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Christopher Moshier
Writer - HaVen, Weapon:Sonic, Urthe, 7 Deadly Sins, Gems
Christopher always had the creative and writing bug as far back as he could remember. It wasn't until the early 2000's that he finally decided to do something with it. He turned to this fairly new tool called the internet where he found a community of people putting their ideas into the comic book form.
For several years Christopher has written for a variety of series. Some have been published, some are continued to be worked on, and some are somewhere out there in development limbo. He's currently in the process of curving his writing talents into other media in hopes to develop his comic ideas outside of the comic book page.
Today, Christopher has published 2 issues of his HaVeN series, his short stories appear in an anthology called Slam Bang published by Fanatic Press, a novel called Morgana X has been released, writes a webcomic called "Uncle Doug" that is hosted on Drunk Duck, and the Urthe one-shot is in the lettering stage.
Sean
McGrath
Writer - Frater Mine, All Students Must Die!
Sean McGrath is an aspiring comic book writer and wannabe artist. He is often seen in the presence of nefarious characters. Sean holds a Master's degree in Deaf Education and is looking into PhD programs in Parapsychology and Marian Theology. A resident of Austin, TX, Sean lives with a (female) housemate and five cats. Single at his age, surrounded by cats and not getting any prettier, he is considering taking up crocheting and becoming a lesbian spinstress.
WEBSITE: Ortho Comics
Jerry Rascoe
Artist - Urthe
Bio Coming Soon.
Tom Garden
Artist - Gems
Tom is 19 years old, he lives in the UK and has completed his A-levels, gaining an A in art, and has just recently completed his diploma in foundation art and design for which he produced an 8 minute animation. Tom gained a distinction for the course. He is now in a gap year to draw more comics and make more animations before going to the university of Southampton to study computer game artwork and design for 3 years.
Cathy Ann Gouin
Colorist - HaVeN, Urthe
Cathy Gouin Hartford hails from a quaint little village in Southern Maine called Springvale. She works full time for a company that manufactures Jet Engine Parts. The company she works for really stresses the importance of education so offers to pay full tuition for its employees at any accredited college. Cathy took advantage of this and is working towards her Associates Degree in Digital Media Technology, which she is close to completing.
One of the first classes she took was Digital Imaging using Adobe Photoshop. Cathy fell in love with the program and has become a Photoshopaholic! She discovered the joy of digital coloring with Adobe PS and started to color line art she found on the internet. It became an obsession with her and she is now working on making a name for herself in the Comic book industry as a Digital Colorist.
So far, Cathy has done work for Femme Fatale Studios, Affinity Press and Core Studios.
William C. Jamison
Artist - HaVeN
Will has always had a thirst and yearning to be creative. Comics were his first introduction to exploring his inward abilities. He has been drawing since age seven. Always to this day he loves reading and collecting comics which furthered his passion to draw. Once Will entered into junior high school it was his art professor who got him thinking on taking his passion to draw to a whole other level. She had recommended to his mother that he should try out for the High School of Art & Design in that summer of 1988. He took the test for enrollment to Art & Design and was accepted. Will did four years there and had the privilege to go to school with the likes of Jamal Igle, now working on Firestorm (Pick up the book. It is some great work) and Joe Maduerira of Battlechasers fame.
After Will's stint at Art & Design he attended New City Institute of Technology where he furthered his knowledge of drawing. It was there that Will was introduced to the wonderful world of computer graphics and advertising. He graduated with an Associates in Applied Science with a degree in Art & Advertising design. Although comics have been his major facet of interest, he have done other types of art as well.
What keeps Will going in the field of art is the support of his mother and brother and family. He is fortunate enough to have a family that is supportive of the decisions he makes and for that he is truly blessed.
Will says the following, "Mom if it was not for you giving me the confidence to persevere I would not be doing this book today. Thank God for a mother like you and to my brother for helping mom look after me, picking me up after school and for sharpening my math skills. You are always number one in my book. I couldn't ask for a better brother.
"To the staff of HaVeN - it is a pleasure to work with such cool people who share the same passion as I do; a special thanks to Yul for the inks. Man you make my work look so much tighter you are definitely one of the most talented individuals I have met. Thank you Cathy for the wonderful colors and being so cool. To Jerry, Percival, Sean, Jay and the Making Comics Crew you guys rock."
Yul Espinosa
Inker - HaVeN
Yul was born in Queens, NY, September 5th 1965. When he was 5 years old he was introduced to comics by his mother. Ever since then she hasn't been able to pry a comic out of his hands. Yul attended and graduated from The High School of Art and Design. He attended the School of Visual Arts for 1 year before dropping out. When Yul dropped back in, it was into a totally different field which was undercover investigation and security. He also did that for a year and a half before he dropped out. It was after working in minor jobs that he found his calling in the optical field, which he has now been working in for 16 years. During those 16 years Yul has been doing minor art jobs including doing a comic for Silver Griffin comics which was aborted. Now happily working as an inker and penciller, Yul is ready to pounce on any assignment available to him.
Artistic influences- George Perez, John Byrne, Bob Layton, Michael Golden, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, Wally Wood, Jim Steranko, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, Terry Austin, Brett Breeding, Brian Bolland, Al Williamson, Curt Swan.
Jay La Valley
Letterist - HaVeN
Jay La Valley is a 38 year old man, who has been into comics for over 30 years. First as a collector and fan, who eventually started a comic store with a partner, which eventually closed because of the partnership. Then he went into the publishing and freelancing side of the comic book business.
Jay's publishing house/studio is called Destiny Valley, and the books he has published to date are:
Acid Jack 1 - 2
Acid Jaxx 1
Jay currently is working on another project "Merlin's Ring", which is about Merlin sending a ring into our present to do battle against Morgana le Fey. It is full of Dragons, goblins, ogres, and more set in Modern day England.
As for the freelancing, Jay freelances his lettering skill and has worked on numerous books.
Jay uses the following programs; Adobe Illustrator v. 10, Photoshop v. 7.
Andrea Blanco
Artist - 7 Deadly Sins
She was born in Punta Alta, Argentina. She is 31 years old.
Andrea studied 7 years at the Visual Arts School at Bahia Blanco, Argentina.
She is a graphic designer and teacher in the visual arts. Andrea is a professional artist from 4 years ago. Her first contract was for Edizioni Tretini - Italy doing tattoo designs. Actually, Andrea continues with this job. In the beginning of 2004 she works for different editors doing different styles of comics for the USA, Italy, and the Ukraine with different editor houses and web sites.
Andrea Blanco teamed with Alejandro Alvarez 5 years ago working as individuals and as a team always experimenting with different styles. Both teach comics and illustration to over 50 children from 8 to 20 years of age two days a week at a comic shop in Bahia Blanca called Macross.
Alejandro Alvarez
Artist - 7 Deadly Sins
Alejandro is from Cordoba, Argentina. He is 28 years old.
He has partaken in different studies with particular professors and studied by post mail, focusing on black & white comics. From 2002, Alejandro does tattoo designs for Edizioni Tretini - Italy. Since the 2004 he works on different comics and websites from the USA to the Ukraine.
Alejandro Alvarez teamed with Andrea Blanco 5 years ago working as individuals and as a team always experimenting with different styles. Both teach comics and illustration to over 50 children from 8 to 20 years of age two days a week at a comic shop in Bahia Blanca called Macross.
Percival Constantine
Artist - Urthe
It has been said that Dino Pollard is a myth. A spook story designed to scare writers into meeting their deadlines. "Turn it in on time," their editors would say, "or we'll give the job to Dino Pollard." Others say they have met this mysterious figure. Some say he has interfaced with a computer. Others say he is a hermit who lives in the basement of a department store. One story claims that he lives near the mythical city "Chicago" and that he is a college student with aspirations to become a professional writer. This report still remains unverified.
It is rumored that he is the writer of PERCEPTION and one of the two editors on HAVEN. But none of the other staff on either of those books will comment on the validity of his existence. The photograph you see is an artist's rendition.
Allen Freeman
Letterist - Frater Mine, 7 Deadly Sins
Publisher - 7 Deadly Sins, Uncle Doug
Allen Freeman has been a commercial artist for almost 30 years. He worked at one of the largest advertising agencies in Ohio for 5 years, creating art, design and photo retouching for such clients as Goodyear, Mac Tools and Firestone. In 1983 he created and ran his own graphic arts studio; Tiger Grafix for 13 years, working with such clients as, Valvoline, KET, Clark Equipment, and The University of Kentucky. He was snapped up by the gaming industry in 1996 to create 3D models, textures and level designs while working for Sierra On-Line, (He also created many web sites for Sierra for their football games and for Hellfire the add-on to the game Diablo.) Boss Game Studios and Microsoft. He worked on such games as Front Page Sports Football 98 & 99 (PC), Stunt Racer 64 (Nintendo 64) and Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Xbox).
Since the mid 80?s Allen has been producing freelance work for many comic book projects with such clients as: Now Comics (Fright Night, Ralph Snart, Speed Racer), Sky Comics (Morgana X, Arena Magazine, Seeker), Cat?s Paw Comics (Morgana X, Spectrum), Fantagraphics Books (Gnat Rat), Caliber Comics (The Realm, Frankenstein), KCQ Comics (Crossings), Wunderman Comics (E.I.) and many more. He has illustrated, colored, painted covers, inked, lettered and written for comics. He also designed the logos and helped with the production of many of them. (Morgana X is one of his character creations.) He also started up Fan-Atic Press putting out many digest small press comics from 1985-1990 such as Slam Bang The Explosive Comic Anthology putting out 33 issues (8 more issues from 2003-2006) and Captain Optimist putting out 5 issues.
For the last few years Allen has been designing web sites, editing comics and graphic novels, lettering, coloring and inking (He also does cover art.) for many different clients as well as his own comic company Fan-Atic Press which he has expanded to full size color comics (Drawings, Doc Paradox, Scarlet Fields, Strange Boy, Berserker: Brother Assassin, Captain Optimist) and continuing Slam Bang as a 200 page square bound, digest, printed anthology.
Go to: Fan-Atic Press for the web site and/or email Allen at: fanaticpress@yahoo.com.
Allen is into digital photography/video (www.afreemanphotography.com) his 3 cats, old Marvel comics, and taking long walks with his wife Bonnie.
Bryan Fischer
Writer - Spooks
Bryan is an artist at heart with a tendency to write. He is currently studying to get his Masters Degree in Art Direction from the Ad center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. At 22, Bryan is a young mind with lots of goals and aspirations. "I just want to make art," he says when asked what he wants to do in his future. His current interests lie mainly in advertising and film, but on occasion he can be found reading a comic book or writing an issue of his own. A fan of various genres of film and literature, Bryan brings an interesting view to any discussion. He watches and reads anything from Mel Brooks to Shakespeare. "I write visually," he says. And by that Bryan means that he writes with a visual in mind, either stationary or moving. Training in advertising has gotten Bryan used to writing for television commercials, so when he began writing for comic books, it came naturally. His ability to write action and describe visuals is truly surprising for someone who thinks so visually. "As an Art Director in creative advertising, I think visually and leave the copy up the Copy Writer. I'm no writer, I'm a thinker." Currently he is working on "Noir: Black", a comic written with 1920's Noir cinema atmosphere and lots of aggression. "It's like that movie 'The Big Sleep,' only with Duke Nukem as the detective and set in current day Columbia, "he says jokingly, "Actually," he says, "It is a tribute to Noir film and hopefully a rebirth of its style."
Gerry Brophy
Artist - Weapon Sonic, A Day in the Life
Gerry Brophy is a native of Newfoundland. Has a strong fine arts and computer background. Graduated from Sheridan College with a diploma in Classical Animation. Also studied computer programming while at Sheridan. Worked at Nelvana Animation Ltd. Working on many well know popular series including Bob & Margaret, Little Bear and Stickin? around as a digital compositor. Gerry is currently working as a Graphic Designer for IBM in Canada.
Gerry loves animation. He also love comic books. Gerry grew up reading "Jonah Hex", "Savage Sword of Conan", "Archie" and comic strips such as "Peanuts". He had made some comics in the past but this will be his first attempt to have a project published.
The current project is "Weapon: Sonic". This is a Graphic Novel or comic and is under development. It is written by Christopher Moshier and the Artwork will be Gerry's contribution. The project is currently in the beginning stages and the script has already been written.
Pablo Lizalde
Colorist - 7 Deadly Sins, Uncle Doug Webcomic
Pablo was born in 1983 in Mar del Plata, Argentina where he still live He started drawing since he was a child attendedong courses on painting, drawing, watercolor, and, animation.
He also did a bit of illustrator in the "Martin Malharro School" (tertiary level). He has been working in the International Film Festival of Mar del Plata in the last four editions, where he met and watched a lot of the non-commercial film industry.
Nowadays Pablo gives courses on comics for the institute "French Alliance" of this city, studying some specialties in illustration and working as a colorist for different sites in the USA and Spain.
Christopher Sims
Artist - Strong Dragon
Christopher is in the process of creating a comic book called "The Catastrophe Theory" (formerly called Dark Saviors). The story is about seven individuals who have extraordinary powers that come together to stop a force so powerful that it could destroy the world. They just don't know it yet. Christopher has also been working with Bryan Fischer on a book called Strong Dragon.
Christopher has been drawing since he can remember. He started off drawing ninjas after watching some martial arts movies. Then, after the debut of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, he went into overdrive. That's when Christopher decided that he wanted a career drawing so he kept at it. Later in life Christopher started to collect comic books and watch anime and that was it. He vowed to dedicate all of his free time (which isn't much) to drawing, pushing himself to get better and better. Now Christopher is at a point where he feels that he is good enough with a pencil to make some of his dreams come true.
Christopher has received his Associate's degree in Graphic technologies/design and am now he is going for his Bachelor's in Illustration. He plans to get into Animation or Video Game design in the near future. Christopher's main influences in the comic world are Damion Scott and Keron Grant. Other artists that inspire him are Hyung Tae-Kim, Yukito Kishiro, Lesean Thomas, Edu Francisco, Azpiri, and a few Baroque and Renaissance artist. Hopefully people will be hearing a lot more from Christopher in the near future.
George Hartman
Inker - Uncle Doug
George graduated from the High School of Art & Design located in New York City. His original love was to be a comic book artist. After graduating and realizing that college was not for him at that time, George joined up with Uncle Sam for 2 years in the Army where he was stationed in Germany. They say in those Army ads to be all you can be, but George came to see that kind of lifestyle wasn't for him so he opted not to re-enlist. Returning home George decided to go for a civil service career as a Correction Officer not thinking he'd stay as long as he did, but now lives on almost nothing but a comfortable pension. In 1999, George finally decided to go to college at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, also located in New York City. He received his A.S. in Correction Administration in 2003 and his B.A. in Forensic Psychology in 2006.
Now that George has the time to pursue what really interests him - he is going forward with his plans to break into his first love being the comic book biz somewhere as an artist/inker. Currently, George is also illustrating a children's' book being told by an agent from the publishing company that it's getting published in the not too distant future. George currently inks a short story called Uncle Doug which will be featured in Slam Bang #3 out this summer on Fanatic Press showcasing the peerless pencil work of Giancarlo Lima and the surly scripting of Chris Moshier. Yeah, this will be his first published comic book work - YAAY!
Abdulkareem Baba Aminu
Creator/Artist- Techx
Abdulkareem Baba Aminu is the editor of the entertainment section of a major Nigerian newspaper, which he also reports for. He is also the Special Features Editor for the indie comic book publisher, Komikwerks. "Kareem", as he is called by his friends, works by day...and by night, too! He is currently finishing pencils for his TECHX two-parter which tells the story of a techno thief with a good heart. Born on the 7th of July, Kareem’s melancholic side makes him enjoy movies helmed by Lars Von Trier, Hayao Miyazaki and Luc Besson. Kareem’s past work include two Haley nine-pagers for Haley’s Comics, and his poems on Topwritercorner.com have been described by some weirdo's as: “Dark, sweet and dangerous, much like cyanide-dipped chocolate.”
When Kareem’s not writing, penciling, inking or painting, he likes to tell people how that pesky Kurt Busiek cat stole his idea for MARVELS.