Andy is an artist-illustrator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Before moving to the United States, he earned a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the Technological University of the Philippines. While attending college, Andy worked as an illustrator. He illustrated children’s magazines and worked as a cartoonist for a local comic book company. After moving to the United States, Andy illustrated a variety of art such as turbine engines, portraits, architectural renderings, and cartoon illustrations.

In the last year, Andy drew sketch card/trading card sets for Rittenhouse Archives to include X-Men Archives, Spider-Man Archives, and Marvel’s 70th Anniversary collection. Andy also has a full schedule of personal sketch card commissions (PSC), many of which can be viewed on his portoflio website.

In the coming months, Andy will be concentrating on his Fantasy Art and upcoming comic book "GOLGOTHA" written by Thomas Healy published by Fiction House Mafia.

http://artstudioexhibit.com/

A late bloomer to the comic world, April Reyna has a strong start to becoming a successful female artist within the comic world. April secured a color separating job with Heroic Age Studios straight out of high school and has assisted in the color separations of many popular DC titles such as: JSA, JLA, Hourman, Deadenders, Teen Titans, Wonder Woman, etc. She then moved to the 'Valley of the Sun' to complete her BFA from Arizona State University and has since participated in several local comic related events such as 24 hour comics, ‘starving artist’ extravaganzas, and has recently freelanced her skills with the World Wide Villains company. With Major Crush Hazard #3 completed, she is currently rocking the illustrations of an indie comic with a working title of 'The Mark of the Pteren' with novelist Melissa Stacey and is expecting to pursue a second comic with the WWV early this summer.

Armand Villavert Jr. is a local artist living in Tempe. His work includes Tokyopop's ZAPT! and currently Boom Comics's Muppet Robin Hood. He is also working on a book for Image Comics entitled Gladstone's School for World Conquerors and some work in the video game industry as a conceptual designer and animator.

He spends his days drawing at Tempe Marketplace, playing XBOX, and fighting his non-vegetarian urge to eat steak. He loves Phoenix Comicon and is excited to have a great time once again.

Moore achieved notoriety as the writer and co-creator of Hawaiin Dick published in 2002 by Image Comics. Additionally he has created Battle Hymn and The Expatriate for Image. Clay has written for such companies as Harris Publications, Devil's Due, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Slave Labor Graphics and Pennyfarthing Press.

He will be collaborating with artist Tony Harris on a new project being released in May of 2010.  He currently lives in Kansas City with his wife and children.

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/

Billy Martinez has been working in comics for almost two decades. His credits include Wildflower- his landmark title that started it all  and his critically acclaimed series- Kickass Girl. Billy is currently working on his new book titled, The Deepest Dark which is slated to be released this summer. Currently he runs his own art school, Neko Press Art Studios in San Diego. On his spare time he enjoys doing live art shows and is currently working on his Girls series of paintings.  He is slated to complete 1000 and is currently on number 370 of that series. Be sure to check out the Neko Press booth this year where Billy will be signing copies of his new art book, The Works, in addition to celebrating the 10 year anniversary for Neko Press Publishing, Billy will be performing a few live art shows at his booth during this convention. Be sure to check it out and join in on the celebration.

For more information about Billy and Neko Press – www.nekopresscomics.com

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.

Prior to the creation of Witchblade, Haberlin was the colorist for the monthly issues of Todd McFarlane's Spawn series. Haberlin has since taken over some of the art chores on the book.

He has also co-created many comic titles under his Avalon Studios such as Stone, The Wicked, Hellcop, Houdini: The Man from Beyond, Jinn, Aria, M-Rex, Area 52 and Athena Inc.

Pulido founded Chaos! Comics and has written comics including Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Purgatori and licensed comics including A Nightmare on Elm St., Chucky, Friday The 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He is on The Hero Initiative’s fundraising board, has received the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Defender of Liberty Award and is the Chief Creative Officer for Mischief Maker Studios.

Pulido wrote and directed the feature film "The Graves", starring Tony Todd (Candy Man) and Bill Mosley (The Devil’s Rejects).

He is the writer of the upcoming Lady Death Monthly series, slated to debut in fall 2010.

For more info, visit: www.BrianPulido.com , www.LadyDeathUniverse.com & www.TheGravesMovie.com

Bryan Kilgore is the creator of Kilgore Studios 75/Cornbread Comics.  In 2007 he started his online comic series called "bre bre & bj" which was featured on the Phoenix Public Library's website.  In 2008, 2009 and now 2010 it has been featured online with the Maricopa County Library District for their Summer Reading Program.  All this lead to the release of his first graphic novel called "Logos vol. 1" and his second graphic novel called "bre bre & bj vol 1."

To read Bryan's full BIO log onto www.bryankilgore.com

CGC will be on hand during the Phoenix Comicon to witness signatures by Stan Lee.

1.  They will only be doing signature series during Stan Lee signing .  No exceptions.
2.  Other times they will do everybody else at the convention for signature series items but not during the above guest's signings.
3.  They will box up and ship the comics to the home office.
4.  Tier prices are based on monetary value not grade.  $27.00 and up.
5.  They can take charge cards

Chris Gutierrez is a self taught artist out of Southern California. He started out doing concept art for film and video games, but returned to his true passion, comics, with a foray into the sketch card world in 2008. His credits include: Rittenhouse Archives' Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman, Marvel 70th Anniversary, Marvel VS, and Breygent's Classic Sci Fi Horror Movie Posters in 5x7 (the latter to be released at San Diego Comic Con in 2010.)

Chris is co-creator of the occult steampunk mini-series "The Seven:Scarlet Fever".  He joins his wife Tess Fowler at their booth.

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.

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

David is influenced by all form of comics from superheroes, to manga, to European.  For a while David tried to balance a normal 9 to 5 job and a comic career on the side, but he has now taken the plunge and his doing comic writing full time.  His current work is Dusk, a supernatural vampire drama/action/thriller graphic novel.

Read more about Dusk at - http://www.duskcomics.com/

David Rabbitte is a professional illustrator who has worked in the animation industry since 1993, serving as a background artist on feature films such as Anastasia, Titan A.E., and Curious George. Currently working as a freelance artist, he is most known for his sci-fi and fantasy artwork and has an established client list featuring Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Marvel, Byron Preiss Books, Boom! Studios, Sabertooth Games, Decipher, Topps and Upper Deck Trading Cards.

Some of David's most recent projects include a base card and 100 sketch cards for the Star Wars Galaxy 5 trading card set, sketch cards for Topps upcoming Empire Strikes Back 3D Widevision card set, also cover art for Boom! Studios Muppet Peter Pan hardcover book. 

David currently lives in Chandler, Arizona. 

For more information please visit his blog at www.skyhookart.blogspot.com also his gallery at www.pen-paper.net/artgallery/DavidRabbitte

Well known for being one half of team "eDex" along with artist Ed McGuiness. He is is one of the comic industries' most respected inkers, having worked on a multitude of titles for both Marvel and DC. Some titles include Marvel's big 2007 summer event Civil War, Superman/Batman, JLA Classified (all done with McGuiness), and Wolverine.

Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, NYT-bestselling Outlander novels, described by Salon magazine as "the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting "Scrooge McDuck" comics," and the Lord John Grey novels, which are only slightly more describable. Dr. Gabaldon holds several advanced degrees in science, (plus an honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters (though no one has yet explained to her just what a humane letter is) and spent a dozen years as a university professor with an expertise in scientific computation before beginning to write fiction. None of this has anything to do with her novels, but there you are.  She has also written a graphic novel based on her Outlander series, The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, with art by Hoang Nguyen, which will be released this fall.

Dietrich Smith is an Arizona based artist.  He began as an intern for Extreme studios/Image comics and moved on to titles with Malibu, Marverl, DC and a variety of small publishers.  Looking to expand his talent and he began storyboarding in the animation field on shows like Men in Black, Jumanji, Robocop, and Spider-man.  In addition to comics and animation Dietrich has illustrated for newspapers, magazines and children's books.

Dug Nation has worked as a professional illustrator/storyboard artist in the film and video game industries for 9+ years with clients including Sony Cinematic Solutions,White Wolf publishing, Hyundai,Millar Lite,Walmart,Frontline and Watts Atelier of the Art. Dug has just completed the Story and Illustrations for the painted graphic novel "The Cobweb Detective Club" for http://www.ipulpfiction.com/

To see some of  his newest work you can also go to http://dugnation.deviantart.com/gallery/

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.

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!

Eric Mengel is an American cartoonist that writes, illustrates and publishes his mini comic, OCHO. He has been a staple in the Arizona comics community since 1995. Two books have been published so far-BLIND MICE (2005) and OCHO: Kill the Blue Man (debuts at the 2010 Phoenix Comicon). His website is ericmengel.com.

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.

Gabe Eltaeb was born in 1978 in the same hometown as Jonah Hex; Greeley, Colorado. When he was little he would spend most of the day drawing in the kitchen of his Grandparent's Mexican restaurant on long sheets of butcher paper.

When he was 13 and living in San Diego, his friend Shawn Bandy showed him a copy of X-Men issue one Illustrated by Jim Lee and Scott W illiams. It had the Beast Vaulting over a rock and Storm flying close behind him along with many other X-Men launching an attack on the Nefarious Magneto.  Gabe was awestruck when he saw this. He didn't know illustrations could be this good. He decided then and there that this is what he would do with his life.

1000's of comics, a college degree, a marriage and two kids later in 2004 a chance Meeting with Nexus creator Mike Baron in a Colorado Comic Book store landed Gabe his first illustration job penciling the final issue of the Detonator from Image Comics.

Gabe was hired to work in the WildStorm Coloring Department in late 2007 and now works for Jim Lee, the very man who inspired him to get in the business in the first place.

You may have seen his work on such titles as Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, The Authority, Gen 13 and many more. Gabe also inked his first story for DC Comics this fall in the DC Holiday Special.

Gabe lives in San Diego with the woman of his dreams two kids and a lazy dog named Speedy.

Comic book artist extraordinaire, whose amazingly detailed style and incredible desire to grow and evolve as an artist have made him a fan-favorite. Greg first made a name for himself while working on Marvel Comics X-Force, but he has left an unmistakable mark on the landscape of the comic book industry with his breathtaking work on Spawn and his creator-owned title, The Creech.  Greg's art can currently be seen in the top selling ongoing series, Haunt from Todd McFarlane Productions and Image Comics.

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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.

Jamal is an Exclusive Talent artist for DC Comics Currently Jamal is working on Supergirl with Sterling Gates. Jamal is married to his beautiful, and much smarter wife Karine.

They're also the proud parents of an extremely cute child named Catherine and a Cat named Loustique.

James Daly III has always been sketching monsters and robots with his pencils, pens and brushes. He can't help it. Some of his drawings can be found on covers of The X-Files, Bionic Commando, Halloween, Spooks: Omega Team, Gutwrencher, and Graveslinger.  

James worked on the 6 issue series Bad Planet with Thomas Jane, Tim Bradstreet and Steve Niles for RAW Studios. He recently finished work on an anthology story, with writer Stef Hutchinson for Archaia Comics, and is currently working on a science fiction story for RAW.

Jason began working in the comic book industry painting covers for Star Trek and Star Wars in 1990.  Since then, he’s worked as an illustrator on a vast variety of projects, including art for TV shows, story boards, advertising, concept work and collectibles.  His recent projects include Indiana Jones concept designs for Lucasfilm, and licensed work for Warners Brothers and Universal Studios.

A fan of the Firefly series, Jason created a print of the show cast for a local LA convention.  Encouraged by Joss Whedon, Jason has since been working together with Universal Studios producing a line of licensed artwork for Serenity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Layman has worked in comics for almost a decade and a half, as a writer, a letterer and an editor and has worked over the years for Image, Marvel, IDW, Oni, Dynamite and Avatar. In addition to his current creator owned book CHEW, notable books include "Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness," "Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen" and "The Complete Idiots Guide to Drawing Manga." He's also written a half dozen video games, including the superhero-themed MMO "Champions Online." He resides in Gilbert Arizona with a wife, child, Legos, and cats.

Jolene Houser born and raised in the oven that is Arizona. She was one of the lucky kids whose parents thoroughly supported her in anything she her heart desired. Which happened to be drawing comics and listening to Rock n Roll. Though some of that changed from animation to manga to american comics with the help of Top Cow's Witchblade in the 90's.

Jolene has been working on a number of projects throughout the years which include David Doub's Dusk and a Weekly webcomic soley created by Jolene. Her webcomic can be found: http://www.drunkduck.com/Gloom/

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.

For DDP founder, Joshua Blaylock, comic books were a childhood passion, and succeeding in their field was the goal his education and life revolved around. After a period of time spent in the world of licensing for brands such as Disney and Warner Bros., and designing clothing lines for alternative nationwide boutiques like Hot Topic, Blaylock combined his licensing and comic book knowledge to form the Devil's Due that readers know today.

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.

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.

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

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.

Madame M is a volumptous vixen who spins a web of creepy, cutesy  tales in her popular collection of books including Creepy Little Bedtime Stories, Eerie Little Bedtime Stories, and Trauma Queens/Trauma Kings. She has also illustrated such titles as Tales of the Truly Grotesque, and Bit at Large. Madame M's current haunt is "Super Vamp;" an online comic about a lovable, accident-prone superhero-vampire. A limited edition version of this comic will be available at the Phoenix Comicon.

Find out more about Madame M here:
www.supervampcomic.com
www.creepylittlestories.com

Follow Madame M on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/creepyMadameM

Marat grew up in Los Angeles CA, where he first fell in love with comics working as a store clerk at the Golden Apple comic book store. At 12 while at a local comic book convention he met another aspiring young artist Rob Liefeld (16 at the time) the two struck up a friendship and kept in touch. Years later as Rob Liefeld was working on Marvel Comic's New Mutants he hired on a fresh out of high school Marat as his assistant. It didn't take long before Rob realized Marat was ready to step up and start penciling his own book…thus Marat became the first Image Comics Rookie penciling Brigade. Marat has had a long and successful career in both comic books and freelance graphic design. He currently resides in Orange County, CA working on numerous projects including the graphic novel series Armageddon Now and this summers relaunch of Brigade.

Mark Dos Santos, a Kubert School Alumni, left New Jersey for sunny California to pursue a career in animation as a storyboard artist and character designer. He quickly became involved in comics producing independent titles. Mark has done work for Western Tales of Terror, Monkey vs Lemur, Zenescopes Grimm Fairy Tales and recently completed a stint on ‘Fall of Cthulhu Godwar’ and “Eureka : Dormant Gene” for Boom Studios. He has also done sketch cards for Inkworks, Strictly Ink and Rittenhouse on such properties as Hellboy Animated, Family Guy, 2000AD, Ray Harryhousen, Marvel and DC. Mark is currently working on a project with Steve Seagle which will be published in 2010 by Image.

He lives in LA with his lovely wife Jennifer.

Mark Greenawalt is a special effects make-up artist and he just so happens to be a fan of sci-fi/fantasy and superheroes. He has taught the art of bodypainting at international conventions on three continents, but he is based right here in Phoenix, Arizona.  He uses airbrushed bodypaints, liquid latex, glitter, prosthetics, and anything else he can to transform beautiful models into fantasy and sci-fi characters.  Greenawalt's work has been featured in magazines (Airbrush A ction, Time), independent films (Villikon Chronicles, Second Chances), and at live events (Playboy Mansion, WWE).

Greenawalt's corporate clients have included Budlight, Maxim, Tuaca, Heineken, Smirnoff, Camel, Dos Equis, and Playboy and in the past decade he has completed nearly 400 bodypainting projects. His website at www.futureclassx.com has grown to include literally 1,000 web pages and thousands of images and informative content.

Writer/Artist Mark Kidwell is the creator of the Fangoria Comics horror mini-series BUMP as well as the writer of Frazetta Comics' DARK KINGDOM, FREEDOM and TYRANNOSAURUS REX. For IMAGE COMICS, he wrote the Vietnam/Zombie epic '68 and wrote/illustrated the Lovecraftian one-shot CREATURE FROM THE DEPTHS. Recently, Mark penciled and inked the upcoming horror graphic novel JACK THE LANTERN: WAR OF THE SOUL for Castle rain Entertainment. Mark is also the screenwriter for the upcoming film version of BUMP and author of the soon-to-be-released BUMP novel.

Mark will be available all weekend at the FRAZETTA COMICS booth, signing books, limited convention prints and drawing original sketches. Original art pages from BUMP, CREATURE FROM THE DEPTHS and various other projects will be available.

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.

Michael's love of superhero movies began at the age of 8, when he saw the first full page newspaper ad for the 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman Film. He ran into the next room to excitedly tell his parents "You will believe a man can fly!"

Michael began going to conventions at the age of 10, his parents took him to his first, HoustonCon 1980, they’ve never been to another convention since, he’s never stopped going.  He began volunteering at conventions at the age of 12, and his love of fandom and superhero movies has never stopped.  Michael wrote his first college paper for film school on the process to get the 1989 Batman film made, quoting such luminaries as Starlog editor David McDonnell and publicists Jeff Walker and Terry Erdmann.

While volunteering for the local Denver Sci-Fi Convention, Starfest, Michael had the opportunity to take over one of the video rooms and turn it into Superhero Cinema, one of the only (possibly the only) convention video rooms dedicated to 3 full days of Superhero Movies and TV shows.
Now he runs the video room, and a website devoted to superhero movie news, with a podcast, as well as speaking at conventions showing movie trailers and covering superhero movie news.

http://www.superherocinema.com

Mike Bullock is an award-winning writer of poetry and creative fiction, a published lyricist, and an accomplished non-fiction writer. He has been writing creatively for over 20 years and has nearly two decades of promotional experience in the music and comic industries. He is best known as the creator of Lions, Tigers and Bears for Image Comics, and as the regular writer of legendary superhero The Phantom from Moonstone Books.

Mike Carlin is Senior Group Editor at DC Comics supervising the production of DC's JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA line of titles. These include JSA, JSA ALL-STARS, POWER GIRL, MAGOG, and the newest history of the DC Universe LEGACIES.

From 1993 to 2003, Mike was Executive Editor of the DC Universe of comic book characters (including the globally recognized icons SUPERMAN, BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN, GREEN LANTERN and FLASH) for DC Comics.  Desiring to get back to the more creative side of the process Mike made the unusual move back to hands-on editing.

Mike attended the High School of Art and Design, where in 1974 he participated in an intern program with the same DC Comics-- a program which ended, coincidentally enough, after Mike's checkered performance.  Subsequently Mike studied Cartooning with Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner at New York's School of Visual Arts.

Fresh out of college in 1980, Mike began his professional comics career writing and drawing "Mike Carlin's Page O' Stuff" and "The Dirk McGirk Reports" for Marvel Comics' Crazy Magazine. Mike, on his best behavior in the hallowed halls of Marvel, was tapped for an Assistant Editorial position in early 1982 by Mark Gruenwald. Two years later Mike was promoted to full Editor and handed Captain America  and Fantastic Four  to supervise. While at Marvel Mike wrote Captain America, Ka-Zar  and The Thing.

Having missed the memos regarding Mike's internship over a decade earlier, Dick Giordano hired Mike to work with John Byrne and Andy Helfer on the relaunch of the SUPERMAN titles for DC Comics in 1986. Six years later Mike had successfully helped build the SUPERMAN line into the best selling phenomenon it remains today with the infamous"Death and Return of Superman” storyline. Mike has also written STAR TREK, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, THE FLINTSONES & THE JETSONS and the METAL MEN for DC.

Mike was co-writer, with Andy Helfer, of fifteen teleplays for the syndicated SUPERBOY television series as well.

Mike has also written and drawn his own comic called RATMAN 2000 (Slave Labor Graphics), which his mother insists he apologizes for. Mike apologizes here and now.

Mike drinks "Lots o' Soder!"

Nat has worked on an impressive array of titles for many of today's top publishers including Dark Horse, Image, IDW and Fox Atomic. Known primarily for his highly detailed pen and ink illustration, Nat is also an accomplished painter and writer. Nat's dark and extremely detailed art on the highly acclaimed Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan helped to bring this legendary character to life in the first and only Death Dealer story fully approved by Frank Frazetta himself! Nat’s other credits include Spawn, 30 Days of Night: Three Tales, Rob Zombie's The Nail, '68, Giant Monster, and 28 Days Later: The Aftermath.

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.

Patrick Scherberger is a comic book artist currently working for Marvel Comics.

His career began when he won Comicbookresources.com’s internet competition Comic Book Idol in 2004. During the competition he was contacted by Joe Quesada to do a formal try-out for Marvel Comics and, as a result of this, was soon chosen to pencil Marvel Age: Spider-Man.  Some of the comics he’s worked on are Marvel Adventures: Spider-man, GeNext, Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil, and Spider-Man and the Secret Wars.

And is currently working on the second part of World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs. Thor issues 1 and 2 due out in July.

Peter Gross is a writer and artist known for such works as The Books of Magic, Lucifer and The Unwritten.

Philip was born in Manila, Philippines is best known for his work on Spawn, Uncanny X-Men and Iron Man.

Tan graduated at the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. He was the penciller of Final Crisis: Revelations as well as the "Agent Orange" Green Lantern story arc, which started in Green Latern #39 and ran through issue 42.

Following Agent Orange he will be penciling the second three-issue arc of Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin series with issue 6 being his last.

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, Charmed 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.

Rob Osborne is the author of the award-winning graphic novel 1000 Steps To World Domination and the critically-acclaimed graphic novella Sunset City. As a writer-artist working in independent comics, his credits include Old Man, The Nearly Infamous Zango, The Accountants, Talking Noggins, and Go Forth & Conquer. Osborne has also written for video games and worked as an editorial cartoonist. He taught cartooning at the Austin Museum of Art. He knows how to swing a sledge hammer and drive a forklift.

Born in Idaho and raised in Arizona, Rob now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two dogs.

Once pop-culture fan-boy now seasoned nerd war hero. Ryan burst into the scene by being mistaken for the actor who played Hamilton 'Ham' Porter form film the sandlot. He used this mistake to do two things: get a job in the pop-culture world and have a troubled relationship with a famous actress which fell apart when they disagreed about Doctor Who. Ryan currently resides in the wilds of Arizona looking the Lost Dutchman, not for the riches but because it the right thing to do and he is the right man for the job.

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.

Scott is a Phoenix local illustrator and writer.  He shows regularly at venues such as Artlink's First Fridays and has been published online and in select periodicals and books.  Some of his fantasy works were featured in 'A Life of Ravens' and 'Lancelot,' SF/F poetry collections by Alex Ness.  His mediums include pen & ink and digital color.  Among his interests are classic illustrations and movie genres, vintage clothes and cars, pulp magazines, and a severe predilection for 'Doctor Who'.  Scott is available for freelance illustrations and commissions. His first novel was published online in 2009 under a pseudonym.

WWW.VAUGHN-MEDIA.COM

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.

Stan “The Man” Lee, whose legendary comic book career has spanned over 60 years, is the creative mind behind many of the biggest names in the comic book universe, including co-creating Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor and numerous others, and his body of work is far and away the most extensive in the history of comic books.  At 87 years of age, Stan Lee is more active than ever with an unmatched career as a Writer, Editor, Publisher, Producer, and Actor.

Stan Lee will be attending Sunday of our convention. He will be signing autographs, posing for photographs, and engaging in a one hour Q&A. A complete schedule will be posted once confirmed.

Says our Director Matt Solberg, "Stan Lee's appearance is for all those who have supported us over the years, and for those who believe like we do that with great conventions comes great guests. We are one big happy geek family, and as Stan Lee is the Godfather of modern comics and geek-dom join us in welcoming him to the valley of the sun."

Autograph registration for Stan Lee's SUNDAY ONLY signing.

Limit three (3) registrations per person, each registration entitles you to one (1) autograph from Stan "The Man" Lee.

If you purchase an autograph registration, here is the process to redeem your autograph pass at the convention and to determine the autograph session you will attend.

1)      Beginning Sunday at 10am and continuing till 5 PM swing by Tables T9-T11 in the exhibitor hall to redeem your autograph pass.  Check the Exhibitor page of our website or the Program guide for the map to find the location of these tables.
a.       You will need your photo ID and a copy of your paypal receipt to redeem the autograph passes.
b.      The deadline has passed to change the name on the purchases.

2)      You will receive one pass for each individual autograph registration your purchased (thus, if you purchased three autograph registrations, you will receive three passes.  Make sure you receive the number of passes you purchased prior to stepping away from the table.  Once you walk away we will not be able to make any corrections.
a.       These passes will have the time of your autograph session.  You will only be allowed in that autograph session time slot, so plan your schedule accordingly.  There is no refund on the autograph registrations, including if you missed the session you were slotted for.

3)      If you purchased your autograph registration ON or BEFORE May 13th you will be in the Noon to 1:30 PM autograph session.

4)      If you purchased your autograph registration ON or AFTER May 14th you will be in the 3:30 to 5 PM autograph sessions.

5)      The autograph session will take place at the High Profile Autograph Area located at the back of the exhibitor hall.  Please check the Exhibitor page of our website or the program guide to find the location of this High Profile Autograph Area.

6)      We will begin lining up 30 minutes prior for each autograph session.   We ask that you are in line no later than 30 minutes after the session begins to insure receiving your autograph(s).
a.      For the Noon to 1:30 PM Autograph session, begin lining up at 11:30am and be in line by 12:30pm.
b.      For the 3:30 to 5 PM Autograph session, begin lining up at 3:00 PM and be in line by 4:00 PM.

7)      When you are approximately ten people back from meeting Stan Lee, please have your item out and ready to be signed (comics out of Mylar for instance).

8)      There will be no photos available during the autograph session.  There is a separate photo opportunity with Stan Lee at 2:30 to 3:30PM.  Please check Stan Lee’s bio on our website for pre-purchase opportunity, or check Froggy’s Photobooth at the convention for more information.

9)      CGC will have a representative onsite to validate Stan Lee’s autograph and accept those comics for submission.  The specific location of the CGC representative is TBD and will be announced prior to convention.

10)   Make sure to breath in, breath out and have fun when meeting Stan Lee.  Excelsior!

All sales are final for Stan Lee's autograph registrations. There are no refunds.

CGC will have representatives onsite to validate Stan Lee's autograph and accept those book for submission.

Please check at tables T9-T11 beginning at 1 PM on Sunday to see if we have any Stan Lee autograph registrations left.

Sterling Gates was a comic fan from a young age. His father owned a comic book store in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and remembered that, "We had a garage full of comics for as long as I could remember and I would sit and read them for hours, then sneak them under the covers and read them in bed." When he started college, he also worked part-time in a local comic shop.

Gates told a back-up story about Sinestro Corps member Kryb with artist Jerry Ordway in Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman Prime. He went on to write a two-part story about Alpha Lantern Boodikka in Green Lantern Corps #21-22. He then took over full writing duties of the current Supergirl title, starting with issue #34, in October 2008.Gates' involvement in that title places him as a writer for the Superman: New Krypton story arc.

Recent projects include the "Prometheus" Faces of Evil one-shot with artist Federico Dallocchio.

Terry Tibke has been illustrating and building the world of Armageddon for the last 20 years – since he was 11 years old. He is the author, artist and creator of the young adult novel Armageddon: The Battle of Darkening Skies, first in a series of fantasy books published by Eloquent Books in 2009.

Having played many roles in the theater of life, Terry has also been an animator for FatCat Animation, working on such features as Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron and Eight Crazy Nights, and is a regular contributor to sketch card sets such as 5finity's Voltron and Archie releases. And debuting at Phoenix Comicon, Terry (with co-writer Shannon Bailey) wrote and illustrated a special Armageddon story for the new comic anthology, Pirate (heart) Ninja, titled: The Blossom, The Blade, and the Feather.

Terry Tibke lives in Chandler, Arizona with his wife and their two children. He is hard at work on the second Armageddon book in the series,Armageddon: The White Steel Peaks.

Tess Fowler, a self-described, "Artist By Blood And Trade", is a comic book artist based in Northern California. Influenced by the likes of Frank Frazetta, she has kept busy over the years by doing various commission works, pieces for Heavy Metal Magazine and multiple sketch card sets (Marvel, Hellboy, Shrek, The Spirit, etc.) Her most recent comic projects include illustrating an occult steampunk comic "The Seven: Scarlet Fever." The "Best thing about 'THE SEVEN'?" She says, "Learning to curse in several different languages."

Eisner Award nominated Illustrator Timothy Bradstreet was born February 16, 1967 in Cheverly, Maryland. Primarily a self-taught illustrator, he has been working professionally since graduating from high school in 1985. Forgoing institutional art training, Tim joined Fantasmagraphics in 1986, where he worked for two years under the guidance of early mentor, Steve Venters. During this time, Bradstreet began illustrating role-playing games, honing his skills while pursuing a lifelong ambition to break into the comics industry. In 1990 he hit the ground running with industry legend Tim Truman on the serialized graphic taleDragon Chiang, and he never looked back.

Over the ensuing 22 years Tim Bradstreet has illustrated everything from RPGs, trading cards, and comic books, to book covers, album sleeve art, and movie posters. He began his career illustrating role-playing games with GDW’s Twilight 2000, and FASA’s Shadowrun. Tim's ground-breaking work on White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade established him as a critical and pop-culture favorite, and it wasn’t long before he began illustrating for major comic publishers. Tim has since exercised his skills freelancing for hundreds of comic, game, and film related projects including Activision’s Vampire: Bloodlines VG,Dark Horse’s Hard Looks, and Another Chance To Get It Right (With author Andrew Vachss), Star Wars, X, Comics Greatest World, and Criminal Macabre – Clive Barker’s Age Of Desire, Marvel’s The Punisher and Blade, Vertigo’s Gangland, Unknown Soldier, Human Target, and Hellblazer. In 1997 Tim was voted Best Artist by the Horror Writers Guild Of America. In 2000 Tim joined film director Guillermo del Toro as a conceptual artist to help realize the film Blade II. In the fall of 2003 Tim began work on a string of movie posters for the Marvel/Lion’s Gate film, The Punisher; a rare opportunity to influence the film incarnation of a character he so deftly impacted in comics. Bradstreet is now realizing a long time dream to work in film as a conceptual artist, production designer and producer, counting directors Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth), Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Mist), Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), and Jonathan Hensleigh (The Punisher) among his many artistic admirers.

In 2007 Tim entered new territory as a production designer for the 3D gothic horror film Dark Country, starring and directed by RAW Entertainment partner Thomas Jane. Also with Thomas Jane andSteve Niles, Bradstreet co-created the sci-fi-horror comic series Bad Planet.

Bradstreet recently ended a long association as cover artist for two major comic franchises, Marvel’s The Punisher, and DC/Vertigo's John Constantine: Hellblazer.

Combined, he has contributed over 180 covers to those titles over the last 10 years and has left an indelible mark on both characters while simultaneously re-establishing them for a new generation. Tim begins a new chapter as a cover artist bringing his dark vision to Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre, and exploring new directions with Rogue Angel, an ongoing series of novels. In 2010, he contributed over 50 illustrations for Robert E. Howard’s El Borak and Other Desert Adventures for Del Rey. Bradstreet is currently working on a novelization of his long-awaited magnum opus, Red Sky Diary.

The novel will also be available in a heavily illustrated oversized edition. Tim, wife Missy, and daughter Lydia reside in San Diego California.

Tim Vigil is a comic book artist, mostly working in the horror/adult genre. His main graphic novel Faust (with co-creator David Quinn) was adapted by Brian Yuzna as the movie Faust: Love of the Damned (2001). The followup Faust: Book of M was nominated for the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. He is praised for his attention to detail in his black-and-white art, his anatomy, and his extremely graphic art. He received his first popular exposure for his work on the comic title Grips published by the defunct publisher Silverwolf Comics.

Todd will be at Phoenix Comicon on Saturday and Sunday.

From budding baseball player to comic book artist extraordinaire to family man, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has a wealth of experience in the world of entertainment.

Born in Canada in 1961, McFarlane's road trip to creative autonomy began when he accepted an assignment pencilling for Marvel/Epic Comics in March 1984. From there, he worked his way to the top of the talent roster before leaving Marvel to help found Image Comics with six other artists.

It was then that Todd introduced his own character, Spawn. The book's debut in 1992 sold an amazing 1.7 million copies, an unprecedented feat in independent comics. From there came a whirlwind of growth and expansion: more comics, action figures, film, animation and the Web.

In 1994, Todd founded McFarlane Toys, because he wanted to maintain maximum creative control over his Spawn character. Over the years, the company has become one of the largest, most renowned toy manufacturers in the world. In addition to Spawn, McFarlane Toys has produced figures from such properties as KISS, Shrek, X-Files, Austin Powers, Metal Gear Solid, Clive Barker, Akira, the Beatles, Army of Darkness, Jaws, Rob Zombie, Alien, Predator, AC/DC and dozens of others.

Todd still has a passion for sports - he grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player -- but the fact that McFarlane Toys currently has the official rights to produce action figures of professional football, baseball, hockey and basketball players helps scratch that itch. McFarlane also had a minority interest in the ownership of the Edmonton Oilers hockey club and owns the McFarlane Collection of home run baseballs from the 1998 Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race, including McGwire's $3 million #70 ball.

Today, McFarlane, his wife, Wanda, and their three children reside in Arizona, where Todd maintains a happily hectic balance between his family and all his interests (sports, film, comics, action figures).

http://www.spawn.com

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Todd Nauck is an American comic book artist and writer. Nauck is most notable for his work on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Young Justice and his own creation, Wildguard.

Nauck's first assignment from Marvel Comics drawing the back cover of What The--?!

In early 1994, Todd was hired by Rob Liefeld 's Extreme Studios of Image Comics when a friend from art school showed his WildGuard work to Dan Fraga at a comic book convention who in turn showed it to Liefield. Nauck went on to draw such series as Badrock and Co., New Men, New Force, Supreme, Youngblood and Team Youngblood. By 1997, Nauck began work with DC Comics. After drawing several Legion of Superheroes stories, he helped launch the Young Justice series with writer Peter David. Nauck drew 53 issues of the 55 issue run of the series, including three double-sized issues and a portion of the Young Justice/Spyboy crossover mini-series.

Nauck published his creator-owned series, Wildguard, with Image Comics. The series was patterned after a reality television show competition, in which various wannabe superheroes competed for a spot on a new superhero team, and judged by a panel of judges, as on the television series American Idol.

Nauck's other work includes Teen Titans (Volume 3) #32-33, Teen Titans Go!, and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #11-13 and 17-23.

Nauck was the artist of the much-publicized five-page back-up story that appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #538, which was published in January 2009, and featured a cameo appearance by then-President-elect Barack Obama.

Born in Philadelphia, PA April 5, 1972, Tom Hodges has been drawing Star Wars since the ripe old age of 5,that was 1977.

He's only been being paid for it for it since 2003. He's sure Lucasfilm would hurt themselves laughing if he requested retroactive payment for the years in-between... so he's just gonna keep on keepin' on!

Tom is the Lead Artist on starwars.com's "The Clone Wars" web-comic, which is in it's "Season 2" storyline and runs a parallel story to the one featured on Cartoon Network. Also on tap for 2010 will be the return of his Red 5 Comic, "MidKnight", some exclusive Star Wars prints from Acme Archives and some surprises this Summer! And of course... MORE Star Wars comics!

He currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his Wife Terri, their Cats and a Dog named Harley Quinn.

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.

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.

Travis Hanson illustrator and writer of the Bean. A professional illustrator of 12 years, Travis Hanson spends his time creating inspiring prints and incredible illustrations. His latest venture is The Bean an incredible fantasy tale of a 12 year old boy that works in a inn run by ogres, who send him out for shrooms. Travis Hanson is also a quick draw sketch artist. Always willing to sketch for Free at cons, he s created quite a name for himself on his quickness and quantity. Boasting 600 Free sketches last year at Phoenix, Travis is anxious to beat that record this year at the show. So if you want a FREE Sketch stop by his booth. For more information about Travis Hanson's work visit www.beanleafpress.com. He also provided an exclusive limited edition print exclusively for the Phoenix Comic Con.

Whilce Portacio started as an inker before launching his career as a penciller over two decades ago. He has been a leading comic book talent ever since his big break through on Marvel titles X-Factor and Uncanny X-Men in the early '90s. Whilce has worked on titles Iron Man: Heroes Reborn, Punisher, X Force, Stormwatch, Batman Confidential.

Portacio came back to Image Comics recently and worked on Todd McFarlane's "Spawn" and now the much-talked about Image founders (Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino and himself) reunion book called "Image United" where he launched his newest character Fortress.  His project "Hulk # 18" (with Jeph Loeb) also marks Portacio's return to Marvel. Whilce's current Marvel projects include "Prelude To Deadpool Corps #2" and "Uncanny X Men # 522".