05/27/13

The Artist Alley (AA) is a place for artists to showcase their talents and promote their own work at the longest running Anime convention in North America. This is the place to meet artists and artisans who will be promoting and selling their own work and services.

05/10/13

              Friday: All About Webcomics: What in the world is a webcomic? Still trying to figure that out? So are we! A Webcomics 101 Extravaganza! Emerald Room – Tower 1st Floor, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Drawing Manga:  Have you ever wanted to create your own original manga or comic book? Learn tips and tricks to making...

04/24/13

              RAY DILLON has worked as an artist in film, tv, gaming, comics, trading cards, and more for 13 years on projects like HBO’s Game of Thrones, Borderlands 2: Origins, Mars Attacks IDW, Ridley Scott’s “Prophets of Science Fiction” & “Meteorite Men” on The Science Channel, R.L....

04/22/13

AKON-24 artists, are you ready to exhibit your work in the most significant Monster Fan magazine of all time? Join the Famous Monsters of Filmland & Monster Attack Team Art Portfolio Review at AKON-24. Famous Monsters has been featuring original art on its cover by legendary and up-and-coming artists alike, such as Basil Gogos, Ken Kelly, Bob Eggleton,...

03/19/13

Katie Tiedrich writes and draws the webcomic Awkward Zombie, a collection of videogame parodies known for punchy art and a sometimes dark sense of humor. The comic started out with a focus on Nintendo games, but has since branched out to a more general scope. Katie currently studies Mechanical Engineering in Hoboken, New Jersey, and hopes to someday build a...

02/26/13

              Xin Ye is a self taught illustrator focusing in comic making. She graduated from the college of Architecture at University of Houston in 2008, but decided that illustration was much more fulfilling. After bumbling around on her own for a year, she unexpectedly and ecstatically became the illustrator for Erfworld....

02/26/13

Cat hails from Fort Worth, after residing many years in Arlington – that’s Texas, not the national cemetery, even though his life reads like a cemetery plot  … one that might’ve been dreamed up by his renowned vampire author wife (Rachel Caine).  Alas, Cat’s puns have reportedly jeopardized his allotted nine lives so just pretend he’s a famous...

01/05/13

Bob Eggleton is a successful science fiction, fantasy, horror, and landscape artist, encompassing twenty years of putting brush to canvas or board. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards-he has been nominated an amazing 28 times over 24 years, 12 Chesley Awards, as well as various magazine awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines, books, posters and prints, and...

01/05/13

Steve first honed his artistic chops when he was just a teenager living in Tokyo.  He landed a part-time gig with Noburu Furusei (New Dominion Tank Police, Lupin III, etc.) at Studio Aoehyma and was lucky enough to work on series like Only You and Yamamoto. Later he was able to turn this experience into an actual job in the States—from 1997 until 2004 Steve was...

12/27/12

Meredith Placko, known around the con circuit as Ana Aesthetic, is a journalist, cosplayer and self proclaimed crazy cat lady.