Blog Contributors

Michael Auger

Michael Auger is a deviant dabbler in comics. He is known for creating whimsical characters that have both an offbeat quality as well as childlike charm. Having done his time in Ohio at the Columbus College of Art and Design, he currently resides in the Washington DC area where he works as a full time freelance illustrator, graphic designer, animator, and fine artist. He has created numerous ads, album covers, book illustrations, catalogs, posters, flyers, murals, and other arty projects for a variety of clients. Examples of Michael's work can be found on his website www.arty4ever.com.

John Bintz

John Bintz is a Web programmer by trade, and a cartoonist in his spare time. He is currently working on writing, drawing, and self-publishing an all-ages graphic novel titled A Moment of Clarity, and has have been involved in a number of animation productions, both for fun and for profit. His artistic weapons of choice are all Open Source tools like Inkscape (to which John has contributed a fair bit of code), and he also speaks to students, artists, and developers about how he uses Open Source software to create his comics. He also likes beer — but only the good stuff. Learn more at www.coswellproductions.org and www.claritycomic.com

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a student in Washington, DC. An artist and writer, his current projects include Howzit Funnies and Law Monger.

Matt Dembicki

Matt Dembicki publishes the award-winning small-press comics Attic Wit and Mr. Big. His work has appeared in numerous comics anthologies, including the SPX Anthology, Show & Tell and Stripburger.

He’s currently working on the weekly Web comic Spadefoot with fellow artists James West and Andrew Cohen and on a number of other projects that he gets to when he can.

threecrowspress.blogspot.com

Evil-Lyn and Skeletor

Skeletor escaped the destruction of his giant combining robot by alien forces over Tokyo in 1974.

He has recently been sighted participating in Dr. Dremo volumes 2 and 3, Shear Terror, and his webcomic Totally Not Vegan. Skeletor is rumored to be working on an upcoming giant robot saga, Robot Guy, as well as several other projects with the rest of DC Conspiracy.

www.robot-guy.com

Malcolm Jones

Malcolm "Mal" Jones is an Alexandria, Virginia-based artist, working as a web designer by day and a freelance illustrator by night. His works have included the graphic novels Overtime and The Passenger, both written by Marc Bryant. You can see his website at www.maljones.com

Evan Keeling

Evan Keeling was born on a hill in Washington DC. He drew a bear (pronounced bar) when he was only three. After extensive schooling in the graphical arts Evan decided to give all that up for the sweet siren song of comics. He toils by day for the Smithsonian, but at night he makes passionate love to his drawing table.

His current projects are: Death by Sexy, flyer comic about the adventures of a two man rock n' roll force traveling through space; Ataxia Overdrive, a web comic about the adventures of three young thieves and a pair of fantastic shoes, on the run from the Rome-Botic Army; League of Lincoln, 44 page giant sized special annual #1 all super, all Lincoln, all the time. (written by Matt Dembicki and inked by Jacob Warrenfeltz); and Tyranus, an epic fantasy of mythology and monsters.

To find out more information on Evan and his social sickness visit http://www.myspace.com/evan_number_1 and http://evankeelingaib.blogspot.com/

Read some of his comics and they can make passionate love to your brain.

Chris Mararac

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Chris Mararac is the product of a bastardized childhood congealed from too many '80s Saturday morning cartoons and Encyclopedia Brown books. Often called a pop culture whore, but more often just called a whore, Chris can be found in either the manga or porn section in bookstores. Inspired by David Mack, David Choe, and Art Hughs, Chris veers between abstract art and comic art, trying to find a healthy mix, all the while trying not to be called another David Mack wannabe.

Chris is pretty new to the independent comic scene with a total number of ZERO books, but a number of collaborations. Hopefully that will all change.

Chris is a firm believer that the day is for sleeping (at home or at work) and the night is for painting/drawing/plotting world domination.

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Bram and Monica Meehan

Bram and Monica Meehan are New Englanders by birth, graphic designers by training, comic readers by avocation, and married by mutual consent. They produce the espionage thriller Raised By Squirrels, now available collected into a single book with some extra features.

Though Monica and Bram have relocated from the DC area to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the kind folks at the DC Conspiracy have seen fit to let them participate from afar.

Deborah Orgel

Deborah Orgel is cartoonist and writer who wishes only half of the time that there could be more sunlight in the day, and the other half of the time she wishes for new pen nib points to be invented.

She has nearly completed an illustrated book/graphic novel, or big honkin' comic (whatever you want to call it) titled The Field Guide to Drinkers, Thinkers, and Intellectual Malingerers. You can see her portfolio at http://www.deborahorgel.com, her weekly webcomic at http://www.idiomat.com, and her sketch and comic blog at http://debliography.blogspot.com.

Chris Piers

Chris Piers thinks the thing he remembers most about growing up wasn't the cool glasses of lemonade on the front porch or the smell of freshly harvested tobacco and cotton — no, it was... the swimmin'. Lawd, there was swimmin' most any day the sun was out and even on a few where it wasn't. He'd wander down to the swimmin' hole and sure enough, there was Scooter and Geech and even pretty little Miss Lulu May, sure 'nuff.

Then he read a comic book and it was all indoors, all the time! Chris likes to write and draw but also practices coloring and lettering. He just loves those comic books.

Aside from a few pinups printed in various comics (and does that really count? No.), he has yet to have a publisher to put out his stories. But that's ok. He puts out stuff with the DC Conspiracy and you can always see his new artwork at http://www.tabloidcowboy.com/gallery/ or read about what he's up to and see folks critique his latest art at http://chrispiers.livejournal.com.

Jason Rodriguez

Jason Rodriguez wears many hats — writer, editor, up-and-coming publisher, the occasional fedora and this wicked funny Goofy/pirate hybrid hat that he got at Disney World three years ago, back when pirates first started becoming "the new monkey". He has a hard time staying on the subject at hand and hates sweet potatoes.

Credits include: Editor for Western Tales of Terror and Elk's Run from Hoarse & Buggy and the upcoming World's End; Writer of various short sequential stories appearing in Elk's Run, WToT, Red Chapel and The Shear Terror Anthology; Publisher and Editor for the upcoming anthology, Postcards; Columnist and discussion moderator over at The Hive; and Workhorse on his storytelling blog, The Moose in the Closet.

Often credited as being a good-looking guy, but only by desperate women.

Jacob Warrenfeltz

For the past few years, Jacob has been a dabbler in independent comics; illustrating work for four issues of Plastic Farm, contributing to anthologies like Potlatch, Slambang, and the Hurricane Katrina Relief Anthology. He's also produced pin up art for other fantastic books like Johnny Public and Raised by Squirrels. Since joining the Conspiracy in the beginning of ought five he's found himself more and more focused on producing his own book with fellow collaborator Jeff Barrus, The Alberic Heresies. Jacob enjoys working with writers, as he's prone to spout "I'm no writer, don't ask me how to spell that" whenever asked about grammar. No surprise his contribution to the Shear Terror anthology was a silent comic. "I believe firmly in sticking to your strong points, and avoiding the hell out of your weak points."

Aside from comic work, Jacob produces album covers for a few local DC rock bands as well as designed tattoos. He uses a Staedtler mechanical pencil, sable and synthetic brushes, and Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings. He’d like to thank his mother for his talent, but he’d rather thank yours for the inspiration.

Founded in January 2005, the DC Conspiracy has expanded to over 50 members who embody the best of creative comics talent in the DC area. The work we write, draw, edit, and distribute runs the gamut — from witty and literary works to comics which incorporate action, the mystical, and just plain nonsense. Individually we create, but collectively we're working to expand comics readership and fraternity through anthologies, minis, and webcomics, among other things.

If you're interested in becoming a member of the DCC, check out our Yahoo Group to join, just like these fine people:

HEY! What happened to the treehouse?!?

In honor of our second year, we've updated our website, integrating the Blog into the rest of the site.

But have no fear, loyal fans and members, the Treehouse is not gone. You can still click here to visit it, with its lovely, lovely illustrations by Deb.