The Soap Factory | August 21, 2010
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2D Cloud
2D Cloud is a micro-press comix publisher and maker of crocheted creatures. Some of our titles and creations include: Yearbooks, Geirdoz, Good Minnesotan, Manny+Bigfoot, RDCDFist, Beard Growing Contest. Check us out at 2dcloud.comA 
Robert James Algeo
Robert James Algeo is from Philadelphia, and makes comics starring doctors, robots and ghosts. He’s done mini-comics, full size comics and screen prints. Most of them are funny, but sometimes they are creepy. However, the best of them are creepily funny. His comics can be found at http://inabsentiapress.com. Log on today!B 
Ben Bertin
Ben Bertin is a comic book creator, artist, and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ben was born and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and is currently living in Chicago. Ben’s a pretty cool guy, Ben thinks. But seriously, enough about Ben! Ben would love to know more about you.
Terry Blauer
The artist of stoneage fantasy webcomic Godseeker, and member of the local Black Hat Comic Collective.
Big Time Attic
The Cannon Brothers have been writing and illustrating comics under the moniker Big Time Attic for over five years. They’re also knee deep in the local scene, co-organizing comic art shows, and sponsoring events like 24 Hour Comic Day and the Cartoonist Conspiracy monthly jams.
Neil Brideau
Neil Brideau’s minicomics usually feature small children being tormented by super natural calamities. Really, the stories are about friendship. A collection of his online comic, Sock-Monster was published by Short Pants Press, and he is a contributor to Uncle Envelope, paper surprises for kids. Neil works at Quimby’s Bookstore, and is an organizer for the Chicago Zine Fest.
Sarah Becan
I run Shortpants Press, a small indy comics press. I write and draw the Ouija Interviews (which recently won the Xeric Grant) and the Shuteye series, and I also write and draw a webcomics series called Sauceome.
Jesse Baker
Jesse Baker is student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design currently. He has been making comics for only a few short years but is enthralled with the medium and is currently working on a comic novella hopefully to present at the Indie Xpo. Along with the novella he has made several zines.JP Beaty
14 year old comic artist. works include 1890 and many internet stories. Sam Hiti’s student.C 
Joe Combs
Creator of the ongoing business and technology webcomic, Business Casual, along with the offbeat single panel comic, Rusty The Wonderdog, Joe Combs has producing comics on the web since 2003. His work has been featured in self-published material, business newsletters, and at the popular website, FMyLife.
Athena Currier
Athena Currier is a Minnesotan cartoonist and recent graduate of Hampshire College. Among other things, she has produced two minicomics (“The Old Woman Question” and “Minnipeg”), four issues of a comics magazine (“Burn Book”), and a comic about Lee Lansing, former mayor of Northfield, Minnesota. She makes comics for Broken Pencil magazine and writes news dispatches for The Daily Cross Hatch. Athena’s webcomic, Action Athena, updates three days a week.
Adrean Clark
Adrean Clark is a Deaf cartoonist. Her work has strong ties with Deaf culture and the signing community. Adrean is also the visuals editor of Clerc Scar, online publication of the signing community.Evan Harrison Cass
AMERICAN NARADA — reflections, photos, and comix from India.
A Cavalcade of Talent
A Cavalcade of Talent is Paul Swartz, Lena Chandhok, and Max Mose. All three are students at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. They hail from different parts of the country–Chandhok from California, Swartz from North Carolina, and Mose from Saint Paul–and have different influences and styles, but with their powers combined they make pretty awesome comics.
Cathy Camper
Cathy Camper (AKA Corina Fastwolf) co-edits the zine Sugar Needle, which reviews candy from all over the world. Her work has appeared in Boy Trouble and Stumptown Underground (Terrible Lizards) as well as Utne Reader and Giant Robot.Pat Callahan
screenprinter of paper
Culture Queue on Radio K
The art show that rocks!D 
Will Dinski
¶ Comics, screen prints, handmade books & illustrations
Meredith Dillman
I draw the webcomic Tempest of the Soul and am known for colorful fairy tale inspired fantasy and comic art.
Cori Doerrfeld
Children’s book illustrator.
Ryan Dow
Ryan Dow makes minicomics and has a webcomic called Introspective Comics
Kris Dresen
Kris Dresen is an artist and writer living in Chicago. She’s the illustrator of the critically acclaimed comic books Manya, Max & Lily, and Grace.
Evan Dahm
Since 2006, Evan has been making fantasy adventure comics set in an invented world, and publishing them online at rice-boy.com. His self-published projects so far include Rice Boy, Order of Tales, and Vattu.E 
Amanda Elliott
Amanda Elliott is currently a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she makes comics and is learning of the joys of fiber arts.F 
Paul Fricke
Paul Fricke is a cartoonist specializing in comic book art & illustration for 25 years, co-creator of TROLLORDS, inker of THE FLY, etc. His first children’s book, NIGHT OF THE BEDBUGS is now at amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and other fine bookstores.Kyle Field
Activity books aimed adults who grow up realizing the world is a rougher place than they imagined, but still enjoy coloring and word finds.Molly Hayden
Molly has done two comics in the past: she was the artist for Amuse Me! and co-writer/artist for Jack of All Trades. With the help of Blank It artist Lemmo, she’s back with a new comic called Northwind about two mysterious men who have been banished to Earth. Who or what are they? From where were they banished?
George Folz
George Folz is a student at the Minneapolis College of art and Design graduating in December. He’s currently in the midst of writing and drawing his first long-form graphic novel, “Life in Marvelous Times”. In addition to drawing comics, he also does illustration, design, and motion graphics.
Jill Fredrickson
Writer and artist of the webcomics Demon Eater and The Planet Closest to Heaven.G 
Lisa Gilbert
The writer of stoneage fantasy webcomic Godseeker, and member of the local Black Hat Comic Collective.
Scott Gallatin
I update the often silly webcomic madscottcomic.com but I also have been published in city pages and enjoy making political cartoons.
Greystone Studios
Greystone Studios produces Chinese brush art of pop culture and traditional subjects as well as the web comic “The Siamese Fighting Fish” and mini comics aimed at appealing to those outside of the usual comic reading demographic.
Tymothi Godek
Tymothi Godek is the cartoonist behind “!” a Xeric Grant awarded, thirty seven foot long comic strip following a number of characters and their tumultuous day in the life. ! is a story about convergence and dissolution. It’s a story of the gap between one’s expectations and the reality of how events play out (hint: sometimes it goes horribly wrong). It’s a story about loneliness, and the lengths that some will go to try and assuage it. Ultimately, it’s also (perhaps) the worlds longest single gag-strip.
Amaya Goldsmith
Enjoying the simple life.H 
Britt Hammerberg
Usually the subjects of my works are cute, but their is almost always a sinister or melancholy subtext. I span the medium of story driven mini-comics, original artwork, and prints.
Adam Hansen
Adam, Ben and Sara make funny books for funny people… who happen to like dragons, mermaids and sadness.
Christopher Hastings
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a comic about the adventures of a doctor who is also a ninja. It’s got jokes! It’s got explosions.
Sam Hiti
Tiempos Finales
Death-Day
Anthony Hary
Anthony Hary is an Illustrator, Writer, Creator for Comic Books, Children’s stories, and Novels. Co-founder of A.N.A. Comics & Carbon Hallway Graphics & Production. Currently Anthony serves as EIC & VP of Brand Management for A.N.A. Comics, & Managing Director of Carbon Hallway Graphics & Production. He is the Creator of BRETHREN (comic book). Anthony has worked as an Editor, Illustrator, Designer, or Art Director on various Independent titles for Ronin-studios, A.N.A. Comics, Inkslinger studios, along with doing private commission work for individuals and companies including: Wells Fargo, Park Nicollet Clinic, Leske Carpet Installation, & Midwest Comic Book Association.I J 
Toby Jones
Toby Jones and Madeline Queripel create usually funny and sometimes less funny comics that are sometimes autobiographical and sometimes fictional.
Rachael “Ratchet” Johnson
Barista Girl twice weekly internet comic about a barista in the twin cities sufferring the trials and tribulations that occur frequently the retail coffee business.K 
Danno Klonowski
Comics of all shapes and sizes including MANLY TALES OF COWARDICE, TOMMY CHICAGO, CONTINUITY GUY, FALSE WITNESS: THE MICHELE BACHMANN STORY, and various anthologies. A Cartoonist Conspirator from day one and LUTEFISK SUSHI ‘D’ featured artist. Comic blog updated daily at staplegenius.com.
Reynold Kissling
Reynold Kissling is a very tall robot drawing comics in Minneapolis. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and his book “Kingwood Himself” can be found at Top Shelf’s online comic service Top Shelf 2.0. Reynold is working on a new book now about aliens called “Pale Blue Dot.” Please come to his table and tell him to finish it. He also has a website.
King Mini International
King Mini International is the vanity press house publishing a variety of pamphlets, mini comics, prints and scumbags. Sole employee, Vincent Stall, has overseen the drawing, printing, stapling and folding of nearly every pamphlet, mini, and print that KMI has published.
Robert Kirby
THREE: a new anthology of queer-themed comics edited by Robert Kirby. Issue one: 3 all-new, all-color comic stories from 3 different creators: Robert Kirby, best known as editor of The Book of Boy Trouble volumes 1 & 2 and creator of the comic strip “Curbside,” a 1997 Xeric grant recipient; “Thingpart” cartoonist and multiple Ignatz award nominee, Joey Alison Sayers: & Eric Orner, creator of the classic comic strip “The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.”
Bart King
Bart King is a comic book artist, illustrator, and printmaking enthusiast based in St. Paul. Somedays he seems like a mainstream comics dynamo, then other times he’s a purveyor of indie gold. He can’t decide either.L 
Bob Lipski
Bob Lipski is the creator of the independent comic book ‘Uptown Girl’. The series concluded with issue 75 in 2010, but Uptown Girl’s adventures will continue in a series of original graphic novels.
Sean Lynch
Sean is the editor of the bi-annual anthology Zine Supreme, and Sean self published comics on the regular including: Processing, Nuclear Twilight, Texas ++, Good, People Places and Things. He works as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator out of NE Minneapolis. Sean has many professional and personal projects in development, with a project set to debut at MIX. Sean loves his mother and is a good boy.
David “Fesworks” Leyk
I run a weekly webcomic podcast, The Webcomic Beacon. I also run an online archive for the open-source comic heroine, Jenny Everywhere. These are what I would be pimping at this show.
BT Livermore
BT Livermore, a Minnesota native and former resident of Minneapolis, has been making comics out in Portland, OR for the last five years. His current series, The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin, focuses on the adventures of a small boy growing up at the turn of the 20th Century.
Lupi
Lupi’s work has appeared in False Witness: the Michele Bachmann Story and Big Funny.
Abby Lehrke
Abby draws two online comics, The Green Avenger since 2005, and The Rose Deli Project since 2010. She’s a founding member of the Black Hat Collective and contributing editor of their anthology Day In The Life.
La Mano 21
La Mano is a Minneapolis based publisher of numerous Eisner and Ignatz- nominated books, comics and zines from the likes of John Porcellino, Jason Miles William Schaff, and Nate Denver. Owned and operated by cartoonist/ musician/ etc Zak Sally (Recidivist, Sammy the Mouse, Like A Dog).
Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis is the creator of TRUE SWAMP, which debuted in 1994 and continues online today, with a new page every week. He also created GHOST SHIP (1994-5), SPECTACLES (1997-9), and the miniseries POWER OF 6 (in progress). In 2001, DC drafted him to write 21 issues of the monthly ROBIN title. A native St. Paulite, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the cartoonist Karen Sneider.M 
Ursula Murray Husted
Homebrew indy graphic novels about bottomless pits, regrettable classics majors in love, and other small love stories.
Aric McKeown
Blank It is an existential adventure that takes the majesty of theater of the absurd and mixes it with the contemporary immediacy of webcomics. Follow the protagonist pair through an empty canvas as it fills in around them, as bizarre phrases like “shovel beam” and “hand juice machine” find their way into your lexicon. Written by Aric McKeown and illustrated by Lemuel “Lemmo” Pew.
Mystic Sheep Studios
Mystic Sheep Studios offers volumes 1 and 2 of Urban Fey, the graphic novel. Follow the adventures of Lord Neon as he struggles to consolidate his power and form the Urban Fey Court. Prints, side stories, and other related items also available.
Lars Martinson
Lars Martinson is a Twin Cities based cartoonist. His first book “Tonoharu: Part One” received a Xeric Award, and was covered in the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and the Comics Journal. In 2008 he received a research scholarship from the Japanese Government to study East Asian calligraphy at Shikoku University. His next book, “Tonoharu: Part Two”, is slated for release later this year.
Ed Choy Moorman
Ed Choy Moorman is a Chicago cartoonist. He is pleased to return to Minneapolis and hopes to keep his nose clean this time. He is the editor and publisher of the Xeric Award-winning Ghost Comics from Bare Bones Press. “…Moorman is bursting with ideas, and each successive comic of his I read is better than the last.” – Rob Clough “I would suggest paying attention to what Ed Choy Moorman does over the next few years.” – The Comics Reporter
Ian McDuffie
Ian McDuffie is a Chicago-based comics artist and self-publisher. Recently a participant in the first-ever Comics Symposium of Chicago, Ian has put out between 5 and 7 mini-comics (available both in Chicago, and as far away as Toronto!). As the sole member of Violet Mice, he has also self-released four albums of poptastic music. He is currently over one hundred pages into his first graphic novel, “Birds & Wolves.”
Justin Madson
Justin Madson’s latest comic book project, BREATHERS, examines a future where a virus has polluted the air, making it deadly to breathe. The series has been said to, quite literally, “take your breath away.”
Maxeem
Maxeem will be selling his independently published work.Zach Miller
Joe and Monkey. A delivery boy, a talking monkey and an ex-Soviet spy robot traverse the wilderness of Minneapolis in search of adventure.N 
Diana Nock
Diana is an adopted Minnesotan, originally from that piece of the country they call The South. Her current comics projects include The Intrepid Girlbot, Welcome to Jinxville, and Poorcraft, but she’s got more in the works. She lives in a big house in Minneapolis with four guys and four ferrets, and she’s not sure which of them smell worse.O 
Daniel Olson
Daniel Olson is a mustachioed indie comics creator based in Minneapolis. He, along with his wife/collaborator AJ Niehaus, creates the series Super Maxi-Pad Girl, which was named Best Indie Surprise for 2008 by Ain’t It Cool News. He has been involved with various artists in the comics exposé about U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann entitled False Witness: The Michele Bachmann Story! Currently, he is methodically working on his first graphic novel, Shenanigans, which is being posted online page-by-page at bewilderedkid.com.
One Percent Press
One Percent Press! Mini comics, music, and so so so much more!
Dave O’Shell
O’shell’s comics have appeared in Hive 4 and as a guest strip on The Daily Cross Hatch. He makes simple comics, each story leading to an epiphany.P Lemuel Pew
Blank It is an existential adventure that takes the majesty of theater of the absurd and mixes it with the contemporary immediacy of webcomics. Follow the protagonist pair through an empty canvas as it fills in around them, as bizarre phrases like “shovel beam” and “hand juice machine” find their way into your lexicon. Written by Aric McKeown and illustrated by Lemuel “Lemmo” Pew.
Tyler Page
web/comic Nothing Better about odd-couple college roommates.
John Porcellino
King-Cat Comics zine, KingCat book form collections, and Spit and a Half distro items.Aaron Poliwoda
Low Blow comics #0-32
Evan G. Palmer
Evan G. Palmer is an American cartoonist from Lafayette, Louisiana. He is a graduate from Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he spent a great deal of time freezing his patoot off as well as earning his undergraduate degree in comic art, no less. He currently resides in Minneapolis and makes no plans to return to the south anytime soon.Q 
Madeline Queripel
Toby Jones and Madeline Queripel create usually funny and sometimes less funny comics that are sometimes autobiographical and sometimes fictional.R 
Charles Raymond
Charles was inspired to pick up a pencil and start drawing again when he stumbled on Jay Marcy’s auto-bio web-comics a number of years back. Since then he has made a number of minicomics and struggles to work on a Graphic Novel and design a web-comic. Maybe someday he will succeed!
Joe Rheault
Joe has been publishing and drawing comics since 2004. Known as the co-founder and publisher or the local indie anthology Tastes Like Good, he has just recently come out with a new short story compilation featuring “Asha in “Theivin Ways’ and “The Burbs’. He’s also been slaving away on a new graphic novel called “Rooftops and Masquerades” about a young girl turned superhero sidekick and the psychology of a superhero.
Steve Robbins
Mini-Comics and interactive sequential narratives. Also some light illustration.
Aaron Renier
Aaron Renier’s The Unsinkable Walker Bean is full of adventures on the high seas! A cursed skull! Fearsome pirates! Wicked sea-witches! And almost certain peril! Faced with these, boy inventor Walker Bean and his scruffy new friends must summon their courage and face the direst scourges of the sea.S 
Rob Stenzinger
Art Geek Zoo is a comic about a penguin, Pick Wingvey, and his guitar friend, Crunchy. Pick and Crunchy are admitted to the prestigious Polytechnica College on a probational basis and need to form a band. Maybe if they find the right band-mates they’ll have a chance to overcome Pick’s debilitating stage fright and Crunchy’s dark past with the Mystical Guitar Tribe. Join the band for music fantasy adventure… where sound is both martial and art: www.artgeekzoo.com!
Steven Stwalley
Minneapolis resident Steven Stwalley is a cartoonist, award-winning web developer/designer/animator, and poppa. He is a founding member of The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, and his comics have been featured locally in all of the Lutefisk Sushi shows, BIG FUNNY, Comicopolis and the Hot Ink: Comic Art show at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. He draws a webcomic about a dead, mentally-challenged chicken called Soapy, among other things. He is behind the following websites: stwallskull.com soapythechicken.com cutelilguy.com cartoonistconspiracy.com
Brittney Sabo
Comics and screen prints, ghosts and monsters!
William Schar
Explore brave new worlds, alien planets and dark seas where danger awaits just below the horizon in the illustrated adventures as told by Twin Cities artists, William Schar and Reynold Kissling. Both graduates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s Comic Art program, they channel their creative talents towards comic storytelling and bold illustrations for all ages.
Eric Schuster
A variety of comics and drawings in in digital, wet, and dry media.
Tim Sievert
that salty air
the intrepideers and the brothers of blood
the intrepideers in the tunnels of terror
Spike
I draw Templar, Arizona, a webcomic, and am the author of Poorcraft, a comic book guide about being poor as hell and being okay with it, illustrated by Diana Nock and due out this fall.
Sam Sharpe
Sam Sharpe has been making comics for 6 years. His titles include “Return Me to the Sea” and “Poop.” He lives in Chicago.
Studio Anti Thesis
Studio Anti Thesis is a group of pro-amateur artists and writers from Madison, Wisconsin who create small press comics. Their work appears as self-published zines and online at www.studioantithesis.com. They are influenced by a wide variety of Japanese, European and American comic artists and their work fuses elements of these distinct traditions.
Barbara Schulz
Barbara Schulz is currently inking away on childrens’ educational comics, making her own art comics and teaching the next generation of sequential artists at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Brent Schoonover
Artist on Ape Entertainment’s Horrorwood mini series as well as the OGN Astronaut Dad. Also various covers for local magazine VITA.MN.Caitlin Skaalrud
A combination of technical book arts focus and visceral content, there is an equal balance on the daily life and the fantastic.
Jordan Shiveley
HIVE is a somewhat quarterly comics anthology. We are a mix between a “new material” and a “best of” anthology. We are just as excited to showcase excerpts from previously published books as we are to premiere brand new stories. We are big fans of lovingly hand printed/screened, collaged, paper engineered clockwork covers.
Sparkplug Comic Books
Small publishing and distro from Portland, Oregon.Curtis Square-Briggs
non sensical mini-comics, silk-screened ephemera and novelties
Karen Sneider
Karen Sneider’s gag cartoons have been featured in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, National Geographic Kids, and other fine publications. Her next comic, Monster Mixtape, which involves monsters and bad eighties music, is due out September 2010. She is a founder
of the comics collective AWP and she lives in Brooklyn with her
husband, cartoonist Jon Lewis. For more information check out her website, metromonster.com.T 
Top Shelf Productions
Publisher of graphic novels and comics.
Tim Tapp
Maggie & Kowala-Two spunky up in coming Magicians making the way into the big time magic entertainment world as hijinks ensue!
Kirk Taylor
Kirk Taylor is the collection executor of The Taylor-Morse Collection: a series of 80 autobiographical drawings by famed Tijuana Bible/Bazooka Joe cartoonist, Wesley Morse. These illustrated “letters” were done specifically of, and for, Ziegfeld girl Avonne Taylor, created in 1922 -23, each on his personal stationery. The images had remained unseen for 70 years. Kirk is currently completing work on “The Art of Wesley Morse” with co-author Nancy Morse, the daughter-in-law of the cartoonist. The book will include an introduction by underground comix legend, Jay Lynch.
Ben Tye
Ben Tye is a young cartoonist, writer, and a student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He works primarily in the mini-comics and zine format.
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor is the creator of the comic Wapsi Square. The comic’s protagonist, Monica has stopped questioning her own sanity and Tepoz, a clay deity just summoned the fractured remains of a chimera in the form of three drunk college girls. Dark humor and macabre fantasy mix to make a world just like you want to believe in.
Jeremy Tinder
Comics, paintings, t-shirts, prints.U 
Uncivilized Books
Uncivilized Books is a foolish affirmation of ancient technology at the time of a mass digital exodus. Artists represented between the covers of their publications include Gabrielle Bell and Tom Kaczynski (who happens to be the publisher). New publications will be debuting at the Xpo.V 
Noah Van Sciver
Blammo is a comic book series Drawn by Noah Van Sciver and published by newcomer indie publisher Kilgore comics. Blammo is a semi-autobiographical, one man anthology with a mix of humor and short fiction.
Brett Von Schlosser
the intrepideers and the brothers of blood
the intrepideers in the tunnels of terrorW Sara Witty
Adam, Ben and Sara make funny books for funny people… who happen to like dragons, mermaids and sadness.
Lance Ward
I am the cartoonist for the South Washington County Bulletin newspaper. I am also the author of such books as “KLONKO,” “Starship Down” and “Tatertotdiaper Man.”
Lale Westvind
Not strictly science fiction, nor psychedelic fantasy, comics and animations of an absurdest hue. Anything can happen, sometimes its gross, or terrifying, or funny. Hopefully its interesting. Misadventure and misfortune with a go-with-the-flow attitude. Lale Westvind is currently working on an animated music video, a compilation of short science fiction comics, and a longer work titled Hot Dog Beach.
World of Rando
Tales of Love, Loss, and Lunacy.
Dan Wieken
The Petrified Catalog published by Uncivilized books in a limited edition of 100 hand sewn signed copies. 24 pages of highly detailed ink drawings of mythological fossilized remains.X Y 
Chris Yates
I make the webcomic Reprographics as well as a ton of colorful handmade jigsaw puzzles, toys and other ridiculous googaws.Taylor Yotter
Zines, Posters, Illustrations, Pencil and Ink, ComicsZ Ben Zmith
Adam, Ben and Sara make funny books for funny people… who happen to like dragons, mermaids and sadness.
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