Guests

Russ Adams

Russ Adams is an award-winning special effects artistfamiliar to audiences for his work on Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge,the highly-rated SyFy Channel reality series. Also known for Pirates ofthe Caribbean: At World's End, 50 First Dates, Pirates ofthe Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and Juarez 2045 .

Adassa

Adassa plays Dolores in Disney's award winning Encanto. She has toured and collaborated with artists such as Daddy Yankee, Snoop, Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, Ivy Queen, Don Omar, Flo Rida, Kevin Lyttle, Baby Rasta & Gringo, Wisin & Yandel, Baby Bash and Juvenile among others.

Jarrod Alberich

Jarrod “The Yard Sale Artist” Alberich is the creator of his own original comic, Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale. He's written for Z2Comics and done trading card art for Marvel & Upper Deck. He’s currently the inker for Pulsar and Cold Lightning for White Rocket Comics.

Raúl Allen

Raul Allen is an adept comic book illustrator who has worked on The Immortal Iron Fist and Secret Avengers.  He has done over a hundred covers for various publishers.  Allen is currently working with Patricia Martín on the Dune graphic novels alongside writers Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson.

Robert Hugh Allsopp

Robert Allsopp has for 30 years produced costume props for film theatre and TV, he is one of the most recognised artisans working in his field. His work has featured in many feature films including 'Gladiator' and 'the Martian' , TV work includes numerous episodes of 'Doctor Who , and 'The Witcher' for Netflix.

Brian D. Anderson

Brian Anderson is the bestselling fantasy author of The Godling Chronicles, Dragonvein, The Sorcerer\'s Song, and Akiri (with co-author Steven Savile) series. His books have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and his audiobooks are perennially popular. Today, he divides his time writing and traveling the country. 

Curt Anderson

Curt Anderson is a professional magician who has performed across the United States, 8 countries, and has been featured numerous times on Television, radio, and a variety of internet programs. In addition to performing, Curt is working on a master's degree in Human Communication with a specialization in human deception.

Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson has published 140+ books, more than 50 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as a unique steampunk fantasy novel, Clockwork Angels.

Melody Anderson

Melody Anderson is best known for her role as "Dale Arden" in Flash Gordon.  She can also be seen in Firewalker, Manimal, All My Children, and many more. She is also a social worker and public speaker focused on the impact of addiction on families.

Dino Andrade

Recently Speedy Gonzales (New Looney Tunes) voice actor Dino Andrade is Mekkatorque, Putricide and Mimiron (WoW), plus Scarecrow (Arkham Asylum). Other credits: Star Trek Online, Loud House, Fortnite, Wasteland 3, Bidoof’s Big Stand, Call Of Duty, Vampirina, M*F*K*Z*, Hellsing Ultimate, and Pop (of Snap, Crackle, And Pop)!

Jon Armstrong

Jon stars in the NetFlix's 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.

Eric R. Asher

Eric Asher is the author of the Vesik urban fantasy series and Steamborn steampunk series.

Robert Atkins

Robert Atkins has worked on GI JOE: A Real American Hero, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Amazing Spider-Man, Venom, Heroes for Hire, Ultimate Fantastic Four, The Savage She Hulk, Legion of Superheroes, and the initial launch of GI JOE .  Robert is currently creating artwork for Renegade Games on the launch of GI JOE and Transformer Games.

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.

Andrew Aydin

Andrew Aydin is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner. Andrew is coauthor with Rep. John Lewis of March and Run, cowriter of The March, VR experience for TIME Inc, and has written characters such as Captain America and Batman for Marvel and DC Comics.

Jason Azevedo

Jason Azevedo is a professional Dungeon Master, acclaimed miniature painter, and the President and Founder of RealmSmith - a Toronto-based channel that offers immersive and interactive D&D 5th-Edition Content. You may also have seen him at conventions partnering with WizKids and Vallejo to teach miniature painting seminars.

Morena Baccarin

Morena Baccarin is best known for her role of “Inara Serra” in Firefly and the screen adaption Serenity.  She can also be seen in fan favorites like Deadpool, The Flash, and Gotham. Other starring roles on television include the sci-fi drama V and Heartland.

Keith Baker

Keith Baker is an award-winning game designer and co-founder of Twogether Studios. In addition to creating the Eberron campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons and the innovative RPG Phoenix: Dawn Command, his bestselling board games include Illimat, the Gloom franchise, and The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance.

Darryl Banks

Darryl has worked on Legion of Superheroes and Green Lantern, co-creating the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern, Parallax, and others. In addition, his work also includes Captain America and X-Men for Marvel, Tomb Raider: Epiphany from Top Cow, GI Joe Reloaded for Devil's Due Publishing, and covers to Moonstone's Phantom series.  

Brec Bassinger

Brec Bassinger stars as Courtney Whitmore, aka Stargirl in the  DC Comics CW series Stargirl. Brec also recently completed the film Man in the White Van to premiere later this year! Bassinger is well known for playing the eponymous lead in Nickelodeon show Bella And The Bulldogs

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 D.C. Comics, Wildstorm, Devil's Due, and Boom! 

Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford has published over forty books, mostly novels, and is a noted scientist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.

Christopher Bivins

Chris Bivins freelances in the comics and film industries. His clients include Marvel Games & Blumhouse.

Ross Blocher

Ross Blocher is co-host of the hit podcast Oh No, Ross and Carrie! and an investigator with the Center for Inquiry Investigations Group.

Dr. John Bradford

Dr. John Bradford is President and Chief Technical Officer for SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta. He is an expert in the human exploration of space, hypersonics, and the commercial space industry. He is a thought leader and strong advocate for developing human stasis capabilities for space flight.

BREED

BREED is a comic book/pre-production/animation artist with over 26 years of industry experience whose work has been featured by Marvel Comics, 20th Century Studios, Zenescope Entertainment, UpperDeck Co., Red Stylo Media, IDW, Stranger Comics, Action Lab Entertainment, and Counterpoint Comics.

Jennie Breeden

Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties. Breeden has been updating her comic daily since 2001 with over 4,000 comic strips online and multiple graphic novels that are in comic shops and book stores around the world.

Patricia L. Briggs

Patricia Briggs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha and Omega series; she has written 28 novels to date and has no intention of stopping! In addition, she has written eight fantasy novels and several short stories, comic books, and graphic novels.

Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown is an Eisner and Ringo award-winning comic book writer. He is the current writer for Aquamen.  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. 

Bob Burden

A founding member of Atlanta Fandom, Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, his work on Gumby Comics and his iconic Mysterymen Comics which spawn the 1999 Universal movie have delighted generations, won numerous awards and sold hundreds of thousands of comic books over the years.

Jeff Burns

Jeff Burns is the creator of the superhero comedy series Super Knocked Up and host of the improv comedy show Super Geeked Up. He’s one of the authors of the Dragons of a Different Tail anthology and writes comedic, geeky erotica as Riley Rose.

Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and a steampunk series, the Cinder Spires. His resume includes a laundry list of skills which were useful a couple of centuries ago, and he plays guitar quite badly.

Kirsten Z. Cairns

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

Jack Campbell

Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), retired US Navy officer, writes the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series, Genesis Fleet series, Lost Stars series, and \"steampunk meets high fantasy\" Pillars of Reality series. His latest books are Boundless, The Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy, and the Corsair comic series.

Mike Capps

Dr. Mike Capps is CEO of Diveplane, dedicated to keeping the humanity in AI. He's best known for a legendary career in video game development, as an executive, writer, designer, and lead programmer on videogames like Gears of War, Fortnite, and Unreal Tournament; and co-designing the upcoming Marvel Multiverse TTRPG.

Mauro Castillo

Mauro Castillo was born in Cali, Colombia. He is a singer, trombonist, composer and actor, known for Encanto (2021), Factor X (2007) and Paro de mi corazón (2022).

Tom Cavanagh

Golden Globe-nominated actor / director Tom Cavanagh can be seen acting in and directing Warner Bros.' The Flash (2014) on the CW. In addition to his current series, Cavanagh has extensive television, film and theatre credits including Scrubs, Legends of Tomorrow, and Arrow.

Sean Chiplock

Sean Chiplock’s recent roles include Rean Schwarzer in Trails of Cold Steel, Rash The Battletoad in Killer Instinct, Cassim in Magi: Labyrinth of Magic, Kiyotaka Ishimaru in the game series DanganRonpa and Diabel in Sword Art Online.

Frank Cho

Amy Chu

Amy Chu writes comics and animation for DC, Marvel, Netflix and more, including DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Green Hornet, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja. Poison Ivy, Aero, Sword Master, Emma Frost, Ant-Man, and Deadpool. She is also the author of the graphic novels Sea Sirens and Sky Island (Viking Press).

Devon M Chulick

Devon is the creator of Total Party Chill, the award winning D&D actual play channel. He is the Cofounder of StartPlaying, the largest platform for finding Pro Game Masters. He has been featured in Bloomberg, SF Gate, Marketwatch, Yahoo! News, Bleeding Cool, and more.

Jeremy Clark

Jeremy Clark has worked on multiple comic projects including cover ink/finishing work for DC (Punchline), IDW (TMNT, TMNT: The Last Ronin), Boom (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), Image Comics (Prodigy, Undiscovered Country), Dynamite (Vampirella), Titan Comics (Blade Runner: Origins), Zenescope (Grimm Fairy Tales), Coffin Comics (Lady Death), and more.

Roger Clark

Roger Clark is a full performance motion capture and voice actor performing Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption II.

Freddy Clements

Freddy Clements is currently a distinguished Professor of Drama/Costume Design at Jacksonville State University. He holds an 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, kilt construction, and costume technology.

Pamela Cole

Pamela Cole is a costumier who graduated from Goodman Theater in Chicago over 40 years ago and continues to work with dance companies, movies, museums, reenactors, in the Atlanta area.

Holly Marie Combs

Holly Marie Combs is known for her roles as Kimberly Brock in Picket Fences, Piper Halliwell in Charmed, and Ella Montgomery in Pretty Little Liars.

Gerry Conway

M. D. Cooper

Malorie (M. D.) Cooper has released over 100 books in her Aeon 14 universe, hit the NewYork Times bestseller list, and sold millions of copies to eager fans. It is her dream to make Aeon 14 one of the most expansive—yet internally consistent—universes ever created.

Sean Andrew Copeland

Sean Copeland is the principal historian of Story & Franchise Development at Blizzard Entertainment leading its team of loremasters. His team partners works in tandem with all development partners so they can create the award-winning games, goods, and cinematic content for our blockbuster franchises with confidence.

Joe Corroney

Joe Corroney has been illustrating Star Wars for Disney and Lucasfilm along with Star Trek art for CBS Studios for more than twenty-five years.

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.

Wilson Cruz

Wilson Cruz can be seen recurring in the CBS series Star Trek: Discovery playing the role of Dr. Hugh Culber and recurring on the Netflix’s series, Thirteen Reasons Why, playing the role of Dennis Vasquez. Cruz won the hearts of audiences playing Rickie Vasquez on My So Called Life.

Shawn Crystal

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

Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings has done scores of voices from Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too!) to Hondo Ohnaka in Star Wars: Rebels! This  includes voice over work in hundreds of television and radio commercials, movie trailers, promos, and videogames.

Peter Capn' Cutler

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

Alex Damon

Alex Damon is the co-host of the YouTube channel Star Wars Explained. Their work has been featured on The Star Wars Show, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, USA Today, and more. Two years ago Alex won the Dragon Con Star Wars Trivia contest, and he'll always remember that as the day he peaked.

Mollie Damon

Mollie Damon is the co-host of the YouTube channel Star Wars Explained. She and her husband, Alex, are professional nerds, and that's pretty neat! Their work has been featured on The Star Wars Show, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, USA Today, and more.

Arthur Darvill

Arthur Darvill is an English actor known for playing Rory Williams, one of the Eleventh Doctor's companions in the television series Doctor Who, as Rev. Paul Coates in Broadchurch, and Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow.

Kathleen O'Shea David

Kathleen O'Shea David started working with puppets when she was two and over 50 years later she is still "wiggling dolls" for fun and profit. Along the way she picked up a few more skills and careers. She has done just about everything from cancer research to rock and roll. 

Peter David

Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly three decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories, and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them.

Benjamin Byron Davis

Benjamin Byron Davis is a full performance motion capture and voice actor performing Dutch van der Linde in Red Dead Redemption I and II.

Fon Davis

Fon Davis appears on Prop Culture, Battlebots, Cake Masters, and Superfan Builds. In his 3 decade career, Fon has worked on over 40 feature films including The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Star Wars Series.

Delilah S Dawson

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma and Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, The Violence, the Minecraft Mob Squad series, the Hit series, the Blud series, the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), and the Tales of Pell, written with Kevin Hearne.

Shari DeBenedetti

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

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 in his own milieus in the fictional Cliff's End and Super City and also New York and Key West. He writes about pop culture for Tor.com.

Mike DeCarlo

A comics artist best known for his work inking such artists as George Pérez, Greg LaRocque, Keith Giffen, and Jim Aparo, DeCarlo has worked on such titles as Atari Force, Cartoon Network Block Party, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Fantastic Four, and Simpsons Comics as well as adaptations of the Warner Bros. stable of cartoons.

Grey Delisle

Grey DeLisle is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning and Annie nominated veteran voice actress who got her start doing the role of Reptar on Rugrats in 1994. Since then she has starred in hundreds of popular cartoons and video games.

Ariel Diaz

Ariel Diaz is a committed multimedia artist/ illustrator based in Dallas, Texas, known by the name "DivineImmortality". Ariel is always striving to challenge herself everyday for the next opportunity to translate her passion into art.  

Garret Dillahunt

Garret Dillahunt is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Burn Notice, Raising Hope, Justified, Deadwood, The 4400, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, ER, The Mindy Project, and Fear the Walking Dead.

Julie Dillon

Julie Dillon is an internationally recognized and award winning fantasy artist living in the Pacific Northwest. Her previous clients have included Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Tor Books, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books, Subterranean Press, and Llewellyn Worldwide.

Lexa Doig

Lexa Doig is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Rommie in the science fiction TV series, Andromeda and Doctor Carolyn Lam on Stargate SG-1.

Mark Dos Santos

Illustrator and comic artist Mark Dos Santos has worked with celebrated creators such as Steve T. Seagle (IMPERIAL), Garth Ennis (A Train Called Love), and Bill Willingham (Lark's Killer). He has created book covers for Silence in the Library, Star Trek TNG, and Hugo award-winning writer, Morgan Gendel (Planet 6).

DC Douglas

DC Douglas is known as the chilling voice of Albert Wesker in 10 Resident Evil games, Legion in Mass Effect 2/3, Yoshikage Kira in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Ryu in Shaman King 2021, Kamoshida in Persona 5, Chase in Transformers: Rescue Bots, and more.

Tim Doyle

Tim Doyle, illustrator and print-maker, began his career showing in local Austin galleries.  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.   

J.M. Dragunas

J.M. Dragunas is a freelance illustrator currently working on his creator owned book L.C. Noir. He is best known for his contributions to the Little Nemo anthology, the 1001 Knights anthology, and for being the illustrator for Harry Potter: A Cinematic Gallery.

Ben Durocher

Actor, puppeteer and builder: Junior Gorg (suit performer) on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q (off Broadway), John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean, Helpsters, Pineapple Playhouse (SpongeBob Puppets). Daytime Emmy winner for his work as a puppet wrangler on Sesame Street, where he has worked for 8 seasons.

Scott Edgington

Dr. Scott Edgington is a Planetary Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He specializes in atmospheric physics and chemistry of the Outer Planets and spacecraft operations. He currently works as a Science Planner on the InSight mission and is training for a similar role on the Perseverance mission.

Nick Eftimiades

Nicholas Eftimiades is a professor and author. He spent 34 years in US intelligence and diplomacy with postings in Europe and Asia. Eftimiades is a renowned expert on China and authored books and articles on national security, emerging technology, and outer space related issues.

Jenn Ellis

Jenn Ellis is co-founder of Twogether Studios and a designer who's worked with Fortune 500 countries across the world. Through Twogether Studios, Ellis creates games that bring people together, encouraging storytelling and creativity including Illimat, The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance, Phoenix: Dawn Command, Action Cats and more.

Jeff Ello

Jeff Ello (aka jello) is a filmmaker/technologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the latest technology and techniques for independent filmmakers and CG artists. He develops solutions that power high-volume video production facilities, real-time visual effects and live streaming.

Joanna Estep

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

Mike Faber

Mike Faber founded the geeky and ever-expanding ESO Network. He hosts The Earth Station One and Earth Station Who podcasts. The ESO Network podcasts celebrate all things sci-fi, fantasy, and much, much more. Along the way, he mentors and teaches new podcasters how to start and produce new projects.

Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett has created and edited over 400 SF books. He has collaborated on the Mycroft Holmes, Ian Fleming, and Madame Vernet mysteries. His books include Hunters and Shooters, The Teams, and a UFO handbook. Fawcett also has edited/written over a dozen books about great mistakes in history.

Joe Flanigan

Joe Flanigan is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis.

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 Amazing Spider-Man. She is the creator of the award-winning lesbian comic book series DUCK! She has recently collaborated with writer Nnedi Okorafor in the Black Panther universe.

Chandra Free

Chandra Free is the writer/artist of The God Machine graphic novel series and co-founder of Machina Corpse LLC, a spooky comic book company. She’s an illustrator on books like John Carpenter’s Tales For A Halloween Night, Fraggle Rock, and Graphic Canon; and colorist for Mice Templar.

Esther Friesner

Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner is the author of over 40 novels, 200 short stories. Best known for series Chicks in Chainmail (Baen), Princesses of Myth (Random House), and above all, funny fantasy. Latest include stories in Portals, Galactic Stew, When Worlds Collide (ZNB LLC Press,) and UFO Publishing anthologies.

Drew Fuller

Drew Fuller is best known for his portrayal of Chris Halliwell in the television series Charmed and for playing soldier Trevor LeBlanc on Lifetime's Army Wives.

Bryan Scott Fyffe

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

Charles E. Gannon

Dr. Charles E. Gannon‘s 20+ books have won the Dragon Award, the ALA Choice Award (Outstanding Book), the Compton Crook Award, and multiple Nebula nominations. He is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sci-fi novels(Baen), which have all been national best-sellers.

Danay Garcia

Danay García is a Cuban actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Sofía Lugo on Fox's drama series Prison Break and Luciana Galvez on AMC's horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.

Andrew E.C. Gaska

Andrew E.C. Gaska is the UKGE and Ennie award-winning settings/adventure writer for Free League Publishing’s ALIEN RPG. A franchise consultant to 20th Century Studios on Alien, Predator, and POTA, he’s also the lead writer on The Terminator RPG and two Choose Your Own Adventure graphic novels.

Gawki

Gawki is a surreal, fantasy artist with dreamy vibrant colors, otherworldly characters, and lush landscapes. They are known for working entirely as an independent self-publishing artist, for being accepted into Spectrum seven times, LGBTQAI+ content, environmental justice involvement, and for establishing the Drawtober art challenge with Vonnart and pals.

Annie Stegg Gerard

Annie Stegg Gerard exhibits her work in galleries and has done notable publishing work for clients such as Disney, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, Easton press, Ballistic Publishing, and more. Her work is found in private collections all over the world.

Gil Gerard

Gil Gerard has starred in numerous successful made-for-television movies as well as 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. 

Justin Gerard

Justin Gerard is an illustrator whose client list includes Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Harper Collins, Penguin, Random House, Sony, Riot, Blizzard, Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, and Riotminds. His work has won awards in art competitions such as Spectrum Fantastic Art, the Society of Illustrators, Infected by Art, and Expose.

Andrew Givler

Bill Golliher

Bill Golliher has been a writer and artist for Archie Comics for over 30 years. Bill has worked on scripting and illustrating a diverse set of titles and covers for the company. Bill lives in the southeast and is excited to be back at Dragon Con after many years.

Steve Gonsalves

Steve Gonsalves is a long time member and paranormal researcher for The Atlantic Paranormal Society based out of Rhode Island. Steve 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.

J. Gonzo

J. Gonzo is a comic book creator who has spent the past 25 plus years using his creative skills at ad agencies, toy, and comic companies, design studios, freelancing, and creating his own comic book title La Mano del Destino.

Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon is a writer, editor, publisher, and podcaster. His creator-owed comic, Tiki Zombie, has been running for over a decade. Gordon can also be heard saying, “Howdy!” on the weekly Earth Station One podcast, as well as a number of other shows.

Stacey Gordon

Stacey Gordon is a puppeteer who operates Puppet Pie, an art studio & puppet truck in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, and has the honor of performing one of Sesame Street’s newer friends, Julia, a curious 4-year-old autistic girl who loves art.

Stephen Granade

Stephen Granade is a  physicist and writer specializing in robotics, machine learning, and sensors. His sensors have read fingerprints from 10 feet away, tracked drones, and guided the shuttle to Hubble. He was most recently seen on the Science Channel's NASA's Unexplained Files.

Erin Gray

Erin Gray is an American actress, best known for her roles as Kate Summers in the situation comedy Silver Spoons and as Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. For over two decades, Gray has performed in over a dozen feature films.

Kevin Grazier

Kevin R. Grazier Ph.D. is a planetary physicist specializing in the early Solar System and is the Staff Scientist for Masten Space Systems. He has served as the science advisor for several television series and feature films and is the co-author of the Hollyweird Science series of books.

Matt Green

For over three decades, Matt Green has been one of the Southeast's most active filmmakers. Having directed 10 feature films in the last twenty four years and creating creature, makeup, and physical effects for the past 35 years, Matt has helped other filmmakers produce and coordinate their own films.

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.

Clay Griffith

Clay Griffith is the co-author of official tie-in novels for The Flash and Arrow shows on the CW. He is the co-creator of the Vampire Empire series, co-author of the Crown & Key series, and a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Susan Griffith

Susan Griffith is the co-author of The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen and Arrow: A Generation of Vipers, official tie-in novels for the hit CW shows. She is also the co-creator of the Vampire Empire series and writer for characters such as The Tick and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Diane Guerrero

Diane Guerrero is known for her roles on Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin. She voiced the character Isabela Madrigal in Encanto and currently stars as Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol.

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

Chris Hamer

Chris Hamer is an artist based out of Georgia. He is working for Scout comics on his creator-owned book The Adventures of Byron as well as variant covers for Scout releases. He has had work and is being published in the upcoming Hannibal artbook by Printed in Blood.

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, Amanda is a co-creator of the Starfinder RPG by Paizo. She can be found supporting the hobby at events worldwide.

Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a scientist and author who uses cutting-edge science every day. His research is the basis for an upcoming medical device to treat Alzheimer's Disease. He writes short and long fiction in military and hard SF genres, with common themes of medicine, bionics, and scientific exploration.

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.

Ian Harris

The skeptic comedian Ian Harris is known for his biting social commentary on third-rail subjects. If you can not prove it with science, Harris will likely poke holes in it... in a hysterical way. Clever comedy, science, social commentary, characters, and sometimes impressions!

Samantha Harte

Samantha is an anime producer for Emmy Award winning Japanese anime studio GONZO (Hellsing, Afro Samurai, Last Exile) where she handles story development for upcoming anime. She is also an animator and voice actor best known for being the Japanese voice of the Chocobo for Square Enix.

A. J. Hartley

A.J. Hartley (AKA Andrew Hart) is the bestselling author of 24 novels including Burning Shakespeare, Impervious, and the Steeplejack trilogy. He writes fantasy, thrillers, paranormal, YA sci-fi, and (with Tom DeLonge of Blink 182) Sekret Machines. He is Professor of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte, and has a J-rock YouTube channel.

Jason Hawes

Jason Hawes in one of the founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society based out of Rhode Island. Jason is a paranormal researcher, best selling author and executive producer. However, he is best known for his role as lead investigator for the hit television series Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation.

Matthew Hawkins

Matthew Hawkins is a maker, paper toy artist and illustrator. Matt weaves humor and energy into bold, whimsical art for humorous and often surprising results. He has made work Disney, DC, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, Sega and WWE.

Tom Heintjes

Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of the Eisner Award-winning 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.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Christopher Heyerdahl played the characters Halling and Wraith commander Todd in Stargate Atlantis, and Pallan in the Stargate SG-1,  the demon Alastair in Supernatural. He also played the part of Zor-El in the television series Smallville, as well as playing John Druitt and Bigfoot in Sanctuary.

Tracy Hickman

Tracy Raye Hickman (born November 26, 1955) is an American fantasy author. He wrote the Dragonlance novels with Margaret Weis. He also wrote role-playing game material while working for TSR and has co-written novels with his wife, Laura Hickman. He is the author or co-author of over 60 books. 

Leanna Renee Hieber

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, tour guide, and award-winning, bestselling author of gothic, gaslamp fantasy novels and A Haunted History of Invisible Women, a non-fiction account of women’s ghost stories. She's been featured on Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown discussing Victorian spiritualism.

Bill Holbrook

Bill Holbrook creates three daily comic strips. On the Fastrack features the modern office 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 now the internet’s longest-running webcomic.

Morry Hollowell

Morry Hollowell is an American comic book colorist and illustrator. Since 2000,  Hollowell gained a reputation as a colorist at CrossGen Comics and then migrated to work for Marvel Comics exclusively. He is no longer exclusive at Marvel and has since worked for Image Comics, Legendary Comics, Valiant Comics, and DC Comics.

Dennis Hopeless

Dennis Hopeless is a New York Times bestseller and Harvey Award winning comic book writer. His works include X-Men, Avengers Arena, Spider-Woman, and Jean Grey from Marvel comics, WWE from Boom Studios, LoveStruck from Image Comics, and The Answer from Dark Horse

Greg Houser

Greg Houser is known for his vocal work with companies like PetSmart, DuPont, American Express and many others. In anime, Houser has had the privilege to be a utility actors for titles such as Evangelion, Ikki Tousen, Shiki, Tales of Vesperia, and many others.

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 Power Rangers: Pink and The Skeptics.

Michelle Hurd

Michelle Hurd is known for her television work as Raffi Musiker in Star Trek series Picard, Shepherd in Blindspot, and recurring appearances on Hawaii Five-O, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones.

D.B. Jackson

D.B. Jackson/David B. Coe is an award-winning fantasy author, and has edited several anthologies. As D.B. Jackson, he writes the Thieftaker Chronicles. As David B. Coe, he has recently published the Radiants supernatural thriller series. He has a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Stanford University.

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson has been designing games for over 40 years and has no plans to stop. His creations include Munchkin, Illuminati, the GURPS and Fantasy Trip roleplaying systems, Ogre, Car Wars, and Zombie Dice. He prefers to be a citizen of the internet.

Stuart Jaffe

Over 20 years in the business, over 50 books, and hundreds of short stories, Stuart Jaffe is the madman behind the Nathan K thrillers, The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries, the Ridnight Mysteries, the Parallel Society novels, The Malja Chronicles, The Bluesman, Founders, Real Magic, and much more.

Lennie James

Lennie Michael James is a British actor, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for playing Tony Gates in Line of Duty, Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, and has appeared in many films including Snatch and Blade Runner 2049. 

Georges Jeanty

Georges Jeanty is an Eisner winner and NYTimes best selling artist for the critically acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His art can be seen at Marvel on Xtinction, Captain America and Man-Slaughter to name just a few. He is also working on Disney’s Star Wars:The High Republic series. 

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 Paul has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of literally hundreds of world-renowned, recognizable entertainment icons.

Les Johnson

Les Johnson is a physicist, science and science fiction author, and NASA technologist. His books include Saving Proxima, The Spacetime War, and Graphene. Johnson leads two NASA space missions, appears in multiple space documentaries, and was featured in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic.

Dan Jolley

Dan Jolley is a multi-media writer. He co-created the Jason Rusch incarnation of DC Comics' Firestorm, wrote the main story for the video game Dying Light, and has had more than a dozen original novels published, including the Gray Widow Trilogy, The Storm, and The Runemaster Homicide.

Catherine Lee Jones

Catherine Jones is the owner of GSTQ Fashions, a costuming studio in Atlanta, GA. Her shop works primarily with the television and film industry. You may have seen her shop's work on The Gifted, Black Lightning, Rampage, Doom Patrol, Lodge 49, and Wrestlemania.

Sam J. Jones

Sam has over 70 films and hundreds of television shows to his credit. He is best known as Flash Gordon, The Spirit, The Highwayman, Code Red and as SG-1’s The Bounty Hunter. He’s also known for his memorable comedic appearances in Seth MacFarlane’s Ted & Ted 2.

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.  

Joe Karg

Joseph Karg is an illustrator and professor. As an artist, his clients include Marvel, Netflix, FXX, Comedy Central, and the Wu-Tang Clan. His work spans several areas, including television animation, feature films, fine art galleries, gaming, university lecture halls, pop culture conventions, public art spaces, and stand-up comedy stages.

Bill Keel

Astronomer Bill Keel, author of The Sky at Einstein's Feet, The Road to Galaxy Formation, speaks on cosmology, extrasolar planets, citizen discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, space technology, and astronomical tourism. Keel has appeared at nine Dragon Cons, running Live Astronomy overnight sessions.

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 all odds is what #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does best. Since her first book debuted in 1993 while she was still in college, she’s placed more than 80 novels on the NYT list and has more than 70 million books in print worldwide.       

Bethany Kesler

Historian, writer, reader/reviewer, and cat parent to four fuzzballs, Bethany Kesler is currently working on several things all at the same time.

Greg Keyes

Greg Keyes is the author of over 30 science fiction and fantasy novels, from original works The Age of Unreason, Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Chosen of the Changeling, and The High and Faraway,  to licensed universes including Star Wars, Babylon 5, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, and The Elder Scrolls.

Brianna Knickerbocker

Brianna is known for playing Rem (Re:Zero), Kirin (Asterisk War), Luna (Shadowverse), Elaine in Seven Deadly Sins, Akane (Durararax!!2), Sakura, Ninian, Charlotte, and Est of the Fire Emblem videogames (Fates, Heroes, Warriors),  and many others.

Nancy Knight

Nancy Knight has been an award-winning, bestselling author since 1986 with 12 novels and numerous short stories published. She has also edited anthologies. A produced playwright and screenwriter, with Co-writer Yasmin Bakhtiari, she wrote a screenplay filmed in 2018 and now in distribution. She's taught creative writing since 1987.

Walter Koenig

Walter Koenig had a recurring role of the quintessential scoundrel Bester on the television series Babylon 5 (1994). He has also appeared on dozens of other television series, including his role as Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek (1966) series and subsequent movies. 

Brian Krause

Brian Krause is an American actor. He is known for his role as Leo Wyatt on Charmed and for portraying the lead role of Charles Brady in the 1992 horror film Sleepwalkers.

Jim Krueger

Award winning writer of The Foot Soldiers, Project Superpowers, Marvel's Earth X, Avengers, The No Ones, and DC’s Justice with Alex Ross.  Krueger has won an Eisner for Best Graphic Novel, two Addy Awards, and was named one of the top ten writers in comics by Wizard magazine.

Stephanie Law

2022 Artist Guest of Honor Stephanie Law's images trace the boundary between dream and reality. The chaos of Nature's wild growth, and conversely the beauty of decay, echo in the textures and fractal patterns of her work.

Creees Lee

Creees 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. 

Leo Leibelman

Leo Leibelman began his professional career for Marvel Comics in the pages of Savage Sword of Conan, where he provided painted covers and interior artwork. From there Leibelman went on to work for Acclaim Comics, working on such titles as Turok Dinosaur Hunter and Magic the Gathering.

Conor Leslie

Conor Leslie has worked frequently in television, including as a series regular on Western Klondike, Other Space, and Shots Fired. Leslie appeared in the first three seasons of The Man in the High Castle. She is currently starring as Donna Troy / Wonder Girl on the superhero series Titans.

Leighann Lord

Leighann Lord is a stand-up comedian and 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 seen on Comedy, HBO, and Showtime.

Lothlenan

Lothlenan (Andrea Tamme) is a Canadian/Estonian illustrator known for her clever recreations of famous historical paintings. She is also a YouTuber and comic artist, with several published works under her belt including being a creator with Image Comics, Oni Press, and Boom!

John Lotshaw

John Lotshaw is a cartoonist and animator from Atlanta, GA. He is the creator of Accidental Centaurs, which has been running since 2002. In addition, he has been a publisher of cartoonists such as Bill Holbrook and Greg Cravens, and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society.

Comfort Love

Comfort and Adam made their names as professional self-publishers with 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. Their work can be found on the site Webtoon.com, where they’ve been read by millions.

George Lowe

George Lowe is the ad-libbing madman behind Space Ghost. Cartoon Networks wildly popular Adult Swim block was built on the cult hit Space Ghost Coast to Coast which ran for a decade with legions of fans responsible for its success.

Rachel Luttrell

Rachel Luttrell is an accomplished actress and singer who has worked in film, television and on stage. Luttrell was cast in the role of Teyla Emmagan in the SYFY Channel’s spinoff series, Stargate Atlantis, a show that won the loyalty of a worldwide fan base and ran for five seasons.

Jonathan Maberry

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, three-time Scribe winner, and Inkpot winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, writing teacher, executive producer, editor of Weird Tales, and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. 

Erin P MacDonald

Erin Macdonald (PhD, Astrophysics) is an internationally recognized space science expert, writer, speaker, and consultant. Her academic research background is in gravitational waves and general relativity. She currently lives in Los Angeles working as a writer as well as the science consultant for the Star Trek franchise.

David Mack

David Mack is an Emmy nominated, New York Times bestselling author and artist of Kabuki, writer of Daredevil, cover artist of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Jessica Jones, and Fight Club 2. He is the artist on Jessica Jones Netflix opening titles and Captain America The Winter Soldier film titles.

Mari Mancusi

Mari Mancusi is the award-winning author of over 30 books for kids, teens, and adults. She writes Frozen novels for Disney as well as sci-fi/fantasy books other major publishers. An Emmy-award-winning former TV news producer, she also writes branching narrative fiction for mobile gaming companies.

Gail Z. Martin

Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy and steampunk for Solaris Books, Orbit Books, Falstaff Books, SOL Publishing and Darkwind Press. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and the Night Vigil (Sons of Darkness). Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, the Chronicles Of The Necromancer, and the Assassins of Landria.

Patricia Martin

Patricia Martín is an illustrator and comic artist, multiple Harvey Award nominee, and selected winner by American Illustration. Martín has worked in the illustration and comic industry for the last eight years. She is currently working on the graphic novel adaptation of the novel Dune with Abrams Books.

Eddie McClintock

Eddie McClintock: International Superstar! McClintock has been called “a poor man’s David Boreanaz,” but as he’s always trying to look on the bright-side, believes Boreanaz is more of a “rich man’s Eddie McClintock!”

CAPT 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 extensively on emerging technology, modern weapons,geopolitical topics and military history with particular expertise in WWII, the early 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, 4 time NYT Bestselling Author and actor known for The Adventure Zone, Wonderful! and My Brother, My Brother and Me.

Justin McElroy

Justin McElroy is a podcaster, 4 time NYT Bestselling Author and actor known for The Adventure Zone and My Brother, My Brother and Me.

Rachel McElroy

Rachel McElroy is a podcaster known for Wonderful! which she co-hosts with her husband, Griffin McElroy, on the Maximum Fun Network.

Teresa McElroy

Teresa McElroy is a podcaster known for Shmanners, which she co-hosts with her husband, Travis McElroy.

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.

Alex McKenna

Alex McKenna is a full performance motion capture and voice actor performing Sadie Adler in Red Dead Redemption II.

Ben McKenzie

Ben McKenzie has become an audience favorite; most recently by bringing to life the notable role of ‘Detective James Gordon’ in the FOX hit series Gotham. McKenzie first captured audiences in the pop culture phenomenon The O.C. and continued his mainstay in television starring in the critically acclaimed NBC series Southland.

Mike McKone

McKone’s first published work was Justice League of America and the Punisher. He's illustrated almost every major character for the big two, including Teen Titans, Amazing Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four. Recent projects include Avengers: Endless Wartime and Justice League United.  McKone is producing covers and merchandising illustrations while working on a creator owned project. 

Mark Meer

Mark Meer is the voice of Commander Shepard, Blasto, the Vorcha, Niftu Cal, and more in Bioware's Mass Effect Trilogy. Other voice work includes Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate, and The Long Dark. Meer is a cast member of D&D streaming shows The Black Dice Society and Idle Champions.

Travis Scott Merrill

Travis Scott Merrill is a founder of Sick Sense Productions, a company specializing in theatrical and motion picture productions. He is also currently in his ninth season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as a costume crafts artisan. He specializes in costume design, leatherwork, mask-making, dyeing/distressing, puppetry, and armor construction.

Sarah Milkovich

Dr. Sarah M. Milkovich is a scientist and an engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has spent over 15 years exploring the solar system with a variety of spacecraft and currently works on the Mars Perseverance Rover. Milkovich enjoys sharing the stories of the people behind the robots.

James Minz

James Minz has worked in genre publishing for nearly 30 years, first at Tor for more than a decade, then briefly at Del Rey, until finally, on the centennial of Robert A. Heinlein’s birth, landing at Baen Books, where he is currently Executive Editor and Director of Subsidiary Rights.

Rebecca Moesta

Rebecca Moesta has written novels in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Junior Jedi Knights series, and with husband Kevin J. Anderson, she wrote the Crystal Doors trilogy, fourteen Young Jedi Knights novels, six novelizations, lyrics for two rock CDs, graphic novels, and pop-up books.

Karl Moline

Karl Moline is a comic book artist and the co-creator (along with Joss Whedon) of Fray. He has also provided the Fray-centric storyline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season eight: "Time of Your Life." Moline has pencilled the Willow one shot named Goddesses and Monsters and the Riley one shot.

Yvette Monreal

Yvette Monreal starred in the indie film Monsoon, which earned her an IMAGEN Award nomination for Best Actress. Yvette was handpicked by Sylvester Stallone for the fifth installment of Rambo where she played Gabrielle. Currently she can be seen staring alongside Brec Bassinger on the CW’s Stargirl as Yolanda Montez aka Wildcat.

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, Momo Con, and San Diego ComicCon. His professional costume credits include building costumes for the WWE, NFL, and various tv shows.

Anson Mount

Anson Mount is known for his television roles as Cullen Bohannon in the AMC’s series Hell on Wheels, Jim Steele on NBC series Conviction, the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans, Captain Christopher Pike in season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

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.

Bobby Nash

Bobby Nash is an award-winning author of novels, comic books, short stories, screenplays, audio, and more. On occasion, he acts in movies and TV shows, usually standing behind your favorite actor, but sometimes they even let him speak. He puts pen to paper and doodles. 

Danielle Nicolet

Danielle Nicolet is an American actress currently starring as Cecile Horton in The Flash. She appeared in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun, Second Time Around, Heartland, The Starter Wife, and Born Again Virgin.

Larry Niven

SFWA Grand Master, Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. Other works include The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, Footfall, Neutron Star, The Gripping Hand, Protector, and many more.

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.

Nolan North

Nolan North actor who has been described as "the nearest thing the games industry has to a bona fide leading man." His voice work includes characters such as Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Desmond Miles from Assassin's Creed, the Penguin in Batman: Arkham, and several Marvel characters, most popularly Deadpool.

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 170 stories. Nye teaches writing seminars and is Coordinating Judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.

Nnedi Okorafor

Literary Guest of Honor Nnedimma "Nnedi" Okorafor is an award-winning New York Times Bestselling writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. The more specific terms for her works are africanfuturism and africanjujuism.

Kurt Opsahl

Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world. Opsahl is an expert on online civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, and a co-author of the Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook.

Danielle Panabaker

Danielle Panabaker can currently be seen playing Caitlin Snow in the CW series The Flash. Panabaker has also starred in several feature films including Sky High and Yours Mine and Ours as well as many thriller films such as Friday the 13th, Mr Brooks, and The Crazies.

Bryce Papenbrook

Bryce Austin Papenbrook is an American voice actor who has done voice work for Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Viz Media, Animaze, Studiopolis and Scoffer Studios. He has voiced in several anime series, particularly those of young male protagonists.

Yanick Paquette

Yanick Paquette began his career as a comic book illustrator in the United States in 1994. He worked for Topps, Marvel and DC Comics, illustrating titles including Wonder-Woman, Superman, Batman, Avengers, JLA, X-Men, Wolverine Weapon X, Terra Obscura, Seven Soldiers, and New 52 Swamp Thing.

Jamie Pearce

Dr. Jamie Pearce PhD is the founder of Historic Haunts Investigations. She has been professionally involved in the paranormal for over 25 years, is a Paranormal Investigator, and has a PhD in Parapsychology, and is a member of the Rhine Research Center, MUFON, and the Society for Psychical Research.

Robert Pendarvis

Bob Pendarvis has been teaching sequential art courses since 1991, the year they started at Savannah College of Art and Design. They developed the Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Sequential Art and SCAD and have spent 18 years creating and teaching comics and animation courses for the school. 

Richard Pini

In 1977 Wendy and Richard co-founded Warp Graphics, and the following year ElfQuest was born. Widely regarded as the “first American manga,” ElfQuest has won industry awards and continues to be a publishing phenomenon as well as an inspiration to its readers.

Wendy Pini

In 1977 Wendy and Richard co-founded Warp Graphics, and the following year ElfQuest was born. Widely regarded as the “first American manga,” ElfQuest has won industry awards and continues to be a publishing phenomenon as well as an inspiration to its readers.

Lan Pitts

An Atlanta native now residing in Baltimore, Lan Pitts likes watching, talking, and writing comics about professional wrestling. His writing resume includes BOOM!'s WWE title and also co-created Beast Heart! Strikers with Joe Hunter. Ask him about wrestling and The Simpsons. He loves that.

Van Allen Plexico

Van Allen Plexico is a multi-award-winning writer 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 ongoing podcasts and videos covering James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers, and more.

Robert W Pope

Cartoonist/animator Robert Pope draws the Peanuts gang for Simon Spotlight and BOOM and Looney Tunes for DC.  He’s drawn Scooby-Doo, Batman, Powerpuff Girls, and more for DC, IDW, as well as animating for CN classics Space Ghost Coast to Coast, ATHF, Animaniacs, The Brak Show, and others!

Benny R 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.

Jenna M Powell

Jenna Powell is a cover artist for the hit White Widow comic and the spin-off I Make Boys Cry. She also is the editor for the entire Absolute Comics Group and Red Giant Entertainment lines and is the co-writer for the hit Duel Identity series.

Andy Price

Since issue one, Andy Price has been the lead pencil/ink artist for the incredibly successful and record breaking My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic book from IDW Publishing. MLP broke the 100,000 pre-sale mark, the first independent book to beat out DC or Marvel in 9 years!

Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest is the author of 20-odd books and novellas, most recently the acclaimed mystery Grave Reservations and southern gothic The Toll, as well as the hit YA projects I am Princess X. She is perhaps best known for the steampunk pulp adventures of the Clockwork Century, beginning with Boneshaker.

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.

Anthony Rapp

Anthony Rapp is an actor and singer, best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Rent. He is currently playing Lieutenant Paul Stamets CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery. Anthony also performed in the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the musical If/Then.



 

Trina Ray

Trina Ray is currently the 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 the Voyager Spacecraft. She is a public speaker, invited to give many talks around the nation.

Rico Renzi

Rico Renzi is an artist, colorist, and designer from Washington DC. His work has appeared in the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Enter The Spider-Verse and Marvel Comics like Spider-Gwen, She-Hulk, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and many more. He currently resides in North Carolina with his wife and daughter who tolerate his foolishness.

Afua Richardson

Afua Richardson is a Native/African American comic creator best known for her work on Top Cow's genius. Richardson is the artist of Marvel's new Blade series, All Star Batman, and Attack on Titan's American anthology. She is the singer and flute player in the band Waking Astronomer.

Baldemar Rivas

Baldemar Rivas is an up-and-coming comic book artist winning the first ever DC Round Robin Tournament. Baldemar is currently working on the new series DC Mech. He is the artist and co-creator of Unearth. Baldemar has done covers for DC, Image, IDW, Valiant, and Lion Forge.

Corinne Roberts

Corinne Roberts is an illustrator working in comics and children's books, including the Bug Bites and Out and About series. Her newest book Drawing Dragons, a step-by-step, drawing book to help create your own imaginative dragons, was released in April 2022.

Kaitlyn Robrock

Kaitlyn Robrock is best known as the current voice of Minnie Mouse for Disney, Felicia Sundew in Amphibia, Tommy on the television series Mr. Pickles, and Momma Named Me Sheriff on Adult Swim, and Retsuko's mother in the English dub of Netflix anime series Aggretsuko.

Trae Romano

Trae Romano's breakout performance was starring opposite Beau Bridges in Robbie, where he played young Robbie. He can currently be seen playing Mike Dugan on CW's Stargirl. 

Naomi Romero

Naomi Romero is a character design for animation and illustrator for childrens literature. She has worked for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Illumination Studios, Facebook, Spin Master, and more. Naomi is the current artist for the new baby dragon plush for Dragon Con. 

John Romita, Jr.

John Romita Jr. is best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s, including Spiderman and X-Men.  He also co-created Kick Ass and Hit Girl. 

Don Rosa

Don Rosa became internationally famous starting in 1987 when he began writing and drawing new stories based on Carl Barks’ Uncle $crooge and Donald Duck comics which are still the world's best-selling outside of North America. Duck Fans have made him one of the world's best-known and most popular cartoonists.

Steve Saffel

Steve Saffel is a senior acquisitions editor for Titan Books, focused on science fiction, fantasy, and media tie-ins including programs for Alien, Gears of War, and Conan fiction stemming from the works of Robert E. Howard. He’s produced illustrated nonfiction with Charles Vess, Drew Struzan, and Robert E. McGinnis.

Aaron Sagers

Aaron Sagers is a TV host, journalist, and paranormal researcher. He appears on the Travel Channel/Discovery+ hit show Paranormal Caught On Camera (filming its sixth season), hosts Den of Geek's Talking Strange paranormal interview show, is host of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Ripley’s Road Trip.

Chris Schweizer

Eisner-nominated Chris Schweizer is the cartoonist that divides his time between two graphic novel series: the award-winning historical fiction Crogan Adventures (Oni Press), and the upcoming horror series The Creeps (Abrams/Amulet). Schweizer has previously taught aspiring artists at SCAD-Atlanta for five years.

Riley Shanahan

Riley Shanahan developed a love for acting through theater and pursued a college degree in theater. He made his way to LA and acted with Alicia Vikander in a music video for The National. Shanahan currently plays Robotman in DC's Doom Patrol.

Michael Shanks

Michael Shanks is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as "Dr. Daniel Jackson" on the science fiction television series, Stargate SG-1. He also provides the voice of the recurring character, "Thor," on the same series.

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.

Dietrich O Smith

Dietrich Smith is an artist in the field of comics who has illustrated a variety of titles such as Superman, Spiderman, Shaft, and a bevy of others. He has been nominated or awarded various honors and currently has his hand in development of a diverse group of projects.

Anne Sowards

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

Michael Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole is a writer and game designer best known for writing the New York Times Bestselling novels I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron.

T. Alexander Stangroom

T. Alexander Stangroom is the Chief Operations Officer at the multi ENnie award-winning tabletop role-playing publisher Kobold Press. A professional Dungeon Master, TTRPG designer, and writer whose credits include publications from Wizards of the Coast, Alexander can be found as a Special Guest at various events around the world.

Jim Starlin

Jim Starlin is a comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera, revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, and creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu.

Kim Steadman

Kim Steadman is a Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Currently she is a Systems Engineer for the Mars 2020 Rover Engineering Operations team and the Operations Lead for the SHERLOC instrument. She has also worked on the Opportunity rover, Curiosity rover, and the Cassini Mission.

Allen M. Steele

Allen M. Steele has professionally published 22 novels and over 130 stories. His works have received numerous awards and have been translated worldwide. He is also an amateur SF historian and an avid collector of SF books and magazines. Allen lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their dogs.

Tj Sterling

TJ Sterling, a former Marvel/DC Comics artist, lives and works in New York City. TJ also creates his own comics via his indie publishing label RAE Comics. To date, TJ has raised over $50K via Kickstarter and is a drawing teacher at the Joe Kubert School of comic art. 

S. M. Stirling

2019 Dragon Award winner, S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953 and became an American citizen in 2004. He published his first novel, Snowbrother in 1984. His latest books are The Sky-Blue Wolves, Black Chamber, Theater Of Spies, Shadows Of Annihilation, and Daggers In Darkness.

Kyle Strahm

Kyle Strahm is an independent comic book artist/writer whose creator-owned books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. He is the co-creator of Twig, Spread, Into Radness, Unearth, and Horrorium. 

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 KarnalConfessions.com as well as the Aurora comic book series AuroraLyght.com.

Olivia Swann

Olivia Swann is an English actress. She portrays Astra Logue and Astra Logue (robot) in DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

Ben B Templesmith

Ben Templesmith is a multi award nominated artist & writer known for horror comics like 30 Days of Night that became movies and creator owned works such as Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse & Fell.

James R Tuck

James R. Tuck has written 11 novels, seven novellas, and countless short stories (some under the name Levi Black). He has been a professional tattoo artist for 27 years and he used to throw people out of bars for money.

Chris Uminga

Christopher Uminga is a Connecticut based painter and illustrator. He has spent the last ten 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. 

Trevor S. Valle

Trevor S. Valle is a paleontologist who has appeared on Doomsday: 10 Ways The World Will End and Mammoths Unearthed, is a cast member on the D&D campaign A Sinner's Dream, the dinosaur creator for Atlas Games' Plangea D&D setting, and Creative Director of the GeekyJerseys D&D jerseys.

Cristina Vee

Cristina Vee is a Los Angeles based voice actress, director, and producer. In animation, she is known as Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon, Hawk in The Seven Deadly Sins, among many more. She has worked on hundreds of video games and was the first canon female Black Power Ranger.

Joivan Wade

Joivan Wade is an English actor known for playing Manyou in the BBC comedy television series Big School, Jordan Johnson on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and Victor Stone/Cyborg in the HBO Max series Doom Patrol.

Christian Waggoner

Christian Waggoner is known worldwide for his Star Wars Reflection series paintings. He as 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.

David F Walker

David F. Walker is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and comic book writer.  He is the co-creator of Naomi and Bitter Root, and the author of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, The Life of Frederick Douglass, Power Man & Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Occupy Avengers, Cyborg, Shaft, among others.

Curran Walters

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 a frequent contributor to Galaxy’s Edge magazine and the online convention Con-Tinual.

Anjelika Washington

One of the rare actors to have crossed over between the Marvel and DC universes, Anjelika Washington currently stars as a series regular on CW’s hit TV show Stargirl playing Beth Chapel/Dr. Mid-Nite, while also having been on Hulu’s Marvel series, Runaways. 

Savannah Welch

Actor/Musician Savannah Welch is known for her acting roles in the HBO Max series Titans , Oscar nominated film Boyhood,  film Tree Of Life, and a recurring guest starring role as ex-Marine Dawn on the History Channel’s Six. She is also a member of the Alt-Country group The Trishas.

Rob Wiethoff

Rob Wiethoff is a full performance motion capture and voice actor performing John Marston in Red Dead Redemption I and II.

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 best known for the series 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. Their work can be found on the site Webtoon.com, where they’ve been read by millions.

Derek Yaniger

Derek Yaniger is a toothless hillbilly that’s 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.

Lucky Yates

Lucky Yates plays the demented Dr. Krieger on the FX hit comedy Archer. He also played a million characters on the Food Network show Good Eats. He does improv comedy and puppetry every weekend at Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta. He is awesome.

Thom Zahler

Thom Zahler is the creator, writer, and artist of the Harvey-nominated, fan-favorite superhero romantic comedy Love and Capes. He has also written and drawn issues of IDW's successful My Little Pony miniseries. Recently, he sold his first script to the Ultimate Spider-Man animated cartoon airing on Disney XD. 

Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn is the author of sixteen Star Wars books and the Cobra, Quadrail, Sibyl’s War, and Dragonback series. Recent books include Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil and A Call to Insurrection (with David Weber and Thomas Pope). Upcoming books include The Icarus Plot.

Matthew Zuk

Matthew Zuk is an actor, known for Doom Patrol (2019), Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021) and Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021).

Chrissie Zullo

Chrissie Zullo has created comic book covers for Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Hack/Slash vs. Vampirella, Josie and the Pussycats, Vampirella, Life With Archie, and Vertigo’s Fables: The Wolf Among Us series. She has worked for DC Comics, Fandango, Mattel, Dark Horse, Devil’s Due, IDW, Topps, and Harper Collins.