SLG Publishing Presents:
San Jose Comics Fest
The San Jose Comics Fest is sponsored by SLG Publishing, America's Coolest Comic Book Publisher.
A mini-convention, Comics Fest celebrates independant comics, DIY culture and everything cool and good in life.
Produced by the founders of the Alternative Press Expo (APE) Comics Fest hopes to bringt he worlds of independant and alternative comics to a general audience.
Admission is FREE, click the Schedule tab above for the calendar.
OUR UPCOMING SHOW
Jamaica Dyer has been drawing to entertain herself since she was very
little, became obsessed with Catwoman at a young age, began working in
a comic store as a teen and then started making her own books. Her
photocopied comics graced Bay Area convention floors for years, and
she collaborated in anthologies like Dark Horse Myspace Presents 3,
Spark Generators 2, and Juicy Mother 2. One day she hopes to get
into a first edition of an anthology. Weird Fishes is a surreal
coming of age story that she published online in 2008 and is now a
debut graphic novel published by SLG.
When not drawing or dreaming about comics, Jamaicas animating Flash
cartoons as a freelance artist in the Bay Area.
Andy Ristaino is the creator of the SLG comic series Life of a Fetus and The Babysitter.
Tom Hodges has been drawing STAR WARS since 1977 at the ripe old age of 5 years old. He's only been being paid for it since 2003, he's pretty sure Lucasfilm would hurt themselves laughing if he asked for retroactive payment on the years 1977 to 2002... he'll avoid the embarrassment and keep on keepin' on!
Currently, Tom is the Lead Artist on starwars.com's weekly web comic series "Star Wars The Clone Wars". Now in it's second Season, the comic has evolved into an independent storyline running parallel to the events happening on Lucasfilm/Cartoon Network's animated television series. With this, Tom has been given the task to create a whole batch of new characters from Jedi to Clones. With each new episode of the TV series, there is a new comic by Tom and his group of artists.
Tom was also Co-Artist on the "You Can Draw Star Wars" book from DK Publishing (written by Lucasfilm's Bonnie Burton). Other work Tom has been responsible for are several sketch card sets from TOPPS, Upper Deck, Rittenhouse and Strictly Ink. And he is currently working on RE-Introducing the world to "MidKnight", his creator owned series published by RED 5 Comics (coming Sprin/Summer 2010) and looking for an outlet for "m", another creator owned Graphic Novel written and drawn by Tom. In-between Star Wars and the other projects, Tom does a weekly "Virtual Artist Alley" Table on USTREAM. Info can be found on his website:
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Born in Evensville, Indiana, Mel Smith began his career in 1985, at the ripe age of 16, penciling and writing for Pinnacle Comics. He has worked in the field ever since, and during those twenty plus years he has produced countless pages for many companies.
In 1991, Smith helped develop "Chainsaw Bob" as well as expanding artistically towards work for the music industry, designing material for many popular groups.
Today he is happily back involved with comics, first producing the charity comic Feed Americas Children and then the Eisner Award Winning Gumby series with his own imprint Wildcard Ink and Acme Ink.
Concurrent with this he has developed new series for other publishers, such as Dead Ahead, 7 Lives of Dr. Phibes, Death Race: Lords of the Road, God's Janitor, Recoil, and a number of other special projects yet to be announced for 2009.
Mel Smith resides in Walnut Creek, California.
Vernon White has grown up in the Bay Area watching cartoons and looking at comics. He spends much of his day reading various books and fairytales and attending plays by Tennessee Williams.
When he is not drawing or painting he likes to take long walks through the neighborhood, breed Owl Finches and collect rare butterflies.
Vernon draws comics out of a love for storytelling of all kind and because, in the struggle to make it through the day, nothing can pass the hours more enjoyably.
Vernon's debut graphic novel, Birdhouse, will be released in February 2010 by SLG Publishing.
David Meija was born and raised in San Jose California and has been drawing since he was five years old and became interested in comics whenat the age of twelve.
Mejia released his first graphic novel, BallMan which is an adult-themed humor book.
Mejia is an employee of the Martin Luthor King library by day and works on his BallMan comic by night.
Currently a resident of Oakland, California, Susie, 25, still bears the pale visage of an East Coast child.
She is the former editor of Curbed SF, College OTR and SuperVegan.com and she holds a masters in journalism from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Anthem magazine, the Syncopated comics anthology and many other fine publications. Shes created radio documentaries about thrift store owners with big dreams and hipsters shucking their white guilt by eating trash. She currently contributes to the Daily Cross Hatch. Find her full resume here, and portfolio here.
She is available for both high and low-stakes reportage, writing, editing and illustration work for your Website, magazine, newspaper, anthology or neighborhood newsletter. Take advantage of her inability to turn down project offers!
Panelfly is one of the cooler companies to jump into the iPhone Comic Book downloads space. Company representatives will be on hand t with free stickers and t-shirts as well as to do product demonstrations of the Panelfly iPhone app.
Chris Wisnia is a comic book creator, writer, artist, guitarist and musician, '80's professional wrestling enthusiast, husband, and father of two boys. SLG publishes his Jack Kirby-style /" Doris Danger Giant
Monster Adventures ."/ His other comics creations include /"Dr. DeBunko: Debunker of the Supernatural"/, "/Dick Hammer: Conservative Republican Private Investigator,"/ /"The Spider Twins Companion"/ (an encyclopedic reference of masked vigilantes), and the "low-brow intrigue meets high
art" /"Brush With Anger"/ starring Agent Ian Anger. His website, packed with web comics, story samples, photos, diary entries, bonus features, and at least forty-five minutes of fun, is www.tabloia.com
Eric Searleman has been an editor with VIZ Media since 2002. In that time he's worked on a bunch of manga and fiction. Currently he's the senior editor for original content.
Rich Koslowski is best known for his fan friendly comic book series, The 3 Geeks (later Geeksville), the recipient of three Eisner Award nominations. He also wrote and illustrated the much-lauded graphic novel, Three Fingers, in 2002 (published by Top Shelf Productions) which won the coveted Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and was named as one of the 500 Essential Graphic Novels in 2008. Other publications include The King (2005), The List (2007) and Weapon Omega (Marvel 2008).In May of 2010 his newest graphic novel (written by JD Arnold), BB Wolf And The 3 L.P.s, will be released.
Rich Koslowski is best known for his fan friendly comic book series, The 3 Geeks (later Geeksville), the recipient of three Eisner Award nominations. He also wrote and illustrated the much-lauded graphic novel, Three Fingers, in 2002 (published by Top Shelf Productions) which won the coveted Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and was named as one of the 500 Essential Graphic Novels in 2008. Other publications include The King (2005), The List (2007) and Weapon Omega (Marvel 2008).
In May of 2010 his newest graphic novel (written by JD Arnold), BB Wolf And The 3 L.P.s, will be released.
Mike Hampton- Artist/writer of Hot Zombie Chicks, Captain A-Hole, & Zodiac Killers. Captain A-Hole, Mike's hip-hop/alternative alias, is currently selling his 3rd album titled "Zombie". Hampton is the subject of a new documentary "I Dream Of Being An Artist... And It Makes Me Sick", a film about a year in the life of a starving artist, due out soon. Mike will also have prints, statues & t-shirts for sale and is known to draw caricatures of attendees as zombies for commission! wwww.916halo.com
Paul Allen- Artist & Co-Writer of the comic book "BrAiNs". Little is known about the mysterious Paul Allen. Some say he was kept away from sunlight as a child due to photosensitivity. Others thought something more dubious caused him to dwell in the night after a vacation to a small village in Eastern Europe 1987. An artistic side of him began to fester upon his arrival back to the States. Drawn to the darker side of things, Allen is working on his Horror/Comedy "Brains" comic book. It is believed that Paul has worked on the following comic book projects: The Nose Ninja, Dox Paradox, Slam Bang. This has not been confirmed nor denied. Paul will be available for commissions of disturbing images. www.myspace.com/brainscomic
Stephen R Buell- Stephen began his comics career in 2004 when he self-published the end-of-days mini-series Video, which received much critical acclaim. Anxious to let his writing chops rest for his next project, Stephen illustrated the graphic novel Fragile Prophet, translating Jeff Davidson's moving script about a mentally-handicapped child coping with mysterious new powers. The GN was named Best Independent Comic of 2006 by Ain't It Cool News. He is currently working on the sci-fi thriller comic titled Alien Echo, A punk rock homage to "They Live" comic titledAmerican Juice and a comic about a virus that effects super-humans titled Elephant Cage. Nacho Tsunami, Stephen's funny webcomic, can be viewed at http://nachotsunami.com Stephen is often known to rally his fellow man to spread the word to "SHOOT YOUR TV READ COMICS". He is also the colorist for the horror/comedy comic BrAiNs. www.stephenrbuell.com
Anthony Leano- BrAiNs is about the creepy little town of Creepsville and it's inhabitance. Where everything bizarre, wrong and abnormal are the norm. Where zombies rome the graveyards, monsters creep under your beds, serial killers stalk the streets and aliens invade your backyard. A town where the thing you fear the most may well be your local sheriff! Strap in your seatbelts and get ready. Descend into the madness of our BrAiNs! Anthony is the co-writer of BrAiNs and is a traveler from the land beyond. He has spent his life traveling across the west coast in search of gaining king geekdom status. He believes he has found "the secret of being cool" while still maintaining his geek cred. As most geeks know, some spend their entire lives in search of this enlightenment. Hailing from Vacaville California, he now resides in Sacramento California. Having really no talent whatsoever, he surrounds himself around artists, musicians, writers & other creative people to make him appear to be one of the elite of cool. What a poser. www.myspace.com/brainscomic
Saturday January 16th
The first show of the year for us showcases mostly local talent and mainly SLG creators.
Admission is FREE
Hours: 12-5:00 PM
Location:
SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
577 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408-971-8929
Attending:
Here are some scenes from our last Comics Fest. Creators in attendence included:
Jamaica Dyer
Jon "Bean" Hastings
Landry Walker
Chris Wisnia
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