Lower Your Sights

A graphic novel anthology focused on the consequences of war, peace and relief, and mental health. All proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian-based Voices of Children to provide psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by war.

Lower Your Sights is an anthology that focuses on the consequences of war, the peace/relief effort, and mental health. In addition to tales from today's hottest creators, the collection includes art pieces and write-ups from numerous Ukrainian illustrators. All proceeds are being donated to the Ukrainian-based Voices of Children to provide psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by war.

About the Author :
Be it as a writer, editor, and/or letterer, Chas! Pangburn puts words in balloons. He’s been fortunate to collaborate with various creators for publishers such as Dark Horse, IDW, Image, and Scout. In his free time, an angry corgi bosses him around for long walks throughout Cincinnati, Ohio.

Micah Myers has lettered stories and books for DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave, Webtoon, Devil’s Due, Heavy Metal, Aspen, Starburns, Scout, Darby Pop, and many others. He has worked on comics with Steve Orlando, Matthew Erman, Magdalene Visaggio, Michael Avon Oeming, Mark Bertolini, Joe Corallo, Shane Berryhill, Cullen Bunn, Josh Blaylock, JT Krul, Chris Sebela, Curt Pires, and many more.

Stelladia is a Spanish comic artist and colorist with a background on visual development for animation. They enjoy working on fantasy, sci-fi and children tales (with a bit of spookiness in them). Some of their past work include The Wilds #4 (Black Mask), Submerged (Vault Comics), Metaphorical Her (Webtoon) or the animation short-film "Johanne" (Dragonbee). When they are not making comics, you can probably find them doing crafts, home-gardening or studying philosophy and anthropology.

Lela Gwenn has written Hellraiser Bestiary #4 (BOOM!), Where We Live (Image), All We Ever Wanted (Wave Blue World), Bad Luck Chuck (Dark Horse). She's a proud social justice warrior, and the town weirdo in her rural community. She's currently in school despite being way too old, but she loves it.

Joe Corallo is an award-winning editor and writer of comics. He’s edited comics for ComicMix, A Wave Blue World, Black Mask Studios, ComiXology Originals, Dynamite, as well as Mad Cave Studios. His writing has been published by DC Comics, Archie, ComiXology Originals, and Vault as well as having written Becstar, Dahlia In The Dark, and the first volume of King Arthur and the Knights of Justice for Mad Cave Studios. He also serves as the blog editor for Geeks OUT, a non-profit that seeks to rally, promote, and empower the queer geek community.

Miguel is a graphic designer, comic book letterer, and illustrator specializing in editorial design for comics books and novels. He letters most of Mark London's work at Mad Cave including Battlecats, Wolvenheart, and Honor and Curse.

Justin Birch is a Ringo Award-nominated letterer born and raised in the hills of West Virginia. Lettering comics since 2015, he is a member of the lettering studio AndWorld Design and has worked with AWA, Boom!, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, Mad Cave Studios, and numerous indy publishers. Justin still lives in West Virginia, only now it’s with his loving wife, daughters, and their dog, Kirby.

Rich Douek is an acclaimed comic book writer known for his compelling storytelling and dynamic narratives. Known for harrowing horror tales like Sea of Sorrows, and the Bram Stoker Award finalist, Road of Bones. Beyond his independent work, Rich has contributed to the Eisner-nominated Superman: Red and Blue, Marvel's Wastelanders, and the GLAAD Media Award winning Young Men in Love, among several other acclaimed anthologies. Rich was born and bred in NYC, and lives just outside of it now with his family and two cats. His work has been featured on The Hollywood Reporter, SyfyWire, Nerdist, Rue Morgue Magazine, and elsewhere. Rich is also an award-winning Copywriter and Creative Director, having developed advertising campaigns for clients such as Snickers, FedEx, and Foot Locker.

Bob Frantz is a writer who resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his amazing wife and two wonderfully hilarious children. When he isn't writing funny books or preparing a snack for his kids who haven't touched their dinner, Bob enjoys teas, fancy neckwear, and swearing.

Kevin Cuffe is a father, a sorcerer and a comic book author. When not herding three dogs and dealing with three tweens, he saves the universe from extraplanar entities for the good of all mankind. He is one half of the word bros podcast and lives in Williamsburg, VA with his partner, Danielle.

Freelance writer, educator, and Knower of Self.

Ennun Ana Iurov (she/he/they) is a Romanian illustrator known for their work on the young adult graphic novel Needle & Thread. For over 6 years Ennun has created and self-published short comics and stories focusing mainly on empowering charity zines, working with organizations such as, Action Against Hunger, and others. Ennun's illustration skills have a wide range from folk tales to dream core to horror and more, and now in Whisper of the Woods will combine all of these talents.

Justin Richards is a writer who mostly hides away in the mountains of the PNW and creates comic books when they're not busy being a parent and dog dad, working at their local comic shop and occasionally gaming. They created and wrote the hit series Finger Guns from Vault Comics, have appeared in many anthologies including Lower Your Sights and Sharp Wit & the Company of Women, and have self-published A Silent Night and Everything is Different Now with the help of crowdfunding. Their work is usually full of horror, satire, music and emotional devastation. When they're not writing they can be found playing video games, re-watching Sonic 3 or playing with their dogs.

Matthew Dow Smith is a writer and comic book artist whose work has appeared in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, DC’s Starman, and many others. He was the writer of the X-Files: Origins comic book series, the third volume of the Dark Crystal: Creation Myths graphic novel series, and several Doctor Who comic book stories for IDW, the BBC, and BBC America. He is the writer and artist of DC’s middle grade graphic novel Misfits of Magic, and creator-owned digital comics Amelia Shadows: Daughter of Darkness, Johnny Chaos, and Arch-Nemesis. He lives on the east coast of the US.

Tim Daniel is a comic book writer and designer. His previously published works include Atoll, Burning Fields, Curse, Denizen, End After End, Enormous, Fissure, Skinned, Spiritus, and The Plot. He is responsible for the design of countless titles spanning nearly 20 years in the comics industry for almost every independent and major publisher including A Wave Blue World, Dark Horse, Dauntless, DC Comics, Icon-Marvel, Image, Mad Cave, Scout, Shadowline, Skybound, Valiant and Vault Comics. Tim resides in Missoula, MT with his wife and two daughters.,David ‘DB’ Andry is a physical therapist and comic book writer from Sacramento, CA. His credits include Resonant and Denizen from Vault Comics, Creepshow from Skybound and Morning Star and Crush Depth from Mad Cave Studios. He has signed a blood pack with co-writer, Tim Daniel, binding their souls together for all eternity.

Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, NY where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium has resulted in a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels including Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound (2023, Z2 Comics), Enter the Blue (2022, Z2 Comics), Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California (2020, Z2 Comics), and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (2017, Z2 Comics). In his free time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family and his cats.

Liana Kangas is a freelance comic artist, illustrator, and writer. Current works include drawing and co-creating the comic miniseries TRVE KVLT, written by Scott Bryan Wilson published by IDW, drawing a short written by James Tynion IV for Razorblades, published by Image Comics and contributing to a short with David Booher on CANTO, Tales of the Unnamed World. Liana has also worked on the IDW/LucasFilm title Star Wars Adventures written by Sam Maggs, co-writing the short one-shot Seeds of Eden, co-written by Joe Corallo, drawn by Paul Azaceta, and published by TKO Studios, co-created and drew a mini series titled She Said Destroy, written by Corallo and published by Vault Comics, and the BlackAF series title Devil's Dye written by Vita Ayala published by Black Mask Studios. Liana’s work has been featured in anthologies including 2000AD, Z2’s The Final Symphony, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Comic Mix’s Mine!, Image Comics Where We Live, and A Wave Blue World’s All We Ever Wanted, Dead Beats, Embodied and Dead Beats: London Calling. Liana has drawn covers for series published with Image Comics, IDW, Comixology, Oni Press, Ahoy, Vault, Mad Cave and Scout and licenses such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Dark Spaces: Wildfire, and more. You can find fun features of Liana’s work on Nerdist, SYFY Artists Alley, Panel x Panel as well as featured articles on Deadline Hollywood, Newsarama, Paste Magazine, AIPT, Doom Rocket, Multiversity, Comics Beat, Vice, and Comics Alliance.

Andriy Lukin is a comic book creator and graphic designer from Sumy, Ukraine. As a letterer, Andriy won Mad Cave Studios’ Talent Search 2022 and his works were published in a variety of books, including Lower Your Sights, Down Below, and Dagger Dagger. He also specializes in creating logotypes, book design and cover art for comic books, music albums, tabletop games and other art forms.

Frank Cvetkovic is a comic book letterer who hates when people assume that all he does is put words inside bubbles. There’s a little more to the job than that. For instance, sometimes he puts them in boxes. His work can be seen in Hey Mary!, Toxic Summer, and Gatchaman: Galactor.

Joe Hunter is an artist based out of Toledo, Ohio. Outside of the independently published BEAST HEART! STRIKERS, his work can be found in RADIANT BLACK from Image and the Ringo Award-nominated LOWER YOUR SIGHTS anthology. He likes wrestling, tokusatsu, and people doing cool things in spandex in general. He hates talking about himself and had his very patient fiance write this bio.

Eisner-nominated letterer Pat Brosseau is a veteran of the comics industry, having contributed to titles across every major publisher, including Hellboy, Wolverine, Aliens vs. Predator, Batman, Justice League, Wonder Woman, Creepshow, and Dick Tracy. He lives in Northern Vermont with his wife and daughter.

Taylor Esposito is multi-award winning comic book lettering professional, owner of Ghost Glyph Studios, and teacher at the legendary Kubert School. A former staff letterer at DC and production artist at Marvel, he has lettered titles such as Red Hood and The Outlaws, Robin Lives!, and Harley Quinn The Eat KILL Bang Tour; Flash Gordon, Edenfrost (Mad Cave Studios), Exorsisters, Drawing Blood (Image); Babyteeth, Maniac of New York, Bunny Mask (Aftershock); No One Left to Fight and Survival Street (Dark Horse). Other publishers he has worked with include BOOM! Studios (Amory Wars, Fence) Dynamite (Elvira, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Green Hornet), and IDW (Brynmore).

Review :
“The devastating war in Ukraine has affected everyone involved, but children particularly. The international comics community has come together for this heartbreaking and inspirational series of stories and artwork to benefit those children. It’s an investment that’s worth making. Overall: 10/10” “As an anthology collection, Lower Your Sights is meant to lift your spirits, open your mind, & show you things that will anger you, break your heart, and let you hope that someday we can watch a news report that doesn’t include bombed out homes and displaced families. [...] With all of the insane talent involved, this book from Mad Cave Studios is bound to have at least one thing in it that you love. Given the purpose behind it, that one thing has to be worth the time you took to find it. Final Score: 13/13” "Lower Your Sights has some of the most emotionally resonant material to tug at people’s heartstrings. Every writer and artist has something to share about how war affects people. It’s a long and complicated process that might grant a better perspective. With all profits going to a charitable cause, I can tell you that it’s well worth an investment. Overall score, 10/10."