Exhibitors
Artnoose is letterpress printer who has published the zine Ker-bloom! every other month for over fifteen years, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that it is entirely letterpress printed from handset type. When somehow finding the time outside of that to do anything, she contributes comics to Andromeda and lives at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers' Collective. Same as last year, she'll be bringing her manual typewriter to the event and writing microfiction on demand.
Shawn Atkins is the artist, writer behind the sci-fi, paranormal, adventure webcomic Explorers of the Unknown and the quirky, oft-times outrageous, slice-of-life comedy, Gello Apocalypse. Shawn is also the penciler for the time travel, comedy webseries, Time Log, and a co-host on the “Sequential Underground” Podcast, both from AudioShocker dot com. check more of shawn's work on http://www.workshop13.net.
Pat Aulisio (http://www.patmakesdrawings.com)
Pat Aulisio accidently fell into slip between time/space which soon lead him to obtain a bachelors in fine arts from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he still currently resides. When not making comics and drawings he is mainting the delicate balance between the planes of existence.
Nils Balls draws comics in a crooked house on the North Side of Pittsburgh. He has an ongoing YINZ! comic feature in The Northside Chronicle. He draws posters and comics for various Pittsburgh stuff. He also maintains Skeleton Balls Comics for the Internet at www.skeletonballs.com - He will be peddling comics and shwag and drawing caricatures for a quarter.
Black Light Diner is a Baltimore-based minicomic and zine distro.
Founded and run by Pittsburgh native Erica Satifka (Breakfast at
Twilight zine), Black Light Diner carries a small but varied catalog
of self-published material, leaning toward the autobiographical and
personal/political side of the spectrum. Check it out at
http://www.blacklightdiner.com
Buzz Buzzizyk has been involved in self published comix since the mid 1980's. He has published 279 issues of my comix zine Maximum Traffic, including two books, one of obscuro comics from the 90's, Truth Be Known, and last year's 162 page issue of The White Buffalo Gazette. The WBG has always included free listings of any and all minicomics and publishers, and also contributors artwork. The most recent issue was published this past summer, and will be available at PIX.
Jared Catherine is a writer and illustrator of his self-published title, Incrediman Comix & Stories. Jared’s illustration, graphic design work and other what-not have appeared in various publications, including a noted run of editorial comics for Penn State Universities’ Daily Collegian. When not creating comic books and working a day job Jared also dabbles with independent film productions. Feel free to check out his stuff at http://jaredcatherine.deviantart.com!
CHAD CICCONI / ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT: Chad Cicconi is a comic artist living and working in Pittsburgh. Since his debut in 2008, Chad has worked as the artist for "Baby Boomers" a soon-to-be published graphic novel from Markosia Comics, "Mercury & the Murd" from PKD Media (2009-2010), and most recently Chad provided the artwork for "FRACTURE," the debut series from new indy publisher ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT. Chad has also done "sketch card" work for numerous trading card sets, including sets from 5Finity, Versicolor, Sketch Card Studio, and Cryptozoic. Chad will have his own artwork available at PIX 2011, along with other offerings from ACTION LAB.
D.J. Coffman will not be able to attend PIX this year, but we still like him. He is a veteran of the Pittsburgh small press scene, D.J. Went from self publishing and distributing his "YIRMUMAH" comics around Pittsburgh in 1998 to working as a freelance comic illustrator for several writers and publishers. In 2006 Coffman won the first annual "Comic Book Challenge" with his creation "Hero By Night" which was based in "Steel City". These days you can find D.J. working on multiple webcomic and illustration projects at http://djcoffman.com
Bob Corby under the Back Porch Comics inprint has been producing small press comics since 1987. Tiltes include OH,Comics!, an annual anthology title; Bunny Blues / Leaves, a mini -series about a love-lorned former rabbit detective; Test!, A math comic and numerous mini-comics. Also Bob runs SPACE, the Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo, in Columbus each year. http://www.backporchcomics.com
Kevin Czapiewski (pronounced “chappy-ES-key”) is a cartoonist, designer and teacher living near Cleveland, Ohio. Kevin is nearly finished with his webcomic Spoilers, about a girl who wants to disappear completely and things falling apart (http://kevinczap.com/spoilers). He also recently started up PUPPYTEETH, an anthology collecting short comics. Kevin writes about comics at his Encyclopedia Czapiewski (http://kevinczap.com/blog). He likes when folks are nice to each other.
Tom Dewing is a local skater and illustrator who publishes the comic zine Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot! which, contrary to popular belief, contains neither zombies nor robots. He is also a regular contributor to Andromeda.
Juan Jose Fernandez is a Venezuelan illustrator and cartoonist living in Pittsburgh. He likes his comics tiny. An avid reader of comics he's finally started getting his sequential visions on paper. His comics' range far and wide in terms of subject matter, but are all dominated by a high contrast use of black and white. Examples of his work can be found at http://www.crinkledcomics.wordpress.com
Seth Fronzoli is a comic book writer currently plotting and scripting the webcomic Explorers of the Unknown. He's a frequent guest on the Sequential Underground podcast, and co-host of the Distro One podcast, check out seth's rambles on his site http://fronzysuniverse.blogspot.com/.
http://www.randomdistribution.com/
Shawn and Stephanie Gabborin are a husband and wife creative team. In 2005 they started self publishing horror comics under Angry Gnome Comics. Over the past five years, Shawn (writing) and Stephanie (rocking the art), have brought their own brand of horror to life in their titles “Victor Season” and “Palm Reader”. Through their comic “Short Stack”, a horror anthology, they have published art by over 60 artists from around the world. Shawn has also had his writing published in Heavy Metal Magazine and 2012: Final Prayers. For more info and preview pages on all their comics, check out http://www.angrygnomecomics.com
JERRY GOEBERT is a fringe character on the mini-comix scene. References to his 1980-81 BLUE MOON PRODUCTIONS, which included the MAJOR MISHAP series and the QUARK series, can be found in the ancient publications of the time includeing Clay Geerdes' COMIX WORLD and Jay Kennedy's GUIDE TO NEWAVE AND UNDERGROUND COMIX. BLUE MOON PRODUCTIONS was raised from the dead in 2010. This wil be his first convention setup ever and he'll offer his new books, some collectibles from 1980 including the ultra-rare MAJOR COMIX featuring Jim Valentino and airbrushed by future 7 time Hugo Award winner Brad W. Foster.
Todd Goodman is the writer, creator and founder of Old World Comics. Since launching his independent publishing company on New Year’s Day, 2010, he has filled it with incredible artistic talent to compliment his comic scripts. In April 2011, Todd opened the “subsite” and sister publishing company to Old World Comics called Catacombs, which is more dedicated to the independent genre. Todd also writes the webcomic Catacombs, a comedic tribute to the old black and white horror movies that he loves. Visit all the Old World sites from the home site at http://oldworldcomics.weebly.com.
Scott Hedlund is a comic book maker from Pittsburgh. Indy cred? He has some. Scott has contributed pencils, inks, colors, letters, covers to a few books including: Weirdlings, WZWA, Chaos Punks, and World of Orenda. Scott is also a cofounder and regular contributor of the Comic Book Pitt, Pittsburgh's premiere comic book podcast.
Joel Jackson (A.K.A. ottocon1 A.K.A. KILLBEARD!), owner of 2 Headed Monster Comics, artist of Radio Free Gahanna and The Toyetic Adventures of Coco Fiasco still wants to be a Transformer when he grows up. Or possibly He-Man. He is a graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design where he focused on illustration, and makes a living, designing window displays and interior marketing for a specialty clothing retailer. His work can be seen at http://www.2headedmonstercomics.com, http://ottocon1.blogspot.com and http://joeljacksonportfolio.blogspot.com.
Dave Kiersh is a Xeric award winner whose books include Neverland, A Last Cry for Help and Dirtbags, Mallchicks and Motorbikes. He recently completed his longest story in comics form yet: Afterschool Special. Dave will be exhibiting his own books as well as works by a variety of other cartoonists. See his work online at http://www.davekcomics.com
Nick Marino and Justique Woolridge - Nick is the writer (and sometimes artist) of such comics as Super Haters, Time Log, Stick Cats, Zombie Palin, Passage, and more. Justique is the co-writer of Super Haters, colorist of Time Log, and author of the sci-fi zine Tales for a New Gen. You can listen to them podcast weekly on the AudioShocker. At PIX, they'll be peddling zines, minicomics, comic books, digital comics, and more.
http://comics.superhaters.com/ and http://www.audioshocker.com/
Christopher "Mav" Maverick - (Writer, Photographer, Colorist)
Christopher Maverick is an author and photographer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mav is the writer and colorist (and on rare occasions, penciler and inker) of the webcomic, Cosmic Hellcats (http://cosmichellcats.com). Maximilian - (Penciller, Inker) Max is an artist and musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He likes Transformers, Scandinavian music, mountains and the Pittsburgh Steelers. His latest music can be found at http://ShutterdownMusic.com. Max is the penciller, inker and co-plotter for the webcomic, Cosmic Hellcats (http://cosmichellcats.com).
James Moore, writer of Radio Free Gahanna and The Toyetic Adventures of Coco Fiasco lives in Columbus, Ohio and he’s gotten pretty OK with that. He has a Journalism degree (and Film Minor) that he doesn’t get to use, but he enjoys his tech support day job anyway. His reviews have appeared on both iterations of Gutter Geek and additional writing has appeared in The Lantern. You can find more of James’ work at http://www.2headedmonstercomics.com and on twitter @2hmcomics.
Chris Nye will be exhibiting the new issue of his comic, Crusade, and a reprint of the first two chapters that he's making for the expo. The first chapter is up on his blog, Mutate The Matrix.
Panel Desk is the printed media word component of Panel Den Arts Collective. Like the trees and brush around a cave maybe. Panel Den will be releasing two new books, “Jodie & Mel” and “Dead Rodent Air” at PIX. Several reprints will be available, such as "Two Meals" a chapbook of poetry by L. Goubert, as well as a new drawing/noise collaboration with sounds by RJ Myato and art by S. LeDonne. At least half of the PanelDenRecordings catalog will be available as well if you like CDs. Panel Desk is excited for this event. http://www.panelden.blogspot.com
Jason Petrovich
Rafer Roberts is the creator, writer and most of the time artist of PLASTIC FARM, a post-ironic new-age horror romance that chronicles one man's comedic descent into madness, despair, and world conquest. Rafer lives in western Maryland with his wife and muse and their multitude of retarded cats. He can be found online at http://www.plasticfarm.com .
Mike Rosenthal is the swell fellow behind the webcomic VectorBelly.com ( http://vectorbelly.com/ ) a rocketship-journey-into-your-own-face kind of friendship adventure about friendship. He and his brother created "Waiting for Godot: The Video Game", but due to a cease and deist letter, they're not allowed to admit it. Mike likes the film "Space Jam".
Andy Scott, working under the creative moniker Little Tired Publications, creates a frantic array of comics, paintings, prints, crafts and sometimes music. Little Tired's primary endeavor is a monthly comic anthology called Andromeda and is now currently up to issue number 6. Andromeda seeks talented and passionate cartoonists, writers, drawing enthusiasts, and individuals who have something to share wherever they can be found. We're broadcasting from right here from Pittsburgh, PA, so if you're out there and you have a voice to be heard, why not pool yours with ours. To learn more about Little Tired and Andromeda please visit: http://etsy.com/shop/littletired or http://aplace-forall.blogspot.com
David O'Shell ( http://oshell.wordpress.com )
O'Shell makes movies in comic book form. He hopes people will read his stuff, talk about it for like 15 minutes, and then move on. He will be selling the following comics: "O'Shell's Shorts" and "Josh"
Virginia Shields is a local Pittsburgh comics artist. She has been drawing comics for as long as she can remember but went to college for business instead of art. Her first self-published work, Virginia is a People Name, is a collection of comics and cartoons mostly based on real life (with a sprinkle of the fantastic). She will be debuting her new book Words and Phrases for Getting Arahnd Pittsburgh at PIX.
http://www.shieldsink.com and http://shieldsink.deviantart.com
Joanne Sherrow writes the comic book mini series called CAPTCHA. She also wrote the mini-comic zine called How to Be Lolita, a satirical view of the Japanese street style. She also teaches comics and digital fashion design/illustration at Pratt and Fashion Institute of Technology. She currently resides in the Philadelphia area.
please visit: http://www.funkyjewels.com and http://www.etsy.com/shop/joannedorothea
Lizzee Solomon can barely function in normal society without exploding, so she draws comics and illustrations to quell the humping bacteria orgy in her stomach. Somehow, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in fine art. In college, she went to Spain and drew a very long comic book about a magical festival and some dick boy that she was preoccupied with during it. Lizzee's drawings are Not Safe for Work.
Dan and Kerry Tallarico are a brother and sister duo that have finally decided to apply the 20+ years of stowed synergy. They are the creators of Cupcakes & Comics and travel from flea market to flea market selling their wares. They've been crafting cupcakes and comics in the Pittsburgh area since September of 2010 and haven't looked back since. The comics are written by Dan then passed onto Kerry to hand draw. When Kerry isn't drawing cupcakes inside comics, she's usually baking cupcakes inside an oven. With five comics under their belts, they plan to make a splash in the Pittsburgh comic scene.
Founded in 2004, Unicorn Mountain is a collective of multi-disciplinary artists dedicated to the creation and promotion of Pittsburgh-based DIY art. Hailed by USA Today and Giant Robot magazine, Unicorn Mountain has self-published three nationally recognized anthologies of comics, fiction, essays and music, as well as several handmade comics and art books by the collective’s individual creators.
Bill Volk (http://www.billvolk.com) - A graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies and a native of Sewickley, Bill mostly makes history comics. His newest release is an anthology about the Black Death.
Dave Wachter - Artist/co-creator/co-writer of the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley. Artist/co-creator of the independent series Scar Tissue. His work has been featured in various anthologies, including: Fiendish Fables, PKD Media Presents, Genius J's Almanack and Hope: New Orleans, and guest artist on the webcomic Mystery Solved! Artist on Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here (Terminal Press). Featured in the Transmetropolitan Art Book, benefitting the CBLDF and Hero Initiative. His work on Robert Bloch's That Hellbound Train(IDW), marks his first work for a larger comic publisher.
http://davedrawscomics.com
http://gunsofshadowvalley.com
Marcel “M.L.” Walker unveils HERO CORP., INTERNATIONAL at PIX! The native Pittsburgh writer/artist, Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate and former comic-book instructor at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, combines love for his hometown with his first foray into the universe of super-people in the first installment of this series set in the Capitol of Champions! http://www.marcelwalker.com and http://www.HeroCorp.biz
Stephanie Wilkerson
Byron Winton is a member of the PITTSBURGH SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS. Byron is a dedicated freelance fantasy and horror illustrator who has worked alongside the comic book industry for many years. His amazingly detail rich paintings offer a little something for everyone. He paints popular culture imagery from memorable movies like; Star Wars, Resident Evil, and Beetlejuice to name a few, as well as mind-blowing original concepts. He has worked for CALIBER COMIC, the industrial band REIN[FORCED], and authors HEIDI RUBY MILLER and SUSAN K. DRONEY. Visit http://www.byronwinton.com to view his work.
Wayne Wise is a freelance writer/artist living in Pittsburgh. In the 90's he co-created the Xeric Award winning comic Grey Legacy, worked as an inker for Malibu Graphics, and began working at Phantom of the Attic Comics (an Eisner Award nominated comics retailer). In 2002 his first novel, King of Summer, was published. In 2009 he contributed to North. More recently he self-published the first issue of Grey Legacy Tales. He teaches “Comics and Popular Culture” as an adjunct professor at Chatham University.
M Young edits and contributes to The Kindlin' Quarterly, a seasonally-printed homegrown collection of humorous comics, art, stories, and amusements. Regular contributors range from professional artists to enthusiasts, seasoned vets to students, urbanites to rural rarities. The KQ strongly encourages anyone who is interested to submit work for consideration for print in an upcoming issue. More info here: http://www.facebook.com/thekindlinquarterly. And issues for sale here: www.etsy.com/shop/KinfolkProductions.
Jessi Zabarsky lives in The Smallest Town Ever, Bryan, Ohio. She likes comics, vegetables, and you. You can see more of her drawings at http://hugbox.tumblr.com/ and you can say hi at http://twitter.com/#!/jessizabarsky.
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