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Zebramag is a collaborative science fiction anthology website.

The project was created by Jameson Lee in 2003 as both a networking tool for aspiring comic book creators and a way to inject new life into the ailing genre of science fiction comic books.

For aspiring comic book creators, the toughest hurdle is to get into print. After meeting local area artists at Boston comic book conventions, Lee began thinking that his web designing and Internet marketing skills could be put to good use and designed Zebramag as a first step toward printing a comic book anthology.

The web site's function is twofold; it advertises the talents of its contributors and entertains at the same time.

While Lee and local award-winning artist Greg Moutafis worked on a short story that became 'Looking For Something To Hit,' popular self-publisher Dave Morello submitted his 'Stacker Lee Blues' for the site. Both stories are told in a more suspenseful vein than most "shoot 'em up" sci-fi comic books and evoke old TV serials such as The Outer Limits. As the stories came in, it became clear that Zebramag's mission would be to further develop the body of "thinking man's science fiction."

Lee was also building relationships online. Writer Alex Hernandez had been an acquaintance of Lee's on a message board and was working with artist Nico Bovosso on his character Eleggua. One of their stories, a tale about pop culture success and dueling deities, ended up being the third submission to Zebramag.

With the recent addition of the web comic, the comic book format had become more malleable. The first web comic created solely for the website, Kobuta, was created by two artists that Lee had met online, Florida-based Alex Hernandez and John Miers who hailed from the United Kingdom. Miers designed the comic specifically for the web interface, using the reader's ability to scroll through the story, allowing for nearly infinite picture space. A moving story, Kobuta remains one of the strongest pulls to the website.

When the time came to start thinking of going to print, fortune granted not only an expert at layout and page design but also another cartoonist. Xeric Award winning comic creator Michael Lariccia had longed to create a sci-fi story but without an outlet, had nowhere to go with it. 'The Last of The Spitting Baboons,' a cynical and emotional work, rounded off the collection.

The first collection of stories, Zebra Magazine 2006, premiered at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, a comic book convention geared toward independent cartoonist and comic book publishers.

Work is underway for a second collection with Tom Pinchuk and Kurt Belcher's 'What I Am' and 'Tortured' by Tim Morgan and Kurt Belcher currently online as a preview.

Since the event at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, additional web comics have been premiered on Zebramag, including 'Eleggua - Divine Infections' by Alex Hernandez and Raymond Korshi, the sci-fi opera 'Children of Mars' by Alex Hernandez and Korsi Dosoo, 'Mystic Interlude' by Ed Quinby and Greg Moutafis, 'Effin Kids' by Jameson Lee and Matt Putnam-Pouliot, 'Isosceles' by Daniel Scales and Lisa Marie Coppolett.

In addition to these new comics, the post-apocalyptic short story 'Rage' by award winning author Lou Fried was posted on the site along with an illustration by Ed Quinby. The short fiction section also includes 'The Ship' by Robert Davies which features an illustration by acclaimed fanzine artist Mike Cody.

 

Kurt Belcher (artist- What I Am, Tortured) -is from eastern Kentucky. He has been published as both writer and artist, in anthologies ranging from Shooting Star's "Fanzing Presents Job Wanted" to the Small Press Expo's yearly anthology to Elder Signs Press's "Book of Dark Wisdom". "What I Am" is among several more anthology stories he has drawn for recent publication. Among his artistic influences are Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Frank Quitely, Alex Toth, Moebius, and Bill Sienkiewicz.
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Mike Cody (artist- The Ship) has been working as a print graphic designer for 34 years in Richmond, Virginia. He has been published in fanzines of the 1960's, contributed to the new wave era of minicomics, provided illustration for children's magazines, and artwork for Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzines. A lover of fine art, he is mainly a fan of the work of the old masters. In comics he enjoys the work of Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Michael Kaluta. Mike finds self-publishing and webcomics very exciting and would like to get more involved in them.

Lisa Marie Coppoletta (artist Isosceles) has been studying 3D, 2D and video composting since 1995. "I recently caught a video lecture of Buckminster Fuller and chuckled as if he had programmed the earlier versions of 3D software it would have been a blast as figuring out all those polygons back in the day was such a block to the creative process." Lisa Marie aka kassiopeia is a retired intercollegiate academic Speech and Debate coach who now works as a feature film background actor in Central Texas. She is the casting director and special effects coordinator for the independent film SM7, a docudrama about the San Marcos Seven. Visit her myspace profile

Robert Davies (writer - The Ship) lives in Cambridge, MA. He is married to his high-school sweetheart Sara, has cats named Lilith and Tiamat (only one of them talks), and writes stories about exploding suns and voracious babies. Visit his site

Louis Fried (writer-Rage) lives in the Silicon Valley and spent 48 years in the information technology field before retiring in 1999 at the age of 69. During his professional career he spent 20 years with Stanford Research Institute in management, consulting and research. He published two professional books and several hundred articles and papers. Since retirement, Lou has started a new career writing fiction. He likes to listen to '30s-50's big band music, jazz and classical and reads most sci-fi and fantasy. His vocation is travel ... He's worked in 30 countries, and travelled to most US states.In 1999, his short story the Slick drew local acclaim. Read it here.

Alex Hernandez (writer-Eleggua, Kobuta, and Divine Infections) is a Miami-based writer with a penchant for mixing superhero comics with the divine, especially his native Cuban religion of Santeria. He's heavily influenced by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, and is digesting a whole lot of Joss Whedon at the moment. Some of his online pieces can be found at www.jennyeverywhere.com. He is currently working on his pet project Thoth Boy.
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Raymond Korshi (artist- Eleggua-Divine Infections) was born in 8p.m. on 27th May, 1984, in Edinburgh, Scotland. From the age of 11, when glandular fever and malingery forced him to take a year off from school, he has spent most of his waking hours writing and drawing. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where every week brings new friends, adventures and ways of avoiding sleep. Visit his site

Michael Lariccia (creator-'The Last of the Spitting Baboons) - is currently living in New Jersey where he works as the Program and PR Coordinator for a non-profit arts organization during the day and obsessively draws comics at night. He received a BFA and MFA in printmaking. He was awarded a Xeric grant in 2005 for his original graphic novel Black Mane. Currently he is developing a second book, a follow up to Black Mane, as well as contributing to anthologies and collaborating with other artists. Visit his site

Jameson Lee (writer- The Phantasmatons, Looking For Something to Hit, Damned Commute, Get a Job) is a cartoonist and the webmaster for Zebramag.com. Educated in media at Mass Art and theater at Fitchburg State, he has written, acted, and produced a series of plays for the first Americulture Arts Festival and was a founding member of the Gloucester-based improv troupe, Grand Malarkey. His influences include Frank Miller, Steve Ditko, Mick Farren, AE Van Vogt, Jack Kirby, Dr. Who, and Philip K. Dick. He also enjoys listening to COIL, T-Rex, Bobby Conn and The Fall.

 

John Miers (artist- Magazine Cover, Kobuta) resides in a dank burrow in east London, emerging occasionally to fling wildly varied drawing-related products at local publications, galleries and walls. When not collaborating or commissioned he likes to work on his Slab project, probably because it doesn't involve having to draw hands.
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Dave Morello (writer/artist-Stacker Lee Blues) has been publishing graphic novels professionally since 2003. His novels include Songs for the New American Depression, vol. 3, Strange Tales from the Broken City, and SuperPower Blues. He currently lives in Boston with his wife, dog and three cats. When he is not working on novels, he is listening to Bob Dylan albums, watching Blade Runner or Chinatown or reading the Savage Dragon.
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Tim Morgan (writer- Tortured) is a web developer / writer / filmmaker / father and husband (some say madman) from somewhere in the Northeast, where he balances working on new material and trying to justify another reason not to watch HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL yet again with his kids. His feature film scripts have placed in some national contests (including one taking 6th place in the 2003 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, out of 18,000 entries!). He recently completed a spoof of Discovery Channel's SURVIVORMAN for the You Spoof Discovery contest. You can check out the video, a trailer, and outtakes on his youtube profile.

Greg Moutafis (artist- Looking For Something to Hit) is a busy 30-something cartooonist/graphic artist bunkered in the Massachusetts 'burbs. Equally at home with action and humor, he has churned out a variety of stories, solo and teamed with several talented writers. His latest full length projects are the newly released superhero graphic novel Hero Corps: The Rookie with Florida writer Jason Becker and the sprawling satire book Boom!squad with award winning prose writer David Crouse.In his raving 20s he served as cartoonist and art director for the underground anthology Don't Shoot It's Only Comics and was a frequent illustrator for Lollipop music magazine. Greg was also a very proud recipient of the Xeric Grant for independent cartoonists awarded to his book Killer Ape with writer Phil Downes.
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Tom Pinchuk (writer- What I Am) - comes from Chicagoland and currently attends Boston University's College of Communications. He has co-written a mini-series, COPPERHEAD, with "What I Am" penciler Kurt Belcher that's set to be published by Arcana Studio and has another mini-series, HYBRID BASTARDS, set to be published by Archaia Studios Press. His comics writing influences include Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis and Joe Kelly. As you can tell from his story in Zebra, he plays too many video games.
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Matt Putnam-Pouliot (artist-Effin Kids) Matt Putnam-Pouliot lives with his wife, Chris in the Adirondack Park inupstate New York. His main interest with his comics is to produce fun humor and adventure stories aimed towards younger readers, but hopefully enjoyed by older readers as well. All of his comics are populated byfantasical characters and elements, since they're the most fun to draw. His influences include Jack Kirby, Hergé, Jay Stephens, Hayao Miyazaki, Carl Barks and Akira Toriyama. You can see his comics: The Littlest
Daikaiju, Small Worlders, MacAbb Manor and more fun if you visit his site

Ed Quinby (writer/artist- Mystic Interlude, artist- Rage) has knocked around the small press world for several years and knocked on the doors of the 'Big Few' once or twice, but, amazingly,has easily managed to keep his amateur status. He resides with his wife in Tallahassee, Florida and although making comics is labor-intensive and doesn't leave much time for hobbies,he maintains a garden and small orchard. Is it considered recreational if you do it so you can eat? Philosophical quandries aside, he finds the comic medium an incredible creative outlet and one of the few where with basic supplies, and maybe a computer, you can do it all.

Daniel Scales (writer Isosceles) is the writer/director of SM7, a docu-drama about the San Marcos Seven. He is also currently focusing on biography about his mother, a Toltec Sha-woman raised in the mountains of mid Mexico. His mother was Daniel's spiritual teacher from the age of seven to the age of fourteen passing along her spiritual philosophy and practical methods of healing on multiple levels. Daniel is also working on a spiritual sci-fi novel titled "Jokers or Better to Open" utilizing his mother's teachings as a focal point. Daniel works as a background artist in feature films and as a featured actor in Indy films for the sole purpose of learning the film trade in order to direct his own Indy film. Visit his myspace profile

Adam Wilson (Writer - Cursed) got into comics back in 2003, writing and coloring the self published mini-comic Welcome to Onion Fields. The series lasted only a few issues but since then Adam has worked consistently as both a writer and an editor for several small press comic book companies. Currently Adam is working on his first graphic novel Brian & Bobbi along with the upcoming series Life (With Friends). More of Adam's work can be seen here.

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