Brian Buniak - Dinosaur

2011.10.08 Garden State Comic Con, Cherry Hill, NJ

"Oh Man -- I hate when this happens!"

Brian Buniak was an artist of the underground comix scene of the 1970s. He cooperated on several publications by the Mood Publishing Empire (Amazing Adult Fantasies, New Paltz Comix).

He is the creator of the Spirit parody 'The Sprite', 1974 New Paltz Comix. In the 1980s he illustrated Thunder Bunny for Blue Ribbon Comics, created by Marty Greim...(for publishers - Charlton, Archie, Warp Graphics and Red Circle)...

Buniak is also a skilled celebrity character artist providing art for Mad Magazine, the Daily News, Dark Horse Presents....which have included Sschwarenegger as Conan the Barbarian, William Shatner as Capt. Kirk, Jackie Gleason, Elvis Presley, Ted Kennedy and many Television and movie parodies...

After looking through the assortment of FDCs I carry with me Buniak choose the Pterodactyl Dinosaur FDc and draw the wonderful comic of the cave woman being carried away...

McGruff the Crime Dog

2011.04.03 -  Bobby Timony - Wild Pig Comic Con, Somerset, NJ

Twin Comics produces The Night Owls, written by Peter Timony, art by Bobby Timony. Set in the 1920s NYC, Professor Ernest Baxter, Mindy Markus, flapper and Roscoe, a Bonx gargoyle are the Night Owls. together they solve crimes no one else can, the supernatural kind. A Web comic, the Night Owls were Harvey Award nominees 2009 for Best New Series, Best Online Work and Best New Talent, Bobby Timony...

The Night Owls vol 1 collects the Zuda online comic...Roscoe sketch from Vol 1...

When I got home from the show to set up my post, I found Bobby's tweet..First sketch of the day. McGruff the crime dog, with US Postal stamp...awesome!

2011.12.03 Mark Mariano - Superheroes for Hospice

Mark Mariano's HappyLoo characters are for younger readers, with stories that tell tales almost entirely through the artwork. The above cover features HappyLoo character Meatsauce along with McGruff.

Mariano also draws Flabbergast, stories for older children featuring two slackers who stumble across a laboratory that is studying a zombie virus. As expected they set the zombies loose, and with the help of a scientist's daughter they have to save the world.

In the late 1990's Mariano ventured into Webcomics with the O>Matics, a comic strip about his band and their adventures off stage.

"Take A Bite Out of Crime"

McGruff the Crime Dog was created by John Young (Dancer Fitzgerald Sample Ad Agency) for the Ad Council for the National Crime Prevention Council for crime awareness among children through Public Service Announcements in TV commercials, songs and books. The McGruff stamp was issued Sep 24, 1984 Washington, DC...

Andre Szymanowicz - Hell Yeah

2012.03.10 Andre Szymanowicz, Dewey's Comic City, Madison, NJ
Ben Day - Hell Yeah

Image Comics release Hell Yeah #1 March 7, 2012.
The Last Generation of Superheroes is Here!
20years ago, the first ever superheroes debuted without warning and forever altered our global culture! Now the generation born in their wake fight to claim their place in a world evolved beyond the!
Written by Joe Keatinge, illustrated by Andre Szymanowicz...

Szymanowicz had previously contributed illustrations for Image's Elephantmen and Popgun...

His website features a lot of great sketches including Supergirl, Audrey Hepburn (excellent!), Elephantmen, the Beatles and the Spirit. It's great seeing the transition of his work from sketch to watercolor, worth a look...

Joe Keatinge has contributed to Negative Burn, the Next Issue Project #1: Fantastic Comics #24, Savage Dragon and as editor of the Harvey award-winning anthology Popgun, with co-editor Mark Andrew Smith...

William Olmo - Casey Jones

2011-Sep-17 Barnabas Health Superheroes for Hospice, Monmouth Mall, Eatontown, NJ

Prior to going to help out at the show I had read on-line that a new fan film about Casey Jones would be released, so I had the idea to get a sketch of Casey and his hockey mask on an Olympic Hockey FDC. The stamp has a devilish look with the blood red background and attacking goalie! A perfect combination...

Casey Jones is a vigilante from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series roaming the streets of New York and befriending the Turtles and April O'Neil. Jones' arsenal includes, baseball bats, golf clubs and hockey sticks..he made his first appearance in Raphael (solo issue) #1 1985...

Shane Moore - The Omens

2011.12.03 Superheroes for Hospice, Livingston, NJ

Shane Moore is a self-published writer and artist who has recently formed Electro-Magnetic Press with fellow writer and artistLarry Morgan.

Moore's comic The Omens is on of EMP's first two publications, the other being Morgan's The Believer.

The Omens is a science fiction adventure that follows Maggie Goodwin, a young woman who discovers she is a posthuman, a genetically engineered breed, whose basic capacities radically exceed those of present humans as to no longer be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards.

Maggie's strange new abilities cause an abrupt end of her normal suburban life when she is forced to go on the run from both the US Government, strange extraterrestrials and the nefarious Dr. O...