STEVE ENGLEHART
Steve Englehart- Writer, Artist & Co-Creator of Star-Lord/Peter Quill! (Guardians of the Galaxy). Steve Englehart and Steve Gan introduced the character Star-Lord into the Marvel universe in Marvel Preview #4 (Jan.1976). In 2008, Star-Lord became leader of the space-based superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy in the relaunch of the comic book of the same name. This led into Star-Lord making it to the big screen with the Guardians of the Galaxy as a major motion picture and one of Marvel’s highest grossing films with actor Chris Pratt as Star-Lord/Peter Quill. Star-Lord was featured in The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon (voiced by Steve Downes) as well as various other Marvel cartoons. Englehart’s first work in comics was as an art assistant to Neal Adams on a 10-page story by writer Denny O’Neil in Warren Publishing’s black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #10 (March 1971). Steve was offered a job as an assistant editor at Marvel Comics, which led to a shot at writing a comic. It was a failing series called Captain America — but six months later it had become Marvel’s leading seller, and Steve became Marvel’s lead writer, adding The Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, The Defenders, and half a dozen other series. Steve Englehart and artist Jim Starlin co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu for Marvel Comics. Steve was hired away by DC Comics to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but also wrote a solo Batman series (Detective Comics #469-476), which was hailed as the “definitive” version and adapted as Warners’ first Batman film. In Detective Comics #470 of this run, Steve created the character Silver St. Cloud, who became a recurring love interest of Batman through the years. Silver St. Cloud appears in Season 2 of the TV Series “Gotham”, portrayed by Natalie Alyn Lind. Batman The Animated Series even adapted from this story. These Batman comic book stories were reprinted several times over the years (The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told). He wrote the treatments and acted as a consultant on the first Batman film, whose success led to the series of Batman films and the rise of superhero movies in general. Coming full circle, his latest Batman comics series, Batman: Dark Detective, was adapted for the latest Batman films, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. After Batman he wrote a novel “The Point Man” which years later was followed by The Long Man, The Plain Man, and The Arena Man. He then went to design video games for Atari (E.T. Phone Home-Computer Game, Garfield). Steve wrote for the Tron 2.0 video game for Monolith which later was adapted to comics through SLG/Disney. For Sega Genesis, he wrote for the Spider-Man game. Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, and other gaming companies. He still liked the pace and immediacy of comics, so he introduced the comic book series “Coyote”, which fans rated one of America’s ten best series. Other comic projects (Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Fantastic Four), led to the San Diego Comic-Con calling him “comics’ most successful writer, having had more hits with more characters at more companies than anyone else in comics history.” In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse for Malibu Comics. Two of his contributions were The Night Man and The Strangers, and they were soon starring in episodes of DIC’s animated TV series Ultraforce. The Saban “Silver Surfer” animated TV series, based on his Marvel stories, followed. His Justice League America #140-141 stories were adapted into a two part story for the “Justice League: The Animated Series. So then Steve was asked to write animation for Street Fighter TV Series (U.S.A.), G.I. Joe Extreme, Disney’s Atlantis: Milo’s Return, and Saban’s Captain America…while Glen Larson (creator of Battlestar Galactica) optioned Night Man for live-action television. Steve then became a writer for that series, which ran two seasons. Steve also co-created Shadowman for Valiant Comics, which also spawned a video game. www.steveenglehart.com
RON LIM
Ron Lim is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various “cosmic” titles, most particularly the Silver Surfer (vol. 3) series.
He was “discovered” by Marvel at a 1987 comic convention, and was hired on the spot.[2] Lim penciled the Silver Surfer (vol. 3) series for almost six years (1988–94). He also penciled most of the “Infinity” trilogy of large-scale crossover limited series which Marvel published in the early 1990s—Infinity Gauntlet (1991), Infinity War (1992), and Infinity Crusade (1993). He returned to these characters to pencil the Thanos series in 2004. He is currently doing variant covers and childrens book art for major properties.
RENAE JACOBS
Renae Jacobs is an American voice actress, who is perhaps best known for voicing journalist and reporter April O’Neil in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.
PAUL ST. PETER
Paul started his voice acting career in 1985 on Robotech. With over 250 credits to his name, he is best known by anime fans as Punch in Cowboy Bebop, Razor in Hunter x Hunter, Kurama in Naruto, and video game fans as Xemnas in the Kingdom Hearts franchise.
BRANDON MCKINNEY
Brandon McKinney is a storyboard artist for television animation, a comic book artist and children’s book illustrator. He’s worked for Warner Bros., Hasbro Animation, Marvel Animation, Darby Pop Comics, Warp Graphics, Dark Horse Comics, Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm, among many other companies over his thirty year career. Brandon has storyboarded and directed on the ‘Harley Quinn’ Animated Series currently streaming on the DC Universe app, and is currently storyboarding on the latest ‘Scooby Doo’ DTV. He is also writing and pencilling his own comic book: ‘RED DAWN: Crimson Storm’
CHRIS MARRINAN
Chris Marrinan started out in commercial illustration churning out product art for dish soap and restaurant menus, but the lure to draw comics was powerful. He sent samples to Eclipse Comics and the rest is history. Before long Chris landed the plum job at DC Comics as penciler on Wonder Woman! This was followed by a move to Marvel Comics, where Chris drew such icons as Dr. Strange, Captain America, Nova, and Spider-Man and Wolverine! Back at DC, Chris drew adventures of both Superman and Batman. Chris has also drawn for Dark Horse Comics, and at Image Comics, his own book, HeadHunters.
Chris continues to draw for Heroic Publications on titles like Psyche, Liberty Girl and Vanguard of Liberty. He is also at work on his Patreon page, showcasing new art and an upcoming comic series.
PATRICK LABYROTEAUX
Patrick Labyorteaux started his acting career as a child on the hit NBC series Little House on the Prairie as Andrew “Andy” Garvey from 1977–1981, and may be best known on TV for starring on the CBS hit series JAG as Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts from 1995 to 2005, a role he reprised in three episodes of JAG’s spin-off, NCIS.
He starred in many films as well. He played Peter, great-nephew of Lucille Ball’s character in the 1974 film Mame. One of his most well-known film roles is in the 1987 comedy film Summer School as football player Kevin Winchester alongside future JAG/NCIS costar Mark Harmon. He appeared in the cult films Heathers as Ram Sweeney and in Ski School as Ed Young.
As a voice actor he is best known for Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1995) as Flash Thompson. Most recently he was seen in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind
DONALD FULLILOVE
Donald Fullilove portrayed Hill Valley, California Mayor Goldie Wilson in the first Back to the Future movie, and his hovermobile salesman grandson Goldie Wilson III in Back to the Future Part II, and more recently he has had a role as Nurse George, a character in Pixar’s Up. He also provided the voice of Michael Jackson as a child voice actor in the animated ABC-TV Saturday Morning series The Jackson 5ive . He also appeared in Partysaurus Rex, a Toy Story short film. He also had a recurring role as Reginald the Koala in American Dad!.
EMONIC
Emonic has been creating art since he was a child. As a youth he was heavily influenced by skateboarding, comic books, music, movies and graphic design.When working on projects he will often employ a mix of mediums ranging from traditional means to digital manipulation. He is a self-taught artist, however he does hold an A.S. degree in Multi-Media.
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