Jason Canty graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 2002 and has since managed and scouted talent for 2 Independent comic companies for the past 7 years. He also has direct contact with established artists known to the industry since the mid 1990’s. After a few failed attempts to get friends published through other comic companies, he decided to make good on his promise to start his own comic company if he couldn’t get them published by anyone else. So in the Fall of 2006, Coupled with CFO Brendan Baranek Olmstead, COO Jerrold Farrington, and Editor in Chief Jason Farrington, AVP enjoys a diverse staff and artists that offer numerous years of experience with the comic book industry as enthusiasts and later as artists/managers of talent.

Likes to brag that he worked at Atari inc for two months in 2003, one of the games was NeverWinter Nights: Hords of the Underdark. He currently works as a nutrition science educator, corrupting the youth of America by teaching them how to be healthy much to the dismay of our fast food overlords. He can be often seen playing with Transformers in the background making “pew pew” and transformation sounds when hes not geeking out over the latest science news. Hes a nerd.

Meet Jerrold and Jason, a set of twins conjoined at the head. Like most conjoined twins, they share bone, veins and arteries, and in this sense, they share a brain. But their mother believes that because they share a thalamus, each can actually see and feel what the other is doing. Cameras follow these little medical marvels to get an intimate look into their lives. Watch the Twins attempt to live as normal a life as possible. Also, their video game collection is better than yours...

Jaleel Beck graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Jaleel is the creative mind behind many of the illustrations, Graphic Designs, Digital Colors, and Logo Designs, for Angry Viking Press. Some of Jaleel's personal interests include the 90s, Cartoon Network, Anime, Downtempo, Chinese Food, Comics, Deep house, Drawing, Graffiti, IKEA, Modern art, Nighttime, Underground, Hip-Hop, Smirnoff, Weight Lifting, Twizzlers, and Street Fighter. Speaking of which, Jaleel also owns and operates FocusAttack.com, a site dedicated to all things Street Fighter and fighting game merchandise.

Drake Fenwick, with His Brother Stu, is Co Creator of Supermegatopia (SMT) Crushed the Doomed Kitty Adventures, Meshworld, Buxom Gal, and god king of all that is evil and dark in the world…well, no not really. Actually, while Drake is a dark enough soul, he’s still a decent guy who loves three things: his hamster Josephine, Godzilla and any woman that will look at him. We’re not kidding.

Stu Burke is Co. Creator Writer and web master of Supermegatopia. Contrary to popular belief, Stu doesn't really exist. You probably saw Venus. Their is no Stu... Move along nothing to see here.

Shawntae Howard is the creator and artist of Extinctioners, a comic about anthropomorphic superheroes, published by Shanda Fantasy Arts. He has been a published independent comic book artist for over 10 years. He is also an art instructor, frequently seen running anatomy drawing panels at furry conventions, and is often mistaken for Max Blackrabbit.

Shawntae's anthro avatar is a black panther, with glasses and white markings on his face, who goes by the name of Tamar. The majority of his artwork can currently be found on deviantART under the alias Ebonyleopard. Shawntae was a panelist at Anthrocon 2000 and was the artist Guest of Honor at Western Pennsylvania Furry Weekend in 2006. In January 2009, Shawntae's computer was reportedly subject to a large-scale hack which resulted in the deletion of his online galleries.

Marcus Jones, artist and creator of Happiness is a Warm Gun (or HIAWG for short), was born and raised in the Bronx and grew up drawing comics as early as Kindergarden and exercising his over-active imagination. Learning mostly from books cartoons and comics and then a highschool internship at Marvel Comics. He aquired years of experience performing jobs in digital illustration jobs that included designing labels for clothing, style guide illustrations for big name properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe, creating logos and box art for toys such as nerf guns, layouts for comics and inking kids activity books. When not drawing or writing he's playing videogames or watching anime.

Gabe was born on July 26, 1979 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Rowan University in 2002 with a Bachelor's Degree in the Arts. Since then, Gabe has been sort of a "jack of all trades". He has worked in virtually every field and genre in the commercial art industry such as comic books, magazines, children's books, television, movies, video games, and the music industries. Aside from art, he worked several odd jobs ranging from Mobile DJ to Knife Salesman, amongst MANY others. He has expanded his graphic art and design to create marketing and advertising collateral for various businesses around the world ranging from high end credit logistics to eyelash extensions. On occasion, he draws cartoon caricatures during conventions and other festive occasions. He's also pretty decent in Street Fighter.

An exceptionally talented artist, R.L Murphy began shaping his abilities at an early age. Inspired by his favorite comics, and cartoons, Murphy began working in the Manga style in the early nineties. His raw talent, combined with an education in visual art has attributed to his development of into one of the most popular fan- artists in the Washington DC area. Murphy’s work can be found on the web, in a comic book store, and on several cocktail napkins, in seedy bars in the Washington metropolitan area.

Jason "Crybringer" Robinson is an illustrator, based in the Washington DC metro area.
A student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from 1998 to 2003, he has five years experience in the publishing & multimedia field. He is credited with work-for-hire assignments for Wayforward Technologies & composed music for projects through Majesco Games Inc. From the 2006-2008 stint on the webcomic "Chisuji" (also found here at Angry Viking Press!) to independent projects both in the USA and Japan, his next step is settling down and digging in as the author, artist and creator of "The Demon Mages." Jason readily volunteers for art lectures and workshops, and has spoken at local DC/VA/MD area schools, seminars & convention panels since 2007.

Ken Singshow is a Japanese comic artist and writer, best known for his creation of the Andorozon characters and comic series. He is also published in children's book field and illustrations in Japan.
Inspired by classic Warner Bros. cartoons, works of Don Bluth, and yes even Fred Perry's Gold Digger, he started to draw in U.S. cartoon style. He is a samurai descendent living peacefully in Japan, but visits U.S. conventions whenever possible.

He is a close friends with fellow Japanese Sci-fi/furry artist Karabiner and offten hangs with Team Shuffle at Comike (Comic Market). One of the few Japanese that likes American style over Anime.
His creative partner is Shawntae Howard, and also acquainted with the likes of Eric Schwartz
and Max Blackrabbit.