Creator Bios

Posted by StevenGoldman on Sunday, September 26 2004 at 12:29 pm

CHRIS ARRANT (writer, ONE-WAY TICKET):

Chris Arrant is a freelance writer living in the southeast United States. In comics, he has self-published and written 2006’s Four Stories and written the webcomic 1 Way Ticket. He has contributed stories to the comic book anthologies 24seven Vol. 2, Negative Burn #9 and the upcoming second volume of Postcards. As a journalist, he has written for Publisher’s Weekly, Marvel Comics, TOKYOPOP, Newsarama.com, The News Herald (Panama City, FL.) and SuicideGirls.com.

ADAM BOORMAN (artist, SCHEHERAZADE):

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KEVIN COLDEN (artist, TODT HILL):

Kevin Colden is a founding member of The Chemistry Set comics collective and also a member of ACT-I-VATE. His current project is the Xeric award-winning Fishtown, which forgoed the Xeric Grant to be published online.

VITO DELSANTE (writer, STUCK, THE DOBERMAN, FCHS):

Vito Delsante, while new to the comics industry, has already worked on two comic book icons: Batman in BATMAN ADVENTURES (DC) and Wolverine in X-MEN UNLIMITED (Marvel). He has also written a Johnny Bravo story for CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY and SCOOBY DOO (DC Comics) and he just finished writing a three-issue arc for JSA CLASSIFIED. In addition to his ChemSet serials FCHS and THE DOBERMAN, Delsante is currently working with artist Mike Lilly (ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST-QUASAR) on THE MERCURY CHRONICLES, a creator-owned homage to the Golden Age of Comic and is developing many more creator-owned concepts with other artists. He is also working on the screenplay to his novel, SWIMSUIT CALENDAR, which is in active development as a motion picture.

 

JIM DOUGAN (writer, VULTURE GULCH AND OTHER STORIES):

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ANDREW DRILON (creator, KARE-KARE KOMIKS):

Andrew Drilon is a writer, artist, editor and graphic designer from the Philippines.He has been featured among The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s “22 under 22 Avant-Guardians” and Meg Magazine’s “Top 50 Achievers”, as one of the country’s hottest young voices. He has contributed to two National Book Award-winning comics anthologies — Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion — and is the co-editor of the PBBY-recommended graphic anthology, Project: Hero. He has self-published a series of ashcan comics, is a regular contributor to K-Zone Magazine, and maintains a weekly Sunday strip at The Philippine Star.

 

 

RACHEL FREIRE (artist, FCHS):

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ELIZABETH GENCO (writer/creator, SCHEHERAZADE, YES, MOTHER):

Elizabeth Genco is a writer of stuff. Also things. Her work has appeared in Negative Burn, Cryptic magazine, Weird Tales, The Endicott Studio Journal of the Mythic Arts, annuals from Llewellyn Publications, Smut Peddler, and various other places, especially online. Via her own mini-imprint, Streetfables, Elizabeth has self-produced quite a few comics and zines, including WEIRD SISTER (with Adam Booran, Dash Shaw, Jeff Zornow and others), RED (with Kevin Colden), PORTRAITS OF 22 KEYS and that crazy zine about busking in the NYC subways that started it all, PLATFORM (featured in The Village Voice and Jane magazine). She recently adapted Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN for Graphic Planet with artist Jason Ho. When she gets a free minute, she contributes to the Endicott Studio blog, because she loves them very much.

Elizabeth keeps one foot in the Northeastern woods (where she grew up) and the other in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband, comics artist Leland Purvis.

STEVEN GOLDMAN (writer/creator of STYX TAXI):

Steven is an Austin-based writer who, in addition to STYX TAXI, co-authored the searingly political graphic novel EVERYMAN: BE THE PEOPLE, and has contributed stories to anthologies including forthcoming POSTCARDS: CALIFORNIA DREAMING (Villard), FLESH FOR THE BEAST (Media Blasters/Shriek Show), and SMUT PEDDLER (Saucy Goose Press).

 

 

 

 

NEIL KLEID (writer of TODT HILL):

Xeric-Award winning cartoonist Neil Kleid authored NINETY CANDLES, a graphic novella about life, death, legacy and comics, and BROWNSVILLE, a graphic novel about the Jewish mafia with Jake Allen for NBM Publishing. He moved to NYC from his hometown of Oak Park, MI, and created minicomics and cartoons for anthologies and magazines, Neil has written for Marvel Comics, Image Comics, NBM, Slave Labor Graphics, Alternative Comics, Random House and Puffin Graphics. In his day job as an art director, Neil’s worked on campaigns for Comedy Central and Miramax Films and his work has appeared in Variety and the New York Times.

TONY LEE (writer of THE GLOOM):

A writer for over twenty years, Tony spent over ten years working internationally for a variety of television, radio and magazines as a feature and script writer, winning several awards doing so.

In 2003 he returned to comic writing, and since then has written for Marvel Comics, Walker Books, AAM/Markosia Entertainment, Panini Comics and Titan Publishing, for properties such as X-Men, Amazing Fantasy, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek. With ‘Two Drunk Guys In A Bar’ partner Dan Boultwood he has created THE GLOOM for APC and in 2006 he adapted G.P. Taylor’s The Tizzle Sisters and Eric and the bestselling children’s book Shadowmancer. His creator-owned book MIDNIGHT KISS was nominated for an Eagle award in 2006.

His upcoming work includes HOPE FALLS for AAM/Markosia (again with Dan Boultwood), DODGE & TWIST for AiT/PlanetLar, WARRIOR NUN AREALA: EXCOMMUNICATED for Antarctic Press, ROBIN HOOD: OUTLAW’S PRIDE and the comic adaption of Anthony Horowitz’s Raven’s Gate series, both by Walker Books.

DWIGHT L. MACPHERSON (writer/creator, THE SURREAL ADVENTURES OF EDGAR ALLAN POO):

Dwight L. MacPherson is a creator and writer with published work at Shadowline/Image, IDW Publishing, Devil’s Due Publishing, Slave Labor Graphics, Arcana Studio, Silent Devil Productions and Cryptic Entertainment. His most well-known works are THE SURREAL ADVENTURES OF EDGAR ALLAN POO (Shadowline/Image) and DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (Arcana Studio).

DAN WARNER (artist on ONE WAY TICKET):

Dan Warner is the Xeric-Award winning cartoonist behind such works as COCOPIAZO and 1 WAY TICKET (with Chris Arrant). His latest work is illustrating the comic book adaptation of acclaimed science-fiction author Cory Doctorow’s short story, “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”.

TOM WILLIAMS (artist on STUCK):

Tom Williams is an artist/creator out of Columbus, Ohio. Williams sports a BFA from CCAD. His debut graphic novel No Dead Time (w/Brian McLachlan) has been published in the US and Spain. Williams is a two-time nominee for the Day Prize award given out by Dave Sim, and won it in 2002 for MISA, a self-published work. Past work has been seen in 24SEVEN vol.2, PANEL, LOOKING AT THE FRONT DOOR, NOT MY SMALL DIARY, MONSTER ENGINE, and LIFELIKE.

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