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Exhibitors for 2008We are proud to welcome the following exhibitors to STAPLE! Please visit their web sites and support independent creators. Brian Wood Top Shelf Productions Girls With Slingshots (Danielle Corsetto) — Girls With Slingshots, Bat Boy, Crazy Papers Austin Sketch Group Leadpoint Comics (Cristina Benavides, Erica Taht) — The Big Black Hairy Thing, Mr. Bun has Fun PALFLOAT (Chad Hopper ) — World Salad, Fargield (Misadventures of Cat) Arby Dolls, Creeptures, greeting cards, cereal box books, collages TNT-138 Ltd. (Alex Henle, Terry Thielen, Brandy, Amanda) — Hardcore Betty, Cicatrices, To Be A God Supajoe.com (Joe Eisma) — A Dummy's Guide to Dange: Lost at Sea, Serpo, Viper Comics, Devil's Due The Fiction Circus (John Thornton, Justin Humphries) — Your Cryogenic Tomorrow, Copyright, The Man Who Hates Fun, Wranglers of the Fiction Circus Orthocomics (Sean McGrath) — Frater Mine, Generic Goddess, So Super Duper, Pride High, Prism Guide to Comics deadsquirrelgirl.com (Kristin Hogan) — Dead Squirrel Girl, Squid Dolls! Baton Rouge Cartoonist Society (Robert Bienvenu, Erik Van Buren) — Pipedream Anthology, Monsters of Louisiana, Young Geeks in Love Hopper Comics Publishing (Carlos Samudio) — Jungle Trek, Moss Brothers, Riley and the Lost Temple, Bound Anthology Comic Book Seraphemera Books (Marc Moorash, Heather Stanley) — Polyglot & Spleen, The Romant-Goth A to Z Coloring Book Cranium Comics (Anthony Rezendez, Brandon Church) — Brawn #1 Nate Southard — Drive, A Trip To Rundberg, Brian Keene's FEAR, The Dead Walk Again! Keith Quinn, Susan Kath — Local Heroes, Heroes Incorporated, Playtime Projects GINK Press (Jenner Carnelian) — Planet Aerun 1.1, The Clockman, Tales From Planet Aeruen Josh Eiserike — Class of '99, Anyone but Virginia, Assholes Perry Alter — Sibville 7000 BC (Bram Meehan) — Raised By Squirrels; Death, Cold as Steel; Muse; Fakin' the Funk; and other independently produced comics from New Mexico creators Mascot Wedding/billanderik.com (Mac Blake, David Jara) — bill and erik, Mascot Wedding on KOOP ECPrinting (Jim House, Greg Kernkamp) — Affordable, high quality book printing Evil Twin Comics (Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey) — Action Philosophers, Comic Book Comics Bivage Salvage, Ltd. (Dave Lamplugh) — You Chose Right The First Time, That Damned Cat Ape-Gear (John "Ape" Mosteller) — Sadder Than You Rubberband Press Comics (David Olivares, Dan Garcia, Andy Perez, Mike Garcia) — Malo, Lonely in Black, There There, Las Aventuras de Malo, Mr. Stickman David Hopkins — Antigone, Emily Edison, Karma Incorporated, Astronaut Dad Big Head Press (Frank Bieser, Scott Bieser) — The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel,The Architect, A Drug War Carol, Roswell, Texas, LaMuse Soldier Of Fortune/Art Love Magic (Joshua Boulet, Mike Lagocki) — Josh Boulet's Orange and Green Books, Mike Lagocki - Ghostwerks, Art Love Magic Viper Entertainment, Inc. (Viper Comics - Jessie Garza, Josh Howard, PJ Kryfco, et al) — Dead@17, Lost Books of Eve, Underworld Railroad, The Middleman Space-Gun Productions (Vinh-Luan Luu, Evan Bryce, Jake ekiss, Matthew Warlick) — space-gun.com, Synesthetic Anthology, Evolution Anthology Full of Monkey (Thomas P. Reidy III, Dave Justus) — Bait, Machines of Loving Grace, Filthy Habit Mad Scientist Studios (David Gaitan, Phil Gaitan, Kirk Chavarria) — Blind Sprockett Voodoo Maverick Publishing (Ted Walley) — Mathilda El MacFearsome Comic Squarea (Vernon Smith, Karen Chen) — The Advventures of Dr. Breakfast, Typical Black and White Indie Comic Feeping Creatures/Studio NDR (Dylan Edwards) — Feeping Creatures, Politically InQueerect Aftershock Comics (Mike Dolce, Keith McCormack) — The Sire, The Sire: Revelations John Cboins, Mike Gregor — Graveslinger (Cboins), Stitches (Gregor) Austin Creators Group (Alan Porter, Paul Benjamin) Playground Ghosts, Fluffinbrooklyn, (Colleen AF Venable, Marianne Ways, , Mikey IQ Jones) — Attack of the Tadpole Fanclub, The Polka Disease, Wondermark (David Malki !) — The Annotated Wondermark, Dispatches from Wondermark Manor Bramble Vine Comics (Nathan Bramble, Paula Bramble) — Bramble Vine Comics #1, Flights of Fancy Funnies, Normal, Digital Strips Year One Out Of the Gutter Magazine (Justin C. Gordon: Gutter Pimp) — Out Of the Gutter Magazine Absolute Tyrant (Rob Osbourne) — 1000 Steps to World Domination, Sunset City, The Nearly Infamous Zango Paul Adam (Paul Adam) — Untamed Sketches Kit Lively — MAD, National Lampoon, Hustler, Troma, Joe Bob Briggs, Cracked Rodent Boogaloo, Swordwaltzer (John Sitton, Xero Reynolds) — Rodent Boogaloo, Lost in Parts Unknown, Swordwaltzer Staple Pop (Tim Doyle, Lauri Watt) — Staple Pop Comics Podcast Strange Matter Comics, Lunasea Studios (Rebecca Hicks, James Hicks) — Sangrael, Project E10hIm, Little Vampires Lucy Blue Studio (Jenifer Bryan) The Bucky, Kevin Sugar Solutions (Jonathan Windham) — Schixm, Loppy Ears, The Ice Fields, The Ancestor, An Ivory Prison Mr. Oblivious (Mark Gonyea) — The Best of Mr. Oblivious, Evolution101, Abduction, Bump, Frank & the Mermaid, Ape-Girl, Tinker Monkeywrench Books, MCM Authoring — Zines Bassanimation (Diana X. Sprinkle, Shawna Bass) — Saiko & Lavender, My Muse River by Night (Christine Pointeau) — Stray Tales Vol 1, A Capella Vol. 1 & 2 Manly Art (Jason Chalker) — artist/animator on A Scanner Darkly Bigfoot Magazine (Robert Jesse Dominguez) — Bigfoot Magazine Studio Zoe/Slipshine (Josh Lesnick) — Girly, Slipshine, Doctor Voluptua, Pretty Soldier Lesnik Ismael Cavazos Sam Hurt Patrick Joseph Amalita Litsa Geoff Sebesta Zach Taylor Tai Chi Comics (Santanu Rahman) — Du the Fu Stumblebum Studios (Dana Place, Paul Milligan, David Sherrill, Melissa Sherril) — Stumblebum Studios Anthology; Science ♥'s Religion, Dash Bradly, Fake Name Comix #1 The Gold County Paper Mill (William Cardini, Jak Cardini, Dr. Chuch) — The Gold County Paper Mill Presents, Hyperbox, Trash Fortune Cookie Press (Jon Sukarangsan) — Hurricane Season, MonkeyMan, Sniper & Rook, You Ain't No Dancer ol. 2 & 3 Lonnie Allen, Jeff Bent — Wonderworld, Tell Tale Signs, 24 Hour Comic People Antigravity Magazine (Leo McGovern) Flea Circus (Kelly Burns, Jeremy Fletcher) Paul Maybury (ACT-I-VATE.com, Zuda.com, Party Bear, Maxy J. Millionaire, Aqua Leung Image) Nikki Cook (The Choked up, Sack of Puppies, Tastes Like Good volume 1&2) Toby Craig, Little Engine Studios (Comics/engine!, monster engine!, death swamp, punish the dead) Steven Goldman (Styx Taxi, Everyman: Be the People) |
New Venue!Exhibition space is the new Monarch Event Center, with a better room setup to accomodate even more exhibitors. You can also see the exhibitor list from 2007 and 2006. See a mistake with your listing? Email info@staple-austin.org to make sure we have your most current information. |
