There is Something for Everyone at ASIAPOP COMIC CON 2016!
COMIC ARTISTS
AsiaPOP Comic Con wouldn’t be complete without these awesome comic artists. Be sure to have your comic books ready and have the opportunity to have them signed by your favorite comic book artists. (Credit goes to the APCC 2016 website for the Comic Artists’ background information)
MIKE ZECK
Zeck has influenced generations of artists with his comics’ series and covers. His groundbreaking six-part story Kraven’s Last Hunt, with J.M. Dematteis and Bob McLeod is the definitive Kraven the Hunter story and took the Spider-Man character to a whole new level. Readers have touted his creations the ‘Greatest Spider-Man story of all time’ in recent polls!
Zeck’s work has also graced the pages and covers of Captain America, Master of Kung-fu, Aquaman,Batman, Legends of the DC Universe, Green Lantern, G.I. Joe: Special Missions, Lobo,Deathstroke the Terminator, The Eliminator, Damned and many other titles.
KEN LASHLEY
Lashley has been a comic book veteran working on such titles as Excalibur, X-Caliber – Age of Apocalypse, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man,The Flash, JLA, Superman and Superman-DOOMED, among others. Lashley is one of the DC Comics’ go-to cover artist, having done covers for Batwing, Ravagers, He-Man, Superboy, Earth-Two, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Superman/ Wonder Woman, Superman VS. Batman, and Suicide Squad, to name a few. Outside of comics, he has worked for Hasbro, Inc.,Lucasfilm, Mattel and FOX Sports, creating designs for lines such as G.I. Joe, Transformers, Spider-Man, Avengers, and Starwars. He is currently providing the art on Uncanny X-Men with writer, Cullen Bunn.
BILLY TAN
Billy is a Malaysian-American comic book artist for more than 20 years now. His earlier artwork in Top Cow includes Tomb Raider, Tales of Witchblade, and Spirit of the Tao. He joined Marvel in 2004 and since then, he has been a main penciler on projects such as X-23,Uncanny X-Men, The New Avengers, and Uncanny X-Force among others. Tan has also worked on the Green Lantern title for DC Comics for three years. He is currently living in China and had recently founded Tan Comics, a China-based comic company focusing on the Asian Super Hero genre.
WHILCE PORTACIO
Whilce, a APCC-second timer, broke into the comics industry by inking Marvel Comics’ classic book LONGSHOT in 1985. Quickly he became a sought-after inker at Marvel, then proved that he was more than ready to headline as a penciler on The Punisher in 1988. Portacio was also a co-founder of Image Comics, an American comic book publisher founded in 1992 by seven high-profile illustrators. At Image, Whilce launched Wetworks and released the successful independent book Stone (based on Filipino myths). In 1996, he returned to Marvel to draw Heroes Reborn: Iron Man followed by X-Force. In 2000, he signed up with DC Comics and released the second run of Wetworks and worked on Batman Confidential, Authority, Stormwatch Comics, and Superman VS. Batman.
To date, Portacio has returned working independently for Image, Marvel, and DC. He did Spawn, Artifacts, The Incredible Hulk, Journey into Mystery, Uncanny X-Men, and graced various Marvel covers and has launched his new creator-owned book, Non-Humans, for Image with Glen Brunswick (writer of new Line Cinema’s “Frequency”) and a new sci-fi book due this year!