Wicked Comics are proud to announce that French digital artist Jean-Louis Mast (Original Sin: Secret Avengers), inker supreme Dave Lung, Italian illustrator Luciano Regazzoni (Alpha Agency) and the Palermo based collective Grafimated Cartoon (I Vespri Siciliani) will be joining Yishan Li, Rufus Dayglo, Andrew Wildman, Guillermo Ortego, Steve Scott, Mickey Lam, Mike Collins, Cliodhna, Dave Taylor, Christian Ward, John-Paul Kamath, Michael Dialynas, Lew Stringer, Daniela “Iella” Attard, Mario Alberti, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeb, Jason Howard, Richard Starkings, Tim Perkins, Sean Azzopardi El Torres, Amigo Comics, Jenika Ioffreda, Stephanie Cooke, Gianluca Maconi, Mike Lawson, the School of Bitches, and Marianne Galea as guests for the Malta Comic Con (MCC) 2014 which will be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November at St. James Cavalier (all floors), Valletta, between 10am – 6pm on Saturday and 11am – 7pm on Sunday.
“The show was a really good surprise for me. The place is just beautiful, the public very curious about anyone’s work, and the organisation very kind with the artists invited. I keep warm memories of any talks and lunches together with all the artist and crew. Also I never thought of visiting Malta, the Comic Con was a great occasion to discover this country. The MCC crew did well!@ (Rosalys, 2014)
Jean-Louis Mast:
Mast is a French digital artist who has been working on the web since he was a little 16-year-old punk (recently on “Watchmen 3″, French webcomics “L’Affaire DSK”, “Gonzoo” and “La Synthèse des Auteurs BD”).
He’s a storyboard artist for Marvel digital line: the Infinite Comics.
He worked with Geoffo on “Amazing Spider-Man: Who Am I?”, “Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite”, “Iron Man: Fatal Frontier”, “Original Sin: Secret Avengers”, “Thanos: A god up there listening”, and “All-New Captain America: Fear Him!”. He is also scheduled to work on more titles which will be announced shortly.
Mast is also the co-cartoonist of Jim The Duck’s comic strips, from NBC’s famous TV show Community.
http://maltacomic-con.com/guest/94
http://www.jlmast.com
Dave Lung:
Dave Lung is a veteran in the independent comic scene, having freelanced for several of the biggest companies in the industry and has worked with some of the most talented artists in comics today.
Dave has a BA. Hons. in Fine Art and Graphic Design, and is multi-talented artist who currently splits his time between pencils and inking. He is currently working on 3 of his own graphic novels, each of which are under solicitation to one of the biggest alternative comic publications in the industry.
Dave is best known as a uniquely talented inker with an intricate and dark style which is easily recognizable.
http://maltacomic-con.com/guest/47
http://davelungart.deviantart.com/
Luciano Regazzoni:
Luciano Regazzoni was born in 1959 and graduated at the School of Comics of Milan.
Since 1985 he has been teaching anatomy applied to comics and illustration technique at the same school and at The European Design Institute. In the 2005 he became part of the teaching staff of the School of Comics of Palermo/Grafimated Cartoon. Between 2007-2008 he worked as a Costume Designer for the movie “Dark Resurrection”. In 2013 he started to work with Sergio Bonelli Editor: He illustrated issue 29 of “Alpha Agency”, a spin-off of the regular series Nathan Never, titled “The Trial”. He collaborates as a storyboard artist, illustrator and visualizer for several ad agencies and major Italian comic publishers.
http://maltacomic-con.com/guest/71
http://www.scuoladelfumetto.com/palermo.htm
Grafimated Cartoon:
Salvatore Di Marco and Antonino Pirrotta come to Malta on behalf of the Palermo based Grafimated Cartoon.
Grafimated Cartoon is a cooperative society that produces, promotes and diffuses animated films and comics. Grafimated Cartoon was founded in January 2001 by professionals of the field. With over fifteen years experience, they have participated in several national and international animated film festivals with short author films, in particular the short film “Saudates du sud” with which it took part in the competition in Annecy 97 edition.
They have cooperated in the production of important animated series and feature films such as: The Triplets, Cocco Bill, I Cuccioli, La Gabbianella e il Gatto, Aida degli alberi, etc… Grafmated Cartoon also produced “I Vespri Siciliani” and are working on the upcoming feature animated movie “Pinocchio” by Enzo D’Alo.
With “School of Comics-Scuola del Fumetto” they teach the skills to create comics, from pencils to colouring and lettering. In fact in 2011, the school also started publishing comics created by their students. Their students and collaborators have worked with such editors as Panini Kids, Ape Entertainment, Disney, Marvel Comics, Marathon, Bluewaters, Cronaca di Topolinia, Dc Comics, etc…
Other activities organized in collaboration with several public schools in Sicily, are comics and animated cartoon workshops where students create short films in which some of them won prizes in their respective categories.
http://maltacomic-con.com/guest/42
http://www.grafimated.com
“We are looking forward to welcoming exciting digital artist Jean-Louis Mast who is one of the leading artists for Marvel’s digital line: Infinite Comics to our family. Mast was recommended to us by Julien Schantz one of the organisers of the awesome Lille Comics Festival with whom we have proudly partnered this year. Dave Lung, Luciano Regazzoni, Salvatore Di Marco and Antonino Pirotta need no introduction to the Maltese comic fans since they have all already made a hit during past Malta Comic Cons, and being an important part of our family are always welcome on our shores. The presence of these fine folk as well as that of the other guests has us all enthusiastically looking forward to the Malta Comic Con 2014 and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their participation and look forward to hosting them here” said Chris Le Galle co-founder of Wicked Comics.