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Join us as we welcome three of comics best artists to sign at Elite Comics all to benefit The Children's Mercy Toy Drive! This is our biggest fundraising season ever with a goal of $32,000 to buy gifts for kids spending the holidays in Children's Mercy Hospital.FREDDIE WILLIAMS II
In 2005 Freddie began work with DC Comics on the Eisner Award winning series Seven Soldiers Mister Miracle. He’s best known for illustrating a series of crossovers: The New York Times best selling "Batman / Ninja Turtles” “HeMan / ThunderCats” "Godzilla VS Power Rangers" “Injustice VS Masters of The Universe”. Currently he is drawing the much anticipated He-man / Ninja Turtles Crossover "Turtles of Grayskull" (#1 ships september 25th!)
DAVID YARDIN
David has been illustrating comic books profesionally for over 24 years. The son of Mauritian immigrants, David was born, raised and is based in Sydney Australia. While David has predominantly worked on books from the X-Men office at Marvel throughout his career including District X, Storm, X-Men Origins Gambit and Black Panther X-Men and a four year run as the cover artists on X-Factor his art has also been featured in the best selling Injustice series from DC Comics as well as covers for Justice League, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and The Flash.
David also provided art for many of Marvel 's film releases such as The Avengers, Guardians of The Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange.
David's most recent work includes covers for Wolverine, Captain America, Daredevil Woman Without Fear, Fall of the House of Z, Werewolf By Night Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man and Venom!
JON SOMMARIVA
Jon Sommariva has enjoyed a long career as a comic book artist since 2002 with his fun, energetic and youthful style of drawing. His work has appeared in comics from all the major publishers, including DC Comics, Marvel, Image, IDW and Darkhorse. Jon has also worked as a concept artist and illustrator for Disney, Marvel, Insomniac, Upperdeck, Hasbro, and Nickelodeon.
Some titles Jon has illustrated include REXODUS, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES AMAZING ADVENTURES, BATMAN/TMNT ADVENTURES, STAR WARS ADVENTURES, MARVEL ACTION: AVENGERS, DCeased and HARLEY QUINN. He also co-created GEMINI which was published by Image Comics.
Jon recently collaborated with TOM TAYLOR to create the multi-award winning graphic novel, NEVERLANDERS which was published by Penguin Random House. The book won the highly prestigious CBCA childrens book of the year award for older readers in 2023.
Jon is currently working on multiple covers for various publishers along with book 2 of the Neverlanders series. Multiversus: Collission Detected - a massive Warner Bros/Dc Comics crossover book based on the recently relaunched Multiverses game will launch September 2024. Jon provides cover art and interiors for all 6 issues.
Apart from drawing, Jon enjoys cooking, good food, watching and discussing movies, reading comics and playing games.
He was born in Australia after his parents migrated from Spain and Chile and currently resides in Canberra, Australia with his wife and 2 kids.
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