Star Wars
May the…eighth…be with you!
Okay, so we missed a few days from May the Fourth and wound up publishing on May the Eighth. Thank goodness we didn’t publish on May the Sixth…which is too close to May the Sith for comfort. Oh well, enjoy our Star Wars tribute comics anyway.
Daniel G. Wilson (he/they) is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, music journalist, musician, and screenwriter based in Ontario, Canada. A lifelong lover of comics, genre fiction, and all things punk, he spends his time researching different cultures and playing Zelda Games. You can follow him generally on Instagram and on his band JONCRO s Twitter. You can also read some of his writing with the Canadian Co-Op/online magazine New Feeling.
Jack Van Thomme illustrates comics and pitches in when he can. You can see the things he likes to draw and read the things he likes to talk about on Twitter and Instagram @Real_JackVT https://www.instagram.com/real_jackvt/
Dave Hingley is an artist/creator/game designer living in England. He pulls dreams out of his head and displays them to the delight of everyone who views them. Let s just pray he never has a nightmare… https://twitter.com/hingley_dave
Aerie Skysinger is an artist who resides in New England. She loves to experiment creatively in various styles and mediums, and finds inspiration through nature, fantasy, and the fandoms she is passionate about. Aerie is formally educated and trained in landscape design (the outdoors kind), and pulls elements from that into original art she creates. Her currently ongoing collaborative projects include a fantasy-adventure based webcomic and the illustration of two children s books. She can often be found in her fandom-art sandbox at https://www.tumblr.com/aerie-skysinger
Tom Lynott lives in Arizona with his adorable wife, two boys and a Corgi / Border-Collie mix named Ace. He took part in Comics Experience’s Introduction to Lettering Comics class in May 2021. You can see more of his work at https://tomlynottcomiclettering.myportfolio.com/. He has also been known to script a story or two.
Alex Zapata is a comic artist and illustrator who hails from the frozen Midwest. He works primarily with traditional media such as pencil and ink, but enjoys digital art when he can find his iPad. Follow him at https://twitter.com/boosta11b
Kevin D. Lintz is a comic book letterer, writer, and editor. He learned his skills in a Comics Experience class and honed them on the mean streets of his all-ages comic book, Team SLUG. He startles his family by making sound effect noises out loud to try and translate them into written words. He has even watched “Helvetica”, the full-length feature movie about the font Helvetica. https://lintzlettering.com/
Casey T. Allen is a writer living in Central Alabama. A working stiff by day, at night (after the kids are in bed) he transforms into a writer of comics, contributor to Spoiler Country Podcast and the editor of The Comic Jam. He s edited the Eynes Anthology Book One, and is the writer/co-creator of the ongoing horror comic Voodoo Chile. Follow Casey on social media, or don t. He s kind of a jerk. Find his work at https://gumroad.com/l/VChile1 or https://www.bigfootknowskarate.com/
Tom Lynott lives in Arizona with his adorable wife, two boys and a Corgi / Border-Collie mix named Ace. He took part in Comics Experience’s Introduction to Lettering Comics class in May 2021. You can see more of his work at https://tomlynottcomiclettering.myportfolio.com/. He has also been known to script a story or two.
Kenneth Fontano is a retired Air Force veteran of 20 years, and a lover of comic books. He is currently a full-time freelance artist and is currently working on Red Collar, an 80’s, synthwave thriller about an inner-city drug epidemic, corporate corruption, and a budding element of vampirism. Check out Red Collar here https://www.instagram.com/redcollarcomic/ and get Kenneth’s work here https://nadiaspaigeboutique.com/collections/coloring-pages
Christian De Matteo is a writer and college professor, founder of Tellworthy.com and co-founder of FugitivePoems.com with artist-extraordinaire James Lines. He loves all forms of art and entertainment, enjoys long walks on the beach and other less sandy locations, and is fatally allergic to fluffy cats (in case you wanted to get rid of him). He can be found pontificating/dad-joking on Twitter: @CDMetc and @FugitivePoems. He cannot draw. Like at all.
Jani Heimonen is a Nordic illustrator hailing from Finland. He’s been into comics from an early age and still can’t get enough of them. Aside from them, his hobbies include video production, model building, and camping with his family in their camper van.
