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I call myself O Abnormal, but in case you’re wondering I was given the name Sergio Villa-Isaza by my parents. I’d rather you called me O, though.

What can I say? I studied graphic design here in Colombia, where I currently live and work as an illustrator through the internet (although I’d love to travel). My work on the web started in 2003, doing commission artwork. In 2004 I started the webcomic “COMMISSIONED” (www.commissionedcomic.com), a comic strip that revolves around the life of a cartoon-version of myself and my friends as we play RPGs and have weird adventures that overlap reality and the imagination (I just love how that way of saying it makes it sound so educated and well-mannered). 

My fantasy artwork can go from pseudo-realistic to cartoonish, but both rely heavily on lots of detail. I normally do pencilwork, watercolors, inkswashes and can also color digitally; most of the time I’ll just work with a mixture of some or all of them.

For the record, I felt completely ridiculous writing this.

Guy Allen is an illustrator/ designer working professionally in the field for over 4 years. A graduate of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, Guy majored in Illustration, while simultaneously having "on the side" relationships with Industrial and Graphic Design. Guys past work can be seen in many places including print, web and too many commercials to count; from automotive to baked beans commercials , Guy has done them all and has a client list to prove it.

Herb Apon has worked for dark horse and dc comics, he is the head illustrator at character llc, and is currently working on the Warriors: Jailbreak, a sequel to the cult classic movie the Warriors, being published at Dynamite.

My name is Guilherme Balbi.  I'm a 28 year old Brazilian comic book artist. I never thought that I was going to become a professional artist because I started drawing when I was older. I ended up in a comics art school and at the end of the course I was in love with the art form, and I chose this path for life. In the beginning it was very difficult to find jobs and I almost gave up but it ended up all working out fine. Nowadays I'm managed by a Brazilian/American studio (Space Goat). To be able to draw Spartacus was like a dream come true because I loved watching the old 1960's movie with my dad and I really enjoy the history of that time. The most fascinating thing about working in the comic art business is how easy it makes such dreams come true...

Gabriel Bautista is an author, illustrator and true wind walker, from the city of Chicago. He colors Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT, published by DC. His flavor can also been seen in several issues of Elephantmen, published by Image. Gabe is also an Eisner award winning colorist and the creator of comic battling site ENTERVOID.COM. He invites you to come battle with your skills.

Steve Becker is an Aquarius who enjoys long walks in the crisp fall air at sunset, but enough of all that noise. Steve is just an average joe, a would-be hack illustrator by trade with a fancy shmancy piece of paper in a frame from PCA&D to not disprove it. In the past Steve has worked with White Wolf for the 6th edition of Gamma World, inked Tim Truman's pencils on a Grimjack miniseries for IDW, and worked a freelance gig with Rockstar Games NYC on the Grand Theft Auto IV add on “The Ballad of Gay Tony”. Most recently Steve has contributed two stories and the back cover art as well as designed the zombie shooting target line of merchandise for Jeff McComsey’s World War 2 zombie comic anthology FUBAR. Steve is also lead background designer on the Atomic Robo: Last Stop animated film currently in production with The Fictory.

Danilo Beyruth is a professional illustrator and comic book creator from the depths of the jungles of Brazil. His self published comic book Deathnaut had one story published in the Eisner winning Popgun 3 from Image comics and is about to release its second TP. His graphic novel Bando de Dois (Band of Two), about the two last survivors of a decimated outlaws gang in the badlands of Brazil in the beginning of the century, has being largely acclaimed as the one of the best releases of 2010 in Brazil.

Antonio Bifulco lives and works in Marigliano, Italy (near Naples). Antonio received his art degree at the Art Academy of Naples. He started his professional work in the comic industry in 2007 as inker and colorist. Shortly after, he moved onto pencils and painting. His credits are spread across several international comic, card game and video companies.

William Dean Blankenship Jr. is a self-taught flashing animated GIF from northern West Virginia. A recently self-elected Pope, William is the creator of and artist for The Thunderchickens and Special Edition. He's also worked on titles such as Razor Kid, Warmageddon, Crazy Mary, Abigail and Rox and has done illustration work for Red Bar Radio, Distorted View podcast, Downlow Clothing, and Chicago improv comedy posters. He's currently working on his creator owned miniseries, The Thunderchickens with writer and co-creator Chad Boudreau. When not drawing, William enjoys watersports and is a sucker for other people's pain. 

Kevin Bolk is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and proud alumnus of
Awesome University (his favorite imaginary alma mater). Although his work
has appeared in publications by Nickelodeon, Tokyopop, Udon Entertainment
and more, he’s best known for his parody webcomics “It Sucks to be
Weegie” and “Ensign Sue Must Die!” as part of Interrobang Studios’
Pot Luck Comics.

He’s also responsible for the quirky auto-bio comic “I’m My Own
Mascot” as well as the fantasy webcomics send-up “The Last Mystical
Legend of the Fantastic Fantasy Trigger Star”, just to name a few. All of
these delightful diversions can be conveniently located at the Interrobang
Studios website: http://www.interrobangstudios.com (BOOKMARK OR PERISH!!)

So… um… what are you wearing?

Nick Bradshaw is a Multimedia artist. he's worked in Animation, Gaming and comics, Most of his career focused in the latter. He's worked for most of the major publishers including DC/Wildstorm (Danger Girl, Rokkin), Marvel (X-men), Image and Dynamic forces.  He currently lives and works out of his hometown, Moncton NB.

Jason Brown is an illustrator and video game artist hailing from San Francisco, California. He loves bacon, comic books, and wearing Vibram Finger Shoes just to freak people out.

As an illustrator, Steve has created artwork for everything from greeting cards to theme park design to roleplaying games and comics. In that time, the highlight has been his work on Athena Voltaire, which earned an Eisner Award nomination in 2005 and was included in St. Martin's "The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics and Manga" (2004 edition). Steve was also nominated for the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 2007 for his work on the series. Additional comics work includes 24: Cold Warriors (2008), published by IDW and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Canterville Ghost for Classical Comics. Steve is also a contributor to the Comic Twart and DC Fifty-Too communal art blogs. He lives in central Illinois with his awesome son and amazing dog.

Jomar Bulda, a native of the Phillipines, fell in love with KOMIKS at a young age, collecting local titles such as Kick Fighter and idolizing talents like Lui Antonio, Roy Allan Martinez and the rest of the artists who would soon be collectively known as EXODUS. Jomar soon made it to the local komiks scene through now-defunct Atlas Publications. Now a resident artist of Sketchpad Studios, he is currently busy doing full-length projects, which started with the comic SAVAGE COUNTY (a thriller that will soon be released as a movie from MTV). He is now taking care of the penciling chores for the upcoming epic NEW-GEN: NEW DAWN, inked by his fiancee, Analiza Chris Agot. He is also very happy that he now gets to occasionally mingle with his idols.

Dennis Calero is the award winning and internationally recognized artist of X-Men: Noir and Legion of Superheroes. He has also leant his talents to CCG Properties such as Magic andLegend of the Five Rings, as well as Dungeons & Dragons. His work includes X-Men Noir : Mark of Cain, X-Factor, 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, Cowboys and Aliens, Dark Tower, Fallen Angel, Hawkgirl, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes, Magic The Gathering, Countdown to Final Crisis, Wolverine: First Class and JSA Classified. During his tenure on X-Factor the title was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Series (2006). Calero has also provided illustrations sporadically for role-playing games, beginning in 1996 for White Wolf. He has done interior artwork forDungeons & Dragons books for the Forgotten Realms setting, such as Silver Marches,Faiths and Pantheons, and Races of Faerun. Calero also  co-founded Atomic Paintbrush, one of the first computer-coloring companies working in the comic-book field.

Ray Chan is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, 2007 and author of several self published graphic novels. After graduating, he was working as a freelance illustrator before being hired as a concept artist at a Toronto based game development studio: Vast Studios. He has over 2 years of experience in the games industry, creating work to be used in top title casual games. Currently, he is working as an Art Director and Lead Concept artist at his own studio: Orca Games Inc.

Ron Chan was born and raised in Portland, OR and works as a freelance Comics Artist, Storyboarder, and Illustrator. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005, and is now a member of the Portland-based art collective, Periscope Studio. Some of his projects include drawing comics for Dark Horse, Marvel, Virgin, and Viper Comics, illustrating user experience scenarios for product design with Microsoft, and storyboarding 3D animation for video games at Pendulum Studios.

Lonny Chant (Broken, Licensable BearTM, FUBAR) Lonny works as a freelance artist and infrequent indie comic artist. He has contributed to a variety of small-press anthologies over the years, most recently the WWII Zombie book FUBAR.  Lonny is currently creating a website, so for the time being you can view art and sketches at his blog: http://lonnychant.blogspot.com/.

Karine Charlebois has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. When she learned that cartoons weren't exactly made by elves in Japan and California, she found her way into the Montreal animation industry. She's worked mostly in storyboarding for both TV and video games, and at some point decided to try her hand at comics, first landing a few gigs with an educational publishing house and producing a graphic novel for them. A well known artist in the Gargoyles fandom, she got the opportunity to draw both for the main series and the Gargoyles: Bad Guys spinoff, published by SLG. She currently juggles working from home on a comic series for Mega Brands, raising two young boys with her husband, and trying to make her obese, geriatric cat lose some weight.

Born in a crossfire hurricane (actually Cleveland, OH), Richard P. Clark's illustration career began in 1993 while still an undergraduate at The Columbus College of Art and Design. Since then, he's worked for a wildly varied list of clients in several industries-among them HBO, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal and Alcoholics Anonymous. He's been finding work again in the Comic Industry, including a recent job for Dark Horse providing finishes over Darick Robertson's breakdowns for The Guild-Vork comic. He's hoping this recent turn into the comic lane sticks as there are literally scores of stories he'd like to unleash on the world. Mr. Clark currently resides in Upstate NY after a 10-year tour of duty in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter and a goofy dog named Barnaby.

Standing at 5'11", 190 lbs, with a 74" reach, Scott Cohn draws out of NYC. He's currently the artist on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein for Dynamite. He's also worked on such titles as Army of Darkness, JLU, TMNT, Ben10, and Krypto. His illustration clients range from, but aren't limited to- Sony, GM, Time Inc., Simon & Schuster, Gillette, HBO, Fortune, and MTV. Scott graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He's learned to wear many different hats, and adapt styles. He has knockout power in his right hand, but he finishes most of his opponents with the FTP drop. In his spare time, he likes to wrestle animals to the ground, and his favorite color is blue.

Hector Collazo is an alumni of the  High School of Art & Design in New York City, which landed him his first comic's related job as an intern in the 80's. This led to a long career at Marvel Comics in their Art Department and in Editorial, where he worked for many years before pursuing freelance work full-time. During his two and a half decades long career, his work has been seen at Marvel, DC, various independent comic book companies and dozens of advertising campaigns. He is not only a phenomenal penciler, but a recognized Inker. You can find his work on milestone issues of "The Avengers," "Iron Man," "X-Men," "The New Mutants," "Spiderman," "Spiderman 2099," "Wolverine," "The Punisher," "Batman," "Wonder Woman," "JLA," and much more.

In 2012, he will be featured as  the Artist and co-Creator of "Crime-Buster Inc." A creator owned project for Excel Comics, a brand new Publisher launching in 2012.

Mike Collins has been creating comics for over 25 years, working for Marvel, DC, 2000AD and a whole host of other publishers. In that time heís written or drawn pretty much all the major characters for each company- Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Flash, Teen Titans, X-Men, Captain Britain, Judge Dredd, Darkstars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt and  more. He recently garnered an unlikely amount of publicity for drawing a comic based on the Royal Wedding, which -through a bizarre series of events- led him to cover the actual proceedings as a reporter for Dutch TV. No, really. Best known as an artist on the UK Doctor Who comic strip, he also storyboards for TV and films, including the recent Warhammer 40K film, and Horrid Henry. He also draws a series of noirish crime fiction graphic novels "Varg Veum" in Norse. He is World Famous in Norway. He lives in Cardiff, Wales and his studio is a short walk away from The Rift. He has a wife, three daughters, two cats and is an enthusiastic yet inept dancer.

Since I was a child, I would draw to pass the time. When I wasnít outside with friends I was drawing. In about third grade I discovered comics. I was hooked from that point on. I went to the middle school of the arts where I was introduced to fine art at a very young age and this became another love of mine. I loved the hands-on work we did there, and I was exposed to many different forms of art at a very early age. This helped in my growth and kept me motivated to be the best because of my competitive nature. I continued to pursue art through high school and landed a few portrait gigs during my time in school, once I realized you could make money having fun, I just got focused and made sure i was as well-rounded as possible so I could take on any opportunity that presented itself. Portraits are rather boring sometimes, so comics and anime were still my escape. I love to tell stories visually, and do so to this day. I practice everyday to sharpen my storytelling abilities, as well as my traditional aesthetic in hopes that I will become as good as those that came before me.  As I've gotten older, I have developed a love for animation, video game character design, as well as illustration.  My goal is to be successful as possible in these fields.

Joe Cooper is an American Cartoonist born in Detroit, MI. He is one of those people whoís drawn for as long as he could hold a pencil. As a result, he suffers from a grotesque callous on his right middle finger.

Joe attended the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York City. He graduated with honors in May 2000. He started working professionally before graduating with titles like Baby's First Deadpool Book, and Ka-Zar for Marvel Comics. 

Some past clients include, Dynamite Entertainment, DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Image Comics.

Joe currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.

Born in 1984, Ben Costa is a Xeric Award-winning cartoonist whose first book Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk is available now. He lives in the Bay Area where he makes comics and wields his mighty banhammer, smiting naughty forum kids, for a meager living.

Marco D'Alfonso was born sometime during the 80ís and he's been drawing pretty much ever since.  His love of comics and art all started with an ALF comic he found in a loot bag. Since that life-altering moment he has found inspiration in animation, comics and contemporary art.  He is a freelance illustrator/designer and his work can be found in video games, toy designs, comic stuff, and various wrestling things.  He is currently hiding out in Toronto.

Jeff Dabu has worked on books for Viper, IDW, and Penny Farthing Press.  He likes romantic candlelit dinners, walking barefoot on the beach, and likes a good cry every now and then.  He currently resides in Winnipeg.

Jeremy Dale is a comic book artist best known for his work on G.I. Joe comics for Hasbro with creator Larry Hama as well as the Harvey Award-winning Popgun v.1 from Image Comics and Miserable Dastards (recently optioned as a feature film).  He is currently working on several projects, including the creator-owned Skyward series. He is a featured guest at several shows, conventions, and signings every year. For more of his work, check out http://www.jeremy-dale.com

Mike DeCarlo was born on March 14, 1957 in New Haven, CT.

After graduating Notre Dame High School and studying art for 2 years at Southern CT ST College, he began his professional career as sports cartoonist for The New Haven Register in 1977. He left that position in 1979 to begin apprenticeship with the legendary Dick Giordano and after 18 months branched off to begin a solo career in the comic book industry. Over the next dozen years, he worked primarily as an ink artist on such titles as Batman, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, Thor, Iron Man and Conan the Barbarian.

In the mid-nineties, his focus changed to the cartoon/animation genre and worked as an artist on Looney Tunes, Powerpuff Girls, Ben-10, Scooby-Doo and Pinky & the Brain among others.

In the last decade, in addition to the work he now does for The Simpsons comic company Bongo Entertainment, he works for Disney Worldwide Publishing on Phineas & Ferb, Marvel Superheroes Magazine and Spider-Man Magazine.

Mike also has extended his repertoire into the digital field, becoming accomplished at digital inking in Illustrator and coloring in Photoshop. He also has an active commercial website www.fancommissions.com which engages the general public in personalized drawings.

Mike is happily married since 1981 and has raised 4 children and currently resides in Stratford, CT.

Przemyslaw R. Dedelis has been a full-time freelance comic book artist for over a year now. Currently, he's working on webcomics (Twilight Lady, Void, Lightweitz), small-press projects (Action Hero Mandy #1 and Drualus #1), Nightmare Fighter with Sissy Pantelis and Lya Mangaka (for which they will be looking for a publishers) as well as slowly creating his own stories and characters. If between all this he still finds some time, he likes to spend time with his girlfriend (who's the most understanding person in all the universes and alternative realities) and watch series from The CW Network. 

I spent most of my childhood in several cities and states, like Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia, and since I was young I already had great interest in the comics’ field, mostly super-heroes.
In my family there was never an artist, and then I came, singing, playing and drawing. After some fights and a DNA test, they believed that I was really part of the family, and that there was no way of stopping me.  My interest in comics came from since when I began to understand what happened when you put a drawing next to another in sequence. When I saw a fantastic world materializing in a sheet of paper. That must have been when I was 6 or 7.

The guys at Impacto (Klebs, Manny and a former teacher there, Fabio Laguna), have always supported me. In comics, without a doubt the one that influences me the most nowadays is Brian Hitch, I love his work, even though I know that the type of art he does and the 30 day deadline don’t mix very well. But besides him, some guys like Kevin Nowlan, Alan Davis, Adam Huges, Joe Quesada, Mignola, Alex Raymond, and Travis Charest also have a par in what I do. So many influences sometimes make it hard to create a single style, so I do what I believe gives consistency to the pages.

Past Works:
Wonder Woman # 5 (DC Comics)
24: Nightfall # 1 -6 (IDW)
The Shield : Spotlight#1-#5 (IDW)
Ward 1- 3 (Image)
Highlander covers - Dynamite Entertainment

Chris' comic credits include The Warriros, Robin, Deadpool, Starship Troopers, The Hunger, Warhammer and Magician Apprentice. He is currently drawing "Pale Horse" for Boom Studios!

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, Fall of Cthulhu Godwar, Eureka : Dormant Gene for Boom Studios, IT! The Terror from Beyond Space for IDW and cover work for Hack/Slash from Devil's Due. 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 COMICS. Mark is currently working on an unannounced project with Steve Seagle which will be published in 2011 by Image.

Steve Downer is a professional illustrator, designer and digital colorist. He lives in Bozeman, Montana. Steve has had work published by DC Comics, Marvel Comics, in magazines across the United States and Canada, and on t-shirts most any place you care to look.

Victor Drujiniu is a Romanian artist, he is 29 years old and is currently living in Timisoara city. He creates comic books for publishing houses in the USA. In other words, he is doing what he always wanted to do. He graduated “Plugor Sandor” Highschool of Arts in a small town near the mountains, Saint George, in year 2000, as head of his promotion. He continued his studies in Timisoara city, at the Faculty of Arts within the Western State University, his specializing being in Pedagogy of Arts.   In pursuing his life dream to become a well known comic book artist, Victor started out at Zenescope Entertainment, with “Tales from Wonderland: Alice”. Not long after that, the “Grimm Fairy Tales”  #30 was out under his skilful pencil; and they kept flowing: “Return to Wonderland: The Mad Hatter II”, “The Waking” – 4 issues. He then decided to take the next important step in his career, by moving to Dark Horse publishing house, third in prestige line after Marvel Entertainment and DC Comics. This leap would not have been possible without the precious help of his agent, Shon C. Burry, within Space Goat Productions. At Dark Horse, he already received his first deal: “Predators – Film Adaptation”, a 64 pages title, based on the film “Predators” with worldwide premiere in July 2010.   He considers himself a lucky person, because he is fulfilling his life dream to work in the comic books industry. His goal is to draw for Marvel Entertainment or DC Comics, not necessarily in this order.

My name is George Duarte.

I'm a comic book penciller, games and RPG illustrator, 24 year old Brazilian. I started working with illustrations when I was 18.My life divides in before my 20's, and after my 20's - when I quit my steady job, that had nothing to do with drawing, and decided to stick only with art. This doesn't mean it has been easy.

At 21, I started doing all my art digitally, using my old tablet, and I've been working with comics ever since. At 23, I joined the Brazilian studio Impacto Quadrinhos, where I intend to fulfill my goal of being a giant in the comic book world.

My website  http://www.klebs.com.br/Estudio/g-duarte.htm

While obtaining a degree from Parsons School of Design in New York City, Joe Dunn fell in love. First with sequential storytelling and then with a lady. He's spent the last decade devoted to those two things, tying the knot and working steadily on webcomics such as Joe Love's Crappy Movies, Matriculated, Coffee Achievers and Another Videogame Webcomic. Joe has since relocated from the big bad city to the peaceful suburbs of New Jersey where he hopes that his odd hours and rowdy music don't bother the neighbors.

Casey Edwards is a graphic designer/illustrator as well as creative director for Mowie Inc. Some of his clients include: Geffen Records, Warner Music Group, UMG Music Group, Karen Hunter Publishing, Markosia Enterprises and White Wolf Publishing. Providing cover art for Joseph Gauthier’s Lazarus; Immortal Coils from Markosia Enterprises and for the Mad Scientist card game Mwahahaha! for White Wolf Publishing, his work can be seen at studiorevolver.net and mowieinc.com. He believes in the Tooth Fairy, but not the Easter Bunny. He’s definitely a cat person.

Joe Eisma is the artist and co-creator of the Eisner-nominated series, Morning Glories from Image Comics.  In addition, he has worked on Notorious, Existence 3.0 and Dynamo 5 from Image Comics, as well as Serpo from Devil's Due and We the People from Outlaw Entertainment.  Joe also works in the game development field, having contributed animations, 3d models and texture art to games on the iPhone, Nintendo DS, PC and Xbox Live platforms.  He currently resides in the Dallas area in Texas, along with his wife Kimberly and son Logan. He is a fan of documentary film, coffee and chairs.  

 

Harris "Darthmoga" Ejaz is a Pakistani Visual artist. Currently working as Film Director in an animation studio, he is a concept artist and digital illustrator at heart. This is his second brush with the western comic book industry, the first being an incomplete Zuda pitch with writer Shawn Aldridge.

His work can be found at http://darthmoga.deviantart.com/

 

 

Chris Eliopoulos is an Eisner and Harvey nominated wrier/artist/letterer, having written and drawn Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius and written Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers, both for Marvel Entertainment. He's the author of the webcomic Misery Loves Sherman and currently is the artist on Cow Boy coming from Archaia in March 2012.

After a life-threatening encounter with a rogue telephone pole and a 77 Oldsmobile, Steve Ellis leapt out of Danger and into Decision. “I know, I’ll be an artist!” He exclaimed. Since that fateful day many long years ago, he has flung himself headlong into the dazzling high-class world of the Freelance Artist. His high-powered, energetic style has graced CD covers, computer games, trading cards, books, RPGs, magazines, toys and comics. Well versed in digital and traditional media, Steve's work has enjoyed widespread success painting and illustrating in the publications of Marvel and DC Comics, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck and numerous other companies. His high-powered illustrations have also been seen on packages for Hotwheels’successful “Atomics” line. While acting as penciller and inker for Marvel and DC Comics’ famous properties like Lobo, Iron Man, and Green Lantern, Steve has spearheaded such new titles as Jezebelle and recently Crimson Dynamo. As a creator he has been critically successful with the original Science Fiction comic series TRANQUILITY and most recently with THE SILENCERS with writer/co-conspirator Fred Van Lente! In addition to his paintings skills, Steve’s wild imagination gets put to work doing concept designs for Hasbro, Marvel and DC Comics. Steve now lives and works in his palatial Syracuse Studio with his stunning wife Yamila, son Jacob the Magnificent, and their two lovely cats, Mona and Simon. Recently Steve has been teaching Digital Illustration and Life Drawing at Syracuse University’s well-respected illustration program