Jim Yoho is the owner of In Genre, Wausau Comics, and JAY Entertainment and he maintains the site as well as adding the occasional article or review of his own.  He often goes by Merin online, from way back in the BBS days of dial-up modems even.

Having enjoyed writing reviews and postings for other sites he decided to start his own where he combined his creative urges to write and create web comics (such as Episode Fun and Alistair & Arthur)  with his long-held desire to bring together and organize talented people for joint projects.   The end result is that you get the Wausau Comics site – articles and reviews of genre entertainment at In Genre plus some web comics and links to the works of other Contributors, too!

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Star Wars

Benton Sartore has been reading comic books off and on for 17 years, and playing RPGs for 6.  His bookshelf is now full of 1960s Marvel Comics, Batman trades, and Star Wars comics.  He is an avid pursuer of webcomics and Star Wars comic books, and plans to spend much of his blogging proselytizing both media, advocating for some of the newest RPG releases, as well as acting as an apologist for the new Clone Wars cartoon (though he does not defend the atrocious movie).

Benton is also an acting editor at In Genre.

Writers Block

Mark Fenton is a freelance writer, currently writing his creator owned title “The Chosen”. He has been a comic book and Sci Fi fan since childhood. Mark also enjoys meeting people in the comic book industry, the paranormal, and gaming. After living in NYC for years he now resides in Albuquerque.

Mark is also an acting editor at In Genre.

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Men In Tights

Evan Henry is an amateur comic book writer. His first completed project, titled “Infiltrators”, a collaboration with artist Gabriel Ramirez, is forthcoming later this year. He has been writing comic scripts since early 2007 and poetry since 2008. In his free time, he enjoys reading on the subjects of philosophy, history, and political science, reading comic books and science fiction, and watching television programs about monkeys.

Evan will be doing a monthly comic book review segment where he looks at several titles each month.

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Digital Inks

Shane “Inkmonkey” Woodis started making webcomics in 2003, and didn’t stop until he graduated from the Joe Kubert School in 2008. Since then he’s worked as a freelance artist, and as a moderator for the DrunkDuck website. He has also contributed to two of their print collections. His best known work is Elijah and Azuu, an action/comedy series that ran on DrunkDuck for 5 years and over 1300 pages.

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Descent into Comic Madness

David Doub was a IT professional in the Dallas-Forth Worth area for the past decade, but after several turns in his life he’s going back to his first love, comics. Come read David’s journey has he tries to make it as a writer and creator in the comic industry. The only companion with him on this journey is his cat Jordon, who happens to like the taste of paper.

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Comic Book Confidential

Anthony Zicari is a freelance writer/editor. He has been writing professionally for well over ten years, and has written for a number of companies and clients. His work ranges from writing comic books to animation, screenplays and for various other media and mediums as well.

He has been reading comic books for close to 34 years and is fan of all things pop culture. Anthony hopes to bring his expertise of comic books and pop culture to the masses within his monthly column Comic Book Confidential.

He is married and lives in New York.

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Memoirs of a Jaded Otaku

Jonathan L. Switzer has a clear and vivid memory of sitting in his dad’s lap and reading the third issue of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns at the tender age of five. That early experience, along with a couple of die-cast Shogun Warriors toys and the local library’s copy of Frederik Schodt’s Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, seemed to set his fate in stone. For three years, he worked at a Southeast Kansas Japanese animation specialty store, immersed in anime & manga to the point that it started to give him a nasty rash. He was a contributing writer on The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, had an article on the Robotech franchise published in Protoculture Addicts magazine (issue #94, Nov-Dec. 2007), is a founding member of Ally Comix, and — when he finds the time — writes & draws the ongoing comic series Scwonkey Dog. Oh, and he writes a manga review every month for this very website.

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Putting it on Paper

Jeff Graham was a graduate of a Graphic Design program where he learned the basics of both traditional and digital art. He worked in the field designing advertisements for a few years before moving on in life. Having been a fan of comics, art and movies since childhood, Jeff translated his love into actual work by becoming a grunt worker at a local comic shop and then transforming that role into that of Store Manager. Again, after a few years, Jeff decided to move on. Jeff now works as a Paramedic in southwestern Ontario. While his dedication to pre-hospital medicine is solid in nature, he still considers comics, art and movies his first loves.

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The Midnight Crusader and Kevin’s Korner

Kevin Blanton wrote a few issues of a British comic as well as contributed to a business website. He’s also done the whole keep-sending-proposals-in-until-they-like-something with Platinum Studios, back when they were still going that route. Kevin was also editor-in-chief during one of the incarnations of Affinity Press. Finally, he wrote something he’d rather not talk about for a company he’d rather not mention.
Kevin enjoys writing, art, and movies. He read comic books on a pretty regular basis from around the age of 8 to the age of 18. Now he only sometimes he picks up a collection. He still holds the goal of writing comic books for a living.