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2010

Peter Bagge - Creator of Hate and Neat Stuff

Peter Bagge's HateAppearance courtesy of Fantagraphics Books

Location: Tables 104-105

By common consensus, Peter Bagge is the funniest cartoonist of his generation. Bagge is probably best known for the 1990s comic book series Hate, which followed the exploits of the slacker ne'er-do-well Buddy Bradley (and managed to show probably the truest representation of Seattle during the "grunge" boom and bust). But the Buddy Bradley saga is only a small part of Bagge's oeuvre, which saw its first glory days in R. Crumb's Weirdo Magazine (which he edited for several issues) and continues to expand to this day as he appears in Reason, MAD, Discover, and the Weekly World News.

"American satirical cartooning at its most inventively hilarious." – Publishers Weekly

"Sheer genius." – Maximum Rock N Roll

   

Scott L. Schwartz - The Ultimate Bad Guy

Location: Table AA55

Scott Schwartz

Scott grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played Football, Baseball and Ice Hockey in School. He graduated high School and attended College at Temple University. He became a Professional Wrestler and was trained by Wrestling great Walter "Killer" Kowalski. He wrestled initially as Giant David, and later changed his name to Joshua Ben-Gurion-The Israeli Commando. Scott toured the world as a Professional Wrestler and held many titles. He wrestled in such places as Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, American and Western Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Guam, Hawaii as well as 40 of the other 50 United States, and every Province in Canada. Scott wrestled for such great promoters as Verne Gagne, Vince McMahon, Antone "Ripper" Leone, Bruno Sammartino, as well as many others.

Scott SchwartzScott never wanted to be an actor. While wrestling on tour in California, he was approached by an agent who had seen him wrestle on TV.  He told him he thought he had ability and thought he should try to enter the field of Performing Arts.  He took him up on his offer and pursued a career as an Actor. Early in his career, Scott was asked to perform roles involving some sort of Fight Scene. He was always up to the task. Because of his Professional Wrestling background he was able to breeze through hours of grueling combat, while protecting the person he was fighting from harm. Because of his size, agility, ability to carry out dialogue, and mean looks, Scott gets alot of roles as a bad guy in Films and Television.

He has appeared in many films including Ocean's Eleven (as "Bruiser"), Ocean's Twelve (returning as "Bruiser"), Ocean's Thirteen (returning as "Bruiser"), Fun with Dick and Jane (with Jim Carrey), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Scorpion King (Torturer), Spider-Man, Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, and Fire Down Below with Steven Seagal. He has also appeared in a lot of Television including Mind of Mencia, PUNK'D, Star Trek: Enterprise, Oliver Beene, Charmed, Return to the Batcave (Curly), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (3 episodes), Angel (5 episodes), Nash Bridges (3 episodes), Star Trek: Voyager (3 episodes as Hirogen), Son of the Beach (3 episodes), The Tick, V.I.P., Martial Law, Black Scorpion, Pacific Blue, and Married with Children.  He also worked in a Co-Starring role as the Town Crier on Tim Burton's Lost in Oz.

Scott SchwartzScott has completed his training, and has become a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, and is currently involved in Law Enforcement in Southern California. During Scott's free time he makes many trips to Children's Hospitals throughout the world. He focuses his attention to Child Life Wards, which treat children with Life threatening illnesses. He visits and signs pictures for the Children. His endeavors in Child Life Units really began in 1998 when Scott lost his Sister Beth to Lung Cancer. At that time doctors told him that a happy, upbeat attitude of the patient is a key factor in battling this tragic disease.

   

Shon C. Bury - Creator of Nox

Shon C. BuryLocation: Table 085

Shon C. Bury broke in to comics as a writer at the tender age of 22—and perpetrated some crap on the industry. But it was the 90s, so it was okay. Career highlights include creating WildStorm's Black Ops with Jim Lee and Dan Norton, working with Colleen Doran on Marvel's Power Pack, writing for Superman Adventures and Cable, and recently completing his first original graphic novel, Nox.  

Shon continues to write in and around comics while he manages his bad ass production studio, Space Goat Productions.

   

Brian Churilla - Artist of The Anchor & Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet

The AnchorLocation: Tables AA08

Brian Churilla (pronounced chu-ril-a) is a cartoonist born, raised and currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He has contributed to the critically acclaimed Dark Horse series Rex Mundi (soon to be a major motion picture), the Harvey Award-winning anthology Popgun, Dark Horse Presents, Creepy, and We Kill Monsters. He co-created, wrote and illustrated the miniseries The Engineer for Archaia, and is currently providing art for the Boom! Studios ongoing series he co-created with Phil Hester titled, The Anchor. He lives with his endlessly patient wife and daughter.

Brian is also the artist for the new upcoming Avengers and The Infinity Gauntlet mini-series by Marvel Comic, written by Brian Clevinger (Atomic Robo).

   

Matthew Clark - Artist of Doom Patrol

Matthew ClarkLocation: Table AA09

An artist from the Portland area, Matthew Clark has been working for DC comics exclusively for the past 5 years, where he has worked on many titles including Outsiders, Crime Bible: The Five Lessons of Blood, Final Crisis: Submit, Supergirl, and Tangent: Superman's Reign. Matthew is currently working on the latest version of the Doom Patrol.

Matthew Clark has worked for Marvel on such titles as Inhumans and War of Kings Saga, and on other titles such as Vampirella and Felon.

   

Sean Dietrich - Live Painter and Creator/Artist of Industriacide

Location: Table 080
Sean Dietrich is a huge, festering, untamed talent. As San Diego’s top live painter, Dietrich has lashed his paint, pain and egomaniacal perspective across the faces of hundreds of helpless canvasses during more than 700 live events earning him over 70 art awards. His published works include “industriacide,” “Fervor,” “Mess,” “Catalepsy,” and the upcoming books “The Nazi and the Rabbit,” “The Fruits of Our Labor,” and “I Brought the Gutter,” a compendium of art celebrating 10 years of Dietrich’s live painting. His weird artistic and literary productions have garnered comparisons to Ralph Steadman, Tim Burton, Hunter S. Thompson and Orson Welles. Dietrich’s Jameson-bred talent has infected the graphic novel, comic, gaming and film industries, laying waste to each with nihilistic abandon. When not submerged in his chamber of black ink and golden booze, Dietrich relishes in the simple pleasures of life like sliding down the edges of a glass of whiskey, drowning with abandon in the company of his girlfriend.
   

Jay Faerber - Writer of Noble Causes & Dynamo 5

Location: Table AA10

Faerber got his start writing comic books at Marvel and DC Comics in the late 1990s, where he worked on such series as THE TITANS, NEW WARRIORS, GENERATION X, and others. In 2001, he launched his first creator-owned series, NOBLE CAUSES, which has gone on to garner much critical acclaim.

Since then, Faerber has carved out a niche for himself as a creator of independent comic books such as DODGE'S BULLETS, FIREBIRDS, VENTURE, and the upcoming DYNAMO 5. Faerber currently writes the series NOBLE CAUSES and DYNAMO 5, as well as the mini-series GEMINI. One day, hopes to find (or should that be "make"?) the time to write a mystery novel.
   

Agnes Garbowska - Creator of You, Me, and Zombie

Agnes GarbowskaLocation: Table AA53

Agnes Garbowska was born in Poland and came to Canada when she was four years old.  Being an only child she escaped into a world of books, cartoons, and comics. Fueled by all the imaginary worlds her interest in art grew. Currently she resides in Toronto, Ontario and is working as a Freelance Illustrator specializing in all-ages illustrations and sequentials.

Agnes is the creator and artist of You, Me, and Zombie. It is a fun all-ages adventure book about a girl and her dog who wake up in a world full of Zombies.

   

Brandon Jerwa - Writer of Stargate and Mighty Crusaders

Brandon JerwaLocation: Table AA10

Brandon Jerwa is a writer and musician currently residing in Seattle. He recently made his DC Comics debut with stories starring Red Circle characters "Inferno" and "The Fox". Jerwa is well-known for his work on comic tie-ins for several prominent licensed properties, including Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Highlander, G.I. Joe and Army of Darkness. Jerwa also collaborates frequently with fellow writer Eric S. Trautmann; the pair are currently co-writing DC's Mighty Crusaders series, and have a forthcoming original OGN from Vertigo.

When he's not writing comics, Jerwa writes and performs original electro-rock music with his band SD6.

   

Dave Johnson - Cover Artist of 100 Bullets, Punisher Max, Unknown Soldier

Dave Johnson 100 Bullets cover artLocation: Table AA05
Dave "The Reverend" Johnson is a comic book artist best know for his work on the covers for the title 100 Bullets. Currently working with the Cartoon Network and providing cover art for PunisherMax and Unknown Soldier.

He has also done a number of covers for Detective Comics and earned the 2002 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist.  He was also nominated for an Eisner in 2004 for his work on the critically acclaimed DC Elseworlds miniseries Superman: Red Son, which is now a perennial best seller in graphic novel form.

Dave is also the principal founder of the Drink And Draw Social Club, a get-together of professional artists that spawned an art book by the same name.
   

Matt Haley - Artist of Ghost, Superman Returns, BADASS

Matt HaleyLocation: Table AA46

Matt Haley is well-known for his 15+ years of artwork for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse. He's worked on Ghost for Dark Horse, The Order for Marvel, and Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl and Batgirl and the Superman Returns movie adaptation for DC Comics, just to name a few. Also, Matt was the artist and creative consultant for both seasons of the top-rated TV series Stan Lee's Who Wants To Be A Superhero.

Currently, Matt is the illustrator of the best-selling books BADASS and Legends of BADASS for Harper Publishing, and is directing his own films.

   

Steve Lieber - Artist of Underground and Whiteout

Steve Lieber

Location: Table AA02

Steve Lieber is an illustrator who studied comic book art at the Joe Kubert School.  His comics and illustration have been published by DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, Dupuis, Scholastic and many other publishers.

Steve is best known for his work on Whiteout, a graphic novel adapted by Warner Brothers as a feature starring Kate Beckinsale, and he recently released UNDERGROUND, a graphic novel written by Jeff Parker. His various projects have received nine Eisner Award nominations, and he won the Eisner for Best Limited Series for Whiteout Volume 2: Melt.

Steve is a founding member of Periscope Studio, the largest studio of freelance comics artists in North America. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, the novelist Sara Ryan.

   

Francis Manapul - Artist of The Flash and Adventure Comics

Francis ManapulLocation: Table AA52

Francis Manapul is a comic book artist living in Toronto, Canada and is currently working for DC comics.

Francis' current list of credits for DC includes the relaunch of Adventure Comics and The Flash with writer Geoff Johns, as we as Superman Batman and the Legion of Super Heroes (with Jim Shooter).

In the past, he has worked on titles such as Aspen's Iron and the Maiden, French publisher Delcourt's Sept Guerrieres, and Top Cow's Tomb Raider, Darkness, Necromancer, and Witchblade.

   

Michael Oeming - Creator of Powers, Mice Templar, Rapture

Mike OemingLocation: Table AA54

Mike began his comics career at the age of 14, breaking in as an inker. From inker to pencillng/inking to writing, Mike has spread his creative wings in both indie and mainstream comics. Growing up in a small town, Mike found tutelage under Neil Vokes and Adam Hughes, while corresponding with Nexus creators Steve Rude and Mike Baron.

His first big break was as an inker on Daredevil, and shortly after as penciller/inker on DC’s version of Judge Dredd, then Foot Soldiers at Dark Horse Comics. During the mid-90s comics crash, Mike moved back into indie comics, which started his path on creator-owned comics with Ship of Fools, co-created with collaborator Bryan J.L. GLass. While drawing Ship of Fools, Mike continued with paying work such as inking Neil Vokes on Ninjack and drawing Bulletproof Monk, later turned into a John Woo film. Soon, Mike began Powers with Brian Michael Bendis.

Powers has been nominated for a Harvey Award and won an Eisner, and Mike was nominated for an Eisner for his work on Powers. Besides Powers, Mike has tackled several other projects, including Hammer of the Gods, Bastard Samurai, Bluntman and Chronic, Parliament of Justice, Hellboy, Catwoman, 86 Voltz, The Dead Girl, The Goon, Quixote, Blood River, Six, What If?, Magician: Apprentice (with Bryan J.L. Glass) and has begun writing for Marvel Comics. His writing stint on the final run of Thor has been widely acclaimed as well as Thor: Blood Oath, and Beta Ray Bill and Ares are amongst his other Marvel works. He has also written Red Sonja for Dynamite and co-created Rapture with his wife Taki Soma.

   

Joshua Ortega - Writer of Gears of War 2 (Video Game & Comics)

Gears of War comic by Joshua OrtegaLocation: Table AA23
In 2004, Ortega began negotiations with numerous comic book and graphic novel publishers, and in March 2005, his first comic book story was released: Spider-Man Unlimited #8, published by Marvel Comics. The story was entitled “Everything” and featured Ryan Sook on pencils. His next story, “Shadows & Light,” was released by Dark Horse Comics in April 2005 in Star Wars Tales #23. “Shadows & Light” served as a prequel to the bestselling Knights of the Old Republic video games for the Xbox and PC, and featured Dustin Weaver on pencils.

Since then, Ortega has written for several major American comic book publishers, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, TOKYOPOP, Image Comics, Top Cow Productions, and Speakeasy Comics, working on characters and properties such as Star Wars, Batman, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Michael Chabon’s The Escapist, Beowulf, and his own co-creation, The Necromancer, penciled and co-created by Francis Manapul.
   

Dan Panosian - Artist of X-Factor Forever, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Dan Panosian

Location: Table AA06

Dan Panosian has had a long and well-rounded career, beginning with working on titles such as X-Men, Spider-Man, Captain America, Batman, and even Spawn. After a nice run in comics, Dan moved on to doing commercial artwork and character designs for movies. This segued into designing video games such as Duke Nukem Forever.

Dan is currently working back at Marvel Comics on the new X-Factor Forever book with Louise Simonson, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Along with Dave Johnson, Dan is also one of the original Founders of the Original Drink N Draw Social Club.

   

Mark Rahner - Creator of Rotten

Mark RahnerLocation: Table AA18

Mark Rahner is the creator of Rotten (published by Moonstone), the acclaimed Zombie-Western co-written by Robert Horton and illustrated by Dan Dougherty. His other comic work includes Cthulhu Tales and Galveston from Boom! Studios and Ed Brubaker's Criminal from Icon/Marvel.

Rahner is also a veteran journalist who worked on the Seattle Times team that won the 2010 Pulitzer for breaking news.

   

Jesse LeDoux

Jesse LedouxLocation: Table 100

Born in Portland, Oregon, Jesse LeDoux worked for many years as an art director for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records where he created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists as the Shins ('Best album packaging' Grammy nominee for Chutes Too Narrow), Iron and Wine and Death Cab for Cutie before leaving in 2004 to focus on his client-based and personal work at LeDouxville. Parallel to working on commercial illustration and collaborative projects for such clients as Nike, Kidrobot, Giro, Penguin UK, Rome Snowboards and Target, he has exhibited internationally.

Most recently, his work was included in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2007) and an installation at the University of Maryland (2008). A large-scale mural of his work can currently be seen in downtown Denver, Colorado. He currently lives and works in Seattle, WA., and is part of Patent Pending Industries with Jeff Kleinsmith.

   

Chris Samnee - Artist of Thor: Mighty Avenger, Serenity: Shepard's Tale

Chris SamneeLocation: Table AA03

Chris Samnee has drawn comics for Marvel (X-men Vs Agents of Atlas), DC (The Mighty), Dark Horse (American Splendor), Vertigo (Area 10, Exterminators) and Oni Press (Capote In Kansas, Queen & Country). He is currently the artist on the monthly Marvel series Thor: The Mighty Avenger with writer Roger Langridge and the upcoming Dark Horse graphic novel Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale with writers Joss and Zack Whedon.

Chris is also a member of Comic Twart, a group of artists that pick a new character to draw each week and post the results for everyone to enjoy.

   

Taki Soma - Creator of Rapture

Taki SomaLocation: Table AA54

Taki Soma was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan until she was almost 10. She then lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for about 22 years, New Jersey for 9 months and now lives in Seattle, WA with her fabulous cat, Xander, stupendous Chihuahua, Fry and her husband, Michael Oeming (Artist of Powers).

Taki is a comic book illustrator/writer with various works being displayed through several comic book publishers, including Top Cow, Image, Dark Horse Comics, Silent Devil, Caption Box, and Arsenic Lullaby. She just finished a mini-series through Dark Horse called Rapture with her husband, Michael Oeming. She has also worked as a portraiture artist at Lee’s Gallery in the Mall of America.

   

Matthew Southworth - Artist of Stumptown

Matthew SouthworthLocation: Table AA39

Matthew Southworth is a comic artist living in Seattle, Washington. His most recent and notable work is Stumptown, a crime noir series written by Greg Rucka and published by Oni Press.

Southworth has also worked on several other books, including Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil for Marvel Comics and Infinity Inc. for DC Comics.

Besides comics, Matthew is an accomplished musician and formed the band called the Capillaries, in which he sang lead vocals and played guitar. The Capillaries included many Seattle musicians from various bands at one time or another, including Aaron Huffman and Rob Knop of Harvey Danger, Eric Corson of the Long Winters, and Jon Auer of the Posies.

   

James Taylor – Inker & Publisher of Rorschach Entertainment

Location: Table 080

Credits: Anne Steelyard, Act II: The Gate of Dreams and Starlight, Decoy, The Victorian, Stuart Moore's Para & Many More!

James Taylor has a background in traditional art receiving a BFA (Fine Arts Degree) with an emphasis in graphic design in 1998 after taking a few years off of college to work in wine sales. After finishing college he began work as a graphic designer in the tech industry until 2002, surviving the bursting bubble by a couple of years. While working as a designer James started in the comic book industry as an inker in 1999 as a fun side job at night and switched to full-time when his software company closed up show. Since then, James has worked for many different publishers but seems to have been strapped to the hip of PFP since 2001 working on The Victorian, Para and of course Decoy. Currently inking the Graphic Novel Anne Steelyard with penciller Ron Randall. He’s also been publishing comic book since 2003 as Rorschach Entertainment.

   

Tim Vigil - Creator of Faust

Tim Vigil

Tim Vigil has been drawing comics since 1986 with his first publication being Grips from the independent company Silverwolf. Tim has worked mainly in the self-publishing field under Rebel Studios, co-creating the acclaimed comic Faust: Love of the Damned with co-creator and writer David Quinn. He also created the titles Cuda and Webwitch over at Avatar Press. Besides these titles, Tim has worked on Morella for Verotik and Broken Halo and Gunfighters from Hell for Broken Halos Studios.

   

Shane White - Creator/Artist of Things Undone and North Country

Location: Table AA07

Credits: Things Undone, North Country, Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo Anthology, Overman, Hawaiian Dick, Negative Burn and Fear Agent

His earliest comic work appeared in small-press comics in the mid-80s. His first professional penciling gig was for Silverwolf Comics' (Greater Mercury Comics) Eradicators in 1990. Several years later he did work for DC/Paradox's Big Book of Urban Legends. In 1998 Caliber Comics hired him along with Martin Powell to adapt Whitley Strieber's Communion book, of which two of the four issues were ultimately finished.

Recently, his first graphic novel North Country, a 96-page full-color memoir, was published by NBM Publishing. This was followed by The Overman by Image Comics and Things Undone by NBM Publishing.

   

Jim Woodring - Creator of Frank and Jim

Jim WoodringAppearance courtesy of Fantagraphics Books

Location: Tables 104-105

In 1980, he began self-publishing Jim, an anthology of comics, dream art, and free-form writing which he described as an "autojournal". Jim was published as a regular series by Fantagraphics Books starting in 1986, to critical acclaim if less than spectacular sales, and Woodring became a full-time cartoonist. Frank, a wordless surrealist series which began as an occasional feature within Jim, became his best-known work.

Woodring created a short-lived comics series for children, Tantalizing Stories, with Mark Martin. He has also worked as a freelance illustrator and comics writer, writing comics based on Aliens and Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics and adapting the film Freaks with F. Solano Lopez. Additionally, Woodring illustrated Microsoft's Comic Chat program, an IRC client which is notably employed in the creation of the daily Internet comic Jerkcity.

In recent years Woodring has also become a popular toy designer, with his strange creations sold in vending machines in Japan and available at hip comics shops in America. In a 2002 interview with The Comics Journal, Woodring said that he was gradually leaving comics behind because they simply weren't lucrative enough, and he was increasingly concentrating on individual paintings. Still, Woodring produced a new Frank book in 2005 (The Lute String) and is working on another.

Woodring received an Inkpot award at the 2008 San Diego Comic Convention, and was awarded an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in the fall of 2008.

   

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