Preston Asevedo is a self taught, traditional artist. Asevedo is a Louisiana fantasy and science fiction artist; noted for comic books, paperback covers, paintings, posters, album covers and other media. Always being a fan of comics, it was only a matter of time before he applied his skills to comic art.  Asevedo was first published with the comic book “Rockabilly Roadtrip” (which has been pitched as a major motion picture.) He recently created a variant cover for  Valiant Comic’s “Punk Mambo” series. Currently, he is working on a series of titles for Antarctic Press, including a title called “Jungle Comics” with Writer Chuck Dixon.  Asevedo is also an artist for…

24/7 Production, Inc. motion picture and television production company CEO Jack Olesker has a career that spans nearly four decades and has included writing, directing and producing many projects.  He was born on Valentine’s Day in Chicago and was educated at Bradley University, majoring in Journalism.  He served as an Aerospace Medic, assigned to a helicopter search-and-rescue team in the United States Air Force.  His writing career was launched in 1976, when G. P. Putnam’s Sons published his first novel, NO PLACE LIKE HOME.  The novel went on to be a best seller.  Prior to publication, Sherry Lansing (later to become the longest serving studio head in Hollywood history with Paramount Motion Pictures)…

Chris Achilleos is a painter and illustrator who specializes in fantasy artwork and glamour illustration. His work has appeared in Heavy Metal and Radio Times magazines, on book covers (including series based on the Conan the Barbarian character, TV’s Doctor Who and the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series), and in collections of his own work. He has also participated in various film projects including Heavy Metal and Willow as a conceptual artist, (his iconic poster image commissioned in 1980 featuring Taarna and her birdlike steed are still featured on the DVD release) and created a proposed poster for Blade Runner. Achilleos created the controversial cover for Whitesnake’s 1979 album, Lovehunter, which showed a naked woman straddling a giant serpent. In an interview with MelodicRock, Gary Hughes stated that Achilleos thereafter “had a policy of not…

Lynette Eklund has been in the special effect industry since she was 20. Her work comes in all sizes, from stop-motion miniatures to full-size dinosaurs. With over 50 IMDb television and film credits to her name, she has contributed to Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Beetlejuice, Species I & II, the Emmy Award winning miniseries The Stand, Oscar-nominated The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the Puppet Master series, Demonic Toys, Ghoulies II, among others, while working with the likes of Ben Kingsley, Jeff Goldblum, Gore Verbinski and Stephen Spielberg. For more information check out  IMDb.com . Lynette’s skills have also been used on the first animatronic toy, Teddy…

At age 68, the easiest way to describe Doug Rice’s life is that he is a veteran of the United States Air Force, the comics industry, and the animation industry – coming away with an Honorable Discharge, the 1985 San Diego Con’s Russ Manning “Most Promising Newcomer” Award (at age 34), and a Daytime Emmy certificate, respectively. In terms of any skills or abilities, he is completely self-taught…though he does NOT recommend that path for most would-be artists. In the early 1970’s, when the old 4-color comics industry was hours away from techno-extinction, Rice was hired to work as the one-man production staff of a small new company in Chicago called FIRST…

Jason C. Gares of Video Workbench Productions produces original documentary films and series that can be viewed on Amazon Prime, Facebook Watch, Vimeo & YouTube platforms.In 1992 Video Workbench started out as an independent, eight-part, instructional how-to, direct to VHS video series that helped plastic model kit hobbyists hone their craft with tips, tricks and techniques previously only seen in magazines. Those same titles are now available to stream on the Internet worldwide. Jason’s new film Beyond the Comic Panels has been picked up by American film distributor Indie Rights for worldwide distribution on many streaming and VOD platforms (coming soon).

CHARLES D. MOISANT, is a comic book Publisher, artist, writer, and the creative director of Silver Phoenix Entertainment (a 100% female owned company). Charles has been publishing comic books since 1991, starting with Kremin. Silver Phoenix Entertainment works with many artists, printing comic titles like Myth Told Tales by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye, Mystery Manor Haunted Theatre, and Whispers from the Void. Charles is also known for his Roller Derby Drama, which is loosely based on the Chicago Outfit Roller Derby Team. Charles can usually be found on his roller skates at Silver Phoenix Entertainment promoting some of the newer titles such as ‘Whispers from The Void’ where all monsters are reflections of the Seven Deadly Sins. Philo Barnhart is drawing the second issue. Some of his works currently in production include ‘Zombie Annihilation’, where Doctor Zarvin is working with local heroes from Chicago to save the world from zombies; ‘Danni and Dayna in Dino World’ in which two Woman: IDA DANNI, a modern day military refueling pilot, and Dayna Onli, an African-American woman from Chicago 1902, are trapped 65 million years ago. Working against them are intelligent dinosaurs, lizard people, and the Atlantians a space-faring race who are stealing the world’s only major resource: Magik; and ‘Thunder World’ a story about three giant robots and a giant monster learning how to work with each other and saving the world, which is being written by him and Doug Rice of Dynamo Joe. Charles’ Latest works “IT LIES!” a board game and web series under development with…

Lead Devil Studio is a media studio for artist, writer, and actor Jason Scholte. Jason, who is originally from Chicago, Illinois, has been an artist since he was able to hold a pencil. He has been doing artwork for people since fifth grade ranging from portraits and comic art to murals and graphic design. It was in eighth grade he was exposed to the urban style of art such as graffiti. He had his fair share in doing that style around Chicago while in high school and, noticing people liked the style, he decided to try and make money from it. In his sophomore year, he promoted himself as an…