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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - KYLE HOTZ Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday Artist: Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities; The Hood; The Agency; The Remaining ALTHOUGH he started out in 1992 as an inker working on the first two issues of Now Comics' Speed Racer three-parter, Kyle Hotz unveiled his storytelling talents with his very next assignment, drawing contributions to all but the first of the five issues of Slash, a horror anthology published by Northstar for which he also illustrated Cold Blooded (a 1993 three-parter) and its sequel, a one-shot subtitled The Burning Kiss. The following year he contributed to issues #4 and 5 of Anubis Press's The Chokebefore making his first foray into the world of superhero comics. With that seven-issue run on Night Man for Malibu Comics' Ultraverse line and his first DC work – a contribution to Showcase '94 #9 – under his belt Hotz migrated to Marvel where he drew six issues of Ghost Rider 2099 with Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual #4 squeezed in along the way. Then it was back to Ultraverse for the first two issues of Lord Pumpkin/Necromantra and all but the last issue of the Curse of Rune four-parter. After that came Hotz' most high profile project to date – The Night Man vs Wolverine one-shot – with a couple of issues of Rune and contributions to Marvel'sVenom Super Special #1 and to Shadowhawks of Legend for Image rounding out 1995. At this point Hotz' unsettling creepy style was driving up demand for him to create covers and pinups. That made his interior work even more sporadic although over the next year or so he illustrated Ultraverse's Rune: Heart of Darkness three-parter and two Carnage one-shots – Mind Bomb and It's a Wonderful Life – and the one-offSpider-Man: The Osborn Journal for Marvel along with the occasional fill-in for the Malibu imprint. In late 1997 he teamed up with Famous Monsters of Filmland's Forrest J Ackerman for Chaos! Monster Matinee. The one-shot celebration of monster movies of the 1930s and '40s was issued by Chaos! Comics for which Hotz would go on to pencil the nine issues of Evil Ernie: Destroyer. That took him into 1999 when he wrote and drew the Mosaic five-parter for Sirius Entertainment before moving back to Marvel for a Black Panther fill-in, 2000's Marvels Comics: Spider-Man one-shot and five issues of Incredible Hulk. Those he followed in 2001 with The Agency, an Image/Top Cow six-parter after which the House of Ideas lured him back for the six issues of The Hood, a 2000 Marvel MAX comic for which Hotz and writer Brian K Vaughan created its titular star (with the artist returning to the character in 2009 for the Dark Reign: The Hood five-parter). Next, after a mere handful of Marvel fill-ins, came 2004's Man-Thing three-parter for Marvel Knights and the Black Panther 2099 one-shot before he joined The Goon creator Eric Powell at Dark Horse for Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities, a 2005 four-parter that spawned to two sequels: Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities and the Ghastly Fiend of London [2010] and Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities and the Orm of Loch Ness [2012].Marvel came calling again in 2006. After the Punisher: Silent Night one-shot Hotz moved on to Zombie, illustrating that Marvel MAX four-parter at the same time as drawing a five-issue run on Criminal Macabre for Dark Horse. Next came two more Marvel four-parters – Annihilation: Conquest – Wraith and The Zombie: Simon Garth (for the MAX imprint) – which the artist followed with a two-chapter Criminal Macabre serial in Dark Horse's online MySpace Dark Horse Presents and then with 2008's four-issue Epilogue for IDW.Three years later he drew both issues of IDW's Ghostbusters: Infestation before going back to Marvel for an issue of Captain America: Hail Hydra, a fleeting run on Heroes for Hire and the Spider-Island: Heroes for Hire one-shot. Since then his comics work has been confined to covers although he did pencil The Remaining, a graphic novel from Kingstone Comics, in 2014.