Cammuso, Frank: - Frank Cammuso is the Chief Creative Officer of AHOY Comics. He also created the graphic novel series Knights of the Lunch Table from Graphix/Scholastic. Frank drew the comic Otto's Orange Day and Otto's Backwards Day for Toon-Books. He also wrote and drew his self-published graphic novel Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective, for which he received an Eisner nomination.
Frank is the former award-winning political cartoonist for
The Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse, NY. His cartoons have been reprinted in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and
Newsweek.
He has written fiction and satire with his good friend Hart Seely. Their work has appeared in
The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Slate, and on National Public Radio. He's the co-author of
2007-Eleven and Other American Comedies.
Castro, Juan: - Juan Castro, an inker and illustrator from Tijuana, Mexico, has been in the comics industry for over 10 years. He has worked on such titles as Transformers, GI Joe, Halo: Escalation, Arrow, Aquaman, Grayson, Batgirl, Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, and many more. He has been nominated for three Inkwell Awards.
Constant, Paul: - Paul is a co-founder of The Seattle Review of Books. He has written for The Progressive, Newsweek, Re/Code, the Utne Reader, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, the New York Observer, and many North American alternative weeklies. Paul has worked in the book business for two decades, starting as a bookseller (originally at Borders Books and Music, then at Boston's grand old Brattle Bookshop and Seattle's own Elliott Bay Book Company) and then becoming a literary critic. Formerly the books editor for The Stranger, Paul is now a fellow at Civic Ventures, a public policy incubator based out of Seattle.
Erskine, Gary: - Gary Erskine has worked in the comic industry for near thirty years for MARVEL, DC Comics, Vertigo, Dark Horse Comics, IMAGE, IDW and other companies with writers Mark Millar, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, James Robinson and Grant Morrison on books including The Unwritten, Hellblazer, War Stories, The Massive with Brian Wood, and Grindhouse with Alex De Campi, with characters as diverse as Judge Dredd, Starman, John Constantine, Dan Dare and Captain America. He has also contributed to licenses including Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Transformers and Terminator. He mentors film students on storyboarding, teaches workshops at schools and libraries and is currently writing and publishing Roller Grrrls. Future work includes Incendiary.US and Zachariah Gunn: Dakota.
Gary has also provided storyboards and concept design work for the games and film industry and also works commercially with clients including D'Agostini, SONY, EA Games COLORS, Team GB British Cycling, J League and the Joshua Agency. He has also contributed a short story,
The Final Piece of Me, to the successful
Metal Made Flesh series for Subversive Comics with writer Cy Dethan. Recent work includes the companion graphic novel to the
Frontlines series of sci-fi novels by Marko Kloos, written by Ivan Brandon for Jet City Comics with colour by regular collaborator Yel Zamor.
Gary also hosts character design workshops for schools and teaches storyboards for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and more recently provided workshops for the Prince's Trust.
Gary lives near St. Andrews with his wife Mhairi and cats, Meg and Mog.
Feister, Tom: - Tom Feister is an Eisner Award-winning illustrator/ designer. His clients include Marvel Comics (Iron Man, Exiles, Fantastic Four), DC Comics (Legion, Ex Machina), Dynamite Entertainment (Grand Passion, Terminator vs. Robocop), IDW Publishing (GI Joe), Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Bento Box Entertainment (The Awesomes), and many more.
Igle, Jamal: - A recipient of the 2011 Inkpot Award for outstanding achievement in Comic Art, industry veteran Jamal Igle is the writer/artist/creator of Molly Danger for Action Lab Entertainment; the co-creator of Venture with writer Jay Faerber; the artist of the series Black from Black Mask Studios; the artist for Supergirl; the artist for Dudley Datson (with writer Scott Snyder) from Dark Horse/comiXology; and the penciler of AHOY Comics' THE WRONG EARTH.
Jamal's detailed pencils have graced books as varied as
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the all-ages action miniseries
Race Against Time, and mainstream hits such as
G.I.Joe, Iron Man, Spider- Man and
Green Lantern. Jamal has penciled popular runs on
Firestorm the Nuclear Man, Nightwing, Tangent: Superman's Reign, Superman, Supergirl, and
Zatanna for DC Comics;
Noble Causes for Image Comics;
New Warriors for Marvel Comics; and
The Wrong Earth for AHOY.
He's acted on the small screen, done voiceovers for commercials, packaged books for Scholastic, and drawn storyboards for
Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles and
Max Steel: MX1 for Sony Animation. Jamal is also a popular guest lecturer on the subjects of comics and animation.
Peyer, Tom: - "Tom Peyer - AHOY Comics' editor-in-chief's long, curly hair was declared "best in comics" by the influential social media account Comics In The Golden Age. He has written such comics as Penultiman, Hashtag: Danger, High Heaven, Legion of Super-Heroes, Hourman, and Marvel Team-Up. One of the original editors of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, today he writes and edits AHOY comics from a house across from a cemetery in a leafy suburb of Syracuse, NY."
