Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel, created the Eisner Award nominated BILLY DOGMA, the semi-autobiographical digital comic, STREET CODE, helped pioneer personal webcomics with the invention of ACT-I-VATE, won the 6th Anniversary Literary Death Match in NYC with his “brute charisma,” and co-created/co-curates, TRIP CITY.net, a Brooklyn-filtered, multimedia salon. Dean has drawn many great superhero [...]

Seth Kushner’s photography has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, L’Uomo Vogue, The New Yorker and others.  He was chosen by Photo District News magazine as a three-time winner of their Photo Annual Competition. Seth’s first book, The Brooklynites, (with Anthony LaSala) was published by powerHouse Books in 2007.  His next book, Leaping Tall Buildings: [...]

Multi-media performer Chris Miskiewicz is a native Brooklynite who works in film, music, comics & prose. Chris is a member of the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE where he writes the monthly anthology series EVERYWHERE. His writing has appeared in Underflow & Jerry Magazines. He makes music in Swinger Eight and is the producer of the Trip City Podcast [...]

Jef UK is a writer and rockstar from Texas, living in Brooklyn, NY.  Frontman for the now decade-old, sci-fi post-punk band, AMERICANS UK, he writes all the time, he rocks all the time.  Sometimes he gets published.  His first graphic novel, Odd Schnozz and the Odd Squad, is scheduled for release in 2012 from Oni Press. [...]

Nick Abadzis was born in Sweden to Greek and British parents. He is a cartoonist, writer, graphic novelist  and editor of international renown who has been honored with various awards including the prestigious Eisner in 2008 for his graphic novel Laika. Laika also won best script at Le Borget Book Festival in France and a [...]

Jennifer Hayden’s first book, UNDERWIRE, was published October 2011 by Top Shelf. Jennifer came to comics from fiction-writing and children’s book illustration. She is a member of ACT-I-VATE, the premier webcomics collective, and her comics have appeared in two anthologies: The ACT-I-VATE Primer, and Cousin Corinne’s Reminder. She is currently working on a graphic novel [...]

Joe ‘The Towering’ Infurnari is a Brooklyn based Canadian cartoonist. His web comics have been nominated for two Eisners and his print illustrations have appeared in the pages of Marvel, Image Comics, Three Rivers Press, and more. He has two graphic novels coming from First Second. MUSH! Sled Dogs with Issues! is out in December 2011 [...]

Amy Finkel is a designer, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is the founder and creative director of Sailor Beware, LLC, an agency that specializes in web design and video work. Her video work has appeared on HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, The History Channel and PBS. She is an instructor at both NYU and Parsons [...]

Kevin Colden is the author of the Eisner Award-nominated, Xeric award-winning graphic novel Fishtown and the digital comic series I Rule the Night. He drew the comics adaptation of Robert Bloch’s Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, has illustrated an edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, contributed to Vertigo’s Strange Tales, and appears in various other projects [...]

Jen Ferguson lives and works as a full time artist in Brooklyn, NY, where she paints and creates strange worlds through which to filter a life of quixotic artistic endeavors. Jen’s art is featured in the Blue Ribbon Restaurants where she created the menu art and décor since its inception, and was published in “Art [...]

A supreme music and movie nerd who dabbles in writing, puppetry, list making, and film scoring, Ron Scalzo’s creative resume includes fronting longtime electronic rock act Q*Ball, progressive metal band Return To Earth (Metal Blade Records), and experimental electro project Hooper.

  Ron is the owner of NY based independent record label Bald Freak Music and has [...]

The Perv Whisperer, like many of us with super powers, would prefer that no one knows her true identity. What she can make available to the public is the following: – She would choose Blood Hound over Norwegian Elkhound any day of the week. – She doesn’t like getting food juice on her chin or [...]

Jeff Newelt aka JahFurry is the editor of The PEKAR PROJECT webcomics series, and the upcoming graphic novel Harvey Pekar’s CLEVELAND. He is comics editor of SMITH, Heeb and Royal Flush magazines. He has been dubbed “NYC’s Favourite Freakscene Facilitator” (Warren Ellis). He uses PR and social media to relentlessly promote and connect artists as [...]

Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox (winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize), Theories of Falling (winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize), and Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a memoir. Her essays have appeared in the Oxford American, and Washington Post Magazine. Her poetry has [...]

Author-artist Dan Goldman has created long-form graphic novels for Random House, AMC Television and Hachette Books USA, where he produced his Eisner-nominated work on SHOOTING WAR. Since January 2010, he’s created over 300 pages of his supernatural drama-horror series RED LIGHT PROPERTIES, originally commissioned for Tor.com and continuing as a multi-platform digital-first comic series. A [...]

Jonathan Vankin is a writer and editor of various things that need writing and editing. His work has received sundry awards and honors, while his books have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Including Japanese. In 2010, he published The World’s Greatest Conspiracies, the fifth installment in his Greatest Conspiracies franchise (co-written with John Whalen). [...]

Vito Delsante is a comic book writer/graphic novelist. He’s written for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, AdHouse Books, and Simon & Schuster, among others and his stories have been reprinted in other countries. In 2011, he started Eternal Kick, LLC, with famed artist, ChrisCross. He lives in New York City with his wife, Michelle, [...]

Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a Portland based cartoonist and educator.  He won a Xeric grant in 2007 to self-publish his one man anthology, Television, and then went on to co-author and illustrate the comics adaptation of Bill Ayers renowned book on education, To Teach. www.ohyesverynice.com