Pittsburgh Comicon Special Guests!

A host of great comic creators are making their way to the Pittsburgh Comicon in 2009. Each year the Pittsburgh Comicon pulls in some of the biggest, best, fan favorite celebrities from the worlds of Comics, TV and Film! From the Small Press exhibitors, and our infamous Artist Alley artists, to the big time Hollywood Stars. It's a FanBoy (or Girl) Heaven! Here is a look at who is coming to our next big show. This page is a complete list of all of our guests.

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GUEST OF HONOR

STAN LEE

Stan Lee, the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, is known to millions as the man whose Super Heroes propelled Marvel to its preeminent position in the comic book industry. Hundreds of legendary characters, including Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Avengers, Thor and Dr. Strange, all grew out of his fertile imagination. It was in the early 1960s that Lee ushered in what has come to be known as The Marvel Age of Comics, creating major new Super Heroes while breathing life and style into such old favorites as Captain America, The Human Torch and The Sub Mariner. During his first 25 years at Marvel, as editor, art director and head writer, Lee scripted no fewer than two and as many as five complete comic books per week. His prodigious output may comprise the largest body of published work by any single writer. Additionally, he wrote newspaper features, radio and television scripts and screenplays. By the time he was named publisher of Marvel Comics in 1972, Lee's comics were the nation's biggest sellers. In 1977, he brought the Spider-Man character to newspapers in the form of a syndicated strip. This seven-days-a-week feature, which he has written and edited since its inception, is the most successful of all syndicated adventure strips, appearing in more than 500 newspapers worldwide. In 1981, Marvel launched an animation studio on the West Coast and Lee moved to Los Angeles to become creative head of Marvel's cinematic adventures. He began to transform his Spider-Man and Hulk creations into Saturday morning television and paved the way for Marvel's entry into live-action feature films. Lee served as Executive Producer for the worldwide blockbusters Spider-Man I, II & III, The X-Men I, II, III, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four I & II, Daredevil, X-Men Origins:Wolverine, The Incredible Hulk and others. His television credits include serving as Co-Producer and Creator of Stripperella on the Spike Cable Channel and as Executive Producer on Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Incredible Hulk, Generation X, Spider-Man and X-Men. He is also the developer of the sci-fi reality hit, Who Wants to Be a Superhero. Lee has written more than a dozen best-selling books, including The Origins of Marvel Comics, The Best of the Worst, The Silver Surfer, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, The Alien Factor, Bring on the Bad Guys, Riftworld, The Superhero Women and his recent biography Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. Stan currently serves as the Founder, Chairman and CCO of POW Entertainment an advanced media and entertainment company. The company is behind projects for Animated and Live Action Feature Films; Live Action, Reality and Animation for TV as well as publishing, multi-media, stage and internet projects. You can visit the POW website at: www.powentertainment.com

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ERIC ADAMS

Eric is best known as the creator and self-publisher of Lackluster World, a satire about a man with albinism fending off his fanatically religious siblings while using vandalism and his journalistic career to change the world before it changes him. It was nominated for the 2004 Howard E. Day Prize. He is also the artist of the Chris Arrant penned short story STUART, which ran in the FOUR STORIES anthology and NEGATIVE BURN; the writer of REFLECTION, a one-shot illustrated by Joanna Estep; and a contributor to Newsarama.com, writing SEQUENTIAL SMARTS, a thorough series of articles about the business and marketing comics from the self-publisher perspective. Check out Eric and his work at www.ericadams.net and www.lacklusterworld.com

DAVE AIKINS

Dave Aikins is a Nickelodeon publishing artist for books and DVD covers featuring Dora the Explorer, Diego, The Backyardigans, SpongeBob Squarepants and Ni Hao Kai-Lan. He is also the illustrator of Twilight Creations' popular Zombies!!! game series, as well as this years new Martians!!! game. In the world of comics, Dave is cover artist for Moonstone's Kolchak-Night Stalker of the Living Dead mini-series and he did interior art in Moonstone's The Avenger Chronicles. For more info on the web visit: www.letsdrawstudio.com

SHAWN ALLEYNE

Shawn was born and raised on the island of Barbados but later moved and set up in Philadelphia. From an early age he knew he wanted to be involved with art in some capacity and is currently working as a freelance artist, with many clients ranging from the field of comics, to music and film. Shawn is setting up a studio by the name of PYROGLYPHICS, a stylistic name that translates to “Hot Images”, to reflect his self-taught style. And more art can be seen here:
www.myspace.com/pyroglyphics1 and www.pyroglyphics1.deviantart.com

BOB ALMOND

Bob started his professional career inking Warlock and the Infinity Watch for Marvel in '92 and since then he has worked for various publishers over time such as DC, Acclaim, Malibu, Harris, Wildstorm, and Penny-Farthing Press but the majority of his assignments over the years have been from Marvel Comics. Some of his projects have included Bloodshot, Star Trek: DS9, Marvel's 9/11 tribute book HEROES, Aquaman, JSA, JSA All Stars and he is probably most recognized for his 3 year run with his regular art partner Sal Velluto on the critically-acclaimed Black Panther series. His recent projects have been inking Penny-Farthing Press' second Captain Gravity 6-issue retro series along with Sal called "Captain Gravity & the Power of the Vril", the "Vampirella: Revelations" series for Harris, the "Nightmare on Elm Street" title for Wildstorm; and Marvel’s Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar. miniseries. He also writes a regular inking column called 'Inkblots' for "Sketch" magazine. Bob’s most recent work has been on the Star Trek:The Last Generation from IDW. You can visit Bob's web-site The Bob Almond Inkwell at www.almondink.com>.Bob is the founder & director of The Inkwell Awards ( www.inkwellawards.com )

REY ARZENO

Rey is an artist and colorist from NYC who will be making his first appearance at the Pittsburgh Comic Con. Rey is currently drawing Andrea Grant's Minx and is the colorist on Drumfish Productions series, Neverminds. You can see samples of Rey's work at www.arzeno.deviantart.com

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THE GREAT BALDINI

Move over Weird Al!!! Here comes The Great Baldini!!! A one man parody machine!! As heard on The Dirt Pit Radio Show!! Forget all you thought you knew about humor and music!! The torch has been passed!!!! The Great Baldini's debut CD "Now That's What I Call Parody Vol. 13" has sold beyond expectations!!!! Even your Grandma has a copy!!! The next release from The Great Baldini “Gettin’ Crunk And Makin’ Babies” will debut at the Pittsburgh Comicon on 09-11-09, including parodies of hit songs by Rihanna, Fergie, Chris Brown, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Kanye West, and many others!!!!! Go out and get it!! Catch an exclusive live performance at the show as well!!!!! Don't be "laughed" behind!!!

ERIC “EBAS” BASALDUA

Eric is a mainstay of the Top Cow Universe. He started working at Top Cow in 2000 under the direct tutelage of Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri. He has since become one of the Top Guns and Top Cow. A self-professed thong lover, Eric is known for his depictions of beautiful women and sexy artwork. Eric's has worked on many fan favorite comic series including Hunter-Killer, Witchblade, Tomb Raider, Freshman, The Magdalena, Blood Legacy:The Young Ones, The Darkness, Battle of the Planets, the Darkness/Vampirella crossover and the Witchblade/Wolverine crossover. In 2006, Top Cow published a Sketchbook of Eric’s fabulous artwork. In 2008, Eric did the artwork for the first ever Virgin Comics/Top Cow crossover, Devi/Witchblade #1. Recently he has provided various covers for Top Cow and Zenescope as well as contributing to the recently released Witchblade Annual #1.

ED BEARD JR.

Fantasy Artist Ed Beard Jr. has created thousands of published works ranging from a painting for the Vatican as a youth to Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering Card games, book covers and fantasy titles of all kinds over his 25 year career. Ed has done the 1997 and 2000 Pittsburgh comicon covers. Ed is best known for his unique vision of Dragons and the fact that he is one of the few traditionalist painters who use the "Hand Painted" techniques without any form of computer or digital shortcuts. Ed is the founder of "Hand Painted Masters.org" This organization celebrates what Ed holds true to, in maintaining the tradition craft skill set and critical thought process and dexterity that goes into each brush stroke to create a one of a kind art work. With over 1000 published cards and hundreds of other interior and cover works Ed's art can be found just about anywhere. Ed has released his own full color Art book called "The Enchanted Realm" available at the show direct from Ed. Also, Ed has illustrated the 2009 "Dragon" calendar internationally distributed by Tide-Mark the world leader in calendars. To view Ed's art go www.edbeardjr.com. Ed has a brand new 2010"Dragon" calendar from Tidemark ( available each year at Borders and Barnes etc.) Advanced copies signed of course, will be available for the Pittsburgh attendees. This is cool offering to the con goers and a useful Christmas gift as well. Ed will also be offering prints of his piece, Unbound Dragon for $10 a piece will 100% of the profits going to The Make-A-Wish Foundation. Click here for more details.

CAROLYN BELEFSKI

Carolyn Belefski is the creator and artist of the comic strip Curls. She is also the co-creator/artist of the comic books Kid Roxy, Black Magic Tales, and The Legettes along with frequent creative partner Joe Carabeo. She earned her BFA in Communication Arts & Design from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004. At Pittsburgh Comicon 2009, Carolyn will premiere an omnibus of all Curls strips from 2002 to present. More of her work can be seen at: http://curls-studio.blogspot.com

ANDY BENNETT

Andy Bennett is the artist for Moonstone Books Vampire: The Masquerade-Tremere and Venture graphic novels. His newest releases include Moonstone's upcoming Kolchak the Night Stalker / Sherlock Holmes mini-series, Moonstone's The Avenger Chronicles, IDW's Lifelike graphic novel and Ferret Press' critically-acclaimed PANEL anthology. More info can be found on the web at www.B3NN3TT.com

RICH BERNATOVECH

Rich entered the comic industry by creating Drumfish Productions in 2003. Through Drumfish, he created and wrote the acclaimed Indie series, Sentinels, along with Luciano Vecchio. Since then he has published five original graphic novels and in 2010, Drumfish Productions will release three new books including the long awaited Neverminds with artist Jamie Fay. In addition to writing, Rich has also penciled and inked different projects and will begin his own webcomic early next year. You can learn more about Sentinels at
www.sentinelsonline.com and more about Drumfish Productions at www.drumfishproductions.blogspot.com

DONOVAN BICKER

Donovan is a bondage, fetish and horror pin-up artist. He also designs tattoo flash, as well as full custom designs. He is best know for his tribal girl designs. He is apprenticing to be a certified tattoo artist. He is also the creator, writer, and artist of the Sisters series.

NELSON BLAKE II

The New York City native, Nelson Blake II is a fresh new talent being developed by Top Cow Productions. He got his start at Devil’s Due Publishing, penciling G.I. Joe Reloaded before signing a three year contract with Top Cow. Last year he illustrated the Broken Trinity: Witchblade and he is currently working on The Darkness #79. Top Cow is looking to have an exclusive issue of Nelson’s Darkness issue available for the show in September.

PATRICK & SHELLY BLOCK

Patrick and Shelly are fan favorite Duck creators. Patrick is best known as an artist of Donald Duck. He has illustrated stories for Donald Duck, The Junior Woodchucks and Uncle Scrooge for Walt Disney/Gemstone that have been translated in over 36 languages around the world. Shelly has teamed with her husband to write over 90 scripts for Donald Duck Adventures and others. She and Patrick teach classes in Comic Creation, Figure Drawing, Watercoloring and various other creative endeavors at their art school, Art Quest near Washington, Pa.

JEFF BOARTS

Aspiring comic artist Jeff Boarts is the creator and illustrator of his self-published title Action Spectacular. Check out his website at www.JeffBoarts.com to see more of his exciting artwork.

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TALENT CALDWELL

Talent Caldwell first began his career in comics as an art assistant to fan favorite artist Michael Turner on the Top Cow series FATHOM. He then graduated to full pencil and co-plotting duties on the FATHOM mini-series KILLIAN'S TIDE, before moving onto the breakout smash ASPEN/DC COMICS collaboration, SUPERMAN: GODFALL. He has since touched down on various projects from SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN and the AGE OF APOCALYPSE ONE-SHOT from Marvel and WILDCATS NEMESIS miniseries from Wildstorm and Wildstorm’s GEN-13 series. He did extensive work on DC’s Countdown series and has recently penciled issues of DC’s Supergirl as well as providing various covers throughout the comics industry. He also continues to do various projects for Aspen Entertainment.

TOMMY CASTILLO

Tommy Castillo is a master artist of the twisted and the macabre. Whether creating a slimy corpse reaching for you or the gentle glance of a mighty dragon, Tommy will capture you with the dynamics of his penciling and the intensity of his palette. With a career spanning eighteen years, Tommy is famed and sought after for his dark humor, brilliant attention to detail, and his love of the darker side of art. Tommy has put paint and pencil to such titles as Batman Detective; Legends of the Dark Knight; Toetags, with Horror legend George Romero; Evil Ernie; Tales From the Crypt; Alice in Wonderland; King Kong; Dragons, Myths, and Mayhem; various storyboards and designs for films; and many more of the macabre based literature. Tommy has been sought out by the fields largest companies: DC comics, Paramount Pictures, Warhammer, Wizards of the Coast, and Image and as offbeat as Rolling Stone magazine. His diverse styling and insane line work have defined him as one of today's greatest in the field of comics and fine art...and y'know, he renders some of the scariest books of today.

CHAD CICCONI

Chad is a comic artist whose debut was in 2007, and who has been working steadily on numerous projects since that time. Chad is the artist and co-creator of Baby Boomers, a webcomic published by AAM Markosia, which is also soon to become a graphic novel compilation from Markosia Comics. He is also the primary artist for Mercury and the Murd published by PKD Media. Chad's work has also appeared in "Short Stack" (volumes 1 and 3) from Angry Gnome Comics, "CG Stories" and "U is for United" (Comic Geek Speak listener anthologies). Chad's first convention appearance was at the Pittsburgh Comicon in 2008. Samples of his work and more information can be found at www.chadcicconi.com and www.ccicconiart.blogspot.com

RICHARD CLARAVAL

Richard's drawing, paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the Pittsburgh area, including two sites in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference in 2000. He has had two solo installations at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. His Tokien inspired etchings and drawings can be seen on his web-site, www.richardclaravalart.com, (formerly Tolkien Etchings). Mr. Claraval has a sculpture in the collection of the Westinghouse Corporations and won the Juror's Award for a drawing in a group exhibit at Studio Z Gallery in 1997. He received a bachelors degree in Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in 1977.

D.J. COFFMAN

D.J. Coffman, The creator of the critically acclaimed Hero By Night series soon to be a live action TV show from IMGlobal, D.J.'s roots are in the independent press. At Pittsburgh Comicon in 1998 he debuted his "Efh-U Comics" mini-comic label featuring YIRMUMAH. Over the years his work has been seen at Dark Horse, Image, Marvel and more, and he's currently working on comics for the band FLOBOTS (Universal Republic Records). This year Coffman proudly celebrates 10 years of YIRMUMAH comics and is bringing his Efh-U label back to the con.

ERIC COOPER

Eric Cooper was born and raised in the city of Trenton, NJ. He is the author of several Superhero/Science Fiction novels. Currently, he is writing on a series of Caption Novels called Knight Seeker. Eric Cooper’s writing is filled with emotions. His writing causes a person to reflect on their lives and their own actions in this world. The series puts the reader in the character’s perspective as the character faces challenges. In 2009 Eric Cooper plans to be at a number of Conventions and book stores to sell novels and to also network with other people, and of course he likes wearing the costumes of his characters. He also wants to inform the world about Caption Novels.

DANIELLE CORSETTO

Danielle is the artist and creator of the hit webcomic, Girls with Slingshots, an ongoing dramedy strip that updates five times a week and features two girls, a bar, and a talking cactus. She's also the artist/writer on The New Adventures of Bat Boy, which was featured in the Weekly World News before the print publication ended. Danielle hails from West Virginia and may be heard singing Country Roads loudly at the pub after the show.

ASHLEY CURRAN

The details of her life are shrouded in mystery but one thing is known and that’s she’s currently working on the debut title from Battery Comics, Action Spectacular.

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JEREMY DALE

Jeremy is best-known for his run on G.I. Joe comics with writer/creator Larry Hama. He has also worked on the 2008 Harvey Award-winning Popgun v. 1 and Wildguard from Image. He is currently working on Carter Kain:Rocket Ranger and the upcoming Miserable Dastards from Dial C. www.jeremy-dale.com

ROBIN DALE

Robin is a comic book documentarian, creating The Creator Chronicles line of comic documentaries, featuring such comic luminaries as George Perez, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Bill Sienkiewicz and others. The Creator Chronicles are available through Woodcrest Productions www.woodcrestproductions.com. He is also the creator of the Dale’s Price Guide to Comic Fanzines and Comic Related Publications.

SCOTT DERBY

Scott Derby, a Philadelphia based illustrator, is a member of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, The Autumn Society of Philadelphia & Los Chicos de Menudo Fan Club. His credits include the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society's anthology books 1 & 2, Mauled Comics #4, You, Me & Zombie #0, Li'l Scamp Comics and Fun for the Feeble Minded. To see more of his work go to http://scottderby.blogspot.com

DORIAN

This multi-faceted and talented artist has garnered international fame and acclamation for his novel approach to art…a distinct style he terms "Pseudo- Realism" which is characterized not only by his intriguing subject matter but also his mastery of acrylic paints. This technique has been successful to such a degree that many professional artists have confused his work as having been done in oils or airbrush. Although a graduate of an art school in Pittsburgh, Dorian is largely self-taught. He devoted his talents to conquering the imposing and difficult medium of acrylics because, unlike oils, they have a fast drying time which suited him with his need to finish a painting in two or three days without being burdened by the delay of waiting for oil paints to dry. This characteristic of acrylics has been an important element in allowing Dorian to create a large volume of paintings in a relatively short time. Initially, after completing school, Dorian did artwork as a freelancer for corporations such as Disney, U.S. Steel, Carnegie Science Center and many others. Though earning a good living, he felt inhibited by the requirements of commercial art through the concepts and dictates of the business world, and having a desire to do his own interpretive work, struck out on his own. Soon he was doing covers for magazines, illustrations for various publications and having exhibitions of his original work in Europe and the United States. Several art books exclusively dedicated to his works soon followed. Numerous illustrated articles and interviews on his art and techniques were published in this country as well as throughout Europe and Asia while sales of his original work and reproductions in the form of high quality giclees and other prints have been well received internationally by fans and collectors of his art. Recently Yamato Toys USA based in Japan released a highly successful figure based on one of Dorian's paintings, "Akira" and following the success of this unique venture, Yamato is due to release a second figure in the summer of 2009, based on Dorian's painting "The Sacrifice". Having become highly successful as a freelance artist, Dorian has a desire to impart and share the knowledge he acquired through his acute analysis of the materials and techniques he employs to professionals and those with little or no experience who are desirous of becoming proficient in this medium . Currently teaching his own course titled "Dorian Cleavenger's Fantasy Art Program" with personally taught classes in airbrush, acrylics and conceptual art and design at the prestigious Douglas Education Center near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, it has given him an outlet and the satisfaction of seeing his students accomplish their artistic desires under his personal and involved tutorage. Also Dorian has recently completed work on a personal tutorial DVD which is available for purchase over his website as well as through other retailers. The purpose of this DVD is to help the viewer, whether he is an accomplished artist or a beginner. As well as displaying a gallery of this prolific artist's paintings, there is a featured segment on Dorian's thoughts concerning the long historic struggle against imposed censorship and restrictions of self-expression of the world's artists by various authorities. To view more of Dorian's images visit his website: www.dorianart.com. For more on Dorian's classes visit the Douglas Education Center's website: www.dec.edu

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JIM 8BALL

The enigma known as Jim8ball was born far to early in his life and sold at the tender age of 1 month and 28 days to a traveling Russian Circus where he was made to water the elephants and perform all manner of waxing and hair trimming for the famed Venus Kosnack, the Russian Bearded Lady. Miss Kosnack took a liking to the young lad raising him as her own. However, because of her beard, young 8ball was never sure if he should call her Pappa or him Mamma. This lead to many lengthy therapy sessions later on im Jim's life. He discovered comics when he was 4 and at 42 as now the writer, artist, publisher, folder and stapler for the indy mini comic line, Last Dollar Comics with books that include Zombie Preschool and Tail of the Samuria Cat. Find out more at www.lastdollarcomics.blogspot.com and www.Jim8ball.etsy.com

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WAYNE FAUCHER

Wayne earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Graphic Design. He spent 10 years working in that field in such markets as Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh. In 1992 he decided to concentrate his efforts on cartooning, newspaper illustration and comic books. His first inking job was for Parody Press on a book called Sewage Dragoon. By late 1993 he was working for DC Comics as a regular fill-in inker. In 1994 he teamed with Humberto Ramos on Impulse where he remained for 26 issues (he continued to ink the monthly covers until the end of it's run, #89). Wayne then moved on to the Batman/Mr. Freeze Prestige Format book with Mark Buckingham, followed by “Birds of Prey:Wolves” over Dick Giordano. From there, he took over for a year as regular inker on Batman: Shadow of the Bat teaming with Buckingham on issues #69-80. Wayne continued his association with Batman, inking Alex Maleev for the first four-issue story arc of the ground breaking No Man’s Land project, No Law and a New Order. His NML work continued over artists Mike Deodato and Staz Johnson until that saga concluded. Wayne then did his part to rebuild Gotham, post No Man’s Land, in the pages of Catwoman ( #78-93) over Johnson. Teaming again with Mark Buckingham he next began his first regular inking assignment for Marvel, Peter Parker: Spider-Man (beginning with issue #30). He stayed on that title until issue #55. During that run, Wayne had a chance to ink his old pal Humberto Ramos on a four-issue story arc for Peter Parker, entitled Return of the Goblin (issues # 42-45). It was published concurrent with the feature film release “Spider-Man”. He continued with Spider-Man in an ongoing monthly entitled Spectacular Spider-Man with Humberto Ramos. This marked the first time the two worked together on a monthly series since Impulse. After eighteen issues of Spectacular, Wayne embarked on a 6 issue run on Nightcrawler. In between his stint at Marvel and his return to DC, Wayne explored the long format graphic novel with Beckett’s eastern flavored swashbuckler, Roninhood of the 47 Samurai followed up by The Cobbler’s Monster (published through Image), a reinterpretation of the Frankenstein and Pinnochio stories. Wayne is excited to be back at DC, applying his skills to the Dark Knight once again. His current regular monthly assignments are Detective Comics (over Don Kramer) and Shadowpact (over Tom Derenick). Wayne is now back at DC, having completed regular assignments on both DETECTIVE COMICS, SHADOWPACT and COUNTDOWN. He has recently concentrated his efforts on TRINITY with his SHADOWPACT partner Tom Derenick as well as inking various other titles including, TITANS.

JAMIE FAY

Jamie is making his fourth appearance at the Pittsburgh Comicon this year. He is the co-creator, artist and inker for NeverMinds, a graphic novel coming from Drumfish Productions. You can also see his work in the Sentinels Anthology, also from Drumfish Productions. Jamie will be taking sketch commissions, selling art prints and showing previews of his future projects. www.jamiefay.net and www.windriderx23.deviantart.com

JAMIE FICKES

Jamie is the creator of Mumblepuss is a webcomic that pokes fun at pop culture through the eyes of a stuffed bear. From movies to comics, gaming to television; Mumblepuss has a unique (and often surly) perspective on the world. Mumblepuss is updated at www.mumblepuss.com

JAY FIFE

Jay returns this year to the Pittsburgh Comicon. A Portrait and Pin-Up Artist from the Upper Ohio Valley he produces a variety of comic and fantasy/horror style illustrations. Known for realistic, portrait style renderings of popular comics characters, Jay has produced work for Zonetrooper Magazine and Bad Place Productions. Inspired by the styles of Alex Ross and Mike Mayhew Jay brings a realistic angle to the classic comics style. Commissions and original art are available through Diego Garcia Comic Art, ComicArtFans or his own website: www.jayfife.com

TIM FISCHER

Tim is a graduate of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and has been working as an artist and writer in the small-press and independent comics scene since the mid-90s. He's well-known for his stylish and cartoony renderings of sexy, curvaceous ladies -- like the title character of his self-published comic book series, Space Pilot Girl -- injecting a sense of fun and adventure into every drawing. Tim's sequential art has been published by NBM, Radio Comix, and several other small press imprints. You can find a few of his pin-up illustrations in the pages of Antarctic Press' long-running series Gold Digger, and Image Comics' Invincible. He's also one of the hosts of the interactive, comics-related podcast "Breaking the Panel," Tuesday nights on www.talkshoe.com. You can find Tim's work, and the adventures of Space Pilot Girl, online at www.comix-mill.com.

TOM FLEMING

Since he was a child, Tom Fleming always knew wanted to be an artist. After graduating high school in Putnam Valley, New York, he went on to receive his BFA from the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, graduating at the top of his class in 1988. In 1990, he landed his first full time position as an artist/designer for the World Wrestling Federation by answering an ad in the New York Times. After three and a half years of a corporate environment, he decided to return to freelance. He immediately accomplished his childhood dream of painting comic book heroes by being commissioned by DC and Marvel Comics to illustrate characters such as Superman, Batman, Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, The X-men, and all his favorites. Then in 1995, Tom decided not to limit himself to the comic industry alone and moved to Wilmington, NC, where he now resides and works out of his home studio illustrating such diverse subjects as Science Fiction/Fantasy, Sports, Wildlife, Landscapes and advertising products, along with his Super-heroes. Tom's artwork has graced the covers to Elektra and Captain Marvel and various card sets, including DC and Marvel’s VS. line and the World of Warcraft. You can check out his art at www.flemart.com

CHRIS FLICK

Chris is a Northern Virginia native and graduate of Radford University. He spent two years of his college life being the Radford University's mascot, "Rowdy Red". Chris earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (with an emphasis on graphic design) in 1991 and has worked as a professional designer and illustrator ever since. In 1999, he started teaching himself html and made the transition from print designer to web designer. Chris has two book credits under his name: Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX (2002) and Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (2003). Both books were published by New Riders. Chris is also a partner at Community MX where he created a promotional web comic strip called "CMX Suite". That strip has been running every Tuesday since May 25, 2004. The archives can be found at www.communitymx.com/flicks/index.cfm. Every Tuesday, a new "CMX Suite" appears on the home page of www.communitymx.com. You can also find Chris' work at www.capesnbabes.com. Capes & Babes is a comic strip about a strip mall, a comic book shop and one crazy werewolf. It made its online debut November 12, 2007 and has steadily increased its readership ever since. The 2009 Pittsburgh Comicon marks the first time Chris has ever attended the con as an artist.

SEAN FORNEY

Sean is a professional illustrator and comic book artist with seven years experience in the industry. Some of his early work was for Twisted Gate Entertainment and included two short stories for the anthology books, The Portal #1 and #2 featuring Scarlet Huntress and penciling three covers for various titles. In 2006, Sean illustrated Camp Dangerous Curves and Scarlet Huntress #1. 2007 brought several projects outside of comics including t-shirt illustrations and advertisements. Sean has also done album cover work on Kiss My Axe for guitarist Devin Theme and a promotional poster for the band, Hot For Teacher. Sean completed the colors for the covers of Arrow Comics' Wild Planet Preview and Wild Planet #1 and #2. This year he finished work on When the Cops Come Knockin':An Illustrated Guide to the Law from Torrinity Publishing and he just started work on En Garde!, a graphic novel due out in 2009. Recently he has also worked with Fun Publications illustrating character dossiers for the upcoming G.I. Joe versus Cobra Fall Special:Rise of the Headhunters. Sean is also working on a series of t-shirt illustrations for Blue Planet Gear which will include shirts for the University of Memphis and Star Wars shirts in conjunction with Lucas Ltd. See more of Sean's work on the web at www.smcomics.com

RAMONA FRADON

Ramona Fradon was one of a very few female artists of the Silver Age of comics and she made an indelible mark on the industry. Fradon began her long career in 1950. She had just graduated from art school, landing job at DC Comics. She landed her first assignment was on the DC Comics feature Shining Knight. Her first full assignment was on the back up feature from Adventure Comics, Aquaman, for whom she co-created the sidekick, Aqualad. Following her long run Aquaman, she co-created Metamorpho. From 1965 to 1972, she took a break to raise her daughter. Then in 1972, Fradon returned to DC Comics. She worked on such titles as Superman, Batman, Plastic Man, The Freedom Fighters and the Superfriends from DC. She also worked on such Marvel titles as The Cat and The Fantastic Four. In 1980, Fradon took on the art chores for the Brenda Starr comic strip. She penciled the strip for over 15 years before retiring from the popular strip in 1995. In recent years, Fradon has penciled various project throughout the comics industry including a “Metamorpho-esque” story for Bongo Comic’s Simpsons Super-Spectacular. Fradon was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

BRENDON AND BRIAN FRAIM

This identical twin artistic duo is best known for their prolific work on Kenzer and Company’s popular role-playing game HACKMASTER and for drawing issue 4 through 41 of K&C’s KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE: ILLUSTRATED comic book. The brothers continue to illustrate various sections in the monthly KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE: THE MAGAZINE as well as covers for various editions of KODT: Bundles of Trouble and KoDT: Tales from the Vault. Their work has also appeared in Goodman Games’ Scavenger Hunt, Wingnut Games' Tom Jolly’s Cargo and Tom Jolly’s Camelot, and are currently working with Hero Games on their Champions role-playing game books among others. The Fraims also illustrated the mastheads for the popular “Obligatory Fight Scene” review columns in The Comics Buyer’s Guide. In 2006, their artwork appeared in the critically acclaimed new novel, WOLF BOY, by Evan Kuhlman and published by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. The novel’s central character is Stephen who copes with the grief of losing his older brother by creating his own comic book universe. These fictional adventures are featured throughout the book, which were illustrated by the Fraim Brothers, introducing a graphic novel subplot that adds both humor and visual interest to this moving tale. WOLF BOY has also been recently optioned to be a movie by the Weinstein Co. with Irwin Winkler and Jill Cutler producing through Winkler Films. The Fraims also illustrated Antiques: The Comic Strip, a weekly “Sunday style” comic strip featured in ANTIQUE TRADER, the 50-year-old cornerstone of the antiques and collectibles trade. Antiques: The Comic Strip, written by J.C. Vaughn, is a romantic comedy about two cousins, and the woman that comes between them, set during the world’s greatest auction. A:TCS was also been nominated for a 2007 Harvey Award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip and the entire story has been collected into one hardcover volume published by Gemstone Publishing which also was nominated for a 2008 Harvey Award for Best Reprint Collection. The brothers also illustrated the award winning web comic AMERICA JR. that is about a small town in middle America that discovers in their town charter that they only joined the USA on a temporary basis, and it just expired. So now, they have to become their own country. Think of it as the same America, but at a new convenient size! The strip is created and written by Nick Capetanakis and Todd Livingston, so click on www.americajr.net for the latest strip and be on the lookout at your local comic book store for the trade paperback of the first 150 strips from Image Comics. America Jr. won the 2007 Best Comic Strip award on DrunkDuck.com. The Fraims have also had short stories printed in Negative Burn, THE WICKED WEST 2, ACTOR Comics Presents, and POSTCARDS: True Stories That Never Happened. Most recently, they drew the three issue series from Devil's Due Publishing called THE ODD SQUAD about a group of paranormal investigators who aren't very good at their job. The series was produced in conjunction with Vin Di Bona Productions with plans for the series becoming a movie or TV show. Currently, they are working with their Antiques cohort, J.C. Vaughn, on a new horror series Vampire Hunter Dean and drawing many, many fan commissions. For more information on Brendon and Brian Fraim, visit their website at www.brosfraim.com and their online commissions gallery at http://comicartcommissions.com/Fraim.html as well as http://comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=31754

RON FRENZ

Ron is the regular penciler and co-creator of Marvel's Amazing Spider-Girl series. Mr. Frenz is an artist well known for his stints on such titles as Marvel’s Spider-man line, Thor, Thunderstrike, Superman and other such titles as Ka-Zar, The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Marvel Saga to name a few. Ron seems to always be on hand when comics history is made. He was the designer of Superman’s controversial electric blue outfit, he co-created the New Warriors with Tom Defalco, and he was the penciler of What If? #105 the first appearance of the popular Spider-Girl. This issue sparked Marvel's M2 line of titles. Ron went on to co-plot and pencil several M2 titles and he worked on Image's Mr. Right with Tom Defalco. Ron and Tom relaunched Spider-girl in a new series The Amazing Spider-Girl which will be ending in March, but with both Ron and Tom’s passion for May Parker and a rabid fan base for the alluring arachnid, you can be sure to look forward to more Spider-Girl from the pair in the future.

GARY FRIEDRICH

Gary is best known in the comics industry as the writer of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandoes and Co-Creator of Marvel’s Ghost Rider. Gary first comic work came as a writer for Charlton Comics. At Charlton Gary wrote lots of romance scripts as well as a couple of superhero stories, including a few Blue Beetle stories with Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. In 1966, long-time friend Roy Thomas approached Gary about an editorial job at Marvel Comics. Gary joined the Marvel Bullpen and soon became the writer for Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos. Although many writers saw the war comic as a stepping stone to Super-Hero comics, Gary relished his role as Sgt. Fury writer, penning over 50 poignant issues during the Vietnam anti-war era. Gary also wrote for such titles as Captain America, X-Men, Captain Marvel, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Black Widow from Amazing Adventures and various non-superhero features, including Westerns such as The Gunhawks. In 1973, Gary’s most famous work came as the co-creator and initial writer of Marvel's motorcycle-demon Ghost Rider. Gary also later teamed with Ghost Rider’s first artist, Mike Ploog, on Marvel's Monster of Frankenstein — the first five issues of which contained a relatively faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel.

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SHAWN GABBORIN

Shawn is the writer and creator of Angry Gnome Comics. From Dark Comedy to flat out Gore, they've got you covered! Celebrating their 5th year at the show, Angry Gnome Comics will have their full 4 part series "Palm Reader", new issues of "Victor Season" and "Short Stack", plus the debut of "Greenbrook: Our House, His Home"! www.angrygnomecomics.com

STEPHANIE GABBORIN

Don't let that blonde haired baby face fool you. Behind that little 85 lb. exterior is a huge, beefy, drooling, spiky, pencil wielding monster! Check out her pencil work in the Angry Gnome comics "Victor Season" and "Palm Reader" to see for yourself! www.angrygnomecomics.com

MALCOLM GITTINS

A Pittsburgh native and self taught artist, Malcolm has been creating art for over 40 years. An 8 year veteran of the comicon, he has had several solo shows and was a guest at the 2008 Zombiefest. His work includes, classic monsters, superheroes, 1960's cartoons, and debuting this year, Dark Art. He also has begun publishing his own zines and collections of his work. Check out his work online at www.myspace.com/monstershoppe

BRYAN J.L. GLASS

Bryan is the oft-times writing partner with Michael Avon Oeming. From their very early years collaborating on books like Lycra Woman and Spandex Girl from Comics Zone, the writing team has grown to work on such titles as Ship of Fools, Quixote, 86 Volts-The Dead Girl, and the upcoming Mice Templar. Bryan also wrote for Caliber Comics’ Negative Burn. Bryan recently wrote the adaptation of Raymond Fiest’s Rift War Saga from Marvel. The latest volume Rift War is due out in May and he is currently working on Mice Templar with Mike Oeming, the newest Mice Templar arc is due out in August.

IAN GLAUBINGER

Ian is an independent comic artist and cartoonist. He has put out 2 books with Cave Drawing Ink, Cycle's End & Rise of the Outlanders. He has also done work for Li'l Scamp Comics, The Philadelphia Society of Cartoonists, The Autumn Society, Gravy Boy and Some Big Lumberjack. Currently, he is developing a follow up story to his Pieces of Eight pirate adventure comic which was featured in the Cycle's End Anthology. He lives in New Jersey and has a fat cat.

MICHAEL GOLDEN

Artist/writer/creator Michael Golden, co-creator of the X-men’s Rogue character, has a legion of devotees that number not only in aficionados of his work, but other artists as well. The "artist’s artist" as it were--namely because of his signature story construction, and an art style uniquely his own. Known for his detailed pencil work on "The 'Nam," "Micronauts," "G.I. Joe Yearbook," and "Dr. Strange, " among much more, Golden, modestly never says which is his own personal favorite project. However, according to one art dealer, "Everybody in the business has been influenced by Golden’s "Dr. Strange." Michael himself admits that most artists that say he has an influence on their illustration career, do single out that project. Milestones in Golden's career include the co-creation of "Bucky O'Hare," which led to an animated series and toy line designed by Michael, as well as “Spartan X” with Jackie Chan, “Inside Kung Fu” columnist Ric Meyers and editor Renee Witterstaetter. In addition, Vanguard Productions recently released a Manga version of the “Bucky” series now in its second printing, as well as the definitive art book “Excess: The Art of Michael Golden." In addition, Modern Masters just released the comprehensive trade, “Modern Masters in the Studio with Michael Golden, ” as well as the companion DVD. And, Creator Chronicles released a candid DVD on Michael and his career as well. As a conceptual cover artist, Golden has penciled everything from Batman and Captain America to Vampirella-- and "Virtually every character in the industry at some point or another. I'm the one they come to when they want one of those covers with a thousand characters on them," he laughs. A member of the august Society of Illustrators in Manhattan, Michael has served as an Editor at DC Comics as well as Senior Art Director at Marvel Comics, and has worked on scores of movie production projects, including some currently in development.Michael Golden is considered a true visionary among comic artists. His recent work includes covers for such titles as Nightwing, Heroes for Hire, The Exiles, Marvel Adventures:Iron Man, The Uncanny X-Men and others. For more information on Michael Golden and his work, contact: www.evaink.com

GENE GONZALES

Entering the comic industry in 1993,Gene has managed to work on a variety of projects for a variety of publishers including DC Comics, Image Comics, Caliber Comics, Realm Press and others, on such projects as The Maze Agency, Mr. X and Battlestar Galactica. In 2001, Gene established himself as the writer, illustrator and publisher of TALES OF THE CHEROKEE, published by his own Mandalay Books. Visit Gene's website at: www.genegonzales.com

DAN GREENWALD

Dan is a local comic artist and is part of the comic book collective, Strumhaus (www.strumhaus.com). Currently Dan publishes a weekly super hero webcomic, The Blue Wraith (www.drunkduck.com/blue_wraith). His other work includes his slice of life webcomic, Evergreen (www.drunkduck.com/Evergreen_Comics/), the horror-romance mini-comic Dead Love, and various Strumhaus projects such as Fairhaven, Reverie, and a writing stint on the webcomic Weirdlings (www.weirdlings.com). Dan also co-hosts Comic Book Pitt, a weekly comic book podcast (comicbookpitt.podbean.com).

MIKE GRELL

Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin and the Art Institute of Chicago. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip. In 1973 he moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. He worked on such titles as Aquaman, Batman, the Phantom Stranger, and, most notably, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. He also worked with writer Denny O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976. He cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s. Through the 1980s Grell developed grittier, down-to-earth titles such as Green Arrow at DC Comics and his creator-owned Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer at First Comics. Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and was later novelized by Grell. Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005. Among other comic projects, Grell wrote and illustrated a three-part James Bond mini-series, Permission to Die, and authored the graphic novel adaptation of the Timothy Dalton Bond film License to Kill . Grell has also written Iron Man for Marvel Comics. Mike Grell's artwork is distinctive and highly detailed, with a scratchboard-like feel. Conversely, his writing is tight and minimalist, often letting his art speak for itself during action sequences. His early artwork in particular shows a strong Neal Adams influence. He is an avid big-game hunter, which serves as an influence on his artwork and story lines, particularly in the Jon Sable Freelance series. Mike recently released a new John Sable miniseries online at Comicmix.com and he is currently illustrating a project entitled The Pilgrim written by actor/writer/director Mark Ryan also from Comicmix.com. In 2009, Mr. Grell returns to his most famous creation, Warlord with a new ongoing series from DC Comics. Mike will be writing and providing covers for the series.

BRAD GUIGAR

Brad Guigar has been producing a daily comic strip for the Web since February 2000. His comic strip, "Evil Inc" (www.evil-comic.com), is about a corporation run for super-villains by super-villains. Along with its Web readership, it appears in front of 1.5 million newspaper readers per week. He also creates a weekly single-panel comic about sex and relationships called "Courting Disaster." And his recently ended series, "Phables," was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2007 for Best Digital Comic. He is the author of "The Everything Cartooning Book" and the co-author of "How To Make Webcomics." He and the "HTMW" co-authors also record a weekly podcast, "Webcomics Weekly" (www.libsyn.com), and host the tips-and-advice Web site Webcomics.com. Guigar lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two boys.

GWENDOLYN

Gwendolyn is the founder of both Deadly Underground Studios, a horror film production company, as well as Zombie Apparel, an eclectic clothing company. Over the past five years, she has coordinated and promoted well over two dozen fashion shows, including a recent comic book-themed event, and also has produced, directed, and written two feature length films (2004's "Outside of Nowhere" and 2007's "Edge of Midnight") and two short films (the vampire noir "The Vamp Wore White" and the Kurosawa-inspired horror-comedy "In a Zombie's House"). She will be starting on her latest production this winter as well as working on her upcoming fashion line to be debuted in the fall.

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JOHN HAUN

John Graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He is currently the art director of the New Castle News a 20/m circulation morning newspaper. In 2008 he started a relationship with Rittenhouse Archives LTD as a sketch card artist and is currently working on 2 sketch card projects for both Marvel & DC Comics. enterthedragon@comcast.net

SCOTT HEDLUND

Scott is a talented local graphic designer who escapes his 9 to 5 by drawing comics. Currently, Scott is the artist for web comic Chaos Punks. With fellow creators in Strumhaus (www.strumhaus.com) he has also added his talent to World of Orenda, Fairhaven, Dark Times and Reverie. Scott will be appearing at the Strumhaus booth in the Small Press area. Stop by and say hi. Scott will have full 4 brand new comics for you to read and enjoy!

DAVE HOOVER

Dave Hoover is a comic book artist who has worked on such titles as Amazing Spider-Man, Starman, Captain America, Punisher, Tarzan, Invaders, and his creator-owned adult series, Wilde Knight with co-creator/writer Gary Petras. Dave got his start in animation working on such productions as: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archie Show, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, The Super Friends, The Smurfs, Men in Black: The Series, Godzilla and others. Dave is well known for his stunning pin-up art. Hoover has been on the Digital Media faculty at the Art Institute of Philadelphia since 1999.

GREG HORN

Greg is comic cover artist supreme. He is best known for his artwork on MARVEL COMIC’s titles ELEKTRA, EMMA FROST, SHE-HULK, MS. MARVEL and various SKRULL related art from the Secret Invasion Event. He is currently the regular cover artist on the acclaimed series MS. MARVEL by Brian Reed. On the licensing front, Greg’s art has been used on just about any piece of merchandise you can think of! With WARNER BROS’ licensing division, Greg has provided spot illustrations based on the SUPERMAN RETURNS movie, and also an original painting for MATTEL’s board game Kryptonite Crisis. Other recent WB projects have included a Superman poster for CLAMPETT STUDIOS, and several illustrations of NBA star Lebron James for POWERADE and ESPN. Greg’s acclaimed work in comic books has opened up hundreds of fantastic opportunities in many different industries outside of comics. In the past five years he has lived an artist’s dream, working on high profile projects in advertising, video games, magazine covers, editorial, boardgames, and novels. You can check out all of Greg's art at greghornjudge.com

ADAM HUGHES

Adam Hughes is most commonly known for his stylized renderings of women; super heroines, damsels in distress, figures in fantasy. About the time Adam began making waves in art circles and his artwork really began to be noticed, the term "Good Girl Art" had been coined, and it best describes exactly what Adam does. He is considered by many to be one of a new generation of Good Girl artists inspired by Petty, Vargas and Elvgren. When describing his own work, Adam has used the term "naturalistic" as opposed to the term "realistic" ; which describes what he does perfectly. Adam began working in comics at the age of 19, in 1985. In 1988 Adam lent his talents to a comic book called MAZE AGENCY; a book which many consider to be his first real artistic "run" on a title. He did over a year on the book; of both interior and cover artwork. In 1989 Adam began working on his first "mainstream" comic book title: DC Comic's JUSTICE LEAGUE. He worked on the book for almost 2 years, doing covers and interiors until 1990, then switching to supplying artwork for just the covers. Eight years later, Adam began what many see as his most acclaimed cover work. Adam's recognizably strong and elegantly drawn women have graced the covers of four years worth of DC Comics WONDER WOMAN title. Prior to Wonder Woman, Adam had a short run on the Dark Horse series GHOST, which many feel a noteworthy point in his career. It was here that we see Adam relying heavily on art nouveau influences in his attempt to create a "Film Noir" genre in comics. This was also about the time that Adam first worked on GEN-13: Ordinary Heroes for Wildstorm; which gave him an opportunity to write and draw his own run on a book. Adam has since worked on a variety of projects, for major publishers and in dependants, including Top Cow's TOMB RAIDER, Mike Oeming's HAMMER OF THE GODS, Black Bull Entertainment's GATECRASHER, Mark Wheatley's FRANKENSTEIN MOBSTER, to name but a few. Today Adam is best known as a cover artist. He pencils, inks and colors his own covers, using both traditional and digital mediums. His artwork can be seen on an amazing assortment of comic book covers. His stunning covers have included Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Red Sonja, Star Wars and many others. Adam also worked as a conceptual artist on the recent WATCHMEN MOVIE. He is currently working on the much anticipated ALL STAR WONDER WOMEN as well as various cover work including covers to the new POWERGIRL Series.

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JAMAL IGLE

Igle attained his first job in comics at 17, as an intern at DC Comics, while still attending the High School of Art and Design. After college, he worked as a junior art director at an advertisement agency and in a marketing company. Igle's first break as an artist was with a now-defunct publisher called Majestic Entertainment in 1993. He built his resume working for a number of small publishers for years until about 1999, when he left comics for a while to work at Sony Animation. Igle spent several months as a storyboard artist for several CGI animated series such as Max Steel and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. It was during his time at Sony that he received a call from editor Bobbie Chase at Marvel Comics to work on New Warriors with Jay Faerber. He has been working in comics ever since. Igle has worked in books ranging from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the all-ages action miniseries Race Against Time as well as fill-in issues in mainstream titles such as Green Lantern, G.I.Joe, Martian Manhunter and Supergirl. With writer Jay Faerber has done several works: a four issue run on New Warriors and a Iron Fist/ Wolverine miniseries for Marvel Comics, and Venture, a short-lived creator-owned series for Image Comics. Since signing an exclusive contract with DC in December of 2005, Jamal has become the work horse of DC Comics serving as regular penciler of such series as: Firestorm and Nightwing; and contributing to such series as Countdown, Green Lantern Corps, Teen Titans, Countdown:The Search for Ray Palmer and Crime Society. With issue #34 Jamal became the regular penciler of everyone's favorite female Kryptonian, Supergirl. He is currently embroiled in the “Who is Superwoman” story in the Supergirl comic.

SCOTT JAMES

Scott has worked for the past 12 years as a freelance illustrator for many gaming companies. Working on such RPG’s ,CCG’s as well as D&D, Shadowrun, Battle Tech., Mutants & Masterminds, L5R, 7th Sea, and Spy Craft in which he has over 200 publications to date! Scott has also worked for Hasbro doing conceptual design on the movie Small Soldiers as well as designing the look for the Action-man cartoon and toy line! Recently Scott has completed a 2 issue stint on the Starship Troopers comic from Markosia and a 6 page backup story for Eric Larsen’s Savage Dragon #143.

ROB JONES

Pittsburgh native, Rob Jones returns for the 2009 Pittsburgh Comicon. Rob is best known for his work on his own strip, Perfect Storm and more importantly as Dick Giordano's assistant for the last 6 years. Earlier this year, Rob re-launched Perfect Storm as a monthly web strip at www.perfectstormpublishing.com

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KYLE J. KACZMARCZYK

Artist/Writer, Kyle Kaczmarczyk founded Zombie Ink Comics in 2006. Zombie Ink Comics has since released three different series: The Misadventures of Silent Boy, The Red Eye, and Pulp. Zombie Ink Comics combines original writing and unique art with a deep love of pulp stories to create some of the coolest underground comics period.

KELLI STEVENS KANE

Kelli Stevens Kane is married to a cartoon character, gave birth to a cartoon character, and is occasionally a cartoon character herself. She's the editor of Planet Saturday® Comics, a humorous fantasy semi-autobiographical comic about childhood and parenthood, written and illustrated by her husband, animator Monty S. Kane. She's the President of Planet Saturday, LLC, an art and animation studio she co-founded with her husband. She's also a founding board member of The ToonSeum, Pittsburgh's museum of cartoon art. See the adventures of her cartoon family and visit Planet Saturday® Comics online at www.planetsaturday.com

GLENN KLIMECK

Glenn is a local penciler and member of the Pittsburgh Comicon Staff. He is the artist behind this years Batman, Robin and the Joker convention mailer cover and also the convention's Lanterns of Blackest Night T-Shirt. He is currently working for Christian Hall's 2nd Coming Comix, producing pin-ups for his Vasion title. Glenn will be taking over the penciling of the Vasion title after the completion of the first story arc. He is also working on some side projects with writer, Justin Eager. One is a classic 1950's Noir Crime story called Kill It Dead Good Baby and a Frankenstein-esque Vampire Hunter of the Vatican called, The Shepard. Glenn also keeps busy taking on commission work.

HEATHER KREITER

Heather Kreiter is a professional illustrator working on trading cards and book interiors in the Sci-Fi/ Fantasy / Gaming Industry. She's had over 215 pieces of artwork published in the past 8 years with companies such as AEG ( Warlord, Doomtown, Legend of the Five Rings), White Wolf (Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, World of Darkness), and Hidden City Games(Bella Sara). She is also well known for her taxidermy Gryphons and her humorous take on My Little Ponies ~ My Little Demons! More of her work can be seen at her website: www.shamansoulstudios.com

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KEVIN LEEN

Kevin began freelance illustrations several years ago. His work has appeared in independent comics, fantasy game publications and collectable card games. He regularly attends comic book conventions across the Midwest. His upcoming projects include cover work for Fantastic Fources publsihed by New Baby Productions; Issue 4 of Boomtown Scabs and Fantastic Storytime, in collaboration with Brett Pinson; and a new episode in Chakan:The Hundred Candles series in collaboration with Robert A. Kraus. Chakan: The Hundred Candles-Day of the Dragon is currently available through RAKGraphics.com

COMFORT LOVE

Comfort with her husband Adam Withers are the creative team who both write, draw and color the new bi-monthly series, The Uniques. They have worked for several comic and gaming studios such as Green Ronin, Palladium Books and Atlantis Studios. The Uniques is their first creator-owned project and a labor of love that is a culmination of years of work. Check out their series at www.uniquescomic.com

NATE LOVETT

Nate is making waves as one of a new breed of cartoonists taking the industry by storm with his vibrant, expressive lines on such books as Xombie: Reanimated and Carter Kain: Rocket Ranger, which he is currently illustrating with Jeremy Dale. www.natelovett.com

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MARK MARIANO

Mark Mariano is an All Ages Cartoon Novelist and a real swell guy. He has always loved comics, cartoons, and drawing. Mark's first full length All Ages Cartoon Novel is entitled "Happyloo: Friends, Foes, and Fun." It is a visual vacation to a colorful land filled with adventures in friendship and discovery! Each story is followed by Happyloo@Home, a section that helps you learn fun facts and create cool crafts. Mark is currently working on his next Cartoon Novel about a team of Kung-Fu Science Adventurists called "Flabbergast." You can enjoy Happyloo, Flabbergast, and all of Mark's family friendly work on his weekly updated website: www.mypalmark.com

SCOTT McDANIEL

Scott's first work as a penciler was a Prowler back-up story in Spectacular Spider-man. He has since worked on Daredevil, Elektra: Root of All Evil, Hourman, Green Goblin, Amalgam's Assassins as well as the Daredevil/Batman crossover. He received the most notoriety working on the Gotham's avengers, Nightwing, Batman and Robin in their respective titles. He then went of to work on another DC icon, Superman as the regular penciller of the Superman series. Since then he has worked on a wide array of DC Comics, including Richard Dragon, Green Arrow, Countdown:Arena and others. His recent work includes the maxiseries, Trinity and a recent run of issues on Batman Confidential.

JOSH MEDORS

Josh Medors- first published works in comics were various pin-ups for different publishers. After meeting Writer Steve Niles via www.steveniles.com. He has since been involved in various projects with the writer, Including Fused "Think Like a Machine", 30 Days of Night Annual, Dial M For Monster a Cal Macdonald mystery, and Horrorcide, and In The Blood. Medors has also worked with such companies as Image Comics, where he penciled the series "Runes of Ragnan", and "The Gift". Josh also worked on projects from Devil’s Due including G.I. Joe:America’s Elite and penciling their Chucky comic as well as working on other projects from the publisher. Recently Medors has been working on the creator owned series "Willow Creek" and Image comics "Frank Frazetta's Swamp Demon". While working on both of these titles Medors was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors discovery of a tumor growing in Josh's spinal cord slowed the artist down, but did not stop him. Since the start of treatment Medors has already begun to finish up the "Willow Creek" Series and has started on his next Image Comics Frazetta title.

KEVIN E. MEINERT

Kevin is a freelance artist and graphic designer. He is the creator of "Seeing is Believing" and the co-creator of "Thatchet"

TONY MIELLO

Tony got his start in comics as the inker for the Fate's Five mini series from Innervision Comics. Since then he has mostly worked on small press and indie books such as Sporkman To The Rescue and was one of the writers and artist for the Fat Momma comic books from season one of "Who Wants to Be A Superhero" TV show which aired on the SciFi Channel. Tony is the creator of the web comic strip GAPO the Clown, which has been running since 2004 and has been collected in several comic books. It will be reaching 500th strip milestone in 2009. Tony has contributed sketch cards for Upper Deck's Marvel Masterpiece Series 2 and 3 sets. He currently draws and cowrites the "Wolfman Mac's Nightmare Sinema" comic which is based on a local Detroit television show and he will also be debuting a new web comic in the coming months that will be featured on ComicRelated.com

TERRY MOORE

Terry is the writer and artist of the award winning series, Strangers in Paradise, the sci-fi series, Echo and the writer of the recent Marvel series, Runaways and Spider-man Loves Mary Jane. Terry’s initial foray into comics, Strangers in Paradise (SIP) is the story of three friends, Francine, Katchoo and David and the people with whom they fall in and out of love. It's the story of real life, cranked up a notch. The first issue of SIP was published by Antarctic Press in 1993. It was the first comic book ever drawn by Terry. He had conceived of the idea for SIP while trying to develop a comic strip for newspaper syndication. After repeated failures, Terry was introduced to the new wave of small press comic book publishing. Terry submitted copies of his comic to a number of publishers before agreeing to a miniseries from Antarctic Press. After the miniseries, he launched his own imprint, Abstract Studio and began self-publishing. Since then, SIP has garnered Terry an Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series and the GLAAD Award for Best Comic Book. Today, SIP is read worldwide and has been reprinted in seven different languages. Terry’s Strangers in Paradise ended in 1997 with issue 90. Outside the SIP Universe, Terry has worked on such projects as DC's Birds of Prey and DC 1st #1, Image's Lady Supreme, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer:Willow & Tara one-shot from Dark Horse, Marvel Team-Up #14 starring Spider-man and Black Widow and the Darkness/ Vampirella One Shot from Image as well as others. Since the conclusion of SIP, Terry has gone on to create his new series, Echo. The sci-fi series is described by Terry as:"'The X-Files' meets 'The Fugitive' meets '24'". The story revolves around Julie, a young photographer who inadvertently discovers a hi-tech Battle suit. Moore has said the premise of Echo is a woman living in today's America who is dealing with a sudden unbelievable change to her daily life. Echo has recently been nominated for an Eisner Award as Best New Series. Terry has also been writing for the Marvel Universe. He wrote the 5 issue miniseries Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Vol. II and he has recently completed a 9 issue run on Marvel’s cult hit, Runaways. Terry also plans on returning to his SIP Universe soon with a Strangers in Paradise One-Shot that will catch fans up on his beloved SIP characters.

CHRIS MORENO

Chris a twenty-something illustrator working in comics like Paul Jenkins' Sidekick for 12 Gauge/Image Comics and his own creator-owned projects, like Sanz Pantz: Ninja Platypus, appearing in the Popgun anthologies from Image Comics, and his webcomic, Dysfunctianimals. He also worked on Dracula Vs. King Arthur, Monkey in a Wagon Vs. Lemur on a Big Wheel, and Super Frat, among others. Chris likes pie, robots, and crappy old movies. Chris and his buddy Matt Singer like to bust on a few in our Gymkommentary. Chris used to perform improv in Philly with my troupe, The Ninjas. They're totally f---in' deadly. Chris can usually be found at conventions, sketchin', laughin', and livin' the life of a comics god-- at least for the weekend. Most of the rest of the time he's shackled to the drawing table, kickin' out the pages. And the funky jams. Oh, the funky jams...

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N3RDCast

"The N3RDCast is three obnoxious, arrogant, and vulgar comic fans who gather on a weekly basis to dissect the comics they propose to love. Stop by their booth for a token good for $1 off at participating booths and to win original art!"

DAVE NESTLER

Dave is a Pittsburgh native who is world renowned for his erotic artwork. Dave has enjoyed success in the pin-up market with the release of his erotica series Blonde and Gagged. His work has also appeared in Playboy, Full Metal Femmes and on covers from London Nights Studios and Chaos Comics. Dave has worked with some of the loveliest ladies in the biz as models, including Julie Cialini, Jasi Lanier, Stacy E. Walker and others. You can find Dave's fabulous artwork in book The Art of Dave Nestler: Wicked Intentions from Art Fantastix. Dave has a new pin up book from SQP entitled Nestler Girls Vol. 1 and a new trading card set, The Art of David Nestler. You can visit his website at: www.davenestler.com

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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, penciled 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. Mike was the artist of the fully painted Suspira comic from Chaos Comics. In 1999 through 2004, he won the International Network of Golf Illustrator of the Year Award for his work in Golf Illustrated, six years running! In his spare time Mike works on his pet project, JO HAMMY, which was originally conceived as a b&w pen and ink graphic novel project but is currently in production as an all singing and dancing 3D animated version, just for fun. He is also working on Zone 21 with his with Diana. You can check out Mike & Diana's website at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/m_dokamoto/home.htm

PAT OLLIFFE

Pat Olliffe is a talented artist known for his work both in the DC and Marvel Universes. Pat is one on the artists that brought Marvel's Spidergirl comic to life and in the past he has worked on the critically acclaimed and fan appreciated Untold Tales of Spiderman with Kurt Busiek and the DC/Marvel crossover Unlimited Access. As well as the Marvel series, The Call, the Marvel Tsunami Book, Namor, the Punisher Movie Adapation, the What If? story "What if General Ross became the Hulk?" and Pat was also the penciler of Marvel’s Last Hero Standing and Last Planet Standing which featured tons of characters from throughout the Marvel Universe. Pat also worked on the Injustice Society story arc of DC’s JSA:Classified. He also was one of the pencilers that worked on the mega-hit 52 from DC and the 52 Aftermath miniseries The Four Horsemen. Pat also has penciled the Atom series from DC as well as a recent issue of Booster Gold. He is currently the regular artist of Marvel’s Ms. Marvel series.

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DON PEDICINI, JR

Don Pedicini Jr. has been a professional illustrator for over ten years. He has worked for many clients including Lucasfilm, Topps, New Line Cinema, Strictly Ink, MLB, CBS, Target Marvel and Upper Deck. He has worked on various sketch card sets for such licenses as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Terminator Salvation, all three CSI shows, MLB, Terminator Salvation, Doctor Who, Marvel Masterpieces and many others

SEAN PENCE

Sean Pence is a Pittsburgh based sci-fi / fantasy portrait artist who's worked in the trading card industry since 2003. His work has been published in various sets from Rittenhouse Archives including Battlestar Galactica, Farscape & Star Trek; plus sketch cards for movie sets like X-MEN 3 and IRON MAN. He has also participated on several high profile Topps sketch card sets including Star Wars 30th Anniversary & Star Wars Galaxy 4, HALO, The Lord of the Rings Masterpieces I & II, HEROES I & II and Indiana Jones Heritage & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He's also worked with Breygent Marketing on Wizard of Oz (series II), Classic & Vintage Movie Posters, Marilyn Monroe & DEXTER. He also contributed to the Benchwarmer 2008 Signature Series and the "THE SPIRIT" movie set from Inkworks. Please visit Sean's randomly updated site: www.seanpatrickpence.com

DAVE PERILLO

Dave Perillo, a Philly based cartoonist and ukulele rock star, is a member of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, The Autumn Society of Philadelphia & the Burger King Kid's Club. He has had work featured in Monster Bash Magazine, G-Fan magazine, "Oddly Normal #3", The Art of Koni Waves and You Me and Zombie #0. Dave also contributed to the group show "Family Guy:C.R.A.P" for 20th Century Fox's hit animated show "Family Guy", and participated in LA's Gallery 1988 "Crazy 4 Cult:3". He self publishes the book Li'l Scamp and is currently working on Ape Entertainment's "Teddy Scares" series. Check out more of Dave's doodles at montygog.blogspot.com

PITTSBURGH STEEL MAN

Pittsburgh Steel Man has teamed up with well-known local illustrator Loran Skinkis to create Pittsburgh's newest “Real Hero Saga”. “Steel Man, Pittsburgh's Official Super Hero” will be promoting his first full-length comic at the 2009 Pittsburgh Comicon. The first full-length comic will be available in September 2009. The first run of the full-length Pittsburgh Steel Man comic will be ultra limited production, so, order yours immediately. We cannot guarantee the availability of this ultra limited run, however, if available and paid in full, we will make every effort to reserve a number for you. Limit two per customer. Sign in purchase sheets will be available at the show for Steel Man's Ultra limited, signed and numbered SteelMan comic. The Steel Dog will also be making an appearance on Saturday and is always a hit with the young kids. Soon, Pittsburgh will “Feel the Heat”. www.pittsburghsteelman.com

SHAWN PRYOR

Shawn is the creator of the latest comic company to hit the scene, PKD Media (www.pkdmedia.com). He is writer of the buddy cop comic Mercury & The Murd. He also writes such titles as Exo-1 & The Rock Solid Steelbots, Agents of C.O.L.T., Alpha Simian, M.A.T.T., and Blacks Danger...In Space! At the Pittsburgh Comicon, he will debut two volumes of PKD Media Presents and his latest graphic novel, Greenbrook:Hearts & Spades.

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ALEX SAVIUK

Alex Saviuk began his professional career at DC Comics in May 1977 after studying sequential art with WILL EISNER at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Within a few short months, he became the regular artist on such titles as GREEN LANTERN and THE FLASH. His resume extended to include SUPERMAN, HAWKMAN, AQUAMAN, The ATOM, and AIR WAVE, among others. In 1986, Alex forged ahead to MARVEL COMICS after fill-ins on IRON MAN #211 and STARBRAND #3, he soon became the penciller on DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH featuring The PHANTOM, FLASH GORDON, and MANDRAKE. Then, after successfully filling in on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, he started a 7+ year run on WEB OF SPIDER-MAN followed by 2+ more years on SPIDER-MAN ADVENTURES-- based on the animated series. In 1997-98 Alex penciled the last 12 issues of THE X-FILES for TOPPS Comics and began his current penciling run on the SPIDER-MAN Sunday newspaper strip written by STAN LEE. In 2003, Alex began his affiliation with EGMONT, a Swedish publisher chronicling the adventures of Lee Falk's character THE PHANTOM and also began inking the Spider-man Dailies as well --- in 2006 the SPIDER-MAN newspaper strip was honored with a HARVEY Award nomination. In 2004, he assisted the late great WILL EISNER on what became the final story featuring THE SPIRIT for Dark Horse called THE SPIRIT Meets THE ESCAPIST. At that time, Alex also contributed to a creator-owned venture with writer Robert Tinnell ( The Black Forest, The Wicked West, Sight Unseen, etc.) on the FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES, an online strip which was eventually published as a graphic novel and was honored with an EISNER Award nomination in 2006. Besides his comics work, Alex also does storyboards for advertising agencies and films, his most recent credits being THE REAPING a supernatural thriller starring Hilary Swank and LONELY HEARTS a fact-based detective thriller with John Travolta. Originally born in New York and having lived there until 15 years ago, Alex now resides in sunny Florida with his family and his lion dog Simba.

STEVE SCOTT

One of the current artists on Marvel's popular "X-Men Forever," you no doubt have seen the work of artist, Steve Scott if you are a fan of the hit TV show, Smallville as well! Not to mention a plethora of other projects... that have been garnering him a great deal of attention from editors and comic readers alike!! Steve began his sequential art career at Malibu comics, with his fan-favored and memorable stint on "Razor" for London Night, followed up by work on "New Warriors," "Hourman," and "JLA" for Marvel and DC Comics. With a resume like that, one wouldn't guess that up until recently, Steve led a duel life--firefighter by day and artist by night-- for more than sixteen years, in fact! Sadly, one horrible event brought those two identities together. On September 11, 2001, Steve watched, with the rest of the nation as the Twin Towers fell. Soon afterwards, DC Comics published "The Worlds Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember." Steve was selected among the few to contribute to this historical collection, which was later exhibited, and is now archived, at the Library of Congress. Another national tragedy brought Steve back fully into the comic book fold. As one of the firefighters on duty in Buloxi, MS when Hurricane Katrina hit, Steve was one of the few to be interviewed by President Bush on his tour through the area. Soon, afterwards, for a myriad of reasons, Steve decided it was time to fulfill his dream of being a comic book artist full time. Scott relocated to the renowned community of artist in Atlanta Georgia, and received all the encouragement he needed to pick up the pencil full time from his contemporaries in the area. Immediately, Steve's work began to appear in the pages of DC Comics "Shadowpact," "The Creeper," "Batman Legends of the Dark Knight," and "Checkmate." He got a particularly special kick out of bringing to life some of DC Comics strangest characters like Detective Chimp, Rex the Wonder Dog, Rag Man, The Phantom Stranger, and many others. Recent and current projects at Marvel Comics, and DC Comics include working with industry legends Louise Simonson and Chris Claremont on the titles "Magik" and "Exiles," multiple issues of the Marvel Adventures line, "She-Hulk," "Indiana Jones" for Dark Horse and a "Kyle XY" project for Disney/ABC with writer Jeff Parker. In addition, Steve has the distinction of being the only artist to do comic tie-ins for the "Batman: The Dark Knight " movie. And now he's very happy to be focusing on "X-Men Forever," also written by Claremont!

SEAN SHAW

Sean entered the funnybook field in the mid-90s on titles such as Captain Satan and his creator-owned title, “Wicked” at small press publisher Millennium, as well as stories in Penthouse Comix and Penthouse Max. His work quickly came to the notice of Wildstorm where he did a pair of issues of Gen 13 Bootleg and a Vampirella/ Wetworks crossover. For Avatar Press, Shaw has done a number of covers, and interior stories including Avengelyne, Shi, The Cavewoman Color Special, Razor and Jungle Fantasy. Shaw has recently done covers for Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales, Return to Wonderland and Sinbad. He is currently working on new covers for Warren Ellis’s Anna Mercury from Avatar Press.

LOUIS SMALL JR.

Louis Small Jr. is the original 'Vampirella' artist for the comic book series published by Harris from 1992. Over the years, he has worked regularly with the character, including the 'Holy War' saga and the 'Hell on Earth' storyline. Small also illustrated comic books like 'Supergirl' (DC), 'Michael Alexander', 'Dark Dominion' (Defiant), 'Codename: Knockout'(Vertigo) and 'Ka-Zar' (Marvel). He is also an illustrator for the DC Universe card series.

BEAU SMITH

Beau is ‘The Last Real Man In Comics.' The former golden gloves boxer and tough-man contestant has been working as a comic book writer and marketer for almost 20 years. He has written such comics as The Black Terror, Parts Unknown, The Tenth, The Berzerkers, The Legion of Super-Heroes, Batman/Wildcat, Catwoman/Wildcat, Shi/Wolverine and others. Beau is best known for his work on DC’s Guy Gardner:Warrior and his own creation, Wynonna Earp. His recent work can be found from IDW, including the Cobb: On the Border miniseries and the 24:Cold Warrior oneshot. His Upcoming Comic Book Work includes: Wynonna Earp: The Yeti Wars, Lost & Found, Maximum Jack, Cyn, 200 People to Kill, Jefferson Buck: Man Hunter and a wrap up of his 90’s series Part Unknown from Unleashed Press. Beau has served as vice president of sales and marketing for Eclipse Comics, Image Comics, Todd McFarlane Productions and IDW Publishing. He is also columnist for various comic publications. Check out his online opinion column "Busted Knuckles" at the Comic Bulletin www.comicsbulletin.com/busted/

TOD ALLEN SMITH

Tod Allen Smith is a licensed Lucasfilm artist and comic book inker from Altoona Pa. His most recent credits include : Star Wars Galaxy 4-Star Wars The Clone Wars 2008-Indiana Jones Masterpieces for Topps Marvel Masterpieces II and III for Upper Deck. Benchwarmer Trading cards. Past credits include: Heroes Unlimited Gramercy Island for Palladium Books. Pierce for Imperium Comics. Razor for London Night Studios. He is also a guest instructor at Penn State University and he has more upcoming projects with Topps coming out later this year.

ALLISON SOHN

As an artist Allison has contributed to various collectible card sets, drawing cards for such sets as Star Wars, Women of Marvel, Heroes, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Red Sonja and others. She has also produced various Star Wars lithographs. You can view her art at www.allisonsohnart.com

ARTHUR SUYDAM

Award winning Marvel artist Arthur Suydam’s meteoric rise to superstardom for his work for the smash hit series Marvel Zombies broke records, immediately placing the artist in the category of comic legends. In 2007 and 2008 Suydam’s popular covers have graced the covers of Marvel Zombies Dead Days, Marvel Zombies #2, Marvel Zombies#3, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Herc , X-men, Ghost Rider, Thor, Spider Girl and more. In 2008 Marvel, released an exclusive hard cover tribute to the works of this unique artist entitled Marvel Zombies, The Covers dedicated to Suydam’s ground breaking work. Additional recent works include, Dynamite's Army of Darkness, Savage Tales, Red Sonja, and the smash hit Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies and Raise the Dead. Past works include work on Batman, Batman vs. Predator, Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, and House of Secrets Secrets. A life-long fan of Marvel comics, Suydam also branches out with select projects that include film noir for Hard Case Crime, where Suydam provides retro-inspired covers for such titles as Mickey Spillane’s newly released Dead Street, Robert Bloch’s Shooting Star and Fright by Cornell Woolric Noir pulp great Mickey Spillane’s final novel released this year Dead Street, The Tick, and more. Suydam’s own projects include Mudwogs and Mudwogs II, and The Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap, released through Radical Entertainment, as well as a top secret zombies project ,ten years in the making , that will feature Suydam’s own unique and fully-painted take on the undead. Suydam was recently honored with: the Spike TV Scream Award ( best writer, best artist , best comic of the year) Suydam's short story Christmas Carol was chosen for inclusion in The Mammoth Book of Horror and Legends for best comic horror stories of all time and The Art of Painted Comics (2008). Suydam is a member of the Society of Illustrators and lives and works in Manhattan’s East Village.

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TAIMAK

Taimak (pronounced Tie-Mock) never imagined he would grow up to be one of the most beloved martial arts cult classic film stars of our time. His leading role in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, in which he played Bruce Leroy, the Bruce Lee wannabe in search of "The Glow", catapulted him to stardom and a career that has spanned over twenty years. He has appeared in over a dozen plays, including Roadhouse in 2004 at the Barrow Street Theater in New York City, playing the notable role of Dalton in this zany comedy rendition of Patrick Swayzes 80’s cult classic film. Taimak is happy to announce he will be teaming up again with the highly inventive Roadhouse director Timothy Haskell and well known playwright Eric Sanders for an original stageplay to open this December in New York City, he will be posting all the information in his monthly newsletter. He also appeared in Cheaters in 2006, playing the role of Craig during the play’s highly successful national tour. You may also remember him as Janet Jackson’s boyfriend in her video "Let’s Wait A’While." Taimak has also worked with Madonna as her martial arts coordinator on her Madonna’s Drowned World Tour, and with the rock group Bush on their "Chemical Between Us" video. He has guest starred on several television shows, including Ally McBeal, A Different World, and Third Watch. Currently Taimak has developed a wellness program for young people and is bringing it to communities all over the states. Also Sony Pictures has taken on producing a remake of The Last Dragon. Samuel L. Jackson signed on to play "Shonuff" in the new updated version, look out for Taimak to be in the film as well. 2009 is promised to be an exciting year. Taimak also a fitness expert has helped thousands get in shape with his fitness DVD "Create the Perfect Package". www.taimak.tv Appearing with Sisters Comics(tm) in Publisher Booth S005

ADAM TALLEY

Adam has been self-publishing his comics for the last fifteen years! He started printing his first books on the offset press in high school. In early 2002 with his popular series, PLEASANT HYMNS, he started hitting the convention circuit quite regularly. In 2007, he re-titled the series as PLEASANT LIFE. In 2009, he released the final graphic novel of that series as well as the first in a new trilogy of graphic novels called, The Outcast. His work has also been seen on such books as: THE ADVENTURES OF EARTHGIRL ANT ATOMIC ADONIS, WISE INTELLIGENCE, THE EXPENDABLES and many more. He also has done somecs pinup work for ANTARCTIC PRESS and logo designs for many other clients. He has been featured on websites, newspapers, television and magazines talking about his work. He graduated from Central Michigan University with a BAA in Art (2D) and an Art History Minor. He also co-hosts an internet radio show called BREAKING THE PANEL, that can be found on talkshoe.com . His website www.idiothead.com where it hosts an art gallery, behind the scenes audio recordings and comic book commentaries on his work and much more!

PERI TOTH

8-year-old PERI TOTH has had her creations published in 13 known comic books so far including: SISTERS COMICS(tm) ANNUAL featuring her property Peri Toth’s See-Thru-Baby!(tm), LEVI KRAUSE’S SCRIBBLE MONSTER(tm) with Gil Gerard & Erin Gray from TV’s BUCK ROGERS, OWOSSO TACO HOUSE FUNNIES(tm) with Arrow Comics(tm) EIC Randy Zimmerman, and FAT MOMMA of Sci-Fi Channel’s Stan Lee’s WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Currently, Peri is working on SEE-THRU-BABY!(tm) 1 and her latest creations THE MYSTERIOUS MR. BRIGGS: SPACE KILLER!(tm) 1 and TIME TRAVELS WITH "LUCY": EARTH'S 1ST HUMAN?(tm) 1. Peri's paper sponsor is Canson(r) FanBoy(tm) and her comic book creator mentor is Levi Krause. www.sisterscomics.com/

LAYNE TOTH

As seen on TV and in magazines such as TIME. 12-year-old LAYNE TOTH has had her art & stories published in 24 known comic books so far including: SISTERS COMICS(tm) ANNUAL featuring her property The Adventures of Lucky: The One-Eyed Stray Dog!(tm), LEVI KRAUSE’S SCRIBBLE MONSTER(tm) with Gil Gerard & Erin Gray from TV’s BUCK ROGERS, OWOSSO TACO HOUSE FUNNIES(tm) with Arrow Comics(tm) EIC Randy Zimmerman, and FAT MOMMA of Sci-Fi Channel’s Stan Lee’s WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Currently, Layne is working on LUCKY: THE ONE-EYED STRAY DOG!(tm) 1 & 2 with some famous writers including NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD classic horror film co-author John Russo. Layne's paper sponsor is Canson(r) FanBoy(tm) and her comic book creator mentor is Levi Krause. www.sisterscomics.com

JOHN TOTLEBEN

As artist/inker on the mid-1980's series, 'Saga of the Swamp Thing', John Totleben combined the elegant line of such illustrators as Franklin Booth and Virgil Finlay with his uniquely contoured, painterly sensibility. John graduated in 1976 from Technical Memorial High, a unique vocational school where he received three years of intensive art instruction. In 1977, John entered the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts. In 1983, Kubert School classmate Steve Bissette paired up with John as penciler/inker team for DC's then-faltering 'Saga of the Swamp Thing'. The addition of writer Alan Moore forged an artistic team that changed the comic industry. The industry acknowledged the significance of the Moore/Bissette/Totleben 'Swamp Thing' with the Kirby Award for Best Continuing Series for three consecutive years, while in 1985 Bissette & Totleben received the Kirby Award for Best Art Team. The series introduced the character John Constantine ('Hellblazer') and provided an aesthetic template for DC's VERTIGO imprint. In 1985, John co-created the horror anthology 'Taboo' with Stephen Bissette, sharing editorial responsibilities with Bissette on the first two issues. John left 'Swamp Thing' in 1986, to join Moore again on one of their most ambitious comics projects, the third volume of Miracleman, which he penciled and inked. Totleben realized Moore's revisionist superhero saga with some of the most elaborate rendering ever seen in American comics. Then in issue #13 of Miracleman the startling news was released that the artist had been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, a progressive eye disease characterized by night-blindness and loss of peripheral vision. Though his production rate has slowed, Totleben retains full command of his creative powers. A gifted painter, John's dramatic oils and acrylics have appeared on the covers of 'Swamp Thing', 'Hellblazer', 'The Spectre', and 'The Return of Tarzan'. John joined Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch on Alan Moore's surgically precise Silver Age Marvel satire, 1963. John went on to illustrate DC's 'Vermillion' #8 and #12, 'The Dreaming' #33, and 'Ultimate Marvel Team Up' #10. Recently, Totleben has developed an interest in digital fine art and digital printmaking.

HERB TRIMPE

Herb Trimpe spent 29 years in the comic world as an artist (1967-1996). First hired as a production assistant by editor Stan Lee, Herb showed a strong and visually different style of drawing, and was soon drawing many of Marvel's biggest and best characters. For three decades, Herb had, at one time or another, the opportunity to draw virtually every character in the Marvel universe. Probably best known for his runs on HULK and DEFENDERS, it was Herb Trimpe who penciled the first appearance of WOLVERINE. Herb also penciled other titles including WEST COAST AVENGERS, QUASAR, and the often forgotten GODZILLA, and SHOGUN WARRIORS. He also pencilled titles like 'Nick Fury', 'The 'Nam' and the 'Transformers-G.I. Joe' cross-over. Trimpe left Marvel in 1996, when his regular 'Fantastic Four' title was dropped. In recent years you can find Herb’s pencils on such titles as BPRD: The War on Frogs (Aug. 2008) for Dark Horse Comics, and a return to his signature character by drawing the eight-page story "The Death and Life of the Abomination" in Marvel's King-Size Hulk #1 (July 2008).

TIM TRUMAN

Tim is a comics writer and artist from Lancaster, PA. Tim Truman's incredible work on Grimjack; Scout; Hawkman; Jonah Hex, The Kents and various Grateful Dead illustrations has helped him earn a huge fan following. He has also been very involved in Dark Horse's Star Wars' projects, including the one-shot comic Star Wars Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing written and drawn by Tim and the Star Wars: Outlander series among others. For the last several year’s Tim has been serving as a writer and sometimes artist of Dark Horse’s Conan line. He is currently writing the Conan The Cimmerian series from Dark Horse. You can also find GrimJack:ManxCat from he and John Ostrander at comicmix.com

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. 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 length vehicle, Burning Blue, are both currently in various stages of production. Billy continues to work on his baby, Shi, but he also branched out to work on various projects throughout Comicdom. Billy worked on several projects from Narwain Publishing, including the horror inspired, Zombie-Sama and a retelling of the birth of Christ entitled, A Child is Born. He also contributed a stunning cover to Narwain's Hurricane relief book, New Orleans and Jazz. In 2006 Billy went to work as artist on Marvel’s Heroes for Hire and he is currently completing his compelling Sgt. Rock miniseries from DC, Sgt. Rock:The Lost Battalion which he wrote and illustrated. Look for new projects coming from Billy soon.

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NEIL VOKES

A 23 year veteran of the comics scene, Neil began at Comico drawing Robotech Masters before he and partner Rich Rankin struck out to create EAGLE for their own Crystal Comics. After Eagle wrapped up Vokes began to wield his pencil amongst the legends. From Superman to Elvira, Congorilla to Dracula, Spider-Man to Ninjak to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Tarzan...and even taking some detours to excessively femme friendly female vampires along the way-Neil has added his stylistic brilliance to everything he touches. Following the stunning Parliament Of Justice with longtime cohort Mike Avon Oeming, Neil and his partners Bob Tinnell and Todd Livingston have created both the barnstorming monster blitzkriegs of The Black Forest as well as the dust and blood drenched world of The Wicked West. Neil is currently working with Bob on a series, tentatively titled Elegy. You can check out Neil at vokesfolks.blogspot.com/

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ADAM WITHERS

Adam with his wife Comfort Love are the creative team who both write, draw and color the new bi-monthly series, The Uniques. They have worked for several comic and gaming studios such as Green Ronin, Palladium Books and Atlantis Studios. The Uniques is their first creator-owned project and a labor of love that is a culmination of years of work. Check out their series at www.uniquescomic.com

JEREMIAH WITKOWSKI

Jeremiah Witkowski is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He is the creator of the popculture webcomic youmeandsteve.com. During the day, he draws clip art for Paramount Games, one of the largest jar ticket producers in the world.

MIKEY WOOD

Believing he could sell comics based on a quick wit and friendly banter alone, Mikey Wood stepped through the doors of the Pittsburgh Comicon....and VANISHED! He awoke to find himself at a small press table suffering from partial amnesia and facing a crowd of willing consumers ready to plop down their hard-earned money on comic books including his own! Fortunately, contact with said consumers was maintained through brain-wave transmissions with Kristin Ross, a hologram only Pittsburgh Comicon goers can see and hear. Trapped on the sales floor, Mikey Wood finds himself speaking with comic fans, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that their next purchase will be a Space Monkey comic.

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CHRIS YAMBAR

Award-winning creator Chris Yambar is best known for his work on such titles as Bart Simpson Comics, Radioactive Man, I Dream of Jeannie, Mister Magoo, and Elfquest. He has also received acclaim for his own over-the-top characters such as Mr. Beat, the Fire-Breathing Pope, El Mucho Grande—Wrestler for Hire, Suicide Blonde, Spells, Meow Wow!, Twerp and the Blue Baboon, Faith: Warrior Princess, Bambeano Boy, Misfits, McBride—the Faerie King, Suckulina: Vampire Temp, Life Maxx, Edison's Frankenstein 1910, and Buttler—Everyone's Favorite Impacted Pup. In late 2007 Chris signed an animation development deal with Cinemanix which is now working on test animation for several of his creator- and co-creator-owned properties. Visit Chris at www.yambar.com.

RICHARD ZAJAC

Richard Zajac has been working in comics for 4 years and has been published by various companies. After his run on Devil's Due's G.I. Joe:America's Elite, Special Missions and Dreadnoks, he has most recently done a short stint inking for Big City Comics and is an ink assistant for vetern inker Mark McKenna. He has published his own book, Thoughtless as both inker and writer. He keeps busy with inking, pencilling, writing, commissions, and charity work being the Canadian Rep for the Hero Initiative.Visit his website at www.arponline.com/zajac

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