list of comics made for intelligent fans, a critical though not financial success. The team continued working together with Ken writing and Mercy drawing the xxx-rated Miranda strip for Puritan Magazine from 1997 to 2000.

 

Erika Wagner - Fine art illustrator.

 

Joshua Warner - Creator on Moos Miht and Midnight Ink.

 

Meghan Warner - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Rei Wagner - Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

Paris "Parisel" Watkins - Creator on Midnite Crusader.

 

Ken Wheaton - Artist Bart Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Radioactive Man, The Phantom, Kolchak: the Night Stalker.

 

Ryan White - Creator on Rhunocerite.

 

Sarah Wilkinson - Contributing creator for Planetmatt Entertainment.

 

Bill Wilkison - Creator on Wha? Featuring The Amazing Walter and Lucious S.O.S.

 

Norm Williams Jr. - Creator and writer on Venterra Chronicles and Dream Weaver and writer on Angel Wing.

 

Eric Wilmoth - Creator on Archtypal Images, Whisper Whisper, Origin of Sparky and Sanders. Member of the Lansing Community College Comics Coalition.

 

S. Clay Wilson - Underground Comics creator whose work has been seen on: All Stars #2, Amaboli Insania, Arcade The Comics Revue, Barbarian Women, Bent, Bogeyman, Cascade Comix Monthly, Cocaine Comix, Comix Book, Snatch Comics, Yellow Dog, Zap Comics and many other Underground Comics.

 

Adam Withers - Creator on The League of Sequential Storytellers

 

Marc Wolfe - Artist and creator. Full bio to follow.

 

Chris Yambar - Chris Yambar is pop art and indepentent press guru. He is the creator and artist of everyone's favorite beatnik character, MR. BEAT. Beyond MR. BEAT, Chris's other projects are also garnering alot of attention. His characters El Mucho Grande (co-created with George Broderick) and Spells (co-created with Levi Krause) are being shopped for animation deals via a CGI animation studio in New York and 'Suicide Blonde'(also co-created with George) is being shopped even now in California for a possible movie option. Chris's 'Suicide Blonde' also won an award for the Best New Sci-Fi Comic written in 2003 by Cinescape Magazine. Chris's wide-ranging credits also include: BART SIMPSON COMICS, RADIOACTIVE MAN, I DREAM OF JEANNIE, and MR.MAGOO as well as creating paintings for 20th CENTURY FOX and DISNEY! Make sure you visit his site at: www.yambar.com

 

Justin Zeglevski - Creator on The Knifey Moloko and creates custom space helmets.

 

Randy Zimmerman - Creator on War of The Worlds and Spank The Monkey for Caliber and Arrow Comics. Randy is also Editor In Chief of Arrow Comics and is the T-Shirt God as the man who gets our convention T-Shirts printed so well and fast.

 

Tim Zulewski - Fantasy and childrens book artist.

[iron maniac]

I will be at the Convention for sure on Saturday but possibly Sunday as well.

Does anyone know if there will be wireless internet at Motor City??

I have emailed them several times but their server must be down??

[pjthib]

I'm going on Saturday. As usual, I'm geeked.

 

Pete