Comic Creator
Danny Marianino
2025-guest
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.
Christine Elise McCarthy
Actor
Child’s Play, Chucky, Beverley Hills 90210
Christine Elise has been acting professionally for over 30 years and is recognized primarily for her roles as Kyle, the gal who killed Chucky in Child’s Play 2 and returned to fuck with the Chuck some more in Cult of Chucky – and will appear in several episodes of the 2021 fall season of the SYFY & USA series – Chucky. She is also known for U4EA-popping bad girl, Emily Valentine, on Beverly Hills, 90210 – a role she reinvented (playing a heightened version of herself) on the 2019 Fox hit – the BH90210 reboot, and Harper Tracy on ER. She has also appeared in recurring roles on China Beach, In the Heat of the Night, and Tell Me You Love Me. Among her other film roles are Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers and two films starring Viggo Mortensen: Vanishing Point and Boiling Point.
She maintains an irreverent, vegan cooking channel on Youtube called Delightful Delicious Delovely – found at www.VideoVegan.com. The accompanying food blog is called www.DelightfulDeliciousDelovely.com for which she has provided recipes, photographs and sometimes shares details of the triumphs and, more frequently, the humiliations of her own life since July 2012.
Bathing & the Single Girl, inspired by the her short film of the same name, is her debut novel. As a writer, she has written three episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 as well as characters and storylines for the series, a pilot that was optioned by Aaron Spelling. Her directorial debut, Bathing & the Single Girl, was accepted into over 100 film festivals and won 20 awards. She was on the selection committee of Michigan’s Waterfront Film Festival from its inception in 1999 until 2014. She was co-director of the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival, programed for the Self-Medicated Film Festival and The Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, and has consulted & judged for many others.
She has a great passion for photography (SEE HERE) and has shown her pin-up and decaying Americana imagery in the United States & Paris.
