Guest List

Here are the guests you can see at Atlanta Comics Expo this year.

Note: Recent additions are marked with a » (within 7 days) or a » (within 14 days).

• David Atchison
  [2008 Guest] David Atchison is a comic book writer and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of publications. He co-created and writes the Occult Crimes Taskforce with actor Rosario Dawson and illustrator Tony Shasteen for 12 Gauge Comics which was recently optioned by Dimension Films.

• Gina Biggs
  [2008 Guest] Gina Biggs has been creating comics for over ten years and published such titles as Fractured Kisses and Love of Sausage. She runs the all-female comic group, Strawberry Comics.  Her current works include Red String, a webcomic series published by Dark Horse Comics and Erstwhile, a full color series adapting lesser known fairytales to comic form.

• Mark Brooks
  [2008 Guest] Mark Brooks has been a contracted artist for Marvel Comics for the last 3 years working on such titles as Marvel Age: Spider-man, Amazing Spider-man, Ultimate Spider-man Cable and Deadpool, Uncanny X-men, New X-Men, and the designer of the new Spider-girl character Arana. Mark has also done work for DC Comics, Upperdeck Entertainment, and Lucasfilm just to name a few.

• James Burns
  [2008 Guest] James Burns is a graphic designer and animator. James has created 3D animations for clients such as CNN, TBS, and various television stations around the country, the weekly comic strip Grumbles, and he just finished his first non-autobiographical comic, called Daemon Process a supernatural tale of death, love, computers, and an ancient, evil book..

• J. Chris Campbell
  [2008 Guest] Kooky cartoonist J Chris Campbell is afraid of the dark and makes robots to battle the monsters under his bed. He created those lovable scamps the Attic Bugs and countless other characters who litter the pages of his mini-comics and zany Zig Zag funny book.

• Greg Carter
  [2008 Guest] Greg Carter picked up a pencil for the first time at the ripe old age of 43, to convert a short story into comic form. Over the last five years the story of Lamashtu, The First Vampire, has evolved into the epic action-romance-horror series Abandon. The origin story, Abandon: Borrowed Tale, is currently being serialized online. The first print collection will be released in mid-March 2008. His second series, Tombstone Swordslinger, will debut online in late 2008.

• Cast of The Signal
  [2008 Guest] Cheri Christian, Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, and Sahr, stars of the upcoming Magnolia Pictures release The Signal will be signing promotional items from The Signal FREE to all ACE attendees.

• Cemetery Surfers       Musical
  [2008 Guest] Formed by a group of Parapsychologists and ghost hunters, The Cemetery Surfers spend as much time in haunted locations as they do onstage.With an elaborate stage show (with everything from a zombie attack to one of the musicians frying in a an electric chair during the guitar solo) they are becoming one of the most popular acts on stage. But every night after they play... look for them in graveyards or haunted houses.

• John Christopher
  [2008 Guest] John Christopher has worked as a commercial artist over the past several years. He has worked in a variety of mediums including print, multimedia, broadcast, and videogames. He recently became the newest member at Studio Revolver.

• Dave Cook
  [2008 Guest] Dave is a local artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He is also the creator of Splatter Comix. This retro horror magazine has been picked up by Diamond Distributors and will be splattering stores in early October.

• DJ Spider       DJ
  [2008 Guest] Primarily a goth/industrial DJ with a healthy dose of 80s, she has spun a variety of formats over the years, which means anything is bound to show up in her sets, described as "vibrant", "surprising", "kick-ass", and "Omigod, is she really that tall?"

• Tom Feister
  [2008 Guest] Tom inks WildStorm’s Ex-Machina and Marvel’s Iron Man. He is a member of Studio  Revolver.

• Rob Fitz
  [2008 Guest] Rob Fitz created the epic gore film God of Vampires. He put the film together under a tiny budget and harsh conditions. With great pride in their work, Rob Fitz and his small crew finally completed the feature film God of Vampires in 2007.

• Jason Flowers
  [2008 Guest] A resident of Atlanta, Jason Flowers has steadily been trying to break into the comic book industry for years.  All that will change though with the release of his graphic novel, RIPPED being published through ARCANA COMICS in the spring of 2008.  He has recently been published in HORROR HOUND MAGAZINE and will also have a pin-up piece in the AMERICAN WASTELAND graphic novel coming out next year, also by ARCANA.  This will only be the beginning, for 2009 will see the re-release of his creator-owned book, HiVEN.

• Francesco Francavilla
  [2008 Guest] Francesco Francavilla is probably best known for his brushy ink style and love of everything pulp. He’s currently hard at work illustrating Dynamite’s new Zorro comic series with writer Matt Wagner. Francesco is also the artist behind the creator-owned titles The Black Coat and Sorrow, and has worked on other comic series such as Left on Mission and Fear Agent, among others. He is also illustrating a series of books for Scholastic and does concept art and storyboards for several film studios.

• Dick Giordano
  [2008 Guest] A veteran of more than five decades in the comic book field, Dick Giordano is a comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics’ Action Heroes stable of superheroes, and serving as editor of then industry-leader DC Comics where he was instrumental in launching Batman Returns, Watchmen, and Crisis on Infinite Earths Since then he has worked for a variety of publishers, was featured in his Dick Giordano - Changing Comics One Day at a Time published by TwoMorrows and written and drawn a how-to book for F+W Publications, Draw Comics with Dick Giordano

• Stephanie Gladden
  [2008 Guest] Stephanie is presently a character artist at Cartoon Network, but has still taken time out to draw a lot of comics in recent years, including The Powerpuff Girls as well as stories for Jim Ottavini’s Dignifying Science, Peter Bagge’s Sweatshop, and Paul Dini’s Jingle Belle.  Currently Stephanie is the regular artist on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends stories for DC Comics.

• Michael Golden
  [2008 Guest] Groundbreaking comics creator Michael Golden is known for his unique art style that at various times seems detailed and at other times seems to be amazingly streamlined--cutting away the excess and maintaining the true essentials of a piece. These techniques, coupled with his signature storytelling construction garner him a legion of devotees that number not only comic readers, but other artists as well.
  

• Sanford Greene
  [2008 Guest] Sanford Greene has worked in comics and animation for several years. His projects list includes Army of Darkness, Adventures of Superman, Star Wars Tales, Galactic, and The Ride. He also did comic cover art for Sonic and Killer 7, the comic based on the hit video game. He has also done work for Play Magazine, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, Upper Deck, and Sega. His current comic work can be seen in the #40 issue of Teen Titans Go! and as the current cover art for Batman Strikes and also illustrating the Legion of Super Heroes comic, based on the hit cartoon.

• Craig Hamilton
  [2008 Guest] Craig has illustrated for comics such as Aquaman, Green Lantern, Superboy, Legion of Super Heroes, Starman, Flinch, The Spectre, Fables, and Lucifer.  He has also created t-shirt logos and  graphics for movies like, Stand by Me, Aliens, Princess Bride, Batteries Not Included, Who Framed  Roger Rabbit?, and for rock and roll bands like Bon Jovi, Skid  Row, INXS, Bangles, M.O.D., and Leather Wolf.

• Cully Hamner
  [2008 Guest] [SUNDAY ONLY] Cully Hamner is mainly known these days as the artist behind DC Comics’ new Blue Beetle series with writers Keith Giffen and John Rogers and the four-issue crime mini series Down for Top Cow/Image.

• Hand Job
  [2008 Guest] Hand Job is a crew of artists who do art live and on stage! The core members are Thom Foolery, Andrew Bellury, Amanda Goodbread, Chris Hamer, Ted Murphy, and Brett W. Thompson.

• Tariq Hassan
  [2008 Guest] Tariq has been published in Girls of Ninja High School 93, Daemonstorm, Negative Burn “Monster Truck” and Pinup Legendlore.

• Don Hillsman
  [2008 Guest] Don was a founding member of Cross Gen and has drawn, inked, and TSR.  Recent projects include trading cards for DC and cover art for Atlanta-based Terminus Media.

• Hyperdrive       Musical
  [2008 Guest] Hyperdrive is an  Atlanta-based rock band comprised of science fiction/fantasy geeks: Good rock’n’roll with a sci-fi/fantasy/horror slant to it! 

• Erica Jacobs
  [2008 Guest] Erica is a member of Studio Revolver.
  

• Georges Jeanty
  [2008 Guest] Georges Jeanty is currently drawing Marvel’s Weapon X, and his checkered past includes Bishop and Deadpool (both for Marvel), and Green Lantern and Team Superboy (for DC).

• Mike Kunkel
  [2008 Guest] Mike Kunkel is the creator of the 2002 and 2003 Eisner Award-winning comic book series Herobear and the kid and the critically acclaimed book The Land of Sokmunster.

• Eric Layton
  [2008 Guest] Eric has been an inker in Greeensboro-based Tsunami Studios, since 2001. He has provided inks for a number of DC and Marvle comics, like Venom, Exiles, New X-men, Green Arrow, Hunter, and Kyle XY. Upcoming projects include, Hexxen Hammers for Arcana, and mini series with Viper, and UpperDeck’s Marvel masterpieces Sketch cards set 2.

• Joseph Michael Linsner
  [2008 Guest] Joseph Michael Linsner, creator of indie comics goddess Dawn, has been in the comics industry for 18 years now, becoming one of the comic book industry’s most celebrated artists. His next project, Dark Ivory, is an exciting collaboration between Linsner and co-creator Eva Hopkins.

• David Mack
  [2008 Guest] David Mack is the writer, creator, and artist of the acclaimed Kabuki and writes the best-selling comic Daredevil.

• Nathan Massengill
  [2008 Guest] Nathan Massengill is a brush inker for DC and Marvel comics, most recently for DC’s Checkmate, Nightwing, Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman Strikes!, and Justice League Unlimited.

• Tyson McAdoo
  [2008 Guest] In 1978, Tyson McAdoo was born part werewolf and was forced to spend his younger years in seclusion. There he worked on his howling and pin-up drawing skills. He can now be found in the shadows of Atlanta stalking beautiful tattooed women. He spends his days immortalizing his victims by drawing seductive pin-ups of their final hours alive…and he also works at Cartoon Network.

• Mini-Komix
  [2008 Guest] Mini-Komix is a local indy comics publisher. They have published a fan comic series of Ben Dunn’s Ninja High School, James Burns’ Detached, plus Staph &  Jesse Coulter’s Lot 12 and Sexbeard.

• Shane Morton
  [2008 Guest] An award-winning tattoo artist since 1992, Shane now spends his energies on his band The Luchagors and his Silver Scream Spook Show, as Professor Morte, your lovable horror host.

• Bobby Nash
  [2008 Guest] Bobby Nash is the writer/artist of the long running family comic strip Life In The Faster Lane starring R.O. He has written several titles for a variety of comic publishers including Demonslayer, Threshold, and Jungle Fantasy for Avatar Press, as well as Fuzzy Bunnies From Hell for Albino Alligator Productions and FYI Comics, and has recently made successful forays into pulp anthologies including the adventures of air ace Lance Star: Sky Ranger.

• Phil Noto
  [2008 Guest] Coming Soon!
  

• Sket One
  [2008 Guest] Designer Sket One is a visual artist with skills that go back to before most of y’all were born. A Connecticut-based graffiti artist, Sket has produced toys for such heavyweights as Kidrobot, Kaching/Mindstlyle, Red Magic, Circus Punks, and basically so many more that if we listed them all, you’d be reading a book.

• Joe Pekar
  [2008 Guest] Joe Pekar is an artist best known for Naughty Girls & Pigtails and Strawberry.

• Eric Pigors
  [2008 Guest] Eric Pigors is the artist behind Toxic Toons - cartoons of subjects such as zombies and vampires. He has worked for Disney Animation for over fifteen years.

• Eric Powell
  [2008 Guest] Eric Powell has worked in is the comics field since 1995, but his true success came with the launch of his critically acclaimed dark comedy series, The Goon.

• Jeff Preston
  [2008 Guest] A mixed breed of designer, musician, educator, haunted attraction producer, and over the hill athlete, Jeff’s monstrous illustrations have appeared as covers and interior illustrations in Monsterscene and Little Shoppe of Horrors and the German based Virus Magazine.

• Andy Price
  [2008 Guest] Andy Price is a penciler, inker, painter, and all-around slave to his art table. Currently in the works on a book for Image, he has also recently appeared in Image’s Negative Burn and SLG Publishing’s Disney’s Haunted Mansion. In the past, he has worked for various advertising, comic, and gaming companies, including Innovation Comic’s Quantum Leap, based on the TV series.

• Ragnar
  [2008 Guest] Brandon Ragnar Johnson has worked with or been published by Chronicle Books, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, Dark Horse, and his current and favorite publisher, Baby Tattoo Books.

• Andy Runton
  [2008 Guest] Andy Runton is the creator of the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, which features a kind little vegetarian owl who’s always searching for new friends and adventure. His animated and heartwarming style has made him a favorite of both fans and critics alike.

• Bob Schreck
  [2008 Guest] Bob Schreck is a Group Editor in the DC Universe editorial department. Previously at Dark Horse, Bob edited such projects as Sin City by Frank Miller and Madman by Michael Allred, and won two consecutive Harvey Awards as editor of the groundbreaking anthology Dark Horse Presents.

• Diana Schutz
  [2008 Guest] [SUNDAY ONLY] Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry since 1978.  For the last eighteen of those thirty years, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now an   executive editor.  She is Frank Miller’s editor on Sin City and 300, Matt   Wagner’s editor on Grendel,   Stan Sakai’s editor on Usagi Yojimbo, and Paul Chadwick’s editor on Concrete.

• Steve Scott
  [2008 Guest] Steve Scott got his start as a sequential illustrator in the mid-nineties working for Malibu comics, but he was probably best known for his work on Razor for London Night. Steve’s latest work can be seen in the pages of DC Comics’ Shadowpact, The Creeper, Batman Legends of the Dark Knight, and Checkmate.

• Tony Shasteen
  [2008 Guest] Tony Shasteen is currently illustrating Image Comic The Occult Crimes Taskforce (the O.C.T.), co-created by David Atchison and Rosario Dawson.

• Andy Smith
  [2008 Guest] Andy  has been a comicbook artist for over 17 years. Having worked for Marvel, DC,  Acclaim, Image, and Cross Generation Entertainment, where not only was he the  artist on their monthly title The First he was also an Assistant Art-director.  Last year Andy was the artist on Storm Watch PHD, pencils and inks. He also  worked on Superman Confidential and the All New Atom and also illustrated one  part of DC Comic’s big event World War 3, along with many other titles.

• Brian Stelfreeze
  [2008 Guest] Brian has the distinction of painting over fifty consecutive Batman: Shadow Of The Bat covers. His other covers for DC, Marvel, and various other publishers are beyond the ability for most people to count.

• Kevin Stokes
  [2008 Guest] Coming soon.
  

• Sean Taylor
  [2008 Guest] Sean Taylor Sean Taylor is is the managing editor of Elfin Kids, and oversees the publication of graphic novels based on classic literature, world literature and historical biographies, as well as original works.  He is also the writer of Gene Simmons Dominatrix by Gene Simmons Comics Group published by IDW Publishing and has also written for Gene Simmons House of Horror, also published by IDW. In addition to that, he also a staff writer for the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize Zine Award-winning Cyber Age Adventures magazine.

• The Batmobile
  [2008 Guest] An exact replica of the world famous Batmobile (circa 1966) will be on display at ACE on Saturday September 9th!

• Don Thomas
  [2008 Guest] Don created WEIRD WEST, and is currently working on The Warped Ones for Terminus Media. Don is carving out a space for his stage!

• Ethan Van Sciver
  [2008 Guest] Ethan Van Sciver is an artist and penciller, currently doing covers and interior art for the DC Comics title Superman/Batman. Comic book titles he has contributed to include Cyberfrog, Bog Swamp Demon, New X-Men, The Flash: Iron Heights, Impulse, Green Lantern: Rebirth, and Green Lantern.

• Wayne Vansant
  [2008 Guest] For twenty years Wayne Vansant has written and illustrated comics and graphic novels dealing with military history, including the Civil War, World War II, and Korea. He was the artist for Marvel’s The ‘Nam for more than fifty issues.

• Dexter Vines
  [2008 Guest] Dexter is an eight-year comics vet who lives in Atlanta. Past credits include inks on The Heretic, Wetworks, Super Patriot, and Dentention Comics; upcoming work includes Weapon X for Marvel.

• Doug Wagner
  [2008 Guest] Doug Wagner got his start writing Ultraforce for Malibu Comics. After he drove that company out of business, he went into hiding for awhile. Now he’s back as Managing Editor of Atlanta-based 12 Gauge Comics, as well as writing some of their most exciting books; Gun Candy and multiple arcs of The Ride.

• H. C. Warner
  [2008 Guest] Henry Christopher Warner’s vision is based upon the “Innocence” of youth producing imagery that connects with children as well as adults. Child-like imagery and memories reflecting the humorous and sometimes disturbing nature of life play an important role in his creative process.

• Renee Witterstaetter
  [2008 Guest] Writer, editor, and publisher Renee Witterstaetter began the comic phase of her career working on such titles as Superman at DC Comics and Silver Surfer, Conan The Barbarian and the Conan Saga at Marvel, then going on to spearhead the reintroduction of She-Hulk at Marvel as well.

• Solikha "Sonnie" Wright
  [2008 Guest] Solikha "Sonnie" Wright is a woman of many talents and best known as the creator of StubbyChubby.com, the website that brings her varied artistic endeavors to the world.

• Derek Yaniger
  [2008 Guest] Over the past 18 years he’s worked for such high-falootin’ clients as Marvel Comics and Cartoon Network. Nowadays, Derek’s illustration style, reminiscent of cocktail napkin art of the 50’s, can be seen in such magazines as Atomic, Barracuda, and Car Kulture Deluxe.

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