 Creators at the Paradise Toronto Comicon July 12-13 Part 4 (N-Z)
from Chris Nolan.ca - I Am
July 10, 2008
Check out the list of creators at this weekend s Paradise Toronto Comicon. Pat Davidson Unable to Attend Pat Davidson inks. He has been inking, mostly for Marvel comics since 2003. Pat s last Project was the adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island for the Marvel Illustrated line. Pat has recently relocated to Saskatoon, he misses Toronto. More information can be found at Pat s Website http://www.patdavidson.ca Pat Olliffe According to Pat 2008 is my 21st year in this crazy business. Over the years I ve worked for such companies as, Malibu, Eternity, and TSR, spending the last 17 years working primarily for Marvel and DC. Some of the titles I ve provided the artwork for are Thor, Nomad, Warlock and The Infinity watch, She Hulk, Untold tales of Spider-Man, Marvel Team-up, Spider-Girl, Namor, The Punisher and Spider-Man 2 movie adaptations, The Last Hero and Last Planet Standing mini series, Firestorm, JSA, 52, The Four Horsemen mini series, and am now currently the regular artist on The Atom. I currently live in Pittsburgh with my wonderful wife Mary and beautiful daughter Ruby. Ramon Perez Ram?n most current mainstream work can be seen in JSA: Classifieds 35-37 featuring Wildcat in a story that spans the both the modern era and the golden age of comics. Ram?n s other recent sequential work includes volume two of the DEGRASSI: EXTRA CREDIT graphic novels and THE INCREDIBLES for Dark Horse Comics. The remainder of Ram?n s professional catalogue includes ?FEAR THIS BOOK! a children s book published through Maple Tree Press as well as various Role-Playing Games, Collectible Card Games and related publications. A veteran of the gaming industry he has worked on RIFTS, MUTANTS distinctive intelligent and sharply written (PopImage) and haunting intriguing with a hint of noir (Cold Cut spotlight Review). He was nominated for a Shuster award as Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer in 2006 for his work on MNEMOVORE. http://www.rayfawkes.com/ Richard Zajac Richard Zajac has been working in comics for 4 years and has been published by various companies. After his run on Devil Due s G.I. Joe: America s Elite, Special Missions and Dreadnoks, he ha srecently done a short stint inking for Big City Comics and is an ink assistant for vetern inker Mark McKenna. He has published his own book, Thoughtless as both writer and inker. He keeps busy with pencilling, inking, writing, commissions, and charity work as a Canadian Representative for the Hero Initiative. http://www.arponline.com/zajac/gallery/gallary.htm Rob Coughler what can you say about rob that hasn t already been written on a bathroom wall. he s like a dirty limerick with a happy ending. one minute he s sweet as pie, then he throws out a quip that would make dr. ruth blush. by day he tolls in the numerous jobs he may have at any given time. whether it be coffee whore, adult store sexpert, actor, writer, colourist or occassional radio personality. these are all liable to change at any given moment. rob and ram?n have been friends for far too long and these years coould not be chronicled in any other format but a cartoon. http://www.butternutsquash.net/ Salgood Sam Max Douglas, aka Salgood Sam, is a Canadian illustrator and sequential artist with over 15 years professional experience. He has produced numerous editorial, narrative s a pretty wild dark fantasy tale filled with demons and swords and blood. For more info go to http://www.salgoodsam.com/ Sam Agro Sam Agro is a Toronto based storyboard artist, illustrator and writer. Sam has created storyboards for hundreds of television commercials, and dozens of feature films, including Murder at 1600, Fly Away Home, and several installments of the Saw horror series. Sam has also laboured extensively as a storyboard artist on animated shows, such as John K s The Ripping Friends. In the comics field Sam has worked as writer and artist for Mr. Comics recent Planet of the Apes series, and for publisher Mark Innes new compilation The Comic Eye. Sam has been writing stories for DC s Looney Tunes title for the last five years, and his art can also be seen in Mark San Giacomo s Tales of the Starlight Drive-In. Now Sam has teamed up with Crystal Fractal Comics publishing, supplying art for the upcoming Project:Epsilon London Town. SCOTT CHANTLER Scott Chantler is an acclaimed graphic novelist known for works such as Scandalous,Days Like This, and Northwest Passageas well as a popular commercial illustrator, whose past and present clients include McDonald s, Reebok, Macy s, Rogers, Kroger, and Wiley s, Atlanta Magazine, and Cottage Life. He is currently working on a relaunch of the acclaimed Image Comics series Hawaiian Dick, and a graphic novel adaptation of his grandfather s 1943 war diary. http://www.scottchantler.com/ Scott Hepburn Scott s art career includes illustrating numerous RPG books for White Wolf Publishing, and providing lead artistic duties for the Yalsa-nominated graphic novel series Sentinel from Marvel Comics. He provides the art for the new Star Wars comic series Vector, which begins in Star Wars: Knight s of the Old Republic #25. Scott is also currently creating the online graphic novel ?The Port? http://www.transmission-x.com/ http://kennethjunior.blogspot.com/ Scott Wegener Scott Wegener lives in New Hampshire with his wife Dorinda and their 7yr old Widget. He is the co-creator and artist of Atomic Robo. He has most recently worked on Punisher War Journal for Marvel, and has worked on several anthologies for Image Comics. Scott shares his small studio with a poet, a washer/dryer, and a box of dust that used to be his three-legged cat. Sean Ward Sean Ward is an entertainer, writer, producer, director, rapper, artist, cartoonist, and master of ceremonies. A few years ago, his consciousness received an instant message that basically said Time is ticking by and you ve wasted enough of it. You have a lot to do and it s time to get serious. The very next day he stopped showing up to work and became an Artist full time. He had no money and no education and his family s Queen West strip. Over the next three years his release parties grew into elaborate multi-media presentations featuring comics music and a series of semi-autobiographical short films. These events attracted the attention of the producers of Canada s #1 late-night program - Ed s Night Party - for which he currently serves as a writer associate producer and performer. Sean also serves as Art Director on Ed and Red s Comic Strip. http://www.seanward.net/ Serge Lapointe It can be said that Serge LaPointe is the best comic book inker in Verdun. After toiling for years in obscurity as an unappreciated apprentice, Serge earned his well deserved reputation while inking commercial GI Joe toy projects for Hasbro, and made his leap to stardom in the critically lauded and critically late Ghostbusters: Legion. His hard work and dedication finally paid off when he landed the job as the inker of the Batman Begins Movie Adaptation for DC Comics. More high profile work is sure to follow. I loved my run on Ultimate X-Men with Yanick Paquette, hopefully we ll work together again soon, and my current project, Teen Titans : Year One with Karl Kerschl, is a labor of love http://www.sergelapointe.com/profile.htm http://www.sergelapointe.com/ Shane Kirshenblatt Shane Kirshenblatt is the founder of Freefall Entertainment, a Toronto-based publishing company formed with the goal of establishing a unique line of titles for both print and digital distribution. The first of these titles is Kirshenblatt s own creation Dorothy Gale Journey to Oz (a dark and surreal twist on the classic Oz stories by L. Frank Baum) which showcases his talents as both author and illustrator. While working hard to complete this series, Kirshenblatt dedicates much time and effort assembling creative teams to develop new story concepts, working for the past 10 years as a freelance illustrator (Happy Worker, Sears Canada) and passing on his skills and knowledge as an instructor of the comic arts for both private and after-school programs in and around the GTA. He has designed the Comics and Animation program currently running at Zodiac Swim and Specialty Camp and has been involved in coordinating our own Comics for Kids event since June of 2007. http://www.freefallcomics.com/home.htm Shawn Smith Shawn Smith (writer of Project: Epsilon London Town and Magus Rex as well as the co-writer on Velvet Angel ) will be there as well but remains an enigma without a bio Steven Molnar Steven Molnar is a Canadian artist who has illustrated comics for Marvel, Wildstorm/DC and a number of independent publishers. His latest work can be seen in the upcoming Hoverboy#1 from Canadian publisher Mr. Comics http://www.stephenmolnar.com/home.html http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile VS . I enjoy just about any 2-D art. Can you draw..? Will you try..? I m most interested in 20th century Illustration But I also like alot of the old masters ( I like Henry Fuscelli very well but Anthony Van Dyke is my fav!) Paradise Conventions is happy to announce the artist of our 2008 Program Cover Tom Fowler Tom Fowler is a Canadian born comic artist. He has pencilled the DC comics titles Green Arrow and Caper, partnered with writter Judd Winick. Tom s other work includes the Star Wars: Jengo Fett comic and issues of Mr. Comics Revolution on the Planet of the Apes comic. Tom currently works as a cartoonist for MAD MAGAZINE, and also as an artist on Justice League Unlimited http://bigbugillustration.blogspot.com/ Ty Templeton In his own words Ty was born into a family of show business Gypsies in the wilds of downtown Canada back in the Sixties, and it s never worn off. He mis-spent his youth reading comics and now makes them for a living, writing or drawing pretty well every major character at Marvel and DC at some point. Recently, he s put his grubby fingers all over HOWARD THE DUCK, the SIMPSONS, Vertigo s THE EXTERMINATORS, AVENGERS ADVENTURES, the SUPER-FRIENDS, Harvey Pekar s AMERICAN SPLENDOR, SPIDER-MAN and the HUMAN TORCH, and the PLANET OF THE APES, but if you ask him nicely, he still remembers how to draw Wolverine. http://www.templetons.com/ty/ Tyrone Mccarthy Tyrone McCarthy is a freelance illustrator. He has worked with such clients as The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Owl Magazine, Canadian Sportsman, Today s Parent, US Banker, Golf Canada and Game Developer Magazine. Currently, he has put his indy comic Corduroy High on hold to work on his new comic titled Tyne. Tyne is about the personal life of a rookie female assassin. Other comic works include Drawing the Line Again s Ed s Comic Strip. Tyrone graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design, majoring in Illustration. www.CorduroyHigh.com Valentine De Landro In his own words Valentine De Landro is a Toronto-based illustrator who has been working in the comic book industry since 2000. He has worked for several publishers including Dark Horse Comics, Devil s Due Publishing and Marvel Comics. His publishing history includes the G.I. Joe: Declassified mini-series written by Larry Hama and a year-long run on Marvel Knights: 4. His work can be found in upcoming issues of X-Factor for Marvel Comics. http://www.valentinedelandro.com Vatche Mavlian Vatche has been a freelance illustrator for over ten years. He has worked for Marvel and Dark Horse among the many independents in and out of the comicbook industry. His work brings a fresh take to today s comics and has been compared to the likes of Frank Frazetta, Mark Shultz, Al Williamson and Bernie Wrightson http://www.vatchemavlian.com/ (VATCHE WILL ONLY BE AT THE SHOW SUNDAY JULY 13) Will Conrad Was born in 1973 in Belo Horizonte,Brazil. According to Will : I got my first regular job as an inker on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dark Horse. After that, I got all sorts of inking jobs: Angel, Scorpion King, Lady Death, Superman among a lot others. After that, I started getting more and more pencil work, and have never stopped working since. Elektra, Outsiders, Emma Frost, Witches, She Hulk, Star Wars, Red Sonja, Freshmen, Serenity, Conan, Kull, among a lot others are some of the titles I have worked on. Will is presently working on SERENITY: BETTER DAYS for Dark horse and will soon be working on A new KULL series Yanick Paquette Yanick Paquette has drawn comics for both DC and Marvel from his studio in Montreal. Among the titles he has worked on are: Adventures of Superman ,Avengers ,Codename Knock-Out,Gambit,Gen__, JLA,Negation, Power Company ,Superman: The Man of Steel, Terra Obscura, Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City, Seven Soldiers: The Bulleteer, Wonder Woman,Civil War: X-Men,Ultimate X-men. He is the current regular artist on the new series:Young X-Men For more info: http://www.myspace.com/yanickpaquette
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