» Our Staff

Position: Editor in Chief
Real Name: Alex Awesome
Website: www.cutething.net
Bio: Though her origins are unknown, and often the stuff of legend, it is true that Cutething enjoys surfing the internet, web design, and world domination. She is currently enrolled at University in the hope of graduating sometime in the relatively near future with a degree in advertising. She enjoys dabbling in a wide variety of things, and is involved in a number of different projects. She really likes fruit pies and curries, (though not at the same time).

Position: Managing Editor
Real Name: Nathan
Comic: Baylis, IL
Bio: I am 16 years old going into 11th grade. I love film and love to write. I have a lot of hobbies including writing, playing drums, and even making a movie or two.

Position: Copy Editor
Real Name: Charlie Magnum
Comic: Eccentricity
Bio: Not unlike the Prince of Darkness, Charlie goes by many names. You can just call him "Charlie" though. While not on the forums hunting down those who break the laws of the language, he can be found in Australia studying medicine or trying to learn every musical instrument known to man.

Position: Graphic Editor
Real Name: Julian
Comic: Ikebana
Bio: A Fine arts and Design graduate major in Advertising, curently studiying Multimedia Arts. Loves to draw, eat, and sleep.

Position: Review Editor
Real Name: Mina
Website: www.be-winged.net
Bio: Mina is a 19 year old Animation/Illustration student at San Jose State University. She loves to write, draw, knit, play piano, and do many other things. She enjoys being a part of SmackTalk, and likes to pretend that she knows what she's doing (but she really does).

Position: Editorial Page Editor
Real Name: Inês
Comic: Black Blood
Bio: Born somewhere in Atlantica, Ness emerged to the surface and nowadays she is a Person Made Of Awesome. With a passion for theater and shouting random obsecenitie like an old sea curr, she is trying to become an professional theater actress whilst trying not the let her brain flee in panic while attending at her college Artistic Studies course. It is rumoured that she can be bought with booze and that perhaps she is a zombie (one Kickass Awesome Zombie).

Position: Interview Editor
Real Name: Mark
Comic: subject:A1
Bio: A wanted criminal in 53 states, most of Asia, Europe, and some parts of Antarctica, paragoned lives in hiding. This mysterious pretty-boy and alleged vampire impersonator, only emerges twice a year to play heartbreaking guitar licks and make mediocre art. It is also said that he sometimes works as a graphic designer... but that's just ridiculous.

Position: Reviewer
Real Name: Nicole
Comic: Growth
Location: Germany
Bio: Enkida graduated with a BA in Studio Art and is currently continuing her education in the very loosest sense of the word in Germany, where she lives with her husband. Besides comics, Enkida does troubleshooting and templates for the SmackJeeves site out of the kindness of her heart... or boredom.

Position: Editorial Staff
Real Name:
Comic: Pictures of You
Bio: Gibson Twist was born in Prague in 1847, the only child of a failed French revolutionary and an artist's model turned cabaret souse. Finding enlightenment at the age of 7, Gibson learned quickly that the only thing you can't make people believe is the truth. Gibson Twist died tragically at the age of 104 when his lifelong arch-nemesis, The Fantastic Dr. Xavier Jones finally carried through with his nefarious schemes for world domination. He will be missed.

Position: Former Review Editor
Real Name: Joe
Comic: Desolate Robot
Bio: Joe splits his time between being a full time writer, gamer, a comic artist, and a half-dozen other projects. He also cooks and cleans. Despite all this, he is constantly striving for something fun to do. SmackTalk is just his latest project. There will be others. There will always be others. He lives in Utah with his wife, two cats, and two guinea pigs.

Position: Copy Editor
Real Name: It's a secret!
Comic: Lexcore
Bio: Murira's life is currently being sucked away by the University of California in Irvine, where the evil, evil Computer Science and Engineering program is trying to brainwash her into thinking that the moon is not made of cheese. She likes to sleep. And eat. And run and jump. Oh, and a little comic-ing on the side. Yeah.

Position: Editorial Staff - Columnist
Real Name: Randy
Comic: 22
Bio: Coming Soon.

Position: Reviewer
Real Name: Auspicious Andy
Comic: Guy, Girl & Island
Bio: Ever since he was a lad, our gorgeous hero has been serving his country bravely under the flag of McCarthyism ousting Communists and promoting Freedom.

Position: Investor
Real Name: Brad
Bio: Brad generously donated the money to ensure that SmackTalk remains ad-free for readers everywhere. According to his friends online, Blingmobile, Sangokyu, and McEwin, he is "smexy" and "awesome" and "totally spoon elevator-tastic."