In 1995 Mike formed Action Planet Inc. to publish his own comics and ideas. Starting with the anthology Action Planet Comics, featuring Monsterman, to his on-line web comic G.I.R.L. Patrol and more. Currently Mike is the Editor of DRAW! Magaine and does all the above from his home in the Philadelphia suburbs with his two loveable pooches, Buster and Shazam. You can find out more about Mike and his work at the following web sites:

Born August 16th, 1960, Bret became obsessed with drawing early and began earning money as a cartoonist by the age of thirteen. Joining Marvel as a contract artist in 1982, he drew hundreds of comic book pages over the next 14 years for many publishers, working in a wide variety of genres-horror, mystery, super heroics, science fiction, fantasy and humor, illustrating adventures of Spiderman, X-men and other mutants, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Daredevil, Hulk, Sleepwalker, Conan, Superman, Supergirl, Batman, Tarzan and a slew of other characters.

Joining Warner Bros. Animation as a storyboard artist in 1996, Bret discovered a storytelling medium that offered a new world of challenges to explore and enthusiastically threw his energies into crafting film sequences, contributing to the television cartoons Superman, The New Batman and Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, X-Men Evolution, Disney's Tarzan and Atlantis and Cartoon Network's The Justice League.

Along the way Bret remained a devoted student of drawing, painting and sculpture, studying and experimenting constantly and making thousands of images in various media over the last three decades.

"I love the experience of making any kind of art–there's so much inspiring beauty and life energy everywhere. I won't live long enough to make a fraction of the images I'm moved to create."

Bret is known for his enthusiasm and an ability to infect others with a love of picturemaking, which you can experience through his articles in every issue of Draw!

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Paul was born in Tucson, Arizona, grew up in Canada, and has always loved art. Growing up with the comic book art of Jack Kirby and Alex Toth, the paperback cover art of Chris Foss, and many others, he was inspired to move to Toronto and enter the commercial art field at the age of twenty.

After a stint at Nelvana Animation, designing backgrounds, vehicles, and layouts for the feature "Rock and Rule," Paul left to become a full-time freelance artist. Since 1979 he has worked in many areas of commercial art, doing paperback covers, editorial illustration, work for children’s publishing, advertising agencies, and newspapers.

More recently, Paul has been steadily employed as a background designer and storyboard artist for Warner Borthers TV Animation on their adventure cartoons, currently working on the Justice League from his home in Toronto, Ontario. He has also been doing comic book work, and is enthusiastically looking forward to creating many more articles for Draw! magazine.

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Born Lucio Daniel Alberto Ruiz Diaz De La Cuadra, "a very curious child, a little pervert really" his aunt remembers fondly, as a toddler he used to stare at women's bodies for hours on end searching for the meaning of life, eventually he found it, but lost it two days later, while betting on a street soccer match.

At 5 years old he developed a healthy obsession with physics, and at the tender age of 7 he published his first thoughts on the subject, an 11x17 inch, 48 page manuscript entitled "Women and Gravity."

Although his ground-breaking theory was quickly dismissed by the scientific community as nothing more than "sexist puerile filth and testosterone induced fantasies," the pencil drawings illustrating his thesis were widely praised and photocopied by the male scientists, subsequently earning him a two year scholarship at the Municipal School of Fine Arts, the only high school dedicated to the arts. He flunked math as a freshman and was forced to repeat, and was expelled two months into the following year for poking a girl's fat behind with a sharp 6H pencil.

"I'm still obsessed with physics and the female physique," he boasts with very little shame, "and I sincerely hope to continue making a decent living while objectifying women in order to force consumer products onto unsuspecting males between the ages of 18 and 45."

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