About this issue's contributors...
About this issue’s contributors...
Kurt Beaulieu is a Montreal-based comics artist. He is best known for his strip Sabine, installments of which have appeared in various underground publications, including MensuHell, BingBang and The Morning Dew Review. He is also the author-artist of the comic books Repent Sinners and Glitch Nos. 1 and 2. Semolina, a graphic novel-in-progress concerning the bizarre lives of an all-female industrial band, is his latest ongoing project. Kurt’s pages at Comic Space: http://www.comicspace.com/kurtbeaulieu/.
Joe Griffin is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Event Guide, Film Ireland and many more fine publications. He has also contributed to a number of radio shows as a film critic, including The Arts Show on RTE Radio One and, most frequently, Phantom FM’s Cinerama. In recent months, he has been working as a PR account executive, and, owing to his occupational commitments, his Moviedrome blog (http://joegriffinwrites.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-long-for-now.html) has recently fallen silent.
Geoff Huth currently hails from Schenectady, New York, and is known primarily as a visual poet. Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of forms, including lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings, and films. His work has appeared in such diverse print publications as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D’Angoisse, Prakalpana Literature, and ZYX. A volume of his poems, Out of Character, was published by Paper Kite Press in 2008. The operator of dbqp: visualizing poetics (along with several other blogs), Huth has become an almost daily online presence in the exploration of the point where visual art and the written word meet and blur. His online Blogger profile, with links to his various blogs: http://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348.
Dennis Hyer is a New Jersey comics artist who doesn’t have a lot to write about himself except that he loves old movies and television shows. He is also an amateur curmudgeon, with no patience for anime, rap music, modern newspaper comics, asphalt driveways, or anything produced by the Disney Channel (in that order). Aside from classic cartoons and comic strips, his other areas of interest include billiards, anthropology, girls, Indians, and agriculture. More of Hyer’s work can be found at mulleinfields.com.
Ben Rockwood is known for his work in the world of computer systems technology and installation. He is currently the Director of Systems at Joyent, Inc., after years of work for other major computer corporations and companies. A life-long lover of comics, Rockwood resides in the Silicon Valley. The Blog of Ben Rockwood: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/index.php.
R. W. Watkins is a Canadian poet, essayist, and longtime appreciator of comics and cartoons. He was the editor and publisher of Contemporary Ghazals, the world’s first English-language journal dedicated to the style of Middle Eastern poetry from which it took its title. His poetry and literary criticism have appeared most notably in Lynx, RAW NerVZ Haiku, Haiku Canada publications, and Agha Shahid Ali’s ghazals anthology, Ravishing DisUnities. Also known for his work in Japanese styles of poetry, he has published three chapbooks of haiku, tanka and renga, including New England Country Farmhouse (2005), which has proven fairly popular with fans of an early Jodie Foster film from which it takes inspiration. In recent years, Watkins has shifted much of his attention to internet publishing (‘weblishing’) and related matters.
Mike White, according to his blog, is an artist originally from the suburbs of Toronto. Since graduating from Sheridan College in 2003, Mike has been working in TV animation for the past six years. He currently resides in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, where he draws silly pictures. The first 47 installments of his Pigtails & Potbellies strip have been collected in three comic-book anthologies. Mike’s pages on Comic Space: http://www.comicspace.com/mwfproductions/.
