Comic Creator
Jay Fotos
2025-guest
Danny Marianino
Comic Creator
Vic Hollins
Artist
Wilder
Vic Hollins is a professional illustrator and mixed-media artist known for her vibrant use of color, feminine designs and intricate patterns. She self-published the comic series Wilder and has spent the past three years working on a new comic. Currently she is working with ceramics to create assemblages.
Dulce Ramirez
Sculptor
Dulce was born and raised here in Tucson, Arizona, and has been an artist her entire life. At 4 years old, she began sculpting animals using her mother’s tortilla dough. She found her art style in middle school when her father watched John Carpenter’s 1982 classic The Thing and became obsessed. Her work is inspired by practical movie effects and monsters, especially Resident Evil. She currently works at the Tucson International Airport and hopes to one day open an art gallery called Shark Arttack for her “weird, organic, gorey artwork” and help shine a spotlight on other underappreciated “gore” artists.
Mike DeBalfo
Artist
Zenescrope, Coffin Comics, Aspen
As a Phoenix, Arizona-based artist, New Jersey native MIKE DEBALFO has made a name for himself in the industry as one of the premier top-selling cover artists of this generation for publishers such as Zenescope Entertainment, Coffin Comics, Aspen Comics, Big Dog Ink, and many more.
Inspired by the early work of Jim Lee and stories featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DeBalfo utilized these imaginative industry staples as he acquired artistic skills and a “good girl” art style from the Joe Kubert School of Art where he graduated in 2003.
A convention regular around the lower forty-eight states, DeBalfo continues expanding his professional portfolio with cover art, collaborations with other industry figures, solo work for private commissions, and charitable auctions.
