OCTOBER 25 & 26, 2008
VETERANS MEMORIAL IN DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS OH
SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR...JASON MEWES
Jason Mewes, 
Darryl Banks - Darryl is from Columbus,Ohio and a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design with a Bachelors Degree. He began his comics career in 1989 working for various independent comic companies. In 1993 he started working with DC Comics working on Legion of Superheroes and then his incredible work on Green Lantern. Co-creating the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern, Parallax and other characters was a great honor and challenge for Darryl's costume design skills. He has also worked on various DC projects. His other work includes Tomb Raider: Epiphany from Top Cow, G.I.Joe Reloaded for Devil's, Johnnie Zombie for Midgard Comics, covers to Moonstone’s Phantom series and numerous other comic series.
Brant W. Fowler - Brant W. Fowler is a freelance writer, letterer and occasionally artist and web/graphic designer currently residing in Kentucky. His credits include (writing) his creator-owned title Wannabez, as well as (lettering) Abiding Perdition, Corrective Measures, Shelter, Academy of Heroes, Arcana Comics and more. Brant has also contributed columns, reviews, interviews and more at several sites, is a former Editor-In-Chief of two small comic companies, and regular blogger, as well as the current Editor-In-Chief for comic news site www.silverbulletcomics.com. Throughout most of the internet he is known as “Gonzogoose” or simply “Gonzo” for reasons he declines to comment on. Brant is currently pursuing both company and creator-owned opportunities in comics and other media. He aspires to someday write, illustrate and letter a comic, turned novel, turned movie in which he will play a role and record some of the music for. It’s a lofty goal, but that is why he is the fabled “Gonzogoose!" www.brantfowler.com
Sam Stormcrow Hayes - Described as a well-mannered, sweet-natured, nihilistic punk, Stormcrow Hayes claims that living in Los Angeles hasn't made him cynical, just more enraged. He has worked on several projects for TOKYOPOP, including Afterlife, an original series with Rob Steen, the illustrator of Ricky Gervais' Flanimals, as well as adaptations for the best-selling .hack novels. Other projects include the e-zine The Idiot, of which he is the editor, and his first feature film, The Deal (a thriller starring Penelope Ann Miller, Henry Thomas, and Dean Stockwell).
Sean Forney - Sean Forney is the co-creator and artist on his self published comic book, Scarlet Huntress. He has been working professionally in the illustration and comic industries for the past six years. Recent work includes: Camp Comics' Camp Dangerous Curves, which was released at Wizard World Chicago 2006. Sean was the cover artist for Twisted Gate Entertainment's Portal #2, Snow Ninjas #1 and Man of Prey #1. He penciled and inked interior pages for Portal #1 and #2 as well. Check out Sean's website at www.smcomics.com
Bill Gladman - Bill Gladman is a life long comic book enthusiast and die hard collector, a writer, artist, and musician from Springfield Ohio . Attended art classes at the Springfield Joint Vocational School 1983-1985. Created his own role-playing game system (Into the Pandemonium) back in 1987 which had a large following and hosted a gaming circle of over 32 members during the height of its five year, 517 adventures run. Bill has written and drawn two different comic strips for one of the Springfield papers, been a member of Dragonsound Art Studios of Springfield as well as Reaper Images and Phantom Graphics. He plays bass and writes songs and has recorded with the bands Misled and Project X. The ! best of these studio recordings as well as additional tracks can be found on the recently released “farewell” c.d. “All Is Forgiven-A Journey’s End” available at www.zonetrooper.com. Bill also writes songs for other local rock bands. Bill is the co-founder of Zonetrooper LTD . and one of the administrators for the Zonetrooper website, contributing writer, artist, and editor for Zonetrooper Magazine, co-host of the Zonecasts/Zonetrooper podcasts, co-founder and lead investigator for ParaTroopers Investigations paranormal research team, writer and illustrator for Jack the Rabbit, writes, inks and letters projects for t! he Zonetrooper Comics line, writes Three Wise Men (a segmented! screen- play on Zonetrooper with a Kevin Smith slant) and was a lobbyist as well as a designer of the only full 18 hole disc golf course in the Springfield area (Buck Creek Disc Golf Course.)
Sean McKeever - is a comicbook writer best known for introspective, character-driven tales, as seen in his breakthrough teen-drama series, The Waiting Place. After working in the Indie press for six years, Sean got his big break writing an issue of The Incredible Hulk for Marvel Comics in 2001. Since then, Sean has written dozens of comics for Marvel, including popular runs on Sentinel, Inhumans, Mystique, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Gravity and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. Sean currently writes comics exclusively for DC Comics, including the monthly Teen Titans series. He has also had writing stints on the DC titles Countdown to Final Crisis and Birds of Prey. Sean won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition in 2005. Sean also wrote several (uncredited) weeks of the Funky Winkerbean comic strip, as well as one week of Crankshaft, which have appeared sporadically in 2006 and 2007. He hopes to one day write for film and/or television, but if he spent the rest of his life writing comics, he'd be perfectly content. 
Brett R. Pinson - Brett is the co-founder of Boomtown Press as well as the co-creator of Boomtown Scabs and the Adventures of Carl. Along with his late business partner John M. Styrk Jr Brett is currently working on the Fat Momma Comics and a contributing writer, colorist and letterer. Also Brett is collaborating with Kevin Leen on Dinosaurs, Zombies and Flying Saucers, Adam Talley on The Expendables and Josh Warner on Incessant Yarns and several other projects in the near future.
Joe Shover - Joe Shover is a writer and artist living in Springfield , Ohio . Joe is a co-founder of Zonetrooper LTD. and could easily be described as a human hat rack since he wears so many of them where Zonetrooper is concerned. Joe designs and maintains the site, maintains contacts and submissions, co-hosts the Zonecast, designs and does layout for the magazine known as Zonetrooper where he writes Cronac: Temporal Enforce and Major Tom’s Journal, both on-going storylines. Joe has written his own Role-playing game which will hit the site sometime in the future.
Scott D.M. Simmons - Scott D.M. Simmons resides in the Cincinnati area and is the artist on Wannabez (written and lettered by Brant W. Fowler). He is an inker over artists such as Nicola Scott and David Baldeon for the upcoming Halloween Man books. He is also a frequent art and story contributor and editor at www.globalcomicjam.com (especially on Fusion Odyssey and JetDog Goes to Egypt) and has a few comic book projects in the works for various writers, and his own creations like Journeymen. Scott worked as a photographer at Hasbro Toys for eight years, and has taught at the Art Institutes. He also currently writes the (Th)Inking Globally artist column at www.silverbulletcomics.com. His artwork portfolios can be seen at www.scottdmsimmons.com and at www.comicspace.com/scottdmsimmons
Uko Smith - Uko Smith, a fulltime freelancer that was born and bred in Washingon, D.C., then fled to the Columbus College of Art & Design has a usable BFA degree in illustration and a minor in fashion. Uko first gained recognition for his erotic pinup work and his sensual style. Collectors of his work have come to notice his distinctive use of linework and stylized realization. Uko has been featured in: Heavy Metal magazine as the Featured Artist of the Month; Julie Strains Nightmare on Pinup St. where he has four pieces displayed; Jade Magazine, Marquis, Aphrodisia and others. Other works of Uko's can be found in the world of sketchcards from DC Legacy where he diligently in full color finished 750 cards, Marvel Masterpieces, the Complete Avengers and maybe some upcoming Indiana Jones stuff. Currently, he just finished 600 cards for The Women of Marvel through Rittenhouse and produces self published works such as sketchbooks, prints, original works! and t-shirts along with a steady load of freelance work from various companies such as Green Ronin. He has taught fast sketch and figure drawing and currently teaches the comic book class at CCAD (Columbus College of Art and Design). You can catch him at conventions throughout the year where he constantly panhandles his works.
Jamie Snell - A graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. Jamie has become a freelance comic book artist, working for various independent comic companies. Most recent projects include, Lord of the Rings Masterpieces II sketch cards from Topps and New Line Cinema, various Beast Wars Source book profiles from IDW Publishing and Hasbro, Pop Gun Anthology from Image comics, Cereal and Pajamas from Ape Entertainment, and various chores for General Jack Cosmo Productions.
Tom Sullivan - Tom Sullivan's first significant illustration assignment was creating artwork and maquettes (small sculptures of monsters) for Bill Baetz's The Cry of Cthulhu, his first Lovecraftian film project. He was never paid for anything and the film was never made but Bill got some of his art published in articles about the film in Cinefauntastique and Starlog. Tom was on the board, so to speak. Since then he has been fortunate doing special effects and creating props for Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, The Army of Darkness and The Fly Part 2. I was an Illustrator for Chaosium Inc, doing pen and ink drawings for The Call of Cthulhu, their game based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. Now Tom's acting in films, such as The Dread (with Ellen Sandweiss of Evil Dead) , The Absence of Light, A Sheer Agenda, Buddy Holly ! VS The Living Dead (starts filming in June), Morrow Road (starts this summer and also stars most of the cast of The Evil Dead) and others he is waiting to hear about. Tom has also written and published 4 part comic book called: Tom Sullivan's Books of the Dead: Devilhead. It is a very violent, gory Lovecraftian story that starts in Iraq, 1983 and follows the predicament of two authors framed for a mass murder they did not commit and the hell they go through to clear their names. Lots of monsters and madness. Just like real life. It is published by Dead Dog Comics and Issue Number Two is on stands now. Tom's final draft of my Zombie epic is about done and it will be pitched out in Los Angeles this Summer. There is much more to come. In the meantime he gets to meet his fans at horror film conventions across the land and that is the best reward of all.