Bar Napkin Art is a self-taught fine artist, currently running and participating in gallery shows in the Northern New Jersey area.

Bar Napkin is not only his Moniker but the choice of medium when doing artwork, actually on Bar Napkins.

He is also schooled in Graphic Design from NYU, self taught in photography and photo manipulation.

Brian Beardsley about himself: "A long time ago, in an ancient land called Illinois, a son was born to two noble people who had to flee to Seattle to escape sheer boredom.

    There, Brian's only friend was a magic pencil. He and that magic pencil would open portals, fight ogres, and travel to distant lands. You can find his lair at: www.studiobmedia.com

Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Ángeles. His artwork has appeared over the years in Medusa’s Kitchen, Nerve Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, and Rogue Wolf Press, Venus in Scorpio Poetry E-Zine. 

Darren Blanch, Aussie creator of visions which tell you a tale long after first glimpses have teased your peepers. With early influence from America's Norman Rockwell to show life as life, Blanch has branched out mere art form to impact multi-dimensions of color and connotation. People as people, emotions speaking their greater glory. Visual illusions expanding the ways and means of any story.

Digital arts mastery provides what Darren wishes a reader or viewer to take away in how their own minds are moved. His evocative stylistics are an ongoing process which sync intrinsically to the expression of the nearby written or implied word he has been called upon to render.

View the vivid energy of IVSMA (Darren Blanch) works at: www.facebook.com/ivsma3Dart, YELLOW MAMA, Sympatico Studio - www.facebook.com/SympaticoStudio, DeviantArt - www.deviantart.com/ivsma and launching in 2019, as Art Director for suspense author / intrigue promoter Kate Pilarcik's line of books and publishing promotion - SeaHaven Intrigue Publishing-Promotion.

Wayne F. Burke's drawings have appeared in a number of publications, in print and online, including FLARE, Portland Review (ME). Red Savina, Duane's Poe Tree, Driftwood Magazine, Grey Sparrow, The Octopus Review, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in the central Vermont area (USA).

Terry Butler lives in the country, near a small town south of San Jose, CA called Hollister. He used to write steadily, publishing both in print and online as Terence Butler, but after some health issues, the energy needed to write seemed to dissipate somewhat. He has been a professional photographer and a painter/collage-assemblage maker for most of his working life, so painting and photo art have taken the place of genre fiction as an outlet. Recently the story “Fire Man” appeared all as a piece in his mind so he simply wrote it down. He sent it to Cindy, and in the ensuing back and forth. They somehow discussed using some of his visual art, too. Cindy is simply the best, and a real stalwart in this little world. She has a big heart and a deep love for animals, too!

It's well known that an artist becomes more popular by dying, so our pal Steve Cartwright is typing his bio with one hand while pummeling his head with a frozen mackerel with the other. Stop, Steve! Death by mackerel is no way to go! He (Steve, not the mackerel) has a collection of spooky toons, Suddenly Halloween!, available at Amazon.com.    He's done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and scribbling - but mostly drooling - on tavern napkins. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review, Stories for Children, and Still Crazy magazine covers. Take a gander ( or a goose ) at his online gallery: www.angelfire.com/sc2/cartoonsbycartwright . And please hurry with your response - that mackerel's killin' your pal, Steve Cartwright.

Bryan Cicalese was born in Newark and currently resides in Bloomfield NJ With his wife Marina. He began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil and is self-taught. Bryan’s major artistic influences are mainly comic book artists including Jim O ’Barr (The Crow) Barry Windsor Smith (Weapon X) and Alex Ross (DC’s Kingdom Come) His preferred medium is Black Micron pen but he often incorporates color pens and markers for effect. Bryan’s artistic endeavors focus on his interests which are the Occult, science fiction and fantasy. From an early age, Bryan was interested and curious about the hidden things that go bump in the night and always wanted to know the truth about such urban legends as the Mothman and the Beast of Gevaudan among others. This is reflected in his work. His work is personal and part of who he is.

Marina Cicalese  (nee Rodriguez) was born in Elizabeth and currently lives in Bloomfield with her husband Bryan. Marina’s talent for painting wasn’t realized until one rainy July 4^th in which she could not go to the beach. In what began as her husband’s attempt to keep Marina occupied on the rainy holiday quickly became something much more. With a set of acrylics and a paint brush Marina began to produce a number of paintings that featured an amazing command of color and a raw talent that she continues to sharpen to this day. Marina has been showcased in a number of local art shows and has sold many of her paintings. Marina’s influences are both musical and visually inspired by the gothic subculture and brings that dark sensuality to all of her work.

Maddisyn Condora is a full-blooded Italian girl, born and raised in Jersey who speaks her mind with no filter or regrets. Loved by her friends and family, as well as the center of obsession for some of her exes. But what else could be expected from a Scorpio whose hot mom and role model is none other than Cindy Rosmus?

Native New Yorker Elise Daher, an Art Producer in NYC, spends most of her time reviewing other peoples' beautiful photos. Sometimes she ventures off to take a few of her own. Her passion for photography combines well with her love of all things Brooklyn, beaches, and furry felines. @lebaneezblonde

If Charles Addams, Edgar Allan Poe, and Willy Wonka sired a bastard child it would be the fat asthmatic by the name of Michael D. Davis. He has been called warped by dear friends and a freak by passing strangers. Michael started drawing cartoons when he was ten, and his skill has improved with his humor, which isn’t saying much. He is for the most part self-taught, only ever crediting the help of one great high school art teacher. His art has been shown at his local library for multiple years only during October due to its macabre nature. If you want to see more of Michael’s strange, odd, weird, cartoons you can follow him on Instagram at mad_hatters_mania.

 Paul “Deadeye” Dick is a one-eyed illustrator, writer and sculptor.  Living in Scotland with his wife of 20 years and 3 children. Despite suffering from fibromyalgia, he lives an active life.

      Under the pen name Paul Dick Knight, he is the creator/writer/artist on the Deadeye Samurai comicbook. Mixing epic Japanese mythology and legend with the precepts of the superhero genre.

      Paul's 3D work can be seen on the figurerealm.com site under the name “Deadeye.” His part photorealistic, part painted art features on several current and upcoming Yellow Mama and Black Petals stories. Including his Dick Dice hardboiled SF tales and the Matt Malleus horror tales written by his brother, Earl.  As of November, 2011, Paul is Yellow Mama's new Assistant Art Director.

Scarefina Doll: ScAreifiNa Wicked Little doll #ChildrenOfTheBlood

Kevin D. Duncan was born 1958 in Alton, Illinois where he still resides. He has degrees in Political Science, Classics, and Art & Design. He has been freelancing illustration and cartoons for over 25 years. He has done editorial cartoons and editorial illustration for local and regional newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His award-winning work has appeared in numerous small press zines, e-zines, and he has illustrated a few books. 

J. Elliott is an author and artist living in a small patch of old, rural Florida. Think Spanish moss, live oak trees, snakes, armadillos, mosquitoes. She has published (and illustrated) three collections of ghost stories and three books in a funny, cozy series. She's currently writing (and illustrating) a ghost story novel, Jiko Bukken, set in Kyoto, Japan in the winter of '92-'93. Episodes on Amazon's Kindle Vella. Paperback and eBook coming late this summer (2023). 

Cynthia Fawcett has been writing for fun or money since she was able to hold a pen. A Jersey Girl at heart, she got her journalism degree at Marquette University in Milwaukee and now writes mostly technical articles about hydraulics and an occasional short story or poem on any other subject.

Dawn Marie Gonzalez is 47 years old and is from the Bronx. Currently, she’s living in Yonkers, NY. A wife, and mom of an 18-year-old son, she is also an administrative assistant for a Non-Profit.

 She has always enjoyed doodling, drawing, and painting, and she finds it relaxing. 

 This painting used to illustrate the poem “Direction” is of the view near the Yonkers Waterfront.  

Christopher Goss, longtime Black Petals and Yellow Mama contributor, has recently made some lifestyle changes, moving from Del Rio Texas, where he made his living building and servicing radio and TV towers, to Spearville, Kansas, where he now works on giant generators on a 300-unit wind farm. He has also started dabbling in some photo art, along with his dark fiction and poetry.

KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus.

Her creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals.

Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26^th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received.

Janne Karlsson is an insanely productive artist from Sweden. His dark surreal art is widely spread around the world. Janne's many books are available at Amazon or via his website www.svenskapache.se. He can be reached at svenskapache@gmail.com

Mike Kerins is a writer/artist based in the UK. His artwork has been exhibited in various galleries and he has written articles, stories and illustrated for various publishers including: Yellow Mama, Dark River Press, Black Petals, Tartarus Press, The Horrorzine and the BBC. He is currently working on his first novel. The magnificent depravity of his illustrative work can be experienced at: www.darkartgallery.com  <http://www.darkartgallery.com/>

A. F. Knott is a self-taught collage artist focused on book layout and book cover design as well networking in conjunction with Hekate Publishing, one of its missions, bringing together artist and writer. Sometimes seen selling in New York City's Union Square Park. Work can be found on 

flickr.com/photos/afknott/ Any exchange of ideas welcome: anthony_knott@hekatepublishing.com

Mike Knowles has spent over 40 years working mainly in comics, along with contributions to TV, Radio, animation, gonzo-style journalism for a “top-of-the-shelf” magazine and odd spells as a digital artist. Not to mention three gruesome years writing gags for comedians (even though they begged him not to. But what did THEY know about humor? 

https://www.facebook.com/mikeknowlescomicauthor

I wrote for the comic papers.

 Lonni Lees is a multi-award-winning writer in both fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  Her stories appear in Hardboiled magazine, Yellow Mama, A Shot of Ink, Shotgun Honey, Black Petals, Einstein’s Pocket Watch, All Due Respect, and in the anthologies Deadly Dames and More Whodunits. Among her numerous writing awards over the years, she has award-winning stories in Felons, Flames, and Ambulance Rides, Battling Boxing Stories, and her published short story collection, Crawlspace. Broken won first place and is her 4th published novel. Her first novel Deranged won the PSWA First Place award for best published novel. Her next novel, The Mosaic Murder, was followed with a sequel, The Corpse in the Cactus, which won First Place and was published in the U.S. and UK. She won several other writing awards for her short stories, including Grand Prize.

 She received both art and a nonfiction Creative Writing Awards from NLAPW, California South branch, an organization of women writers, artists, and composers, and she served as President from 1982–1984. She is a current member of Sisters in Crime, PSWA, and Arizona Mystery Writers, where she was the first writer to win two consecutive awards in their annual short story contest.

 Twice Lonni was selected as Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook, a writer’s retreat on Whidbey Island. After living in four states and visiting many countries, she’s settled in Tucson, AZ. She fills her spare time showing her art at WomanKraft Gallery, reminiscing on all her travel adventures, illustrating stories for online magazines, and dreaming up new tales to tell.

Rich MacNeill is a digital designer living in Brooklyn NY. When he is not designing websites, he can be found around town drawing or creating music.

Ben Minish-Malinconico has a zest for life with a lot of passion and humor.  He loves photography, traveling, and anything outdoors. Over the years, he held some unique jobs, such as being Santa’s elf; dining hall worker at a camp for LGBTQ+ adults; Porky Pig; Halloween ghouls; and working with adults with special needs for over three decades. He and his husband are a great match and are in it for life.

John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, and others. Winner/Nominee of numerous contests/awards, John edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. He’s a retired physics professor living in Knoxville, Tennessee.  

 http://jcmannone.wordpress.com  

  https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone/ 

Brendan Matley lives in the town of Oldham near Manchester, England. He is married and has a daughter named Amy, whom he loves more than anything. He's been writing fiction for years, and he and a friend had a short-lived crime/noir ezine called A Shot of Ink. He hates Manchester United by the way, and pulls for his local team.

Sheilah McGuckin is a Brooklyn girl who enjoys writing and photography in her spare time.

Jen Mong is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. When not drawing or writing, she is reading; watching TV or movies; taking walks; listening to music; enjoying nature; and keeping company with family and friends.

Patty Mulligan’s lifelong passion has been to work with animals in all aspects. She has been a kennel manager for a shelter, a surgical assistant with a veterinarian, and co-founded a local animal rescue organization.
 During her recent years working with animal rescue and doing TNR, she documents and photographs all animals for identification purposes. She carries a point-and-shoot camera with her at all times.
 Patty’s husband Bill recognized a talent in her photography and urged her to exhibit a few pieces at an upcoming art show in the library. She was amazed when one of her pieces won 2nd place in the photography medium. She continues to enjoy photography and has shown her works at the Bayonne Library, the Bayonne Community Museum, The Ferdez Art Gallery, Bee’s Art Studio, Hendrickson’s Restaurant and enjoyed a duo show with her husband at the Jewish Community Center. Patty is a member of The Hudson Artists of Jersey City, the Art Circle of Bayonne, the Core Artists and Beautify Bayonne.

Sean O’Keefe is an artist and writer living in Roselle Park, NJ. Sean attended Syracuse University where he earned his BFA in Illustration. After graduation, Sean moved to New York City where he spent time working in restaurants and galleries while pursuing various artistic opportunities. After the birth of his children, Sean and family move to Roselle Park in 2015. He actively participates in exhibitions and art fairs around  New Jersey, and is continuing to develop his voice as a writer. His work can be found online at www.justseanart.com and @justseanart on Instagram.

Bronx-born Jack Pepper plays a mean guitar and has recently been branching out into photo illustration.

 Originally from Bronx, New York, Jack Real works as a plumber in New Jersey. When he’s not snaking pipes, he likes to have a few beers and listen to Classic Rock with his childhood friend, fellow Yellow Mama artist Jack Pepper.

Ann Marie Rhiel was the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama Webzine. She was born and raised in Bronx, New York, and lived in New Jersey. She reconnected with her passion for art in 2016 and had her work exhibited in art galleries around northern New Jersey ever since. She was a commissioned painting artist, who also enjoyed photography. Her work also appeared in Black Petals and Megazine Official.

Sadly, Ann Marie passed away in January, 2023...

Noelle Richardson comes from a relatively large family and has been illustrating and painting for about twelve years. She writes a little on the side, plays a couple of instruments and dabbles in tattoo design.

John Lunar Richey has writings published in Rolling Stone, Genesis, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, The Journal of Erotica, and The Best of the Journal of Erotica (the latter two published in the UK). Lunar also works with Lunar Ensemble (word & music projections).

Joseph Richkus is an enthusiastic illustrator, photographer, writer, and reader. He has been an essential oil perfumer for more than 20 years, and has worked as a history teacher, chemist, security guard, and circus canvasman. He bemoans the limits of time and regrets that he is not 10 people, one of whom would happily devote every waking hour to reading the Sunday New York Times. 

Betty Rocksteady has always found it fascinating how we each have our own internal world of things that resonate with us. Stephen King and EC horror comics got their hooks in her when she was a teenager and have never let go. Most of the things that resonate with her are in the horror genre: darkly beautiful, strange, unusual, or horrifying. She is drawn to the bizarre and disturbing in all art forms. Through her art, she aims to explore her own personal resonances with pen in hand. You can follow her progress at www.facebook.com/bettyrocksteadyart or check out her portfolio at www.bettyrocksteady.com.

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of eight books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com).  To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over a thousand of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.

Allison Smith is a Boston-based artist and designer who works mostly with a mixture of pen and ink, photography, and digital collage to create horror art that has the lingering sense of a fever dream. Her subjects vary widely, since she enjoys almost all genres of horror. View her portfolio at:

https://foxontherun.myportfolio.com/

M.R. Sonntag is a writer, editor and artist from CT who enjoys reading and photography.

Nancy Soriano grew up in New York City and now resides in the Hudson Valley. She loves the darker side of art—and life. She is rediscovering her love of photography through her latest muse, her cat Zoey. 

From the hollows of Kentucky, John Sowder divides his spare time between creating art for Sugar Skull Press and working on various cryptid-themed projects.  He illustrated GEORGE THE HOLIDAY SPIDER by Rick Powell, which is due November of this year.  You can see more of his art at www.deviantart.com/latitudezero  

Henry Stanton's fiction, poetry and paintings appear in 2River, The A3 Review, Avatar, The Baltimore City Paper, The Baltimore Sun Magazine, High Shelf Press, Kestrel, North of Oxford, Outlaw Poetry, PCC Inscape, Pindeldyboz, Rusty Truck, Salt & Syntax, SmokeLong Quarterly, The William and Mary Review, Word Riot, The Write Launch, and Yellow Mama, among other publications. 

His poetry was selected for the A3 Review Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Eyewear 9th Fortnight Prize for Poetry.  His fiction received an Honorable Mention acceptance for the Salt & Syntax Fiction Contest and was selected as a finalist for the Pen 2 Paper Annual Writing Contest.

A selection of Henry Stanton's paintings are currently on show at Atwater's Catonsville and can be viewed at the following website www.brightportfal.com.  A selection of Henry Stanton’s published fiction and poetry can be located for reading in the library at www.brightportfal.com.

Henry Stanton is the Founding & Managing Editor of The Raw Art Review—www.therawartreview.com.

John and Flo Stanton are writers/photographic artists living in Indianapolis, Indiana. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications, from The Indianapolis Star to Not One of Us. You can find out more about them through their website www.3amblue.com.

Londyyn Thomas resolutely eschews any mythologizing of an artist and so avoids discussing personal life and relations.

John L. Thompson currently lives in New Mexico with his wife of twenty-five years. 
When he is not searching for lost remnants of the old west, he can be found working on several writing projects. Thompson is known to have worked as a truck driver, heavy line diesel mechanic, armored truck guard, corrections, body guard, and a host of other professions.
His true passion is writing, collecting vintage books and is the current cover artist for the Casca the Eternal Mercenary series.  His novel 'Truck Stop' is due out 2017-18 by Dusty Desert Press.

Daniel Valentin is a young artist born in the Bronx, but raised in Jersey City. He has been in a number of musical theater productions throughout his academic career, from the 5th grade all the way up to college. Daniel has been in a few choirs and has even competed in the World Choir Olympics. He currently sings with Saint Peter's University Schola, the Saint Peter's University Choir. Having been a founding member of the choir, he has since been in 2 albums that are available on both Spotify and iTunes. At Saint Peter's University he received a Bachelors Degree in Biology. Daniel has been interested in the arts since very young, and particularly became interested in drawing, painting, and sculpting since having taken classes at Saint Peter's Preparatory School. He considers photography as a hobby, but hopes to one day get more involved with the art.

Keith C. Walker was born in Leeds in 1939. He studied Ceramics at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, he was Personal Assistant to Eduardo Paolozzi. Keith taught at Hull College of Art and Leicester Polytechnic, which is now De Montfort University. In 1994 he retired from Academia.

Keith says, “Digital technology has made and continues to make big changes to all of our lives: the way we communicate, the way we are monitored, the way we entertain ourselves, and much, much more. 

We now leave a digital footprint wherever we go, and with whatever we do. 

Do we already have one foot in an Orwellian world?

 My collages are an investigation, with a small “I,” on the impact of digital technology and its possibilities.”

Sophia Wiseman-Rose is a Paramedic and an Episcopalian nun. Both careers have provided a great deal of exposure to the extremes in life and have provided great inspiration for her.  

 She is currently spending time with her four lovely grown children and making plans to move back to her home in the UK in the Autumn.  

 In addition, Sophia had a few poems in the last edition of Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine

https://www.artstation.com/sophiaw-r6

After graduating from the New York School of Visual Arts with a bachelor of fine arts degree, Bill Zbylut found various freelance illustration work, such as Woodlawn Books, Amedeo Petti in Manhattan, creating personalized caricatures for the WE crew apparel who conducted internet live safari drives in Africa for Wildearth TV, album covers for various NJ musicians, and numerous cartoons for a local newspaper. Though Bill usually worked with ink and watercolors, he started paintings in oils and acrylics feverishly since 2005. He continues to try new mediums including pastels, scratchboards, and lithographs. He discovered the Hudson Artists on New Jersey as a new motive for creating a great opportunity to show his many works. In recent years, Bill has won several awards for oils, acrylic, and stippling in the mixed media category and was named Artist of the Year by the Hudson Artists in 2012. Bill has had the pleasure of showing his talent in many locations in his native Bayonne: the Bayonne Community Museum, the Ferdez Art Gallery, Bee’s Art Studio, All Fit Studio, and Hendrickson’s Restaurant. He and his wife Patty showed their many works in a “couples” show at the Jewish Community Center. He was also included in the 25th annual Cathedral Arts Festival in Jersey City. Bill is a member of The Hudson Artists, The Bayonne Art Circle, Core Artists, and Beautify Bayonne.

Artist Zero lives in an underground bunker somewhere in Colorado or someplace else with Promise, a rescue Australian Shepherd with an appetite for corn-on-the-cob and peanut butter.