Comic Creator Guests

Comic Creator

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.

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.

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.

Artist

The Simpsons, Futurama

Bill Morrison began his career as an illustrator, painting dozens of movie posters including many for Walt Disney Pictures, such as The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book. 

But he is best known for his work with The Simpsons and Futurama as Creative Director, writer, and artist at Matt Groening’s Bongo Comics.

In addition to his Bongo work, Bill has created thousands of Simpsons and Futurama drawings for T-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging, books, calendars, limited edition prints, etc. 

Bill also did visual development for the Futurama TV series and served as series Art Director, and also helped develop Groening’s Netflix series, Disenchantment.

More recently, Morrison created a graphic novel adaptation of The Beatles Yellow Submarine and relaunched MAD Magazine as its fifth Executive Editor. 

Bill currently lives near Detroit, Michigan where he continues to create art for Simpsons merchandise and various comic book and animation projects, while also teaching animation and comics classes at his alma mater, The College for Creative Studies.