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Jas Perry

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JAS PERRY is a Literary Agent with Looking Glass Literary & Media representing Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction and Graphic Novels for all ages. She began in editorial with Scholastic/AALB and Levine Querido, in addition to freelance developmental editing and authenticity reading, primarily for children’s trade publishing.Jas is the current Director of Special Projects at People of Color in Publishing and a member of the Association of American Literary Agents and the Authors Guild. She has served on the Manuscript Evaluation committee for Reese’s Book Club x WNDB’s inaugural LitUp fellowship, as well as on the judging panel for the Walter Dean Meyers Grants and WNDB Internship Grants. She attended New York University in Florence & London and the City University of New York.She writes children's books as J.P. Takahashi.

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Amar Shah

Amar Shah is a multiple Emmy-winning writer and producer who has written for ESPN.com, NFL.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Orlando Sentinel, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Slam Magazine and The Washington Post, including a viral essay on growing up as the son of the real Apu.

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Brianna Peppins

Brianna Peppins was raised in PG County, Maryland, spending most of her childhood consuming books and daydreaming up her own outlandish stories. She graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in Psychology and shortly after began writing her debut novel, BRIARCLIFF PREP. You can find her online at briannapeppins.com, and on Twitter and Instagram at @Lexi_Pep.

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Azam Raharjo

Azam Raharjo is an Indonesian comic artist who features cosmic horror themes in his work heavily. Azam's debut work is Radio Algeria (2018-2020), which was serialized on Webtoon Indonesia. Azam later wrote and illustrated the acclaimed short comic, The Consultant (2022), and later, Someone Died Here (2023), both of which were featured in the Shortbox Comics Fair.Some of Azam's clients include: VICE, Gramedia Pustaka Utama, The Australian Govt., Webtoon Indonesia, Telkomsel, and Asian Games 2018.

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Kirsten Thompson

Kirsten Thompson is the writer of I AM HEXED, a comic book miniseries about the political struggles of modern-day witches, and has also been the editor and consultant on a range of comics. She was a staff writer at The MNT, and has previously written for Femsplain, Teen Vogue and Women Write About Comics.

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Jacqueline CJ Barnes

Love, inclusivity, and the fantastical are three words that best encapsulate JCJB’s work. Refusing to give in to mass media stereotypes that Black female characters are “too independent and strong” for love, she created PhantaNoir: a genre that places Black characters, cultures, and mythos at the center of fantastical stories. Adamant that compassion is the answer, Jacqueline strives to share her work with the world so that younger Black girls can get some of that love, too.Jacqueline has a Bachelor of Art and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master’s from UCLA’s Animation workshop, is a VONA 2017 Alum, was a resident at the 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute and an inaugural diversity fellow at the Highlights Foundation.

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Rashad Doucet

Rashad Doucet is an Eisner winning creator who also spends time working as a Professor of Sequential Art at SCAD. He’s worked on properties like Rick and Morty, Invader Zim, and most recently his graphic novel PAX SAMSON has released to great reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. You can see more of his work here.

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Sarah Burgess

Sarah Burgess has been working in animation for seven years and drawing comics since forever. Their passion lies in drawing character-driven stories that focus on the complexities and exploration of relationships and people. They are most known for their comics on mental health. They also draw a webcomic, The Princess Beast, inspired by shojo manga and all about social anxiety.

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Jem Yoshioka

Jem Yoshioka is an award-winning comic artist living in Wellington, New Zealand. Deftly weaving words and pictures together, Jem’s comics tell evocative and emotional stories with themes of belonging, place, and heritage.

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Basil Ezenwa

Basil Ezenwa is a first generation Nigerian-American story artist, animator, and comic creator. His experience includes work with Netflix Animation, A24, Toei Animation, and Titmouse.

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Son M.

SON M. is an Algerian-Amazigh, Muslim writer who enjoys creating narratives in both prose and visual mediums. She specializes in horror, science-fiction, action, thriller and mystery. She is very passionate about comics, games and animation, leading her to create stories in all three mediums. Son is the Studio Director of the indie game studio Perfect Garbage, as well as a writer for both AAA and Indie games. The writer half of SCSM COMIC. She is currently publishing their debut graphic novel THIEF OF THE HEIGHTS with HarperCollins/HarperAlley (2024). They have written for Z2 Comics, DC Comics, Vault Comics and more.

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Keiko Nishijima

With a passion for character driven stories, Keiko Nishijima has found herself walking through life with a love for storytelling and the arts. What she enjoys more than spending her time drawing is exploring the world and more importantly, the different ways that people view it. A fan of the lonely and an appreciator of the bold—she's an avid people watcher, so don't mind if you catch her staring, it's her way of saying she thinks you're cool. Familial relationships and unlikely friendships is where Keiko finds her true love for stories, the found family trope is a constant in anything she writes. Alongside that, she has a fascination with anything magical from witches to magical talking tea cups.

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Samuel Teer

Samuel Teer is the Lat Am (Guatemalan/American) writer of VEDA: ASSEMBLY REQUIRED (Dark Horse Comics) and BROWNSTONE (Versify). Samuel was born to a deaf American maintenance worker and a Guatemalan immigrant that spoke English as a distant second language — he took the obvious route and became a comics writer. He was raised in the suburbs of St. Charles County, MO. He currently lives outside of Denver, CO with his wife Andrea (an educator) and their two lab-mixes, Roxie and Olive.

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Yuntong Lei

Yuntong Lei is a VisDev artist and Illustrator with a background in realistic oil painting. Her experience ranges across international projects, from publishing to gaming, animation, and more.

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Fend Hamilton

Fend Hamilton is an artist/illustrator based in Chattanooga, TN. They like to look at trains, understand grocery store and water park layouts, and draw comics (allegedly).

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Jason Reeves

A New Orleans, Louisiana native, Jason Reeves is a Comic Book Artist, Writer, illustrator, Concept Designer best known for his creator owned graphic novel series PAX SAMSON, the award winning ONENATION, and CHANGA & THE JADE OBELISK. Jason is also the owner of 133art Publishing, a comic book publishing imprint and printer. His clients have included: HASBRO, Esquire Magazine, USA Today, Wizards of the Coast, Heavy Metal Magazine, Frontline Detroit Coalition.

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Scott Lee Chua

Scott Lee Chua is a Chinese-Filipino economist, graphic novelist, translator, and game designer. His works have garnered the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Prize for literature in translation, placed in the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards for short fiction, and been nominated for the Philippine National Book Awards. He is currently designing a board game as part of the artist collective Mosquito Games, and a video game as part of the multimedia company Andas Productions. His graphic novel Doorkeeper, co-authored with Ethan Chua, is available in Philippine bookstores.

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Ethan Chua

Ethan Chua (any pronouns) is a Chinese-Filipino spoken word poet, comic book writer, translator, community organizer, and scholar-activist. They have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, honorably mentioned by the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards, and their fiction and poetry have been published in The Journal, Strange Horizons, and the Philippine Graphic magazine. Their translations into English of Abner Dormiendo's Palanca prize-winning poetry collection, "Sa Antipolo pa rin ang Antipolo," are published in Alchemy. Their graphic novel, Doorkeeper, co-authored with Scott Lee Chua, is available in Philippine bookstores.

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Bianca Lesaca

Bianca Lesaca is a Filipino illustrator and painter. She is a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan — the society of book illustrators in the Philippines. She had briefly interned at Walt Disney Imagineering in Hong Kong before pursuing a freelance career in illustration, where her work has since appeared in children’s books, graphic novels, editorials, and music album covers. Her illustrated books have been published in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and US through Lampara Books, Summit Books, Adarna House, Hiyas-OMF Literature, SingTao News, Hong Kong Commercial Press, and In Hiatus Studios.She continuously explores the breadth of her craft and expression; and when not illustrating for books, she creates paintings for herself or for private collectors. Bianca attended the Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong, and graduated with a BFA in Illustration. She is currently illustrating for Open City, a historical fiction graphic novel authored by Scott Chua and Ethan Chua.

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Jaime Mosquera

Jaime Mosquera (he/they) is a trans Colombian-American artist who is passionate about gothic romance, phantasmagoria, and myth reinterpretation in horror. He lives in New Jersey with his family and has a degree in Public Health.

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Grovey Pascasio

Grovey Pascasio is a Filipino lesbian komikero and character artist. Simply put, she loves writing about love—between families, friends, or gay girls—both simple and fraught, as well as the joy of discovering yourself. She always appreciates a story that can make you cry. Her versatile illustration work runs the gamut from cute to cubist, and she'll be delighted to draw just about any weird creature (or human) you can throw at her.She has a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and has contributed cover art, interior art, and comic work to over 20 art books and anthologies, including THE PINOY MONSTER BOYFRIEND ANTHOLOGY, Fortuna Media's TABULA IDEM and Quindrie Press' WHEN I WAS ME. Her graphic novella, EMMY AND THE SECOND CHANCE, debuts this October 2022 at ShortBox Comics Fair.

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Alex Moore

Alex Moore is a freelance illustrator, story board and comic book artist from London. Their work often featured big characters, bold colours and they particularly enjoy exploring visual storytelling.Since graduating from Middlesex’s Illustration BA, Alex has storyboarded projects for Nike, EA Sports and Adobe and has work as both a cover and interior artist for IDW, Image, Dark Horse, Mad Cave Studios and Dynamite Comics. They were long-listed for the 2019 Folio Society Prize and their work-in-progess graphic novel The Fine Art of Destruction was also long-listed for the 2020 Myriad First Graphic Novel competition.

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Hana Chatani

Hana Chatani is a queer Japanese-Pākeha comic artist and writer based in Tāmaki-Makaurau. Particularly interested in the themes of grief and non-romantic relationships, Hana has recently been enjoying incorporating elements of horror into her stories.

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Vincent Cecil

Vincent Cecil/Vincent Is Vintage is a Black Transmasc Illustrator and Graphic Novelist. He enjoys working on themes and storytelling elements linked to vintage/historical aspects, thrillers—psychological and horror, fashionable glamour, and QPOC subjects. Vincent is currently working on his psychological thriller/drama Great Gatsby retelling. Additional interests include tarot, mixology, and fashion design.

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Alan Cortes

Alan Cortes is a Chicago-based artist skilled in a versatile range of styles, with a particular interest in horror illustration.

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