Creator/Writer/
Publisher
Carl Paolino is a veteran of the entertainment industry. As a producer, director, screenwriter, and production designer, his credits include feature films, television series, music videos, Broadway shows, and hundreds of television commercials. His animated productions include; MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch (having creating over 400 puppets for the series), MTV’s Cartoon Sushi, and Celebrity Face-Off (another stop-motion animated TV series, having creating over 600 puppets for the series).
He wrote and directed the animation for The Halloween Pranksta short film with co-producer Mark Hamill, of Star Wars fame, and directed Mark during the voiceover recordings.
His other credits include Disney’s Hercules on Ice, Victoria’s Secret, Goosebumps the Musical, MTV’s 2000 Music Video Awards (a specialty costume for Jimmy Fallon), Saturday Night Live, Coca Cola’s and the NFL’s Monster of the Gridiron, and the MTV Music Award Winning video, Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down, for Fall Out Boy.
He is the author of the pulp horror novel trilogy Virgin Falls. Spontania is his first graphic novel series published by his own company, Comic Book Kid Publishing.
You can find him at: ComicBookKidPub.com
He has a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts and is an adjunct professor in the Fine Arts Department.
Artist/Illustrator
Mauricio Vargas is a digital artist with twenty-two years’ experience in sequential art and illustration. As a storyboard artist, he has worked on several commercials for companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Snickers, Milky Way, and Cricket, for both the Latin American and American markets.
Mauricio has worked for advertising directors in Europe, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, and the United States.
As a comic book artist he has worked on indie projects Destiny’s Fate, Capitalism and Other Stories and KarmaVerso Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Currently he’s working alongside Carl Paolino on the graphic novel series Spontania, for Comic Book Kid Publishing.
Artist/Illustrator
Mauricio Alvarez is a cartoonist and illustrator with an extensive career in comics, storyboards and graphic novels. Some of the titles he’s been involved with include Aldous Spark Vol. 1 and 2, Unearthians, The Conquered Crowns, The Darklanders, and a brief participation in Artifacts for Top Cow. He has collaborated as a cartoonist on independent projects in Mexico and the United States.
Guest Writer
Robert P. Ottone is the author of the horror collection Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares (an honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 13) as well as the young adult dystopian-cosmic horror trilogy The Rise.
His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and have also been published online. He’s the publisher for and owner of Spooky House Press.
Robert is an English As A New Language teacher, as well as a teacher of English Language Arts. He can be found online at SpookyHousePress.com or on Twitter or Instagram (@RobertOttone). He delights in the creepy, and views bagels solely as a cream cheese delivery device.
Colorist
Martina Rossi has long had a passion for drawing, which comes from her love of comics and illustrated books. She found an outlet for this drive in the years she studied at the Roman School of Comics.
She has worked freelance as an illustrator and comic artist for years. She created a Tarot deck for Lo Scarabeo Edizioni, published her first comic book, Percy’s Song, with Phoenix Publishing, and has worked as a colorist for Blackbox Comics, Bella Fe media and Earth Dog studios. In 2022 she successfully completed her first Indiegogo crowdfunding, authoring the graphic novel Sto Lat.
Her latest project is for the Comic Book Kid Publishing title, Spontania.
Colorist
Antonella Tiburcio is a digital artist who has worked for magazines in both Argentina and Perú. She is currently working alongside Carl Paolino as a colorist on the graphic novel series Spontania, for Comic Book Kid Publishing.
Letterer
Micah Myers is a comic book letterer from Portsmouth, VA. He has lettered comics for Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave, Webtoon, Comixology, and many more. He also lettered multiple stories in the Eisner-winning Puerto Rico Strong. In addition to lettering, he created his own comic about a group of D-List villains, The Disasters.
Prentis Rollins is a veteran of the American comics industry, having contributed art to hundreds of issues of DC and Marvel Comics, notably the bestsellers Green Lantern: Rebirth, New X-Men, Batman: The Ultimate Evil, DC: One Million, JLA: Incarnations, DC 2000, Flash: Iron Heights, Green Lantern Corps, and Hardware (for Milestone Media/DC). He is the author of The Furnace (A Graphic Novel) (Tor Books, 2018), How to Draw Sci-fi Heroes and Villains (Phaidon, 2023), How to Draw Sci-fi Utopias and Dystopias (Phaidon, 2016), The Making of a Graphic Novel/The Resonator (Penguin/Random House, 2006), and Survival Machine (Stories) (Monkeysuit Press, 2002). He was featured artist of Jekyll Island Chronicles, Volume 3: A Last Call (IDW/Top Shelf, 2021). He has an MA in philosophy from Rutgers University, and has taught philosophy at Rutgers and pen-and-ink drawing at The School of Visual Arts. He lives with his family in London. See his work at: www.prentisrollinsart.com
Instagram: @prentisrollins
Twitter: @PrentisRollins
Copyeditor
Cover Artist
Tarryn Thomas fell into copy editing partially by accident, being one of the few people at her workplace willing to correct other people’s grammar in spite of the potential rudeness involved.
She has spent a few years working freelance, while also helping out as an associate editor at UFO Publishing. She was recently junior editor of the anthology of translated science fiction, The Rosetta Archive, with Alex Shvartsman, and has appeared in Clarkesworld.
She has an avowed weakness for rare plants and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Graphic Designer
Laura Yorkowitz Williams is a graphic designer. Having graduated from SVA in 1982 with a BFA in Advertising and Graphic Design, her design expertise spans many design disciplines, including branding, publishing, advertising and packaging design.
She has been a lead designer with a Fortune 500 company for the past fifteen years—a leader in the global housewares market—creating extraordinary packaging and lifestyle branding. Laura’s work is part of the everyday consumer experience and can be seen in major retail enterprises such as Target, Walmart and amazon.com
