Staff Bios
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Ryan Brooks - Web Designer |
| Designer: Clone Wars Sourcebook Designer: Cracken's Crew Sourcebook Designer & Graphic Artist: Fandom Comics Website Letterer: Cracken's Crew Letterer: Tales of the Chu'unthor Writer: Clone Wars Sourcebook  Born in 1978, Ryan Brooks missed the first run of Star Wars - and he's been making up for it ever since. For the better part of twenty odd years, Ryan has been neck deep in Star Wars. During that time he has written several short stories, co-created and run an online Star Wars "mega-campaign" with the help of his friend Keith Kappel, and is a credited play-tester for the original Star Wars d20 core rule book.An amateur photographer, graphic artist, web designer, avid gamer, as well as practitioner of several styles of Martial Arts - Ryan certainly knows how to fill up his free time. He also worked for 6 years as a computer repair technician. Ryan currently lives down south with his wife and small army of dogs. |
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Keith Kappel - Writer |
| Creator: Fandom Comics Writer: A Clone in the Dark Writer: Battle of Heg Writer: Cheedak's Last Hunt Writer: Clone Wars Sourcebook Writer: Cracken's Crew Sourcebook Writer: Cracken's Crew: The Invisible War Writer: Tales of the Chu'unthor  Keith Kappel is a long-time Star Wars fan community member who was born in 1979 and grew up in Addison, Illinois. In 1997 he joined the United States Navy as an Intelligence Specialist, and served in Virgina at both Naval Space Command and the USS Theodore Roosevelt, CVN 71.During his time in the Star Wars fan community, Keith Kappel has run a "mega-campaign" for as many as a thousand players using Star Wars RPG rules he co-created at www.swnsu.com, and also was given the opportunity to be a credited play-tester in the original d20 Star Wars RPG Core Rule Book. In his spare time he enjoys shooting pool, paintball, and drinking. He lives in his home in Lombard, Illinois with his chocolate lab, Chewbacca. Email Keith at NarCranor@fandomcomics.com |
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Steve Criado - Artist |
| Artist: Cheedak's Last Hunt Artist: Cracken's Crew Graphic Artist: Fandom Comics Website  Steve Criado was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1975. He started drawing Star Wars and comicbook characters at an early age. " R2D2 was a fav of mine I drew him before I learned how to write. " He has been drawing for most of his life but seriously for about the past 8 years.He has focused on Illustration and Design. " I have been really interested in creating half digital and half traditional paintings." Steve studied art in school and attended Youngstown State University. He now works as Art Director at Ray Simon Art where he along with Tim Sullivan manage the companies production department. "Up until a year ago I never attempted to try my hands in comics. I had always wanted to but never studied the intricacies of sequential art. Keith emailed me about doing a comic and since I had always wanted to draw comics I agreed to take a crash course and start panelling. " Steve now lives in Austintown, Ohio with his girlfriend Kim . He is currently drawing Cracken's Crew The Invisible War as well as various pinups. |
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T.J. Colligan - Artist |
| Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Artist: Tales of the Chu'unthor Graphic Artist: Fandom Comics Website  Born in 1979 and working with a pencil since 1980, TJ cannot quite remember seeing Empire in the theatres, but has a vivid memory of waiting in a line that wrapped around the outside of the theatre for Return of the Jedi, and the saga has been the defining mythos for his life since. TJ is a core team member of Fanboy Radio, a comic book radio talk show and podcast and develops comics for fanboyradio.com, The Bullet Angelica, and The Velvet Goat. He runs a D20 Star Wars campaign set in the years between Episodes I and II and is thrilled to be involved in the telling of the Chu’unthor, an epic chapter in the history of the jedi. TJ lives Fort Worth, TX with an art historian, a musician, and a vampiric feline named Shade. |
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Dawn Gallagher - Public Relations & Promotions |
 Born in 1981, Dawn was somewhat of a late bloomer into the Star Wars Universe. She did not see any of the movies until they were re-released in theaters in the mid-90s at age 14, and has been obsessed with the fandom ever since. Joining Keith and Ryan's chat-based game at age 15, Dawn eventually graduated to helping with the occasional research and maintenance work, and beta tested D20 with the two of them. Even though she left their game after a few years, she never lost her love of Star Wars, role-playing, or any combination thereof.While in college, Dawn concentrated mostly on other role-playing games, translating anime and Japanese rock songs into English, and earned a degree in Research and Intelligence with a minor in Japanese. She currently co-runs a Harry Potter role-playing site, and has re-joined Ryan and Keith to put her vast experience in Star Wars and role-playing to use in PR work for Fandom Comics. |
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Contributor Bios
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Christopher Chaisson - Contributor |
| Artist: Battle of Heg Artist: A Clone in the Dark Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook  Born in 1971, Christopher Chaisson is a first generation avid Star Wars fan. The Epic Battle between good and evil enthralled the then 6-year old with the release of Star Wars in 1977, leaving an impression that would shape his future. "I collected everything Star Wars when I was a kid" he recalls, "from toys to action figures to comics."Christopher's love of drawing and comics led him to pursue a career in art, and he attended college at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Under the guidance and tutelage of some of today's leading comic book artists and professionals, he graduated with honors with a BFA in Cartooning/Illustration. Residing in Long Island, New York, his interests include vintage toy collecting, comics, and drawing. He is Freelance Artist, as well as a wheelchair lift/elevator technician. |
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Matt Skilton - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Hi!! I’ve been a Star Wars fan since I can remember, growing up on a betamax recording of A New Hope. I’ve always been artistic, but when I was 14 I knew I wanted to try my best at becoming a professional commercial artist at some level. Since graduating from my degree, I’ve been working non-stop on Star Wars illustrations, working digitally after being completely blown away by the Art of Attack of the Clones. I regularly exhibit my art at conventions, and always try to keep my work fresh, vibrant and fun! Hope you enjoy viewing my little contributions to the world of Star Wars.www.mattskilton.co.uk |
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Tim Sullivan - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Timothy Sullivan was born in 1976 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tim's interest in illustration started out with creating flip books and grew from there. Watching the original trilogy with his dad, Tim gained a fondness for the films. He was discovered by his 7th grade art teacher and not let go until his graduation. After graduation Tim enlisted into the Army and was stationed in Korea, among other locales across the world. Through his service he concentrated on graphic novels and learning the intricacies of illustration. After Graduating college with a degree in Art and Technology, Tim was deployed to Baghdad for 14 months. During that time, Tim keyed in on advanced photoshop techniques and his skills improved over the last year. Tim now lives in Youngstown, Ohio where he is a graphic artist with Ray Simon Art. |
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Duanne Barbour - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Martial Graphic Arts is the best way to describe Duanne Barbour’s passions. He mixes visuals of martial arts in elements from sci-fi, to Hong Kong cinema, to super heroes. Having attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, his art has transformed into a personal mix of traditional inks, digital colors, scanned fabrics, and photographs. He currently does a martial art web comic called Cloud Eagle. A distinct aspect of the comic has real martial artists physically portraying the characters, including him. He figures if he can’t get the girl in real life at least his comic alter ego can. Duanne currently works at the Pentagon. In his little spare time, he does photography, photo manipulations, and martial arts. www.cloudeagle.com |
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Holly Laing - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Holly Laing has been a Star Wars fan since she first saw Return of the Jedi when she was 6 years old. Soon after that she watched the movies in order and fell in love with the magic of Star Wars. She has always loved to draw, it is a real passion that she hopes to make a career out of one day. She is planning to attend college soon, studying digital animation. She currently resides in Manitoba Canada, and works in the Army Reserves as a radio operator.http://holly-the-laing.deviantart.com |
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HAI! - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Failing to get a real job right after university, HAI drifted for 5 months working as a low-level clerk for a cargo shipping company in an island in the middle of nowhere. Grateful to have survived several death-defying missions while delivering the most mundane paperwork from vessel to vessel, HAI left the company to work as a freelance graphic artist while living off on his parents' meager pension. Since then, HAI has been published in several comic book anthologies and has released his first award-winning children's book. To this day, HAI still lives shamelessly with his parents. He operates Homanga.net, a fake manga site for the poor otaku. www.homanga.net |
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Sean Vrabel - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Sean studied illustration at The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City where he graduated in May 2005. He is Currently residing in Farmingdale, New Jersey and is living his lifelong dream of penciling and coloring comicbooks as well as designing characters conceptually.seanvrabel.com |
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Sandra Scholes - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Being a fan of the original Star Wars Trilogy, Sandra Scholes has beendrawing and sketching for many of this type of genre's magazines and it was a real pleasure to do work for Fandom Comics. She likes to use striking imagery and bold lines in her work and it is that which makes her work look dynamic and creates a sense of motion when she completes a sketch ready to be coloured as she loves to see another Artist take over after her and see what he or she comes up with next. Sandra currently has her work featured in the Tolkien Society's magazine Amon Hen and online at the Tolkien Wikipedia where her work features. She looks forward to the coming year and the commissions that come. www.paintbox.hitart.com |
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Noel Shack - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Noel was fortunate to experience the Star Wars phenomenon first hand during it's original release. At the time no one had any idea how it would endure for generations. As exciting as the movies were at the time he felt even more excitement when he was able to introduce his kids to the original trilogy. Noel has an art background and training from the Cleveland Institute of Art where he studied Illustration. He also studied at the Cuyahoga Community College for drawing. His biggest influence is probably from comic books but he also get inspiration from cartoons and movies. Currently Noel designs and installs exhibits at a museum in Cleveland Ohio. Eventually he hopes to work as a concept artist with video games and films. |
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Greg Woronchak - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook After years selling cookies in a downtown store, Greg decided to pursue illustration. A long winding road later found him as a freelance storyboard artist with several productions under his belt. Greg had loved comic books over twenty years, and could remember (vaguely) clipping newspaper and magazine pictures of Darth Vader after watching Star Wars back in the day. He loves to draw, and is trying to keep busy doing it (barely paying the bills). Greg lives happily in Montreal, Canada with his wife Isabelle and two wonderful daughters Sarah and Emma. |
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Eric Allen - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Eric has been fascinated with space ever since he sat with his eyes glued to the TV as Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man" back in July of 1969 -- even though he was only a few months old when it happened. While most kids his age were playing football or baseball, he was reading books on NASA and begging his parents to take him to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Needless to say, the release of the original Star Wars movie in 1977 blew him away just like it did with so many others; he became addicted to it like so much celluloid heroin.His first experience with role-playing games came in college, where among the systems he began playing was the venerable Star Wars D6 RPG from West End Games (an Ewok with a taste for booze and fast-moving ships/vehicles still ranks among his all-time favorite characters from any system). He found particular inspiration from the illustrations of Doug Chiang as well those from as the various artists from Palladium Books over the years. Eric graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Auburn University and immediately began work as a comic book colorist (among other things) at the now-defunct Dagger Comics. He has since been a freelance artist/colorist (most notably on Head Press' "Template"), apparel designer, retail advertising graphic artist/print media manager, video game merchandiser, and is currently the secretary for a university library in Birmingham. Aside from sci-fi in general -- and Star Wars in particular -- Eric's interests include photography, trivia, his wife/son, and all things Disney (preferring to combine as many as possible at once). He managed to fulfill not one, but two life-long dreams in 2006 -- celebrating his becoming a one-day Jeopardy! champion by finally visiting Disneyland. |
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Drone - Contributor |
Artist: Clone Wars Sourcebook Drone has worked for quite a few years in the games industry. He has worked as a 2D/3D Artist, Concept Artist, and Lead Artist. Due to his daily work flow, he prefers digital media. His tools of choice are Photoshop, Sketchbook, and 3D Studio Max, however, in his line of work he's gotten used to working with software such as Softimage|XSI, Maya, Lightwave, Modo, Zbrush, Painter, ArtRage, and the like.If you have any questions, please feel free to send him a message on the Star Wars Artists' Guild. He can also be reached at Drone04@gmail.com. |
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Richard Bermudez - Contributor |
Editor - Clone Wars Saga Edition Fan Sourcebook Born a long time ago, in a galaxy not nearly far enough away, the first run of Star Wars made on lasting impression on the still-young Padawan learner Richard Bermudez, as well as his college buddies. Richard began running Star Wars RPG events at conventions in the mid-90s, and started as a freelance RPG copyeditor in 2002 for Battlelords of the 23rd Century.Richard's hobbies include astronomy, photography, modding computer strategy games (such as UFO: Afterlight, Hearts of Iron 2, and Jagged Alliance 2), reading, and history. His personal library numbers over 10,000 books. When not buried in a book or playing games, Richard works as a software systems analyst and QA manager. He was also CTO of a computer network support company in Houston for 7 years. Richard currently lives in Florida, 20 miles from the Space Shuttle launch pads, where he enjoys the beautiful warm weather from the comfort of his air-conditioned study. |
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