FOUNDERS
NAME: Zach Hazard Vaupen
BIO: Zach is a NY based cartoonist, illustrator, printmaker, and game designer. Using a blend of digital 2D and 3D processes, he enjoys making work that examines social, psychological, and political themes through the lens of horror and science fiction.
URL: emo-sludge.com
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
NAME: Sloane Leong
BIO: Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and editor of mixed indigenous ancestries. Through her work, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens. She is the creator of several graphic novels like From Under Mountains, Prism Stalker, A Map to the Sun, and Graveneye. She is currently living on Chinook land near what is known as Portland, Oregon with her family and three dogs.
URL: sloanesloane.com
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
NAME: Reimena Yee
BIO: Reimena is a strange and fancy illustrator, cartoonist and creator of the Eisner-nominated The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Seance Tea Party, My Aunt is a Monster, and the 21st century Alexander Romance. She is the co-founder of the Southeast Asian comics industry collective, UNNAMED, and the curator of the Creator’s Guide to Comics Devices.
URL: reimenayee.com
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
NAME: Joan Zahra Dark
BIO: Joan (they/them) is a writer, organizer, and interdisciplinary artist. They love talking about queer comics, stories that can only be told through interactive mediums, worker cooperatives and gay robots. They’re based in Queens, NYC.
URL: joandark.co
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
NAME: Nero Villagallos O’Reilly
BIO: Nero is a Seattle-based indigenous Mexican/Central American cartoonist with 10+ years in the erotic (web and print) comics scene. His adult and non-adult comic work has been published by Slipshine, Iron Circus Comics, Fortuna Media, The Nib, Real Change, and more. He also built the website you’re using right now!
URL: itsnero.com
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
NAME: Aaron Losty
BIO: Aaron is an Irish cartoonist, writer and illustrator. His work often centers around observations and criticism of his hometown, Finglas and Ireland as a whole. Setting genre fiction within. Their latest works include Ploughman, Blaze Beyond The Pale and Clearwater.
URL: www.aaronlosty.com
TITLE: Co-founder/Committee Member
STAFF
NAME: Ben Becker
BIO: Ben Becker (he/him) is a cartoonist, art director, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor based in IL. When he’s not working, Ben enjoys eating and making good food, singing in and out of the shower, devouring comics, movies, TV shows, and video games, and living life with his partner and cat.
URL: benmaxbecker.com
TITLE: Managing Co-Editor
NAME: Blue Delliquanti
BIO: Blue (they/them) is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the creator of Across a Field of Starlight and the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with Soleil Ho).They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
URL: bluedelliquanti.com
TITLE: Managing Co-Editor
NAME: Dylan Meconis
BIO: Dylan (she/they) is an award-winning comics creator, designer, and organizer specializing in creative professional and LGBTQIA+ community building. She is also a member of Helioscope studio in Portland, OR, USA. She is popular with pets, introverted children, history graduate students, and her wife.
URL: dylanmeconis.com
TITLE: Community Moderator
NAME: Cy McQuinn
BIO: Cy (she/her) is a gay robot that draws comics about nonhuman characters. Her published work can be seen in You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife. She currently resides in the San Francisco East Bay, where she works on personal comic projects and runs Game Dev Galaxy, an online community for gender-/sex-marginalized game devs.
TITLE: Community Moderator
NAME: Akil Wilson
BIO: Akil (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist who writes and draws riso-comics about black folks.
URL: akilwilsoncomics.com
TITLE: Social Media Manager (Mastodon)
