Guests 2010

Eric Basaldua began his career at Top Cow Productions in 2000 under the direct tutelage of founder, Marc Silvestri. His early credits include Magdalena, Witchblade/Wolverine, and Tomb Raider. Basaldua often works very closely with Silvestri, stepping in to provide art for Hunter-Killer #7 and #8 as well as assisting Silvestri on character designs for the recently announced partnership with Dynamite Entertainment.

Basaldua's most recent work can be seen in the first ever WITCHBLADE ANNUAL!

Tony Parker is an award winning artist who is currently working on the critically acclaimed graphic novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (a direct adaptation of the classic Philip K Dick novel).  He has worked in a variety of artistic fields, from comics (Marvel Entertainment, BOOM! Studios), to movie storyboards and concept design (The Graves), and fantasy and RPG art (Conan, Games Workshop, Dungeons and Dragons).  He compensates for poor bio writing skills by giving award winning hugs.

SHANNON ERIC DENTON is a veteran storyteller and artist with credits at Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Jerry Bruckheimer Films, NBC, Disney, Sony, ToyBiz, Marvel Entertainment, FoxKids, Paramount, CBS, Dimension Films, DC Comics, and Nickelodeon.

He was a storyboard artist on the OSCAR NOMINATED feature "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and directed the original commercial animations for the movie. He has written for Cartoon Network and worked in live action on shows like LAS VEGAS, and his projects have been featured in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Shannon is featured in a section of the book Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning and contributed to the cover art. In 2001, he won Comic Shop News's Readers Choice Red Kryptonite Award for Favorite New Creator.

Shannon is co-founder of the online website KOMIKWERKS, which has partnered with AOL and comics legend Stan Lee. Komikwerks has also launched a new line of illustrated children's action books under the ACTIONOPOLIS imprint.

Shannon is currently writing and producing on the animated series WORLD OF QUEST for Warner Bros. as well as working for publishers TOKYOPOP, Desperado Publishing, AiT/Planet Lar, IDW, BOOM Studios, and Image Comics on his creator owned titles.

Shannon was also nominated for 27th Annual ComicBuyersGuide Fan Awards for Best Editor.

Ryan Cody is a comic book artist, freelance illustrator & writer. He has previously illustrated VILLAINS for Viper Comics, which is currently in development as a major motion picture with Universal Studios. His work has also appeared in Popgun Vol.3 from Image Comics as well as contributing original covers for The Hero Initiative’s Ultimate Spider-Man 100, Hulk 100 and Wolverine: Weapon X 100 projects, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for comic book creators with medical and financial needs. 2010 will see the release of his creator owned series ICARUS as well as work in Mysterious Adventure Magazine.

Benjamin is an Arizona based Comic Artist/Creator, Completely obsessed with Classic Saturday morning cartoons and Classic Comics; which has shaped his art Style into a unique fusion of those influences.

Benjamin has been self-publishing Comics since 1994 and has worked for several comic publishers over the years such as Image Comics, Devils Due productions, Marvel Comics, Coffin Comics, Bluewater productions, Arcana comics, Sideways-8 Studios, Fiction House Mafia, and Blacklist Studios.

Benjamin is also an experienced Sketch card artist providing original card art for all of upper deck's Marvel Masterpiece sets, Rittenhouse Archives sets such as Fantastic Four, X-Men, Wolverine, Spiderman and the upcoming Marvel 70th anniversary. Benjamin has also contributed Card art for Movie properties such as "the Spirit", X-men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming IronMan 2, and TV property "Greatest American hero".

He is also currently hard at work developing several creator-owned properties under his "Skulljammer Productions" label so keep an eye out.

Skulljammer.com

Skulljammer.deviantart.com/

Since 1992 Dave Beaty has produced numerous award winningillustrations and designs for the publishing, entertainment, advertising, and music industries. Past clients include Warner Brothers, United Artist Pictures, Antarctic Press, Marvel and DC Comics. Dave is also a published writer. He has had numerous articles on art production and technique in addition to short fiction stories published. For 5 years he wrote and illustrated a weekly newspaper comic strip called Captain Value. He also self published the independent comic book series Bushi Tales which he co-created with Lin Workman. He lives in Prescott Valley, AZ with his lovely wife Micah and their two cats- Sato & Nermal.

www.davebeaty.com

Jay Fotos has worked with nearly every major comic book publisher on hundreds of projects for more than over a decade. To name a few, from Spawn to Beowulf, Transformers to Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show, Rob Zombie’s The Nail, Sam and Twitch, 30 Days of Night and the Eisner nominated series Locke & Key. Not limited to just the comic medium, Jay also works in other creative media, ranging from animation, video games, album art, TV, movies, and toy design.

In 2006, Fotos and fellow collaborator and friend Nat Jones founded Frazetta Comics, and along with writer Joshua Ortega, created the #1 selling Image Comics title for 2007, Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer, also holding a record for the fastest sellout for issue #1 in 6 hours! With the success of the Death Dealer series, and by keeping true to the Frazetta name and legacy, helped launch a new variety of Frazetta inspired comic titles like Swamp Demon, Dark Kingdom, Neanderthal, Moon Maid, Freedom, Creatures, Dracula Meets the Wolfman and Sorcerer.

Jay is currently wrapping up the Frank Frazetta’s Dark Kingdom series, Spawn and Locke & Key and keeping the Frazetta Comics line running with all new titles slated for the near future.

Jay resides in Phoenix, AZ along with a 7 foot T-600 Terminator that has a Minigun pointed at head as he works.

Artist seeks fame and fortune by drawing funny!

Lin was an artist and screen printer in the t-shirt industry for almost 20 years but made a bit of a career change a few years ago and is now a graphic artist designing monuments for West Memorials in Memphis, TN.

Lin is also the creator of the web-comic Scared Silly and is co-creator of the self-published comic book series Bushi Tales (with Pencil Neck Studios partner Dave Beaty). His artwork has appeared in Airbrush Action Magazine, Amazing Figure Modeler, Stargodz (comic book with Conquest Studios), on Rock103 (Wake Up Crew web comic) and The Outdoor Channel’s websites, the MSCA (MidSouth Cartoonists Association) comics It Came From Beneath The Drawing Board and Overdrawn and Underwritten, in author Christa Michael’s first book -- Ramblings With Redde: Why Does My Life Seem Like A Bad “B” Flick?, and Comic Geek Speak’s CGS:The End comic.

http://www.linworkman.com
http://www.BushiTales.com
http://www.ComicWhore.com

Raven Gregory is the Writer/Creator/Co creator of THE GIFT, The Waking, The Tide, Fly, Like a Machine, ImagiNation, Walking in the Ghost, and the one his most popular and well known series Zenescope's Grim Fairy Tales Presents: Return to Wonderland, the sequel Beyond Wonderland, and the final part of the wonderland trilogy Escape From Wonderland as well as the Wonderland spin off Tales From Wonderland: Alice, Cheshire Cat, Red Queen, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and the Hatter part two one shots as well as the Experiment and the Arrangement short stories featured in each volume.

He has also written for Viper Comics' Dead @17 vol 3 Rough Cut, Western Tales of Terror 2, Mam Tor's Event Horizon Vol 2 (Like a Machine), Heavy Metal, Spacedog's Wight and Associates, Both of Zenescope Entertainment's Grim Fairy Tales: Annual 2008 and 2009 editions (Jack and Jill and Pinnochio) The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Snow White and Rose Red, The Little Mermaid, King Midas, Rip Van Winkle, the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, Dante's Inferno, and the GFT Giant Size #1. In October 07 Raven Gregory became Executive Editor of Zenescope Entertainment.

The 31 year old lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his beautiful wife Kourtney, their two sons Jaylon and Donavin, and daughters Athena, Novel and a dog named Wacko.

Aaron Douglas is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica.

He will headline the upcoming CTV drama The Bridge, which has also been picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas will play Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, and production started in May 2009.

J.S. Lewis is best known as the co-author of the acclaimed Grey Griffins Trilogy published by Scholastic’s Orchard Books. After selling nearly a million copies, Lewis and his writing partner, Derek Benz have teamed with legendary publisher, Little Brown (publishers of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga) to produce a new series based on that original property. The Brimstone Key, the first book in the Grey Griffins Clockwork Chronicles debuts June 2010.

Lewis is currently wrapping up his first novel with powerhouse publisher, Thomas Nelson. The action-packed trilogy featuring giant robots and men flying around in jet packs will hit shelves worldwide in December 2010.

DC/WildStorm and Sony Online Entertainment recently approached Lewis to write a 12-part comic book mini-series based on Sony’s virtual world phenomenon, Free Realms.

A graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Broadcasting, Lewis has explored an eclectic career that includes news reporting, radio production, animation, graphic design, web development, mural painting, speech writing, video game development, voice over work, and marketing. He currently resides in Arizona with his wife and children.

Jim Hanna is a Artist/Writer from Evolution Studios based out of Mesa, Arizona...he has done work with Arcana Studio as the Artist on PHILLY, Upper Deck, red 5 comics, and The Hero Initiative as one of the contributing artists to the Ultimate Spider-man 100 project.

Ethan Van Sciver is an American comic book artist, best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman/Batman, New X-Men, and currently, The Flash: Rebirth. He is known for having consistently detailed rendering in his work.

Van Sciver cites Chris Claremont and Jon Bogdanove's "Fantastic Four vs. X-Men" as a strong influence, telling a group of fans at Comic-Con International that "I'm trying in my own comics to recreate the feeling I got from that four-issue miniseries."

Many of Van Sciver's most notable works have been produced in collaboration with writer Geoff Johns. Van Sciver feels he may have had a "bad influence" on the writer, working with him early on on the superhero-horror one-shot The Flash: Iron Heights. The artist described his approach on the issue as "taking well known, maybe well worn superhero concepts, make them scary, make them upsetting in some way."

For Marvel, Van Sciver produced several issues of Grant Morrison's New X-Men, starting as a two-issues-per-year fill-in artist for regular series artist Frank Quitely.

In 2004, Johns and Van Sciver brought Hal Jordan back to the DC Universe as Earth's main Green Lantern officer in the six-issue miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, before the duo re-launched the Green Lantern title itself with a new volume. Van Sciver's work on the Green Lantern mythos helped explain and retcon many elements of the Green Lantern story which some fans and writers found nonsensical, such as the reasons of the power rings uselessness against the color yellow, and Hal Jordan's transformation into thesupervillain Parallax.

In 2007, Johns, Van Sciver, Dave Gibbons and Ivan Reis produced the eleven-issue Sinestro Corps War across the two Green Lanternmonthly titles, the second part of a mooted trilogy of Green Lantern tales. This story launched the Sinestro Corps, the antithesis of the Green Lantern Corps, led by rogue Green Lantern Sinestro and his Qwardian yellow power ring. The series set the stage for a complete overhaul of the Lantern Corps, and introduced the emotional spectrum of power which provides energy to many different color variations of power rings.

In 2008, Van Sciver was the guest artist on an issue of Justice League of America (vol. 2) #20 (June 2008). Van Sciver's 2009 work includes the six-issue mini-series The Flash: Rebirth, and variant covers for the Green Lantern and DC Comics event, The Blackest Night.

American actor, singer and songwriter James Marsters first found international fame playing punk-goth Brit vampire Spike in the critically acclaimed American TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the equally popular spin-off Angel.

Film roles include romantic love story P.S. I Love You with Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler and Kathy Bates , USA Original true-crime film Cool Money, independent thriller Shadow Puppets, Winding Roads, The House On Haunted Hill and Chance with Buffy co-star Amber Benson. He is currently filming a live action film of Dragon Ball.

The Californian actor, who grew up in Modesto, has also played Brainiac in TV’s Smallville and guest starred in Without A Trace, Millennium, Andromeda, The Mountain and Saving Grace.

James’s voiceover talents can be found portraying Lex Luthor on the DVD release of Superman: Doomsday and he continues to read for the very popular Dresden Files books on tape series.

He has received numerous nominations and awards, including the Spacey Award, the Saturn Award, the Cinescape Face of the Future Award, the Golden Satellite Award, and the Teen Choice Award.

James attended New York’s prestigious Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre and spent 10 years doing stage work before moving to LA to work in film and television.

He worked in Chicago’s famous Goodman Theater and also set-up and ran companies in Chicago and Seattle. One of his early television appearances was as a hotel bellhop in the television series Northern Exposure.

James is also a singer songwriter and has enjoyed sell-out concerts in America, Canada, Australia and Europe. He brought out his first solo album, Civilized Man, in 2005 and has followed it up with Like A Waterfall.

http://www.jamesmarsterslive.com/

Independent Comics creator and self-taught artist Jonnie Allan founded a.k.a Comics as a vehicle to introduce his debut creation The Miscellaneous Adventures of STYKMAN™ to the comic book world. In February 2006 a.k.a. Comics began distributing The Miscellaneous Adventures of STYKMAN™ direct to fans and retailers selling out at almost every convention appearance. Through a "grass-roots" approach to marketing a.k.a. Comics was able to catch the attention of Diamond Comics Distributors, Inc. by gaining critical acclaim for the comics and selling out at most conventions.

In February of 2007 Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. began distributing STYKMAN. Due to the fact that most retailers opted not to deal directly with a.k.a. Comics and carry STYKMAN, something we completely understand, Diamond will begin distributing with issue #1. The comics will distributed every other month until 2008 where it is the goal of a.k.a. Comics to bring you The Miscellaneous Adventures of STYKMAN™ on a 4-6 week basis.

Present day.  The gloves are off, the pencil is flying, and The Miscellaneous Adventures of STYKMAN™ is available in a comics shop near you.

When companies like DC, Hasbro, Disney, Marvel, Mattel, IDW, and Dreamworks want great digital color for their illustrations they turn to fan favorite Hi-Fi colour design to make it happen.  Hi-Fi has colored comics like X-Men, Lady Death Superman, GI Joe, Wolverine, Angel, Birds of Prey, Transformers, and Shi.  You may recognize Hi-Fi from their recent work coloring Booster Gold, Justice Society of America, Magog, Flash Rebirth, Titans and World's Finest among others.  See Hi-Fi's colors at -  http://www.hifidesign.com

Brian and Kristy Miller are the founders of Hi-Fi and authors of art instruction books like, Hi-Fi Color for Comics and Master Digital Color.  From scanning your artwork, to rendering color and special effects Brian and Kristy share the top tips, tricks, and techniques developed at Hi-Fi.  If you want to learn how comic books are colored or are an aspiring artist yourself Brian & Kristy can help you unleash your creative potential.  You can find more info at -http://www.masterdigitalcolor.com

In addition to coloring and providing art instruction Brian Miller is a writer and illustrator.  Brian is a Lucasfilm authorized illustrator contributing to Star Wars and Indiana Jones card sets and sketch cards for Topps.  Brian also illustrates the occasional cover for IDW and is the cover colorist for Batman: The Brave & The Bold and Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise & Echo.

Brian is happy to sign any comics in your collection colored by Hi-Fi and review color portfolios during Phoenix Comic-Con.  Please stop by the Hi-Fi booth, Introduce yourself and pick-up some cool Hi-Fi swag.

Larry Welch is an artist/graphic artist that has been in the comic book industry professionally since 1990.  Worked for Malibu Comics in 1993 as Senior Artist.  He has worked freelance for various companies such as DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Image Comics.  for the last 10+ years, working in the Entertainement Industry as a Graphic Artist working on Video and DVD packaging as well as movie posters and advertising.  Once again getting the Comic bug from friends such as Joe Weems and John Livesay and working for them as an ink asst, for more than 3 years.  Larry recently inked X-Men vs. Hulk for Marvel Comics and an unannouced DC Comics Limited Series project coming out later this year.  He will also be penciling his creator-owned character called Kunoichi, to be self published soon.

He is also giving a couple of panels at the Phoenix Comic Con on How to Ink and How to Set your Portfolio up for publishers.

Dan Wickline is a writer who has worked on the 30 Days of Night franchise (Dead Space and Spreading the Disease), Grimm Fairy Tales and Strange Cases. He is currently scripting the on-going 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad and the Beyond Wonderland Annual. He is also working once again with Steve Niles and Mike Mayhew on SAVAGE. He has written short prose stories of the classic characters of THE PHANTOM and THE AVENGER for Moonstone. Dan is also a published photographer and professional corpse.

Joe Vigil has been drawing and writing comics, sometimes with his younger brother Tim, most of his life. His western comic book The Killing  was featured at the opening of the California Arts Commission in 1973 were he received an honorary plaque from then governor Ronald Reagan. Another science fiction comic by Joe One Left was put on display at the Crocker Art Museum.

After honorably serving in the United States Air Force, Joe started his academic career at American River College. It was here he studied art, filmmaking, and photography.  Joe also drew political cartoons for the campus paper. He won two awards for political cartoonist of the year in 1976 and 1977. While he was working for the Federal Government  his brother Tim asked him to do the back up story Fritz Whistle in Tim's very famous or infamous adult, horror comic book Faust. Soon to follow were Chaingang with Tim and author Rex Miller, My Dead Dog Bobby with author Joe R. Landsdale, and Joe's own very personal comicbook Dog which is based on a unpublished novel he wrote.

After writing a dark and horrifying short story about a war raging in the bowels of Hell that takes place in a somewhat strange western motif, Joe and Tim decided that it would make and excellent comic book for Tim's booming  Rebel Studios. Joe teamed up with author  David Barbour, who co-wrote the novel Shadows Bend, and together they came up with the epic western horror comic series  Gunfighters in Hell. Since then they have also done the prequel to GIH called Original Sin  and working with Tim, the sequel Sinbuck. This was Joe's first published color work besides covers.

Other work Joe has done includes Broken Halos  with creator/author  Darrell C.L. Donald and Tim. He has also worked with Avatar and Danzig's Verotik Comics. Joe's newest story is Lords of Oblivion which will preview this Spring. Joe is also a published poet, has done numerous private paintings, wall murals, airbrushing on cars and motorcycles and has dabbled in amateur filmmaking and photography

Tess Fowler is a comic book artist based in Northern California. Her most recent comic projects include illustrating "Michelle Obama: Year One" which was a look into the events of our First Lady's first year in office, and "The Seven: Scarlet Fever." Her credits include Heavy Metal magazine and multiple sketch card sets (i.e Marvel, Hellboy, Shrek, The Spirit etc).

Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper-active imagination. At the age of twenty she received her BA in Creative Writing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. When not writing, Aprilynne can usually be found at the gym; she also enjoys singing, acting, reading, and working with pregnant moms as a childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne recently returned to Arizona with her husband and three kids; she is enjoying the sunshine.

Aprilynne is the number one New York Times Bestselling author of Wings and it's sequel Spells about a seemingly ordinary girl with a not-so-ordinary destiny. In this tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever...

Tony DiGerolamo began his comics career in 1996 with the publication of his first comic book, Jersey Devil #1, based on the Jersey Devil legend. It was published under his own imprint, South Jersey Rebellion Productions. Pencilled largely by Steven Cornicelli and inked by Bob Clark, Jersey Devil #1 enjoyed modest sales. Replacing the art team, DiGerolamo recruited Dom LaGrutta, Jr. for the pencils and Donn Smith for the inks, giving Jersey Devil #2 a cleaner look. Although the improvements continued to bring DiGerolamo and the SJRP strong local sales, comic fans largely ignored the comic. DiGerolamo's insistence on longer issues and multi-issue stories put a strain on his art team and forced him to recruit additional artists.

Around 1999, DiGerolamo launched what would become a more successful comic book, The Travelers which was eventually picked up by Kenzer and Company at issue #4. With the changes of art teams, Jersey Devil was dropped by Diamond Distributors after issue #7 due to low sales. DiGerolamo struggled to keep the comic alive publishing issues 8 thru 12 in mini-comic formats.

Now relieved of the financial burden of publication, DiGerolamo concentrated more on making the Travelers a success. The bimonthly schedule put a strain on artist Brian Dawson and the variety of inkers on the book which included the Fraim Brothers. DiGerolamo also launched a 4-issue mini-series called The Fix to coincide with a novel with the same character.

By issue 9, Dawson could no longer commit to The Travelers hectic schedule, so inker James Dunn took over the art chores for issues 10 and 11. Eventually, DiGerolamo found a new artist with Chris Moreno on the Travelers #12. Sales peaked with the Travelers during issue #14, which was a crossover with Knights of the Dinner Table Illustrated. Shortly thereafter, he took over the writing chores for another Kenzer comic called Everknights. DiGerolamo moved The Travelers to Wingnut Games with issue #21. By issue 22, Moreno could no longer keep doing the Travelers with his other comic work. DiGerolamo struggled with a series of other artists with Moreno occasionally coming back to help with the art. The comic limped to the 25th issue before Wingnut had to cancel it.

By this time, DiGerolamo had landed side work with Bongo Comics writing for the Bart Simpson comics. His first story was a Lisa story entitled "A Chair of One's Own" in November 2002. While he continued to write for Bongo, he met the publishers at Silent Devil. Looking for another project that both he and Moreno could work on, the duo launched the Super Frat webcomic under Silent Devil's banner. In 2006, Silent Devil published its first compilation of Super Frat called Super Frat: Rush Week Collection.

DiGerolamo continues to writer screenplays and comic books in New Jersey. He is also the creator of Complete Mafia for d20 from Living Room Games. His current project is an online zombie TV show called Zombie Country.

Justin Barrett is a generation-X comicbook artist/creator. Influenced by 80's pop culture, and artists like Capullo, Mcfarlane, Ramos, and Delgado.

Justins work can be seen in comicbooks like DNA , or the underground hit HOVA, and various other published works, as well as Marvel Masterpiece trading cards, Hero Initiative Fantastic Four cards. Currently he is working on his creator owned title HOVA, DNA #3, and Wu -Tang affiliated art/propaganda.

Justin is also a co-founder and member of the Arizona based - Evolution studios, as well as founder of the indy underground publisher- Bulldog Studios. Justin currently resides in Tempe.

Colleen Clinkenbeard is a voice actor/ADR director/ADR scriptwriter/ Line Producer for FUNimation Productions. Her voice acting credits include: Fullmetal Alchemist (Rose Thomas and Riza Hawkeye), One Piece (Luffy in the new FUNimation dub), Shin Chan (Himawari and Maso), Soul Eater (Marie), Vexille (Vexille), Trinity Blood (Sister Esther), xxxHolic (Yuko), Solty Rei (Rose), Witchblade (Reina), Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (Yuko), Kiddy Grade (Éclair), Case Closed (Rachel Moore), Baccano (Nice), Burst Angel (Maria), Samurai 7 (Kirara), Kodocha (Mama), Negima (Sakurako, Shizuna), Origin (Jessica), Rumbling Hearts (Mitsuki), Basilisk (Hotorubi), School Rumble (Anegasaki), Shuffle! (Kareha), Lupin III: Dead or Alive (Oleander), Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (Mary), and Diamond Daydreams and Ghost Train for ADV Films. She has also been featured in the video games: Borderlands, Aeon Flux, Ghostbusters, Spike Out, Battle Zone, Blood Rayne II, Stuntman:Ignition, Guitar Hero III, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist II, Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai. Colleen’s ADR Directing credits include Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Kiddy Grade, Kodocha, Negima, Moon Phase, Sakura Teisen: Ecole de Paris, Case Closed, Kenichi, and Aquarion.

Literary sleuth and world creator Frank Beddor dared to expose the true story of Wonderland in his novels The Looking Glass Wars and Seeing Redd, volumes one and two in the trilogy. Fascinated by the ancient, illuminated cards first sighted at the British Museum, Beddor has spent ten years collecting and interpreting the scattered and elusive Wonderland decks. With Imagination deadlocked at the start of book 3, two cards were key in solving the mystery, the Caterpillar Oracles and the enigmatic card that lay buried and waiting at the bottom of the deck, known only as Everqueen.Even with the trilogy completed, Beddor is still searching and finding cards he believes will reveal more of the lost history of Wonderland.

To further satisfy the awakened curiosity of his readers Beddor has created the parallel adventures of Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan in the Hatter M graphic novel series and the online RPG, the Card Soldier Wars available at cardsoldierwars.com.

Shea Standefer, known to the costuming community as Jaina Solo, has been involved in cosplay and costuming since 2003.  Born and raised in San Diego, she has been attending the San Diego Comic Con for over 10 years, but her interest in costuming did not take root until she began attending renaissance faires and anime conventions.

As a graduate from UCSD in Visual Arts, costuming and cosplay are extremely creative and satisfying outlets for her artistic mind.  There is rarely a costuming challenge that intimidates her, and she is known for creating outstanding and complex pieces using simple materials and unorthodox methods.  Her costuming interests hail from several sources including anime, video games, movies, and original designs.

Shea is currently living in Northern California and was invited to work on the upcoming Star Wars Galaxy 5 sketch card set for Topps.  She is interested in pursuing a career as an artist in the comic book industry (Star Wars being her favorite subject to draw) and hopes to eventually find the time to make a dent in her 150-lb scrap-fabric container.

http://www.tempered-steel.net/

This prolific, award-winning author, editor and illustrator, Spurlock, is a pop-culture historian and advocate for artists’ rights who, has served as President of the Society of Illustrators in Dallas, in addition to working with many of the greatest names in the history of illustration and cartooning including Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Julius Schwartz, Basil Gogos, Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, the Wally Wood Estate and more. Spurlock’s career also includes work for Disney, Sony, Vanguard, DC, Dark Horse, and MTV. Works by Spurlock include, Wally's World: the Life & Death of Wally Wood, RGK: Art of Roy G. Krenkel, The Space Cowboy, Steranko Art Noir, Joe Kubert: Drawing from Life, and Paintings of J. Allen St. John. Spurlock has founded multiple scholarship funds at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has taught at the university level since 1986. As publisher at Vanguard® --the world's leading producer of art book biographies on illustrators and cartoonists-- Spurlock's works have been acclaimed by The New York Times, IPPY Awards, Entertainment Weekly, Eisner Awards, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, Library Journal, the Rondo Awards, Publishers Weekly, the Hugo Awards, The Village Voice, and more. Meet J. David Spurlock at Vanguard booth.

Starting out as a background artist at Top Cow Productions, Joel Gomez has done work on Tomb Raider, EVO and Witchblade, before moving onto Aspen Comics with Soulfire and Iron and the Maiden. Currently, he is at WildStorm Productions as a full-time penciller on such titles as Wetworks and The Lost Boys. Joel enjoys playing videogames with his wife Beth when he's not drawing comics.

JJ Kirby got his start at WildStorm Productions in 1995 as a penciller and has done work for Marvel Comics, Cartoon, Network, General Mills, Dark Horse Comics, Bad Boy Productions, Nickelodeon, Mattel, and Sony Online before going back to where he started in 2006 to work on the DC Universe Online videogame and The New Dynamix. Ever since he was 10-years old, he's known Australia has held something for him.

California-native Michael Lopez began his career penciling comics for WildStorm Productions on such titles as Gen13, Voodoo: Skin Trade, DV8 and The New Dynamix as well as drawing Spider- an/Punisher, Bloodstone and X-Men: Millenial Visions for Marvel Comics. Michael has also worked for Upper Deck Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, Penthouse, Stuff and Maxim magazines. Besides working full-time concepting on the DC Universe Online game, he spends his free time scratching on the turntables and playing videogames with his three kids.

Newcomer Oliver Nome moved from his hometown of Austin, Texas in late 2006 to work for WildStorm/DC Comics in San Diego, after winning WildStorm/Wizard Magazines talent search contest. He is currently one of a handful of artists working on the DC Universe Online videogame. His comic credits include Deathblow and The New Dynamix.

As the latest addition to WildStorm Productions, Eddie Nuñez is just starting to make his big splash in the world of comics. In the meantime, his days are filled with concepting dynamic art for the DC Universe Online videogame alongside the other WildStorm artists. Eddie also hails from El Paso, Texas where he met Carlos D'Anda back in high school and they've been good friends ever since. Watch out for his first published comics work very soon.

Livio Ramondelli currently works as a Concept Artist for WildStorm Productions, contributing designs to the upcoming MMO title DC Universe Online. Prior to joining the ranks at WildStorm, he received a Masters degree from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. In addition to concept art, he has illustrated for newspapers, magazines and children's books.