Special Guest: Dara Naraghi

As a writer, Dara Naraghi has worked on comic books on all ends of the spectrum, from self-published titles to books based on multi-million dollar movie franchises. His debut graphic novel collection of slice of life stories, Lifelike, garnered many positive reviews from the likes of award-winning novelist Cory Doctorow, and writer/artist Sam Kieth. Working with IDW Publishing, he wrote the Terminator Salvation official movie prequel, which spent 3 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Some of his other works include a contribution to the children's anthology Fractured Fables(Image Comics), the "bizarre noir" The Absurd Adventures of Archibald Aardvark (Image Comics), and the romance-themed Ghostbusters: Tainted Love (IDW). His latest projects includes Witch & Wizard: Battle for Shadowland and Witch and Wizard: Operation Zero (IDW), original graphic novels based on characters and settings from the James Patterson series of YA novels. This December, his debut work for DC Comics appears in the form of a Spectre story for the DCU Holiday Special 2010 anthology.

Dara is also a founding member of the Columbus, Ohio-based comic book writers/artists collective known as PANEL. To date, he has contributed stories to - and helped produce - 15 volumes of their comics anthology, which he self-publishes under his Ferret Press imprint. For information on his latest project, check out ferretpress.com.