Pickerington Comic Fest: Meet the Creators!

Before you attend the event, meet the talented creators who will be attending the fifth annual Pickerington Comic Fest, held on Saturday, May 5!

Bacon Wrapped Frog

Bacon Wrapped Frog was started in 2015 by Mike Lovette and Alex Ferree. We have been posting comics on our website baconwrappedfrog.wordpress.com and attending comic shows since then. Our comics range from animals having awesome adventures to creating new superheroes to everything in between. We have enjoyed our experience creating comics.

Craig Bogart

Bentley Boyd

Bentley Boyd

Cartoonist Bentley Boyd has worked with teachers and historical organizations for 19 years to bring social studies concepts to reluctant readers. His “Chester the Crab” adventures appeared in seven Virginia newspapers during its five-year newspaper run and are now available nationally in 33 printed comix, a smartphone app for Android and Apple phones and selected e-book editions.

Brian Canini

Brian Canini is a cartoonist that lives and makes comics in Columbus, OH. He is the creator of the award-winning graphic novel Fear of Flying, the critically-acclaimed crime comic Ruffians, and half the team that produces the award-winning webcomic Drunken Cat.

Michael Carroll

Michael Anthony Carroll is a Columbus independent comics publisher. He publishes several minicomics a year, posts a number of comics online, and contributes annually to Bob Corby’s Oh, Comics anthology. His photography and art have exhibited and sold in galleries around the city. He is presently best known for drawing lots and lots of ninjas and publishing The Cute Ninja Coloring Book. You can find him on Facebook and on Instagram.

Alex M. Clark

Alex M Clark

Alex M Clark is a local Pickerington illustrator and designer who has been creating comics and children’s books for over 10 years. He has worked on numerous comic projects with Red Stylo Media and was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2016 for the 27 Club Rock Anthology.

Molly Durst

Molly Durst

Molly Durst has been self publishing comics for over 10 years. Her work includes SOTU: Adventures in Crow City and Jonah and Hugo. She also does workshops for teens interested in comics. She is always on the lookout for the next adventure. Allonsy!

Michael Fehskens

Michael Fehskens

Michael Fehskens creates comic and picture books with both a theme and style that is a cross between Doctor Seuss and Alex Grey.

Travis Horseman

Travis Horseman

After writing the first draft of “Amiculus: A Secret History” as a ten-page play in college, Travis Horseman began adapting it as a comic in 2007, intending it to be a short 32-page project to test the waters for a longer series. Over 200 pages later, it has become an epic unto itself. Travis partnered with veteran comic artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo in 2012 to bring the script to life panel-by-panel. Volume I of the series, Roma Aeterna, debuted in January 2015 and has been hailed by critics as “a yarn of intrigue, betrayal and violence that is quite gripping” (Games Fiends), and compared to Game of Thrones in its tone and execution (Project-Nerd). Volume II of the series, Flagellum Dei, was released in April 2016, and the third and final volume of the series, Damnatio Historiae, was released in September 2017.

Canada Keck

Canada Keck is a sociologist by training, a creative by nature, and a comic artist by accident. She wrote her first comic in October, 2010, when she stayed up all night and wrote a 24-page comic in 24 hours because her daughter wanted to go to the event. Since then she has self-published autobio comic books and has had several short comics appear in anthologies. She has edited five and has curated exhibits of comic art for Wild Goose Creative. She’s still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up.

Mike Laughead

A graduate of the MFA program at Columbus College of Art and Design, Mike teaches and advises students in the Illustration program at CCAD. He also does freelance work, making comics and creating illustrations in the children’s market. He received my BFA in Art with an emphasis in Illustration from Brigham Young University – Idaho.

Michael Neno

Michael Neno

Michael Neno is a longtime Columbus cartoonist who has worked for Image Comics, Paul Pope, Nix Comics, Cracked Magazine, Dark Horse Comics and many other companies, as well as publishing his own award-winning publications. He also freelances inking, coloring, lettering, and has illustrated many books, magazines, concert posters, shirts, murals, etc.

Arley Owens

From combat to comic books, Arley Owens’ life experience has enabled him to weave story-lines that immediately captures the attention of the readers of his Eco-Thriller Comic Book Series Earth Team Green. Each issues carries a dual message for the next generation to protect and respect the environment and each other.

Maryanne Rose Papke

Maryanne Rose Papke has been self-publishing short comics since 2010. Her comics are usually weird, often silly, typically cute, sometimes sad, and occasionally epic. She lives in Columbus and has more than 9 minicomics in print.

Travis Perkins

Travis Perkins is a freelance illustrator from Columbus, Ohio, whose work has appeared on t-shirts, book covers, and comics. With an animated style and a strong eye towards humor, he has worked on several indie comic hits such as “Johnny Bats: Vampire Detective”, “Black Gate”, “Trope”, and “Kitty Games”. 2018 will also see the premier of his very first creator-owned comic, “Kona Guardians.”

Lee Smith

Lee Smith is the creator of many comics. He was a former teacher who wanted to make classes more exciting by creating comics about Ohio history. He has created Ohio Chronicles, a series about Real Ohio History. He also publishes the adventures of Sammy Spiffy: Super Robot and Calculator Chicken, about two friends who solve exciting mysteries in a funny way. His latest ongoing series is The Cosine Cadets: teenagers who protect the galaxy one math problem at a time!

Cleve Westmoreland III

Cleve Westmoreland III

If your city has a mayor, skyscrapers, technology, and dogs.. then your city has a lot in common with SEVILLE WARD. And if your city has a lot in common with Seville Ward that means BAD THINGS are happening in your neck of the woods as well. And when bad things happen.. someone will have to do something about it -WELCOME TO ILL WORLD!!!