Talent

Luke Arnold

LUKE ARNOLD began his creative career as an actor, playing iconic roles such as Long John Silver in the Emmy-winning Black Sails, his award-winning turn as Michael Hutchence in the INXS miniseries Never Tear Us Apart, and Martin Scarsden in Scrublands. His first novel, The Last Smile in Sunder City, was released in 2020 and has become an ongoing series, with the fourth installment of The Fetch Phillips Archives coming soon.

Chris "Doc" Wyatt

CHRIS “DOC” WYATT is a TV animation writer/producer who has worked on series including Ultimate Spider-Man, The Legend of Vox Machina, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, Star Wars: Resistance, Batman Unlimited, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers: BotBots, and LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising, among many others. Wyatt produced the cult-hit comedy film Napoleon Dynamite, the multi-festival-award-winning drama Coyote, and six other indie feature films. He shared an Emmy nomination for the animated project Marvel’s Rocket & Groot.

Bill Sienkiewicz

BILL SIENKIEWICZ (pronounced sin-KEV-ich) is a multi-Eisner Award–winning and Emmy Award–nominated artist known for revamping the style of comic and graphic novel illustration—a feat earning him an international reputation across media industries, as well as entrée into the Eisner Hall of Fame. He is most noted for Marvel’s Elektra: Assassin, Moon Knight, and New Mutants—inspiring FX’s Legion and Disney’s New Mutants—and his acclaimed graphic novel Stray Toasters. He earned two Emmy nominations for his work on the animated series Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego? Sienkiewicz has also contributed on-set and promotional artwork for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Batman, Dune, Moon Knight series, 2018 Halloween remake, Logan, The Grinch, The Green Mile, and Unforgiven. His work has graced numerous album and book covers, US Olympic campaigns, and museums and galleries across the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil.

DaNi

DANI (DaNi) was born in Athens, Greece, in 1992 and studied sculpture at Athens School of Fine Arts. She began to produce a self-published series called Tales from the Strips that won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Greek Comics Awards in 2015, before working on some 2000 AD strips, including Fiends of the Eastern Front and Judge Anderson, and Rebellion’s Scream! & Misty and Tammy & Jinty specials. Soon she was on the radar of the US industry, picking up work from IDW on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. More recently she has worked on Sandman The Dreaming (DC/ Vertigo), Coffin Bound (Image), and The Low, Low Woods(DC/Hill House Comics) written by Carmen Maria Machado.

Glenn Fabry

GLENN FABRY is a British comics artist known for his detailed, realistic work in both ink and painted color. Glenn Fabry’s career began in 1985, drawing SLAINE for 2000 AD with writer Pat Mills. He also worked with Mills on the newspaper strip Scatha in 1987. Painted work followed in Crisis, Revolver, and Deadline. In 1991 he took over painting the covers of Hellblazer, then written by Garth Ennis. He has continued his association with Ennis, painting the covers for Preacher (DC/Vertigo), and drawing Ennis-written stories in The Authority (DC/ Wildstorm) and Thor (Marvel). In 2003 he drew a story in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman anthology Endless Nights, and in 2005 worked on the comics adaptation of Gaiman’s TV series/novel Neverwhere with writer Mike Carey.

Vince Locke

VINCE LOCKE has been creating published illustrative art for over 30 years. His portfolio includes countless comic books and graphic novels (including Deadworld, Sandman, A History of Violence, Junction True, American Freak, and The Unwritten, all album and merchandising art for world-famous death metal band Cannibal Corpse, numerous role-playing game book illustrations (White Wolf, TSR, and Wizards of the Coast), book and magazine illustrations (2000 AD, Barnes and Noble, author Caitlin Kiernan), and artwork for the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He is well known for his horror-themed fine art and has had paintings in many gallery exhibitions. He received the Haxtur Award for Best Long Comic Strip in 2005 for A History of Violence.

Jason Howard

JASON HOWARD is an American comic book artist, best known for co-creating and illustrating the comic book series Trees and Cemetery Beach with writer Warren Ellis and Super Dinosaur and The Astounding Wolf- Man with writer Robert Kirkman. His most recent work is the Image Comics series Big Girls, which he both wrote and illustrated.

Andrea Mutti

ANDREA MUTTI is a comic book artist who started his career illustrating superhero comics in his native country, Italy. After obtaining his degree in geometry, Andrea Mutti attended the Comics School in Brescia, led by Ruben Sosa. He began his career illustrating the superheroes comic DNAction for Xenia Edizioni. He has worked on a wide range of detective titles for various French publishers. He has also worked with Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Top Cow, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Adaptive, Dynamite, Stela, Titan, and Vault.

M.K. Perker

M.K. PERKER is an Eisner-nominated comic book creator whose work includes Todd, The Ugliest Kid On Earth (Image), Air (DC/Vertigo), Cairo (DC/Vertigo), The Unwritten (DC/Vertigo), Insomnia Cafe (Dark Horse), and others. His non–comic book work includes illustrations for New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and others. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators.

Jose Villarrubia

JOSÉ VILLARRUBIA is a Harvey Award winner mainly known in comics for his coloring. In his prolific thirty year career, he has often collaborated with artists Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), Paul Pope (Batman: Year 100), Jae Lee (Fantastic Four: 1234) and Richard Corben (Cage). He edited and colored the series Infidel for Image Comics. He is the Project Art Director and restorer of the Richard Corben Library for Dark Horse.

Gene Ha

GENE HA is the artist on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Vol 2 with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, from DC Comics. He has won four Eisner awards for his art including Alan Moore’s Top 10 and sundry Marvel & DC superhero comics. Gene also writes and draws Mae from Oni Press. The story of Mae Fortell, a girl who follows her long missing sister Abbie to a world of mad science and mystery.

Nihaarika Negi

NIHAARIKA NEGI, an Indian International Interdisciplinary Artist, works in film, theater, live art, and new media. Praised by MOMA and The Hindu, her film and theater pieces are acclaimed and groundbreaking. A Berlinale Talent 2021, she's won the XR Market Award at New Images XR Festival and is supported by institutions like Sundance Institute, Venice Biennale, and UK Arts Council. Her debut feature, Labours Of (An)Other Solipsist, screened at NCPA, while her second, The Threshold, was recognized at Mumbai and London film festivals, also aired on Channel 4 and Star Gold. Her short, The Housemaids, is distributed by Amazon Prime and Disney+. Currently, she's developing her next feature, Feral, with Oscar-nominated producers Albert Berger and Ron Yera.

N. Alessandro K.

N. ALESSANDRO K. is the writer and creator of Super Science, as well as a feature film writer, director, producer, and a freelance photographer.  In 2013 Kalikow wrote and directed the feature film Concrete Blondes, this was followed up in 2017 by Carter & June; both of which Kalikow describes as “heist comedies”.  Kalikow has also produced numerous feature films and documentaries with subjects as wide ranging as binge drinking, healthcare, and the automobile.  Kalikow divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. Kalikow cites The Venture Bros., The X-Files, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Dexter’s Laboratory, Mad Men, Archer, The Kids In The Hall, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 as his major influences on this project.

Brandon Auman

BRANDON AUMAN is a Saturn Award-winning, four-time Emmy nominated writer, showrunner and executive producer. He is currently head writer and showrunner of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, an adult animated series for Amazon Prime. Previous work include head writer and exec producer at both Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios. Brandon is also an illustrator and painter, and collector of old books, vintage toys and artwork. He is already writing his next novel, a fantasy/horror epic. 

Joe Bocardo

JOE BOCARDO, born in Cádiz, Spain in 1980, currently resides in Seville, with his wife and children. He has always been fascinated by drawing and comics, but being a father was what pushed him to achieve his dream of being an artist. 

Tula Lotay

TULA LOTAY is the pen name of illustrator Lisa Wood. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, Tula specializes in comics, film and editorial illustration, as well as being the founder of the world-renowned Thought Bubble Festival. Her work includes numerous film posters and comic books (Somna, Barnstormers, Supreme: Blue Rose, Marvel’s Scarlet Witch, among others). Her new book Groupies debuted in 2024 from Comixology. In 2019, Tula was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award by the San Diego Comic Con Eisner committee for her charitable and fundraising work. In 2015, she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for The Wicked and The Divine #13. In 2023, she won an Eisner with co-creator Scott Snyder for Barnstormers and in 2024, she won best graphic novel award at the Eisners for Somna with Becky Cloonan.

WolfSkullJack

WOLFSKULLJACK is the pen name of illustrator Michelle Harvey. She is a British artist living and working in Gloucestershire, England. Her artwork explores the hostile relationship between man and nature using intricate inks and dark themes. Michelle often creates art for Metallica, Magic: The Gathering, and Anchorage Brewing in Alaska.

Emma Price

EMMA PRICE is a graphic designer who loved creating the logos and designing for the Essentials graphic novel, as well as other upcoming THE LAB PRESS books. She has worked across a vast range of titles for publishers such as DSTLRY, Image, Best Jackett Press and Vertigo, including the Eisner Award-Winning title Barnstormers, Gone, and Book of Evil, to name a few.