Comic Book legend, Bob Layton, and film screenwriter Hawk Ostby, were honored at a nonprofit event at the Tampa Theater on Thursday, August 4th. FYRE provides opportunities and resources to enrich Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM). FYRE transported families in Southern Hillsborough County to the event where Mr. Layton and Mr. Ostby autographed posters, showed the movie “Iron Man”, and gave a question and answer session to the audience about art, print and film media, the business, and their beginnings. Youth were inspired to explore their own creative talents which could help them or others prosper in the future.
Bob Layton is an American comics writer, artist, designer, and editor with over 6,400 comic books credited to his name – a creative yardstick rivaled only by the late Stan Lee. He is most noted for his work on Marvel Comics titles such as Iron Man and Ant-Man, and for co-founding Valiant Comics.
Hawk Ostby is a Norwegian – American screenwriter and television producer , by films like Children of Men , Iron Man or Cowboys & Aliens became internationally known. With his colleague Mark Fergus , he developed the series The Expanse for television in 2015 .
