Lexington Comic & Toy Con 2013

501st Legion

MidSouth Garrison

For a decade and a half, the "Fighting 501st" has been delivering awe-inspired smiles to Star Wars fans with highly-detailed costumes that give back to the community as much as they entertain. Founded by one South Carolina man in fan-made Stormtrooper armor, the all-volunteer Legion has grown to become the world's largest Star Wars costuming organization and proudly represents Lucasfilm's "Dark Side" characters at casual, promotional and charitable events. To learn more about the bad guys who do good things, visit 501st.com

Post Mortem Press

Author-centric Small Press

Talented writers need a voice without the challenges and stigma associated with vanity press or self-publishing. Post Mortem Press is that voice. As an author-centric small press, we bridge the gap between self-publishing and corporate publishing. Our mission is to provide an outlet for new and established writers whose talent has not been acknowledged by the mainstream publishing community.

Our unique publishing model provides our authors with many of the benefits of "corporate" publishing without the complications. Because we are small, we offer a level of personal attention only the biggest names in writing would receive in the mainstream publishing world.

Formed in late 2010, Post Mortem Press has already caught the attention of the genre press world.
Post Mortem Press has published works by well know authors Jack Ketchum, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Joe Schreiber, and more.

Brett Gray Art

Macabre Nightmares

A traditional artist, Brett Gray has been drawing since he was old enough to pick up a pencil, and studied Fine Arts at the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University. Using charcoal on paper to create his nightmarish portraits and macabre landscapes, he cites no particular source of inspiration for his work: everything from horror literature to film, folklore to the murky depths of his own subconscious all serve to inform what he draws.

Brett began selling prints of his art in September of 2010, and has since sold several of his originals to private collectors and completed multiple commissioned works . His first sale, a Lovecraftian piece entitled Night of the Old Ones, is now in the private collection of Jenette Kahn, former head of DC Comics.

He currently resides in Kentucky with his fiancée Sheryl and their two cats.

Scottie Watson

SWAT!

Scottie “SWAT” Watson broke into comics in a big way with a smashing win of the Small Press Idol 2007 contest working over the competition with his creator-owned medieval series Talon. He has also worked with the likes of Shelby Robertson on Latex Alice and Steven Franks on Voltron: United and Drawn. After talking over a period of a few years with Red Handed Studios founder/publisher, Cary Kelley, he joined Red Handed Studios. Since then he has polished up his already fantastic Talon book as well as worked up an intro story for a forthcoming web series, Seppuku Blues with Kelley and RD Hall (American Wasteland) and is now producing the sci-fi western Dead Reckoning as a series of stand alone graphic novels, which he co-created with Kelley. In addition to his comic work Watson also does portraits. He has worked with many TV and film celebrities, several of the WWE Divas and is currently working with several of the cast from the AMC TV series The Walking Dead to produce a collage zombie print.

Beaucoup Pop

Your Average Nerds

The Beaucoup Pop Podcast is all about pop culture and general nerdieness!! Join Kerry, Justin, Matt, and Tressa as they talk about their loves in life; movies, comics, music, books, anime, video games, TV, manga, board games.... the list goes on. Beaucoup Pop is the offical podcast of the Lexington Comic & Toy Con!

Jenny M Stead

Ninja'd

Jenny is a self taught artist from London, KY who's been drawing since age 4. Her signature character, Ally, from her comic Ninja'd has been based on her since age 16 when Ally was created for her High School Senior Project. Jenny loves to write and draw and is currently working on her new comic 'Secret of the Reibai' hopefully coming out some time soon. She's currently a freelance sketch card artist and concept designer.

Cristy Clemans

Ninja Pea

Cristy has been drawing since she could eat crayons. Now based out of Nicholasville, KY, she primarily focuses on her character Ninja Pea and his many adventures. Ninja Pea's first book was self published, and she is now working on the second part of his adventure to be published as a web comic. Among other pea-related things, Cristy also creates Super Peas and has delved in recreating comic book covers in the form of peas. You can see her in-progress work on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NinjaPea or check out her web comic at: www.ninjapea.com.

Dustin Carson

No Gods

Dustin Carson is best known for his six-issue, limited-series entitled NO GODS which tells the story of Shepherd: a fourteen-year-old boy who thinks he is a clone of Jesus Christ sent to destroy the Earth’s superheroes. Dustin has also had short stories appear in Trailer Park of Terror and Fetter’s Run Literary Review.

Justin Stewart

Pop Stew Comics

Justin lives in KY with his wife, daughter and their 2 pup dogs. Mainly utilized as a colorist, letterer and designer, Justin has done work for Disney, Marvel, Image, Graphitti Designs, AAM/Markosia, Viper and Zenoscope Entertainment. One-fourth of the collective known as Beaucoup Pop, he gathers with the other hosts, Tressa, Kerry and Matt weekly to discuss all-things entertainment. Justin will draw, ink, color, letter, layout, design or otherwise take care of whatever needs arting.

Tressa Bowling

1/4 Pop!

Tressina is a local self taught artist. You can see the majority of her work on her blog where she does everything from pencil portraits to adorable versions of your favorite comic book characters. You can also swing by to check out her new web comic called HATEINK (www.hateink.blogspot.com) where she explores life's everyday tantrums. When she's not drawing you can check out the podcast, Beaucoup Pop, where she's one forth of the crew that brings you everything you need to know going on it the pop-culture world.

David Underwood

Gears & Glass

Purveyor of Steampunk Accouterments of all kind-Necklaces, bracelets, pins and other odds and ends.
Guaranteed to be constructed from the detritus of the inter-webbed Aether.
Welcoming all Steampunkers, comic fans and lovers of the unusual.

Action Lab

World Domination!

The publishers of such high-profile comic books and original graphic novels such as Princeless, Fracture, Snowed In, Back In The Day and more, Action Lab Entertainment is a group of comic book professionals who collectively have over 25 years of comic book creating experience.
After slaving in obscurity and alone for many years, these quasi-comic geniuses have now gathered together from around the globe to form a secret research and development collective devoted to world domination through the purification of the comic book art form.

Andrew Heath

Design & Illustration

Andrew Heath is a graphic designer and illustrator from Lexington, Kentucky. Focusing in minimalism and modernism, Andrew draws from popular culture to produce artwork that appeals to a wide range of audiences. While primarily dealing with digital illustration, Andrew has also done design work for several Fortune 500 companies and some big name bands. His work can be seen at www.andrew-heath.com

Brett Hatfield

Sketch Card King

Brett Hatfield is a comic book and children's book author and artist from Lexington, KY. He does sketch cards of famous comic book characters in children's book form. He is currently working on his first comic book titled "Mimics." Brett started drawing and writing his own comics when he was 7 years old. He continued his love of drawing his entire childhood and has recently graduated from the University of Kentucky school of fine arts. His future plans include publishing his own comic book and children book.

Rodney Fyke

Hazzum Productions

Rodney is freelance writer, artist, inker and colorist based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. His current projects include his independent small press comic book Peanut, Puddin’ n’ Jelly, the Veins and his Webcomic Hard and Soft Taco. He co-founded Hazzum Productions in 2010 with Tina McElhinney.

You can see his work at http://www.hazzum.com/ppnj/

Cindy Ramey

Poe Cat Comix

Cindy Ramey lives in Eastern KY with her family. She is at the moment, a freelance graphic designer / artist / illustrator / webcomic artist all wrapped up in one, all the while being mommy to her five year old ninja cheerleader. Cindy has always loved the idea of telling her stories through sequential art and has been doing so since she was 13. Her two comics, Nightshift and Starfire Agency began posting as webcomics in 2005. They, along with two collaborated webcomic, Lunar Rising and Nox Prophecy are located here!

Mary Bartley

Class A Felony

Mary aka FelonyKat has been drawing ever since she was old enough to pick up a crayon. It wasn't until high school that she got more serious about her art. While it isn't how she makes her bread and butter, drawing is more than a hobby to her. It is rare that she goes for more than a day or two without drawing something. Mary enjoys cartoons more than anything and her style reflects various influences. Currently she is working on various webcomics to bring her stories and characters to life like her comic Byyr to a collaboration comic with Cindy Ramey called Nox Prophecy. You can find her current artwork and comics at http://felonykat.info

Scott DM Simmons

Comics & Cards

Scott is a freelance comic book and sketch card illustrator, known for his artwork for Star Wars licensees, the Arcana graphic novel The Dead Cell, indie comics like Our Super Mom, Halloween Man, and Hero Chronicles, and his creator-owned series Knights of P.O.W.E.R. His inking work has appeared in Image Comics' recent Hack/Slash collected volumes and in various Halloween Man stories. His sketch card artwork has appeared in officially licensed sets for Star Wars, Dynamo 5, Zombies Versus Cheerleaders, Sheena, Golden Age of Comics, and more, with base card art also done for a few sets. He has contributed art for Moonstone's Voltron: United and Drawn, New Comic Day, and Mr. Jigsaw. Other credits include Wannabez, Jenny Everywhere, Mute, Global Comic Jam, as well as various CDs, magazines, and educational books. He was once a photographer at Hasbro Toys, and is also a news and photo contributor for Comic Related. Scott and his wife live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

Mindbender Customs

Bio Coming Soon!

Exhibitor bio coming soon!

Mike Eshelman

8 Bit Esh

Mike grew up in Columbus, Ohio during the 80s, and never quite escaped either one. Growing up surrounded by video games and comic books, his view of the world consisted of tiny squares coming together to form images, and his work reflects this love of the pixelated view. His current obsession is remaking images from pop culture in pixel form. "Working very closely to a piece with tweezers and a bright light, it only looks like a random collection of colors, but stepping away and giving it a different perspective, the image comes to life".

Borrowing images from such varied sources as Van Gogh, Lichtenstein, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, he can be found most evenings hunched over a few thousand beads with 80s New Wave playing in the background, slowly recreating real life in pixelated form, one teeny bead at a time.

Jack Knifely

Break the Line

Knifley is the writer/artist of HAUNTED, an intrigue-filled story about the dangers of obsession. There’s a bit of comedy in there, too.

Other works include stories in BREAK THE LINE #’s 1-3 and the occasional pin-up.

Stephen Vickers

Monument Comics

Stephen Vickers, a self-taught artist in Lexington, KY, will be breaking into the comic scene with his private label, Monument Comics, co-founded by Lauren Fleming. After self-publishing his first comic, Unmarked: Book One, he has been recruited by Justin Skeens, a local writer to co-write and illustrate his comic Red Tape. He is also working on a third story with Jared Stacy titled Malignant. Specializing in zombie and horror comics, Stephen loves to create characters that are thought provoking and mysterious. He currently works at Tattoo Charlie’s as a tattoo artist.

Stanley Sievers

Stanley WS

Bio coming soon!

Broken Icon Comics

Books with Edge

Broken Icon started in late 2009 with four guys from Ohio who wanted to bring life to what the comics industry should be producing: Books with edge, smarts and action. From those vague guidelines, the label has begun to produce some of the most gripping and visually appealing books on the market. And they’re still growing. Now with a revamped presence on the internet, Broken Icon intends to move into the digital age with comics, webcomics, podcasts, videos, photos and more, reaching out to their readers and making their titles and operations as accessible as possible.

Lunar Works

Story telling by any means nessesary

Lunar Works Productions is an independent comic book group based out of Augusta, Georgia. Currently, Lunar Works has a series called, Wulvern, an epic story about a werewolf hunter in the ole west. We also have a juvenile yet vulgar webcomic series entitled C-7, a group of Supervillains that decide to go legit.

Aaron Lambert Art

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JLamb Art Works

Bead Sprites

We are a literal family of artists who have combined our multiple talents to create art and story. The first of which is titled "Ironlands," our first venture into comics. We are currently building a presence for it, and could not be more excited. We also have other, smaller projects as well. Hope to see you in March!!

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Mandalorian Mercs

Costume Club

The Mandalorian Mercs is a costume organization dedicated to charity efforts around the globe, attending events in Mandalorian armor we've built by hand. Our active and diverse community is dedicated to teaching the skills needed to construct the signature armor worn by the notorious Mandalorians of the Star Wars™ universe.
Each member of the Mercs is encouraged to express their own personality through their armor. Our local chapters, known as Clans, provide a family-friendly environment where new members can meet and learn from Mercs in their local area..

Megan Taylor

Megans Murals

Megan Taylor is an artist from London, Ky and has been drawing since Kindergarten. After winning a contest she decided to pursue art as a possible career. She now attends Morehead State University as a Freshman with a Theatre major and Art minor, selling portraits, sketch cards, and murals on the side. Murals, sketch cards, and prints take up quite a bit of her spare time with various requests such as cartoons, wildlife, and portraits. Anime is a big part of her life and an even bigger inspiration to her art.

SuperSoul

Compromised!

Our mission is to develop interactive experiences with an emphasis on fun, innovation and experimentation. We released our first commercial game, Compromised, on Xbox Live Indie Games in May 2012 and are currently developing the PC version. We have a Steam Greenlight campaign as well so don’t forget to up vote us :) We also develop installations and more experimental projects. Our latest one, Open Source, was a finalist at IndieCade 2012 out in Culver City, California. Super Soul was founded in late 2011 by John Meister and Richard Hoagland. To learn more about us visit www.SuperSoul.co or follow @SuperSoulStudio

Mike Maydak

Pretty Pictures

Mike began in comics but couldn't make any money at it. Now he paints pretty pictures that people give him good money for. Usually they get it to match the colors in their sofa or put above their toilet because it highlights the trimmings. Either way, Mike doesn't mind.

Aaron Gabbard

Comic Book Jerk

Comic Book Jerk is a lifelong comic book fan who reviews everything comic-related. From blockbuster movies to forgotten television pilots to odd items found at discount stores, Comic Book Jerk is always on the lookout for something to talk about. Created in 2011 by Aaron Gabbard, who also writes for Comicbookmovie.com, his animated alter ego is there to point out the things in movies that you may of missed or don't want to talk about. Some of the reviews he has posted so far include Wolverine origins, Generation X and Superman Doomsday. You can check out more about Comic Book Jerk at http://www.comicbookjerk.com

Liz McCullough

The Bead Chick

Bead Chick is your source for unique, hand crafted items from magnetic jewelry to artwork made of animal bone. I can even make custom power bracelets for you on the spot!

Stevie Moore

Studiospectre

Stevie Moore is a Fine Artist and Illustrator from Lexington, Kentucky. Stevie works in both traditional oil painting and digital illustration. Since graduating from the University of Kentucky in 2005 with a BA in Fine Arts, Stevie has freelanced through his company, StudioSpectre. In addition to creating imaginative prehistoric dioramas, Sci-Fi creatures, and fantasy landscapes, Stevie enjoys teaching traditional and digital art classes at local organizations. Stevie is committed to the craft of illustration and views being an artist as a lifelong journey of learning and creativity

Natasha Collier

KY Geek Girl

Natasha Collier is a historian and blogger of popular culture currently living in Cincinnati, OH. She began Kentucky Geek Girl as an outlet for discussion of gaming, but quickly expanded to a home for all types of geekery. A graduate of Transylvania University, she used her interest in popular culture in her research, writing about topics such as Star Trek and Anthropology and X-Men and the Civil Rights Movement. She enjoys examining the fusion of history and popular culture.

Natasha is an avid gamer who enjoys role playing games, board games, MMOs such as World of Warcraft, all of which she discusses on her blog. Natasha also likes to discuss her interests in music, movies, books, and anime. She is a brand new Whovian, lifelong fan of Star Trek, and obsesses daily over Benedict Cumberbatch.

Nic Brown

B Movie Man

Nic is the author of the “Werewolf for Hire” series, editor and chief writer for www.BMovieMan.com and co-host of the B-Movie Cast at www.bmoviecast.com. Described as an eclectic expert on many things of little importance, Nic is a native Kentuckian who resides there with his beautiful wife Fiona and two dogs. He has a black belt in Shaolin Kung-Fu, loves to ski, and travel. He’s taught English in Japan, sold books door-to-door in Montana, and worked as a movie theater projectionist to pay his way through college. Now he works for an international trading company when he’s not busy writing about Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror entertainment or continuing the adventures of his favorite Werewolf for Hire: Michael Warren.

Beck Seashols

Beckadoodles

Beck is a (mostly) self-taught cartoonist, illustrator and author who collects pet hair, freckles and hugs.
She's a champion cookie eater, a yarn crafter, the Queen of Glitter and lover of all things cute, cuddly and chocolate covered.
She has worked with awesome companies like Lucasfilm, Topps, Target, various sketch card and rubber stamping companies and oodles of collectors of cute art.
She can normally be found in her home studio drawing and coloring. Or on the couch with a ball of yarn and some kittens watching Star Trek. (the cats love Spock)
Beck currently resides in Roanoke Virginia with her teenage son and has a glorious view of the mountains and trees and nature.
See what Beck is up to here www.Beckadoodles.com or find her on Facebook or Twitter.

Steampunk & More!

Susan Vanstone

Susan is the owner, designer, and creator of all jewelery, gizmos, and gadgets at Steampunk & More LLC. She is a contributing artist at the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, KY and has been selected to participate in the DragonCon art show for the last two years. She is currently running the ETSY store Steampunk and More LLC and is currently working on an e-commerce website with the same name. In her spare time she is a dentist in Richmond, KY and enjoys doing 5k, 10k, and marathon running events. She approaches Steampunk culture by joining history with her own off center designs using gears obtained from a watch shop, wire workings, vintage jewelery, dragon eyes, and whatever else she can get her hands on! She is very excited to be displaying her items at the Lexington Comic Con this year!

Katharina Faulhaber

Bardic Kitty

Kitty's love of the arts started young and she has been drawing for as long as she can remember. She is a mish-mash of self taught and schooling with a BA in Art Studio (focus in drawing) and a love of all things anime and manga and gaming. While in college, she learned some of the basic chainmail techniques from a couple of her friends involved in LARPing. From there, she has continued to grow and expand in this area-- learning new weaves, experimenting with different findings, and in general just having fun creating new and unique pieces of lovely chainmail jewelry. One of Kitty's prime objectives is to create things that make people smile and bring a little joy and color into their lives. For that reason, she is quick to offer custom pieces as well as anime style art commissions.

Jeremy Newell

Mixed Media

Jeremy Newell is a painter...well, he also likes to draw and collage...he is also a printmaker. Start over-Jeremy Newell is a mixed media artist who uses elements of nature, horror, fantasy, surrealism, and symbolism, stirs it all together and lets it simmer over a love of media, surface, and process. His work has been in galleries in Kentucky and Ohio.
In addition to making art, Jeremy enjoys listening to himself talk about art, which he is able to do as a high school art teacher.
He has recently been smitten with bookmaking. The shameless affair has been detailed on www.etsy.com/shop/raremonth.
Jeremy Newell accumulated significant student debt in obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Art (painting) and Master of Art in Teaching (art education). He lives in Richmond, Kentucky with his wife, two kids, various pets, a decent library, and delusions of grandeur.

Eric Brown

Creature Seeker

Eric Brown is the creator of bizarre creatures, oddities and mysterious relics. His work has been featured on The Science Channel's ODDITIES, independant films and museum attractions all over the world.

J Bird Cremeans

JBird is the Word

JBird does caricatures, hand-screened t-shirts, domino/scrabble jewelry, antique pet photos and much more. Her home on the web is www.jbirdistheword.com and you can see all of her neat stuff there!

Micheal Mayne

Bonnie Lass

Michael Mayne is the co-creator, writer and artist of "Bonnie Lass," a swashbuckling adventure from Red 5 Comics. In 2010 he worked on the mini-series "Massively Effective" which will see its official, full release on Comixology and Drive Thru Comics in 2013. He has also done guest work for the much lauded "Skullkickers" which paired him with writer Charles Soule ("27," "Strange Attractors," "Swamp Thing")—the two of them are now working together on an all-ages adventure comic to be revealed in due time! Aside from sequential work, Michael also takes on world building/concept/promo art projects for other comics and video games. Check out http://MichaelMayne.deviantart.com for an expansive gallery of his work!

Shawn Scott Smith

Con-News

Shawn Scott Smith is a writer, creature painter and a dabbler in the creative arts. He is the writer/cocreator of the comic daytimeghosthunter.com with artist Jessica C. White, and founded www.con-news.com in 2007, the leading daily news site devoted to fandom conventions across the country. He lives in Asheville, NC
All of his adventures are documented on his website at www.luckycreature.com

Cute-Loot

Amber Kelso

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Zombie Marge Comix

Twelve Ways

The Zombie Marge Comix Group is a loose collective of artists from the Cincinnati, Ohio area. They were formed in 2009. Their first publication, Twelve-Way with Cheese was edited and published by Tim Fuller, who continues the adventures of Zombie Marge at zombiemarge.blogspot.com

Todd Goodman

Old World Comics

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 had filled it with incredible artistic talent to compliment his comic scripts. In April, 2011, Todd opened the “subsite” and sister publishing company 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

Jessica C White

Heroes & Criminals

Jessica is a printmaker, bookbinder, papermaker, and zinester. She creates images with children and animals that attempt to make sense of uncertainties in our world today, similar to the way animals were used in folktales and ancient mythologies. Much of my exploration revolves around good versus evil, right and wrong, justice, and wonder. She likes mosses and ferns, staring out of windows, walking through the woods, ghosts, visiting old cemeteries, antique medicine bottles, and books with pictures. She dislikes walking on things she can see through, bare walls, and skipping breakfast. She always checks twice to be sure that the mail I put in the box really fell down the chute. She is the artist/cocreator on daytimeghosthunter.com. She publishs handcrafted books under the imprint Heroes & Criminals Press. You can see her work at HeroesAndCriminalsPress.com

Eva Luckey

Rainbow Hipster

Eva Luckey is a sixteen year old currently situated in the US of A. She spends her free time doodling, hunting for ghosts and exploring the wilderness that is the internet.
Eva has an interest in pursuing a career in illustration or sequential art, but is content with being an amateur ghost hunter for the time being. Her art site is currently rainbowhipster-art.tumblr.com, and you should totally check it out.

Sasha Peach

Sew Peach

Sew Peach is owned and operated by Sasha Peach. She is a seamstress and all-around craftswoman. She carries an ever-changing and expanding

inventory of homebrew hats and accessories. She also offers a custom-order service for any of your geeky needs. You can see Sasha's work online at

http://www.sewpeach.com
http://www.facebook.com/sewpeach

KSWCC

The Kentucky Star Wars Collectors Club is a locally based Kentucky Star Wars club focused on helping its members become better collectors and helping members achieve their peronal goals in their collection. We hold regional monthly meetings in the Lexington, Louisivlle, and Ashland areas to keep fresh with what’s new and in the stores. We have large annual gatherings which include the yearly auction fund-raiser, Fall Social, and the Regional Holiday Gift Exchanges.

Scott Bachmann

ScottComics

I’m the author, publisher, and letterer of the comics at Scottcomics, as well as a columnist for Comic Hero News. I have a degree in Human Factors Psychology which is the intersection of engineering and psychology, making machines that take into account humans. In my day job I manage software projects, do interface design, and on occasion code software. I’m also on the Board of Directors as the Secretary for the Dayton Playhouse and maintain their website. I have two full grown children and a wife Anita who is as much a theater geek as I am a comic geek. Once in awhile I actually sleep.

Eric Puckett

80's icons!

Eric Puckett is a self-taught and classically trained artist from Kentucky, with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Morehead State University.
His main focus is painting, but also does illustration and drawings. His art spans multiple genres and styles and will paint whatever comes to mind. Most recently his work includes several 80’s horror and cartoon icons with some anime and original pieces scattered through. By day, Eric is a professional graphic designer for a non-profit company and has worked for several publishing and printing companies. This is Eric’s first convention and he is bringing a little of everything for all to enjoy. When not working he spends his free time with his wife and daughter at their home in Irvine, KY.

Kay Sturm

OhSoFine!

Kay Sturm started making themed jewelry for costume parties at romance reader and writer conferences and has now extended her product line and reach to science fiction and gaming and comic conventions as well. Her creations include necklace and earring sets, bracelets, brooches, rings, cuff links, zipper pulls, key rings, hair accessories and hats. I specialize in Steampunk, Goth, vampires, dragons, fairies and other real and mythical creatures.She hasrecently added Hunger Games and 50 Shades of Grey pieces.

Rennie Florence

Proud Nerd!

Rennie Florence, aka Aeri/AerianR, is an artist, writer, and all around proud nerd. She's been drawing since she could hold a pencil and does it almost every chance she gets (when she's not too busy playing video games, at least).
Her love of all things nerdy doesn't stop at comic books, though she would one day love to work in the industry as either a colorist or artist. One of her biggest dreams is to create cover art for some of her favorite comics, or perhaps delve deeper into the world of video games by creating concept art for popular titles.

Josh Peters

Pic coming soon!

Josh is an illustrator, writer and graphic designer from West Jefferson, Ohio. Slowly building a rabid fan base at cons for the last few years for his portrayal of pop culture icons in his fun, Saturday morning inspired style. Some of the clients he's worked with include Image Comics, the Chicago Cubs magazine called Vine Line and Hasbro Toys. In 2010 he illustrated his third book Matilda Turnip's Endless Belly Buttonfor Glyphic Publishing. It's the story of a little girl making her way to her long, lost father through the use of magical objects popping out of her belly button. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, Josh has won several awards for his work including being selected for the Society of Illustrator's Student Exhibition, the Art of Illustration Judge's Selection: C.F. Payne and Best Daddy Ever which is awarded sporadically by first first born, Sammy. Check out artofunclefun.blogspot.com and lunchboxunlimited.com for more!

Sara McSorley

Vigilante Justice

Sara is a UK grad and Lexington native who draws inspiration from video games, tv shows, and movies. Her art has been featured on the Bioware blog, ShirtPunch, and has sold in the Desert Bus live auction. You can see her work on DeviantArt (http://mwar.deviantart.com), and in her Etsy store (http://www.etsy.com/shop/gembat). In her freetime, she enjoys vigilante justice and mexican food!

InkdCustom

Shane Stephens

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Penny Candy Studios

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Daunting

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Darren Neely

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Leticia Newton

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The Master's Affair

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Annie Erskine

Cartoon Queen

For as long as Annie Erskine could hold a pencil, she's been drawing. She has a complete and utter passion for cartooning. It is her life goal to become a cartoonist with Cartoon Network or another children's television network. Recently, she completed an internship with Cartoon Network doing graphic design for their website and continues to work for them freelance doing various illustrative and graphic work. Currently, she is working on her first comic book "Magia High" all the while finishing college, managing two non-profit comic creator groups to help the public learn about the creation of comics while networking among themselves, and then tutors high school newspaper cartoonists helping them learn the tricks of the trade.

Mitch Foust

Your name here!

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Dean Zachery

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CASA Superhero Run

Every child needs a hero

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Richard Garland

Monsters & Superheroes

Richard has loved all things art related since he was old enough to hold a crayon. He has a BA in Art, and specializes in photography and painting. Growing up in the 80s, his subject matter is often pop culture related, although he also draws inspiration from surrealism, art deco, and David Lynch films. He is currently working on two separate series of paintings (monsters and superheroes), decorative boxes, and attempting to knock the rust off his drawing skills.

Derby City Comic Con

Louisville's Finest!

Derby City Comic Con is Kentucky's first all comic-centered event! This celebration of comics brings together local, regional and national creators as well as many comic dealers to help you fill your collection. New this year is the Derby City New Talent Showcase featuring some of the best of Louisville's up and coming comic talent!