Nick Tapalansky — Writer, Awakening

If you were to judge by the beard, you’d say Nick Tapalansky was raised by wolves—perhaps in Canada. But this is why we don’t judge by beards…or at least beards ALONE.

He was, in fact, raised in upstate New York.

Creating from an early age, Nick’s first comic work was written and illustrated in the first grade at the tender age of 6. Sadly, no subsequent issues of “Kat Man” ever saw publication. After lying low for many years, he burst into the industry once more in 2007 with AWAKENING.

Nick currently lives in the forests of New Paltz, NY where he is, without fail, always thinking of better ways to enter your mind and frighten you than these silly pictograms.

Alex Eckman-Lawn — Illustrator, Awakening