Billy Tucci

Tucci founded Crusade Comics in Bayport, New York [1] Its flagship title, Shi, debuted in March 1994. Publisher Top Cow's character Witchblade and David Mack's character Kabuki debuted in Shi before going on to their own titles. Tucci wrote and illustrated Shi: Return of the Warrior" and wrote "Zombie-Sama!, a comedy graphic novel with illustrator John Broglia, both published by Crusade Fine Arts. In 2006 Tucci began pencilling Marvel Comics' Heroes for Hire, and DC's VS cards, and later on the DC series Jonah Hex, Birds of Prey, Flash Vs. Superman and Harley Quinn. He also released the 576-page Definitive Shi, the Illustrated Warrior. In 2007, Shi also had a crossover with Brian Pulido's Lady Death/Shi through Avatar Press, and with Peter David's Fallen Angel through IDW Publishing. Dark Horse Comics produced a 200-page hardbound Art of Shi coffee table book showcasing several artists' take on the character. Other Shi projects include a full color Zombie-sama! TPB with John Broglia and Definitive Shi Vol. 2. Tucci produced a six-part miniseries for DC, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, which premiered November 2008.[2] In researching the series, Tucci spent time with a World War II reenactment in Pennsylvania, portraying a war correspondent,[3] and during his research in France, officials gave him the title of "Ambassador, de la region de Bruyeres".[4][5] The Lost Battalion received the 2011 "Artistic/Graphical" Gold Medal in the Fiction-Thriller category from the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA).[6][7] In 2011, Tucci's "Batman: A Trick For The Scarecrow", which appeared in the DCU Halloween Special 2010, was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Short Story.[8] As partner of Apostle Arts LLC, Tucci created Billy Tucci's A Child is Born, a 32-page graphic novella for Christmas 2011, adapted from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.[9] The book won a Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award in 2013

Kyle Baker

Kyle John Baker (Comic Book Legend) 1965 (age 58–59) Queens, New York, U.S. Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker, Publisher, Letterer, Colourist Notable works Why I Hate Saturn Plastic Man Nat Turner Awards Eisner Awards (eight) Harvey Awards (five) Glyph Comics Awards (five) Inkpot Award[1] In a 40 year career, Kyle Baker has drawn and written comics and animation for Marvel, DC, Nickelodeon, Disney and many others. His work includes DEADPOOL, BLACK PANTHER, RUGRATS, LOONEY TUNES, PLASTIC MAN, JLA, SPIDER-MAN and AVENGERS. His most recent books are TARDIGRADE and the DEATHCATHLON series.

Kenneth Landgraf

Ken Landgraf is a true cult icon in the world of comics. He studied with legends like Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman and worked as an assistant to Gil Kane and Rick Buckler. In the ’70s and ’80s, he went on to work on some of DC Comics, from titles like Weird War Tales to Superman Family and World’s Finest. His most infamous work might just be New York City Outlaws with Bob Huszar, perhaps the first true ‘outlaw’ comic. Huzar and Lamdgraf most recently collaborated on Apocalypse 5000, from Floating World Comics. Currently, Landgraf is at the tail end of an already funded Kickstarter campaign for a new project, Ink Zeitgeist, described as “a black and white outlaw genre pastiche comic (bikers, horror, cult cinema, superhero, punk, sci-fi, rockabilly, etc.) that takes place in Ink Town, a low-class but captivating destination of flea markets, arcades, trailer camps, diners and sideshow carnivals.” Mr. Landgraf took some time to rattle out his top five writers and inkers in the world of comics, along with some cool details. Check it out below, in his own words, along with some preview images from Ink Zeitgeist. Then make sure you head over to the Kickstarter page and push Ink Zeitgeist to the extreme!

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John Hebert

John Hebert has been many things- or maybe he’s been CALLED many things- among them, firefighter, fingerprint examiner, fire marshal and mainly , “Artist”. Born in a galaxy far, far away, known as “Troy, NY, he began drawing on the walls at the tender age of 4. Several years later, he was hired to draw his first comic book some 2 days before his graduation from art school way back in the dark days called “The 1980’s” and subsequently moved quickly through the ranks of the independents to Marvel where he spent some 6 years making comic book art magic. John has worked on such projects as “Punisher, Deathlok, Captain America, Nomad, Spider-man, X-Men Adventures, The Twilight Empire, Sable, Mars Attacks! and Jonny Quest. After an extended vacation form the business in the late 90’s, he has drifted back into the game, working on William Shatner’s online “Man O’ War and recently received a publishing award at NY’s Copacabana for his efforts on Stan Lee’s “God Woke” graphic novel. He still does freelance work and enjoys meeting the fans and spending time talking with them(don’t get him started)and doing sketches and he even ran for office several years ago. He lives in the Capitol Region of New York state with his beloved family, their pets and “a whole mess of cars” and is currently designing wrestling toys. Come and meet one of comicdom’s forgotten treasures....

Peter “Peat” Vazquez

Peter "Peat" Vazquez is a Long Island born freelance, Commission Artist with roots in comic books and fine art. You have seen his work in the pages of RMD Comics, Kaiju Mania and campaigns such as Nyobi Birthright His work is also in the pages of Penguina and Tomorrow Girl by Antarctic Press. You can also find him at cons such as NYCC, AnimeNYC, the Indie ArtShow, the Pancakes and Booze ArtShow, LI Tropic Con and tons of local shows Peat is available for freelance work including , commissions, paintings, covers, pinups, pencils sinks and colors.

Kyle Horne

Kyle Horne is a freelance artist based on Long Island. He illustrated children's book series like Amazing Annabelle and graphic novels beyond condition. Art has always been a big part of his life, ever since he was young

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