Fall 2012 Creative Guests

Craig Boldman

Craig Boldman has been cartooning, writing and illustrating professionally since 1978. He has written and drawn many thousands of greeting cards for such companies as Hallmark, American Greetings and Recycled Paper Products. He was a contract writer for Gibson Greetings for nearly a decade. In 1985, Boldman wrote the adventures of Superman for DC Comics under the scrutiny of legendary editor, Julius Schwartz. He has since written a variety of other well-known characters, including "Big Boy," "Bazooka Joe," and strips based on two Disney TV shows: "Disney's Doug," and "Disney's Recess." Boldman currently writes the Jughead comic book for Archie Comics Publications, and has been writing the Archie newspaper strip since 1992, first in collaboration with artist Dan DeCarlo, and later with Henry Scarpelli, who continues drawing the strip today. Boldman is the co-author/illustrator of a humor book from Andrews McMeel Publishing, "Every Excuse in the Book: 718 Ways to Say 'It's Not My Fault!'" 

John Metych

John Metych is an jack of all trades in the comics industry. He serves as Publisher, Editor, Writer, and Letterer for all series at Beta 3 Comics. His long running series, Sniper and Rook, has earned much praise. Over the next 12 months, expect to see an explosion of publications from Beta 3, including no less than three crossover miniseries with properties from other companies, two mini-series internal to the Beta 3 universe, and new issues of Sniper and Rook. 

Though his website is currently down for reconstruction, he can usually be reached at www.beta3comics.com