THOMAS BAEHR
BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in Germany, Thomas Baehr currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife. Working in advertising and social management, he has also become a published comic artist, illustrator and cartoonist who’s work has appeared in both Europe and the US. In addition to art Thomas has created his own Punk Rock with various bands, but most recently with his solo project “deus le volt!”.
“The End is Here” is Thomas’ first graphic novel and is based on his comic strip “Pole”, which he created in 2005 and published regularly since in various magazines.
NICK BERTOZZI
BIOGRAPHY
Nick Bertozzi grew up in and around Providence, Rhode Island, has lived in Philadelphia and Madrid and currently lives in Queens, NY with his wife and daughters. He received a Xeric Grant and multiple Harvey Awards and Ignatz Awards for his smart and human cartooning. He is the author of THE SALON, a graphic novel about Picasso, the discovery of Cubism, and magical absinthe from St. Martin's Press. He collaborated with Jason Lutes on the graphic novel HOUDINI: THE HANDCUFF KING, the first of Hyperion/CCS's cartoon-biographies. He's hard at work on a cartoon biography of LENNY BRUCE for Houghton-Mifflin, written by Harvey Pekar as well as drawing Glen (the Colbert Report) Eichler's STUFFED! for First/Second. For the past several years he has been teaching cartooning at NYC's School of Visual Arts and taught at RISD in 2008.
PEDRO CAMARGO
BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a cartooning degree, I was invited to join ACT-I-VATE, despite the lack of any published works or awards...so what you see here is pretty much all you'll be able to find of my work.
That's about it for me...
Except for of course, I also totally fight dinosaurs and wizards on a daily basis, cause I'm just that awesome.
Also, I'm part robot.
...from space.
MIKE CAVALLARO
BIOGRAPHY
Brooklyn by way of New Jersey. I studied at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art, and then worked in comics and animation at DC Comics, Valiant Comics, Milestone, Image, BOOM! Studios, MTV Animation, Cartoon Network and others.
I'm currently working on various projects, including a graphic novel entitled "FOILED" with author Jane Yolen for FIRST SECOND BOOKS.
KEVIN COLDEN
BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Colden is the Xeric-winning author of Fishtown, to be released in book form from IDW Publishing in late 2008. He is a founding member of The Chemistry Set webcomics collective. His work has appeared on DC Comics’ ZudaComics.com and is also on display in the permanent collection at MoCCA.
He lives in New York City with his wife (cartoonist Miss Lasko-Gross) where he works in comics, music, film and video.
NIKKI COOK
BIOGRAPHY
Nikki Cook lives in New York. She has very little free time and spends it recklessly on comic books and finding brightly colored bits of plastic.
MOLLY CRABAPPLE
BIOGRAPHY
Professional draw-er with entrepreneurial tendencies and a big yap. Likes caffeine, money, audacious plans, DIY Imperialism, people who study arabic.
ANDREW DIMITT
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Dimitt lives in Kokomo, Indiana, where he writes and draws DROCKLEBERRY, and other comix when he's not puffing the magic dragon.
JIM DOUGAN
BIOGRAPHY
Jim is a comic writer hailing from the Hudson Valley hamlet of Millbrook, NY, and currently lives in Washington, DC. His best-known work in comics is the comedy graphic novella CRAZY PAPERS, drawn by Danielle Corsetto. Jim is a founding member of the comics collective The Chemistry Set, and the editor of the first ChemSet anthology collection "NO FORMULA", coming in August 2008 from Desperado Publishing. In whatever time he has left over from creating comics, he works as an economics consultant, hangs out with his awesome wife Rachel, and cheers for DC United.
RAMI EFAL
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Israel, 1978, Studied in Bezalel, Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He exhibited in several galleries in New York and Europe and publishes illustrations, comics and paintings. He teaches drawing and contributes storyboards and production art to films and TV animation on global networks and a board member of The Ink Well, Non-profit organization of artists for children. He operates from New York City.
ULISES FARINAS
BIOGRAPHY
Ulises was born in NJ, but now lives in NY. He is a college drop-out of the School of Visual Arts, loves hip-hop, and writing encyclopedic fiction.
MICHEL FIFFE
BIOGRAPHY
Michel Fiffe is the creator of "PANORAMA" and "FUT MISO". His work has appeared the mini-series "BRAWL", frequent issues of "Negative Burn", and "Fall of Cthulhu" for Boom! Studios. Aside from finishing "PANORAMA", he is working on his next Act-i-vate webcomic, "ZEGAS", as well as the graphic novel, "CUBA".
MAURICE FONTENOT
BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in Southern California, I moved to the east coast to attend the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art. After graduating, I went on to Write, Color and Edit at Valiant Comics. Storyboarding and Design work was my next stop at places like Disney, MTV, Cartoon Network, 4Kids, World Leaders, Scholastic and PSYOP. I live in Brooklyn.
SIMON FRASER
BIOGRAPHY
Simon Fraser is a Scottish Comics Artist who after many travels and adventures washed up in Brooklyn NY.
He is best known as the Co-Creator of "Nikolai Dante" ( with Robbie Morrison ) for the British Weekly Anthology "2000AD", but also drew "Lux & Alby" for Writer Martin Millar, 'Judge Dredd', 'Shimura', 'The Family' and 'Richard Matheson's HELLHOUSE' among other things.
DAN GOLDMAN
BIOGRAPHY
Dan Goldman is a New York-based writer, artist and designer.
His critically-acclaimed graphic novel SHOOTING WAR was listed among 2007's top graphic novels in the Village Voice, The Comics Journal and Publisher's Weekly. He is also creator of the online psychedelic psychodrama "KELLY."
Dan is currently collaborating with journalist Michael Crowley on 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, a nonfiction comics memoir of the presidential campaign to be published by Crown Books in January 2009.
TIM HAMILTON
BIOGRAPHY
Tim Hamilton has been drawing comics since the 80's when he teamed with Gerard Jones on,"The Trouble with Girls." Since then he's produced comics such as Aliens, Comic's Greatest World, Justice league Europe and Green Lantern." Clients have included Marvel, DC Comics, BOOM, Darkhorse, Malibu and Defiant comics. He regularly writes and illustrates humorous comics for Nickelodeon Magazine, recently adapted "Treasure Island" into a graphic novel for Puffin and is now busy illustrating a Ray Bradbury GN for Hill & Wang.
DEAN HASPIEL
BIOGRAPHY
Dean Haspiel is the creator of the Eisner Award nominated, BILLY DOGMA, and the webcomix collective, ACT-I-VATE, and the editor of Smith Magazine's NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR anthology. He has drawn superheroes for Marvel and DC Comics and Pulitzer Prize winning, Michael Chabon's THE ESCAPIST. Best known for his collaborations with Harvey Pekar on AMERICAN SPLENDOR and THE QUITTER, this Fall will see the release of THE ALCOHOLIC [Vertigo], his original graphic novel collaboration with author Jonathan Ames, and MO & JO, a children's comic book collaboration with underground legend, Jay Lynch, for Francoise Mouly's TOON BOOKS series from Raw Jr. Come early summer Dean will launch STREET CODE, a new webcomic series for Zuda.
Dean is a founding member of DEEP6 Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
JOE INFURNARI
BIOGRAPHY
Joe Infurnari was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. After completing his Honours BFA at McMaster University, he was seduced south of the border to pursue graduate study at Yale University's Painting and Printmaking Program.
Now living in Brooklyn, he delights in spitting in the eyes of his professors by pursuing a career in the funny books. His first published work garnered him a slot in Comic Book Idol 2 and in 2005 he won Oni Press's Talent Search. Since then, he has published with Oni Press, Ape Entertainment and Tetragrammatron Press. Joe has upcoming stories in the Next Door Neighbor series on Smith Magazine as well as an upcoming Three Rivers/Random House anthology. Most recently, he has been honored with an Eisner Award nomination for his webcomic, 'the Process'.
ROGER LANGRIDGE
BIOGRAPHY
Roger Langridge grew up in New Zealand and started drawing comics at the age of six. Along the way he got better at it, and moved to London in 1990 to try and convince people to give him good money for doing it. He's still waiting.
Roger lives in London with his wife Sylvie and their children Thomas and Tamsin, who have only the vaguest idea what their father does for a living.
JOHN LEAVITT
BIOGRAPHY
John Leavitt is a cartoonist, writer, illustrator, the co-creator and author of BACKSTAGE [with artist Molly Crabapple]*. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in: The New Yorker, The Chronicle Review, The New York Press, The Common Review, The Journal Of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other really, really impressive places.
*He is also a Libra
JASON LITTLE
BIOGRAPHY
Jason Little was born in 1970 and raised in Binghamton, New York. He studied photography at Oberlin College, and now resides in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg and their two daughters. He has been drawing cartoons since he was a child. In addition to Shutterbug Follies and Motel Art Improvement Service, he has also written and illustrated the Xeric Award-winning Jack's Luck Runs Out, as well as a number of short works for various cartoon anthologies.
FEDERICA MANFREDI
BIOGRAPHY
PAUL MAYBURY
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Maybury is an Award winning artist living in Austin Texas. His work can be seen in various top selling Image anthologies, and he is the co creator and artist of Aqua Leung.
JOSH NEUFELD
BIOGRAPHY
Josh Neufeld's comics about his travel experiences in Southeast Asia and Central Europe are told in the Xeric Award-winning graphic novel A Few Perfect Hours. He is currently writing and drawing the serialized graphic novel A.D: New Orleans After the Deluge, a true story about Hurricane Katrina, on SMITH Magazine.
He is the creator of the comic book The Vagabonds, and co-creator of both Keyhole and Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money and Business. Josh is a long-time artist for Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor and has contributed to many comics anthologies.
JEFF NEWELT
BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Newelt AKA JahFurry is ACT-I-VATE's Minister of Hype,SMITH Magazine's comics editor, HEEB Magazine comics editor, and a social media / PR consultant for The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Paul Pope, Rick Veitch, Larry Marder, David Lloyd, DKNY Jeans, Cut&Paste + other comics / cultural / new media superheroes. JahFurry also regularly performs freestyle dancehall reggae dittinanigans with various uberkiller dub, jazz, klezmer and blues ensembles.
HYEONDO PARK
BIOGRAPHY
Hyeondo Park born January 4th,1982. He holds a bachelors degree in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts and his biography is a work in progress.
-biography inspired by Wonderfalls.
PAUL PEART-SMITH
BIOGRAPHY
London based artist/writer Paul Peart-Smith has been drawing for the last 16 years and couldn't imagine life any other way. His first published work appeared in the top selling UK anthology 2000ad. He's created character design for clients such as Jim Henson's workshop and Sony Entertainment among others. Comics however have an unnatural hold on his soul.
Paul is married to costume designer Yolanda and together they spawned a small monster named Jet. Oh, and they've all been adopted by Minxy the cat. Never forget The Minxy.
LELAND PURVIS
BIOGRAPHY
In recent history major works include VOX, a black-and-white anthology for which he received a Xeric Grant, a creator-owned limited series published through Dark Horse called PUBO, and the rendering of a 240 page comics biography of the physicist Niels Bohr called SUPSPENDED IN LANGUAGE, written and published by Jim Ottaviani. Current projects include graphic novels for First Second and Simon&Schuster/Alladin due out in 2008 and 2009.
RYAN ROMAN
BIOGRAPHY
Ryan Roman is the creator behind such great failed works as The Lil' Racists, Kid Zero, and his current comic outing, Sleazy Pizza, a comic about what someone 'll do for love...even if it means taking a long ass break...
Ryan lives in Jersey City with his boyfriend of 8 years, Jonathan, their dogs Brody and Max, and their two kids, Dave and Mike Z..
Ryan also works as a photographer. He's pretty damn good at it.
BRITTNEY SABO
BIOGRAPHY
Brittney Sabo will tell you she lives in a floating metropolis high above the midwestern planes, with gilded archways and marble columns. She is lying though, because she actually lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Brittney was born in 1985 in Minnesota, and graduated in 2007 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a designer by day, and dabbler in comics by late night.
Currently, none of her work is published, but can be seen for little or no money on the internet.
JENNIFER TONG
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