Josh Alves
Josh Alves is a Brewer artist whose work has been published all over the globe, from "The Kool Zone" in Malaysia to The Weekly here in Bangor.
He is the creator of "Zeek And Dent", "Tastes Like Chicken" and "Araknid Kid" as well as a Sketch Card contributor to Upper Deck's Marvel Masterpieces 2 set and the upcoming Marvel Masterpieces 3 set.
Links:
www.joshalves.com
www.tasteslikechicken.thewebcomic.com
www.araknidkid.sugaryserials.com

Ben Bishop
Ben is an artist based out of Portland, Maine. He’s been drawing since he could walk and rapidly developed incredible drawing and graphic skills with a keen interest in comic books and graphic novels.
He worked on multiple projects in his childhood producing huge books of drawings of friends and comic book heroes of his own design and of reknown. However, in high school he finally completed his first graphic novel, Repetition to Remember, a semi-autobiographical work about first love. That work, combined with an extensive body of work built up in his AP Art class, landed him several scholarships at prestigious art schools.

Ben ultimately went to Maine College of Art (MECA), but left after one year due to financial reasons. He now lives independently in Portland working primarily in local coffee shops and as a toy designer. All the while he’s worked on THIS graphic novel, NATHAN THE CAVEMAN, and completed freelance drawings and designs for a varying array of clients.

www.bishart.net

http://www.pulpsecret.com/the-stack/episode/STK_20080725

On the Fly Publications

Chris Beckett
Growing up in a small town in Eastern Maine, his childhood involved piloting the Millennium Falcoln, battling Cylon Raiders, and always saving the girl. Now a real grown up, married, and the proud father of three boys, Tristen, Colin, and Ian, he only admits to sightings of those "big Corellian ships" a few times a year now, at most. He can be contacted at lucienthelibrarian@hotmail.com

Dan Fleming
Tormented by the fact that his son is old enought to ask "What do you want to be when you grow up Dad?", Dan has decided to answer the same way he did when he was a lad of ten. "A catcher for the Chicago Cubs." But since spring training is in the desperately hot Arizona, he tirelessly plugs away on his computer,in a climate controlled room, still hoping to write the Great American Crime Novel.

www.comicspace.com/ontheflypublications

www.myspace.com/ontheflypublications

Christopher Mills
Christopher Mills is a professional writer of comic books and short fiction in a variety of genres, as well as a DVD reviewer for two pop culture websites. His taste in entertainment clearly peaked when he was about 15, which certainly explains his embarrassing obsession with James Bond, hardboiled crime fiction, comic books, paperback pulps, space opera, Universal/Hammer/Toho Monsters, sword & sorcery sagas, old genre TV shows and vintage B-movies.

www.atomicpulp.com

Ryan LaMunyon
Ryan grew up close to Bangor but in recent years he lives in Portland, Maine. He graduated this year from Maine College of Art with a BFA in Illustration, and has been busy ever since. He is looking for a career in Editorial Illustration and comics, not to mention working with other Portland artists on collaborative work.

www.ryanlamunyon.com
www.beerandfriedchicken.com

Akira Nishikiwa
Akira Nishikiwa is a young aspiring comic book artist. She displays her art mostly on the internet, where she also has a couple of webcomics. A few of these are "Nagahyde" from Smackjeeves.com and "Life is Random" from Comicspace.com

kittyjester.deviantart.com
www.comicspace.com/akira_nishikiwa

Anne Sibley O'Brien
Anne Sibley O'Brien is a children's book creator who has illustrated twenty-five picture books, including Jamaica's Find and five other Jamaica books by Juanita Havill (Houghton Mifflin) and Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella (Shen's Books). She has collaborated with Margy Burns Knight on five books: Talking Walls; Who Belongs Here? An American Story; Welcoming Babies and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue (all Tilbury House, Publishers); and Africa Is Not A Country (Millbrook Press). In 1997 they received the National Education Association Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for their body of work.

O'Brien has also illustrated a number of her own books, including two retellings of Korean tales, The Princess and the Beggar (Scholastic), and the just released The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea (Charlesbridge), a picture book in graphic novel form.

O'Brien's passion for multiracial, multicultural, and global subjects was kindled by her experience of being raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea as the daughter of medical missionaries. She attended Mount Holyoke College where she majored in Studio Art, and spent her junior year abroad at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea. In addition to creating books, she has been involved for many years in diversity education and leadership training. She is also a writer and performer, and has created a one-woman show entitled "White Lies: one woman's quest for release from the enchantment of whiteness" http://www.WhiteLies.ws. She lives with her husband on an island in Maine, and is the mother of two grown children.

www.annesibleyobrien.com

Bob Raymond
Bob Raymond is a self taught artist living in Winterport, ME. In 2006, he drew the web comic Vrin. During the recent New York Comic Con, he caught the eye of both Marvel and Dark Horse.

Bob is currently in negotiations for a mini-series, later to be collected into a graphic novel, which will be presented by Jet Pack Comics in New Hampshire.

Joel Zain Rivers
An illustrator, comic book artist, and writer, Joel has been creating pictures to stories from the age of 3. Born in San Francisco, he attended S.OT.A. (School Of The Arts), a public Art, Theatre, and Music high school and went on to study Art at Humboldt State University in Northern California where he graduated magna cum laude in 1992. In 2003, Joel was awarded a Xeric Foundation Grant to self-publish his first comic series, Along The Canadian, which was distributed internationally.

www.obioncomics.com

Skelton Crew Studio
Israel Skelton is a local artist, who started sculpting 1:1 props six years ago to fill a void in his own collection. Since then, and many busy nights later, his pieces have found their way into private collections across the country and a couple short films. An early version of his Mjolnir appeared in Mad Robot Studios’ "The Asgardian Menace."

Israel lives in Litchfield with his wife and four sometimes loyal corgis.

www.skeltoncrewstudio.com

William Ward
William is a writer and editor currently living in Bangor, ME. Raised in Maine, he attended the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Western Michigan University. William has contributed to several small press anthologies including the Eagle Award nominated Futurequake, published in the United Kingdom.

Early this year Ape Entertainment released FABLEWOOD, a fantasy anthology collection of sequential short stories edited by William. Also contributing a story, William worked with Ryan Ottley (Invincible, Superman/Batman Annual #1) and Manny Trembley (Panda Xpress, Sam Noir: Samurai Detective) on his vignette "Blessings."

FABLEWOOD also features the work of Joe Infunari (Oni Talent Search, Borrowed Time), J.P. Ahonen and Sarah Mensinga (Flight 4) Chris Studabaker (Howard E. Day Prize Nominee), Kevin Crossley (Event Horizon), Axel Machain (Metal Hurlant), Joe Suitor (Popgun Anthology) and many more.

FABLEWOOD was recently mentioned by Ursula K. Le Guin, the prolific an award winning author best known for The Earthsea Cycle and The Left Hand of Darkness, as part of her series of website articles titled "Some Books I've Liked."

www.fablewoodcomic.com