Ryan Estrada
Creator of Aki Alliance
Ryan Estrada has slept on a park bench during a Japanese typhoon, been involved in a Korean publishing company coup, dug toilets for tsunami victims in Thailand, hiked through the Himalayas, been lost in the desert, and had so many adventures he can’t even remember them all. He also makes comics!

Trade Loeffler
Creator of Zip and Li’l Bit
Trade Loeffler writes and draws Zip and Li’l Bit. In his spare time, he works as a graphic designer at a software company, and hangs out with his wife, his three-year-old son, and his dog. His favorite food is chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and collard greens (fried egg optional). You can find out more about his boring life by reading his interview at Sandbox World.

Mike Maihack
Creator of Cow & Buffalo
Mike Maihack is an illustrator and graphic artist living in the far too humid climate of Tampa, Florida. He is the creator of a few online comics, editor of the future Christian comic anthology Parable, a member of Cloud Tower Creative Studios, and a regular contributor to the biweekly art challenge, DrawerGeeks. One time, he took a nap. It was grand. When he’s not drawing or eating ice cream, he enjoys writing descriptions about his comics as if he was being interviewed by major news publications.

Tyler Martin
Creator of Wally & Osborne
I got my start in graphic design for magazines and marketing media, eventually becoming a freelance designer and illustrator. I first got started publishing stuff on the web in 1996, my cartoon renditions of rock bands. RockToons.com is still around and has featured the toons of many talented artists since then.

In July of 2005, again I took some time from contract work to start another one of my own projects, Wally & Osborne. In addition to publishing it at my own site, it is also syndicated at two of Pearson Education’s sites. I also created the ComicPress theme for WordPress to publish my comic online. The theme is now used by a good number of comic creators on the web with their own custom styles and modifications.

Ovi Nedelcu
Creator of Lunchbox
I was born in Romania, in 1979. I was (1), when my dad escaped communism and ran for the border. After reaching America, he flew my family and me to New York, then to Chicago, then to Arizona, then to LA, then finally to Sacramento. I later attended school at the academy of art in SF. after two years I left school and moved back to LA to work for WB animation doing Visual-Development, Character Design, Storyboarding, shooting rubber-bands across cubicles and what not.

After studio hopping for 5 years I decided to move to Portland (OR). I’m currently writing and drawing LUNCHBOX, PIGTALE and working at LAIKA Entertainment.

I realize life is short and then you die, so I try and make the best of what God has given me. I’m thankful for all the Lord’s blessings.

Dave Roman
Creator of Astronaut Elementary
Dave Roman is the creator of Astronaut Elementary, which was awarded a Web Cartoonist’s Choice Award for “Outstanding New Character Design” in 2005. He is also responsible for Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, which was recently published by Slave Labor Graphics. He is the co-creator of the Harvey Award nominated series Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden (AiT/PlanetLar), the Ignatz award winning mini comic Teen Boat (Cryptic Press), and a founding member of the videogame art site Lifemetercomics.com Dave has contributed to several comics anthologies including Flight 3, Not My Small Diary, and Bizarro World for DC Comics. He works for Nickelodeon Magazine, and lives in Astoria, NY with his talented wife, Raina Telgemeier.

Ryan Sias
Creator of Silent Kimbly
Ryan is a creative within the field of animation. He’s best known for designing and storyboarding the characters in the animated sequence in the Oscar-winning film “Bowling for Columbine”. From there he went on to storyboard for 20th Century Fox and Bluesky Studio’s movie Robots. He now storyboards for a new television show for Nickelodeon called “Pinky Dinky Doo”.

His cartoons have appeared in Mad Magazine, Nickelodeon Magazine, Found Magazine, and the “Flight Anthology” for Image Comics.

Dean Trippe
Creator of Butterfly
Dean Trippe is a comics nerd, but tries to pretend he’s normal (a lie usually revealed within five minutes of speaking with him). He grew up on a farm in rural North Georgia, and currently lives with his lovely wife in Nashville, Tennessee. Dean’s silly Webcomic, Butterfly, gained attention as part of a Webcomic endurance challenge called the Daily Grind. Butterfly has since appeared in an original short story in AdHouse Books’ Superior Showcase #1.