Plaza de Creativos (Artist Alley)
NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2023 SHOW.
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Pawchi PupsPawchi Pups is a pet-themed business created by Mexican-American artist Joey Torrescano. She specializes in personalized pet portraits, enamel pins, and stickers. Recognizing the importance of family and the profound impact pets have on our lives, Joey pours her heart and soul into each pet portrait she creates. All of her designs are inspired by real dogs that have touched her life and moments from her personal life.
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Campside Tales"I started Campside Tales as a way to combine my love for tabletop games with my passion for design. From a young age, I was always fascinated with the small bits and pieces that board games came with. Nowadays, I produce my own pieces across playable enamel pins, challenge coins, and decorative engraved characters that can add flavor to your next D&D campaign."
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Wind-Up Hero StudiosAlejandro Juvera has been writing, drawing and self publishing independent comic books since 2016. His characters and stories are often inspired by classic Japanese super hero shows and 60s manga, but with a strong emphasis and representation. Through his Wind-Up Hero Studios brand, he continues his goal of creating original characters and stories to entertain and inspire.
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LocalItadoriLover Localitadorilover is a second generation Latina and artist. She sells anime stickers, posters, and keychains!
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Carina GuevaraCarina Guevara (she/her) is an editorial illustrator and comic artist working out of Austin, Texas. She’s worked on numerous book covers for publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins. Most recently, she contributed as a comic artist in DC Comics’ "Wonderful Women of the World". Her work is often influenced by romance, pop culture and the beauty in the mundane
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DianitaDianita (she/her) is a Mexican freelance artist currently living in Texas, she has a tremendous love for all things Fantasy. Her favorite themes go from whimsical scenes, like her Juanita and Benito artwork (a child and her winged jaguar friend) to more personal expressions portrayed specially in her Gorgons series. She injects a bit of representation to her work in little details like a dragon's nest, flowers, huipiles and scenes inspired by memories from Mexico
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Roberto MercadoRoberto Mercado was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and currently resides in Dallas, Texas. He is also a comic book writer/creator and a Classic Mexican Lucha Libre collector. Over the last 15 years, he wrote for “Lucha Cómics” a manga comic book ("Indios: from the Heart") based on his stint as a Puerto Rico's baseball league bat boy and several pro wrestling/luchador themed comic books and graphic novels including “Aski: The Mayan Warrior” series and “Azteq vs The Prowler”.
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DUKEScomicsDUKEScomics is an independent comic book publisher based in New Mexico that depicts a future southwest and a technological borderland culture. Their main characters illustrate challenges Latina sheros in the STEM and military fields might face. They also create graphic medicine for health care providers, educators, and researchers.
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That Chick MayaMaya is a self taught digital artist and third generation Tejana. Her work primarily focuses on body diversity and highlights plus size POC bodies in an illustration style heavily influenced by comic art. She wants people of all body types to feel represented in her art.
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CasasWorking mostly in the DFW anime convention scene, Guillermo has contributed artwork to many of them. A fan of comics of all kinds, he can be found around DFW offering advice and tutorials to anyone that might be looking to take the step in their art journey.
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Isabel JaimesIsabel Jaimes is an indie comic artist and illustrator of cute aesthetic art, as well as the owner of Summer Damsel Studio (known as Summer Damsel Art). She is a first-generation Mexican American immigrant that was heavily influenced by anime and high fantasy stories growing up, which is reflected in her art style. Isabel makes cute stationary products, accessories, and papercrafts, but mostly enjoys creating comics most of all.
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Emmanuel ValtierraBorn in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Monterrey México. Emmanuel Valtierra studied Graphic Design in the University of Nuevo Leon (UANL) and Photography in San Antonio College. After some time, he adopted the aztec codex style for some of his works bringing him attention from the public. Releasing first a series of pop culture images, playing cards, and finally the book "Codex Valtierra". The book had a Kickstarter campaign and won praise at the WorldCon 2018 in San Jose California.
The love Valtierra has for history has influenced him on all his projects. The goal is to keep teaching new generations about our past in a fun way in every media possible. In the future, Valtierra is planning to release more books, direct more videos, and work on more games for his public and followers. |
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