Mike Oeming	Randy Emberlin	Michael T. Gilbert
Janet Gilbert	Jeffrey Kaufman	Stephen Sadowski
Bob Smith	Taki Soma	Shannon Wheeler

MIKE OEMING Mike's first big break was as an inker on Daredevil, and shortly after as penciller/inker on DC’s version of Judge Dredd, then Foot Soldiers at Dark Horse Comics. During the mid-90s comics crash, Mike moved back into indie comics, which started his path on creator owned comics with Ship of Fools, co-created with collaborator Bryan J.L. GLass. While drawing Ship of Fools, Mike continued with paying work such as inking Neil Vokes on Ninjack and drawing Bulletproof Monk, later turned into a John Woo film. Business was slow, so when Mikes first child was born, he got a “real job” working as a security guard—where he drew on the job, of course. This was when Mike developed a new simpler style as well as several projects including the Mice Templar, Hammer of the Gods, Quixote, and what would become Powers with Brian Michael Bendis. Mike and Brian had met several years earlier, knowing they would soon work together. Powers became the dream project Mike and Brian had worked so hard for—a creator owned project they could live on. Powers has been nominated for a Harvey Award and won an Eisner, and is now being developed for TV for the FX Network. Mike was nominated for his work on Powers for an Eisner. With Powers ongoing, Mike has tackled several other projects including Hammer of the Gods, Bastard Samurai, Bluntman and Chronic, Parliament of Justice, Hellboy, Catwoman, 86 Voltz, The Dead Girl, The Goon, Quixote, Blood River, Six, What If?, Magician: Apprentice (with Bryan J.L. Glass) and has begun writing for Marvel Comics. His writing stint on the final run of Thor has been widely acclaimed as well as Thor: Blood Oath. Beta Ray Bill and Ares are amongst his writing chores along with writing the monthly Red Sonja series. Currently he is busy with Powers, Mice Templar and the Rapture mini series with creator Taki Soma.                                        www.michaeloeming.com

RANDY EMBERLIN Randy Emberlin is a comic book artist, though he has spent the past 30 years working in a variety of creative fields. Whether as an illustrator of educational books or an animator on over 50 television commercials, he has made his presence felt through his style and sensibilities. Over the last 20 years he is probably best known for his work as an inker in comics, with a resume that includes long runs on Amazing Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, GI Joe, Doctor Strange, Alien Legion, Star Wars Tales, Mr. T for British publisher AP Comics, Ghost for Dark Horse, and Left Behind for Wildstorm. He has worked with a wide range of pencilers and has many distinctive styles that fans are well acquainted with. Randy and his wife Judy also host a summer art camp for children in their hometown of Portland, Oregon.                         www.randyemberlin.com

MICHAEL T. GILBERT Michael’s stories have been featured in Heavy Metal, Slow Death, American Splendor, Star*Reach, Quack!, Batman, The Spirit and Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories. Over the years he’s written or drawn comics starring Superman, Batman, Dr. Strange, Elric, Bart Simpson and Donald Duck. But Michael’s signature creation remains his fearless monster-fighting superhero, Doc Stearn … Mr. Monster! Mr. Monster is currently appearing in Dark Horse's Dark Horse Presents anthology. Additionally, Mr. Monster also hosts “Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt,” a regular column devoted to comic book history for Alter Ego magazine. A published comic book artist since 1973, Michael has also designed t-shirts, TV graphics and gruesome tattoos. He currently lives in rain-drenched Oregon with his wife, Janet ––and the huge, festering pile of pulp he laughingly calls his comic book collection! Visit Mike at Facebook!

JANET GILBERT Janet has been writing the comic book adventures of Donald Duck and crew since 1990. Her Disney stories have been translated and published in over 50 countries, including China, Egypt, and the U.S.A. She's written stories featuring Mr. Monster and also re-writes manga for Viz Media (Happy Hustle High, Punch, Chocomimi, and two Naruto light novels).

JEFFREY KAUFMAN Jeffrey Kaufman is an Owner/Writer/Producer at Big City Comics Studio and Resurrection Studios. Jeff created and wrote such titles including the newly released graphic novel Terminal Alice, and the monthly series Totem, Tempest, Dragon Cross and Omega One. His first published work was “Ant” issues 9, 10 and 11 through Image Comics. He is currently writing the graphic novel “Angel Falling” and producing the documentary “How to Fail in Comics Books”. He is also a lawyer licensed in 17 states.

STEPHEN SADOWSKI Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Stephen Sadowski grew up collecting everything comic-related he could. He realized his boyhood dream of working for DC Comics, as penciller for one of DC's biggest successes, JSA (collected in JSA: Fair Play, JSA: Justice Be Done, and JSA: Return of Hawkman). Steve's work includes Malibu Comics' Firearm 13 (10 pages un-credited), Jestercrow 1 from Castle Rain, Bob Burden's Mystery Men 1 and 2 from Dark Horse, and for DC, Starman 56 and Starman 80-Page Giant, Smash Comics 1, All Star Comics 2, JSA Secret Files, Paradise X: Devils, Power Company, JLA/JSA Secret Files, JSA All Stars: Doctor Midnite, The Avengers and Wonder Woman.   He has also worked doing storyboards for motion pictures, video games and commercials. Currently he is working on Warlord of Mars for Dynamite Entertainment. www.stephensadowski.com

BOB SMITH Bob Smith grew up in Grayland WA and attended college at Grays Harbor Community College and Western Washington University. His debut in professional comics was for DC on Plastic Man in 1975. He continued working fulltime for DC comics for many years inking a wide variety of titles such as Super Friends, Star Trek, Secrets of Haunted House, the Robin mini-series, The Flash, Green Lantern, The Huntress, DC Presents, Detective Comics, Captain Atom, Catwoman, Black Canary, and many others. In 1998, Bob moved to Archie Comics, inking many titles; however his primary job has been collaborating with comic legend Stan Goldberg. Bob worked on the long anticipated story line "Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty", and also inked the Archie daily and Sunday strips.  He continues inking full time with Archie Comics. Visit Bob at Facebook!

TAKI SOMA  Taki was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan until she was almost 10, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota for about 22 years, and now lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, Michael Oeming. She worked as a portraiture artist at Lee’s Gallery in the Mall of America, and is now a comic book illustrator/writer with various works being displayed through several comic book publishers including Top Cow, Image, Silent Devil, Caption Box, Arsenic Lullaby and for Dark Horse, collaborated with her husband Michael Oeming on the Rapture mini-series.         www.takisoma.com

SHANNON WHEELER Shannon grew up in Berkeley, California and started cartooning while at UC Berkeley publishing his daily gag cartoons "Calaboose" and then "Tooth and Justice" in The Daily Californian. In the early 90s, he resided in Austin, Texas, whose laid-back cafe culture fueled and supported the creation of "Too Much Coffee Man", becoming a weekly comic strip and webcomic and eventually winning him an Eisner Award. He continued to use this character in self-published zines, comic books, magazines and webcomics for a number of years, culminating in 2006 with the Too Much Coffee Man Opera (in one act) and followed by Too Much Coffee Man Opera, The Refill (in two acts). From 2004 to 2008 his weekly strip Postage Stamp Funnies appeared in the print edition of The Onion and in 2009 he began contributing to The New Yorker. In 2010 he published a collection of his cartoons rejected by The New Yorker called I Thought You Would Be Funnier, which won the 2011 Will Eisner Comics Industry for Best Humor Publication. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. www.tmcm.com