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AWARD-WINNING ARTIST OF
WALKING DEAD & MARVEL ZOMBIES!
ARTHUR SUYDAM
"The Zombie King"

(Comics Creator, Writer, Artist - Marvel Zombies, Deadpool, Batman, Army of Darkness)

Award winning creator and Marvel artist Arthur Suydam’s meteoric rise to superstardom for his work for the smash hit series Marvel Zombies broke graphic novel records, immediately placing the artist in the category of comic legend.

Recent awards include: The Spike TV, Scream Award (best writer, best artist, best comic of the year), the prestigious, Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional Art (2006), The San Sebastian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous fan-site favorite awards across the globe. Suydam’s short story Christmas Carol was chosen for The Mammoth Book of Horror and Legends and The Art of Painted Comics (2008).

The Suydam family Art Legacy in New York reads like a whos-who in American art beginning in the 16th century when the family came over to fight in the Indian Wars on Hudson, establishing a Dutch trading post, which later became New Amsterdam and eventually New York . At the outset of the Civil-War, Hudson River painters James and Henry Suydam , along with contemporaries Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Albert Beirstadt, John Kensett and Sanford Gifford helped win American artists recognition worldwide for the first time. James Suydam’s work hung in the New York Academy Museum. Great-uncle E.H. Suydam is one of America’s most renowned architectural artists, with drawings hanging in the White House and Museum of New York. Arthur Suydam and contemporary Richard Corben are credited with first introducing fully painted sequential art to comics in the early 70s and 80s.

Arthur Suydam’s popular covers have graced the covers of Marvel Zombies, Dead Days, Deadpool Merc with a Mouth, The Misfits Devil’s Rain, Land of the Dead, Raise the Dead, Batman, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, X-men, Ghost Rider, Thor, Spider Girl and The Oz Chronicles. In 2008 Marvel released an exclusive hard cover tribute to the works of this unique artist entitled Marvel Zombies, The Covers dedicated to Suydam’s ground-breaking work. Additional recent works include, Army of Darkness, Savage Tales, Red Sonja and the smash hit Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies, Batman vs. Predator, Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan and House of Secrets, and The Tick .

Suydam’s own projects are numerous and include Mudwogs and Mudwogs II, and The Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap, Center City, released through Radical Entertainment, Giants, Bedtime Stories for the Incarcerated, Fireflies, The Day it Rained Eggs, Love Me, Love My Demons and many more.

A life-long fan of Marvel comics, Suydam also branches out with select projects that include film noir for Hard Case Crime, where Suydam provides retro-inspired covers for Robert Bloch’s Shooting Star, Fright by Cornell Woolrich and Noir pulp master Mickey Spillane’s final novel, Dead Street, released this year.

As a world class musician Suydam has composed and performed numerous film soundtracks. A list of Suydam’s band members reads like a whos-who list of Rock’s legends including musicians from: Bob Dylan, Paul Mc Cartney’s Wings, Steely Dan, Paul Simon Group, Aretha Franklin, The Stones, Billy Joel and many more. Suydam’s current group The Gotham Playboys recorded 3 albums and won the Grammy for The Sessions with Bruce Springsteen in 2005.

Suydam is a member of the Society of Illustrators and lives and works in Manhattan’s East Village.

www.arthursuydam.com

RODNEY RAMOS
Comic Penciler/Inker - Marvel/DC/Valiant & MORE!!

Rodney Ramos has been a professional penciler / inker in
the comic book industry for over 15 years. He started his career as an
assistant to Mark Texeira . He then went on to Marvel Comics working in
production doing art corrections as one of John Romita’s Raiders.
He started penciling on such titles as Thundercats, Marvel Presents, What
If , Conan and Toxic Avenger . He also started inking on a wide variety
of books such as Gen-X, Iron Man , Gambit, Punisher War Journal,
Spider-man and Peter Parker the Amazing Spider-man. He went on to
Valiant to work with Jim Shooter to pencil Legend of Zelda and inking
titles Armorines, Bloodshot , X-O Man Of War. While he was over in
England, he starting working for Marvel Comics UK on Black Axe, Super
Soldiers, Death's Head . He has worked at Marvel, Marvel Comics UK,
DC Comics, Valiant, Acclaim Comics, Malibu and Continuity Comics with Neal
Adams. His inks have graced many titles such as Spider-man, X-men,
Iron Man, Peter Parker, Batman, Wonder Woman and the critically
acclaimed Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.
Recently he has worked for DC Comics on 52, Countdown, Green Lantern,
Batman, JSA, Magog, Vertigo's Bang Tango and many more titles.
For more information on commissions and sketches contact: evaink@aol.com

RUSTY GILLIGAN
Comic & Sketch Card Artist & MUCH MORE!
Art Department - The Avengers; The Walking Dead; Captain America: The First Avenger; Spider-Man 2 & 3, Sketch Card Artist - Star Wars; The Avengers; Marvel Beginnings; Star Trek; DC Entertainment)

He has been a fixture in comics since 1978 with credits including Marvel, DC, Big Bang, Image, Heavy Metal
and more. His film work includes the original “Heavy Metal,” “Spider-Man 2 & 3″, and more recently “Captain America,” the “Avengers,” and “The Walking Dead.”

Back in 1993, Rusty was working for card producer Clubhouse Diamonds and actually created the first ‘sketch cards’ in the trading card hobby, and to his surprise, it soon took off and became a world-wide phenomenon. In the past few years, Gilligan rejoined the sketch card arena and has provided cards for Upper Deck, Breygent Marketing, Cryptozoic Entertainment, Cult-Stuf, and many others, including producing his own sketch card set for the “Mac and Trouble” comic book he is releasing this year.

Currently, “The Adventures of Mac and Trouble” can be seen in comic books, a news strip for publications and newspapers, and soon a online feature.

A gallery of his ink work can be seen at HERE!
Also, galleries of this sketch card work: HERE!
This is a perfect time to bring posters or memorabilia from some great films such as the original Heavy Metal. Please see his credits HERE!

Rusty has appeared as a guest at many shows/conventions over the years including: San Diego Comic Con, ICON, Toys on the Hudson, Northeast Collectorfest, Hershey Comic Con, VA Comic Con, and many more. He is well-known for offering his work to the public at a low price (some of his prints are $1-3 per) and often sells comic-used pages that he’s worked on.

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