Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel, the creative dynamos who engineered the Vertigo hit Breathtaker, created the pioneering Blood of the Innocent mini- series, and developed the acclaimed First Comics series Mars, will lead a full roster of Insight Studios creators and guests to the Baltimore Comic-Con, October 28-30, 2022 at Booth #116 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Tickets are now available.
Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel have been highly successful collaborators, including work on Tarzan, Jonny Quest, Titanic Tales, and Doctor Cyborg, as well as their recent full restoration of their acclaimed graphic novel Breathtaker, originally serialized and then collected into a best-selling trade paperback by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which is forthcoming from Titan Comics. Appearing now, McDaniel College in Westminster Maryland serves as premiere host of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Breathtaker Exhibition, featuring works from acclaimed graphic novel. McDaniel’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery showcases a large sampling of original works of art. The exhibition runs Monday, Aug. 22-Saturday, Oct. 29 and is free to the public.
This is the twenty-third annual Baltimore Comic-Con and this marks Insight Studios Groups’ twenty-third consecutive appearance at the show. This time, the talent roster includes writer- director-graphic novelist Mark Redfield (Vampire Hunters Incorporated), industry veteran Mike Gold (longtime First Comics and DC editor), ComicMix’s Glenn Hauman (They Keep Killing Glenn), and actor/sound designer Jennifer Rouse (Frankenstein Mobster).
Mark Wheatley, Mark Redfield, and Jennifer Rouse will be offering the full cast Frankenstein Mobster Monsterama Audio Drama at the convention for the first time. This stunning adaptation of Wheatley’s popular graphic novel stars Daniel Roebuck (The Munsters), Debbie Rochon (Exorcism of Fleete Marish), and Mark Redfield.
On his own, Mark Wheatley has most recently released the Edgar Rice Burroughs Visions of Adventure portfolio that collects 16 of his most popular illustrations and paintings inspired by the Burroughs Universe. Also Songs of Giants, an oversized hardcover featuring his illustrations accompanying the poetry of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conan creator Robert E. Howard, and Cthulhu creator H.P. Lovecraft. Prior to its acclaimed debut, Wheatley illustrated and co-developed Doctor Cthulittle with studio mate G. D. Falksen. His other work includes supplying art for prose books such as The Monster On Hold by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert and The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard volumes 1-3, Steve Harrison’s Casebook by Robert E. Howard, the special signed limited edition of Swords Against the Moon Men, the Philip Jose Farmer series novel Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time, and a wide variety new art prints, which he will have for sale at the booth. Over the past few years, his work for CBS Television was featured on The Millers and Super Clyde. In print, his work has been featured in the acclaimed Jungle Tales Of Tarzan from Dark Horse Comics. With a track record that includes Frankenstein Mobster, Radical Dreamer, Return of the Human, Hammer of the Gods, EZ Street, Skultar, and Lone Justice, Wheatley is an Inkpot, Golden Lion, Mucker, Gem, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Pulp Factory, Speakeasy, and Eisner Award-winning creator who has also been inducted into the Overstreet Hall of Fame. He has lectured at the Library of Congress, exhibited at the Norman Rockwell Museum, created set pieces for The Black Eyed Peas, designed for Lady Gaga, and contributed designs to ABC’s Beauty and the Beast. Currently, his art can be seen as part of the touring exhibition Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration from the Norman Rockwell Museum.
“America’s Most Beloved Semi-Obscure Cartoonist” writer-illustrator, Marc Hempel, grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and now resides in Baltimore, Maryland, where he plies his craft on such diverse projects ranging from his own Gregory, Tug & Buster, and Naked Brain to Disney Adventures, and from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser to “The Kindly Ones”; in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Hempel’s art has also appeared in MAD, Marvel Fanfare, Epic Illustrated, Heavy Metal, Flinch, My Faith in Frankie, The Dreaming, Lucifer, Munden’s Bar, Nickelodeon Magazine, and a 21-page an Escapist story for Dark Horse Comics. His series The Love Brothers has appeared in Aces Weekly.
Mark Redfield is an actor, writer, producer, director, and artist who has been acting and directing professionally in theater and film since 1981. He is currently developing a new script, revising a novel, recording AudioBooks and AudioDrama, editing a film, and painting new pictures. A cartoonist who also designs sets for television and theater, his new work is shown in galleries, and appears weekly for sale at MarkRedfieldArt.com. His films include indie features such as the award-winning Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002), Cold Harbor (2003) and The Death of Poe (2006). He is the co-creator and co-writer, with Stuart Voytilla, of the Vampire Hunters Incorporated series, which will make the leap from prose to graphic novel series. A voice actor who has hundreds of commercial, narration, audio book, and video game credits, he produces original audio and radio drama with RedfieldArtsAudio.com and distributes titles on CDBaby, ITunes, Audible, and on CD and LP.
Jennifer Rouse is a sound designer, video editor, web designer, and actress. Her acting credits include Come Hell or High Water, The Death of Poe, Chainsaw Sally, State of Play, Body of Lies, Step Up, and Step Up 2: The Streets, A Dirty Shame, and The Wire. Her film production work includes being the associate producer for Chainsaw Sally and The Death of Poe, and she did the music score for the film The Death of Poe.
Martha Thomases is a writer living in New York City. She created Dakota North with Tony Salmons for Marvel. As a freelance journalist, she has been published in the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, High Times, Spy, the National Lampoon, and more. Her work promoting The Death of Superman made an entire nation share in the tragedy of one of our most iconic American heroes. A Wave Blue World will publish her graphic novel with Richard Case, Second-Hand Rose.
Former First Comics and DC Comics editor Mike Gold hosts and performs the weekly two- hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues, and blather radio show on The Point, and on iNetRadio (search: Hit Oldies) every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week. Check getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information.
ComicMix head-honcho Glenn Hauman writes, edits, colors comics, designs websites, designs books, performs marriages, reaches things on high shelves, changes light bulbs, bats right, snores loud, sings baritenor, draws to inside straights, drinks too much DMD, and stays up waaay too late at night. People keep trying to kill him, as they do in the anthology They Keep Killing Glenn. You can find out more at Glennhauman.com, or ComicMix.com.
Daniel Krall lives in Baltimore, Maryland where he splits his time between comics, editorial illustration, world building for animation, writing, and personal creative projects. His comics work has been published by DC, Dark Horse, Image, AdHouse Books, and Oni Press. His other clients include Netflix Animation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Stranger, The London Financial Times, The Village Voice, Wired, Details, Mean, Paste, Seed, Nickelodeon Magazine, GQ, Sierra Club, World Book, Oxford University Press, Random House, Walt Disney Films, American Airlines, XM Radio, Lexus, Hasbro, Brand New School of Design, ChefsFeed, Amazon, and Double Fine Productions.
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