Comic stuff at Cascadia Con Sept 1-5, 2005 Seattle WA
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being hosted by the Pacific Northwest this year has planned a special
focus on Comics. For this years event we will not only have over 40
hours of paneling specifically devoted to art but also at least 12 of
those are specifically focused on comics. That may not sound like much
but that is in addition to two very special programs that add over 600
hours of cartooning taking place right there on site.
Everyone has at least one great story. A true event from their lives
that is so strange, funny, tragic, or heartwarming that it begs to be
told. Comic Biography Theatre is devoted to telling those tales as
comic book stories.
Comic Biography Theatre artists will be working two at a time in
four-hour shifts. We'll have two shifts a day. So in any given day
we should have no more than four artists. Because they're only
working four hours a day-these artists will be available the rest of
the day to take part in panels.
Please submit the text of your story in the body of an e-mail rather
than an attachment. Send to CBT Editor John Lustig at John at Last
Kiss Comics dot com. All stories become the property of Comic
Biography Theatre.
http://www.cascadiacon.org/ComicBio.htm
Spawns of Insomnia 2005
TALES OF TOMORROW in 24 hours today
Isn't that a fantastic title? I think so, and you can thank John
Lustig for the words. It's nice to have a writer around, eh? I get
excited just reading that! Can you just see it? 24 artists creating
24 individual comics in 24 hours!
Spawns takes place each day for a full 24 hours. Artists will be
working in groups of six-with only one group scheduled per day. So
every day there will be a different group of artists. Because the
artists are going to be working for a full 24 hours, they're going to
be exhausted and will probably need at least a full day to recover
before taking part in any other convention activity.
http://www.cascadiacon.org/Spawns.htm
Cascadia Con is the North American Science Fiction Convention held
under the auspices of the World Science Fiction Convention Society. A
NASFiC is only held on years when Worldcon is outside of North America.
This is only the 8th NASFiC in 30 years and the Pacific Northwest is
honored to host it. For more information on this 5 day, 24 hour a day
event, please visit: www.cascadiacon.org
The following is a list of some of the comic artists attending Cascadia
Con who are currently scheduled to take part in either Spawns of
Insomnia http://www.cascadiacon.org/Spawns.htm or Comic Biography
Theatre. http://www.cascadiacon.org/ComicBio.htm
Scott Alan, Ryan Anderson, John Aquino, Nyein Aung, Ron Austin, Georgia
& Scott Ball, Kevin Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, , Allen Freeman, Stasia
Kato, Dawn Kravagna, Larry Lewis, Dan McConnell, Liriel McMahon, Kat
McNiel, Mark Monlux, Bill Morse, Rich Werner, Edi Zanidache.
Comic Biography Theatre (if they're doing Spawns as well then their
names are underlined): Scott Ball, Georgia Ball, Anton Bogaty, Kevin
Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, James Greer, Roberta Gregory, Rick Hoberg,
Stasia Kato, Larry Lewis, Liriel McMahon, Elizabeth Pankey, James Dean
Smith,
A combined list of artists from Spawns & CBT: Scott Alan, Ryan
Anderson, John Aquino, Nyein Aung, Ron Austin, Georgia & Scott Ball,
Anton Bogaty, Kevin Boze, Kevin Brockschmidt, Allen Freeman, James
Greer, Roberta Gregory, Rick Hoberg, Stasia Kato, Dawn Kravagna, Larry
Lewis, Dan McConnell, Liriel McMahon, Kat McNiel, Mark Monlux, Bill
Morse, Elizabeth Pankey, James Dean Smith, Rich Werner, Edi Zanidache.
Artists/creators of particular note:
Georgia & Scott Ball-excellent artists (Georgia's also a writer)
who've done lots of animation (Cartoon Network) and currently do a
very nice web comic strip (www.ScooterAndFerret.com) which is often
about the animation industry. They're signed up to do both Spawns and
CBT.
Anton Bogaty-Is an exceptionally talented illustrator, animator, and
small press comic book creator. Really beautiful stuff. He'll be
taking part in CBT, but not Spawns.
Kevin Boze-Has a very simple, raw style, and he's one of the best
storytellers I've come across in comics. He also does a web strip
about gaming at: http://www.shadowraven.org/ravenframe.php He's
scheduled to take part in both Spawns and CBT.
Kevin Brockschmidt-Has worked for Nintendo, Wizards of the Coast,
Starlog, Reader's Digest and King Features Syndicate. His specialty
is humorous illustration. http://www.kevscartoons.com/ He's
scheduled to take part in both Spawns and CBT.
Tom Christopher-Tom is tentatively scheduled to take part in
Spawns-time permitting. He's been working as an inker (an artist
who inks another artist's pencil drawings) in the comic book business
for decades. He's tentatively scheduled to take part in Spawns, but
not CBT.
Phil Foglio-Phil isn't taking part in either Spawns or CBT this
time, but he has a booth at Cascadia Con and is available for panels.
Besides his work in science fiction, Phil is a major comic book
creator. (I'm assuming I don't really need to detail his credits
here.) Also on hand will be his wife Kaja who collaborates with Phil
on their SF/fantasy comic GIRL GENIUS. http://www.studiofoglio.com/
Allen Freeman-Allen's done quite a bit of inking and coloring in
the comic book business. He's also the publisher of a series of
SlamBang comic book anthologies and is starting up a small company to
publish a variety of comic books and graphic novels. He's taking
part in Spawns, but not CBT.
Roberta Gregory-Roberta is one of the best-known and talented women
in the comic book business. Her NAUGHTY BITS comic book made TIME
MAGAZINE's list of top 10 comics. The series was also adapted into
an animated TV series on the Oxygen Network. She was also the first
woman to self-publish her own comic. http://www.robertagregory.com/
Robert's doing CBT, but not Spawns.
Rick Hoberg-Is one of the most talented and diverse artists in comic
books and animation. Over the decades, he's worked on dozens of
superhero and science fiction comics and cartoons. He's worked for
Marvel, DC Comics, Disney and George Lucas. He'll be doing CBT, but
not Spawns. He'll only be available for one day (exact day to be
decided)-from about 11 a.m. on. Since his CBT shift will start in the
afternoon., he'll only be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day
to take part in panels.
Larry Lewis- he's a fine artist who has done lots of mini-comics
and is considered the undisputed NW champ at that art form.
http://www.geocities.com/larrylewiscomics/Larry has taken part in many
local science fiction conventions. Larry will be participating in both
Spawns and CBT.
Dan McConnell-used to draw for Marvel years ago. His claim to fame:
he drew the world's smallest Spider-Man comic book. Dan will probably
only be taking part in Spawns.
Liriel McMahon-Liriel writes and draws BadBlood--a beautiful and very
original web strip about vampires in Seattle. Www.badbloodcomic.com
She's also very active in the web comics community. She'll be
taking part in both Spawns and CBT.
Mark Monlux-Mark is a successful commercial artist who also does a
web strip called THE COMIC CRITIC.
http://198.173.235.195/tcc_recent.html Mark will be doing Spawns (from
Friday morning until Saturday morning) and probably not taking part in
CBT.
James Dean Smith-Jim is the creator of BORIS THE BEAR, a successful
independent comic book (about a comic book collecting, robot bear with
a tendency to express his view with extreme violence) from the 1980's
and '90's. Jim's not such a big name these days, but boy can this
guy draw. He'll be doing CBT, but not Spawns.
Jeff Willis-Is a major talent (really!), but isn't that well known
in the comics or science fiction communities. He's done a lot of work
on licensed characters (such as RUGRATS and LOONEY TUNES) for DVD games
http://www.artschools.com/interviews/jeff-willis/
- Thanks to John Lustig for the descriptions of our comic artists
listed above.