Our Team

Lonnie Garcia

Lonnie Garcia (he/him) is an illustrator and comic artist that was raised by the coast and hills of Northern California. His work draws inspiration from vintage media, surrealist horror, wild overgrown places and personal experiences to create vibrant and lively pieces. He adores storytelling and loves to experiment with mixing narratives with his fondness of aesthetically pleasing clutter.

He is the author of Putty Pygmalion, a graphic novel published by Silver Sprocket, and has done work for various indie presses, some being Evil Hat, Fortuna Media, Portland Indie Game Squad, and Wigglebird Mailing Club.

He currently resides in Portland, OR, drawing cartoons and having a good time.

Colin Laurel

Colin Laurel (he/they) is an illustrator/designer raised in Texas, who now resides in Portland, Oregon. They are black, trans, and trying their best. A few previous clients include Adobe, The New York Times, and Bootsy Collins.

Ezra Curry

Ezra (they/them) is a non-binary artist living in the Portland, Oregon. Their personal illustrations explore the natural and fantastical worlds of fauna, flora and fungi. Entirely self taught, they work fulltime as a freelance artist, serving a predominantly LGBTQ+ community with their anthropomorphic designs and comics. Ezra aspires to do more editorial work that centers on the natural world, concept and design work, and book covers

Molly Mendoza

 Molly Mendoza (they/she) is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. Through their work they explore the complex emotions of interpersonal relationships and self-love with a focus on layered visual storytelling, mark-making, and color. They write stories, they paint murals, they teach students, and they draw.

Former clients include Adobe, The New York Times, The Scientist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Markets, A Profound Waste of Time, OMFGco, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Imbibe, Reveal Podcast, Huffington Post, KEEN, ONI Press, Open Signal, Outside Magazine, Vinyl Moon, The Marshall Project,  Bitch Media, The Portland Mercury, Portland Monthly, Hazlitt, John Hopkins Health Review, Everyone Social, A Profound Waste of Time, Lock-On,

Monday Einstein

Monday Einstein (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and printmaker based out of Portland, OR. Her work focuses on themes of social isolation, personal identity, and finding meaning in a world that often feels strange and unkind. She has worked freelance on merchandise designs for a number of well-known content creators and developers, and she sells her silkscreen and relief prints independently at in-person events and from her personal website.

She is a graduate of ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA in Illustration and is currently branching out to explore concepts of hyperreality and relational aesthetics in her artwork.

Victor Gomez

Victor Bizar Gomez (he/him) was raised in the desert of Phoenix, AZ and is now living among the trees in Portland, OR. He is an illustrator and painter who is doing all he can to continue existing. His work involves mixing urban world iconography, dreamlike surrealism, stylized figures, and social consciousness to create interesting visuals and narratives. Gomez graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art with a BFA in Illustration in 2018.

SELECT CLIENTS : NPR · Disney · The Markup · LA Times · Dark Horse · Oregon Humanities · The Portland Trailblazers · Portland Monthly · The Playerlist · The Baffler · The Believer · Eater · Afar Magazine · International Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Karina Perez

Karina Perez (she/her) is a Mexican- American illustrator and designer originally from Edinburg, TX. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design in June 2020. She currently works as a full-time Assistant Artist at Carters Inc.
She loves to illustrate lush scenes of home, lifestyle, and food with bright colors and direct inspiration from my Mexican-American background. Her passions lie in editorial, children’s books and product illustration.
Previously, she has worked with Chronicle Books, NPR, Disney, Twitter, Pearson Education, and Jolt Texas. She is always looking for projects that inspire others to make an active change within their community.

Stevie Hale

Stevie Hale (they/them) is a PDX based multi-media artist. Their work explores transgender Identity and sexuality by creating visceral and biomorphic works in bright and eye-catching colors. They love material experimentation and exploration. Currently they are obsessed with Risograph printing. They recently graduated from PNCA with a BFA in painting in 2024.

E-Mail: shaleisarock@gmail.comWebsite: https://steviehale.carrd.co

Clara Emiliana

Clara Emiliana (she/her) is a multimedia artist from the Dominican Republic whose work changes shape with each new lesson learned. In the part her work has taken the same of games, comics, animations, websites, and more. At the moment, her work takes the form of toys and paintings that represent various characters and anthropomorphic items. Her work, regardless of media or medium, explores intersections between queer womanhood, being an outcast in society, and being one’s authentic self.

Erb Ordonez

Erb Ordonez (he/him) is an illustrator, animator, and indie game dev. Born in New England to working-class immigrant parents, he has always been fascinated with American pop culture and mass media. His artwork attempts to reconcile the contradictions between fast-paced American consumer culture and his Colombian and Uruguayan heritage behind a cute, cartoony facade. The result is nostalgic scenes and characters, evoking a sense of magical realism.

He studied fine arts at la Escuela Nacional de Bella Artes de la Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. After school, he ended up drifting into the Pacific Northwest.

RAPIDPUNCHES

RAPIDPUNCHES (they/them) is an illustrator and stop-motion animator. Raised in southern California, but resident of the PNW for close to twenty years. They are a master of all trades who utilizes various different skills for creating art. They've done illustration work for various independent games such as "The Between: Ghosts of El Paso" and "Devil, Aim For Me". Their art and writing was also published in "Werewolves Versus" Vol. 7, 9, and 10.

Marlowe Dobbe

 Marlowe Dobbe (she/her) is an award-winning illustrator and game developer with a love for games she’s fostered since childhood. In 2016, she started attending PIGSquad events and has been illustrating and animating for games ever since. Previous projects of Marlowe’s include Dicey Dungeons, Floppy Knights, and a variety of small personal projects on itch.io. She is currently working as an artist at Mega Crit Games.

In her free time, Marlowe is an Organizer for The Portland Indie Game Squad, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting the health and continued expansion of game developer and enthusiast communities in Portland, the Pacific Northwest, and online.

Leo O'Connell

Leo O'Connell (he/him) is an Illustrator, character designer, and comic artist from northern New Mexico. He fell in love with comics at the Maryland Institute and College of Art when he realized making them was easier than animating, and has since developed an addiction to reading them. He loves designing creatures for fantasy ecologies, fueled by his love of nature, paleontology, and science of the natural world. He's collaborated on music videos for Braintickle LLC, is the art director for a children's cartoon pitch called Catoms, and numerous webcomics, Including Peony (written and drawn by Corinth Boone), and his own original story, Thinking Out Loud. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.