http://www.maakies.com

Tony Millionaire was born in Boston and grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  He writes and draws the ongoing adventures of Sock Monkey, published by Dark Horse Comics since 1998. He is the creator of the syndicated comic strip, Maakies, which has been collected by Fantagraphics, who also published his graphic novel, Billy Hazelnuts. His comic strip Maakies has been adapted to the small screen as The Drinky Crow Show for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

http://www.familylosangeles.com/blog/2006/11/one-page-is-only-page.html

Sammy Harkham was born in Los Angeles on May 21, 1980. When he was 14 he moved with his family to Sydney, Australia. He was nominated in 2002 for an Ignatz Award for “Promising New talent,” and Kramers Ergot, his comic anthology series, has been favorably reviewed and placed on numerous best-of-the-year lists, including the LA Weekly, Time.com, Dazed And Confused, The Comics Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Harkham currently lives in Los Angeles and is working on his comic series Crickets and the next volume of Kramers Ergot.

www.marktoddillustration.com

Painter, illustrator, and author Mark Todd took his first creative cues from comic books and Star Wars: worlds of inventive fantasy that still inform his art. His latest work involves intense scrutiny and alteration of classic comic cover from Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Spiderman and other series, including the work of legendary illustrators like Jack Kirby.

http://www.spanielrage.com

Vanessa Davis is a cartoonist living in Santa Rosa. Her first book, Spaniel Rage, is available from Buenaventura press. Vanessa Davis produces a monthly comics column for Tablet magazine. She is currently hard at work on a book from Drawn and Quarterly.

www.mattfurie.com

Matt Furie lives and draws in San Francisco, CA. In 1997 he was awarded the distinguished “Award of Merit for 2-D Art” from Worthing to Kilbourne High School in Worthington, Ohio.

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~adc52520/

Shintaro Kago (駕籠 真太郎; Kago Shintarō), born 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese guro manga artist. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX Shintaro Kago’s style has been called “fashionable paranoia”. He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. He also wrote some Sci-Fi non-guro manga, most notably “Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis” (超伝脳パラタクシス, Choutennou Paratakushisu) for Weekly Young Jump. Many of his shorts are experimental and bizarre. He frequently breaks the fourth wall, and he likes to play with the page layout in extreme ways, mostly for comedic effect.

www.helllllen.org

Hellen Jo writes and draws the comic Jin & Jam, and she was recently nominated for an Ignatz Award in the category of “Promising New Talent.”

www.flickr.com/photos/federic_fleury/

Frédéric Fleury lives and works in Dunkerque, France.  Along with Emmanuelle Pidoux he runs  a publishing house called editions of 57, and he is one of the founding members of the famous Frédéric magazine drawing collective. 

www.ronrege.blogspot.com

Ron Regé, Jr.’s most recent book Against Pain (Drawn & Quarterly) collects short works from 1986-2006. Another collection titled Scituate Heart will be available soon. His current project, The Cartoon Utopia, can be followed at the above URL.

www.lemerde.com

Le Merde is Portland based artist Mike Kelly. His work ranges from paintings and sculpture to hand cast figures and vinyl toys. He draws inspiration from all walks of pop-culture, including heavy metal music, Japanese horror and wrestling manga, and 1970-80s cartoon characters. He is the first one to say “Let’s Get Turdical.” He is also part of the art collective Grass Hut.