Subject: Dare2Draw✎ with Carl Potts!

Don't Forget to get your
"Quick Draw" RE-Loads ready!
Dare2Drawwith Special Mentoring Guest Artist
Carl Potts!
Hosted by
Simon Fraser & Mina Sanwald
Carl has held creative lead positions in publishing, entertainment, marketing, interactive and education. He loves all forms of visual storytelling and began his career drawing storyboards for major NYC ad agencies and illustrating comic books for DC, Marvel and other comics publishers. For most of his 13 years at Marvel Comics, Carl was an Executive Editor, overseeing 1/3 of Marvel's publications. Carl’s duties included spearheading Epic, Marvel’s imprint of diverse creator-owned titles. He became Editor-in-Chief of Marvel's General Entertainment and Epic publishing divisions.

Carl discovered and mentored a number of Marvel’s top creators including Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Scott Williams, Jon Bogdanove, June Brigman, Larry Stroman, Terry Shoemaker and Art Adams. While at Marvel, Carl developed original and established entertainment properties. Some of these properties, including The Punisher, became cross media franchises, spawning numerous publications, games, licensed products and dramatic productions. When he should have been sleeping, Carl also created new entertainment IP, wrote and drew for Marvel. Among Carl's projects was a celebrated run as writer/layout artist on Punisher War Journal. He created
Alien Legion, Marvel/Epic Comics' longest running original title, and was creator/artist on the Last of the Dragons graphic novel. More...

Portfolio / Resume: www.cjpotts.com
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/cpott



Simon Fraser is a Scottish comics artist and writer best known for his work on 'Nikolai Dante', a series he created for 2000AD with writer Robbie Morrison. Fraser's early work includes 'Lux and Alby Sign on and Save the Universe', 'Roy of the Rovers', 'Family', 'Shimura' and several 'Judge Dredd' adventures. 'Nikolai Dante' won the Eagle Award for Best Character in 2003 In the United States he drew 'Grindhouse: Prison Ship Antares' for Dark Horse and 'Richard Matheison's HellHouse' for IDW.
He manages the highly respected webcomic colective ACTIVATEcomix.com where he writes & draws 'The Adventures of Lilly Mackenzie'. Since 2013 he has been drawing the Dr Who comic, first for IDW then for Titan. He lives in Brooklyn New York. http://simonfraser.net/
Mina Sanwald is a New York Illustrator and Animator best known for her colorful personality and quirky Manga-like drawing style. She received her BFA in Animation and Illustration from The Art Institute of Boston, in May of 2010. Since graduating, she has worked on many animated shorts; most notably on Weird Al’s music video, TMZ and Winsor McCay’s fully restored Flying House.
Currently, she works out of Long Island, New York as a freelance artist and mentors sequential art workshops at many libraries and schools. Mina loves animated movies and more than anything, enjoys daydreaming, playing video games and hanging out with her lovely kittens, Ser Otto, and Lady Isis.
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