Kate Beaton draws men in fancy hats for a living. On an exciting day she'll draw a character with epaulets. Her website is harkavagrant.com.
Matthew Bennardo has lived in Cleveland, Ohio, for the past twenty years. His stories have previously been published in Asimov's Science Fiction and Strange Horizons, among other markets. He can be contacted at: [email protected].
Brandon Bolt draws cartoon pictures in order to eat, and has made a variety of other unclever life decisions. Perhaps you will be affected by one of them one day. To start, read the cartoon he draws at nobodyscores.com. There is also a portfolio site at nobodyscores.com if perhaps you are interested in having some pictures drawn, which experts concede is possible.
Vera Brosgol spends her days drawing storyboards for animation in Portland, Oregon. At night she produces illustrations and comics, and her first book, Anya's Ghost, will be published by First Second in Spring 2011. Her website is verabee.com.
Jeffrey Brown is the author of numerous autobiographical graphic novels such as Clumsy and Funny Misshapen Body as well as humorous work including Incredible Change-Bots and Cats Are Weird. www.jeffreybrowncomics.com
Scott C. is Scott Campbell, art director for Psychonauts and Brütal Legend at Double Fine Productions. Scott has done numerous comics that have appeared in such anthologies as Hickee, Flight, Beasts!, and Project: Superior. He has also painted many clever little paintings that have shown in such places as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Montreal, and Japan. scott-c.blogspot.com
Mitch Clem has made a ton of comics, including My Stupid Life (published by New Reliable Press) and Nothing Nice to Say (published by Dark Horse Comics). Everything about him lives at mitchclem.com.
Daliso Chaponda is a writer & comedian who writes fiction on trains as he travels to stand-up gigs. His fiction is often dark and depressing to compensate for the vacuousness of his night-job. He has been shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Society Award, Northwest Breakthrough Comedian Award, and so on. He likes strawberries. www.daliso.com
John Chernega lives in southern Minnesota with his wife and sons. Aside from a few corporate catalogs, “Almond” is his first published work. You can read his blog at cherney.vox.com. He keeps a nondescript business card on his nightstand that says “Clumsy Hippopotamus”, but he refuses to divulge whether it's from a machine of death, or if he's been moonlighting as a clumsy hippopotamus.
Danielle Corsetto is the creator of the webcomic “Girls With Slingshots,” the comedic story about two girls, a bar, and a talking cactus, which can be found at girlswithslingshots.com. She lives with two cats and a 9-year-old goldfish in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a very old house. These days she spends most of her time drinking alone and talking to herself.
Chris Cox is a deranged, one-eyed hunchback wandering by night through the wastelands of Pawtucket. His age isn't known, but sightings go back three hundred years and he's generally believed to be a cannibal. Author of one and a half phenomalous black comedy novels, he's represented by ParkEast Literary Agency, with whom he only communicates via cryptic notes written on apples injected with larvae. Needless to say, he's a tricky one. [email protected]
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw was born and raised in England but now lives in Australia. Primarily a gaming writer, he is responsible for the “Zero Punctuation” video reviews at The Escapist online magazine. His first novel, Mogworld, has been published by Dark Horse Books. He can be reached through his personal site at fullyramblomatic.com.
Alexander Danner writes and teaches comics. His most recent series is “Gingerbread Houses,” a retelling of Hansel and Gretel illustrated by Edward J. Grug III. “Gingerbread Houses” and other fairy tales can be found at picturestorytheater.com. More of Danner's stories and experiments can also be found at twentysevenletters.com. He is co-author of the textbook Character Design for Graphic Novels, and he teaches Writing the Graphic Novel at Emerson College.
Aaron Diaz gave up a life of professional science to draw comics on the internet. He shares a name with a Mexican pop star. dresdencodak.com
Rene Engström is a cartoonist and illustrator living and working out of Östersund and Malmö, Sweden. She has just wrapped up the 300-page online graphic novel Anders Loves Maria. reneengstrom.com
Jess Fink is the author of We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir, published by Top Shelf. She has seen the all-knowing Space Rainbow and eaten its gummy heart. She also makes T-shirts. Her erotic webcomic about a Victorian robot is at: jessfink.com/Chester5000XYV
James Foreman lives in Pittsburgh and is probably drinking coffee. He blogs about his life's esoterica at: jamesforeman.com.
Tom Francis is a writer and editor for PC Gamer magazine and PCGamer.com. He keeps a pet blog called James at pentadact.com, and you can e-mail him at pentadact.com
Rafa Franco was born on a wee town in Argentina 27 years ago. Graphic designer by trade, he has had some art and a couple of articles published where you will never find them, and has managed to unwillingly produce some small-time freelance graphic design work. Like an idiot savant, he roams the muddy slime of mediocrity and has the common sense to let the occasional spark of creativity out to the world. If you feel like traveling fifteen thousand miles south to the city of La Plata near Buenos Aires, you may catch him starring in a play as a 70-year-old backwater whore. Or you can reach him at [email protected]. It's okay.
Dorothy Gambrell is the last living American to enjoy listening to the radio. She draws unfortunate cartoons on a regular basis at catandgirl.com.
Shaenon K. Garrity is the creator of the daily webstrips “Narbonic” and “Skin Horse” (the latter co-written with fellow contributor Jeffrey Wells), as well as many other comics both on- and offline. She occasionally writes scripts for Marvel Comics, a disproportionate number of which involve department-store Santas. She also works as a freelance manga editor for VIZ Media and teaches at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Andrew Farago, and their neurotic cat Tesla.
KC Green does comics online and off. He did some comics for Nickelodeon magazine and then they closed their doors. He blames himself every day. Currently he does the webcomic “Gunshow” at gunshowcomic.com, but for how long until his unfocused, child-like mind wanders on to something else? You can try to find more of his work, old and new, at his unfinished website gunshowcomic.com.
William Grallo is the son of Lou. He was the winner of the Will Inman Award for Poetry and a runner-up for the Ursula K. LeGuin Award for Imaginative Fiction. He has had fiction published in Rosebud magazine and online at alwaysblack.com.
C. E. Guimont lives in Berlin, Germany. His previous two novels, The Ten Lies She Told Me and The One or Two I Told Her and That Business With the Rabbit are in Staten Island's Fresh Kills dark archive.
Matt Haley is best known as a comic-book illustrator for DC, Dark Horse and Marvel. Currently drawing the sequel to Badass (Harper), he directs film and watches Japanese kids' shows when sober. matthaley.com
Christopher Hastings is the creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée, Carly, and their dog, Commissioner Gordon. You can read his comic for free at drmcninja.com, and you can email him for free at drmcninja.com
Paul Horn is an infographics journalist, illustrator and man-about-town. His comic “Cool Jerk” is found in finer comics shops and at cooljerk.com. He and his wife Darlene live in San Diego and enjoy writing blurbs in the third person.
Sherri Jacobsen writes copy for movie marketing by day, and rewrites copy for finicky movie marketing executives by night. This is her first appearance in a publication not bound by staples.
John Keogh is an itinerant rambler with fists of steel and a nose for trouble, currently roughhousing his way through New England. You can see him try to do right by his kin on lucid-tv.com.
Karl Kerschl has been drawing comics professionally for 15 years. He has worked on Superman, The Flash, Robin and The Teen Titans, among other heroi
c things, and is the author of the Eisner-nominated webcomic “The Abominable Charles Christopher.” More of his work can be found at karlkerschl.com.
Kazu Kibuishi is the creator of the Amulet graphic novel series for Scholastic Graphix and the Flight comics anthology for Villard Books. He lives and works in Alhambra, California. boltcity.com
Adam Koford is the creator of a book called The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out. During the day he works for a video game company making secret things he's not allowed to talk about unless there's an official public relations envoy present. adamkoford.com
Douglas J Lane's narrative weirdness has appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated and Pure Francis, and can be found in the forthcoming anthology Seasons In The Abyss. He currently juggles his day job with his work on a novel and a flaming chainsaw. He can be reached—and might even reply—at [email protected].
Roger Langridge is currently the cartoonist behind the Eisner- and Harvey-nominated Muppet Show Comic Book and writer of Marvel's all-ages superhero book, Thor: The Mighty Avenger, putting in occasional bursts of activity on a web strip, “Mugwhump the Great”, whenever he gets a spare moment. His past credits include his multi-award-nominated self-published comic, Fred the Clown, and being co-writer and artist of Marvel's Fin Fang Four.
K M Lawrence may be writing in Ireland, or may be writing in England. Either way, he can be contacted at kludgeco.com.
David Malki ! is the author of the Eisner-, Harvey- and Ignatz-nominated comic strip “Wondermark.” His latest collection is Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters, published by Dark Horse Books. He lives in Los Angeles and he likes to fly airplanes. Read comics, contact him, etc. at wondermark.com.
Erin McKean is a lexicographer (look it up). She lexicogs as the founder of Wordnik.com, and blogs about dresses at dressaday.com. She has written one novel, four books about wacky words, and enough email to cover the entire moon with a layer of alphanumeric characters five ems deep.
Brian McLachlan makes two webcomics: “The Princess Planet” and “Smooth N Natural.” He does a lot of work for kids, including stuff for Owl magazine, Nickelodeon magazine, Nelson Textbooks and the graphic novel Ticket To Space for Scholastic Canada. Basically, a lot of children have probably added moustaches to his illustrations. He's also worked for Vice, YM, Dragon, The Toronto Star, Oni Press and other incongruous publishers.
Kevin McShane is a cartoonist, designer, actor, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and a dozen other things that won't impress you either. He can be found digitallyat kevinmcshane.org.
Dylan Meconis is the creator of Bite Me! and Family Man. Should one come across her tricorner hat (lost in a pheasant shoot), please send it home to dylanmeconis.com.
Camron Miller is an amateur writer and classics student. A graduate of St Bees School and the Lawrenceville School, he divides his time between the University of London, the Surrey Hills, and a seaside village near the Lake District National Park. He can be reached at [email protected].
Carly Monardo lives and draws in Brooklyn, NY with her fiancé and their ridiculous dog. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts Animation Program, Carly has worked on such shows as Sunday Pants, SuperNormal, and Venture Bros. She also works as a freelance illustrator. You can find more of her work at whirringblender.com.
Randall Munroe, a cartoonist from southern Virginia, is the creator of the webcomic “xkcd” (xkcd.com), one of the most popular comics on the Internet. Formerly a roboticist at NASA, he now makes a living writing comics. He spends his time drawing, traveling, and training computers to beat humans at Rock-Paper-Scissors. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Nation of Amanda enjoys using swear words and painting and drawing comics, not in that order. She currently lives with, is engaged to, and frequently collaborates with Mitch Clem who cannot even believe how awesome she is. Her blog lives at nationofamanda.livejournal.com.
Ryan North is an author who lives in Toronto, which is in Canada. He writes a comic strip called “Dinosaur Comics” which you can pick up in book form at your local bookstore, or which you can just read for free at qwantz.com. They're pretty okay! You can reach him through his website.
Pelotard has worked at Microsoft in Dublin, at the European Space Agency in Noordwijk-an-Zee in the Netherlands, and has found his degree in theoretical physics completely useless in his current career at a translation agency. He lives outside Stockholm, Sweden, with his family, and can be reached at [email protected].
Ramón Pérez is an overcaffeinated Canadian who likes to draw picture books for the likes of Marvel and DC Comics, while at the same time indulging his own peculiar muse by regaling the world with tales such as “Kukuburi” and quirky comedies the likes of “ButterNutSquash.” For a deeper foray into his mind and meanderings visit ramonperez.com.
Brian Quinlan recently earned a degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. He has yet to decide what the hell he'll do next. Brian can be contacted at: [email protected]
T. J. Radcliffe is a mercenary scientist and poet living in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. When not sailing or hiking he writes poetry to go with the whimsical and beautiful images created by Hilary Farmer at greenteadoodles.wordpress.com, with whom he has a graphic-novel/epic-poem/web-comic in development. He is also working on a self-referential novel about the nature of stories called Metastory, helps mentor a FIRST Robotics team, is an adjunct professor at Queen's University working on cancer genetics, pretends to keep a day job, and has serious plans to get some sleep in the late fall of 2037. He can be reached via his website: greenteadoodles.wordpress.com
Jesse Reklaw has been drawing the weekly comic strip “Slow Wave” since 1995, and has two collections published: Dreamtoons and The Night of Your Life. Find more online at slowwave.com.
Katie Sekelsky lives in Pennsylvania. She has had illustrations published with the Harvard University Press and featured in Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial. Her work can be seen on her mother's refrigerator (by appointment only) and at ksekelsky.com.
Gord Sellar is a graduate of Clarion West 2006, and has lived in South Korea since 2002. His writing has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Interzone, and Jetse de Vries' Shine anthology, as well as in The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 26, edited by Gardner Dozois. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009. Visit his website at gordsellar.com.
Kean Soo is the author and illustrator of the Jellaby series of graphic novels. He spends a distressing amount of time on the Internet, and not enough on his website, secretfriendsociety.com.
Jeff Stautz lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Fiction Editor of PRISM international, is a former Fishtrap Fellow, and was a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists' Refuge. His work has appeared most recently in The First Line and is forthcoming in Event.
Cameron Stewart is the multiple-award nominated illustrator of Batman & Robin, Seaguy, Catwoman, and The Other Side. His serialized online graphic novel Sin Titulo won the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, and can be found at sintitulocomic.com.
Kris Straub is the cartoonist behind the webcomic “Chainsawsuit” and the sci-fi humor saga Starslip. He's also co-author of the Harvey Award-nominated How To Make Webcomics, published by Image. Kris has lived in every city in America for at least one second.
James Lafond Sutter is the Fiction Editor for Paizo Publishing, creators of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. He is the award-winning author of numerous game products and short stories, and his fiction has appeared in such venues as Black Gate, Catastrophia, and Apex Magazine, as well as been translated into several languages. His anthology Before They Were Giants pairs the first stories of SF greats from William Gibson to China Mieville with new interviews and writing advice from the authors themselves. For more information, visit jameslsutter.com.
Marcus Thiele (familiarly known as Marcus Parcus) disappeared under mysterious circumstances at the age of 27 and was hastily replaced with a l
ife-like replica. The pretense of his continued existence and artistic output is maintained through the silence, exile and cunning of the skilled estate representatives at themonkeymind.livejournal.com.
Kelly Tindall is Canadian, and his drawings can be found all over a bunch of Image comic books. Go say “hi”: kellytindall.blogspot.com.
Dean Trippe is an alien robot ninja wizard (from the future) who makes comics. He is a former comic shop manager, a lifelong superhero fan, and has an actual degree in comics. For more of his work, visit deantrippe.com.
J Jack Unrau is a freelance writer and vagabond librarian whose work has appeared on Wired.com, CBC Radio and in Broken Pencil. Living in China taught him valuable lessons about taking pictures of riot police. J's online home is thedubiousmonk.net.
Bartholomew von Klick lives beneath a bridge in Missouri, emerging only to collect a toll from passers-by. He sometimes mutters about all the things he would like to eat, but has not yet been able to kill. He has thirty-six cats, and a beautiful wife who rises from the grave every night to hunt and bring him snacks from the orphanage.
Julia Wainwright lives in Suffolk, England, where she writes stuff, makes things, and grows 0.1 percent of her own food. She's just happy to be here. Julia can be reached at [email protected].
Jeffrey C. Wells is the co-creator of the award-winning webcomic “Skin Horse”, found online at skin-horse.com. He himself has also won awards, but they were for things like “Worst Opening Line of a Science Fiction Story”, so if you want to award him with things so he no longer feels inferior to his own webcomic, that would be great. He lives in the wilds of rural Wisconsin with a wonderful spouse, a dial-up modem, and more pets than you can shake a stick at. Watch him do his thing at skin-horse.com
David Michael Wharton ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist from Texas. When not sweating in the trenches as an editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, he hammers out screenplays and short fiction and swears one of these days he's going to get around to that novel, damn it.
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