Panelist Spotlight: Maxina Storibrook

Maxina Storibrook has a masters degree in creative writing and has written over seven books, two of which are specifically for writers. She has a passion and talent for the creative art of world-building, character development, and everything that goes into a good story. She has been attending conventions for over two years, conversing with […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: DAN FLORES

Art is King connects the art community with artists, curators, entrepreneurs and art business mentors to assist the emerging artist in building a sustainable art business. For more events, classes and meetups for artists and creatives: www.meetup.com/artisking_atl,  

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: ROBERT JEFFREY II

Robert Jeffrey II is an Atlanta based freelance writer who has worked for such clients as DC Comics, the Centers for Disease Control, and Nitto Tires. He is the co-writer of Radio Free Amerika, the writer of RET: CON, the creator/ writer of the Glyph Comics Award winning/ nominated Route 3: Vol 1, and the […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: John McGuire

John Robert McGuire is an Atlanta based comic book writer/ novelist and screenwriter. In 2002 John joined Terminus Media as a founding member where he worked as an editor and contributor. His creator-owned series, The Gilded Age, was his first on-going series, published in 2013. Through Terminus Media, John worked for such corporate/ government entities […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: William Satterwhite

William Satterwhite is a comic creator and designer currently based in Douglasville, Ga. A military brat, William was born in Frankfurt, Germany and bounced around early in his childhood, but beyond that has spent most of his years in and around Atlanta, Ga. Best known as the creator of the superhero comic Stealth- the original […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: Venessa Giunta

Venessa Giunta is a writer of weird things, an editrix extraordinaire, and a little bit of a nerd. She is a published author, with non-fiction essays, short stories, and a couple novels (including two under a pen name) under her belt. She is a dedicated viewer of the show Supernatural and was devastated when Sense8 […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: BatJordan Valdes

BatJordan Valdes is a massive fan of Batman, Catwoman, and DC Comics in general. He fell madly in love with the DC Universe as a young child thanks to the premiere of the animated series The Batman, and that in turn led him to its tie-in comic book series The Batman Strikes!, which was the […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: TaLynn Kel

TaLynn Kel is a writer, cosplayer, and podcaster in Atlanta, Georgia. She writes about racism, cosplay, interracial relationships, and pop culture fandom through the lens of social justice. She conducts panels on these topics at fandom conventions both in and out of Georgia. Her cosplay and essays have been featured by NBC, Safety Pin Box, […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: Ellie Raine

Ellie Raine is an epic fantasy author who grew up in a family of book lovers, comic readers, and video gamers in the suburbs of Georgia. Her ongoing Scythe-and-Sorcery book series, The NecroSeam Chronicles, was originally intended to be a video game series, but she’s found that the book adaptation was more exciting than she […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: Violette Meier

Violette L. Meier is a happily married mother, writer, painter, poet, and native of Atlanta, Georgia, who earned her B.A. in English at Clark Atlanta University and a Masters of Divinity at Interdenominational Theological Center. Writing since her preteen years, she’s written 11 books. Her books include: The First Chronicle of Zayashariya: Out of Night, Angel […]

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PANELIST SPOTLIGHT: Ashleigh Davenport

Ashleigh Davenport is the founder of the romance comic publishing house, Final Beat Comics. What began as a creative writing project is now a full-fledged publishing company which caters to the need for fun and different comic book heroines and their romantic encounters with the sexy monsters who can’t get enough of their curves. Her […]

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