An ultra cool peek into the 7 creative lives of today's underground... and above ground graphic contemporary artists: Sam Fleming, Jon Holdredge, Felipe Echevarria, Stan Yan, Kristian Navant, Ozzy Longoria & Mike May.
Fab & Hip Speaking Panel:
SAM FLEMING: Producer/Animation Director Sam Fleming is a twenty year veteran of Classical 2D and 3D Character Animation. His credits include Unit Producer/Animation Director for the Texas Unit of the SPACE JAM crew, Director of Animation for the original "King of the Hill" test pilot that launched the series, and most recently, Character Animator on the 3D hit JIMMY NEUTRON, Boy Genius. Currently, he is a faculty member at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado, where he teaches 2D and 3D Animation. Sam makes his permanent home in Lakewood, Colorado where he lives with his wife and fellow artist, Shari, and four of their children, Caleb, Rose, Poppy and Lillie. www.animatorsam.com sfleming@rmcad.edu
JON HOLDREDGE: A 15 year veteran inker of the comic book industry working on many titles including X-Men and Deadpool for Marvel, and Batman and The Justice League for DC. Jon is a Continuing Ed instructor at RMCAD along with fellow artist Felipe Echevarria.
FELIPE ECHEVARRIA: A professional artist working in both the sequential comic arts and fine arts. He is a Continuing Ed instructor at RMCAD for sequential comic arts classes. Visit Felipe's websites at www.felipe.tv and www.felipeechevarria.com.
STAN YAN: Stan Yan grew up in Denver, Colorado and went to school at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he got his bachelors degree in accounting. Due to the lack of sex-for-recruiting for accounting students, Yan's life took the tragic turn into sales for the securities industry, where he has wallowed in ethical poverty on-and-off for the last thirteen years. Yan takes his frustrations out by penning graphic novels such as The Wang as well as a daily financial webcomic called, The Tickle Tape. In addition to miscellaneous freelance work, current projects include illustrating SubCulture, a 4 book miniseries for Ape Entertainment and two webcomics in development, REVVVelations with Jolyon Yates and Mr. Flingpoo with Ethan Wenberg.
Squid Works Comics www.squidworks.com/Stan stan@squidworks.com
KRISTIAN NAVANT: An Illustrator working in Denver, Colorado specializing in independent, underground, self-published books.
Please visit www.kristian13.com for more information. knavant@rmcad.edu
OZZY LONGORIA: Ozzy has done countless illustrations for countless comic book projects, but is probably best known for his work on "Quantum: Rock of Ages." Ozzy's experience extends back to his upbringing in Mexico, where he studied under 2000 Eisner Award Winner, Oscar Gonzalez Loyo, and has unique perspective on how comic artists lives are across the border. He's currently working on 4 issues of "the Fallen" for Resurrection Comix and 3 issues of "the Suit" for GayShakespeare Comics.
www.longoria.itgo.com longoria77@yahoo.com
MIKE MAY: Fantasy illustrator for folks like D&D for the past 8 years, as well as a video game artist for the past decade...a full-time freelancer.
Mike May Mike's Pencil, LLC Media and Illustration Services www.mikespencil.com (303) 250-9338
http://www.allianceofillustrators.org
