BayouCon Comic Guests

Love comics?  So do we.  Below are the comic guests presenting panels, how to seessions, and custom commissions.

Kevin P. Johnson

Kevin P. Johnson is an independent comic book artist by night and graphic designer by day. He attended Southeastern Louisiana University and graduated with a BA in visual arts with a minor in graphic design.

In August of 2008 Kevin released his first webcomic, an all ages superhero comic called Strange City Heroes. The comic is a silly fun superhero comic with a large cast of heroes and villains that has the feel of the simpler comics of the golden and silver age. Strange City Heroes will soon be replaced by The Adventures of the Golden Cape (The main character of SCH) hopefully by the summer of 2013, The comic will continue to come out on the same website at www.strangedrawingsartgallery.com Strange City Heroes currently has 9 issues in printed form.  Kevin hopes to release additional comic books in 2013, a reworking of the mini-comic Little Ghostly Ted and new comics Killer-Monster Killer and The Mundane. The new titles are planned to be print only with a possible digital downloadable version. Kevin also has a blog called Ahhh! Monsters featuring his art and sketches of many different monsters famous and not so famous you can find that at http://ahhhmonsters.blogspot.com

Kevin lives in Metairie, Louisiana. You can find Kevin spending entirely too much time on Facebook.

Kevin is also doing a kickstarter for his artwork created for BayouCon.  Learn more at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/836646517/bayoucon-limited-edition-print-by-kevin-p-johnson?ref=home_location.

Danny Allain

Danny is an art professor at McNeese State University in Lake Charles.  He presents a beginners class on the fine aspects of comic drawing and illustration.  Danny will be presenting a how to workshop on the basics of making your own comic book.

Johnny Segura

Johnny J. Segura III was born and raised in Lake Charles, La. He is a self-taught artist with an American-Manga style. He's biggest inspirations growing up were Joe Joe Madureira, Humberto Ramos and Kohta Hirano. Nowadays he spends most of his time admiring Ryan Ottely, Jason Pearson, anything Final Fantasy or Gurren Lagann related and still having a deep love for Joe Mad.He has self-published several of his own comics including the very successful " Pipe Dreams: A Tale of 2 Plumbers " which is Segura's take on one of his first love - the Mario Bros. Along with Pipe Dreams, he has Billy the Face - a post-apocalyptic world where Billy's fight for revenge for his father's death turns into something much bigger than he ever could imagine. His most recent project " Demon's Redemption " takes place in fuedal Japan about a once top killer looking to find peace is destined to be forever haunted by his horrible past. Those side by side with " Dead Beats " which he did for CCP Comics make up an impressive comic presence. Along with his 90-page sketch book " AWESOME SAUCE - The Art of Johnny J. Segura III " and with 80+ art prints ranging from Anime to American Comics to Pop Culture Icons he has something for everyone. Johnny has spent the last 2 years traveling the Southwest hitting up some of the biggest cons putting himself out for everyone to see. Selling comics, original art, prints, and also breaking hearts. Currently, he is working on new issues of Billy, Dead Beats, Demon's Redemption and Pipe Dreams

 Jason Hardy

Jason Hardy was born and raised in Kaplan, Louisiana. A small, quiet town similar to Mayberry but with more drunks. Surprisingly, he does not work for Kaplan's tourist bureau but instead as a high school teacher. He is also a self taught (it sometimes shows), amateur artist that specializes in SF/Fantasy art with a comic touch. He also enjoys Pinup art for quite obvious reasons. He was inspired early on by such artists as Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan and Jeffrey Jones and avidly read the books of ERB, Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber as a teen though, oddly enough, he has never carried a sword or seen a live dinosaur. He also grew up watching Sinbad movies, Tarzan adventures, Star Trek episodes and Kolchak stalkings and continues to enjoy them today. He is a self published poet (most people don't know it) with three books under his belt which makes for very uncomfortable seating. His books are: The Paranoid Pirate, My Mommy Hates Halloween and Cats of Cairo. His poetry is humorous and tends to make more serious poets grumble then smile reluctantly. He does in fact have a cat that unfortunately does not attend conventions since his fees are much too high.

Jacqueline Segura

Jacqueline Segura, 27, was born and raised in Lake Charles. She is known for her colorful, expressive paintings and recently published black and white photo zine "Abandoned Orphanage". Segura is an exciting and youthful proponent of outsider art in Lake Charles, who challenges the boundaries of typical Lake Charles Visual Art.

Eric Hooper

Well hello one and all. I'm Eric and I intend to mechanize the many facets of life you encounter day to day. From clocks and clocks, to books and books. But not only do I offer items, but a story as well. All of the components I use come with it's own unique story, and history as to where they hail from.

Mark Rhodes

Mark Rhodes has been a fan of comic books and an artist most of his life. Mark grew up and attended high school in Slidell. Wanting to persue a career in the arts, he attended Delgado Community College in New Orleans and graduated with an associates degree in commercial art. A few years later, attending Southeastern Louisiana University, majoring in art education and graphic design. Mark soon found work as a graphic designer for newspapers and advertising agencies across the Northshore. After finding many friends though Facebook, who where drawing and publishing their own comics on the internet, he felt that it was finally time to realize his dream of drawing his own comic.

Mark's comic is about the modern city of Olympia, where the mythical gods of old return to modern day and fight to save their city from the forces of evil. The look of each god has been reimagined to look like superheroes and villains. Mark's work is inspired by the artists that he grew up reading, such as Jim Lee, Erik Larsen, and Todd McFarlane.

Jessie Craig - Charisma Kills Studios

Jessie started Charisma Kills Studios and his comic career in 2011 with the web comic, "Sweet Dreams are Made of Worms". This was followed by the web comic "Apocalypse Pizza", Unfortunately, circumstances beyond his control forced him to step away from it all for a couple of years. But now he is back! With new material being created for both comics and several new projects in the works including Charisma Kills Radio (Scheduled to start in May), a podcast dedicated to fan interest like comics, web comics, gaming, conventions, movies, TV, and popular genres. As well as offer advice and exploration of these subjects through his on experiences and interviews with special guest. He will be recording a special episode at this year's Bayoucon. So stop by Jessie's table in artist alley. You may end up in the episode. For more information, visit www.charismakills.com

New World Comics - Leonard Kately

Leonard Kately is the founder and creator of New World Comics. A self taught artist, He's been producing small booklets based on characters he's been creating since childhood. Recently, with the advent of social networking sites, he's found a new venue to network with other artists and writers as well as broaden his fan base. The internet has also made it available for him to make his books available to more readers. His New World Comics' titles are for all ages and deal with a a variety of subjects such as bullying, terrorism, poverty, race relations, religious intolerance, ageism, peer pressure, drugs, governmental coverups, the AIDS crisis, gun violence, and teenage pregnancy all the while keeping with the action and adventure that comics are known.