- Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop artists so honored.
- Dj Flash
DJ Flash was born Clifton Leon (Lee) Johnson in 1957 in Fresno, California. He attended high schools in Sacramento and Taft, California He began his musical career at radio station KTKR 1310 AM in Taft and went on to become one of the founding members of The Rappers Rap Group. In 1992, he produced the critically acclaimed four-volume set "West Coast Rap - The First Dynasty" for Rhino Records, followed by a compilation featuring early tracks by Ice-T, …
- Sandy Flash
Sandy Flash (died 1778) was the name by which James Fitzpatrick, a late eighteenth-century highwayman, was better known. Sandy Flash operated in the areas west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (now parts of Chester and Delaware counties) in the late eighteenth century.
- Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons. Fiore lives in San Francisco, California and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of websites. He studied political science at Colorado College and was a staff cartoonist for the San Jose Mercury News. He left newspapers for animated online comics in 2001, and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his website,, …
- Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in user interface design and computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM, and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems.
- Eric Johnson
Eric Johann Johnson (born August 7, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta) is best known for playing the role of Whitney Fordman on the television series "Smallville". Johnson left the cast after the first season but resurfaced in guest appearances during seasons two (playing a shapeshifter masquerading as Whitney) and four (in a flashback).
- Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on "Smallville". Continuing in the comic book genre, he voiced Wally West (a.k.a. The Flash) in the DC Comics animated series "Justice League". Rosenbaum has also done film and other voiceover work. In February of 2007, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after the show's 7th season.
- Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Oscar, Golden Globe and five-time Grammy winning, American singer-songwriter.
- Towa Tei
is a Japanese-born DJ of Korean descent. He moved to New York City in the late 1980s to be an art student, but soon dropped out as he became involved in the New York City club scene. He first earned notice for his production work on the Jungle Brothers' 1989 LP "Done by the Forces of Nature". In 1990, he shot to fame as a member of the downtown New York club trio Deee-Lite. The group scored an international hit with "Groove Is In the Heart".
- Ethan van Sciver
Ethan Van Sciver is a comic book artist and penciller, currently doing covers and interior art for the DC Comics title "Superman/Batman". Ethan lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, Sharis, and their son, Hunter. Comic book titles he has contributed to include "Cyberfrog", "New X-Men", "The Flash: Iron Heights", "Impulse", "Green Lantern: Rebirth" and "Green Lantern".
- Murphy Anderson
Murphy Anderson (born 1926) is an American comic book penciller and inker who has worked for companies such as DC Comics for over 50 years, starting in the 1930s-'40s Golden Age of Comic Books. He has worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna and the Spectre, as well as on the "Buck Rogers" daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also created what many fans consider to be early defining images of the modern-day Flash, Adam Strange, Atom, …
- Howard Porter
Howard Porter is a comic book artist from southern Connecticut. He graduated from Paier College of Art in Connecticut where he majored in illustration. One of his teachers there was Frank McLaughlin. McLaughlin also worked as a comic book inker and he began to give Porter work assisting him in his inking jobs which led Porter to assist other inkers and eventually find work for himself in the industry.
- Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As President of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy.
- Tom Gordon
Thomas Gordon, nicknamed "Flash," is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. Previously, he played with the Kansas City Royals (1988–95), Boston Red Sox (1996–99), Chicago Cubs (2001–02), Houston Astros (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003) and the New York Yankees (2004–05). He signed a three-year deal worth $18 million with the Phillies before the 2006 season.
- Paul Levitz
Paul Levitz (born 21 October 1956) is an American comic book writer, editor and executive. Currently the President of DC Comics, the oldest comics company in the United States, he has previously served as a writer, editor, vice president, and executive vice president at DC. Levitz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hannah and Alfred Levitz. He attended Stuyvesant High School during which time he co-wrote and published a popular comic fan magazine, …
- Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born January 1971) is an Australian freelance animator. His recent work, for which he is best known, has consisted of flash animation compositions published on his website Bitey Castle and on the flash portal Newgrounds (there, as of December 2006, his movies have over six million views and he is the third highest-rated artist with a 'Batting Average' of 4.21 out of 5). He is the creator of the Brackenwood series.
- Beefy
Keith A. Moore (born December 15, 1985), is a Nerdcore rapper, Flash animator, and webcomic artist from Pasco, Washington better known by the stage name Beefy. In 2005, Moore produced two independent EPs, "The Whitesican EP" and "nerd". He created animated music videos for the songs "Whitesican" and "David's Sister" (both from "The Whitesican EP"), which gave him notoriety after they appeared on Albino Blacksheep.
- Tony Daniel
Tony Daniel is an American comic book penciller and artist. He previously worked with Image Comics and Marvel Comics. He recently left his position as the penciller for "Teen Titans" (v3), and has recently announced that he will be the penciller for "The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive", starting with issue #11.
- Marc Guggenheim
Marc Guggenheim is a veteran writer for TV’s "The Practice", "Law & Order", "CSI: Miami", and most recently, "Brothers & Sisters". He is also currently the writer of "Blade" for "Marvel Comics". His brother is screenwriter "Eric Guggenheim". Hailing from Long Island New York, he worked in Boston as a lawyer and part-time writer for five years.
- Ed McGuinness
Edward "Ed" McGuinness is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on "Superman", "Deadpool" and "Superman/Batman". He has also worked on titles such as Wolverine 96', "the Incredible Hulk", "Fighting American" and "Mr. Majestic". Ed McGuinness first gained the notice of comic-book fans with his work on "Deadpool" and "Vampirella". His short run on Wildstorm's "Mr.
- John Broome
John Broome, (1913 - 1999) who was frequently credited as John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt, was an American writer-contributor to DC Comics. Broome began his career as a writer of a dozen published science-fiction stories. Believing that he was not a first-rate science fiction writer, he switched to writing comic books for his friend and former agent DC editor Julius Schwartz.
- Ross Andru
Ross Andru (June 15, 1927 - November 9, 1993) was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Wonder Woman" and for co-creating the Metal Men (with writer Robert Kanigher in "Showcase" # 37 in 1962) and the Punisher (with writer Gerry Conway in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #129 in 1974). His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, …
- Art Thibert
Arthur "Art" Thibert is a comic book artist, inker and penciller. He is best known for his work as an inker for Marvel Comics on their various "X-Men" titles during the 1990s. His recent work includes covers for "Flash", Outsiders and his creator-owned series "Chrono Mechanics".
- Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photographic essays. As one of the first photographers to use flash, he is considered a pioneer in photography.
- Neil Cicierega
Neil Stephen Cicierega (born August 23, 1986), also known under the aliases Trapezoid and Lemon Demon, is an Internet personality and artist. He is the creator of many Flash animations, which became popular around 2001. Several of these videos have been watched millions of times. He is now better known for his music, which has also had success online. Cicierega currently lives with his parents and two of his siblings in Kingston, …
- Cary Bates
Cary Bates is a comic book and animation writer. He was born in Pennsylvania in the United States. Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to "Superman" #167 (February 1964). Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17. Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics on such titles as "Action Comics", "Captain Atom", "The Flash", …
- Rob Manuel
Rob Manuel is the co-founder of B3ta (where he is affectionately known as the "Ginger Führer"). For a time, he presented the B3ta Radio Show on Resonance FM with David Stevenson. He is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. He also works with Joel Veitch animating videos for Tomboy Virals. Together with Jonti Picking, under the names Weebl and Chums, …
- Js16
JS16, real name Jaakko Salovaara, is a Finnish musician and record producer. He owns the dance music record label 16 Inch Records. His first release was the vinyl "Hypnosynthesis" at the age of 16 (explaining the number 16 in his artist name). With the release of the club/dance music album "Stomping System" in 1998 and hits like "Stomp to My Beat" and "Love Supreme", he gained the Finnish audience's attention.
- Rob Burgess
Rob Burgess was chairman and CEO of Macromedia until it was acquired by Adobe Systems for $3.4 billion in a transaction which closed on December 5, 2005. Under Burgess' tenure, starting in 1996, he led the company's transformation from a CD-ROM based multimedia company to a prominent market position in web authoring and development solutions. While he was chairman and CEO, the vector animation product Flash become a pervasive multimedia platform, …
- Brian Augustyn
Brian Augustyn is a comic book editor and writer. He was born in 1954. He has often worked, as both an editor and writer, with Mark Waid. During the late 1980s and early 1990s he was an editor for DC Comics where he edited "The Flash", "Justice League" and the !mpact Comics line of titles. He discovered his love of comics with DC's "Showcase" #4, which starred The Flash. As a writer he has worked on titles such as "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight", …
- Veloso
Veloso is the Internet handle of Greg Falcon, an Internet artist known for creating animutations such as the popular Irrational Exuberance Flash animation. Veloso (short for "Very Low Sodium", pulled from the side of a Coke can) lives in Austin, Texas and works for a software company. In his teen years, Veloso was active in the MegaZeux community. He later claimed to be Gregory Janson, creator of MegaZeux, but found that some actually believed this, …
- Frazer Irving
Frazer Irving was born in the 1970s at Ilford, Essex. He is primarily a horror artist who first sprang to prominence with the 2000 AD series "Necronauts", written by Gordon Rennie. He has also enjoyed success with "Storming Heaven", a psychedelic tale based around Timothy Leary and Charles Manson (written by Rennie), and "The Simping Detective" and "From Grace" written by Simon Spurrier.
- Seth Fisher
Seth Fisher (July 22, 1972 - January 30, 2006) was an American comic book artist and penciller. Fisher possessed a unique and instantly recognizable drawing style. He first gained attention for his work on DC Comics' "Green Lantern: Willworld", and was nominated for an Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker" for "Flash: Time Flies" and "Vertigo Pop! Tokyo".
- Johnny Craig
Jonathan T. "Johnny" Craig (born 1926, Pleasantville, New York; died September 13, 2001), a.k.a. Jay Taycee and F.C. Aljohn, was an American comic book artist best known for his work with the influential EC Comics line of the 1950s. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2005. Craig studied at the Art Students League in New York City. While attending classes, he worked as an assistant to Harry Lampert, …
- Frank Giacoia
Frank Giacoia (1925-1989) is an American comic book artist who sometimes worked under the name Frank Ray and to a lesser extent Phil Zupa and the single moniker Espoia. Giacoia studied at the Manhattan's High School of Industrial Arts (now the High School of Art and Design) and the Art Students League. In 1941, he joined the New York City comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, …
- Jonti Picking
Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, otherwise known by his Internet pseudonym Weebl (born May 17, 1975, Doncaster, England) is the creator of the Weebl and Bob cartoon series, as well as the "Magical Trevor", "Badger Badger Badger", "Kenya" and "Scampi" Flash movies on weebls-stuff.com. His movies are known to repeat in constant loops and make very little sense; the majority of them also feature a catchy tune with equally silly lyrics.
- Jose Marzan Jr.
Jose Marzan Jr is a prolific comic book artist and inker. Over his career he has worked on many titles including "Action Comics", "Final Night", "Marvel Comics Presents" and "Nightwing". He was the regular inker on "The Flash" for over nine years (#38-151, May, 1990 - August, 1999), through many penciller changes.
- Oscar Jimenez
Oscar Jimenez is a comic book artist, penciller and inker. He is best known in the American comic industry for his work on titles such as "The Flash", "JLA" and "Contest of Champions II". The artist has recently returned to mainstream USA comics work under the pseudonym Juan Barranco, filling in on Squadron Supreme and was supposed to be penciling the Foolkiller mini-series but the series has still yet to be solicited
- Val Semeiks
Val Semeiks is a veteran comic book artist who has mostly worked for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He is best remembered for his long runs on "The Demon" and "Lobo". He has also worked on "DC One Million" with Grant Morrison. He showed a more cartoony style on "Lobo The Duck". Val illustrated a fill-in issue of the hit series "Villains United" when artist Dale Eaglesham fell ill and wrapped up the second volume of "Flash".
- Jeff Peters
Jeff Peters is a consultant, author and speaker whose work is widely known in the Fusebox community. He has written several books, both for New Riders and Proton Arts, and articles for magazines including "ColdFusion Developers Journal" and "Pocket PC Magazine". Mr. Peters' GrokFusebox website is a collection of resources for Fusebox developers. He is also co-host of the Helms and Peters Out Loud podcast.