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Daniel Scott Gabriel Murray has been a police officer for 19 years while at the same time working as an illustrator. The break came when he showed his portfolio to an editor at DC Comics during a convention, from that point he’s slowly built a following and a reputation for creating images that are driven by light, passion and character.

Phoebe Reeves-Murray has been a teacher of non-traditional, at-risk - typically homeless and/or adjudicated high school and college age youth and adults as well as children in HeadStart for the last 20 years; creating “thinking and learning outside of the box” activities and curriculum for students, teachers, and faculty across the US. Most recently, Phoebe has created a pathways to college program for low level literacy and math youth living in New Orleans who are concurrently working on completing their secondary education and becoming employed in a first job.

Her original short play about how Adam and Eve recover from The Fall and parent the race of Man called The Mistake was performed at the Maine Short Plays Festival in Portland, Maine. She is turning her short play Worse Things into a graphic novel about two abandoned Pacific Rim teenagers and an ancient cannibal monster. An active member of Maine Playwrights Lab, Phoebe has written four plays: three one acts: When You Were My House, Worse Things, and The Mistake, and a two act I Remember You which was read at the Stillhouse Studio. Previously, she was a member of Throughline in San Francisco where she wrote The Performance Review. Phoebe wrote and directed three original multimedia plays Collect All The Game Pieces And Be A Grand Prize Winner!, Crazy Tree, and The Hero of My Childhood, for CAFÉ and Muse Productions at The Next Stage in San Francisco. Phoebe wrote and directed an original science fiction radio play Eyes Like Stars for Shoestring Radio Theater which continues to be broadcast yearly on NPR.

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Dave Hughes is the monthly cartoonist for Geoscientist magazine. In addition to Thomas Wogan is Dead he has produced The Immeasurable Adventures of Gorky Park and contributed to various anthologies.

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Ovind

Øivind Hovland lives in Canada, where he works as a professional illustrator. His work has appeared in IMAGES 31: The Best of Contemporary British Illustration 2007, and he has been featured in various press, including Venue, Bristol Review of Books, Digital Arts, Kunst for Alle. In 2005 Øivind was also shortlisted for the Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Competition. He also illustrated the hugely successful book How to turn your parents green.

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gruf79

Born in Oxford, England, Gruff79 was, until recently, a musician in the British Army. A passionate artist, he has produced a great deal of artwork in his spare time. Work began on Hiyama in 2003, following a conversation during which he was asked if he’d ever considered doing comic work, and the book has now grown to span 6 volumes. This dark, often violent portayal of Britain in the not too distant future has, pretty much, taken over his life. Gruff79 now lives in New Zealand.

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Ma

Marilyn Allis, a professional artist working in watercolour and mixed media, lives in Dorset, and works, teaches and runs workshops from her studio in Wimborne. Her work can be viewed at her studio at Mill Lane Gallery, Wimborne, and also at galleries throughout Dorset, Wiltshire and Surrey. She has had a number of articles published in Paint magazine, and was also published in the International Artists UK section.
Marilyn was SAA Artist of the Year in 1999, which marked the beginning of her career in the arts. She enjoyed taking part in the Bath Watercolour Challenge in 1999, and was thrilled to have a painting accepted by the RI in the Mall Galleries, London.
Marilyn has made a teaching DVD and several TV teaching programs, and now has two books in print.

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