Staff
Staff
BRYANT DILLON President, Co-Founder, & Director of Velociraptor Resources
bryant@fanboycomics.net
Twitter: @ComicBookSlayer
Bryant Dillon graduated from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, with a BFA in Acting. He currently serves as co-founder and President of both Fanboy Comics and Openly Lewd Comics, as well as a staff writer for Whedonopolis.com. He has a passion for many interests, having filled the positions of actor, director, writer, and artist on a number of projects.
Bryant has always been a huge comic book fan, counting Vertigo's Preacher as his favorite. His creative influences include Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, H.R. Giger, and Quentin Tarantino, among others. He and his wife currently reside in North Hollywood, CA, with their cats, Floyd and Mogwai.
BARBRA DILLON Managing Editor, Co-Founder, & Director of Jedi Recruitment
barbra@fanboycomics.net
Twitter: @barbrajdillon
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Barbra graduated as the Outstanding Graduating Senior from Point Park University with a double-major in Political Science and History. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in talent management and production in 2005.
During her time in Los Angeles, Barbra has had the pleasure to work with such actors as Vince Vaughn, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, and Doug Bass. Her film credits have included such masterpieces of cinema as Semi Pro and The Pre-Nup. She produced numerous short films and web series including Batman of Suburbia and Something Animal, and served as Legal Advisor on Walken on Sunshine.
When she is not editing, Barbra enjoys reading anything by David Sedaris. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors of 19more.org, a non-profit organization that serves to educate students through outdoor education. Ultimately, she hopes to own her own arts organization that supports artists of all mediums in their creative endeavors. She is the coolest geek-girl in the world and knows more about Watchmen than Alan Moore.
SAM RHODES Creative Director, Co-Founder, & Assistant to Diana Prince
sam@fanboycomics.net
Twitter: @samrhodesfilm
Sam Rhodes is an actor, juggler, comic writer/artist, filmmaker, and Creative Director at FBC. He also enjoys occasionally performing improv at iOWest with his teams "Toast" and "Teflon." He wrote and starred in the short film Something Animal and co-wrote the graphic novel of the same name.
BEN RHODES Senior Contributor and Laser High-Five Coordinator
Ben's Blog: www.rotisseriecomputer.blogspot.com
Ben Rhodes is a writer of many works of unpublished fiction. He wrote the short story that would become Something Animal on a dark and stormy night in aught three. Honestly, it was a terrible story until he picked it back up four years later. Hopefully, it has improved some. He also hates writing his bio, because writing about himself in the third person always messes me up. He would also like to make it clear that he does like garlic. He occasionally posts on his blog at the above link.
Rebecca Lear Staff Photographer and Senior Mockingjay Wrangler
becca@fanboycomics.net
Twitter: @beccalear
Becca Lear moved to Los Angeles from Boston, MA, where she graduated with a B.A. in Film and a minor in Photography from Emerson College. By day, she tweets and posts on Facebook at a PR firm. Her nights are split between cooking and baking (and taking pictures of all her creations for Garlic My Soul), posting pictures on Facebook, seeing movies, visiting the library, or spending way too much money at Barnes & Noble. Her passions for film, photography, and reading take up most of her free time; yet, somehow, she still manages to be tan. Becca started a book club where she introduced everyone to The Hunger Games. She met Barbra and Bryant on the night they got engaged, and she is thrilled to be a part of Fanboy Comics!
Drew Siragusa Senior Contributor and Head of TARDIS Maintenance & Repair
Andrew Siragusa hails from the ostensibly fictitious-sounding village of Fredonia. The harsh Western New York winters forced our young lad to stay indoors frequently, so much of his childhood consisted of watching movies or staging plays with his sisters and cousins.
If you asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would have given one of two answers: either an astronaut or Spider-Man. As he got older, he realized the impracticality of both options, so he landed on the reasonable goal of being a screenwriter.
In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles and made the cross-country road trip from New York to California in just under two days.
He received several screenwriting awards from his school’s short film festival. They are currently on display above his father’s television. Most recently, he was featured on Google maps.
He is still waiting for that damn radioactive spider to bite him.
JASON MCINTYRE Director of Marketing & Social Media, Director of Borg Defense Grid
Jason McIntyre moved to Los Angeles in 2007 from his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, where he attended Point Park University as a Theater major. Since then, he's managed to stay afloat in the midst of writers’ strikes, recessions, and meteor strikes (not that last one...yet) and has slowly moved into Web performance and production to get a creative release and to learn more about the business from behind the camera. By day he works on VH1's Dance Cam Slam, and by night he fights crime. He is thrilled to be working with the extremely talented cast and crew of Something Animal and hopes to work with them again in the future (HINT HINT, guys and gals!).
MELANIE MARQUEZ / M4PR Talent Booking
Website: M4PR.com
Independent publicist for actors, writers, producers, webshows, events, benefits, and musicians. Melanie and M4PR are based in Los Angeles, CA.
