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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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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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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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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