Web comic guests Ryan Sohmer, Lar DeSouza, Ryan North and Alina Pete are coming to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo to share the wonders of the world-wide web.

Ryan Sohmer is the writer of Least I Could Do and Looking For Group, webcomics that he does with cartoonist Lars DeSouza. Ryan also runs the company Blind Ferret Entertainment, which has been responsible for the release of several print collections of popular web-comics, along with fully animated cartoon versions of PVP and Crtl+Alt+Del.

Lar DeSouza is the Shuster Award winning cartoonist behind the online comics Least I Could Do and Looking For Group which he creates with writer Ryan Sohmer.  Lar has also won the Prix Aurora Award for Artistic Achievement in Canadian Science Fiction on two separate occasions (2006 & 2008) and several other awards for caricature and cartooning.

Ryan North is the Canadian creator behind the popular daily web strip Dinosaur Comics. In addition to his comics, North has created three tools to aid webcomic authors: Oh No Robot, a webcomic transcription tool which creates searchable text databases for comics; RSSpect, a method of creating RSS feeds for websites; and Project Wonderful, a pay-per-day auction-based ad serving system.

Born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Alina Pete took classical animation courses and went to the University of Saskatchewan in pursuit of her BFA (which remains uncompleted). She followed this up with a 3-D animation certificate.

Over the years she has lived in Alberta, Fiji, Arizona and China. At various times Pete has applied her talents as a web-designer, costume artist, art gallery director, graphic artist, and digital effects artist on projects such as Wapos Bay (a Gemini-Award-winning children’s animation show for Canadian television), and in her online webcomic, Weregeek.