Creators
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Creators
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Mark Rudolph was born twenty years too late. His true love is the spirit of comics made in the 1960s and early 70s, where no idea was off the table, and adventure was the only item on the docket. He is the creator of comics such as Closing Doors, Say it in Slugs, and Mulligan’s Run, all of which can be found at his Control Voice Comics website. |
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Raised by a pack of kangaroos in the dense jungles of Antarctica, Chet Lucero learned the fine art of doodling during the Great Polar Bear Squabble of the 1990’s. He has produced a small number of doodlized paraphernalia since then, the latest of which is Dreamform Defenders! Chet also continues to work on a more seriousy sci-fi comic known as Storm Corps. |
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Jerzy Drozd and Sara Turner are the creative team also known as Make Like A Tree Comics. After meeting through their initial online comics The Front (JD) and File 49 (ST), they quickly started collaborating on several new comics and formed Make Like A Tree in 2005 as their own online and print self-publishing company. With the mutual agreement that comics should be fun and adventurous (like the Saturday morning cartoons they grew up on) they create an entire line of comics for kids of all ages. You can visit their website at www.mlatcomics.com. |
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Scott Neely has been a professional illustrator and designer for many years now. For the last eight years, he’s been an official Scooby-Doo and Cartoon Network artist (working on such licensed properties as Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Courage The Cowardly Dog, The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy, Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Mike, Lu and Og, I.M. Weasel, and Sheep In The Big City). He has also worked on Pokemon, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Winnie the Pooh, Strawberry Shortcake, Bratz, Weebles, Shrek The Third and The Li’l Learners Club.
Scott is also the visual creator and production designer of Hollywood Hal & Rhinestone Al with the Wannabees, which is a project he co-created with Scott Innes (a.k.a. The voice of Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy-Doo) and musician Jim Hogg. He creates all the artwork for the Hal & Al live-action TV show and live stage shows as well as all Hal & Al advertising, media and product design. Scott has also been teaching what he knows. For over six years, he had taught and spoke at many local community art centers and community colleges, as well as at local AARP meetings. He has instructed all ages in the art of cartooning and drawing and in the fall of 2007 is teaching a Drawing for Animation class at the Delaware College of Art and Design. He is single and lives in suburbs of Philadelphia, PA and has a scrappy Yorkshire Terrier named Alfie whom he is creating a comic series and children’s book series around. |
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Matt Putnam-Pouliot transmits his works of sequential amusement via morse code from his secret headquarters in upstate New York. His solitary existence is made less solitary by his wife Chris, son Rico and cats Hoshiko and Ella. His other works, including The Littlest Daikaiju and Small Worlders, can be found at www.dialkforkomics.com. |
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Scott Yoshinaga and Audra Furuichi are your everyday comic enthusiasts, but together they form super-duo of KimonoKitsy Studios! By day, they tackle deadlines and duties. By night, they dream of how to spread the love of nemu*nemu to the world.
Neither are strangers to the world of comics - In 1999, Audra won the Charles M. Schulz Award for College Cartooning from the Scripps-Howard Foundation for her strip, CultureSHOCK! A few years later, she worked briefly as a colorist for Marvel Comics through Udon Entertainment, Antarctic Press and translation editor for Ice Comics. Scott also drew his own slice-of-life comic strip, The Big Picture during his college years and later freelanced as a graphic/web designer. In April of 2005, the duo debuted nemu*nemu, their tri-weekly webcomic about two school aged girls and their mysterious, magical stuffed pups. |
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Robert Burke Richardson hunts snark in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Find him online at http://www.comicspace.com/robert/, and http://www.myspace.com/thepurelands His ridiculous fantasy epic, Elf-Help, is available for free at |
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Rodrigo Eduardo Klukiewcz Mesquita (Roe Mesquita), was born in 1982, in the city of Carapicuiba at São Paulo, Brazil. He moved to Artur Alvim at São Paulo when 3 years old. He is an avid comics fan and freelance cartoonist. You can find more of his work at www.roemesquita.site.vu. |
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Since drawing a superhero crow with special goggles and a telephone booth for a changing room, Richard Stevens knew at the age of 11 his destiny was to become a cartoonist.
His main inspirations whilst growing as an artist were cartoons in the morning, cartoons in the afternoon and cartoons on the weekend, especially on a Saturday morning! Followed later by computer games, movies, comics, more anime and well, more cartoons! At a young age Richard also dreamed of becoming an animator. This dream recently came true when he began working for the Tasmanian animation studio Blue-Rocket Productions. His love for storytelling led him to the art of comics. He also produces his own web comic titled Peb Casey – Private Eye Butterfly, which can be found at his art site: www.toonerfish.com.au. |
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Born and raised in the urban jungle of Memphis, Tennessee, Diana Nock saw fit in her adult years to migrate as far north as she could, to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not coincidentally, she also happened to go to art school there. She currently works freelance wherever she can, while doing her comic work. Once, she worked on a comic for NASA. It’s true! Aside from her drawing, she most enjoys reading, sleeping, drinking tea, and riding her bike.
Diana has been watching cartoons since she was a baby and never really stopped. Her first favorites were Dumbo and Winnie the Pooh. Nowadays, her tastes are a bit more grown-up…but she secretly still thinks that Dumbo and Winnie the Pooh are pretty cool. Her major animation influences are the products of the fabulous Studio Ghibli and Pixar Studios, as well as the works of Matt Groening and select anime series. She loved animation so much growing up that she planned to learn to make it herself…until she realized she didn’t have the attention span and learned to make comics instead, which is just fine by her. Her work has been scattered on the winds of the internet for several years, but her art and stories are currently found in their home at www.jinxville.com. |
Contributors
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HooveR was a galactic despot with plans to conquer the earth and rule it with an iron fist. However, the rocketship sent from his home planet was damaged by cosmic rays, and the device keeping him in suspended animation actually regressed him in age to an infant. The ship crashed in the backyard of a young earth couple who took the boy in as their own. Once out of the ship and in the warm atmosphere of earth, HooveR aged as any other earth child and as such, was granted a second childhood. Haunted by an alien past only as real as a fading dream, and dependant on Icees and Slurpees, the closest earth-approximate to his native food source, HooveR struggles with the conflicting impulses to both conquer the planet, and also save his newfound home! |
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Shawn Robare grew up in central Florida, which was strangely devoid of either alligators or citrus trees, but provided much exposure to both heat and theme parks. Seeking to flee the heat and an eventual career sweating to death in an over-sized alligator costume handing out free samples of orange juice to tourists, he made his way north, but not too far north, to Atlanta, GA, where he was once again amazed by the lack of peaches the state had to offer. Refusing to obsess over the complex nature of famous local iconography, Shawn instead decided to look inward, or rather back through time, regressing his interests and focusing on all sorts of childhood pop culture, a hobby that’s led to a very irregular podcast and a very regular blog on the subject (Branded in the 80s.) Oh yeah, he’s also married with two pets, if you’re into that sort of biographical info… |
