Mike Witmer is the creator of the web-syndicated comic Pinkerton. Mike has been creating cartoons professionally since 2002. His first creation, 44 Union Avenue appeared in a number of US newspapers and was later web-syndicated by GoComics. His current strip, Pinkerton is also syndicated on GoComics and is published in print by Th3rd World Studios.
In his spare time (ha! good one) he is a hack musician and even hackier computer nerd. There have been reports that he’s been sighted in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, has two near-teen children, a lovely girlfriend, and arms as big as tree trunks. This far-fetched information, of course, has not been confirmed.
Brian Anderson is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Dog eat Doug. The strip enjoys an international fan base both on and offline. He is currently working on several children’s books, including “The Prince’s New Pet” which will be released in the spring of 2010.www.dogeatdoug.com | www.theconjurers.com
Lucas is a bitter, angry and petty individual. He enjoys drawing a mediocre comic called “Imagine THIS,” making fun of the elderly, and ruining conversations by interjecting poorly timed, and somewhat confusing phrases. Circle gets the square.
Brock is a family man and one-time couch sitter who hails from California, the long state. To save the world, he writes and draws the SuperFogeys. Has the world ended? No? Then it’s working.
Irma is a music-worshiper and, though she is very happy in her job in the music-research industry, she will always be an illustrator at heart. She has been illustrating during her free time either as a freelancer, or just for her own enjoyment, since the beginning of the millennium.
That is, the free time she’s not spending at concerts, of course.
Irma fell into the world of webcomics on a dare from herself in late 2007, after dreaming about having her own comic for a long time. She is the writer and author of Imy, her one and only webcomic, which is still going strong.
Oh, and she’s a Jersey Girl living in Stockholm, Sweden since 2003. Figure that one out. Let’s just say that love removes all sense and logic from your brain. (But, really, she’s quite happy there).
Scott Metzger has been cartooning professionally since 1996. He creates single panel cartoons for greeting cards which are distributed by Papyrus/American Greetings, NobleWorks and Just Wrong Greetings. His cartoons have also appeared in Funny Times Magazine and in daily and weekly newspapers.
From 2005 to 2008, he did two webcomics, one called “Tree” (about a walking, talking pine tree) and the other called “Stewart” (about a dim-witted bison living in San Francisco).
He lives in Northern California with his wife, daughter and three cats.
David Reddick is a professional cartoonist working on comic strips such as Legend of Bill,” “The Trek Life” at CBS/ STARTREK.COM, “Gene’s Journal” and “Rod & Barry” at Roddenberry.com, and he is a full-time cartoonist at Paws, Inc., where he works on the “Garfield” worldwide property.
David also worked as an award-winning staff cartoonist at a daily newspaper for 6 years where his editorial cartoons and single-panel cartoons were (and still are) distributed to newspapers nationwide through Artizans Syndicate, Scripps Howard News Service and CNHI News Service. David also produces comics and cartoons for magazines like Star Trek Magazine, Knights of the Dinner Table, Renaissance Magazine, Nickelodeon and Scholastic’s The New York Times Upfront, to name a few, and has created comic book work for IDW Publishing and Tokyopop, has created product designs for various companies like Paramount Pictures, CBS Studios, Roddenberry Productions, Canson, Inc. and the NCAA, has created mobile content for providers like CBSMobile and ROK Media in the UK, and his abstract and pop art paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Indianapolis, Florida, Michigan, England and France, and he has painted wall murals in Japan. One of David’s original paintings and 3 original cartoons are also included in the permanent collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art.
David is also very often a guest at Sci-fi, Fantasy, Star Trek and comics conventions nationwide.
Barb’s number one job is mom, but when her ‘employers’ give her the time, she is a freelance illustrator/cartoonist by trade. Her corporate illustrations and animations have garnered several advertising industry awards for companies like Allied Insurance Group, Aegon USA, and regional utility companies and ad agencies. Additionally, her fantasy work has gained an international online following on sites such as Epilogue and Elfwood. Barb’s illustration work can also be seen in Steve Jones’ Talismen The Knightmare Knife, available through Mundania Press along with the retired webcomic, Talismen Return of the Exile.
Her current online webcomic project, Xyliatales’ Volume I will be available in print in spring 2010 as well as appearing in the near future on handheld digital format.
When she isn’t drawing, cooking, attending sports events, or doing other ‘mom stuff’, Barb has been known to pick up a guitar and belt out Joplin and Zepplin at local clubs.
Chip loves his family, storytelling, cigars, and fishing. He has time for family, steels time for storytelling, sneaks the occasional cigar, and hasn’t been fishing in too long. In his spare time (of which he has none), he writes and illustrates “Broken”, a long-form graphic novel, and has decided to attempt to write a fantasy prose novel.
Norm Feuti is a syndicated cartoonist and author living in Plainville, Massachusetts.
Norm’s syndicated comic strip, Retail, presents a humorous look at the retail industry by chronicling the daily events at the fictitious Grumbel’s department store. Drawing from his 15 years of experience working in retail management, the humor of Retail plays out through the day-to-day trials and triumphs of four main Grumbel’s department store employees (Marla, Cooper, Val, and Stuart) and the customers they encounter. Retail is distributed worldwide by King Features and appears in about 70 newspapers throughout the US and Canada.
Norm’s first book, Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook, is a parody guidebook for retail employees that includes over 200 Retail comic strips. Pretending You Care is published by Hyperion. It can be purchased on Amazon.com and at fine booksellers everywhere.
Other comics and projects by Norm can be seen on his website at www.normfeuticartoons.com
Lemon is a transplant from Europe. His misspent childhood consisted entirely of reading comics, doodling in small notebooks and fantasizing about impossible relationships with unobtainable women. He fumbled his way through school where despite having his body hardened by daily sadistic beatings, he turned out to be an overly sensitive, severely introverted, sissy-boy. As a reaction to a life of bitter regrets and dashed idealistic hopes he took up writing songs and by pure luck and good fortune become a very minor pop star in the eighties. At the tender age of 24, he was orphaned and moved illegally to California.
He stupidly quit a decent job during a depressive fit, most likely brought on by a soured relationship, and after several minutes of watching his life unceremoniously crumble away he met the love of his life whom he wed in Mexico. Then just when things were starting to go well he went on a bizarre two-year excursion to make cartoon tourist maps in Central America.
Now back in his cozy Mission district Victorian in San Francisco, he’s actually a wistful, sensitive, sweet-natured fellow who is still conscious of his near intelligible foreign accent. These days he spends unhealthy amounts of time in the basement drawing his comic strip Rabbits Against Magic, playing his accordions and doing the New York Times crossword. He drives a fire engine red 2001 Toyota Echo and has no cats.
Tom is a long time illustrator and graphic artist, who has dabbled in the art of comics all his life. Turns out he’s better at talking about it than doing it, and thus was Tall Tale Radio born. He’s thrilled to be the voice for the amazing artists of Tall Tale Features, and can’t even begin to say how terrific it is to be able to talk to the great artists of syndication, webcomics, animation and beyond. Thanks on this journey go out to Brian Dunaway and Justin Thompson of Comics Coast to Coast where Tom cut his podcasting teeth, and to Mike Witmer, who was insane enough to offer Tom the position of Podcaster Emeritus for TTF. As this is the first step on his evil plan of podcasting domination, he loves all the little people he’s stepped on to get here, and promises to think of them fondly from his giant mansion one day.
