Category: Artist Guest

Stephen Burks

March 27, 2025 /

Stephen Burks is an illustrator living in Virginia who creates fantasy and pulp illustrations. His work has appeared in indie comics, webcomics, and pulp magazines where he won awards for his interior pen and ink illustrations. He is passionate about storytelling and tabletop gaming and has a Master’s in Creative Writing. Stephen draws inspiration from the art of realism, commercial posters, and the golden age of illustration.

With Iconograph Studios he created the Our Last Gasp webcomic, multiple comics, and wrote and directed episodes of the comedy web series Phenomena: Probing the Paranormal as well as several short films. His art appears in multiple volumes of the award-winning Pulp Reality anthology including the cover of Volume 3. His interior art in Pulp Reality, Volume 2 won the Pulp Factory Best Interior Art in 2022. Stephen created trading cards for Marvel, Upper Deck, Stormgate Press, Bad Axe Studios, and others. His published comic covers include work for Radical Visions Comics and Pocket Jack Comics as well as others.

Marcos F. Eguia

March 23, 2025 /

Marcos Eguia is a fantasy author, tattoo artist, illustrator, polyglot, father, husband… and quite a few other things. Marcos’ first book, Fortitude, is a stunning novel (with visual art inside the book and prose you’ll fall in love with) that will appeal to fans of R.A. Salvatore, Sabaa Tahir, and Patrick Rothfuss. Marcos is currently a Virginia-based author.

Jason T. Graves

March 19, 2025 /

Jason is a writer of words, a doodler of drawings, and fixer of other peoples’ words and doodles. Many years ago, he founded Prospective Press. Before that, he slogged through University and earned a Master of Science degree in the Arcana of Genetics. Oh, and he was once punched—lightly—by Muhammad Ali. You should ask him about that last one, because no one ever does.

Jenna Hamrick

March 14, 2025 /

Cosplayer, artist, fan, and glorious harbinger of chaos, Jenna loves all things geeky. Combining twin passions of psychology and nerdity, she enjoys seeing what new ideas can be found in exploring and sharing fandom.

Kit’s Craft Shop

March 7, 2025 /

Kit’s Craft Shop is a woman-owned LGBTQIA+ friendly small business. The creativity started in childhood but the business was built in 2018. KCS’s mission is to spread creativity and love through all creations. Our motto is to “Never Lose Your Fire and Stay Inspired”. KCS also dedicates its time to educating communities in the realm of creativity, mental health, and safe crafting practices.

Art of Robert Rogalski

February 26, 2025 /

Robert is a fantasy artist, designer, sculptor, and former illustrator who was born and raised in a one-room log cabin deep in the dark woods of wild Kentucky, where he learned to read by firelight and wrote on a wooden tablet with a piece of coal. Ummm, wait… nope, that’s wrong… that was Abraham Lincoln not Robert.  

Actually, Robert grew up near Rochester, in the lush countryside of Walworth, NY, where his imagination flourished, and his abilities as an artist started to be honed. After years of academic struggles, due to his dyslexia, he graduated high school and won a full scholarship to study special effects/industrial design in Pittsburgh, PA. Traveling up and down the east and west coasts of the United States, he has worked in theater—designing and building sets and props. He has fabricated and performed with puppets, sculpted large displays for businesses and home owners, worked in concept design for gaming companies, and illustrated a children’s book. 
Over the years, Robert has also had the chance to teach children at several after-school and summer art programs, something he is very proud of.  

For the past few years, Robert has been working on his own original stories in a vast world inhabited by robots and bizarre whimsical creatures.

If you would like to see more of Robert’s work, you can find him on Instagram (art_of_robert_rogalski), Bluesky (@robert-rogalski.bsky.social), or connect with him at Munkpunk@gmail.com.

Chris Semtner

February 25, 2025 /

The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, Christopher P. Semtner has curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibits for the Poe Museum in addition to exhibits for the Library of Virginia, the Science Museum of Virginia, and other venues. He has written several articles and chapters in addition to six books about Poe, visual art, and cryptography. Semtner regularly speaks on dark and mysterious subjects in venues from the Library of Congress to the Steampunk World’s Fair and as far away as Japan. He has also appeared on Poe documentaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan. As a visual artist, Semtner has exhibited his paintings internationally, and they can be found in both private and public collections.

Tangent Artists

February 19, 2025 /

Tangent Artists started out as a humble webcomic company with Crit! and Skeleton Crew and over the past eighteen years delved successfully into game design, game supplements, novels and other forms of written and visual entertainment. The Guild Guide series, which started with The Handbook for Saucy Bards, explores a nutty take on classic RPG classes. Must Love Dragons inaugurated our venture into novels. Princeton Vice Presents is our foray into YouTube as horror hosts and musicians, and Princeton Plays is our once-a-month gaming livestream. We will keep coming up with ways to delight and entertain you with 100% organic creativity and our drive to put smiles on faces.

Our Crew:
Monica Marier: Artist, Writer, Possum Assistant, Composer
Dave Joria: Writer, Actor, Composer, Skull Wrangler
Rachael Hixon: Writer, Artist, Layout/publishing, Voice of Reason

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