| The 501st Legion
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The Barely Rotten Girls
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The Blind Eye
Kevin LaPorte and Amanda Rachels are the Mobile, Alabama-based creators of the upstart clown slasher tale, Clown Town, runner-up in the Small Press Idol 2010 competition. This unique take on the prevailing fear of clowns was the darling of the contest, leading the popular vote throughout as readers were intrigued with the concept of killer clowns as avenging spirits for abused children. Kevin and Amanda also produced The Blind Eye, a free horror-themed web comic featuring a story of masked vigilantes protecting a hurricane-flooded city invaded by dark forces both human and supernatural. |
| Bluecamp Arts
Multimedia, books, and CDs of all-original work by Bradley D. Blanchard—author, illustrator, photographer, storyteller, and player of homemade musical instruments. |
Mitch Byrd | Kody Chamberlain artist for Sweets, 30 Days of Night, Punks, and Shang Chi: Master of Kung-Fu
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| Michael Champion artist for Legend of the Red Reaper, writer/artist for Zombies of Sherwood, and writer/artist for The First Crusade
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R. J. Clark author of The Rift
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CONtraflow
It focuses on science fiction, fantasy, comics, and related literary genres in any form, including but not limited to writing, visual arts, dramatic arts, and interactive fiction. |
| Jessie W. Craig
Jessie started Charisma Kills Studios in February 2011 to showcase his web comic, Sweet Dreams are Made of Worms. The comic takes place in a gritty, super hero/cartoonish world and focuses on the story of Ego, an anthropomorphic rabbit that suffers from a list of mental disorders, amnesia, and horrific nightmares that make him a self inflicted insomniac. You can read the comic and follow Ego as he tries to make his way through the world while dealing with super heroes, villains, therapy, and searching for who (and what) he is. |
Deaf Samurai Productions
Deaf Samurai is made up of artist Ryan Morris and writer Michael Roberts, who both share a love for classic horror movies. Deaf Samurai’s first book The Hidden is a small town zombie tale in the 1950’s. |
John Dell |
| Derec Donovan artist for Youngblood, Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood, and Adventures of Superman
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Garage Raja The webcomic Garage Raja by Austin Price and Matthew J. Rainwater is on its 3rd year and kicking stronger than ever with a new trade paperback collection of the first album following the harrowing adventures of the Garage Rajas: A down-and-out garage band with a few magical tricks up their sleeves.
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Agnes Garbowska artist for Girl Comics, Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special, Waking Up Abbey, Imagination Station and You, Me, and Zombie
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| Rob Guillory artist for Chew
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Samantha Hallenus | John Holland |
| Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1971 and has been interested in cartoons and comic books since very early childhood. Kevin graduated college with a BA degree in art from Southeastern Louisiana University and had worked as a graphic designer since 1998. He began the webcomic Strange City Heroes in August of 2008. Strange City Heroes mainly focuses on original characters The Golden Cape his sidekick Stickboy Jr. and their team of heroes on their quest to become superheroes and defend the world from evil villains . . . and hopefully get some Tacos. |
Andy Kuhn After short stints in both the advertising, and animation fields, Andy Kuhn has been a professional comics artist since 1994. He has worked for every major American publisher, and many of the minor ones too. His titles have included Marvel Adventures, Spider-Man Unlimited, Marvel Team-Up, Blue Beetle, The Flash, Young Justice, and The Joker: Last Laugh. With writer Phil Hester, he co-created the monster-adventure comic Firebreather. The critically aclaimed Image Comics series was adapted into an animated movie for Cartoon Network which debuted on November 24th. Andy and Phil are currently at work on the next Firebreather mini-series titled Firebreather: Holmgang.
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Robert James Luedke From 2002-2010, Robert James Luedke has written and illustrated the multi-award winning Eye Witness graphic novel series…which has been labeled, “Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible meet the Bible.” Since completing Eye Witness, Robert's been busy creating a unique selection of limited edition, iconic, comic and pop culture character prints.
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| Tim Lattie artist for White Picket Fences - Return to Point Pleasant and Ape Entertainment's Cartoonapalooza
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Louisiana Ghostbusters
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Francis Manapul artist for Adventure Comics, The Flash, and Superman/Batman
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| Robby Musso artist for Transformers Spotlight: Ultra Magnus, Transformers Spotlight: Ramjet, and Transformers Spotlight: Cliffjumper
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Brent Peeples artist for Grimm Fairy Tales and The Adventures of Sinbad |
The Rebel Legion |
| Red Stick Rebellion
Founded in 2005, the Red Stick Rebellion is a local non-profit organization founded to bring local Star Wars enthusiasts together. Although we are based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we have members all across south Louisiana. The group started as a place for members to discuss different aspects of Star Wars collecting at our monthly meeting – held on the second Saturday of each month – and we encourage anyone with an interesting in Star Wars collecting to attend. As we have grown in membership the Red Stick Rebellion has found ways to give back to the community by sharing the joy that Star Wars has given to the child in us all. We attend many local events including charity events, fundraisers and conventions where we work with the Louisiana branch of the 501st costuming group, the Bast Alpha Garrison, and the Rebel Legion. Each year we also have an Annual Costume Fan Day and Toy Drive event. Costume Fan Day is a free event held at the Jones Creek Library where kids can compete in LEGO building, trivia, art, costume contents and more. Our annual Toy Drives have helped raise more than $8,700 in toys – all of which were donated to local charities during the Christmas season. |
Seraphemera Books storytellers, bookbinders, mythmakers... defenders of the ephemeral arts
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Vernon Smith
Creator and Artist of The Adventures Of Dexter Breakfast and Return Of The Lovin' Dead. Also rumored to be the world's second greatest lover. |
| Voodoo Maverick Publishing
Tedd M. Walley was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has been drawing (and reprimanded for drawing) since the early age of eight. Not one to pass up the opportunity to put a doubter in his place, he earned college degrees in advertising design and commercial art and has since been plying his creativity and talents in those fields in a variety of ways for almost twenty years for the likes of Gulf Coast Bank and Trust, Blue Plate, Luzianne, Zatarain’s, Rubenstein Bros., and Inside Northside magazine. Tedd continues to make his home in New Orleans, LA on Bayou St. John where he balances a career as a college professor of computer graphic design, graphic design, cartoon and traditional illustration (Delgado, City Park Campus) with his publishing duties for his comic book Mathilda. |
