Jessica Franklin (Webcomic) Jessica's drawing career only began when she was in high school and was introduced to Anime on a wide scale. She began doodling anime just for fun. Over the years she tried continuously to draw some of her own stories down but often failed. After a few years some of Jessica's friends at the University of Maine Animation Club asked her to draw a mascot for them. There she came up with the loveable character's Aki and Ame. With their great success the members of the club started to bug her about doing some sort of comic for the club’s new website they were developing. Finally, she gave in and came up with the web-comic Kyoki: From Us to You. (kyoki means craziness in Japanese) It takes place at an Anime club where lots of craziness and mayhem is bound to happen. Through Kyoki Jessica hopes to improve her art as well as her storytelling abilities. She also thanks all of her friends who believe in her and have pushed her forward to do her best. Kyoki
Cat Dancer Cat Dancer desires to be art, a pure gateway of archetypal
energy unleashed onto an unsuspecting world. Visit him
at http://catdancer.ws/
Karudon Manga (Manga Publishing) Karudon Manga is Maine's Manga Publisher. Karudon hosts and promotes webcomics and also publishes and promotes comics and graphic novels. We're proud to represent the great artists of New England because at Karudon, we know what otaku means. www.Karudon.com
Jimmy Schmidt, Sketch Kingdom (Webcomic) Jimmy Schmidt is the artist of a new webcomic to the Maine based comic group, Prototype Comics. Sketch Kingdom features a young deserter on a desert infested planet fighting to survive the ever pressing danger of the life he left behind. www.prototypecomics.com
Shelli-Jo Pelletier and Shawna Henshaw, Ten no Tasuke (Webcomic) Ten no Tasuke is your basic bishi-fest, a story of four high school boys trying to start a band. Throw in a new species of humans and some unexplained god-like powers and things get a little more interesting! This story began as an RPG between myself and co-creator Shawna Henshaw. After a year of playing together I realized we had a long enough storyline to create a webcomic, and broached the idea to her. The rest is history! One of the more unique things about us is our dispersal over the United States. While I reside in Maine, Shawna lives in California, and our webhost is a friend from Indiana. Our collaborating is done entirely online through e-mail and AIM www.surprise-ending.com/TenNoTasuke
Beth Yount (Artist) Beth is an artist who has enjoyed drawing since as far back as the 7th grade. She can often be found doing quick doodles for the people that she talks to on GaiaOnline. She has been assisting Dave Lister (of Paradox Lost) at conventions for quite some time now, and is very very excited (and nervous) to be making her own premier at this con! She likes things like mittens, socks puppets, and headfishes! She also has a really hard time talking in the 3rd person. www.rice-bubbles.com Beth's Deviant Art
Dave Lister, Paradox Lost (Webcomic) Dave Lister is the creator of "Paradox Lost", an online manga about two soon-to-be college freshmen who dream of one day breaking into the gaming industry. When simply impossible situations begin to occur in rapid succession, "real life" takes a back seat and it's an out of control free-for-all teeming with space pirates, ninja hordes, crazy alien girls, and more caffeine than the FDA recommends in a lifetime! What does it all mean? What is this missing "Ultimate Power" that everyone seems desperate to find? Can a couple of gamers untangle the mess before summer ends and classes begin? Nothing's impossible!
www.paradox-lost.com
Nick and Skip, Life for Breakfast (Webcomics) Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. Let me tell you about the flowers and the trees. Let me tell you about when a writer and an artist come together and make sweet sweet comic love. That's exactly what happened when Nick (Fuji) Johnson and Kevin (Skip) Brunelle came together to form the webcomic collective Life for Breakfast. Home to three webcomics, "The Crew", "Strange Days", and "Backlit Transit", the site has everything from random insanity, to giant swords, to large breasts, to pink fluffy bunnies; a little for everyone. First birthed on Keenspace and Comicgenesis they have finally moved to their own server and are opening their horizons with more comic pages and a more delicious site. Check them out at http://www.lifeforbreakfast.com and enjoy the madness! www.lifeforbreakfast.com
Ian and Archimer, Saco's Angels (Webcomic) A Maine based webcomic about a group of friends from Saco. Among them are a luthier, bass virtuoso, an artist/Mopedestrian, a radio DJ/revolutionary, a lifetime Shaw’s employee, and a crack addict dog. They live in a house rented out by a hippie landlord, and cannot pass up a good game of Risk. www.pleadingbrilliance.com/sacosangels
Brandon Morgan (Artist) For the third and final year, Graphic Artist Brandon Morgan of UMF will be attending the UMFCON and providing guests with Chibi Characature Drawings!!! As a special Farewell Event, Brandon will also be selling Used Manga, Anime DVDs, and other misc items!! Anti Zombie Army
Beth is an artist who has enjoyed drawing since as far back as the 7th grade. She can often be found doing quick doodles for the people that she talks to on GaiaOnline. She has been assisting Dave Lister (of Paradox Lost) at conventions for quite some time now, and is very very excited (and nervous) to be making her own premier at this con! She likes things like mittens, socks puppets, and headfishes! She also has a really hard time talking in the 3rd person.
Dave Lister is the creator of "Paradox Lost", an online manga about two soon-to-be college freshmen who dream of one day breaking into the gaming industry. When simply impossible situations begin to occur in rapid succession, "real life" takes a back seat and it's an out of control free-for-all teeming with space pirates, ninja hordes, crazy alien girls, and more caffeine than the FDA recommends in a lifetime! What does it all mean? What is this missing "Ultimate Power" that everyone seems desperate to find? Can a couple of gamers untangle the mess before summer ends and classes begin? Nothing's impossible! 
A Maine based webcomic about a group of friends from Saco. Among them are a luthier, bass virtuoso, an artist/Mopedestrian, a radio DJ/revolutionary, a lifetime Shaw’s employee, and a crack addict dog. They live in a house rented out by a hippie landlord, and cannot pass up a good game of Risk.