We’ve finally gotten our guest list secured! Below are brief biographies of our visiting industry professionals as well as some samples of their work. They will be leading workshops and available for portfolio review, but SPACE IS LIMITED. Sign-up sheets are available through your professor in Norris Hall, or at Trisha’s office in room 1A.

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Brandon Graham
Paolo Rivera
Derek Kirk Kim
Ben Caldwell
Colleen Coover
Robert Atkins
Frank Cammuso
Mark Schultz

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Brandon Graham [http://royalboiler.livejournal.com/]

Brandon Graham was born in December of 1976, the grandson of pin-up artist Bill Randall. He grew up in west Seattle with a childhood heavy on comic books.

His own books include King City (Tokyopop and Image), Universe So Big (Radio Comix), Escalator (Alternative), Pillow Fight (NBM), Perverts of the Unknown (NBM), and Multiple Warheadz (Oni press). He’s also done work for DC comics, Spin Magazine, Heavy Metal, and Spumco. He’s part of the comic gang Meathaus.
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Paolo Rivera [http://www.paolorivera.com/] [http://paolorivera.blogspot.com]

Paolo Rivera, a Marvel-exclusive artist, has been working professionally since 2002. Although he began his career as an oil painter, he has since moved on to penciling, inking, and coloring (not to mention sculpting). Rivera was born and raised in Daytona Beach, FL, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, where he studied under David Mazzucchelli, among others. He broke into the comics industry thanks to writer Jim Krueger, whom he met at Megacon in Orlando, FL (while he was still in high school).

Rivera’s best known work is Mythos, a series of six richly-painted origin stories written by Paul Jenkins. Originally published as one-shots, it was collected into a hardcover edition in 2008. He now limits his painted work to covers such as The Twelve, The Iliad, and the Wolverine Art Appreciation Month series. He spends the remainder of his time on The Amazing Spider-Man, on which he is currently hard at work. You can see his art and take an in-depth look at his creative process at paolorivera.blogspot.com, a blog that he updates regularly.

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Derek Kirk Kim [http://www.lowbright.com/]

Derek Kirk Kim (b. 1974 in Gumi, South Korea) is an award-winning Korean-American cartoonist. He won both major industry awards in 2004, the Eisner and the Harvey, for his debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories, which was originally serialized on his website Lowbright (formerly known as “Small Stories”). He also won the Ignatz Award for promising new talent, in 2003, for the same graphic novel (which was originally published with the help of a 2002 Xeric Award).

Kim came to the United States when he was eight. He considers himself fortunate to have received formal training in the visual arts and in the craft of writing. Much of his early highly acclaimed work was done while living with his parents in Pacifica, California. He now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Same Difference and Other Stories has been translated in French and is published in France and distributed in that country and Belgium, Switzerland and Canada by the publisher 6 pieds sous terre. Kim illustrated a story in the original Fables graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall, and has worked for Nickelodeon magazine, contributing during the Christmas season. Kim wrote a graphic novel, Good as Lily, which was drawn by Jesse Hamm and was published by Minx in 2007. “The Eternal Smile: Three Stories” - a collaboration with Gene Luen Yang - was published in April 2009.
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Ben Caldwell [http://www.daredetectives.com/]

Ben Caldwell (born 1973) is a cartoonist who has worked in a variety of art and design fields over the past decade, including toy design, animation development, children’s book illustration, and comic book illustration. Most of his work has been for Toybiz, on projects including The Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, the X-Men, WCW, and Harry Potter. He has contributed to Justice League Unlimited covers, Wonder Woman children’s books, and Star Wars: Clone Wars comic art.

His most widely known work is the Action! Cartooning series of ‘how-to’ books, while his Dare Detectives comic, nominated for the Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer in Cartooning in 2005, has received less commercial and critical attention. Caldwell’s recent cartoon/comic work includes the All-Action Classics comics, with Dracula, The War of the Worlds, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Beowulf. His most recent comic is an oversized Wonder Woman story, for DC Comics’ Wednesday Comics series.
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Colleen Coover [http://www.colleencoover.net/] 

Colleen Coover (born Iowa, 1969) is a comic book artist, based in Portland, Oregon, best known for the comic book limited series Banana Sunday from Oni Press, and for illustrating several short stories in X-Men: First Class from Marvel Comics. She is a member of Periscope Studio and the Comic Art Collective. In a question and answer with comic book website Project Fanboy Coover spoke of her long term involvement with Marvel Comics writer Paul Tobin, whom she met at a local comic book store she regularly frequented. Coover and Tobin were married in August 2007.

Coover has contributed comic work to Out Magazine and has done illustration and cover design for various publications, including On Our Backs, Girlfriends, Curve, Kitchen Sink, and Nickelodeon Magazine; and for publishers including Buckle Down Publishing, Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and Dark Horse Comics. She has illustrated an upcoming graphic novel entitled Gingerbread Girl.

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Robert Atkins  [http://www.robertatkinsart.com/]

After graduating from SCAD in 2004, Robert Atkins has worked as a penciler, inker and colorist within the comic industry. His most recent work includes the penciling chores on IDW’s relaunch for GI JOE!, as well as Ultimate Fantastic Four Requiem and Amazing Spiderman for Marvel. His list of previous works include the Heroes online comic for NBC, Legion of Superheroes for DC comics, and various special projects for Marvel and Forgotten Realms.

He is also currently co-creating a series titled “Elders of the RuneStone” with writer Quinn Johnson (TMNT). Which is scheduled for release in 2010 through APE Entertainment. Robert resides in Springfield with his wife and two children, where he constantly awaits to see a Hiss tank come out of the local carwash.”
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Frank Cammuso [http://www.cammuso.com/]

UPDATE: FRANK CAMMUSO will not be appearing this weekend. 

Frank Cammuso has been a political cartoonist for the The Post-Standard, newspaper in Syracuse, NY for the past 20 years. Throughout that time his cartoons have been seen in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek.

He has also written fiction and satire with Hart Seely. Their pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Slate, and on National Public Radio. The duo had a book of humor essays published by Villard in 2000. It was called “2007-Eleven and Other American Comedies”.
Frank has also drawn Otto’s Orange Day for Raw Jr’s Toon Books, and the Knights of the Lunch Table series for Scholastic Books. He is also the Eisner nominated creator of the comic book series Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective.
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Mark Schultz [http://www.fleskpublications.com/galleries/schultz/]

Mark Schultz has been cartooning, illustrating and writing for longer than he cares to admit.  His best-known creation is the award-winning speculative adventure comic book Xenozoic Tales, which has been adapted to television as the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. He has also created and written the undersea adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael Ryan. In addition to his own works, Mark has drawn or scripted many popular fictional icons, including Superman, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, the Spirit and Conan of Cimmeria.

Currently, he writes the Prince Valiant comic strip for the funny papers, continues producing material for his Various Drawings book collections and is hard at work illustrating his soon-to-be-released novella, Storms At Sea. His graphic novel science primer, The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, was published by Hill and Wang in early 2009.

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• Official Poster of CAF XVI
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