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Gina Biggs

Red String

Gina Biggs is a freelance artist and comic creator currently residing in the Atlanta, Georgia area. She has been creating comics for over ten years and has run StrawberryComics.com since 2004. Strawberry Comics is an all-female group of creators banding together to help promote women in the comic industry as well as the neglected and often overlooked genre of love and romance in the medium. She also runs the adult comic site, FilthyFigments.com which also promotes all-female creators.

Gina's current work is the romantic webcomic series, Red String. The series has been running since 2003 and the first three volumes are published by Dark Horse Comics. Some of her other works include, Love of Sausage, an autobiographical tale of the love and loss in pet ownership as well as Erstwhile, a series adapting the lesser know Grimm's fairytales into comic form, and various adult short stories.

Dr. Brent Allison

Dr. Brent Allison is an assistant professor of education at Gainesville State College. His research on anime fandom has been published as articles and book chapters, and he has presented on anime fandom at many academic conventions and fan cons. He looks forward to going to cons to share his work, inspire others to do their own anime-related research, and to get a good discussion rolling amongst fans.