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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

ZENESCOPE COMICS

This year marks the first year for Zenescope Comics at Dragon Con. They are known for using popular fairy tale and fantasy figures in stories focusing on adventure and horror. Their line is lead by the long running Grimm Fairy Tales title, and they have expanded their stories to popular settings such as Wodnerland and Oz. Many of the company’s top cover artists will also be attending Dragon Con this year. They include:

JAMIE TYNDALL

ANTHONY SPAY

MIKE S. MILLER

PAOLO PANTALENA

JASON METCALF

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MIKE GRELL

He is the legendary writer/artist most recognized for his work at DC Comics. In the 70’s he had long runs on Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes as well as Green Lantern/Green Arrow and his own creation, Warlord! In the 80’s, he took over writing and drawing Green Arrow. He was the first to draw the character with a hood and place him in a position as a gritty, urban vigilante.

Over at First Comics, he also found much success with his own creation, Jon Sable Freelance.

www.mikegrell.com

DEAN MOTTER

He is most known as the writer and artist of his own creation, Mister X.  A futuristic, noir story that had it’s origins over 30 years ago. Today, the comic has found a home at Dark Horse Comics.

He also wrote the Batman Elseworlds: Nine Lives as well as The Prisoner, based on the old TV Show.

This year saw him create some variant covers for Dynamite’s comic book, The Shadow.

www.deanmotter.com

MATT FRANK

He has become the artist most associated with Godzilla comics! He has drawn covers and interiors for the various Godzilla comics published by IDW. His great art certainly bring the classic monster to life.

http://www.mattfrankart.com

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DAVE JOHNSON

He is an Eisner winner comic book artist who is known as one of the very best cover artists in comics!

He has done all the covers for the Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso series 100 Bullets as well as many of their other collaborations. In addition, he has had long runs as cover artist on many Marvel MAX titles such as Punisher and Fury. Over at DC Comics, he has also had long runs as cover artist on Detective Comics and Vertigo’s Unknown Soldier among many other titles.

He also did interior pencils for one of the most popular DC Elseworlds stories, Superman: Red Son.

Most recently, he has done covers for Shadowman at Valiant Comics.

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http://www.essentialsequential.com/Dave-Johnson_c_24.html

JAI NITZ

Jai Nitz has written several comics for many publishers.

He won the Bram Stoker Award for his work on Heaven’s Devils from Image Comics.

Most recently, he had a run on various titles with Dynamite Entertainment, which included: Grimm The Warlock, several Green Hornet & Kato titles, Kirby Genesis Silver Star, and Alex Ross’ Bring The Thunder.

His most recent and powerful work yet is the creator owned, Dream Thief, for Dark Horse. It is about an individual who seeks out vigilante justice on his own but does so in his sleep under the influence of a mysterious mask he stole.

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GEORGES JEANTY

Georges Jeanty has had a long career drawing many titles for Marvel & DC among other publishers.

He is probably most recognized for his long run as artist on Dark Horse’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer comics.

This year also saw him draw the new Serenity mini series from Dark Horse as well as the highly sought after DC Comics villain’s month issue of Joker’s Daughter!

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BOB BURDEN

Bob Burden will always be most associated with his most popular creation, Flaming Carrot! He took surrealism and humor in comics to a new level with both Flaming Carrot and also Mystery Men. He has seen his creations published over many different companies over the years. Most recently, he has taken to self publishing his latest works through Kickstarter.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Flaming-Carrot/399622050083412

https://twitter.com/BobBurdenComics

Aspen Comics will make a return to DragonCon this year! Many of their top artists will be in attendance.  The company that was created and founded by Michael Turner is alive and well today under the leadership of Peter Steigerwald and Frank Mastromauro. Both of them will be returning along with artists: Alex Konat, Siya Oum and Paolo Pantalena.

PETER STEIGERWALD: The company’s top colorist and upcoming writer & artist of Zoohunters.

Frank Mastromauro: Writer of the title Overtaken.

Alex Konat: Artist on Fathom

Siya Oum: Writer and Artist on LolaXoxo

Paolo Pantalena: Artist on Jirni

http://aspencomics.com/

https://www.facebook.com/AspenComics