Special Guests

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Writer and Illustrator, Dan Brereton is one of a bare handful of painters left in the industry who still do comics full time. Barely out of art school, Dan burst onto the scene in 1989 winning his first industry award for the Black Terror miniseries (Eclipse Comics) and hasn't looked back since. In the last two decades he's produced a prolific body of work in Comics, and has won and been nominated many times for several different industry and fan awards. He has also worked in Animation, TV, Film, Music, Publishing and Theme Parks.

Besides his creator-owned series The Nocturnals, Dan has work on Thrillkillers and  Giantkiller at DC Comics, Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror at Bongo Comics, Vampirella at Harris Comics, Iron Fist at Marvel Comics and many more, including a plethora of cover artwork.

• www.nocturnals.com

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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.

Portfolio Review - Shon will be conducting portfolio reviews for artists throughout the day.

• www.shoncburysnox.com
• www.spacegoatproductions.com

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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.

Matthew is currently the artist on Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics.

• www.matthewclarkartist.com

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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.

• www.industriacide.com

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Nick Dragotta is currently working over at Marvel Comics on the new mini-series, Vengeance, which is written by Joe Casey. Nick has also worked on several other Marvel books, such as the recent Captain America: Forever Allies, X-Men: First Class, Marvel Zombies Returns, Web of Spider-Man, and Many More!

Nick is also the artist on Howtoons, which are cartoons that teach 8– to 15–year–old readers "how to" build, create, and explore things. Combining a fun, full–color cartoon format and real life science and engineering principles, Howtoons are designed to encourage kids to become active participants in the world around them.

• www.nickdragotta.com

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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.

• www.brandonjerwa.com

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Emi Lenox is a Portland, Oregon based artist who keeps a diary comic called EmiTown, where she keeps track of all of the random happenings and thoughts in a stream-of-consciousness comic form. It has been collected into a 400-page volume by Image Comics, published in December 2010.

She has also done guest work for Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth and Mike Allred's Madman.

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Dustin Nguyen is an American comic artist whose body of work, for the past 10 years, includes flagship titles for both DC Comics and Wildstorm. His past projects include Wildcats v3.o, The Authority Revolution, Batman, Superman/Batman, Detective Comics, and his creator owned project- Manifest Eternity. Currently, he is exclusive to DC Comics where he is the regular artist on Batman: Streets of Gotham and provides interior as well as painted cover artwork for the book.  Aside from providing cover illustrations for the majority of his own books, his cover art can also be found on titles from Batman Beyond , Batgirl, Justice League: Generation Lost,  Supernatural and Friday the 13th, to numerous other DC/WS titles.

Outside of comics, Dustin also moonlights as a conceptual artist for toys, games, and animation.

Dustin will be leaving the show around 4pm due to his flight schedule.

• www.duss005.com

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Justin "Moritat" Norman is a Seattle-based comic book artist and illustrator. Early in his career, Justin chose the moniker "Moritat" to represent himself and his art.  A "moritat" (from "mori" meaning "deadly" and "tat" meaning "deed") is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels.

His most recent work can be seen in the pages of DC's The Spirit and Image's Elephantmen. Moritat is also handling art duties on All-Star Western, one of the 52 titles that make up the "DC New 52" this fall.

• moritat.deviantart.com

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Greg Rucka was born in San Francisco and raised on the Central Coast of California, in what is commonly referred to as ‘Steinbeck Country.’ He began his writing career in earnest at the age of 10 by winning a county-wide short-story contest, and hasn’t let up since. He graduated from Vassar College with an A.B. in English, and from the University of Southern California’s Master of Professional Writing program with an M.F.A.

He is the author of nearly a dozen novels, six featuring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak and two featuring Tara Chace, the protagonist of his Queen & Country series. Additionally, he has penned several short-stories, countless comics, and the occasional non-fiction essay. In comics, he has had the opportunity to write stories featuring some of the world’s best-known characters—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman—as well as penning several creator-owned properties himself, such as Whiteout and Queen & Country, both published by Oni Press. His work has been optioned several times over, and his services are in high-demand in a variety of creative fields as a story-doctor and creative consultant.

• www.gregrucka.com

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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.

• www.facebook.com/Matthew-Southworth

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Eric Trautmann's first comic book work -- a comic series based on the Perfect Dark franchise, six issues titled Perfect Dark: Janus's Tears that debuted in August 2006, and in August 2007, he wrote issue #17 of the DC series Checkmate (with Greg Rucka). As a result of his work on Checkmate #17, Trautmann became the regular co-writer of the series (alongside Rucka). Following this, Trautmann and Rucka collaborated again, on the one-shot Final Crisis: Resist (illustrated by Ryan Sook and Marco Rudy).

During this period, Trautmann and fellow comics writer Brandon Jerwa started a collaboration, co-writing a 9-page short, titled "WIDE AWAKE: BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP," which appaeard in the second volume of Image Comics' POPGUN anthology series.

Jerwa and Trautmann are currently under contract to produce a stand long original graphic novel for DC/VERTIGO in 2009. Since then he's worked on the following titles: JSA vs Kobra, Action Comics, Adventure Comics, The Shield and now Vampirella for Dynamite Entertainment.

• www.erictrautmann.us

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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.

• timvigilart.com

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Shane White's 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. His other credits include Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo Anthology, Hawaiian Dick, Negative Burn and Fear Agent.

• www.shanewhite.com
• www.studiowhite.com