Aug. 28 – Sep. 1, 2025 in Atlanta, GA Buy

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The Definitive Guide

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Dragon Con welcomes guests from around the globe – with new people announced all the time! Take a look at the inventive minds, luminaries, and celebrities you’ll be spending the weekend with.

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  • Don Aguillo

    Don Aguillo is a comic artist and illustrator whose work includes projects with DC, Image, Marvel, Boom, Dark Horse, Disney/Ravensburger, Upper Deck, and indie creators.

  • Jarrod C Alberich

    Independent comic book creator. Creator/writer of Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale. Published comic writer for Z2 Comics. Trading card artist for Marvel Comics & Upper Deck Trading Cards. Cover artist & inker for White Rocket Books. US Air Force combat veteran.

  • Charlie Jane Anders

    Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She is also the author of Never Say You Can't Survive.

  • Curt Anderson

    Curt Anderson is a master of deception, both on and off stage! He has toured the world preforming magic for decades. Recently he returned to the academic world of communication where he studies communication and human deception. He has a master's degree and is presently working on his PhD.

  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson has written in the Dune, Star Wars, and X-Files universes, Clockwork Angels with legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart, and the Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series. He has edited anthologies, written comics and games, and served as co-producer on Dune: Part Part Two and the Dune: Prophecy TV series.

  • Jon Armstrong

    Jon Armstrong stars in Magicians: Life in the Impossible. You have seen him amaze on The Today Show, cause Penn on CW's Penn and Teller's Fool Us to exclaim his act as “the most original I've ever seen!”, and wow Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

  • Paris K Arrowsmith

    Paris Arrowsmith's career has spanned stage, voice acting, and screen. After moving to LA, he started working as a podcaster on No Latency and freelance TTRPG writer for R. Talsorian Games.

  • Eric R. Asher

    Eric R. Asher is the author of over 30 titles, including Steamborn, the Vesik series, and The Theme Park at the End of the World. He is currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, where the local folklore often finds its way into his Mason Dixon: Monster Hunter rural fantasy series.

  • Dane Ault

    Dane Ault is the artist behind Monkey Minion Press, an art company he runs with his wife and business partner, Ashlie Hammond. Monkey Minion Press has been publishing art books, kid's books, and all manner of POPaganda, science, and space-related art prints and posters for over a decade.

  • Hawkings Austin

    Hawk worked in radiation for 30 years. He has written in engineering, science, martial arts, history, and fantasy with seven novels published. He speaks on topics as diverse as pop culture science, Irish mythology, Catalan history, warfare in the middle ages, plasma physics, space environments, and nuclear survival.

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  • Noah Bailey

    Noah Bailey is an illustrator, designer, and comic book artist. Bailey is known for his self published and independent work in Station Grand, Infinite Horrors, and Diabolical!; the latter his personal comic anthology magazine. He is a frequent collaborator with Michael W. Conrad on Double Walker and Tremor Dose.

  • Dave Baker

    Dave Baker is an Eisner nominated writer/illustrator. His works include Star Trek Voyager: Seven's Reckoning (IDW), Forest Hills Bootleg Society (Simon and Shuster), Mary Tyler MooreHawk (Top Shelf), Night Hunters (Floating World), and Everyone Is Tulip (Dark Horse). He has also worked on Godzilla and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

  • Samantha Béart

    Samantha Béart is a classically trained actor, and a BAFTA nominee and GANG Award winner for their role as Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3.

  • John Beatty

    John Beatty is an American illustrator who has worked for Marvel and DC Comics, primarily as an inker. Beatty spent 20 years inking such titles as Captain America, New Mutants, The Punisher, Secret Wars, The Nam, The Adventures of Superman, Batman, JLA, and many more.

  • Andy Belanger

    Andy Belanger works as a freelance cartoonist/illustrator. He does work in the mainstream comic market, plus a wide variety of work for the Canadian Film and Television industry. In the mainstream comic market, Belanger has worked for such comic publishers as DC Comics, Wildstorm, Devil's Due, and Boom!

  • Joe Benitez

    Joe Benitez is the creator, writer, and artist of the steampunk graphic novel series Lady Mechanika. His previous work has included art duties on hit comic books such as Titans, JLA, Supergirl, and Superman/Batman for DC Comics; Weapon Zero, The Darkness, and Magdalena for Image Comics; and Soulfire for Aspen Comics.

  • Chloe Bennet

    Chloe Bennet is an American actor, model, and singer. She starred as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and voiced Yi in the animated film Abominable and the television series Abominable and the Invisible City.

  • Adam Berry

    Adam Berry is an executive producer and co-star of Kindred Spirits on TLC, with friend and paranormal partner Amy Bruni. He is also a former star of SYFY's hit show, Ghost Hunters, and contestant on Ghost Hunter's Academy.

  • Dr. John Bradford

    Dr. John Bradford is chief executive officer and principal engineer for SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta. He is an expert in the human exploration of space, hypersonics, and the commercial space industry. He is an industry thought leader and strong advocate for commercial development of cis-lunar space.

  • Andy Brase

    Andy Brase has done art for many titles including Magic the Gathering, Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Doctor Strange, Punisher, Fantastic Four, Assassin's Creed, Dragon Age, Swamp Thing, Dark Sun, Kull, Spider-Man, Hulk, Daredevil, The Darkness, and more, including book covers for stories by George RR Martin and Neil Gaiman.

  • BREED

    BREED is a professional artist whose work has been featured by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Zenescope Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, IDW, Source Point Press, Counterpoint Comics, Stranger Comics, Action Lab Entertainment, Mountaineer West Productions, UpperDeck Co./MCU, Kymera Press, Entity Eye Entertainment, Warrant Publishing, and various film/TV production companies.

  • Jennie Breeden

    Jennie Breeden is the creator of the daily journal webcomic The Devil's Panties. It is not satanic porn... honest.

  • Patricia L. Briggs

    Patricia Briggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega urban fantasy series.

  • June Brigman

    June Brigman has enjoyed a long and varied career as a cartoonist, drawing such comic book titles as Alpha Flight, Supergirl, and Star Wars. She is the co-creator (with Louise Simonson) of the Power Pack series from Marvel Comics.

  • Chuck Brown

    Chuck Brown is an Eisner and Ringo award winning comic book writer. He is the current writer for Aquaman. He has written Bitter Root (co-creator), The Punisher, Black Panther, and Wolverine. He is also the writer and creator of The Quiet Kind and On the Stump.

  • Amy Bruni

    Amy Bruni is a historical researcher and paranormal investigator in the shows Ghost Hunters and Kindred Spirits. Amy Bruni has more than 20 years experience searching for things that go bump in the night.

  • Brian Brushwood

    Brian Brushwood has spent 20 years touring the U. S. with his award winning magic show. 1,000 live shows later in 2008, he started hosting Scam School for Discovery, Hacking the System for NatGeo, and The Modern Rogue on YouTube. Brushwood's newest adventure is his podcast World's Greatest Con.

  • Bob Burden

    Atlanta's Eisner award winning comic artist, graphic novelist, and screenwriter, Bob Burden, created the world's first surrealist superhero, Flaming Carrot, leading to Mystery Men, which became a feature film.

  • Greg Burnham

    Greg Burnham is a writer based in Norcross, Georgia. He and artist Marcus Williams teamed to produce two children's books, and then in 2016 produced the very successful indie sci-fi action-adventure Tuskegee Heirs. As part of the Milestone initiative, he has worked on a couple DC Comic properties.

  • Jim Butcher

    Jim Butcher is the author of The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and his new steampunk series, The Cinder Spires. An avid gamer, he plays tabletop games in varying systems, a variety of video games on PC and console, and LARPs.

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  • Jack Campbell

    Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), retired U.S. Navy officer, writes the series Doomed Earth, New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet, Genesis Fleet, Lost Stars, and Pillars of Reality. His latest books are Destiny's Way, In Our Stars, The Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy, and Rendezvous with Corsair.

  • Josie Campbell

    Josie Campbell is a television writer/producer and comic book author. She is the creator of I Heart Skull-Crusher and writer for Shazam. Campbell is the executive producer for the Starfire! animated series, and head writer/producer for My Adventures With Superman and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

  • Joshua Cassara

    Joshua Cassara is an exclusive artist for Marvel Comics best known for his work on X-Men, X-Force, and X Lives of Wolverine. He is the current artists for the Deadpool/Wolverine ongoing series.

  • Catieosaurus

    Writer-educator Cate “Catieosaurus” Osborn has collaborated with Wizards of the Coast, Critical Role, Kobold Press, Chaosium, and Foundry VTT while pushing accessibility at every table. Her upcoming book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, builds on bylines in Playboy and The New York Times.

  • Jonathan Chaffin

    Jonathan Chaffin is a designer who loves horror-literature, pop culture, and Polynesian pop art. He has done merch and design for Hooters of America, Netherworld Haunted House, Rumba Seattle, and more. He, his wife Allison, and incredible volunteers produce Inuhele: Atlanta's Tiki Weekend and The Atlanta Tiki Homebar Tour.

  • Lipwei Chang

    Lipwei Chang is a comic artist and illustrator from Malaysia. He has been actively involved in several projects of illustrations and comic pages, with his comic art style.

  • A.C. Charania

    As the former NASA chief technologist, A.C. Charania served as one of the senior advisors to NASA's administrator on technology strategy and innovation. He held prior roles at Reliable Robotics, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceWorks Enterprises.

  • D.G. Chichester

    Writer D.G. Chichester is famed for his Daredevil run, including The Fall of the Kingpin, Fall from Grace, and the recent Black Armor. He co-created the Midnight Sons and Nightstalkers, pioneered Marvel's CyberComics, and introduced Clive Barker's Hellraiser to comics. Chichester authored stories for Nick Fury, Punisher, and Judge Dredd.

  • Cinda Williams Chima

    New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima writes fantasy stories for teens of all ages, including The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms quartet, and The Shattered Realms series. Her newest duology, The Runestone Saga, marries Norse mythology and witchcraft with swordplay (axeplay?) romance and cut-throat politics.

  • Tracie Ching

    Tracie Ching is an illustrator known for her bold colors and cross-hatching style. Ching has created packaging art for Hasbro, covers for Penguin Randomhouse and TIME magazine, and film posters for Disney, Netflix, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. She is founder and principal mentor of the biennial We Create Mentorship program.

  • Wesley Chu

    Wesley Chu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 14 published novels, including The Art of Prophecy, Time Salvager, The Rise of Io, and The Walking Dead: Typhoon. He won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

  • Freddy F Clements

    Freddy Clements is a distinguished professor emeritus of costume and make-up design and technology at Jacksonville State University. He holds a MFA in costume design from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has designed costumes for various regional theatres and has extensive experience in early twentieth century corsetry and kilt making.

  • Becky Cloonan

    Becky Cloonan is a comic book artist, writer, and three-time Eisner winner. Best known for her work writing on Wonder Woman, Batgirls, and Gotham Academy, she was also the first female creator to draw a full issue of Batman. Most recently, she co-created the smash hit series SOMNA at DSTLRY.

  • Mike Colter

    Mike Colter is best known for his roles as Lemond Bishop in The Good Wife, Malcolm Ward in Ringer, and Luke Cage in Marvel's Luke Cage, The Defenders, and Jessica Jones, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He can currently be seen playing David Acosta in the CBS/Paramount+ series Evil.

  • Michael W Conrad

    Michael W. Conrad is a writer that has contributed to the legacies of many major characters including: Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Godzilla, Nightwing, Doom Patrol, and countless others. Conrad's own personal work includes such published graphic novels as Tremor Dose, Double Walker, and Neptune.

  • David "Zeb" Cook

    David “Zeb” Cook was hired in 1979 to work at TSR as a game designer where he wrote the D&D Expert Rules, Oriental Adventures, the AD&D 2nd Edition, Planescape, novels, and more. In 1994 he moved to videogames, designing for Fallout, City of Villains, and Elder Scrolls Online.

  • Sean Copeland

    Sean Copeland is the lore historian lead for Story & Franchise Development at Blizzard Entertainment. He supports all creative partners so they can create award winning games, goods, and cinematic content for Blizzard's blockbuster franchises.

  • Joe Corroney

    Joe Corroney has been illustrating Star Wars artwork for Disney and Lucasfilm and Star Trek artwork for CBS Studios since 1997, as well as a host of other properties. New Star Wars artwork and various other licensees are in the works for publication later this year.

  • William Hunter Cressall

    Hunter is a writer and director working in Birmingham, Alabama. He, with his partners Brian Pace, David Woods, and Phil Sutton, run Obvious Notion a multimedia production company.

  • Shawn Crystal

    Shawn Crystal got his first job while in school, Resident Evil: Fire and Ice, a miniseries for Wildstorm. Around five years ago, Marvel hired Crystal on Deadpool, living his childhood dream. He is currently an artist for Marvel Comics and Valiant Entertainment.

  • Peter L Cutler

    Peter Capn, Cutler, artist for New Legends' Tiki Zombie, has done work over the last 30 years for ABS inc., Con-Tees, Galactic Press, East Cobber, and Guy Gilchrist production, and is working on his own Spookie Kookies art, books, and many other items.

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  • Vincent D'Onofrio

    Vincent D'Onofrio is a legendary actor and filmmaker. His credits include Full Metal Jacket, The Whole Wide World, Men in Black, Men in Black: The Series, The Cell, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Jurassic World. He has recently been seen playing Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

  • Karen David

    Karen David is an actress, singer, and songwriter best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in Galavant, Layla in the The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior, Princess Jasmine in Once Upon a Time, Grace in Fear the Walking Dead, and in Legacies as Emma.

  • Kathleen O'Shea David

    Kathleen O'Shea David started working with puppets at a young age. Along the way she has learned few more skills. Her puppets are in various collections. She is an equity stage manager with an MFA from Yale. She is a published writer and editor of various works.

  • Fon H Davis

    Fon Davis appears on BattleBots, The Movies that Made Us, Prop Culture, Cake Masters, and Superfan Builds. He has worked on over 45 feature films including The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Star Wars series. More recently, Davis has been directing shorts and worked on Godzilla, The Mandalorian, and Interstellar.

  • Delilah S Dawson

    Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, Bloom, Guillotine, The Violence, the Minecraft: Mob Squad series, the Blud series, the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), and the Tales of Pell, written with Kevin Hearne.

  • Sam de la Rosa /.

    Sam de la Rosa/. has held years of regular jobs for Marvel providing inks and finished art on various Spider-Man titles, Venom Lethal Protector, Venom Separation Anxiety, Captain America, Black Panther, Squadron Supreme, Iron Man, What-If, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, The Thing, Spider Woman, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars.

  • Jerry E DeCaire

    Jerry DeCaire has illustrated top shelf character titles for Marvel including Deadpool, Wolverine, Thor, etc. He is currently working on his own production, The Which-When Man. For 10 years he has performed drawing exhibitions in every major city in the US.

  • Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Keith R.A. DeCandido has written tons of novels, short fiction, and comics in licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, and also in worlds of his own creation. His new series, Supernatural Crimes Unit, will debut in 2025 from Weird Tales Presents. He also writes about pop culture for Reactor magazine.

  • Tom DeFalco

    Tom DeFalco is a comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Girl, where he created Mayday Parker/Spider-Girl.

  • Vanesa Del Rey

    Cuban artist Vanesa R. Del Rey began her career doing concept art for animation. Her work in comics has been described as dark, gritty, and mysterious with great dominance of figurative work. She has illustrated Scarlet Witch, Spider-Women Alpha, and Daredevil Annual (2016). Redlands is her first creator-owned series.

  • Francine (Fran) Delgado

    Francine Delgado is a Costa Rican-Canadian artist with over a decade of experience. Art director, character designer, and cover artist, she has worked with MARVEL, Disney, and IDW. Inspired by manga and European comics, her bold storytelling and intricate designs bring characters to life in feature films, TV, and comics.

  • Colin Donnell

    Colin Donnell is the lead of Irreverent, is known for his work on screen in NBC's Chicago Med and CW's Arrow, and starred as Russell Hammond in the musical adaptation of the acclaimed show Almost Famous at The Old Globe. His Broadway work includes Violet, Anything Goes, and Jersey Boys.

  • Colleen Doran

    Colleen Doran is the New York Times bestselling artist for the Neil Gaiman graphic novel Troll Bridge and Stan Lee's autobiography Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Stan Lee, which earned a Young Adult Library Services Great Graphic Novels for Teens nomination. Books she has illustrated have won Eisner and Harvey Awards.

  • Marnie Dorian

    Marnie Dorian is a multi-talented artist and cancer survivor whose journey inspired her creative path. She writes and illustrates children's books, sculpts in clay, creates hand-crafted latex masks, and specializes in fine art acrylic paintings. Dorian accepts commissions and has been appearing at conventions over the past year.

  • Guy Dorian, Sr.

    Guy Dorian Sr. is a comic book artist, toy designer, and cinematic art designer with over 30 years of experience who has worked for some of the largest mainstream companies in the world, including Marvel, DC, IDW, JusToys, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, and Storm King Productions.

  • Dan dos Santos

    Creating covers for Brandon Sanderson, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, and more, Dan dos Santos is one of the most recognized artists in his field. With hundreds of book covers to his credit, his vision has helped shape what the Fantasy market is today.

  • Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse Downey

    The Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Center and nurse character was created in 2002 by Margaret Downey to teach critical thinking skills in an effort to end unfounded and irrational superstitions. Downey is the Skeptics Dragon Con parade coordinator.

  • Tim Downie

    Tim Downie has worked on such films as The King's Speech, Paddington, War Machine, Transformers: The Last Knight, Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans, and Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. TV credits include Good Omens 2, Outlander, and Geek Girl. Baldurs Gate 3 marked his gaming debut playing Gale.

  • Tim Doyle

    Tim Doyle is an illustrator and printmaker from Austin. He self-published Amazing Adult Fantasy and was the art director/lead designer for Mondo. He has produced art for Marvel, Dark Horse, Cartoon Network, Studio Canal, and art directs poster series for bands such as Metallica, Failure, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

  • Darrin Lee Drader

    Darrin Drader is a professional tabletop role-playing game designer with 25 years of experience in the field. He has written for Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Legendary Games, Bastion Press, and many other publishers.

  • Elonka Dunin

    Elonka Dunin is a professional game developer, author, cryptographer, and TEDx speaker. A leading expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, such as Kryptos at CIA Headquarters.

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  • Scott G Edgington

    Scott G.C. Edgington, Ph.D. is a planetary scientist studying the giant planets of our solar system. His specialties are atmospheric science, remote sensing, and spectroscopy. Much of his career was spent working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, Europa Clipper, InSight, Perseverance, and Psyche.

  • Tommy Lee Edwards

    Tommy Lee Edwards has illustrated comics like Mother Panic (co-created with Gerard Way), Turf (co-created with Jonathan Ross), Grendel Kentucky, Jupiter's Legacy, and Marvel 1985. Edwards has written for Gatchaman, Batman, Hellboy, and Vandroid. He has collaborated with the Hughes Brothers as the concept artist on The Book of Eli.

  • Jeff Ello

    Jeff Ello (aka "jello") is a filmmaker, technologist, and creative enabler with an entirely unhealthy knowledge of film and media production, visual effects, streaming, virtual, AI, and all of the technology behind the scenes.

  • Steve Englehart

    Steve Englehart is an Inkpot Award winning comics writer and novelist known for the comics series Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman, The Fantastic Four, and Batman, and for his novels The Point Man, The Long Man, and The Plain Man. He has been named Favorite Writer at the Eagle Awards.

  • Eranga-D

    Eranga D works as a freelance illustrator out of Birmingham, Alabama. He does cover and pinup work in the mainstream and indie comic market. In his time in comics, he has worked with Dark Horse, Dynamite, Scout Comics, Black Caravan, and contributed covers to several indie Kickstarters.

  • Joanna Estep

    Joanna Estep is the critically acclaimed illustrator of such titles as The Fantastic Four, X-Men, New Mutants, Spiderverse (Marvel Comics), Bitch Planet (Image), Death Head (Dark Horse), and The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Boom!/Archaia). Her work has earned her the S.P.A.C.E. Prize, and nominations for Eisner and Harvey awards.

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  • Melissa Fahn

    Melissa Fahn has voiced hundreds of characters, including Edward on Cowboy Bebop, Gaz on Invader Zim, Rika on Digimon Tamers, Ninamori on FLCL, Haruka on Noein, Kristy on Digimon Data Squad, Tia on Zatch Bell, Betty Boop, Hello Kitty, and many more.

  • Bill Fawcett

    Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged and edited over 400 science fiction novels and two oral histories of the Navy SEALs. He co-authored the official Mycroft Holmes Mysteries and has written almost a dozen books, many on mistakes in history. Founded Mayfair Games and designs board and computer games.

  • Oded Fehr

    Oded Fehr is known for roles in films like The Mummy and Resident Evil franchises, and television shows including Star Trek: Discovery, Once Upon a Time, and NCIS. He has also voiced characters in the shows Young Justice and Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and video games like Destiny 2.

  • Melissa Flores

    Melissa Flores has written for Marvel, Image Comics, Boom!, and Oni Press, on The Dead Lucky, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Radiant Pink, Spider-Gwen: Smash, Biker Mice From Mars, Power Rangers Prime, and more. Flores voices the characters Kat Ranger and Gia Moran in Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid.

  • Tana Ford

    Tana Ford is the artist on Marvel's Silk. She has done work on Gwenpool, Star Trek, Jem and the Holograms, VenomVerse, and The Amazing Spider-Man. She is the creator of the award winning lesbian comic book series DUCK! She recently collaborated with writer Nnedi Okorafor in the Black Panther universe.

  • Stephan Franck

    Award nominated animator/writer/director/comic book creator, who supervised the animation of Marvel Studio's What If...? season 1, and is currently directing new episodes. He was a supervising animator on the The Iron Giant, and contributed story to Despicable Me. His graphic novel earned a Russ Manning Award.

  • Matt Frank

    Matt Frank is known in both Japan and America as the "Kaiju King," working on Godzilla comics for IDW since 2011. Frank has also worked on Ultraman, Gamera, Power Rangers, Transformers, Mothra: Queen of the Monsters, as well as pinball machines, Blu-Ray releases, and more!

  • Chandra Free

    Chandra Free is the creator of The God Machine graphic novel series and co-founder of Machina Corpse imprint. She illustrated on books like John Carpenter's Tales For A Halloween Night, Fraggle Rock, and The Graphic Canon. She has also worked on TTRPG books like Carbon Grey and Planet of the Apes.

  • Esther Friesner

    Multiple Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner has published over 40 novels, more than 200 short stories, plus poetry and nonfiction. She has edited 11 anthologies including the Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen Books. Her YA credits include the Princesses of Myth series for Random House.

  • Kurt Fuller

    Kurt Fuller is a character actor who has appeared in many television, film, and stage projects. He is known for his roles in the films No Holds Barred, Ghostbusters II, Wayne's World, and Scary Movie, and for his television roles playing Coroner Woody Strode in Psych and Zachariah in Supernatural.

  • Bryan Scott Fyffe

    Bryan Fyffe creates moody and naturalistic art inspired by gothic horror, nature, science, and themes. His work is a mix of hand drawn elements fused with a variety of photographic textures.

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  • Charles E. Gannon

    Dr. Charles E. Gannon‘s 25+ bestselling books have won the Dragon, ALA Choice, and Compton Crook Awards. He is best known for the hard sci-fi Caine Riordan series (4 Nebula and 2 Dragon finalists) and the Vortex of Worlds epic fantasy saga (the most recent was a 2023 Dragon finalist).

  • Brianna Garcia

    Brianna is an illustrator and comic artist currently working on My Little Pony comics and the Disney Lorcana trading card game. She has worked on interiors for Disney Princess comics, covers for Captain Marvel, Feral, and illustrations for Butterbean's Café, Disney Imagineering, and done storyboard work for Warner Bros Animation.

  • Andrew E.C. Gaska

    Andrew E.C. Gaska is the multiple award winning lore/adventure writer for Free League's Alien RPG. A franchise consultant to 20th Century Studios on Alien, Predator, and POTA, he is the lead writer for two Choose Your Own Adventure graphic novels and the Terminator and Planet of the Apes RPGs.

  • Juan Gedeon

    Juan Gedeon started working as an assistant at an art studio at 19, moved to Mexico at 23 to work in animation, and started working in American comics at 25. He is known for his short run on Venom for Marvel and created The Jurassic League for DC.

  • Annie Stegg Gerard

    Annie Stegg Gerard is an oil painter based in Northern Georgia, deeply inspired by the 18th-century Rococo masters. Her award winning art has been exhibited in galleries and featured in projects for clients such as Disney, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, Easton Press, Netflix, HarperCollins, and more.

  • Gil Gerard

    Gil Gerard has starred in made-for-television movies and feature films. He is best known to SF audiences as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers in the SF TV series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His other roles include several movie and TV series appearances including Beyond, Bone Eater, and Ghost Town.

  • Justin Gerard

    Justin Gerard is an independent artist who has worked for clients such as Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Blizzard, and Random House. His work has explored the fantasy worlds of Beowulf, King Arthur, St. George, The Hobbit, Magic the Gathering, and Dungeons & Dragons.

  • Donato Giancola

    Giancola describes himself and his work as a 'classical-abstract-realist working with science fiction and fantasy' and lists Hans Memling, Jan Van Eyck, Velázquez, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Piet Mondrian, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Titian as his favorite artists.

  • John Giang

    John Giang is an acclaimed cover and concept artist, whose covers include: Spider-Man, Batman, and Last Ronin; and film credits include: Rogue One, Avengers, TMNT, and Transformers. Giang has jammed with Marvel, DC Comics, Paramount, Disney, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro.

  • Henry Gilroy

    Henry Gilroy is a television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation. Gilroy is also the author of several Star Wars comic books and the first Bionicle trilogy.

  • Bill Golliher

    Bill Golliher has been a writer and artist for Archie Comics for 30 plus years. Golliher has worked on scripting and illustrating quite a diverse set of titles for the company: Betty and Veronica Friends Forever, Veronica, Jughead's Diner, Archie 3000, Dilton's Strange Science, and many more.

  • Steve Gonsalves

    Steve Gonsalves is a long time member and paranormal researcher for The Atlantic Paranormal Society based out of Rhode Island. Gonsalves is a paranormal researcher and is best known for his role as an investigator and tech specialist for the hit television series Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation.

  • Michael A. Gordon

    Michael Gordon is a writer, editor, publisher, and podcaster. His creator-owned comic, Tiki Zombie, has been running for over a decade. He can also be regularly found saying “Howdy!” on the BatChums, Earth Station Who, and Dragon Con Report podcasts.

  • Christopher P Gore

    Chris Gore is the founder of FilmThreat.com and host of Film Threat on YouTube. Author of several books, notably The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide. Gore was a regular on G4TV's Attack of the Show; and is also a filmmaker of My Big Fat Independent Movie and Attack of the Doc!

  • Daniel Govar

    Daniel Govar is a comic, children's book, and fantasy artist known for covers and interiors (Star Wars, Marvel, DC, etc). Currently Govar is the illustrator for Naomi Novik's three-book Temeraire omnibus, artist for various Star Wars card sets for Topps, and is doing illustrations for the World of Eragon.

  • Kevin Grazier

    Kevin Grazier Ph.D. is a planetary physicist researching large-scale simulations of the early Solar System. He was an investigation scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, is a research scientist at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY, and has been a science advisor for TV and films.

  • Matthew Douglas Green

    With 39 years of film production experience to his credit, Matt Green has navigated his way through a multiplicity of disciplines vital to the art of filmmaking – special effects, visual effects, production design, propmaker, camera operator, actor, writer, producer, editor, and director.

  • Stephen Green

    Stephen Green is an artist and penciller residing in Savannah, Georgia. Despite various rumors, he did not attend school there. His work has been featured in Dark Horse Presents, The Legacy of Luther Strode, Hellboy and The B.P.R.D., and Lobster Johnson.

  • greendragon

    Stage director, public speaker, and singer Kirsten Z. Cairns is chief operations officer for TheOneRing.net. Often seen at events as a panelist for TORN, a performer, or interviewing cast members, Cairns brings knowledge of literature, music, theatre, and fantasy to all her interactions with fans and celebs!

  • Emma Gregory

    Emma Gregory is best known for Minthara from Baldur's Gate 3, and providing voices for animations and audiobooks in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

  • Jen L. Grey

    Jen L. Grey is a USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy, romantic fantasy, and paranormal romance. Known for angsty fated mate stories packed with action, she has published over 60 novels, with several series translated into foreign languages.

  • Andrew Lee Griffith

    Andrew Lee Griffith is a pop culture artist best known for his stints as the lead artist on books such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, and Micronauts. He is currently working on Godzilla and the creator-owned comic SIGNA, as well as Magic the Gathering.

  • Clay Shepard Griffith

    Clay Griffith is the co-author of fantasy fiction with his wife, Susan, including the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash and Arrow. He is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

  • Susan Griffith

    Susan Griffith is the co-author of fantasy fiction with her husband, Clay, including the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash and Arrow team-up. She is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

  • Stoner Gump

    Daniel Gossard, AKA StonerGump. Author of Herbally Infused and Chronically Bemused, as well as the sequal Herbally infused and Chronically Bemused the Masterpiece. Elevated funny man and head astronaut.

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  • H.C. Warner

    H. C. Warner has worked extensively over 30 years in the mediums of painting, print design, screen printing, murals, commercial exterior, interior conceptualization and design, sculpture, and film. Aside from his painting/sculpture compositions, Warner curated and installed the first Dragon Con Comics and Pop Art Show 20 years ago.

  • Bob Hall

    For Marvel, Bob drew Spider-Man, Thor, What If, Squadron Supreme, The Avengers, and Emperor Doom. He co-created the West Coast Avengers. He was a Marvel editor in 1978. At Valiant, he wrote and drew Shadowman and created Armed and Dangerous. For DC, he wrote and drew Batman/Joker graphic novels.

  • Chris Urbnpop Hamer

    Abstract artist and variant comic cover artists for Archie, Mad Cave, and Scout comics.

  • Amanda Hamon

    Amanda Hamon is a senior designer working on Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. An award winning tabletop game designer and developer with more than a decade of experience, Hamon leads the creation of Fifth Edition books from conception through publication and beyond.

  • Robert E Hampson

    Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a neuroscientist by day, science fiction author by night, and a brain wrangler 24/7. When he is not decoding how memories work or building brain-computer tech, he is busy imagining futures where science fiction becomes reality.

  • Yaya Han

    Yaya Han is a cosplayer, designer, and author with over 400 costumes, two US Network TV shows, countless magazines, books, newspapers, and appearances under her belt. Han is the first cosplayer to bring branded cosplay-focused sewing and crafting products and a Yaya Han sewing machine to the mass retail market.

  • Scott Hanna

    Scott Hanna is an inker in the comic book industry who has worked with DC Comics and Marvel. He started his career with Eternity Comics and worked for DC for five years. He has worked for Marvel Comics for almost 14 years and inked almost every major character.

  • Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris has been published since 1981. Her works vary from conventional mystery to urban fantasy to alternate American history. She has been the recipient of the ThrillerMaster Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Malice Domestic, and the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America. She is still standing.

  • Ian Harris

    Writer, director, and comedian Ian Harris is known for his spot on impressions and cutting-edge, socio-political commentary fueled by science and skepticism. He has two one-hour comedy specials, ExtraOrdinary and Critical & Thinking. Harris is currently finishing a feature film he wrote and directed, called StandBy.

  • AJ Hartley

    A.J. Hartley is the international bestselling author of 26 novels in various genres. Recent work includes Hideki Smith, Burning Shakespeare, Cold Bath Street, Impervious, Cathedrals of Glass, and Sekret Machines with Tom DeLonge. He is Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte and hosts a J-rock focused YouTube channel.

  • John G. Hartness

    John G. Hartness is an author, publisher, and editor from Charlotte, NC. He is the author of multiple series, including the award winning Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter series. He is also the publisher of Falstaff Books and founder of the SAGA Genre Fiction Writers' Conference.

  • Colton Haynes

    Colton Haynes landed the role of Jackson Whittemore in the 2011 MTV series Teen Wolf. Beginning in 2012, he was a recurring member on The CW's Arrow, playing Roy Harper, a street thug who idolizes the Arrow and later becomes his protegé, Arsenal.

  • Tom Heintjes

    Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of Hogan's Alley magazine, one of the leading magazines on contemporary and classic cartooning. He is a former managing editor of The Comics Journal and for years wrote biographical essays for Will Eisner's Spirit magazine for Kitchen Sink Press.

  • Katja Herbers

    Katja Herbers is a Dutch actress best known for portraying Dr. Helen Prins on the WGN America series Manhattan, Emily Grace in the HBO science fiction series Westworld, and Dr. Kristen Bouchard in the CBS/Paramount+ supernatural series Evil. Herbers also played roles in The Americans, The Leftovers, and Manhunt: Unabomber.

  • Leanna Renee Hieber

    Actress, playwright, ghost tour guide, and author for Tor and Kensington, her Strangely Beautiful saga won awards and her nonfiction, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. She has been featured on Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown.

  • Kenneth Hite

    Kenneth Hite has written 100+ TTRPGs, including Trail of Cthulhu, The Dracula Dossier, Bubblegumshoe, and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition. Half of the multiple-award winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, he lives in Chicago with two cats and his wife, Sheila.

  • Bill Holbrook

    Bill Holbrook is the creator of three daily comic strips: On the Fastrack seen through the eyes of Dethany, the corporate Goth. Safe Havens is a science fiction fantasy set in a genetics lab. In 1995 he began a strip called Kevin & Kell, the internet's longest running daily webcomic.

  • Steve Horton

    Steve Horton is the New York Times bestselling writer of Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams, which won two Eisners for art and coloring.

  • Tini Howard

    Tini Howard is a comic book writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds. Currently, she writes Euthanauts, Assassinistas (with Gilbert Hernandez), and Hack/Slash: Resurrection, with occasional stories for two of her favorite things: Rick and Morty and WWE. Previous work includes Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink and The Skeptics.

  • Megan Hutchison

    Megan Hutchison is an illustrator of Rockstars for Image, co-creator and illustrator of An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O' the Wisp for Archaia, and is debuting OGN Vesna. In addition, she is a cover artist for Boom!, Valiant, and Black Mask.

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  • Steve Jackson

    Steve Jackson has been designing games for 45 years and has no plans to stop. His creations include Munchkin, Illuminati, the GURPS and The Fantasy Trip roleplaying systems, Ogre, Car Wars, and Zombie Dice. By the time you read this, he expects to live in Atlanta.

  • Georges Jeanty

    Georges Jeanty is an Eisner winner and NY Times bestselling artist for the critically acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His art can be seen at Marvel on Xtinction, Captain America, and Star Wars:The High Republic. He is currently working on Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

  • Paul Jenkins

    Paul Jenkins has been creating, writing, and building franchises for over 30 years in the graphic novel, film, and video game industries. Over the last two decades Jenkins has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of literally hundreds of world-renowned, recognizable entertainment icons.

  • Dave "The Reverend" Johnson

    Dave "The Reverend" Johnson is a comic book artist best known for his work on the covers for the title 100 Bullets.

  • Les Johnson

    Les Johnson is a physicist, author, and chief technologist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. His recent books include Crisis at Proxima (Baen), A Traveler's Guide to the Stars (Princeton University Press), and the forthcoming Pluto: The Dark World (completing Ben Bova's Grand Tour series, Tor).

  • Dan Jolley

    Dan Jolley has written comic books, media tie-in novels, original novels, video games, TV pilots, and dramatic podcasts for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Harper-Collins, Simon & Shuster, Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Sega. He wrote the main story for the world-wide bestselling game Dying Light.

  • Catherine Lee Jones

    Catherine Jones owns a costume making company based out of Atlanta, GA. Her shop works primarily with the tv, film, and video game industry. Jones's shop specializes in sewing leather, creating knitwear, repairing sewing machines, and 3D modeling for garments.

  • Cissy Jones

    Cissy Jones is an award winning actress best known for her BAFTA Award winning performance in 2016's indie game darling Firewatch, as Lilith Clawthorne in Disney's The Owl House, and nine separate characters in Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Game series, including Katjaa, Jolene, and Norma.

  • Dave Jones

    Dave Jones is best known for portraying Halsin in Baldur's Gate 3.

  • Omega Jones

    Omega Jones is an actor, tabletop GM, designer, streamer, and host. He has worked with companies including Wizards of the Coast and World of Darkness and created the theme song for Critter Hug, a Critical Role talk show. Recent credits include Heroes' Feast and Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!

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  • Richard Kadrey

    Richard Kadrey is the NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, which was included in Amazon's 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime. He has been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards, appeared in Year's Best Horror, and written for comics, film, and games.

  • Liana Kangas

    Liana Kangas, comic artist and writer, has worked on titles such as Star Wars Adventures, RAZORBLADES, Tyranny Rex & Future Shocks, Joan Jett, Blondie & RZA, with many more announcements to come. They have drawn original titles for TRVE KVLT, She Said Destroy, and co-wrote Seeds of Eden.

  • Simon Kassianides

    Simon Kassianides is an actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his roles in British and US television series, as well as film. He has made notable appearances in shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Mandalorian, and Blood of Zeus. He also voiced Stentor in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

  • Bill Keel

    Astronomer Bill Keel is the author of The Sky at Einstein's Feet and The Road to Galaxy Formation. He hosts overnight live astronomy sessions and has spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, citizen discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, spy satellites, and astronomical tourism.

  • Jason Keith

    Jason Keith is an Eisner Award nominated color artist, who for the past 15 years has colored exclusively for Marvel Comics. Credits include The Avengers, Hulk, Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ghost Rider, Ultimate Avengers, Star Wars, and Darth Vader.

  • Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Defying odds is what #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does best. She has placed more than 80 novels on the NYT list in all formats and genres. With more than 70 million books in print, her series include: Dark-Hunters®, Chronicles of Nick®, Deadman's Cross™, and The League®.

  • T. Kingfisher

    T. Kingfisher, aka Ursula Vernon, is the author of more than 40 books, comics, and the occasional podcast. Her work has won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula, and Dragon Awards. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, cats, and chickens.

  • Michael Kingston

    Kingston began his career by selling his comics out of his backpack at wrestling shows. Headlocked Comics is now the premier brand for wrestling comics featuring collaborations with the biggest names in wrestling. Credits include Tales from the Road, Vampiro: Rockabilly Apocalypse, Friday Night Bigfoot, and the licensed WWE comic.

  • Nancy Knight

    Nancy Knight authored novels, short stories, produced plays, film scripts, and edited anthologies. She served as director of Writers' Track for 26 years. She was awarded the Hank Reinhardt Award. Georgia Romance Writers named an award after her for mentoring writers. She received the Polaris lifetime achievement from Falstaff Books.

  • Gini Koch

    Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, as well as many other novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories in all the genres and under a variety of pen names, including G.J. Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.

  • Mary Robinette Kowal

    Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Spare Man, Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is a four-time Hugo Award winner and part of the award winning podcast Writing Excuses. Her fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov's.

  • Mike Kunkel

    Mike Kunkel is a cartoonist known, among other things, for his work on Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! and for his creator-owned Herobear and the Kid, for which he has won two Eisner awards.

  • Craig Kyle

    Comic book writer, film producer, and media creator Craig Kyle is best known for his work with Marvel Comics, including X-Men: Evolution (co-creating the character X-23), New X-Men, and X-Force. Kyle produced and wrote various Marvel animated films, including Hulk Vs. and Planet Hulk, and co-wrote the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.

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  • Alec Lachman

    Alec Lachman, aka AlecTheBard, is a professional game master, TTRPG designer, and content creator with 400K followers across platforms. A celebrity DM for D3atSea and D&D in a Castle, Lachman crafts unforgettable adventures while engaging a vast online audience.

  • Cheralyn Lambeth

    Cheralyn "Cher" Lambeth is a professional costume, prop, and puppet builder, whose work includes films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland), live properties (Star Trek: The Experience, Avenue Q), video games (Fortnite: Battle Royale), and books (Haunted Theaters of the Carolinas, Introduction to Puppetry Arts).

  • Eloy Lasanta

    Eloy Lasanta is an RPG creator (i.e. Part-Time Gods 2E, Pip System). He has also contributed to other TTRPGs like the Firefly RPG, Into the Motherlands, and video games like Subterrain: Mines of Titan and Dream Tactics. Lasanta has undoubtedly left his mark on the tabletop and video game industry.

  • Maggie Lawson

    Maggie Lawson is an American actress who is best known for her role as Detective Juliet "Jules" O'Hara in the television series Psych, and its subsequent film series. From 2018 to 2019, she held the recurring role of Natalie Flynn in the third and final season of Fox's Lethal Weapon.

  • Riki Lecotey

    Riddle is an internationally recognized cosplayer from Canada who has been cosplaying for 20+ years. While she continues to cosplay, she has transferred the skills she learned from cosplay to working 30+ films for Marvel, DC, and some of Netflix's biggest shows such as Cobra Kai and Stranger things.

  • Creees Lee

    Creees Lee is a variant cover artist and is the interior artist for Black Mask's Lab Raider. He has worked for Image, Dynamite, and Chapterhouse Comics.

  • Mindy Lee

    Mindy Lee has an extensive and varied career in the entertainment industry. From video games to animation and beyond, she brings her experience and talent to the world of comics – recently as the co-creator and artist of Bounty, and the artist of Crimson Lotus, both published by Dark Horse Comics.

  • Linda Lessmann Reinhold

    Linda Lessmann Reinhold, with Barry Windsor-Smith, formed The Gorblimey Press in 1974. She was staff colorist at Marvel Comics New York offices in the mid 1970's. In the 1980's-90's, a colorist at First Comics and Marvel Comics. Today she often assists her husband, Bill Reinhold, on various comic projects.

  • Scott Lobdell

    Scott Lobdell is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for his work on numerous X-Men series for Marvel Comics, various DC Comics (Teen Titans, Superman), and comics for other publishers, including the Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers series by Papercutz or Fathom by Aspen MLT.

  • Teddy Long

    Theodore Robert Rufus Long (born September 15, 1947) is an American former professional wrestling referee, manager, and authority figure best known for his tenures in NWA, WCW, and WWE.

  • Leighann Lord

    Leighann Lord is a stand-up comedian who has performed at Dragon Con. She is the author of Dict Jokes and Real Women Do it Standing Up. Lord has also been a co-host on StarTalkRadio, with Neil de Grasse Tyson. She has been on Comedy Central, HBO, and Showtime.

  • Comfort Love

    Comfort and Adam are a creative duo who both write, draw, and design. They are the creators of The Uniques and Rainbow in the Dark. They also wrote a massive how-to book for Random House called The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics.

  • Ant Lucia

    Very few alternate visions of established characters have captured the imaginations of fandom like the DC Comics Bombshells. When Ant Lucia unveiled his designs for such characters as Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Harley Quinn, and the rest in the series the popularity exploded!

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  • Jonathan Maberry

    Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling multi-genre novelist, comic book writer, anthology editor, executive producer, and editor of Weird Tales Magazine.

  • Erin Macdonald

    Erin Macdonald, PhD is known for her work as the Star Trek franchise science advisor. In addition, she is a writer, speaker, producer, voice actor, and has written on Star Trek: Adventures, a baby board book Star Trek: My First Book of Space, and has voiced her own character.

  • Rebecca Mader

    Rebecca Mader is an English actress, best known for her roles as Charlotte Lewis in the ABC series Lost, as Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, on ABC's Once Upon a Time, and for her appearances in the Devil Wears Prada, Fringe, 30 Rock, and more.

  • Sean Maguire

    Sean Maguire is an English actor who can currently be seen playing the role of Robin Hood in Once Upon a Time.

  • Mari Mancusi

    Mari Mancusi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 30 sci-fi/fantasy books for kids, teens, and adults, including many Disney tie-in books.

  • Aasif Mandvi

    Aasif Mandvi is an actor, comedian, and writer. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO series The Brink and the CBS/Paramount+ drama Evil. His film roles include Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 and Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender.

  • Annette Marie

    Annette Marie is the author of 30+ fantasy books, including The Guild Codex, Steel & Stone, and Red Winter series. A Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and an Amazon Charts bestseller, Marie has sold two million books featuring her unique blend of fast-paced adventure, addictive slow-burn romance, and unforgettable characters.

  • Brianna Marie

    Brianna Marie is the co-producer, co-creative lead, and all-around scheduling manager of Dungeons and Randomness, an actual-play podcast driven by player choices. The podcast has been going strong for over a decade, and the community is her favorite part.

  • Gail Z Martin

    Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk, and more. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and Night Vigil. Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, Chronicles of the Necromancer, The Fallen Kings Cycle, The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and Assassins of Landria.

  • Jason Massey

    Starting Dungeons and Randomness 13 years ago, Jason has been a professional dungeon master since then. He has hosted hundreds of sessions of D&D and many other tabletop games.

  • Eddie McClintock

    Eddie McClintock starred for five years on Syfy network's Warehouse 13. He appeared in a recurring role on Bones, as well as MacGyver, Supergirl, Agents of Shield, Backstrom, and Modern Family.

  • Mark McDonagh

    Mark McDonagh is a physicist and retired Navy submarine force Captain who has been running the National Security Decision Making Game since 1990. He lectures on emerging technology, modern weapons, geopolitical topics, and military history with expertise in the American Revolution, WWII, the Cold War, and history of submarine warfare.

  • Clint McElroy

    Clint McElroy is a podcaster, comic book writer, and former radio personality known for The Adventure Zone, a role-playing podcast. He is also a four-time New York Times bestselling author for The Adventure Zone graphic novels and recently released the book, Goldie's Guide to Grandchilding, all from First Second.

  • Griffin McElroy

    Griffin McElroy is a podcaster, four-time New York Times bestselling author, and actor known for The Adventure Zone, Wonderful!, and My Brother, My Brother and Me.

  • Justin McElroy

    Justin McElroy is a podcaster, four-time New York Times bestselling author, and actor known for The Adventure Zone and My Brother, My Brother and Me.

  • Travis McElroy

    Travis McElroy is a podcaster, actor, producer, humorist, and four-time New York Times bestselling author known for The Adventure Zone; My Brother, My Brother and Me; and Shmanners.

  • Robert Duncan McNeill

    Robert Duncan McNeill is an American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show Star Trek: Voyager. Other credits include the film Masters of the Universe (1987) and producing the TV series Chuck.

  • Amy Mebberson

    Comic artist and toy designer for Disney and Hasbro. Best known for Disney Princess and My LittlePony comics. Also the creator of viral Disney fancomic Pocket Princesses.

  • Mark Meer

    Mark Meer is known for his work on Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy, voicing Commander Shepard, Blasto, the Vorcha, and Niftu Cal. Other voice credits include the Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age series, Hinterland Studio's The Long Dark, ChaosForge's Jupiter Hell, Beamdog's MythForce, and Starro the Conquerer in WB Games' Gotham Knights.

  • Travis Scott Merrill

    Travis Scott Merrill currently works as a specialty costumer and break down artist with IATSE local 479. He has worked on some of the biggest budget movies in the world. You can see his art in professional theater, television, and blockbuster movies.

  • Jason Metcalf

    Jason Metcalf is a comic book artist known for his dynamic linework and detailed illustrations. With credits at publishers like DC, IDW, Valiant, and Zenescope, he has brought iconic characters to life. His work blends classic and modern styles, making him a sought-after talent for covers, interiors, and concept art.

  • Jonboy Meyers

    Jonboy Meyers is an illustrator, cover artist, concept designer, world builder, sequential artist, and creator for toys, animation, video games, comic books, and film. Projects include League of Legends for Riot Games, Star Wars Concept/Ideation for Hasbro, Spawn for Image/Todd McFarlane, Teen Titans for DC, and Inhumans with Marvel.

  • John Jackson Miller

    John Jackson Miller is a New York Times bestselling author of novels and comics for Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, and Marvel. His new novel tying into the Tim Burton Batman movies, Batman: Revolution, releases in 2025 from Random House Worlds.

  • Andrea Lorenzo Molinari

    Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Ph.D. is co-writer of The Shepherd graphic novel series. Molinari is editorial director for Scout Comics and was submissions editor/editor for Caliber Comics, an editor for Amigo Comics, and has edited books published by Action Lab Entertainment, Behemoth, Second Sight, Cosmic Times, and New Friday Comics.

  • Mikal Mosley

    Mikal Mosley is an avid convention goer and costume designer. He has presented at several major conventions over the past 10 years, such as Dragon Con, MomoCon, and San Diego Comic Con. His professional costume credits include building costumes for the WWE, NFL, and various tv shows.

  • Tony Moy

    Tony Moy is an international artist known for forgotten history WWII comic The 4Forty2nd about the most decorated Japanese American regiment in US history. He creates artwork for Marvel Snaps, D&D, X-files, and more. He teaches watercolor and streams on Twitch and Paint Bros.

  • James C Mulligan

    James Mulligan has been a Disney artist for over two decades, with properties featuring everything from the classics to recent favorite Frozen. His design, fine art, and gallery work includes Playboy, Coca-Cola, Fox, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, the Chuck Jones family, Marvel, DC, Lexus, and the Elvis Presley Estate.

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  • Bobby Nash

    Bobby Nash is an award winning author, artist, and actor. He writes novels, comic books, short stories, screenplays, audio dramas, and more. Nash is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, International Thriller Writers, and Southeastern Writers Association.

  • Kirsten Nelson

    Kirsten Nelson is known for her starring role as Police Chief Karen Vick on Psych. Nelson's career includes roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Fugitive, Frasier, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Just Shoot Me!, and Boy Meets World.  Her film credits include War of the Worlds directed by Steven Spielberg.

  • Nooligan

    HaiNaNu "nooligan" Saulque is an artist, comic creator, and graphic designer based in Sacramento, Ca. From the cartoons of his youth to films he missed by decades, from golden age comics to classic newspaper strips, you will find a creator who has immersed himself in what he loves.

  • Jody Lynn Nye

    Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats". When not engaged in this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction. She has published over 50 books and more than 200 stories. Nye teaches writing seminars and is coordinating judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.

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  • Timothy Omundson

    Timothy Omundson is an actor notable for his supporting roles as Sean Potter on the CBS television series Judging Amy, Eli on the syndicated series Xena: Warrior Princess, Carlton Lassiter in Psych, King Richard on the ABC musical comedy series Galavant, and Cain in The CW's Supernatural.

  • Kurt Opsahl

    Kurt Opsahl is associate general counsel for cybersecurity and civil liberties policy for the Filecoin Foundation. Opsahl has worked almost 30 years on technology law and policy, representing internet startups in the dot-com boom, protecting digital rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and now focusing on protecting the decentralized web.

  • Justin Christopher Orr

    Justin Orr aka “JUSSCOPE” is a concept artist and animator from Northern California. He has worked in numerous artistic fields including animation, gaming, and advertising. He has worked with companies such as Nickelodeon, MTV, Wild Brain, and TBS, and has spent time in Japan as a concept artist.

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  • Lana Parrilla

    Lana Parrilla was a regular cast member in the fifth season of the ABC sitcom Spin City from 2000 to 2001. She later starred in Boomtown, Windfall, Swingtown, Miami Medical, and 24. Recently, Parrilla starred as The Evil Queen/Regina Mills in the ABC fantasy drama series, Once Upon a Time.

  • Bob Pendarvis

    Bob Pendarvis has metallic prints of over 20 different illustrations taken from his Ana and Jamie books.

  • Diana Peterfreund

    Diana Peterfreund is the author of over a dozen for adults, teens, and kids, including Secret Society Girl, the Killer Unicorn books, Omega City, and the Clue mysteries. Her latest YA mystery kicks off a series about a teenage detective descended from Edgar Allan Poe.

  • Robert Picardo

    Robert Picardo is noted for his role as the Holographic Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager, also starred as Commander Woolsey on Stargate Atlantis, making him the only actor to play regular roles on both franchises. He is also well known for his roles on China Beach and The Wonder Years.

  • Van Allen Plexico

    Van Allen Plexico, designated a Grand Master of Pulp Literature, is best known for the Sentinels illustrated superhero novels and comics, 1960s crime novels, and The Shattering space opera universe. His White Rocket Entertainment network features video and podcast channels covering James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers and more.


  • Robert Pope

    With over 35 years in comics, animation, and children's books, Robert Pope has drawn a who's who of cartoon favorites, including the Peanuts gang, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, Batman, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Johnny Bravo, and many more for DC, BOOM, IDW, Simon and Schuster, Disney Publishing, and others.

  • Benny Powell

    Benny Powell is a publisher, writer, and artist most known for the hit White Widow comic and upcoming spin-off I Make Boys Cry. He is also the creator and writer for Wayward Legends, Darchon, AMPED, Duel Identity, Wayward Sons, Markiplier, and dozens more.

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  • Livio J Ramondelli

    Livio Ramondelli's art credits include a longtime run illustrating Transformers for IDW publishing. He also created the acclaimed original science fiction series The Kill Lock, published at the same studio. He is currently illustrating variant covers for the new era of Transformers in the Skybound/Image Comics era.

  • David Ramsey

    David Ramsey is an actor and martial artist, best known for his roles in Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and The Flash as John Diggle/Spartan, Anton Briggs on the Showtime TV series Dexter, and the film Mother and Child (2009) as Joseph.

  • Norm Rapmund

    Norm Rapmund is an inker who made a name for himself during the early years of Image Comics. Rapmund then moved to Marvel where he worked on titles Wolverine, Fantastic Four, and Rogue. He later became known for his work with penciller Ian Churchill on Coven, Superman/Batman, and Supergirl.

  • Trina L. Ray

    Currently the deputy science manager and investigation scientist for the radar instrument on NASA's Europa Clipper Mission. She worked 20 years on Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn (specializing in Titan), and started her career working on Voyager. She is an active public speaker, invited to give many talks around the nation.

  • Bill Reinhold

    Bill Reinhold is a graduate of the American Academy of Art and has been a professional comic book artist since 1981. Over his long career he has worked for Noble Comics, First Comics, Marvel Comics, DC comics, and others. Reinhold is currently illustrating the graphic novel The Flying Column.

  • Aaron Reynolds

    Aaron Reynolds is the four-time Webby award winning author of Effin' Birds, a comic strip pairing intricate artwork with mundane daily frustrations read by over a million people every day. His first book, Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification, hit bookstores in 2019 and is a bestseller.

  • Afua Richardson

    Afua Richardson is an American illustrator, author, musician, singer, songwriter, and mentor. In 2007, she made history as one of the first Indigenous Afro-American female artists to work for Marvel Comics as a penciler, inker, and colorist, earning the Nina Simone Award for artistic excellence.

  • Roy A Richardson

    Roy Richardson has worked for all the major publishers. Currently, he is the inker of the new sci-fi series Captain Ginger from Ahoy Comics. He is also the inker/letter/colorist for the Mary Worth comic strip, over his wife June Brigman's pencils.

  • Emily Bett Rickards

    She is known for her role as Felicity Smoak on The CW series Arrow. She has reprised the role in the Arrowverse shows The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, and voiced the character on the animated web series Vixen.

  • Corinne Roberts

    Corinne Roberts is an illustrator working in comics and children's books (Bug Bites, Drawing Dragons, and the Out and About series). Her other illustration projects include the Wanderlust Deck and Dragon Calendar series.

  • Darick Robertson

    Darick Robertson is a comic book artist, writer, creator, and executive producer whose works include co-creating the award winning Transmetropolitan, and the comic that inspired the show The Boys. Robertson has illustrated for both Marvel and DC on characters including Batman, The Justice League, Wolverine, The Punisher, and Spider-man.

  • Andrew Robinson

    Andrew Robinson has painted covers for all the major publishers, illustrating such titles as Batman Detective, Hawkman, Starman, Superman Rebirth, Ironman, Hydra, Star Wars, Black Panther, and The JSA. He is a multi-award winning, NY Times bestselling illustrator for his painted work on The Fifth Beatle.

  • Naomi "Nao" Romero

    Naomi Romero is a character designer for animation and illustrator for children's literature. They have worked for DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Illumination Studios, Hasbro, Spin Master, and more. Romero is the current artist for the new baby dragon plush for Dragon Con.

  • Don Rosa

    Don Rosa became internationally famous in 1987 when he began writing and drawing new stories based on his favorite classic comics - Carl Barks' $crooge McDuck. He has worked for licensed publishers around the world where Barks' Duck comics continue to be the bestselling comics as they once were in America.

  • Scott William Rosema

    Scott Rosema is a comic book artist known for his work with Marvel, Archie, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Dreamworks, Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, Space Ghost, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men Adventures, Spider-Man, Jonny Quest, Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes, Dexter's Laboratory, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.

  • Tim Russ

    Timothy Darrell "Tim" Russ is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. He is known for his roles as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, as Frank on Samantha Who?, and as Principal Franklin, a recurring character on the Nickelodeon live-action teen sitcom iCarly.

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  • Katee Sackhoff

    Katee Sackhoff is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci-Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica, as Sheriff "Vic" Moretti in the Netflix series Longmire, and as Amunet in The Flash.

  • Steve Saffel

    Steve Saffel edited SF, fantasy, and horror for Random House, Marvel, and Titan, with creators like Eric Flint, N.K. Jemisin, Stan Lee, Robert McGinnis, Scott Sigler, and Alex White. He has worked on Alien, Halo, Conan, Mass Effect, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and more.

  • Robert J. Sawyer

    Robert J. Sawyer has won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial awards; all for best science fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his Aurora Award winning novel of the same name, and he was one of the writers for that program.

  • Gregg Schigiel

    Gregg Schigiel is the creator, author, and illustrator of the Zooperhero Universe chapter book series and Pix graphic novels. He has done character design for SpongeBob SquarePants and The Patrick Show, was a regular contributor to SpongeBob Comics, and worked as a penciller, writer, and assistant editor for Marvel Comics.

  • Chris Schweizer

    Cartoonist Chris Schweizer has received three Eisner Award nominations for his graphic novels series The Creeps and The Crogan Adventures, written the Pirates of the Caribbean comic series, and drawn titles like 6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, Mars Attacks, and Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder.

  • William Shatner

    William Shatner is an actor and novelist who gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk, in the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films.

  • Scott Sigler

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler is the creator of 15 novels, six novellas, and dozens of short stories. He gives away his stories as weekly, serialized audiobooks, with over 40 million episodes downloaded.

  • James Silvani

    James Silvani is a writer and Disney Comics artist best known for his work on Darkwing Duck. Silvani's latest work is Pirates: A Graphic History.

  • Rikki Simons

    Rikki Simons is most famous for being the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR from Invader ZIM.

  • Cory Smith

    Cory Smith is an American comic artist and illustrator who has worked on some of the industry's biggest titles, such as IDW'S TMNT, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars, Spider-man, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Currently, Smith is working Fantastic Four for Marvel.

  • Dietrich O Smith

    Dietrich Smith is an illustrator with work spanning in the field of comics for two decades. He has illustrated a variety of stories involving iconic characters such as Superman, Spiderman, Shaft, Army of Darkness, League of Legends, and a bevy of others.

  • Anne Sowards

    Anne Sowards is an executive editor at Penguin Random House, where she primarily acquires and edits fantasy and speculative fiction for the Ace and Berkley imprints. The talented authors she works with include New York Times bestsellers Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, and Louis Sachar.

  • Michael A. Stackpole

    Michael A. Stackpole is an award winning novelist, game designer, computer game designer, podcaster, editor, screenwriter, and graphic novelist.

  • T. Alexander Stangroom

    T. Alexander Stangroom is chief operations officer at the ENNIE award winning TTRPG publisher Kobold Press. Stangroom is a TTRPG designer whose credits include titles by Modiphius and Wizards of the Coast, as well as a professional GM with over two decades of experience.

  • Kim Steadman

    Kim Steadman is a systems engineer working in the space industry with over 26 years of experience in spacecraft operations. Currently she is a surface mission planner for the Dragonfly Mission to Titan. She has also worked on Opportunity, Curiosity, Cassini, and Perseverance.

  • TJ Sterling

    TJ Sterling is a former Marvel and DC creator that has worked in several spaces within the comic industry, as well as the indie space with his fan favorite comic company RAE Comics. Sterling is also a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon art.

  • S. M. Stirling

    S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953 and has lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and Santa Fe. Stirling published his first novel Snowbrother in 1984. His latest books are To Turn the Tide and The Winds of Fate from Baen, and The Lords of Creation from Arc Manor.

  • William Stout

    William Stout is an illustrator/film designer. He has murals at the San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego Zoo, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom. Fantastic Worlds – The Art of William Stout, will be followed by a box set of Stout's comics-related art.

  • Sorah Suhng

    Sorah Suhng has been a contributing artist to the comic book industry since 2007. She is owner and creator of Karnal Sin and the popular Karnal Confessions series as well as the Aurora comic book series .

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  • Eric Talbot

    Eric Talbot is a comic book writer and artist known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series under Mirage Studios. He co-created the graphic novel The Melting Pot along with Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley, which was used as the basis for the film Heavy Metal 2000.

  • Dave Tango

    Dave Tango is a member and paranormal researcher for The Atlantic Paranormal Society based out of Rhode Island. Tango is a paranormal researcher and is best known for his role as an investigator for the hit television series Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation.

  • Lauren Thoman

    Lauren Thoman is the author of the speculative mysteries I'll Stop the World and You Shouldn't Be Here. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two children.

  • Adam Bryce Thomas

    Adam Bryce Thomas is a comic artist and illustrator, most notably for IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog, DC's recent Sonic/ Justice League crossover, and many other titles.

  • Zoe Thorogood

    Zoe Thorogood is a comic creator and concept artist from the UK. She is best known for her award winning creator owned books The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, which she has both written and drawn.

  • Eric Trueheart

    Eric Trueheart is best known for writing on Nickelodeon's heartwarming cult classic Invader ZIM.

  • James W Tyndall

    James W Tyndall is a Canadian - American comic book artist that has had the honor of working on covers for various titles including Deadpool, X-Men, Aliens, G.I. Joe, Transformers, The Boys, Witchblade, Vampirella, Lady Death, My Little Pony, TMNT, Archie, Grimm Fairy Tales, Red Sonja, Godzilla, and Danger Girl.

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  • Chris Uminga

    Christopher Uminga is a Connecticut based painter and illustrator. He has spent the last 10 years developing a unique style that blends together creepy and cute. You can find the influences of classic movies, Saturday morning cartoons, graffiti, and low brow/outsider art in his work.

  • Uploads of Fun

    Uploads of Fun is known for their off-beat family comedy videos. Their mission is to build a community for all people through laughter. With an audience of over 11 million across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, Uploads of Fun shows the world that fun is a language we all speak!

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  • Toma Vagner

    Toma Vagner is an award winning NYC-based artist and illustrator. Vagner is known for creating tour visuals for Harry Styles worldwide tour in 2018, as well as her series of illustrations Disorders. Clients include Google, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, LUSH, Red Bull, and others.

  • Keyla Valerio

    Keyla Valerio is a Puerto Rican-Dominican artist. Her journey began in 2016 with Source Point Press, before expanding into cover art in 2021. Her illustrative credits include Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Unlimited, Power Rangers Prime, Stranger Things, White Boat, Vicarious, and Rise/Cult of Dracula.

     

  • Trevor Valle

    Trevor Valle is a commercial FAA licensed drone pilot, a former paleontologist and science writer who has appeared in documentaries on History Channel, National Geographic, and in IMAX, and a professional GM, TTRPG writer, creator, game tester, and a cast member and player on multiple Twitch and YouTube Actual Plays.

  • Carl J Varnado

    Carl Varnado is a narrative designer, educator, and creative director. His work includes Need for Speed: Unbound, Dragon Age: Veilguard, Street Fighter 6, and Wylde Flowers. Varnado is the founder of the Black in Gaming Awards and is one of the creators of Knarrative.com, a premium educational African centered portal.

  • Jhonen Vasquez

    Jhonen Vasquez is a writer/artist who, in the before times, created comic books like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and SQUEE! And then went on to ruin the world by creating Invader Zim and its follow up movie Enter the Florpus, seen by upwards of seven people. He is currently sentient.

  • Dexter Vines

    Native Atlantan Dexter Vines is one of comics' most prolific and well respected artists/inkers with over 25 years of experience. Vines has worked for almost every major comic publisher, including Superman/Batman, Civil War, and Wolverine: Old Man Logan. His recent projects include Ahsoka and Mace Windu.

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  • Christian Waggoner

    Christian Waggoner is known worldwide for his Star Wars Reflection series paintings. He has been working with Lucasfilm over 12 years. His uniquely enhanced, photo-realistic style makes viewers wonder how he achieves such detail with a mere brush and canvas.

  • B. Dave D Walters

    B. Dave Walters is best known as host and DM of Invitation to Party on G4 TV, and DM for the cast of Stranger Things on Netflix Geeked. He is a contributor to the Marvel Multiverse RPG: The Cataclysm of Kang, and X-men Expansion, Dungeons & Dragons, and Vampire: The Masquerade.

  • Garrett Wang

    Garrett Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. Wang's other work includes Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Into the West, Demon Island, Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (game), The Auteur Theory, Hundred Percent, Ivory Tower, Angry Cafe, and Flesh Suitcase.

  • Jean Marie Ward

    Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Her credits include a multi-award nominated novel, numerous short stories, and two popular art books. The former editor of CrescentBlues.com, she is the author interviewer for BookBale.com and a frequent contributor to the online convention ConTinual. Learn more at JeanMarieWard.com.

  • Jeff Ward

    Jeff Ward is an actor and theatre director. He is best known for his role as Deke Shaw in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Buggy the Clown in One Piece. He also played Roy Hardaway in the Netflix miniseries Brand New Cherry Flavor and Seth Marlowe in Channel Zero: No-End House.

  • Michael Watkins

    CEO and EIC of Highburn Studios, Michael Watkins is a creator and illustrator with over 20 years experience in the comics industry. He is known as creator of Guardians and for his work on Transformers and Sonic the Hedgehog. Additionally, he is also a voice actor and avid martial artist.

  • Toni Weisskopf

    Toni Weisskopf has been the publisher of Baen Books since 2006. Weisskopf has been a guest speaker at many writers workshops and science fiction conventions across the country. She is also interested in space science and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Interstellar Research Group.

  • Keith Williams

    Keith Williams, comic book inker. Assistant editor of Spider-Man group of books. As an inker, he has worked for Marvel, DC, King Features Syndicate, Valiant, Dark Horse, Avatar Press, Moonstone, and now Power Comics, inc., A Kid and a Comic, and Green Archer Comics.

  • Marcusthevisual Williams

    Stationed in Atlanta Ga, he spends most of his time toiling away late nights on everything from illustrating comic art, fan art, children's books, to random character commissions. He is excited about the direction of his comic properties, and looks forward to creating more forms of visual entertainment and stories.

  • Skip Williams

    Skip Williams hails from Lake Geneva, also the birthplace of the D&D game. In a 40 year career in tabletop gaming, Williams has accumulated many credits, including Gen Con, Dragon magazine, the RPGA Network, Polyhedron newsine, and four versions of the D&D game, the Planescape, Greyhawk, Ravenloft, Dragonlance worlds.

  • Robert Wilson

    Robert Wilson IV is a comic artist and illustrator living in Dallas, TX. He is the co-creator and artist of Heartthrob at Oni Press with writer Christopher Sebela and colorist Nick Filardi. He also co-created Knuckleheads at IDW / Monkeybrain with Brian Winkeler and Like A Virus with Ken Lowery.

  • Adam Withers

    Comfort and Adam are a creative duo who both write, draw, and design. They are the creators of The Uniques and Rainbow in the Dark. They also wrote a massive how-to book for Random House called The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics.

  • Deborah Ann Woll

    Deborah Ann Woll is an actress, model, and Dungeon Master. She is best known for her roles as Jessica Hamby in True Blood and Karen Page in Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again. She provided the voice and motion capture of Faye in the video game God of War: Ragnarök.

  • Alyssa Wong

    Alyssa Wong is a Nebula, GLAAD, and World Fantasy Award winning writer best known for their comic work at Marvel and DC. Wong's comic credits include Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Deadpool, Spirit World, Psylocke, and Captain Marvel. They most recently released their first prose novel, Star Wars: Espace from Valo.

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  • Derek Yaniger

    Derek Yaniger is a toothless hillbilly that has got a way long history of scratchin' out art for lots of king-sized bigwigs like Marvel Comics and Cartoon Network. But nowadays he strictly digs the gigs that let him beat his own bongos.

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  • Thomas Zahler

    Thom Zahler is a comic creator who created the Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label webtoons and Love and Capes and Time and Vine. His latest is The Ghost Whiskerers for Storm King, about cats that see ghosts. He also works for My Little Pony and is drawing Rocketship's Angry Birds.

  • Timothy Zahn

    Timothy Zahn is the author of 16 Star Wars novels, the Cobra, Quadrail, Sibyl's War, and Dragonback series, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, The Icarus Twin, The Icarus Job, and A Call to Insurrection (with David Weber and Thomas Pope). Upcoming books: The Icarus Changeling and The Icarus Needle.

  • Charles Zambrano

    Charles Zambrano is a Emmy award winning multifaceted artist specializing in make up face paint, body paint special effects for live events, television, and film. Zambrano partakes in cosplaying through aspects of creating face and body paint looks for other performers and cosplayers as well.

  • Jim Zub

    Jim Zub is a writer, artist, and art instructor who has worked for a wide array of publishing, movie, and video game clients, including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He also teaches drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca College's award winning animation program.

  • Chrissie Zullo Uminga

    Chrissie Zullo Uminga is a Connecticut-based illustrator and a full-time drawing machine. She has worked for Marvel, DC, and Lucasfilm to name a few, primarily in comic book illustration. Known for her variant covers, some titles Chrissie has worked on include X-Men, Marvel Mutts, Deadpool: Petpool, and Amazing Spider-Man.

Cancellations

The following previously confirmed guests are unfortunately not able to attend this year’s Dragon Con.

  • Lucy Blue
  • D.J. Bodden
  • Luke Chmilenko
  • Cam Collins
  • Harmon Cooper
  • Larry Flaxman
  • Luke Gygax
  • Alex Jennings
  • E.K. Johnston
  • Ryan Kelly
  • Todd J McCaffrey
  • Jon Moore
  • Gary Otto
  • D.R. Perry
  • Marissa Pope
  • Cherie M. Priest
  • Jim Shooter
  • Shami A Stovall
  • Kevin Michael Wesson
  • Tao Wong
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