Carmine Infantino, born in Brooklyn, New York on May 24,1925, is a comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the creation of the Silver Age of comic books.

He started his comics career in the 1940s, and one of his earliest jobs came when he and friend Frank Giacoia drew Jack Frost, with Giacoia penciling and Infantino inking. Infantino worked for several publishers during the 40's, drawing Airboy and The Heap for Hillman, working for the low page rates of the Jack Binder shop (supplying Fawcett Comics ), stopping briefly at Holyoke, then landing back at DC where he became a regular on the Golden Age Black Canary, Green Lantern, Justice Society of America and the Flash.

During the early '50s, he freelanced for Joe Simon and Jack Kirby 's company Prize Comics, drawing Charlie Chan, showing the influence both Kirby and Milton Caniff had on the young artist. At DC, with the demise of most of the '40s heroes, Infantino drew within many genres, including westerns, mysteries and science fiction. As his style continued to evolve, he shed the Kirbyisms and the gritty shading of Caniff, developing his clean linear style of almost pure design, aka the Infantino touch - as though one were seeing a fresh blueprint for the future.

In 1956, he walked into the office of editor Julius Schwartz to drop off some artwork, when Schwartz told him he was going to be drawing super heroes again. Schwartz had made the decision to bring back the Flash for DC's newest title Showcase. The script would be by Robert Kanigher, and Infantino was in charge of finding the look for the new science-fiction based Flash.

David Beaty got his start in the Comic Book industry in 1994 as a “ghost” artist working on backgrounds for Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #4 for Marvel Comics. Since that time he’s been published as a writer, penciler, inker, cartoonist, and colorist. He has done “credited” work for Antarctic Press, Aspen Entertainment, Marvel Comics, and most recently DC Comics. He is also the co-creator of Bushi Tales (with Lin Workman), Stargodz (with Scott Clark & Dean Zachary), and for 5 years wrote and drew the award winning comic strip Captain Value. Currently he is working on DC Comics bi-weekly series Brightest Day and inking Scott Clark’s covers for Adventure Comics (featuring Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes). 

For years he has attended the Superman Celebration as a fan and is honored to return as an official guest. Dave lives in Prescott Valley, Arizona with his lovely wife Micah and their two cats Sato & Nermal.  See some of his work and learn more at www.davebeaty.com.

Josh first gained recognition with his creation, Mail Order Ninja, which won the grand prize in Tokyopop's Fifth "Rising Stars of Manga" contest. The series has appeared in graphic novel form and as a nationally-syndicated comic strip appearing in over 45 papers nationwide including the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times.

Josh started his writing career by interning at DC Comics and later became and associate editor for Wizard Magazine.  His recent work includes The Batman Strikes for DC and the Star Craft novel line. 

Josh also serves as Founder and Executive Director of Reading With Pictures, an educational non-profit organization that promotes literacy and the visual arts through the use of comics in the classroom. Through partnerships with Northwestern University, Diamond Book Distributors and other major institutions, Reading With Pictures plans to revolutionize the role of comics and graphic novels in education. We’re currently accepting pre-orders on an anthology of educational comics suitable for all ages set to be released in August. Sales from the book will provide seed money for Reading With Pictures and allow us to move our ambitious agenda forward.



Josh lives in the small, Midwestern town of Chicago, Illinois and can be found online at www.joshelder.com.

 Photo and article courtesy of Josh Elder.

 Comic book cover © Tokyopop.

Artist seeks fame and fortune by drawing funny!

Lin was an artist and screen printer in the t-shirt industry for almost 20 years but made a bit of a career change a few years ago and is now a graphic artist designing monuments for West Memorials in Memphis, TN.  Lin is also the creator of the web-comic "Scared Silly" and is co-creator of the self-published comic book series Bushi Tales (with Pencil Neck Studios partner Dave Beaty). His artwork has appeared in Airbrush Action Magazine, Amazing Figure Modeler, Stargodz (comic book with Conquest Studios), on Rock 103 (Wake Up Crew web comic) and The Outdoor Channel's websites, the Mid-South Cartoonists Association comics It Came From Beneath The Drawing Board and Overdrawn and Underwritten, in author Christa Michael's first book  Ramblings With Redde: Why Does My Life Seem Like A Bad Flick?, and Comic Geek Speaks CGS:The End comic. Lin recently was a contributing sketch card artist for the Topps The Empire Strikes Back 3-D trading card series.

http://www.linworkman.com

http://www.BushiTales.com

http://www.ComicWhore.com

Photo and bio courtesy and © Lin Workman 

Bushi Tales cover © Pencil Neck Studios