AlphaBeasts Catch-up, AlphaBooks Starting Soon!
Hey! First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in AlphaBeasts, and thanks in particular to Ben Towle, who helped catch all the folks who had questions. It was a ton of fun!
Next: We have a date for the beginning of AlphaBooks, in which we’ll all draw characters from books: Monday, May 21 is the date for A IS FOR! So follow us over to alphabooks.tumblr.com where we’ll launch on the 21st with your Atticus Finches, your Albus Dumbledores, and your Anna Kareninas!
Last: There are still folks out there who are trying to catch up on AlphaBeasts. Feel free to keep working on them in your own time, but if you want them to go onto this website, you need to get them to me before Friday, May 18. Send me a message at neal at wanderlane dot com, or hit me up at @wander_lane on twitter.
Thanks!
Andrew Neal
Rich Barrett is a graphic designer and illustrator who is currently working on his first graphic novel - Nathan Sorry - which he publishes a page at a time as a webcomic on NathanSorry.com.
His other work, including AlphaBeasts and Animal Alphabet drawings, can be viewed at RichBarrett.com.
Stegs is the all-around monster man. He was into monsters since he was a kid. Now he still likes to draw them, read about them, collect stories & figures of them, dress up like them & act like them. There’s so much unknown world to discover!! And so many good reads out there about monsters!! He thinks the world is coming up Monsters!!! Ha Ha Ha!!
Andrew Neal owns a comic book store. He draws too. Here’s his blog, his tumblr, and his twitter if you want to keep up with him. Next up he’ll be moderating AlphaBooks with Ben Towle and Rich Barrett. He has at least one short comic story coming out in an anthology later this year, and he’ll be sure to tell you all about it.
Axel Medellin. I’m a comic book artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. I’ve been published in Metal Hurlant, Heavy Metal, Zenescope, Boom Studios, and I’m currently at Image Comics, where I’m the regular artist of Elephantmen, and the upcoming Hoax Hunters.
Here’s my gallery:
http://nancynismo.deviantart.com/
And my twitter, where I post a daily sketch (Alphabeasts helped me with themes for several of them)
Amalgamated Biscuit is an aspiring illustrator/cartoonist from London, England. He will probably drop this poorly thought through artistic pseudonym at some point.
Stegs lives in Utah. Enjoys all of the arts, especially anything to do with monsters. He grew up as a monster fan from when he can remember. He likes to read about monsters, collect monster figures and dress up and act as a monster in haunts for 25 years. Now he dabbles in the monsters of legend, folklore, and mythologies. His wife says that she lives with a Monster!! Bwah Ha Ha Ha!!
Nils Cordes is a biologist, working on his PhD on the evolution of wax moth behaviour. When he finds the time, he draws, paints and photographs the living world around him. He is also behind evolvimus, a German ScienceBlog tackling everything evolution and biology.
Nils is currently struggling to finish his first children’s book, First Life, a somewhat biological adventure on the origin of life. To his credit, he did manage to illustrate a cookbook, Honey, I’m Homemade, featuring honey recipes.
The AlphaBeasts were a bit of an experiment for him to see whether he could learn to paint on a tablet with rather poor color calibration. It seemed to work most of the time.
Joey Weiser’s comics have appeared in several anthologies including the award-winning Flight series, and his first graphic novel, The Ride Home, was published in 2007 by AdHouse Books. These days, he’s working on a weekly webcomic, Monster Isle, and the upcoming Mermin graphic novel series. He is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design and currently lives in Athens, Georgia with his wife Michele and their cat Eddie.
Sam Wolk is an amateur artist from Silver Spring, Maryland. He uses ink and pencil to draw extremely detailed surrealist illustrations, dabbles in an occasional kirigami, and loves sushi.
He’s also an avid fan of the Washington Capitals and is known by Caps fans as “The Horn Guy” for leading cheers at home games with a very loud plastic toy. He’s known as “that a#%hole with the horn” by fans of other teams in the NHL.
You can visit his current online gallery at http://smileypen.deviantart.com or follow his rambling, incoherent rants on Twitter @TheHornGuy.
Christian Sager is the writer of the comics THINK OF THE CHILDREN (with fellow AlphaBeaster E.C. Steiner) and BORDER CROSSINGS. He has also written articles on the comics industry for CNN. His current projects include PARTIAL INVASIVE, a sci-fi revenge comic he’s both writing and illustrating, as well as THE CABINET, an arctic horror comic of historical fiction. THE CABINET is in collaboration with artist Kelly Williams, who Sager met through the Alphabeasts project.
Ben Towle is a multiple Eisner-nominated cartoonist whose most recent book Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean (with Sarah Stewart Taylor), a graphic novel for young adults, was released by Disney/Hyperion Books in 2010. The book has received accolades from such publications as The New York Times and Publishers Weekly and was a Junior Library Guild selection. His previous work includes the historical fiction graphic novel Midnight Sun as well as an earlier volume of comics folk tales, Farewell, Georgia, both from SLG Publishing. Ben is currently working on the webcomic Oyster War: www.oysterwar.com.
Best known for having a last name that rhymes with doodie, Henry Eudy has overcome many nearly insurmountable obstacles on his courageous way to becoming a shining chubby beacon for all humanity. Born of simple farm folk who were careless with a microwave, he put away the wiles of animal husbandry and set his hand at what some not so terribly misguided individuals have called “art”. He makes his precious doodles in the slouching metropolis of Charlotte, NC and can be sought after at http://ohthehumanatee.com/
