Jason Franks

Jason Franks is a comics writer and novelist based in Melbourne. He’s the writer of the religious satire-oriented Sixsmiths graphic novels, the horror Left Hand Path series, gonzo sci-fi/noir with McBlack, and probably three dozen short stories. In a past life Franks quips that he was an anthology editor, notably for the Kagemono series. Why…

Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr

Based in the state of Victoria, Steve Carter and Antoinette Rydyr are a pair of artists/writers going by the nomenclature of ‘S.C.A.R‘. Get it? Together, they work in the fields of sci-fi, horror, fantasy, satire, and surrealism — often bending the borders between each. “We create in a variety of mediums including prose fiction, illustration,…

Frantz Kantor

Frantz Kantor is a man with a venerated past: a veteran illustrator, animator and production designer based in Melbourne, who’s currently working on Magpie — an all-Australian super hero comic character that appears in the national comic anthology magazine Oi Oi Oi!   Why did you start making comic books?   “I never made a…

Fil Barlow & Helen Maier

Fil Barlow and Helen Maier are pioneering Australian creators based in Melbourne who chose comics as their “medium of expression”, and have just published the 30th anniversary reprint of their landmark title Zooniverse, which begins its serialization in Island magazine, published by Image Comics. To be honest, they’re an incredible pair better left to explain…

Matt Kyme

Matt Kyme is a comic book writer/artist in Melbourne, Australia. He’s probably best known for the superhero series That Bulletproof Kid (via IF? Commix in Australia and Project-Nerd Publishing in the U.S.), but has also worked on other titles including Tales To Admonish, Gaining Velocity, Carmen and Decay. Kyme and a bunch of other local…

Cristian Roux

Cristian Roux is a respected Melbourne-based artist/writer and creator of comics, as well as self-publisher of same. For the past few years he’s been producing the series Falling Star – set in Australia in the not-too-distant future, it’s the story of how the legendary, mythological, or ‘super’ heroes disappeared from our real world, into the…

Graeme Jackson

Graeme Jackson is an artist/illustrator living in Bendigo, 147km northeast of Melbourne. He’s recently done promotional art for Tad Pietrzykowski‘s Dark Nebula and Andrez Bergen‘s Bullet Gal trade edition at Project-Nerd Publishing in the U.S. “I’m also currently working alongside Andrez to bring to life the adventures of our character Crash Soirée. I work almost…