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MUSIC MOVIES EAT DRINK FESTIVALS THEATER SCENE take5online.com pl4 5.14.2010 1 from James E. LJl fi' TSS-feSC Special to the CREATORS: Artist bios Continued from T13 inspired by North Carolina. Much of the story has to do with the idea of home as a place that's both comfortable and restrictive, so I drow on my feelings about Asheville while writing it." What superpower would you want? "The only superpower I crave is the ability to focus and sit still for long periods of time. I'd be so much more productive." Evan Dahm Age: 22. Residence: Asheville.

Examples of work: "I am working on the fantasy adventure comic, 'Order of and previously I made the book 'Rice I'm working to make a bunch of stories set in the Special to the (Hhen-Tlnws A scene from Evan Dahm's "Rice Boy. "The great pool of talent that's here in the WNC area inspires greater heights with my own work." What superpower would you want? "Right now I'd just like to be the cartoonist who can keep up with his deadlines and earn enough to keep the bills paid: James E. "Doodle" Lyle Age: 46. Residence: Waynesville. Examples of work: Drawing and promoting 'Dark Candle' (www.darkcan-dle.net), a story set in Bavaria in A.D.

955, as well as writing 'The PLUS' (www.the pluscomic.com), illustrated resent the entire southeast cartoonists community in the latter role, getting together with the gang in Asheville (7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Frank's Roman Pizza on Tunnel Road) and passing around the latest batch of samples is one of the highlights of each month. by up-and-coming illustrator Kaysha Siemens, who will also be at Fanaticon. How does WNC influence your work: "I am blessed to be the de facto head of the WNC group of the Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, as well as the vice chairman of the SECNCS. While I try to rep same strange, invented world.

I publish all of my content online at www.rice-boy.com." How does WNC influence your work: "I have a lot of good ideas walking through the woods." What superpower would you want? "I would like to fly- rr HifiwJfflwfflmv'l EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIV I More than 100 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs'- including Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Opportunities to pursue major research, and even a formal thesisas an undergraduate Affordable and.accredited; scholarships and out-of-state tuition assistancefor many students ETSXJ A growing university -more than 14,500 students -with a strong sense of community 1 v. BUS nm.