By Dailen Ogden
Dailen Ogden is a freelance sequential artist and illustrator based in northern Colorado. She graduated in 2015 from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and now spends her days making comic books and touring conventions across the United States. Her passion lies in character and costume design, as well as world-building and storytelling, and she is deeply inspired by history, magic, textiles, and folklore.
By Sarah Gilstrap
Sarah (also known as Catface) is a Denver-based artist specializing in ink. Her work is dark, feminine & slightly surreal. Enamored by the otherworldly and the mystical, her work depicts the beauty & magic of everyday life. Find out more about her and her work at Catface.ink
By Joshua Finley
Joshua Finley is a self-taught artist from the farmlands of south-central Kansas. He co-opened Cabal Gallery in Denver, where he started his “Cartoon Western” and “Re-arted” thrift store series—the practice of adding macabre elements to cheap reproductions. Finley is also a local mural painter, children book co-author, and music merchandise maker producing hundreds of concert posters and albums every year.
By Kayla Webster
Kayla is a Denver based illustrator and comic artist. Her work focuses on horror, humor, and the often unexpected ways in which these themes can interact. Growing up on the east coast, Kayla studied studio art and art history at Drew University in New Jersey. Working primarily with marker and pen, her art utilizes clean line and bold color, often in contrast with greyscale elements.
By Cleon Peterson
Cleon Peterson is an LA based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolizing a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. The imagery of his art is deeply rooted in Western cultural history, from the classic Greco-Roman vases depicting warriors and battles, to the marvelous decapitation paintings of Caravaggio and violent masterpieces of Goya. His works have been exhibited at the MCA in Denver and other galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.
By Sofie Birkin
Sofie Birkin is a British digital illustrator living in Denver with her wife and tragic labrador. By day she’s an in-house doodler and designer for a marketing agency, and by night she draws powerful women and queer heroes in gaudy colors.