About the Site:
What we do…
The Members:
Name: David Davis.
Project: Cosmic Dash
Bio: David A. Davis is a 20 year old freelance cartoonist whose ultimate goal is to be an animation director and develop movies and shows to entertain you. He is an avid sci-fi and horror buff with a love of cynical, snarky comedies, often mixing them into a fine soup of imaginative hilarity. While he has mostly done web comics which can be read at his site (hpkomics.com) he has found success and joy in self-publishing and contributing various comics to anthologies.
He currently spends his free-time outside of the college classroom by working on his comics Cosmic Dash, Galactic Hub Serreven and Ben’s Book of Banned Beasts and caring for his pet turtle Donatello.
Name: Phil Gibson
Project: Lancaster: The Ghost Detective
Bio: Phil Gibson is a freelance cartoonist / illustrator / graphic designer who enjoys writing and drawing comics of all kinds. Someday he’ll create a cartoon empire inhabited by characters loved the world over, but until then he’s content to draw webcomics and make a general nuiscance of himself, both online and off. When he’s not toiling away in the freelance art-mines, he enjoys spending his time playing video games, reading comic books and coming up with new stories and ideas for comics. To date, he has put together roughly 20 different story ideas; he has yet to begin on any one of them.
Name: Kevin Hayman
Project: The Errant Apprentice
Bio: Kevin Hayman is in his early/mid-thirties and has been a web ‘toonist for eight years. His previous projects were Kota’s World and it’s sequel Geebo. Kevin considers himself a comic idealist in that, come what may, the story must go on. He is interested in the philosophical and metaphysical side of creating more than the practical usually, but is known for some of his more interesting coloring and background techniques. Given half a chance he can and will talk your ear off.
Kevin spends his spare time reading, mapping EA plots, playing the occasional video game and working in retail management.
Name: Robbie Allen
Project: Impy and Aevy
Bio: Robbie Allen IS NOT BATMAN! Instead he is a freelance cartoonist and hater of the world… well… at least 95% of it. Despite this people seem to like him and feel he’s a generally good guy. Robbie has been drawing comics since he was able to pick up a pencil, and continues to do it to this very day. He has done many comics in both the world wide web and in actual print. He is currently working on the webcomic, Impy and Aevy, a comic about a crazy cotton candy world of pop culture insanity.
Some of Robbie’s other hobbies includes playing video games, watching cartoons, reading comics, and toy collecting. All of which seem to support his weird gumball machine of random useless knowledge.
Name: Ian Jay
Project: Try Everything Once
Bio: Born into a wealthy family of tinned fruit magnates, Ian Jay lived a life of childhood bliss. At the age of six, his parents took him along on an arctic cruise on the ocean liner H.M.S. Frispedonia; unfortunately, two-thirds of the way into the voyage, the ship’s main boiler unexpectedly exploded, sinking the ship and killing its passengers. Miraculously, Jay was the only one to survive, and for the next nine years he was raised by the walruses that made their homes upon the polar ice floes that surrounded him. Through the Elder Walrus’s tutelage, Jay would grow to learn the secret and ancient art of pinniped cartooning, using a ceremonial tusk stylus to inscribe simple yet elegant picture-stories in the permafrost with seal blood (seals being the walruses’ constant aggressors and mortal enemies). Eventually he was found by a group of ambitious meteorite hunters, and sadly Jay was returned to the world of humans. Today Jay attends the Savannah College of Art and Design, where, despite the immense difficulty of keeping sheets of ice cold in the subtropical climate and the distressing inavailability of seal blood, he seeks to further his understanding of the sequential arts.
Name: Brian Emling
Project: Breakpoint City
Bio: Brian is a Northeast Ohio-based cartoon guy who draws a Northeast Ohio-
based cartoon. Noticing long ago that there were margins on his
algebra homework, Brian filled the void with characters and stories,
eventually compiling it all into Breakpoint City. Eight years later
and he’s still drawing, only with a much larger canvas and no chance
for detention. When not comicing it up, Brian’s into game
programming, graphic design, animation, and speaking in the third
person as though someone else wrote this paragraph.
Name: KC Green
Project: Horribleville
Bio: Bio Soon.
Name: Pat Lapierre
Project: All over Migglie
Bio: Pat Lapierre is chronically late to things, but that’s ok because he’s quite lovable and an emergency source of food. He started working on web comics seven years ago with his first project: Apple Continuum. Since then he’s also worked on an experimental comic titled Fallink!
He’s very interested in obscure cartoons, video games, popular culture, and eating slow witted puppies, because the slow witted ones just taste better.
He also toils his time away being a salaryman and freelance illustrator and values making cool comics with likable characters people can relate to. He wants to make the world a better place, but only for himself. He doesn’t like you, yes, you. He is partial to candy so that might help your case if you want to change that. But be careful, he bites.
Name: Rémi Perron
Project: Fortissima’s Treasure Hunters
Bio: Rémi is a very fancy-lad who hails from Quebec, he is a creator and a student who is focusing on 3D animation. His comic Fortissima’s Treasure Hunters has been a personal project for nearly 8 years, though the comic officially began being posted in late 2002. He owns Pens and Tales which hosts several webcomics as well as being one of the two individuals responsible for Purgatorium. He watches an unhealthy amount of animation. His love of comics, mangas and francobelge comics isn’t that much healthier either.
He also feels pineapples make wonderful fruits and weapons.
Blogging Staff:
David Davis
Laura S. Taylor
Andrew Pillow
Ian Jay
Geoffrey D. Wessel
About the Site:
Special thanks to Bastet for the look of the site, and Synduo for the logo.
