Volume Seven:

JB Sapienza

Adam Wilson

Morgan Kessler

Tyler Stafford

Carl Alessi

Ed Keer

A jam by Tammy Lee, Rich Lillie, Will Broadbent, Josh Blair and JB Sapienza.

Alex Chiu

Josh Blair



Free Comic Book Day Special 2009:



Isaac Bidwell

Isaac just graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego with a bachelor's
in marketing and graphic design. Now he's taking a little breather. Due to the crumbling
economy, he's been focusing on his next plan of attack. He is an active member of
The Hat Factory art collective, organizing an plethora of art shows and working on his
upcoming comic, "The Fabulous Steins." For more of his work, hit him up on MySpace or at isaacbidwell.com.





Alberto Pessoa

Alberto teaches graphic design and publicity at the Universidade
Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil and is a freelance
comics author. He is an art educator and actually wrote a doctoral
thesis about the ironic speech in Latin comics. He lives in São Paulo,
but has friends in every place of the world because he surfs the Internet
every day! His works can be seen at www.comicspace.com/albertopessoa.







Morgan Kessler

Morgan writes "i wish i had a penguin friend," a mostly autobiographical Web comic.
In her free time, she enjoys popsicles, panhandling and fishing for compliments.





Alex Chiu

Alex Chiu spends most of his time in coffee shops. He enjoys wandering the
world, meeting new people and creating art. He once played the fiddle with a
band of pirates. See Alex's art at http://alexchiu.carbonmade.com, or visit his blog.






JB Sapienza

If Gorilla Monsoon & King Kong Bundy got into a jello tag-team caged wrestling match
with Peggy & Al Bundy, JB would buy tickets and sell them for like three times face value.
Then he'd maybe draw a comic about it later. See more of his work here.





Kyle Dorkchop

Kyle Dorkchop is a punk rocker who lives with his soon to be wife and
6 cats in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He makes many square arts and is
the creator of Bloque Men. Dorkchop enjoys not watching Will Smith
movies and dislikes slow walkers. Arts can be found here.








Noah Van Sciver

Noah Van Sciver is an underground cartoonist currently living in Denver, CO. His work
has appeared nationally and locally, in publications such as Not My Small Diary,
Denver Daily News, FM Magazine, The Comics Journal and Mineshaft. His work will
also appear in an upcoming issue of MOME. Visit him online at www.noahvansciver.com.

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Volume Six:


Naniiebim

Naniiebim is a small shoulder demon who revels in a completely unpronounceable
name and lives to confuse people and generally emits a sort of low-grade evil. Has
recently released a self-published comic called "Mephistos, chapter one" and is
usually found lurking on www.myspace.com/chunkymonkeypoo, where  it puts up
pictures it draws in the blog while procrastinating instead of drawing illustrations,
the job it does for a living. Summoned in the UK.




Jason Viola

Jason Viola lives in Newton, Massachusetts where he toils in an
office all day and draws all night. He is very tired. You can read his
Web comic Herman the Manatee and visit his blog for more comics.










Nick Marino

Nick Marino makes music, is sexy, looks like Donkey Kong world record holder Billy Mitchell,
likes Marvel vs. Capcom and is a cartoonist (which is the reason why he's in Candy or Medicine).






Pete Borrebach

Pete Borrebach spends most of his year between Miami, New York and
Berlin, but manages to find time in his life as an international playboy and
jet-setter to write music and comics with Nick Marino.






Brien Wayne Powell

Brien Wayne Powell lives in Virginia with his beautiful wife & precious son. He co-owns a cat
named Frost, a bird named Poem & a concrete dog named Fred. Brien is a proud member of
the BPP & UFO small press co-ops. He is a lifelong Jimmy Valiant fan. You can check out his
weekly online comic at www.magnetmansion.com. 





Lydia Conklin

Lydia Conklin is a cartoonist who lives in New York City. Her comics
and graphic fiction have appeared in The American Drivel Review,
Beeswax Magazine and Two Friends Magazine. Her Web site is lydiaconklin.com.








Patrick Morgan

Patrick Morgan just likes to draw cartoons. See more of Blobby here.












Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson is a cartoonist from Bolton, England. He has self-published
nine comics including “On The Banks of the Mighty Croal” and the “Random Journeys”
trilogy. His Web site is at www.robjacksoncomics.com and he has a blog.




Ariko "Inomi" Kitsu

Ariko "Inomi" Kitsu loves soft, lovely things and pop art. She lives in Tokyo, Japan
and publishes a zine, “Silly Little Song.” She gets inspiration from music, vintage
children’s books, sweets and fashion magazines. Visit her Web, flickr and Etsy pages.

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Volume Five:



   Cayetano Valenzuela

  Cayetano is a painter and illustrator living and working in the
  Central New York area. He published three small-press books
  and makes lots of paintings. He also works with the Hat Factory
  Art Collective of Oswego, NY and the River City Craft Gang. Contact
  him at cayetanovalenzuela (at) yahoo.com. Also, view his blog and flickr.

Shannon Smith

Shannon Smith is a daddy, husband, artist and storyteller. He is the cartoonist behind
fan- and critic-favorite mini-comics such as Brush & Pen and Small Bible and is currently
working on his first graphic-novel-sized collection, Sleepwalker. Shannon's adventures
are chronicled at shannonsmith.net and he reviews mini-comics at file under other.

    Maggie Morrill

   Maggie Morrill lives in the wilds of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband
   and her computer, constantly preparing for the inevitable uprising of the
   undead zombie hordes. See more of Maggie's comics on her MySpace page.

Andrew Goldfarb

Andrew Goldfarb suffers from acute myopia and an inflammation of the olfactory organs.
He currently lurks in San Francisco and performs as a one-man surrealistic rock and roll
band under the moniker The Slow Poisoner. He intends to finish the final installments of
his long-running comix art melodrama "Ogner Stump's One Thousand Sorrows" at the age
of one hundred, at which point he will go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
He has more comix online at www.ognerstump.com.

   Rob Moses

   Rob is a student at SUNY Oswego who spends his time
   drawing and reading comics. Adventures with clouds might be a
   reoccurring theme in his work, but he's no cumulonimbus.






Sarah Orchard

Sarah is semi-formed swamp creature who likes tea parties and cryptic crosswords.
Sarah is currently trying to publish a comic anthology presenting works by artists from
a small town in the antipodes: Dunedin, New Zealand. Sarah also writes a blog.

Ed Choy Moorman

  Ed Choy Moorman is a young New Jersey-raised cartoonist based in Minneapolis.
  He has self-published a collection of early work (Mayflies & Slide Guitars) and a
  number of mini-comics; is the Bare Bones Press publisher; made an informational
  pamphlet for panhandlers titled "Know Your Rights!" in conjunction with St. Stephen's
  Human Services, is the editor of the upcoming Xeric-Grant winning anthology Ghost
  Comics: A Benefit for RS Eden; attends the Minneapolis College of Art and Design;
  contributes to anthologies such as Not My Small Diary and Good Minnesotan; and
writes songs and plans to learn the ukulele. Find more at edsdeadboy.com and edmoorman.blogspot.com.



Daniel J. Olson

Daniel J. Olson hasn't run out of gas yet, although it looks like the rest of the world is about to.
Just wait until he runs out of money to produce his books! Oh wait.... he already has? Well, that's
not good. While he deduces a way to gain more capital, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his
wife, cat and dead fish. Visit his Web site to view his blog and weekly Web comics. Also, if you
enjoy Candy or Medicine, check out Super Fantastica Comix - yet another mini-comics anthology.

Steve Rack

British artist, Steve Rack, is best known for his childlike illustrations that often feature
an array of characters, including Snuggletuff. Steve studied art for 5 years and graduated
from the Swindon School of Art with a HND in Illustration in 1999. Steve works mostly
with colored pencil, and he uses acrylic paint for larger works. Steve is currently adding
a new character to his MySpace blog on a daily basis until the end of 2008. You can see
more work by Steve at steverack.com and myspace.com/365characters.

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Volume Four:


Simon Corry

"Hello there, my name is Simon and I like to design. I draw what I see
and what i see is my imagination, I guess. There's nothing complicated
about my style; in fact, I think there's a certain innocent simplicity about it
that makes it work. I own and run my own art gallery/coffee shop in
Falmouth, UK called Babahogs. I use a mechanical pencil, fine liners and
Tria markers. Come visit my world."




Ray Negron

Ray N., born on the planet Earth sometime ago during the 1980s, attends
Clayton State University in Morrow, GA and draws comics in his free time.
He is the founder, CEO and custodian of The Jonesboro Experience of America.
Check out some of his comics (including his ribald series "Pervertman!") and
other art pieces and essays on his studio homepage.



Molly Mullen

Molly studies journalism at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
She has drawn comics for the last year and Candy or Medicine is the first
publication to which she has contributed. Other than reading comics and
re-watching "Rocky" movies, she follows the band Lambs of God on tour
most of the time, acting as the band's groupie. Read her blog here.





Josh Blair

Josh is the founder, editor and publisher of Candy or Medicine. His comics have
appeared in Super Fantastica Comix, Always Comix, Symphony in Ink (upcoming),
Threat N Ink (upcoming) and The Northerner. A native of the Northern Kentucky suburbs
of Cincinnati, Ohio, Josh is the father of three, a freelance writer and a cracker jack public
relations person. He has a bachelor's in journalism from Northern Kentucky University
and a master's in journalism from Ohio University. Josh lives in snowy Syracuse, NY.



Abby Mullen

In her free time, Abigail Mullen makes vest and buttons for her vests.
She enjoys educating herself about wheat grass, this cures her colon
problems. Her hometown, Omaha, just went through a storm, but she
now lives in St. Paul. Soon she will be moving to Minneapolis, which
she will enjoy. Her Venus is in Aquarius. She has many acquaintances.
See more of Abby's work here.







Olivia Arrow

Olivia Arrow is a full time student and in her spare time, a comic/zine maker, doodler
and crafter. Although presently she is technologically impaired, she hopes to master
the machine one day (with a lot of help from her friends). Her current and past projects
can be viewed at her blog.





Kevin Richardson

Kevin is an illustrator/cartoonist currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona,
who arrived from beautiful Louisville, Kentucky about 5 years ago. His
three-year labor of love, Bitter Pill, is featured in the Phoenix-based art
magazine Hearsight. See more of Kevin's work here.








Russ Walton

Always a content and happy drunk Russ decided to try to use his bizarre life observations
and opinions to achieve his goal of breaking into the comic industry. Evil Ed and Nasty Ted
is so far the most successful of his attempts after several dozen even more odd and
occasionally borderline sick creations. For more strips, visit his MySpace page.

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Free Comic Book Day Special 2008:

Brad Foster

Brad has been a freelance artist for as long as he can remember, and
his memory is fading these days! Aside from a few thousand odd little
drawings and 'toons contributed to odd little zines over the years, he's
also done the occasional professional job for titles as diverse as "Cat
Fancy", "Gent", "Amazing SF Stories", and "Cricket". In comics he had
his own series some years back, "The Mechthings", and he even got to play with the "big
boys" of comics for a few years as the official "Big Background Artist" of Image Comic's
"Shadowhawk". Check out his own pubs and prints through Jabberwocky Graphix at
www.jabberwockygraphix.com.

Alberto Pessoa(see Free Comic Book Day Special 2009 bio)

Steve Rack

(see Volume Five bio)


Rob Moses

(see Volume Five bio)


Ray Negron

(see Volume Four bio)


Colin Tedford

(see Volume Three bio)

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Volume Three:


Kel Winser

   Kel was born in rural Norfolk, England at the turn of the electric
   decade of the 1980s. Desperate to flree the very small town in
   which he dwelled for 20 years, he moved to the University metropolis
   of Cambridge, where the study of illustration was studied. He now
   lives in a suburban seaside home in Brighton, England where his
   comics are made. See more of his work here.







Kostis Tzortzakakis

  Kostis is a Greek artist whose work has appeared in
  magazines and newspapers. He studies architecture
  at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.








Eric Myers

Eric is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Illinois with his wife, Candi, and their
daughter, Lucy. Occasionally plays, but more often draws, banjos. Eric is the
creator of the Web comic S.M.S. You can see more of his art at www.ericfmyers.com.





Curtis Noel and Erik Dauplaise


   Curtis and Erik are the creators of the OfficeSurprise© characters of
   OfficeSurprise.com. Since 2004, Curtis, the owner of the Rhode Island-based
   Web site design company, base8group, has brought his graphic design skills
   and a slightly warped sense of humor into the mix. While Erik, Project Manager
   at ElectroStandards Laboratory, supplied the inspiration and unique perspective.
   A lot of laughs and a lot of scotch goes in to developing each and every strip.





Colin Tedford

   Colin is a cartoonist (and more) living in his hometown of Winchester,
   New Hampshire. His strip Spinning World appears in the Vermont newspaper
   The Commons each month, and he publishes a few minicomics every year. He is a
   founder and co-organizer of the regional Trees & Hills Comic Group Distro. His comics,
   sketches, illustrations, news of exciting projects and more live at www.colintedford.com.





Dan Taylor

Dan has been lurking on the fringes of small press comics for almost 30 years. Sometimes making
the trip into its murky depths, he has published more than 40 comics and zines and has been
featured in hundreds more. See some of his work here.




Molly Mullen

(see Vol. 4 bio)



Russ Walton

(see Vol. 4 bio)

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Matt Feazell

Matt is a freelance cartoonist and graphic artist living and working in Hamtramck,
Michigan. He contributed a series of back-up stories to Scott McCloud's ZOT!,
published by Eclipse Comics in the 1980s. Caliber Press published a paperback
collection of his work in 1995 called ERT! He is currently a regular contributor to
Disney Adventures Magazine and recently finished his mini-comic graphic novel,
 "The Death of Antisocialman." Read more about Matt and his work at cynicalman.com.


Domen Finžgar

   Domen is a young artist from Slovenia who started his career in
   2004 with the graphic novel Xen, which he drew together with
   seven other artists. After that, things only went up- his works were
   published in Stripburger, Lucky Creature Attacks #2 and some
   lesser-known Slovenian magazines. Domen recently tried his
   skills in animation, game design and illustration. Recently, he
   created Catlife, Snow for Eli and The Gian, his Shadow and the
   Magical Cloud, which are available on his Web site.





Ricky Glore

Ricky is a member of “This Side Up,” the improv comedy team at Northern Kentucky
University, where he majors in theatre and minors in creative writing. Ricky created,
illustrated and co-wrote (with Josh Blair) “GRiMMER,” an award-winning weekly comic
strip published in The Northerner, NKU’s independent student newspaper, that was
later canceled for being “too risqué.” In 2007, Ricky wrote, produced, directed and
appeared in his first live sketch comedy show, titled “UnRegularly Scheduled
rogramming." See videos of Ricky's stand-up here.

Richard Cabeza

   Richard, a.k.a. TheAllKnowingHead, is not only the creator of Mad
   Mad World Comics, but he's also a figment of his own imagination.
   When he's not creating comics that are loosely based on the madness
   we call life, he enjoys reciting the alphabet backwards, listening to
   subliminal messages in 80's hair metal and playing chess. To this
   artist/musician/writer/humanitarian/visionary, the world is but a muse.
   But because of him, the world is now a little more amusing. See his work here.



Erin Griffin

Erin is co-editor of Always Comix, a bi-annual anthology. Her series "Cavities" explores
the mysteries of teeth, mouths, and words. She is skilled in the arts of arguing, grumpiness
and taking a nap, though like many of her generation, she got a degree in something totally
different. She's lived all over the world, and has found that Pittsburgh suits her best.
Check out some Cavities.

Katie Haegele

   Katie is a writer who lives in a quiet old neighborhood near Philadelphia.
   Sample Katie's work online at www.thelalatheory.com.

Yves Albrechts

Yves, a.k.a. Kapreles, was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1978. His rather dark view on
life sprouts drawings influenced by late-'70s underground art. His work appears in
comic-zines worldwide, and his first full-sized comic collection, "Birthsewer" presents
an overview of his work.




Emily Puccia

   Emily is a social worker in upstate New York, where she acts as legal
   guardian and mentor to 20 parentless children. In addition to working with
   orphans, she illustrates and co-writes the comic strip "Classic Feelings,"
   which appears in Syracuse University's Daily Orange. Emily illustrated the
   cover to Volume Two.

Liza Miller

Lizzy Liza Anne Miller/Caldwell was born and raised in the sweet, dusty hills of Northern
New Mexico and cut her comic teeth in the mossy land of Massachusetts. Back home in
the llano she is studying biology and living a charmed life with her high school love
demon & loving husband, Kenneth, and their two extraordinarily well-read boxer dogs
Zoe "Soup de la Soup" Smalls and Jackie "Giacomo Casanova" Smalls. They all enjoy
cruizing their low riders with the punk rock bumpin' and have total crushes on big dorks.





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