Guest List
BangPop! is proud to welcome back many returning guests from last year along with a host of new guests making their BangPop! debut.
Please join us in welcoming all the great talent. Stop by their tables for autographs, sketches, and a great experience.
Kristen Britain is the author of The High King's Tomb, First Rider's Call, and Green Rider.
www.kristenbritain.com
Alex Irvine is the award-winning author of Daredevil Noir; Buyout; The Vertigo Encyclopedia; Hellstorm, Son of Satan: Equinox; and The Narrows.
www.alexanderirvine.net
Jay Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli all-ages graphic novel series. Piscopo also co-created The Scrap City Pack Rats, art directed the award-winning Fizz and Martina Math Adventures, and was an animator for ABC TV’s Squigglevision.
www.jaypiscopo.blogspot.com
Mark Ricketts is the creator of Moose Mountain Comics, Nowheresville, and Night Trippers.
www.handbuzzer.lurid.com
Dave Roman draws Astronaut Elementary, and has written several graphic novels including Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery; Jax Epoch; and The Adventures of Tymm: Alien Circus. He recently collaborated with his wife, Raina Telgemeier, on X-Men: Misfits and is an editor for Nickelodeon Magazine.
www.yaytime.com
Christopher Mills is the writer of Femme Noir: The Dark City Diaries, Kolchak Tales: Night Stalker of the Living Dead, and the forthcoming Perils on Planet X.
www.atomicpulp.com
Raina Telgemeier is the adaptor and illustrator of the Baby-sitters Club graphic novel series (Scholastic/Graphix), which were selected by YALSA for their Great Graphic Novels for Teens list in 2007, as well as ALA’s Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth list. She is the co-author of the recently-released X-Men: Misfits (Del Rey Manga). Her graphic memoir, SMILE, will be published by Scholastic/Graphix in 2010. Raina’s comics have been nominated for the Ignatz, Cybil, and Eisner Awards. Raina lives in Astoria, NY.
www.goRaina.com
Catherynne M. Valente is the World Fantasy Award nominated author of Palimpsest and The Orphan's Tales duology: In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice. The series won the Mythopoeic Award for adult literature in 2008.
www.catherynnemvalente.com
Ron Fortier has been writing comics and science fiction for the past thirty years. He is most recognized for his work on the Green Hornet for Now Comics and Terminator Burning Earth illustrated by Alex Ross. He has also written Popeye, Peter Pan and Marvel's Hulk, plus created his own humor character, Mr.Jigsaw, Man of a Thousand Parts. Currently he writes and produces pulp novels and anthologies for his Airship 27 Productions from his home in Somersworth, NH.
His website is www.Airship27.com
POSTPONED TO 2010
Elizabeth Hand is the author of many novels, including Winterlong, Waking the Moon (Tiptree and Mythopoeic Award-Winner), Glimmering, and Mortal Love, and three collections of stories, including the recent Saffron and Brimstone.
www.elizabethhand.com
Walter H. Hunt is the author of The Dark Wing science fiction series and the novel A Song in Stone.
www.walterhunt.com