Volume Four:


Simon Corry

"Hello there, my name is Simon and I like to design. I draw what I see
and what i see is my imagination, I guess. There's nothing complicated
about my style; in fact, I think there's a certain innocent simplicity about it
that makes it work. I own and run my own art gallery/coffee shop in
Falmouth, UK called Babahogs. I use a mechanical pencil, fine liners and
Tria markers. Come visit my world."




Ray Negron

Ray N., born on the planet Earth sometime ago during the 1980s, attends
Clayton State University in Morrow, GA and draws comics in his free time.
He is the founder, CEO and custodian of The Jonesboro Experience of America.
Check out some of his comics (including his ribald series "Pervertman!") and
other art pieces and essays on his studio homepage.



Molly Mullen

Molly studies journalism at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
She has drawn comics for the last year and Candy or Medicine is the first
publication to which she has contributed. Other than reading comics and
re-watching "Rocky" movies, she follows the band Lambs of God on tour
most of the time, acting as the band's groupie. Read her blog here.





Josh Blair

Josh is the founder, editor and publisher of Candy or Medicine. His comics have
appeared in Super Fantastica Comix, Always Comix, Symphony in Ink and
The Northerner. A native of the Northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, Josh
is the father of one (soon to be three when his twins are born in early 2009), a
freelance writer, and works in public relations. He has a bachelor's in journalism from
Northern Kentucky University and a master's in journalism from Ohio University.
Josh lives in snowy Syracuse, NY.



Abby Mullen

In her free time, Abigail Mullen makes vest and buttons for her vests.
She enjoys educating herself about wheat grass, this cures her colon
problems. Her hometown, Omaha, just went through a storm, but she
now lives in St. Paul. Soon she will be moving to Minneapolis, which
she will enjoy. Her Venus is in Aquarius. She has many acquaintances.
See more of Abby's work here.







Olivia Arrow

Olivia Arrow is a full time student and in her spare time, a comic/zine maker, doodler
and crafter. Although presently she is technologically impaired, she hopes to master
the machine one day (with a lot of help from her friends). Her current and past projects
can be viewed at her blog.





Kevin Richardson

Kevin is an illustrator/cartoonist currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona,
who arrived from beautiful Louisville, Kentucky about 5 years ago. His
three-year labor of love, Bitter Pill, is featured in the Phoenix-based art
magazine Hearsight. See more of Kevin's work here.








Russ Walton

Always a content and happy drunk Russ decided to try to use his bizarre life observations
and opinions to achieve his goal of breaking into the comic industry. Evil Ed and Nasty Ted
is so far the most successful of his attempts after several dozen even more odd and
occasionally borderline sick creations. For more strips, visit his MySpace page.

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Free Comic Book Day Special 2008:

Alberto Pessoa

Alberto teaches graphic design and publicity at the Universidade
Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil and is a freelance
comics author. He is an art educator and actually wrote a doctoral
thesis about the ironic speech in Latin comics. He lives in São Paulo,
but has friends in every place of the world because he surfs the Internet
every day! His works can be seen at www.comicspace.com/albertopessoa.




Steve Rack

British artist, Steve Rack, is best known for his childlike illustrations that often feature
an array of characters, including Snuggletuff. Steve studied art for 5 years and graduated
from the Swindon School of Art with a HND in Illustration in 1999. Steve works mostly
with colored pencil, and he uses acrylic paint for larger works. Steve is currently adding
a new character to his MySpace blog on a daily basis until the end of 2008. You can see
more work by Steve at steverack.com and myspace.com/365characters.

Brad Foster

Brad has been a freelance artist for as long as he can remember, and
his memory is fading these days! Aside from a few thousand odd little
drawings and 'toons contributed to odd little zines over the years, he's
also done the occasional professional job for titles as diverse as "Cat
Fancy", "Gent", "Amazing SF Stories", and "Cricket". In comics he had
his own series some years back, "The Mechthings", and he even got to play with the "big
boys" of comics for a few years as the official "Big Background Artist" of Image Comic's
"Shadowhawk". Check out his own pubs and prints through Jabberwocky Graphix at
www.jabberwockygraphix.com.

Rob Moses


Rob is a student at SUNY Oswego who spends his time
drawing and reading comics. Adventures with clouds might be a
reoccurring theme in his work, but he's no cumulonimbus.





Ray Negron

(see Volume Four bio)


Colin Tedford

(see Volume Three bio)

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Volume Three:


Kel Winser

   Kel was born in rural Norfolk, England at the turn of the electric
   decade of the 1980s. Desperate to flree the very small town in
   which he dwelled for 20 years, he moved to the University metropolis
   of Cambridge, where the study of illustration was studied. He now
   lives in a suburban seaside home in Brighton, England where his
   comics are made. See more of his work here.







Kostis Tzortzakakis

  Kostis is a Greek artist whose work has appeared in
  magazines and newspapers. He studies architecture
  at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.








Eric Myers

Eric is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Illinois with his wife, Candi, and their
daughter, Lucy. Occasionally plays, but more often draws, banjos. Eric is the
creator of the Web comic S.M.S. You can see more of his art at www.ericfmyers.com.





Curtis Noel and Erik Dauplaise


   Curtis and Erik are the creators of the OfficeSurprise© characters of
   OfficeSurprise.com. Since 2004, Curtis, the owner of the Rhode Island-based
   Web site design company, base8group, has brought his graphic design skills
   and a slightly warped sense of humor into the mix. While Erik, Project Manager
   at ElectroStandards Laboratory, supplied the inspiration and unique perspective.
   A lot of laughs and a lot of scotch goes in to developing each and every strip.





Colin Tedford

   Colin is a cartoonist (and more) living in his hometown of Winchester,
   New Hampshire. His strip Spinning World appears in the Vermont newspaper
   The Commons each month, and he publishes a few minicomics every year. He is a
   founder and co-organizer of the regional Trees & Hills Comic Group Distro. His comics,
   sketches, illustrations, news of exciting projects and more live at www.colintedford.com.





Dan Taylor

Dan has been lurking on the fringes of small press comics for almost 30 years. Sometimes making
the trip into its murky depths, he has published more than 40 comics and zines and has been
featured in hundreds more. See some of his work here.




Molly Mullen

(see Vol. 4 bio)



Russ Walton

(see Vol. 4 bio)

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Matt Feazell

Matt is a freelance cartoonist and graphic artist living and working in Hamtramck,
Michigan. He contributed a series of back-up stories to Scott McCloud's ZOT!,
published by Eclipse Comics in the 1980s. Caliber Press published a paperback
collection of his work in 1995 called ERT! He is currently a regular contributor to
Disney Adventures Magazine and recently finished his mini-comic graphic novel,
 "The Death of Antisocialman." Read more about Matt and his work at cynicalman.com.


Domen Finžgar

   Domen is a young artist from Slovenia who started his career in
   2004 with the graphic novel Xen, which he drew together with
   seven other artists. After that, things only went up- his works were
   published in Stripburger, Lucky Creature Attacks #2 and some
   lesser-known Slovenian magazines. Domen recently tried his
   skills in animation, game design and illustration. Recently, he
   created Catlife, Snow for Eli and The Gian, his Shadow and the
   Magical Cloud, which are available on his Web site.





Ricky Glore

Ricky is a member of “This Side Up,” the improv comedy team at Northern Kentucky
University, where he majors in theatre and minors in creative writing. Ricky created,
illustrated and co-wrote (with Josh Blair) “GRiMMER,” an award-winning weekly comic
strip published in The Northerner, NKU’s independent student newspaper, that was
later canceled for being “too risqué.” In 2007, Ricky wrote, produced, directed and
appeared in his first live sketch comedy show, titled “UnRegularly Scheduled
rogramming." See videos of Ricky's stand-up here.

Richard Cabeza

   Richard, a.k.a. TheAllKnowingHead, is not only the creator of Mad
   Mad World Comics, but he's also a figment of his own imagination.
   When he's not creating comics that are loosely based on the madness
   we call life, he enjoys reciting the alphabet backwards, listening to
   subliminal messages in 80's hair metal and playing chess. To this
   artist/musician/writer/humanitarian/visionary, the world is but a muse.
   But because of him, the world is now a little more amusing. See his work here.



Erin Griffin

Erin is co-editor of Always Comix, a bi-annual anthology. Her series "Cavities" explores
the mysteries of teeth, mouths, and words. She is skilled in the arts of arguing, grumpiness
and taking a nap, though like many of her generation, she got a degree in something totally
different. She's lived all over the world, and has found that Pittsburgh suits her best.
Check out some Cavities.

Katie Haegele

   Katie is a writer who lives in a quiet old neighborhood near Philadelphia.
   Sample Katie's work online at www.thelalatheory.com.

Yves Albrechts

Yves, a.k.a. Kapreles, was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1978. His rather dark view on
life sprouts drawings influenced by late-'70s underground art. His work appears in
comic-zines worldwide, and his first full-sized comic collection, "Birthsewer" presents
an overview of his work.




Emily Puccia

   Emily is a social worker in upstate New York, where she acts as legal
   guardian and mentor to 20 parentless children. In addition to working with
   orphans, she illustrates and co-writes the comic strip "Classic Feelings,"
   which appears in Syracuse University's Daily Orange. Emily illustrated the
   cover to Volume Two.

Liza Miller

Lizzy Liza Anne Miller/Caldwell was born and raised in the sweet, dusty hills of Northern
New Mexico and cut her comic teeth in the mossy land of Massachusetts. Back home in
the llano she is studying biology and living a charmed life with her high school love
demon & loving husband, Kenneth, and their two extraordinarily well-read boxer dogs
Zoe "Soup de la Soup" Smalls and Jackie "Giacomo Casanova" Smalls. They all enjoy
cruizing their low riders with the punk rock bumpin' and have total crushes on big dorks.





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