Staff

BRYANT DILLON President, Co-Founder, & Director of Velociraptor Resources

bryant (at) fanbasepress (dot) com
Twitter: @ComicBookSlayer

Bryant Dillon is the co-founder and President of Fanbase Press. He has a passion for many interests, having filled the positions of writer, artist, director, and actor on a number of projects. His writing credits include Fanbase Press’ first two graphic novels, Something Animal and Identity Thief, California Coldblood Books’ The Odds: The Audio Drama adaptation, contributions to McFarland’s The Comics of Joss Whedon, and more. He also served as an actor, writer, and executive producer on the fan-produced audio drama, The Katniss Chronicles.

BARBRA DILLON Editor-in-Chief, Co-Founder, & Director of Jedi Recruitment

barbra (at) fanbasepress (dot) com
Twitter: @barbrajdillon

Barbra Dillon is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fanbase Press, a GLAAD Media Award-winning and Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated publishing company and geek media outlet that seeks to produce new and distinctive works that give voice to the themes, ideals, and people that make “geekdom” so exceptional. She also serves as Board Member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective and as an Executive Committee member and Co-Coordinator of Programming and Marketing for The Latinx Comic Arts Festival. Outside of the comics community, Barbra is the Senior Director of Operations for Gemelli Biotech, as well as an award-winning voice-over actress with credits including The Katniss Chronicles (Katniss Everdeen) and Pendant Audio’s Phantom Canyon (Clara).

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.

SEAN FOSTER Graphic Designer and Head of Lightsaber Maintenance and Repair

Twitter: @Seanthings

Sean Foster was born and raised in Washington, DC. He went to college at Point Park University, majoring in film and video. Raised on comics, anime, and video games, he has become the geek boy you know and love today. Spider-man is his hero, and Star Wars is his bible.

Sean has loved to write and draw ever since he was a child. He also started making movies on his parents’ video camera at the age of 7, where he would write, star, and direct in every film. Right now, Sean works at Drinkmore Water just outside of DC and is saving up to make the move to Los Angeles, where he plans on making a career as a voice actor.

JODI SCAIFE Senior Contributor and Director of Fantastic Beasts (and Where to Find Them)
Twitter: @jscaife

Jodi Scaife was born in Salem, Massachusetts, but, despite her parents’ upbringing, the universe was determined to try to mold her into a Southern lady as her family relocated to Austin, TX, before she hit the tender age of two. The universe’s attempt to mold her into something classy and cultured failed miserably, as Jodi was a wild tomboy from the moment she could walk. The one thing that could slow toddler Jodi down was a good book, and she developed a deep love of reading from a very young age. She continues to love reading and jokes that she will read anything she can get her hands on, although she will draw the line at gossip mags and car guides.   Austin has gotten under Jodi’s skin, and she seems to always end up back there, even though she has lived in San Antonio and Nagoya, Japan, as a college student. She has studied Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese and can fake fluency in Spanish and Japanese.

Jodi is owned by five dogs and three cats who do not always approve of her love of anime, manga, books, comics, and anything else geeky that distracts her from her job as their caretaker.

TRAVIS LAKATA Creator of the Geeky Parent Guide, Senior Contributor, and Guardian of Fantasia

Website: www.stlakata.com
Twitter: @stlakata

Travis likes to turns his writing talents toward the creative realm, which he plans to make a full-time reality at some point. He hopes to publish a collection of his short stories ranging from general to science fiction, and has self-published three books in the Weiland Kershaw series, with the fourth currently in edit.

He grew up on Star Trek: The Next Generation, video games like Legend of Zelda and Kid Icarus, and playing basketball almost every day of his youth. His favorite comic books early on were X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and WildC.A.T.S. The book that catapulted his love of science fiction happens to still be his favorite – Sphere by Michael Crichton.

Now, his wife and kids drive him to keep doing what he loves, because he wants his kids to know it’s okay to go for it. His go-to show is still TNG, but close behind all-time are Fringe and Lost. His ultimate goal is to be a fiction writer of novels, short stories, comic books, TV shows, or movies.

Some of my favorites:
Food: Nachos
Date Night Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You
TNG Book: Dark Mirror