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2012 Guest List TBA
2011 Guests:
JEREMY BASTIAN
Jeremy
Bastian has been called by many as a "crazy" person. His dedication
for filling a page from gutter to gutter with delicate detail,
whimsical characters, and strange creatures might not seem out of the
norm. However, Jeremy draws his pages at 100 percent and does it all
with a very small brush. If anything, one might have to blow up the
images that pour from his mind, just to be able to see them. His
creator-owned project, Cursed Pirate Girl, beckons to the 19th century in subject and style. Cursed Pirate Girl
found the perfect home with the Century Guild (purveyors of Art
Nouveau and Symbolist antiques and artworks) and their publishing
house, Olympian Publishing.
KATIE COOK
Katie
Cook graduated from the College for Creative Studies in 2004 with a
BFA in illustration, her love of cartooning and comics has led her to
where she is today. She's done licensed work for DC, Marvel, Star Wars,
HEROES, Lord of the Rings, and more. Katie loves being a nerd, so being
able to draw nerdy things for a living is the best thing ever.
She's
married to the best guy ever. Ryan keeps her grounded while still
being an enabler when she wants to buy very expensive, stupid things.
Katie lives in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, which is a great city.
GUY DAVIS *
Michigan
based artist Guy Davis spent his youth drawing and sketching monsters
and aliens, with an imagination fed on a healthy dose of late night
creature features and monster mags!
A
self-taught illustrator, Guy first tried his hand at cartooning with a
strip that ran in his hometown newspaper during his high school years—
which by all accounts is worth forgetting. It was after graduating and
not really having any idea of what to do with himself outside of
drawing, that he decided to try and continue in comics.Guy has worked
for most of the major comic publishers along with providing artwork and
conceptual design for various role-playing games, and multi-media
projects.
Currently Guy is illustrating Mike Mignola’s and John Arcudi’s ongoing B.P.R.D. series (work which won him a 2009 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker), along with continuing his creator owned series The Marquis
for Dark Horse Comics. He still resides in Michigan with his fiancée,
the talented writer and artist, Rosemary Van Deuren, along with a
menagerie of pets and a trio of horse skulls named Becky, Conrad and
Steptoe.
* Due to professional obligations, Guy Davis will not be able to attend C3 2011
DAVE DORMAN
Dave Dorman is an Eisner award-winning illustrator who has been working as a professional artist since 1979. He is best known for his photo-realistic renderings of action and fantasy subjects.
Dave was born in Michigan in 1958. The child of a military family, he lived in various places, including the Azores and Washington DC.
After only two years of college, Dorman enrolled in the Joe Kubert School of Comic Art. After one year and the realization that he would not learn the painting techniques in which he was interested, he quit the school. With the loving support of his parents, Dave spent the next few years teaching himself his, now well-known, oil-painting styl.e
JASON HOWARD
Jason Howard is a comic book artist and illustrator. He currently draws the monthly adventures of The Astounding Wolf-Man, with writer Robert Kirkman from Image Comics. For the images appearing in the gallery section Jason has done all the art including the colors. He is also a recovering Graphic Designer.
MARJORIE M. LIU
Marjorie
Liu was born around Philadelphia, spent her formative years in Seattle,
and now resides in the Midwest. She went to Lawrence University in
Appleton, Wisconsin, for her undergraduate studies, majoring in East
Asian Languages and Cultures, with a minor in Biomedical Ethics. She
then attended law school at the University of Wisconsin, graduated in
May 2003, and was admitted to the bar a couple weeks after. She loved
law school. Did not like being a lawyer. Which is why she decided to
become a writer.
She's studied and traveled extensively through
Asia, and spent some time working at the US Embassy in Beijing. She
loves to read, she loves to write, but what she loves best of all is
proving to myself that dreams do come true.
Oh, and she likes poodles. And cats.
ANGEL MEDINA
Angel Medina is known for his work for various comic book companies, including Megaton Comics, First Comics, Marvel Comics, and Image Comics.
Medina began his career at Megaton Comics, illustrating such titles as Berserker and Megaton. He subsequently worked for First Publishing, on such titles as Dreadstar and Hammer of god in the late 1980s, before starting to work for Marvel Comics on The Incredible Hulk, Warlock and the Infinity Watch, Blackwulf, Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Marvel Knights Spider-Man.
Later he went to work for Image Comics, illustrating Sam and Twitch, a spinoff of the title Spawn. He later illustrated Spawn itself, and Kiss: Psycho circus, based on the rock music group Kiss.
RYAN OTTLEY
Ryan
Ottley is an artist Based in Utah. Ryan started his career as a
penciller on Digital webbing presents #5. He has done work for Digital
Webbing, Alias Entertainment, Devil's Due, DC, Image And Ape
Entertainment. He is currently working on Invincible for Image Comics.
DAVID PETERSEN
David
Petersen was born in 1977. His artistic career soon followed. A steady
diet of cartoons, comics, and tree climbing fed his imagination and is
what still inspires his work today. He is the creator of the Mouse
Guard series and is excited to be working on projects he dearly loves
doing. David was the 2007 Russ Manning Award recipient for Most
Promising Newcomer and in 2008. won the Eisners for Best Publication
for Kids (Mouse Guard Fall 1152 & Winter 1152) and Best Graphic
Album - Reprint (Mouse Guard Fall 1152 Hardcover). David and his wife
Julia reside in Michigan with their dog Autumn.
JOE PRUETT
Joe
Pruett has been in the comics industry since 1989. He began his
relationship with Gary Reed and Caliber Comics in 1992 and continued
there through 1998 as a writer, an editor, and finally as Creative
Director, where he was responsible for recruiting some of the
industr'y's biggest talents and being among the first to publish some
of the today's top creators. While at Caliber, Joe and his long-running
anthology title, NEGATIVE BURN, were nominated for numerous HARVEY and
EISNER AWARDS, the comic industry's most prestigious awards.
In
1998 he left Caliber to focus on his freelance writing career where he
became a regular contributor to Marvel's X-MEN franchise title of
books including X-MEN UNLIMITED, CABLE, MAGNETO REX, DOMINO, BISHOP,
GAMBIT, etc.
Realizing that the comic marketplace no longer
offered many choices for writers and artists to create and nurture
their own properties, Joe formed Desperado Publishing in the summer of
2004 to become a home for today's top talent to bring to life their own
personal creations.
RYAN STEGMAN
Ryan Stegman is a professional comic book artist currently working for Marvel Comics. His credits include "Incredible Hercules", "Riftwar", "Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man,""Incredible Hulk (Red She-Hulk)", "Sif","She-Hulks", "X-23", and "Midnight Kiss". And lots and lots of covers. Oh, and he likes people.
JORDAN TROVILLION
Actress Jordan Trovillion is an up-and-coming star on the Michigan movie scene. Since her start in film in 2009 she has enjoyed a few busy years, having the amazing opportunities to work with such esteemed and talented people as Michael Manasseri, Brad Anderson, Reuben Fleischer, and David Schwimmer.
Jordan is currently the spokesperson for the indie comic book show "Comics Continuum". Also with a background in stage combat, voiceover, and modeling, Jordan is always sure to find something new and exciting up which to work. If not, well...there are always video games.
DANIEL WAY
Born in West Branch, MI, Daniel Way is the writer of Deadpool and Astonishing X-Men. As well as being the babydaddy of Wolverine's son, Daken: Dark Wolverine, he has also written Wolverine: Origins and the cult favorite Hit-Monkey. This is his third appearance at Cherry Capital Con. In his spare time, Dan enjoys conducting business in his "office", being a diva and losing to his girlfriend at Call of Duty.
SKOTTIE YOUNG
Skottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
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