Benjamin Spencer
I have been working on my Item X comic off and on for several years. Mostly it is a dumping ground for my various thoughts, gripes and misadventures. Last summer I attended the Cartooning Studio workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies and came away with a renewed love for the medium and a new [...]
Secret Identity Podcast
Meet Brian and Matt from the popular Secret Identity Podcast, now in its 4th year and over 300 episodes!
Michael Dooney
I am a freelance illustrator/concept artist and some time comic artist. Most of my time these days is spent designing toys for folks like Hasbro and Playmates toys. I have had a long and happy association with the Ninja Turtles, working on the comics, toys, tee shirts, lunch boxes–you name it–as an original member of [...]
Everett Soares
Everett Soares is the creator and writer of the steampunk comic book series, Sky Pirates of Valendor. Publishing his first miniseries within the world of Valendor through Free Lunch Comics, Everett has traveled the country promoting his series for the last three years. Beginning in 2011, Everett has taken on publishing duties of Sky Pirates [...]
Mark Masztal
Mark Masztal is an award-winning illustrator/designer. He spends his days managing the graphics department for an international craft company while spending his evenings creating the heroic and the macabre. Mark Masztal is enjoying married life in the Wilds of Western Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.masztal.com. For sale at Paint & Pixel Festival: Full color [...]
Jon Chad
Jon Chad has been producing handmade mini comics and zines since 2006. He has illustrated children’s books published by Mascot Books, including one for the FBI. Jon teaches screen printing and book making, and offers weekly lad intensives at the Center for Cartoon Studies. His book, “Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center [...]
Colleen Frakes
Colleen Frakes graduated from comic book college and now gets to draw all day. She was awarded a Xeric Grant to publisher her book “Tragic Relief” in the fall of 2007. In 2009, her second comic “Woman King” won an Ignatz award for Promising New Talent. Visit www.tragicrelief.com for more information. For sale at Paint [...]
The Center for Cartoon Studies
The Center for Cartoon Studies will be at Paint & Pixel to review cartoon portfolios as well as offer a one-hour workshop on the self-publishing process!
Tree & Hills Comics Group
Trees & Hills is a collective of cartoonists in Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts. Our mission is to grow cartooning communities across the region and publish and promote comics that address wider understanding of social, political and economic issues. Our website is at www.treesandhills.org. Books we plan to sell can be seen in our [...]
Brett Swanson
Brett E. Swanson is an artist who specializes primarily in comic book and cartoon art and dabbles occasionally in fine and abstract art. Brett lives in Mystic, CT, with his wife and 2 dogs. Brett is a 1991 graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts. Brett has published several cartoon strips [...]
Anzovin Studio
Animator and rigging artist Raf Anzovin’s credits include the 2005 film Robots and the upcoming game The Sims Medieval. Between paying gigs, he directs Anzovin Studio’s award-winning short films. David Boutilier joined the Anzovin team in 2000 as a full time animator and had the opportunity to work with famous IPs such as G.I.Joe, Transformers, [...]
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will be at Paint & Pixel to offer a complementary selection of picture books from their bookstore
Tom Pappalardo
Tom Pappalardo has been a graphic designer/illustrator/cartoonist for a couple of decades or so. His comic strip The Optimist appears weekly online (www.the-opt.com) and in The Valley Advocate. He has self-published numerous titles including his graphic novel-in-progress, Broken Lines (www.broken-lines.com) and he received a Xeric grant in 1995 for the book Alec Dear with Matt [...]
Ven Yann
I came to the United States from Cambodia in 1979. I grew up doodling, sketching and drawing on anything I could get my hands on. I studied at HCC and took every art class they had. I attended a number of schools after that, including Westfield State, Berkshire Community College and STCC. I was a [...]
Mo Oh
Mo would like to find something clever and humorous to say, but can’t. Mo began her career studying architecture and child development right down the way at Hampshire College. Finding cubicles, well… difficult to deal with, and her real passion in line and ink, she recently received her MA from the Center for Cartoon Studies [...]
Ciaran Gaffney
Ciaran Gaffney crash-landed on this planet in 1989. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for a few semesters, focusing on Illustration and Comic Art. He’s still hoping to get his degree in either Illustration or Art Education. For now, he lives in Vermont with his family and partner, surrounded by winter, working [...]
Matt Smith
I am a freelance illustrator working mainly in children’s publications. Barbarian Lord is a character I’ve had trudging through my mind for some years. He is a culmination of and tribute to Norse mythology, Icelandic sagas, He-Man, Thundarr and Conan. Paint and Pixel has provided the motivation to take a break from cute and indulge [...]
Brian LeTendre
In addition to being one half of the dynamic duo behind the Secret Identity Podcast, Brian LeTendre is a freelance writer. After covering games for the popular website Comic Book Resources from 2008-2010, Brian turned his attention to comic writing. Along with good friend and artist John Cordis (Living in a Cloud), Brian launched the [...]
Suzy Becker
An author, artist, educator and activist, Suzy Becker entered the world of books with what would become the internationally bestselling All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, now in the Double-Platinum Collector’s Edition All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat (And Then Some). Suzy has since written and illustrated [...]
Chris Rooks
I grew up in Acton, MA watching the Batman TV show, Bugs Bunny and reading superhero comics (Batman and Spider-man especially) as well as the Sunday comics. I pursued an art career and studied at the Art Institute of Boston where I graduated with a BFA in illustration. Since then I have worked at a [...]
Jim Lawson
For over 20 years, Jim Lawson has drawn for Mirage Studios, the owners and publishers of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His long run with the Turtles has put him in an elite club of comic artists whose exclusivity with one property has spanned decades. Although the vast majority of his work has been Turtle-related, [...]
Mysterious Transmissions
Mysterious Transmissions is the combined mass of comic book self-publishers Colin Panetta and Mark Velard. Both artists’ work is an attempt to recreate the strangest parts of their subconscious in the most finely crafted images they are capable of rendering, in order to create equal parts entertainment and befuddlement on the part of the reader. [...]
Ron Leary Jr.
Ron’s professional career started in the 90’s. While still in school he won the CT scholastic arts award for illustration. Soon after he did his first major commission for Hamilton Standard, designing a new logo for one of their many departments. Ron’s early-published work includes the comic books Tainted Blood and Vampire Bayne. Ron’s more [...]
Kevin Slattery
I was born in 1954, the same year as rock n’ roll and Godzilla. Growing up in the dying factory town of Easthampton, Massachusetts, I was no different than any other kid raised on The Beatles and MAD magazine. At age 17, I graduated from high school and spent the next three years studying illustration, [...]