About the Artist:

Jamie Primack is a Chicago-based comic artist, writer, and illustrator best known as the author and artist of the sci fi comic series BINARY STAR. She's also a graduate of the first class at the International School of Comics in Chicago where she was taught comic art and illustration by award-winning industry professionals such as Jill Thompson, Dan Dougherty, and Douglas Klauba.

Inspired by her love of sci fi and horror, Jamie's artistic style combines futuristic technology with the aesthetics of gothic subcultures. She utilizes various tools such as brushes, technical pens, dried ink, white out, gouache, gel pens, and metallic paint.

When she's not creating dark, cosmic illustrations, Jamie writes and illustrates her self-published comic series BINARY STAR. The series has been running online as a web comic for nearly seven years and nineteen chapters. BINARY STAR, which tells the story of an interstellar bounty hunter forced to team up with an alien outlaw, has had two wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns resulting in paperback and hardcover editions of the first two volumes of the series, including a second edition hardcover of Vol. 1.

BINARY STAR can be read online in its entirety at Tapas, Facebook, and Tumblr.

Jamie's work has also been featured in a number of Lovecraft-inspired comic anthologies, including "Cthulhu Invades Oz," "Cthulhu Invades Wonderland," “Cthulhu Invades Neverland,” and "Cthulhu is Hard to Spell." When Jamie's not working on comics and illustration, she works as a freelance artist, and travels to various comic cons, art galleries, and dark arts and oddities shows across the United States.

Professional Experience:

PUBLISHED COMICS

Hospice: Bend Sinister one-shot horror comic Kickstarter 225% Funded, October 2023, self-published

Cthulhu Invades Neverland anthology, 8-page short story “Motherland,” August 2023, Orange Cone Productions

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell anthology, 4-page short story “DEUS EXodus,” April, 2022, Wannabe Press

Cthulhu Invades Wonderland anthology, 8-page short story “Set Your Teeth on Edge,” April, 2022 Orange Cone Productions

Cthulhu Invades Oz anthology, 8-page short story “Oz Unraveling,” November, 2020, Orange Cone Productions

BINARY STAR Vol. 2 + Vol. 1 Second Edition Kickstarter 168% Funded, September 2020, self-published

BINARY STAR Vol. 1 Kickstarter 146% Funded, June 2018, self-published

BINARY STAR single issues 1 - 19, self-published

BINARY STAR webcomic launch, February 2017 - ongoing, self-published

PAST COMIC CON AND ART SHOW APPEARANCES

Anime Central (ACEN), Rosemont, IL, 2024

C2E2 2024 “Why Horror Comics?” Panel, Chicago, IL, 2024

The Indiana Comic Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 2024

The Chicago Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Chicago, IL, 2024

Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI, 2023

The Indiana Comic Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 2023

C2E2, Chicago, IL, 2023

The Chicago Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Chicago, IL, 2023

NWI Comic-Con, Crown Point, IN, 2023

Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022

The Cryptic Creations Dark Arts and Crafts Show, Chicago, IL, 2022

The Bizarre Bazaar, Valparaiso, IN, 2022

Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, WA, 2022

C2E2, Chicago, IL, 2022

Motor City Comic Con, Novi, MI, 2022

Circus Maximus, Chicago, IL, 2022

The Indiana Comic Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 2022

The Chicago Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Chicago, IL, 2022

Hollowed Hearts Market, Chicago, IL, 2022

Northwest-Indiana (N.W.I.) Comic-Con, Crown Point, IN, 2022

C2E2, Chicago, IL, 2021

Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, WA, 2021

Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI, 2021

The Indiana Comic Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 2021

The Chicago Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Chicago, IL, 2021

INBEON CON Women in Comics Digital Panel, 2021

BIG DARK LOVE Anti Valentine’s Day Art Show at [blnk] Haus, Chicago, Il, 2021

N.W.I. Monster-Con Online Virtual Event, October 2020

The Fantastic Felines Art Show at 4Art Space, Chicago, IL, 2020

FUTURE TENSE: Imagined Worlds From the Margins Art Exhibit at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2020

Artist Discussion Panel at FUTURE TENSE Art Exhibit at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2020

Featured Artist Panel at Atomic Sketch Event, Chicago, IL, 2020

The Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Chicago, IL, 2020

BIG DARK LOVE Anti-Valentine’s Day Art Show at [blnk] Haus, Chicago, IL, 2020

LOVE SUCKS: St. Valentine’s Massacre Oddities and Curiosities Market, Lombard, IL, 2020

Featured Artist at Medusa’s Chicago Night Club’s 11th Anniversary of DarkWave, Elgin, IL, 2020

Holiday Horror Con, St. Charles, IL, 2019

Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI, 2019

Reggie’s Dark Arts Faire, Chicago, IL, 2019

Galaxy Comic Book and Fantasy Art Expo, Joliet, IL, 2019

Indiana Comic Con, Indianapolis, IN, 2019

The Compassion Factory Character-Con Art Gallery, Brookfield, IL, 2019

Michigan Comic Con, Detroit, MI, 2019

Comicopolis, Lockport, IL, 2019

International School of Comics-Chicago Mini Comic Con, Chicago, IL, 2019

Wisconsin Comic Con, Milwaukee, WI, 2019

Comic Con Revolution, Rosemont, IL, 2019

Lake County Late Night Pop Culture Con, Grayslake, IL, 2019

Motor City Comic Con, Novi, MI, 2019

Art and Antics Showcase, Brookfield, IL, 2019

Art and Antics January Featured Artist of the Month, Brookfield, IL, 2019

Grand Rapids Comic Con, Grand Rapids, MI, 2018

Kokomocon, Kokomo, IN, 2018

Galaxy Comic Book and Fantasy Art Expo, Joliet, IL, 2018

Keystone Comic Con, Phladelphia, PA, 2018

International School of Comics-Chicago Mini Comic Con, Chicago, IL, 2018

Comicopolis, Lockport, IL, 2018

St. Louis Comic Con (Mighty Con), St. Charles, MO, 2018

Dupage Mighty Con, Wheaton, IL, 2018

Motor City Comic Con, Novi, MI, 2018

Indiana Comic Con, Indianapolis, IN, 2018

Cover and Variant Cover for Poppi & Poe #2, February. 2018

Northwest-Indiana (N.W.I.) Comic Con, Schererville, IN, 2018

Art and Antics Art Gallery, Brookfield, IL, 2018

Count-i-Con, Grayslake, IL, 2017

Kokomocon, Kokomo, IN, 2017

Galaxy Comic Book & Fantasy Art Expo, Joliet, IL, 2017

RetCon, Chicago, IL, 2017

Comicopolis, Lockport, IL, 2017

The Chicago-Land Comic Con (Mighty Con), McCook, IL, 2017

St. Louis Comic Con (Mighty Con), St. Charles, MO, 2017

NWI A.C.E., Schererville, IN, 2017

Chicago Zine Fest, Chicago, IL, 2017

C2E2 Artist Alley, Chicago, IL, 2017

Madison Mighty Con, Madison, WI, 2017

Northwest-Indiana (N.W.I.) Comic Con, Schererville, IN, 2017

Milwaukee Mighty Con, Milwaukee, WI, 2017

DuPage Mighty Con, DuPage, IL, 2016

Local Artist Bazaar (LAB) at Esquina, Chicago, IL, 2016

Kokomo-Con, 2016

Blick Art Material Mini Comic Convention, Wheaton, IL, 2016

Manga tutoring for the International School of Comics, 2016

Tabling for the International School of Comics at C2E2, 2016

Zine Fest, 2015

Tabling for the International School of Comics at C2E2, 2015

International School of Comics Student Gallery, 2015

Chicago Italian Expo gallery, 2014

School of Rock pamphlet artwork, 2014