The Usual Choices
a comics anthology

Bios

Keith Frady

Keith Frady's stories have appeared in an Eisner-winning journal, a Kirkus-starred anthology, and received Runner-up in the 2020 Platform Comics Competition. He lives in a perpetually cluttered apartment in Atlanta.

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern is a writer and artist based in Denver, CO.

Ryan LeCount

Ryan is a 23 year old Seattle based artist who centers his work primarily around sci-fi and fantasy narratives. He is an avid believer in diversity and inclusiveness in all media and hopes his work reflects that. He’s created several erotic comic works funded through Kickstarter and is known for his obnoxious presence on twitter dot com. He currently has 7 non fish pets. The rest are fish.

C. A. P. Ward

C. A. P. Ward is a black illustrator and comic artist working on heartfelt genre stories. When they aren’t drawing, Ward is often found taking pictures of fungus or skating around Richmond's giant potholes.

Cullen Gardepe

Cullen Gardepe is an Atlanta-based comics artist, illustrator, and art teacher who specializes in capturing human emotion, quirkiness, and unique details in her stories and characters. She loves bold colors, interesting lighting, romantic stories, complex characters, and any excuse to draw pretty dresses and flowing hair.

Ben Becker

Ben Becker is a cartoonist, illustrator, designer, and writer. When he’s not making art, he enjoys eating and making good food, performing in shows, reading, playing video games, and spending time with his family, friends, girlfriend, and cats.

Joamette Gil

Joamette Gil is an award-winning editor, cartoonist, and letterer extraordinaire. Her letters grace the pages of such titles as Archival Quality (Oni Press) by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz, and Mooncakes (Lion Forge) by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu. She's best known for her groundbreaking publications as P&M Press, home to POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology and HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy. Her cats let her live with them in Portland, OR, in exchange for rent money.

Caroline Autopsy

Caroline Autopsy is a queer freelance illustrator based in the American South, with a taste for combining allure with repulsion. Her work is featured in CORPUS: A Comics Anthology of Bodily Ailments, Everything is Going Wrong, and Dead Beats.

Catarina Teixeira

Catarina is a Portuguese illustrator and comic artist based in Lisbon. Studying art since high school, she has a degree in Painting from the Fine Arts College from the University of Lisbon. She's participated in several collaborative comic projects and fanzines, as well as done some promotional work. She seeks to create all matter of fun and cooky things with whatever media she can get her hands on.

V. Gagnon

V. Gagnon is a comic creator, illustrator, and concept artist based in Portland, Oregon. In Spring 2018 they graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration. They have illustrated for Boom! Studios, TO Comix Press, Stacked Deck Press, and  Legendary Comics. They are passionate about stories with deeply intimate character-driven narratives, folklores, legends, and the intersection of real and fictional histories.

Sonia Espinoza

Sonia Espinoza is an illustrator, letterer, and character designer. You can find her work on both Instagram and Twitter @HeroKidArt.

Gregery Miller

Gregery Miller is a professional illustrator and designer working in animation. He works with studios around NYC like Titmouse Animation and Transistor Studios. In his free time, he produces an epic fantasy graphic novel called The Tales of Reverie which he started self-publishing as serial volumes in 2016.

 Throughout his career so far Gregery has collaborated with clients including Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, Netflix, Hitpoint Games, Disney, Microsoft, This American Life, Wild Turkey Whisky, Free Range Studios and The Wall Street Journal.

In 2019 Gregery completed the Illustration Master Course (IMC2019) under the guidance of leading illustrators in the fantasy realm. In 2016 Gregery was awarded the STARS grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council where he taught sequential art and animation in Boston Public Schools. Later that year Gregery accepted an Assets for Artists Residency in The Studios at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) where he was the first artist to ever produce a comic in the program.

Peter Violini

Chris Miglorino

David Powell

David Powell is an animator living in Brooklyn, making comics in the twilight hours and trying to have it all. He is the creator of A Drift of Souls, an epic sci-fantasy webcomic about friendship and space monsters, and hopes some day to break back into television.

Joni Miller

I'm a living comics, illustration, banjo, and mystery machine with a degree in most of those things from the Memphis College of Art. For more of my work, check out City of Depression online!