BOB CAMP

He has been a comic book artist for Marvel Comics working on such titles as Conan, GI Joe, and The Nam among others.  He went on to have a hugely successful career in animation for such shows as Thundercats and Silverhawks. He is most widely recognized as a co-creator of the the Ren & Stimpy Show!

bobcampcartoonist.blogspot.com/

facebook.com/bob.camp

 

ROC UPCHURCH

After working on the little known comic, Vescell, published by Image Comics, he was soon introduced to Kurtis Wiebe at a comic convention. It was then they decided to collaborate on Image’s Rat Queens.

 

johnnyrockwell.deviantart.com

johnnyrockwell.blogspot.com

JEREMY DALE

He worked on such comics as GI Joe, Popgun, and NFL Rush Zone before publishing his own title, Skyward from Action Lab Entertainment with contributions from fellow DragonCon guest, Thomas Zahler.

 

jeremy-dale.com

thejeremydale.deviantart.com

 

 

Guests and Attending Professionals

Andrew Aydin TBL05

Aspen ComicsBT06

Baby Tattoo Books BT03

Mark Bagley TBL03

Joe Benitez TBLA3

Tom Biondolillo TBL17

Jennie Breeden TBL79

June Brigman TBL50

Mark Brooks TBL4

Dave Bullock TBL07

Bob Burden TBL85

James Burns TBL19

Bob Camp TBL11

Peter Capn’ Cutler TBL24

Jeremy Dale TBL16

Peter David TBL29

Jack Davis Foundation - Floor Exhibit

Kelly Sue DeConnick TBL08

Nathan Edmondson (Panel Programming)

Essential Sequential BT07

Matt Frank TBL71

The Frazetta Girls BT04

Chandra Free TBL27

Andrew EC Gaska TBL28

Michael Gordon TBL25

Dan Govar TBL60

Mike Grell TBL41

Tom Heintjes TBL20

Bill Holbrook TBL43

Georges Jeanty TBL09

Paul Jenkins (Panel Programming)

Van Jensen TBL18

Alex Konat BT06

Dave Johnson BT07

John Lotshaw TBL44

Comfort Love TBL33

David Mack TBL68

Frank Mastromauro BT06

Jason Metcalf TBL70

Mike S. Miller TBL49

Dean Motter TBL40

Ted Naifeh TBL30

Jai Nitz TBL31

Siya Oum BT06

Paolo Pantalena TBL12

Brent Peeples TBL34

George Perez TBL86

Andy Price TBL01

Rodney Ramos TBL23

Brian Reber TBL14

Roy Richardson TBL51

Andrew Robinson BT07

Don Rosa BT02

Jacob Rougemont TBL64

Andy Runton TBL36

Tim Sale BT07

Chris Schweizer TBL37

Peter Steigerwald BT06

Yale Stewart TBL22

Jamie Tyndall TBL69

Roc Upchurch TBL06

UrbnPop – Chris Hamer BT08

Dexter Vines TBL10

Jeremy Scott Whitley TBL15

Adam Withers TBL32

Bryan Wynia TBL02

Derek Yaniger BT16

Kelly Yates TBL21

Thomas Zahler TBL35

Zenescope ComicsTBL57,58

 

Attending Artists

Al Abbazia TBL61

Beanpants Art TBL82

Jennifer Bennett BT22

Gina Biggs TBL62

Scott Blair TBL80

Drew A Blank TBL65, 66

Jonathan Bolerjack TBL63

Brett Brooks BT11

Greg Carter TBL83

Kate Carleton TBL77

Dave Cook BT15

Dante DeStefano TBL75

Mark dos Santos TBL38

Chris Ehnot TBL45

Autumn Frederickson TBL39

Jason Flowers TBL84

Eliza Frye TBL73

Newsha Ghasemi TBL76

Daniel Gorman BT19

Garth Graham BT18

Drew Green TBL74

Daniel Haas BT10

Robert Hendrickson TBLA1

Jellykoe BT13

Cassie Hart Kelly TBL52

Tony Kordos TBL47

Sarah M BT12

Shawn McCauley TBL46

Rhiannon Owens TBL48

Poopbird TBL81

Todd Rednor TBL54

Red Rocket Farm BT21

Scott Rorie BT09

Sugar Fueled BT14

Jamie Snell TBL67

Christopher Soprano TBL26

Nathan Szerdy TBLA2

Tom Taggart BT23

Todo TBL78

Adam Toews  TBL54

Gary Turner TBL42

Christian Waggoner BT24

Tyler Walpole BT20

Sean Wang TBL53

HC Warner BT17

Aaron Wood TBL55

HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAMS

JUNE BRIGMAN  &  ROY RICHARDSON

June Brigman is the co-creator of Marvel’s Power Pack, which celebrates it’s 30th anniversary this year. Ms. Brigman has drawn such diverse comics as Alpha Flight and Supergirl.

Roy Richardson has worked as an inker for all the major publishers, on such books as Captain America, Iron Man, the Flash, and his own co-creation, the Tomorrow Knights.

Together they worked on the Star Wars: River of Chaos series as well as the Brenda Starr comic strip for 15 years.

 

artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=1321

artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=1320

 

COMFORT LOVE  & ADAM WITHERS

Comfort Love & Adam Withers are the three time Harvey Award nominated husband-and-wife Action Faction responsible for the critically acclaimed series The Uniques, Uniques Tales, and Rainbow in the Dark. They are a 100% symbiotic duo sharing the writing, penciling, and coloring duties equally.

comfortandadam.com

uniquescomic.com

comfortandadam.tumblr.com

 

KELLY SUE DE CONNICK

She is the very popular writer of Captain Marvel from Marvel Comics starring Carol Danvers. In the past, she has written Osborn and Avengers Assemble for the company. She was also the writer on the Dark Horse supernatural superhero title, Ghost. Her current creator owned project at Image is Pretty Deadly.

kellysue.tumblr.com

kellysue.com

 

BRYAN WYNIA

Bryan Wynia has been working in the film and game industry for over a decade. He has contributed to Uncharted 2,Uncharted 3, God of War: Ascension and SMITE. He has contributed designs for films and shows like Maleficent, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, R.I.P.D, and Falling Skies.

bryanwynia.blogspot.com

bryanwynia.com

facebook.com/wyniaart

 

KELLY YATES

Kelly Yates has illustrated various titles for different publishers. He is most known for the Doctor Who series of comics he’s drawn for IDW.

kellyyatesart.com

kellyyates.deviantart.com

ANDREW ROBINSON

You will know him from his amazing covers on DC Comics over the years as well as his inking on such projects as Superman: Red Son. Last year, saw the release of the incredible new graphic novel: The Fifth Beetle. His stunning artwork in that book earned an Eisner award this year for Best Reality Based Work!

andrew-robinson.deviantart.com

facebook.com/pages/Andrew-C-Robinson/484883231561676

SHAWN CRYSTAL

He has been the artist of many popular Deadpool projects over the years at Marvel. Most recently, he was the artist for Marvel’s Fantomex Max. He is currently working on projects for Valiant Comics.

inkpulp.deviantart.com

shawncrystal.tumblr.com

DON ROSA

He is the writer and artist of many beloved stories featuring Disney’s favorite talking Ducks!  His works feature the ever popular Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, & Louie!

 

facebook.com/DonRosaOfficial

 

PETER DAVID

He is one of the most popular writers for many different comics publishers over many decades.  He had long and historic runs at Marvel Comics on the Spider-man titles and also on Incredible Hulk. At DC, he led such titles as Young Justice, Aquaman, and Supergirl to great success. He has been the longest reigning writer on the X-Factor comic in many of it’s variations. He also wrote, along with Robin Furth, the comic book adaptions of the widely popular Steven King series, The Dark Tower. He recently relaunched both X-Factor and, his own creation, Spider-man 2099 with new #1 issues earlier this year.

www.PeterDavid.net

@PeterDavid_PAD on Twitter

www.facebook.com/peter.david.9256

ANDY PRICE

He made a name for himself with his ability to capture the most popular characters of pop culture, including superheros and Star Trek among others. His popularity really took off as the artist on the incredibly popular, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic title from IDW!

andypriceart.deviantart.com

facebook.com/andypriceart

BRIAN REBER

Brian Reber has had a career as a colorist for many different projects over the years. You may remember his work from such runs on Marvel Comics: Runaways, The Mighty Thor, X-Men: Legacy, or Captain America: The Chosen.  He also worked for DC Comics on such titles as Brave & The Bold and Gotham Underground. Most recently, he is now an exclusive color artist for Valiant Comics. Working in such series as: Eternal Warrior, Shadowman, X-O Man O’war, Harbinger Wars, and Unity.

X-MEN LEGACY #250

UNITY #6

SHADOWMAN #1

brianreber.deviantart.com

www.facebook.com/Rebercolors

 

ANDREW AYDIN

He has served U.S. Congressman John Lewis as his Communications Director and Press Secretary. Currently he handles Telecommunications, Technology Policy and New Media for the Congressman. He is the co-author, with Congressman Lewis, of the Top Shelf comic, March. It’s autobiographical account of the Congressman’s history in the Civil Rights movement at a time of cultural unrest. The Eisner nominated Volume 1 is out now, and volume 2 will follow shortly early next year.

 

 

www.andrewaydin.com

 

JENNIE BREEDEN

She is the artist and writer of the popular autobiographical webcomic, The Devil’s Panties, since 2001. Always a favorite guest of DragonCon, he Kilt blowing demos have become a DragonCon staple.

http://thedevilspanties.com

 

RODNEY RAMOS

He has been a penciler and later, inker in comics for over 20 years. He was the primary inker for Darick Robertson at the time of Transmetropolitan as well as other titles like Marvel’s Toxin. In recent years, he has inked various superhero titles for both DC & Marvel.

https://www.facebook.com/rodney.ramos.9

We are very sorry to announce that previously confirmed guest, Ed McGuinness, will not be able to join us this year. Hopefully, he can join us some time in the future. His previously announced Saturday panel is being replaced.

 

DAVE BULLOCK

He worked in animation as story artist for: The Superman/Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Beware The Batman and Transformers Prime among others.  He has gone on to direct such features as the very poplur, Justice League: New Frontier movie as well as episodes of Star Wars Clone Wars & Spectacular Spider-Man. Most recently, he wrote the Deadman feature for Wednesday Comics and various covers for Valiant Comics as well as a story in the recent Batman: Black & White. He will be joining us for the first time at this year’s Dragon Con!

http://bullockartworks.blogspot.com/

http://davebullock.deviantart.com/

VAN JENSEN

People first took notice with his creator owned work, Pinocchio Vampire Slayer. He made his debut as writer for DC Comics over on Green Lantern Corps, which he still writes today. He has also started co-writing The Flash this year with his writing partner, Robert Venditti. They have been tasked with introducing Wally West into DC’s New 52. His upcoming creator owned project is titled, The Leg.

vandotjensen.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/van_jensen

MIKE S. MILLER

He has worked for many of the top comic book companies since the 90’s. He was artist on Adventures of Superman for 8 issues as well as various other titles. In recent years, he became the cover artist for the comic adaptions of Game of Thrones, artist for the DC Comics issue of National Comics: Looker as well as Batman: Arkham Unhinged. Most recently, he has done covers for Zenescope Comics and is one of the artists on DC’s popular, Injustice: Gods Among Us.

 

http://mikesmillerart.com/

www.facebook.com/MikeSMillerArt

Thursday, August 28th

7:00PM Preview/ Meet Up

 

Friday, August 29th
10:00AM Welcome Panel – Get a sneak peak at this
year’s panel lineup, then hear from CPAAC’s keynote speaker
Kelly Sue DeConnick!

11:30AM The State of Superhero Cinema – A discussion with prominent film bloggers about current and upcoming superhero movies!
with Van Allen Plexico, Spencer Perry, Emma Loggins, Matt Goldberg

1:00PM What IF…Elseworlds – Superman: Red Son, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Hulk: Future Imperfect, Old Man Logan
with: Peter David, Dexter Vines, Dave Johnson, Mike S. Miller

2:30PM Comic Creators: Secret Origins –
with: Jennie Breeden, Siya Oum, Andrew Aydin,David Mack, Chris Schweizer

4:00PM Mike Grell – DC Legend

5:30PM Zenescope Comics – with: Jamie Tyndall, Mike S. Miller, Jason Metcalf, Paolo Pantalena, Chris Ehnot

7:00PM Music In Comics – with: Dean Motter, Andrew Robinson, Paul Jenkins

8:30PM Carol Corps – with: Kelly Sue DeConnick

10:00PM What To Read! – with: Comfort Love & Adam Withers

 

Saturday, August 30
10:00AM Literary & Religious Themes in Comics – CPAAC

11:30AM 3D Character & Creature Design
with Bryan Wynia

1:00PM Marvel vs. DC Trivia with Van Allen Plexico

2:30PM The Bob Camp Show
with Bob Camp, J. David Spurlock

4:00PM Creator Owned Comics
with Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nathan Edmondson, Peter Steigerwald, Van Jensen, Ted Naifeh, Paul Jenkins

5:30PM Comics & Cosplay (International North)
with Mark Meer, Riddle, Kevin Spooner, Kearstin Fay Nicholson, Margie Cox

5:30PM Jack Davis Foundation: An Artist Retrospective (Hanover F)
with William Stout, Alex Murawski, Jack Davis III, Beno Rothschild

7:00PM Atlanta Radio Theatre Company Presents: Batman’s Greatest Mystery (HanoverF)

7:00PM Cosplay Live Figure Drawing (Regency V)
with Pierre Bernard Jr.

8:30PM You’ve Seen The Movie Now What? (Fan Panel)

10:00PM Terminus Media – CDC Motion Comic

 

Sunday, August 31st
10:00AM Owly Arts & Crafts Hour (bring the kids)
with Andy Runton

11:30AM Batman 75th Anniversary: The Long Halloween
with Tim Sale

1:00PM Aspen Comics
with Peter Steigerwald, Frank Mastromauro, Alex Konat, Siya Oum

2:30PM MARCH – With Congressman John Lewis (Regency V)
with Andrew Aydin, Tom Heintjes

2:30PM Comics, Representation, & Semiotics – CPAAC (Hanover F)

4:00PM MARVEL NOW! (Centennial 1)
with Kelly Sue Deconnick, Nathan Edomondson, Peter David, Mark Bagley, Mark Brooks

4:00PM Frazetta: A Legend’s Legacy (Hanover F)
with The Frazetta Girls, J. David Spurlock

5:30PM Vampires In Comics
with Georges Jeanty, Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden

7:00PM JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER Screening with Live Commentary
with Director Dave Bullock

 

Monday, September 1
10:00AM Comics In The Composition Classroom – CPAAC
with Kelly Sue DeConnick

11:30AM Let’s Make a Comic
with Comfort Love & Adam Withers

1:00PM Comics and Feminism – CPAAC
with Kelly Sue DeConnick

2:30PM State of Comics Roundtable (Fan Panel)
with Comic Book Retailers

 

** Of course, anything is subject to change and will be noted in the Dragon Con app and the Daily Dragon.