"Internet" + "Convention" = Intervention: Experience Your Online Life, In-Person

The following people are scheduled to appear at Intervention 2012 as Guests / Panelists

Intervention 2012 Guest List:
Shaenon Garrity - Skin Horse, Narbonic Shaenon K. Garrity is an award-winning cartoonist and scriptwriter best known for the online comics Narbonic, Li'l Mell, Smithson and Skin Horse. She works as a manga editor for Viz Media and teaches at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Her writing on comics appears in The Comics Journal, Otaku USA and Comixology.com. She lives in Berkeley with her husband Andrew and their cat Tesla.
Danielle Corsetto - Girls With Slingshots Danielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat. She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids called Ramblers in the student paper at Shepherd College (as well as popimage.com). In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It’s now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour. In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy’s kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge. Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.
Jennie Breeden - The Devil's Panties Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties. Ms Breeden has been posting her daily webcomic since 2001, over 3,000 comic strips online and five graphic novels that are in comic shops and book stores around the world. She documents her adventures at conventions and in life. Really, who hasn't gone clubbing with pirates in Canada, hunted dinosaurs in Virginia, and stalked Zombies in an abandoned mall in Burlington? She's still keeping an eye out for those pesky ninjas who periodically steal her sharpies. She lives with her boyfriend in Atlanta Georgia where they eat a disproportionate amount of popcorn.
Jeffrey Wells - Skin Horse Jeffrey C. Wells is best known as the co-writer and co-creator of the award-winning webcomic Skin Horse. His short story "Torn Apart and Devoured by Lions" is featured in the recent Machine of Death anthology. He lives in the wilds of rural Wisconsin with a wonderful spouse, a dial-up modem, and more pets than you can shake a stick at.
Matt Blum - Wired.com GeekDad Blog Matt Blum is the Managing Editor of the GeekDad blog on Wired.com, and has been writing for the blog since the spring of 2007. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two kids, all of whom are also geeks, and two cats, who probably aren't geeks but one of whose names is "Gandalf," so that should count for something. In his day job Matt is a software engineer, and his geeky interests include (but are not limited to) science fiction, the Muppets, LEGO, board games, video games, and bacon.
Pete Abrams - Sluggy Freelance Pete Abrams is the creator of the highly addictive niftiness that is Sluggy Freelance, a remarkably twisted daily online comic strip that has been appearing at www.sluggy.com since August 25, 1997. Starting the comic strip as a creative outlet, his world with the switchblade-wielding rabbit quickly expanded into uncharted territory and grew into over a decade of alien vampire missile-launching fun. Since its Satan-spamming beginnings, Sluggy Freelance has attracted a devoted global following and is one of the most popular and well-known comics on the web. Pete holds the honor of being twice-invited as a speaker at Harvard conventions as well as at a Vassar convention, making him all ivy-league-ish. Pete has gained recognition not only online, but through such high profile appearances as the original comics included in NY Times bestselling author John Ringo's Hell's Faire, and as part of the New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art webcomics exhibition in Fall, 2007, as well as appearances on NPR's Weekend Edition with Liane Hansen. Pete is reputed to be the first person to ever make a living by drawing a webcomic. Currently, Pete lives in New Jersey (and doesn't even mind it) with his wife, Rachel, and two daughters, Leah and Sarah. Click here to read his comic.
Rob Balder - Erfworld / The FuMP / Partially Clips Rob Balder is a professional cartoonist, singer/songwriter, game designer and web entrepreneur. Most of his time is consumed writing and producing Erfworld, an epic fantasy/comedy comic about an obsessive strategy gamer who is summoned to fight a real war. Erfworld was co-created in 2006 with illustrator Jamie Noguchi, and continues now with the talents of illustrator Xin Ye. Time magazine named Erfworld one of its top ten graphic novels of 2007, and Wired.com called it “Geekiest Comic Ever.” The first physical book of the series, "Erfworld: the Battle for Gobwin Knob," was published in February of 2011.
Onezumi Hartstein - Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos Fans say that Onezumi is what would happen if Dirty Harry and Weird Al Yankovic had a daughter that loved to draw. Oni is one of the most active contributors to and supporter of the webcomics scene: - She writes and draws Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos: A Lovecraftian Horror Comedy. - Her dev team made the Webcomics Central App Service. They give free custom iPhone apps to other webcomics. - She founded an entire webcomics and New Media convention. Intervention is a convention for webcomics, fans, and creators who want to learn, have fun, or just geek out. - She posts random art, more tutorials, and awesomeness in her personal blog Onezumiverse. CONNECT: Oni's Twitter - Oni's Facebook - Stupid and Insane FB Fan Page
James Harknell - Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos / My Annoying Life / AWSOM.org / Erfworld Harknell has been working with Onezumi for over 11 years. After noticing that there was very little online to help artists, he decided to do something about it. Harknell customized his first art-centric Content Management System in 2003. Today he releases Wordpress plugins at AWSOM.org and serves as a webmaster and guide for the online comic and blogging industry. His most recent accomplishments include custom website installs for Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos and Erfworld. Harknell co-founded Intervention and develops free iPhone apps for webcomics. Harknell is best known for his easy to understand way of helping artists get their websites up and running. He has been a recurring guest speaker at places like XM Satellite Radio, Katsucon (http://www.katsucon.org), Ubercon (http://www.Ubercon.com), Balticon (http://www.balticon.org), and Otakon (http://www.Otakon.com). Today he lives in New Jersey with Onezumi and way too many computers.
Michael "Mookie" Terracciano - Dominic Deegan Michael "Mookie" Terracciano is the author and artist of the fantasy manga webcomic, "Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire." Since its humble beginnings nine years ago it has received acclaim for its unique characters, addictive storylines, painful puns, awful alliteration and (gasp!) reliable update schedule. Want to know what's so interesting about a grumpy seer, his deformed girlfriend, his angelic little brother, his talking cat, his archmage mother and rock-star father? See for yourself at www.dominic-deegan.com!
Steve Napierski - Dueling Analogs Steve Napierski first got into webcomics in 1999 with the ill-fated Life With Fishnets about his local Rocky Horror cast. In 2004, he began work laying out and coloring Bored and Evil, a task he performed for the first two years of that comic's run. The following year he launched the daily webcomic The Outer Circle and later that year he debuted the twice-weekly Dueling Analogs. He is also the founder of the webcomic group Gamers Pair of Dice.
Garth Graham - Finders Keepers “Hey you sass that hoopy Garth Graham? Now there’s a frood who really knows where his towel is,” would be the words on the lips of internet trawlers the world ‘round if we didn’t happen to live in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy. Instead, Garth lurks in moderate obscurity churning out captivating comics since 2004 in an artistic style that mystically abducts the essences of both western comics and eastern manga; blending them together through patent pending methods into an addictive drug that tantalizes the optic nerves in ways science has yet to be able to explain. His latest artistic creation is Finder’s Keepers (http://www.finderskeepers.gcgstudios.com), the dark urban fantasy of a young lady who accidentally claims the soul of a man who is not entirely human, thus entangling herself in a mystery that spans the breadth of human imagination. A mystery whose solution will most likely get her killed, but is the only thing that can return her to a normal life and break the bond between herself and her otherworldly companion. Garth is also becoming well known for his steampunk art, though his heart will always belong to cyberpunk.
Dave Ghoul - DJ He's baaaaaaaaack! DJ and all around convention dance-party instigator Dave Ghoul returns to Intervention to provide the soundtrack to Friday and Saturday night's festivities! Dave Ghoul is a longtime DJ and event organizer from Philadelphia that specializes in alternative dance music. He's one of the co-organizers of the Philly Zombie Crawl and it's undead siblings the Philly Zombie Beach Party and the Philly Zombie Prom. He's also a resident DJ at both Shadowland Lancaster (spooky fun-time club night) and Dorian's Parlor (monthly Steampunk hootenanny). And, if that's not enough, he's DJ a butt-load of conventions like Wicked Faire and The Steampunk World's Fare. Dave Ghoul will be DJing both nights at Intervention; The themes are still being worked on but expect some Zombie, Steampunk, and other action to occur starting around 10:30pm (and going until well past your bedtime). Dave Ghoul can be contacted by email-- dave at daveghoul.com or visit his website at DaveGhoul.com. Dave Ghoul feels awkward writing in third person.
Ross Nover - The System Rosscott is kinda famous on the Internet. Between podcasting, blogging, and writing bios about himself in the third person, he finds time to write the always amazing webcomic The System, a daily comic-strip style mess starring iconography and graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage. Having been written about in Fleen, Comic Book Resources, and onward through the blogosphere (which surprisingly does not set off my spell check), The System and its growing fans (known as Systemics) are sneaking up behind you and hoping that you join their ranks, for which you may receive a cookie. While he often travels, he maintains his humble apartment in Washington, DC (which is in need of a fair amount of tidying). Cookie currently unavailable.
Jamie Noguchi - Yellow Peril Jamie Noguchi is a DC area illustrator and cartoonist. He is the creator of the Asian American office romance comic, Yellow Peril, and co-founder of Super Art Fight. In his spare time, he journeys through parallel worlds recruiting fellow Kamen Riders to join in the fight against the evil empire, Dai Shocker.
Radio Cobalt Presents "The Tombstone Teeth" The Tombstone Teeth are one of the legendary bands who regularly feature on Radio Cobalt’s “Track of the Week”. Infamous as the first post-punk avant-garde rock band to travel through time, the Tombstone Teeth Will be doing something extraordinary at Intervention 2012: A full album recording over the course of the 3 days of the event. And you can watch or even be a part of it! They'll be set up in one of our programming rooms and encourage attendee participation in their hijinks. To prepare yourself for the onslaught you should check out their website at: www.RadioCobalt.com.
Endlight Entertainment - Ninjas Versus Vampires, TREKOFF Podcast The folks at Endlight Entertainment are based in the DC Metro area and have enjoyed success with their cult films NINJAS VS ZOMBIES and NINJAS VS VAMPIRES. Started by Screenwriter/Director Justin Timpane, Endlight has grown to include a small army of talented artists and technicians all dedicated to bringing microbudget films to the next level! Their next project, NINJAS VS MONSTERS (which we hope to screen at the event) is slated to begin production in the first quarter of 2012, and you can find out more about that at www.ninjaswin.com! TREKOFF! The Star Trek Podcast with BALLS! Sometimes crass, sometimes insightful, sometimes controversial, Trekoff has enjoyed thousands of downloads and is available for free every week at www.trekoffpodcast.com. This irreverent Star Trek podcast is hosted by DC Area actress Alexia Poe and Ninjas Vs Vampires Creator Justin Timpane, with some help from local theatre director Darrell "Mr. A" Poe. TREKOFF is exploring where many have gone before, but it trashes the hotel room before it leaves.. TREKOFF is just a part of the ENDLIGHT PODCAST NETWORK, which has a bunch of free funny shows like POPOFF - which is currently taking a hard, slightly drunk look at the Marvel Movies and Harry Potter, as well as THE HOT MESS, THE SUCKCAST, and NINJAS VS YOU - The official audioblog of the upcoming NINJAS VS MONSTERS. All the shows can be seen and subscribed to together at www.endlightpodcast.com Come check out the podcast being recorded LIVE on Saturday Night, and listen every week at www.trekoffpodcast.com
Chris Impink & Barb Fischer - Sledge Bunny Studio Unseen is made up of two carbon-based creatures: Chris Impink and Barb Fischer. They recently premiered their new project, Sledgebunny: a sports-anime-inspired comic that takes place in the fast-paced world of flat track roller derby. On December 30, 2009, they closed the book on Fragile Gravity, a strip that featured independent comics, conventions, and (in an earlier arc) an invasionary force of penguins. Oh, and an extra-bitter stoat. Chris Impink does the artwork and web design; he has been featured in Antarctic Press and did much of the graphic work for The Babylon Project role-playing game. Additionally, his work has been featured at various conventions such as Katsucon, Technicon, and Rising Star. He is also mildly notorious for co-founding Katsucon, though his team of spin doctors has kept that under wraps for many years. In his rare moments of free time, Chris works with the crew from Super Art Fight (http://www.superartfight.com) , running the Wheel of Death and notching up wins on the championship belt. Barb Fischer does the writing as well as merchandise assembly and convention spotting; when not plotting out the nuts and bolts of Sledgebunny, she takes care of her nine-year-old son which gives her just enough time in the day to take one or two breaths before plunging back into the fray. At some point, she’s hoping to find the time to use up the boxes and boxes of fabric she owns.
Elaine Corvidae - Riven Sol Elaine Corvidae's mom taught her how to read using Uncle Scrooge comic books, which is no doubt why she always dreamed of doing her own comic. When she read her first webcomic in 1998, Elaine fell in love with the medium. She began serializing her first science fiction novel online in 2004, and finally launched her first webcomic this year. /Riven Sol/ combines her love of digital art, H.P. Lovecraft, and science fiction. In addition to her online work, Elaine is the author of eleven fantasy novels and numerous short stories and novellas. She lives near Charlotte, NC, with her husband and their adorable cats, and enjoys brewing her own beer and eating vegetarian food. You can visit her on the web at www.rivensol.com
T. Campbell and Phil Kahn - Guilded Age An ex-stage actor and failed Internet shut-in, T Campbell has written eighteen gazintillion pages of comics, including Guilded Age, Penny and Aggie, Fans, Cool Cat Studio, Divalicious, Search Engine Funnies, Rip and Teri and just a little Avengers. He spends his “spare time” designing crosswords, drafting health care bills and seeking the Anti-Life Equation. A longtime Professional Neckbeard, Phil Kahn has spent a few years writing for various Webcomic, Webcomic Criticism, and Webcomic Enthusiast sites, and is now trying to take his accumulated knowledge and put it all to good use on Guilded Age. While building a daytime career as an A/V Technician and an IT Support Specialist, he also spends a great deal of time practicing silly voices/faces in front of a mirror for the inevitable day where the only thing that can save the whole of humanity from certain doom is his impression of Henchman #24. Out of the three creators, he has spent the most time playing MMORPGs and is totally that Gnome Warlock who just won’t DIE ALREADY.
Kara Dennison - Con Screw and many other comics Kara Dennison (AKA The Heaven-Breaking Pen, etc.) is a deadly force of nature whose introduction into your universe comes in the form of broken arms and shattered spirits. It's not surprising given her feats of fancy: Aside from making the sun go supernova in the year 7689 due to a time paradox, she's drawn and written several webcomics, including the recently-wrapped ConScrew, and Fanbreeding for Nth Degree Magazine Her acting talents can be seen in various productions (both on stage and in voice) and regular appearances with the elite Luna-C comedy troupe. Her costuming talents have been proven deadly enough to render a certain Japanese cosplay idol giddy with joy (before she broke her heart). Currently, she wanders the pop culture wasteland, searching for the truth that eludes us all. Pray that she's still out there....
Christiann - Sticky Comics Christiann MacAuley is the creator of the humor webcomic, Sticky Comics. A former zine-ster, Christiann creates her cute but irreverent comics with actual paper and ink for bonus indie cred. Christiann's work has been seen around the internet on esteemed venues like Gizmodo, Groklaw, and Daring Fireball. This year she has shown her work at DC area art shows and is publishing a collection of her cartoons, tentatively titled The Sticky Comics Picture Book. Christiann lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Travis Surber - Hainted Holler Travis Surber is the creator of the webcomic Hainted Holler. He started out as a writer and was first published in the Dec 2004 issue of Midnight Ink, an independent anthology of mixed media works. After several failed projects in both online and print media, he decided to try his hand at webcomics and launched Hainted Holler in July 2009 on the Drunk Duck hosting service, before moving to his own domain in 2010. With no formal training he has managed to put out over 500 strips and just published his second collection of strips Hainted Holler 2:Redneck Boonaloo. Travis currently lives in Bassett,Va with his wife and 2 cats, and recently began work on an Urban Fantasy novel he hopes to publish next year.
Ben Kahan - Ansem Retort Ben Kahan is the writer and creator of the webcomic Ansem Retort. Ben has been making Ansem Retort, a Kingdom Hearts sprite comic that has nothing to do with Kingdom Hearts, since 2005. Holding to the commandment that nothing’s sacred, nothing and nobody is off limits, morals are gleefully thrown out the window. If it can offend somebody, he’s made a comic about it. Originally from Connecticut, Ben spends most of the year in Philadelphia, where he is an English major at the University of Pennsylvania. Ben has worked for the Howard Stern Show and will be published in the upcoming Graphic Novels, an academic source from Salem Press.
Tony DiGerolamo - Super Frat Tony DiGerolamo is a screenwriter, novelist, comedian and writer for the Simpsons and Bart Simpson comics. He's written for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He’s the creator of the Super Frat webcomic (www.superfrat.com) and co-creator of The Webcomic Factory (www.thewebcomicfactory.com), a high quality, webcomic hub that posts a new webcomic every day.
Chris Flick - Capes -N- Babes Capes -N- Babes Having graduated from Radford University in 1991 with a graphic design and commercial illustration degree, Chris has worked in a wide range of graphic design fields - from silk-screen illustrator to an advertising agency graphic designer. In between, he has done freelance commercial illustration and caricature work. In 1999, he taught himself html and eventually went on to co-author two books about web design - both of which were published by New Riders Press. It was this association with New Riders Press that lead him to start a promotional webcomic strip for the website, Community MX (www.communitymx.com) which he has been doing weekly since May 2004. That webcomic is called "CMX Suite" and can be read every Wednesday at Community MX. After a few years of working on "CMX Suite", and after talking to a wide variety of other webcomic creators such as Brad Guigar and Danielle Corsetto at various comic book conventions he attended, Chris decided to create an entirely new comic strip comprised of his own characters and dealing with his love of comic book and super heroes. And in November of 2007, Capes & Babes was born. Capes & Babes is a webcomic about a strip mall, a comic book shop and one crazy werewolf and can be read three times a week at www.capesnbabes.com
Nerd Comics Bree Rubin: Bree Rubin is the co-founder of NERD comics. She is the creator of two regular webcomics, the autobiographical Sex, Drugs, & June Cleaver and the irreverent story about the business of God Mysterious Ways, Inc.. She is also responsible for several self-published comic titles, such as "Silly Rabbit: revenge of the Trix Rabbit". Known for drinking to excess and general roudy behavior, be wary if she offers you baked goods.
Chezhnian Angelus and Erin "eren" Fitzgerald - Tamuran Chezhnian Angelus (right) and Erin "eren" Fitzgerald (left) are the respective creator/writer and artist/co-writer of Tamuran, a manga-style epic fantasy webcomic. Tamuran is a story about a young royal heir suddenly turned king-in-exile, and his quest to save his kingdom from the country of powerful, grudge-bearing sorcerers that have taken it over. The young king must travel far across the wilds of his dying land, accompanied only by a few unlikely and unexpected protectors - who include a wild elf whose entire clan has mysteriously disappeared, a shapeshifting girl from a magical ascended race who knows little of the mortal world, and a huge man-eating forest beast with an academic bent. Chezhnian has been world-building the setting in which Tamuran takes place for over 12 years. The world of Tamuran has been under the pen for 5 years and counting, two of which have been spent in good company co-writing the comic script and contributing to design work. Writing music is also one of Chezhnian's passions, and an original score soundtrack inspired by and for the comic is currently in progress. Eren has been drawing webcomics since 2005, when he started working on "Shades of Veil" as an homage to his college roommates' Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Now he is focusing his comicking mainly on co-writing and illustrating "Tamuran." Eren recently spent a year and a half teaching English in elementary and junior high schools in Japan, where his drawing skills and love of manga ended up being just as useful as his Japanese language degree.