Guests

Jason Aaron

Eisner and Harvey Award winning Jason Aaron has written such titles as Thor, Star Wars, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, Punisher, Avengers, Doctor Strange, and Southern Bastards. Aaron's DC Comics debut includes Batman Off-World and Superman's Action Comics. Aaron will be the writer for the relaunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Kirk Acevedo

Kirk Acevedo is an American actor primarily known for his work on television for his portrayals of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers, and FBI Agent Charlie Francis in Fringe. He also portrayed the character of José Ramse on Syfy's 12 Monkeys, as well as villain Ricardo Diaz / The Dragon on The CW's Arrow.

Jarrod Carl Alberich

Jarrod Alberich is the creator of his own original comic book, Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale. He is the writer for Z2 Comics, a trading card artist for Marvel Comics & Upper Deck, cover artist & inker for White Rocket Books, and a US Air Force combat veteran.

Rob Allsopp

Robert Allsopp trained in theatre design, prior to working as a costume-prop maker. He has run his own business in London making costumes, props, and puppets for film, theatre, and television for over 30 years. He is known for working on Doctor Who and on Ridley Scott movies .

Brian D. Anderson

Known as one of the great hybrid author pioneers, Brian D. Anderson has written more than 25 novels which have sold more than half a million copies worldwide.

Curt Anderson

Curt Anderson is a professional magician and speaker. He has performed across the country, around the world, and on worldwide television. His brand of performance is a fusion of magic, mental feats, and physical stunts that will leave you wondering what is real and what is magic.

Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his Dune and Star Wars novels, his Saga of Seven Suns, Terra Incognita, Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series, and steampunk novels with Rush drummer Neil Peart. He writes comics, edits anthologies, publishes WordFire Press, and the director of the publishing graduate program at WCU.

Gordon Andrews

Ilona Andrews

“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team. Gordon and Ilona reside in Texas with their many dogs and cats. They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the #1 NYT bestselling urban fantasy Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy The Edge, paranormal romance Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles.

Jon Armstrong

Jon 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.

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 "Hawk" Austin

Hawk is a radiation effects engineer, building the fastest computers in space, but he has had a number of other careers including: survivability engineer (DoD), environmental scientist (NASA), and a fight instructor for self-defense and stage. Hawk is a published author in history, science, and fantasy.

Andrew Aydin

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

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.

Aliona Baranova

Aliona Baranova is a theatre trained actor and director, who has contributed to some of the most successful visual entertainment of the past 10 years. Her most recent project was working with Larian Studios and PitStop Productions to provide performance direction, voice and motion capture performances on Baldur's Gate III.

Rodney Barnes

Rodney Barnes is a Peabody Award winning writer/producer best known for his work on The Boondocks and Marvel's Falcon comics.

Jason Behr

Jason Behr first starred in Roswell, for which he was twice nominated for a Saturn Award, followed by roles in the films The Shipping News and the American remake of the Japanese horror film The Grudge. Behr also had recurring roles in the television series Dawson's Creek and Breakout Kings.

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!

Sweeney Boo

Sweeney Boo is a comic artist and illustrator. When she is not busy drawing witchy girls and hairless cats, she works with various publishers. She is also the author and illustrator of graphic novel Eat, & Love Yourself and Over My Dead Body out with HarperCollins.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Natasha Liu Bordizzo is known for her role of Snow Vase in Netflix's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. She portrayed the character of Helena in The Society and Heather in Day Shift. In 2023, she portrayed Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren in the Disney+ series Ahsoka.

Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Tim Bradstreet

Artist and illustrator noted for Shadowrun, Vampire The Masquerade, Hellblazer, The Punisher, Star Trek, Hellraiser, Jennifer Blood, Bad Planet, The Shadow, Pestilence, and many more.  His TV/film work includes Blade II, The Punisher, The Walking Dead, The Expanse, and Creepshow. Tim is currently working on Cinematica and Fire Outlook.

Andy Brase

Andy Brase has done art for many titles including Magic the Gathering (Kaldheim, Midnight Hunt, Lost Caverns of Ixalan), Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Doctor Strange, Punisher, Assassin's Creed, DragonAge, 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 Sequential/Pre-Production/Animation artist whose work has been featured by Marvel 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 multiple production companies.

Jennie Breeden

Jennie Breeden is the creator of The Devil's Panties, a slice of life webcomic that has been posting daily since 2001. She has also been chasing kilted men around Dragon Con with her leaf blower for years.

Chris Britton

Starting with Scanners (1986), Chris Britton is no stranger to fans of sci-fi/fantasy, whether its Stargate, X-Men: The Animated Series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Magicians, Riverdale, Locke & Key, the X-Men '97 TV Series, or DC's Legends of Tomorrow, you will certainly recognize him.

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.

Ryan Browne

Ryan Browne is a professional comicsbooksman from Chicago, Illinois. He is WORLD famous for co-creating Eight Billion Genies and Curse Words with Charles Soule. He is infamous for fully-creating God Hates Astronauts for which he is currently on a worldwide apology tour.  Browne is an Executive Producer on the Eight Billion Genies movie now in development at Amazon Studios. 

Bob Burden

Atlanta's own 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 was made into a feature film. Burden has also successfully adapted Gumby for the comic book medium.

Greg L Burnham

Greg Burnham: comic book/children's book writer in Norcross, GA. With DC Comics stories under his belt: The Spoils (Superman), Ablution (Icon), and Fair Play (Mr. Terrific), Burnham has created quite the resume. His creator owned properties: Tuskegee Heirs, The Search for Sadiqah, Little Rock Files, etc. are all hits.

Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires. His resume includes skills which were useful a couple of centuries ago. An avid gamer, he plays tabletop games in varying systems, a variety of PC and console games, and LARPs whenever he can.

Richard Lee Byers

Richard Lee Byers's books include The Things That Crawl, The Hep Cats of Ulthar, and This Sword for Hire. He has also written short fiction, a graphic novel, and gaming material. His screenplay The Plague Knight, based on one of his fantasy novelettes, is in pre-production.

Santiago Cabrera

Santiago Cabrera is an actor best known for his roles as Isaac Mendez in Heroes, Lancelot in Merlin, and Aramis in The Musketeers. He was also the lead in Salvation as Darius Tanz and played Captain Cristóbal "Cris" Rios in Star Trek: Picard.

Jessica Cage

Jessica Cage is an international award winning and USA Today bestselling author from Chicago, IL. She is an independent publisher who focuses on writing strong characters of color in fantasy. Cage recently signed with Webtoon to produce exclusive content for their new reading app, Yonder.

Dwayne Cameron

Globally, Dwayne Cameron is best known for playing the role of Tyzonn the Mercury Power Ranger in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive and also guest-starring in Power Rangers: S.P.D and  Power Rangers: DinoThunder.  He will be appearing in the J & J Collectibles booth 2527/2529 of the Vendor Hall.

Jack Campbell

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

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead.  His more recent series include the young adult Pathfinder series, the fantasy Mithermages series, and the Side Step series.  The long awaited conclusion to the Ender series, The Last Shadow, was published in 2021.

A.C. Charania

As the Agency Chief Technologist, A.C. Charania serves as an advisor to NASA's administrator on technology policy and programs. He also leads technology innovation at NASA and aligns agency-wide technology investments with mission needs across the six mission directorates. Charania oversees technology collaboration with federal agencies and the private sector.

Ming Chen

Ming Chen is most well known for being one of the stars of AMC's Comic Book Men as well as a longtime collaborator of filmmaker Kevin Smith. He can most recently be seen in Clerks III and is the unofficial mayor of The Clermont Lounge in Atlanta.

Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut

Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut is an American actor and writer who has worked on Broadway, film, and television. She is best known for her role as Ensign Sidney La Forge in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.

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.

Christina Chong

Christina Chong can be seen in Monroe, Line of Duty, Halo: Nightfall, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, and 24: Live Another Day. She currently plays the role of La'an Noonien-Singh in the series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Amy Chu

Amy Chu is a comics and TV writer for Netflix, Disney, Marvel, and DC. She wrote the Turning Red and Carmilla: The First Vampire graphic novels and two episodes of the anime series DOTA: Dragon's Blood. Chu's comics include Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Kiss, Deadpool, Spider-Man Noir, and Doctor Strange.

Wesley Chu

Wesley Chu is the NYT bestselling author of many novels, including The Art of Prophecy, Time Salvager, and The Walking Dead: Typhoon. He co-wrote The Eldest Curses with Cassandra Clare. His debut, The Lives of Tao, won the YALSA Alex Award. He won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Devon M Chulick

Devon Chulick is the creator of Total Party Chill, the award winning D&D actual play channel. He is the co-founder of StartPlaying, the largest platform for finding professional game masters. He has been featured in Bloomberg, SF Gate, Marketwatch, Yahoo! News, Forbes, Polygon, Bleeding Cool, The Information, and more.

Cam Clarke

Cam Clarke is a voice actor and singer, known for his work in animation and video games. Clarke provided the voices of Leonardo in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original English-dub of Akira, and Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series.

Kevin Clash

Kevin Clash is a puppeteer, producer, and director known for performing Elmo from 1979-2012, as well as Splinter (TMNT), Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), and Clifford (Muppets Tonight). Credits include Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Happy Time Murders, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. 

John Cleese

John Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Cleese starred in the Monty Python films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life.

Freddy Clements

Freddy Clements is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Jacksonville State University, where he taught classes in costume/makeup design and technology for the department of theatre and film. He has designed costumes for various regional theatres and has extensive experience in early 20th century corsetry and kilt construction.

Cady Coleman

Cady Coleman, a former NASA astronaut who flew twice on the space shuttle and spent six months on the International Space Station, coached Sandra Bullock in Gravity and played a space duet with Jethro Tull. Her book is called Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change.

Townsend Coleman

Townsend Coleman is one of the most recognizable voices on TV. In addition to The Tick, he provided voices for Michaelangelo, Rat King, and Usagi Yojimbo on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Waldo on Where's Waldo?, Gobo, Architect, and Wrench on Fraggle Rock, and Sentinel Prime on Transformers: Animated.

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, all set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He can currently be seen playing David Acosta in the CBS/Paramount+ series Evil.

Amanda Conner

Amanda Conner has worked on Harley Quinn, Lois Lane, Codename: Knockout, Birds of Prey, X-Men Unlimited, Gatecrasher (co-creator), and The Pro, an Eisner-nominated creator-owned book for Image Comics with Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis. Recently she worked on the Before Watchman: Silk Spectre series with Eisner-winning creator Darwyn Cooke.

Will Conrad

Will Conrad began his comics career as an inker on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Conrad became a DC and Marvel artist, working on Black Panther, Dark Avengers, Wolverine, X-Men, Batman, Justice League, Odyssey, Superman, The Flash, and Nightwing. He resides in Brazil, with his wife Bella and their two daughters.

Dave Cook

Dave Cook is a local illustrator of various talents. You may have seen his work as the official poster artist for the Atlanta Rollergirls, in promotional art for Netherworld Haunted House, or gotten a zombie portrait at Dragon Con in past years.

Eugene Cordero

Eugene Cordero is an actor, writer, and comedian best known for his roles in Star Trek: Lower Decks and the Disney+ series Loki. Cordero's film roles include the comedy-drama The Kings of Summer, the monster adventure Kong: Skull Island, and the crime drama The Mule.

Gordon Cormier

Gordon Cormier appeared as a recurring role in Stephen King's limited mini series The Stand and has voiced numerous animation roles. Cormier most recently appeared as Aang in the Netflix live action series Avatar: The Last Airbender. When Cormier is not acting, you will more than likely find him at a local skateboard park, or skating around Vancouver streets.

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.

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 5 years ago, Marvel hired Crystal on Deadpool, living his childhood dream. He is currently an artist for Marvel Comics and Valiant Entertainment.

Peter Capn' 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 Productions. Cutler is also working on his own Spookie Kookies art, books, and many other items.

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.

Brett Dalton

Brett Dalton is an actor best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Detective Mark Trent in the series Found, and Michael Munroe in the video game Until Dawn. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Freyr in God of War: Ragnarök.

Alex Damon

Alex Damon is the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Explained, a YouTube channel covering all Star Wars that has gained over 800,000 subscribers. He is also a 3-time winner of the Dragon Con Star Wars Trivia Contest.

Mollie Damon

Mollie Damon is the co-creator and co-host of Star Wars Explained, a YouTube channel covering all Star Wars that has gained over 800,000 subscribers.

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 and Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, Bloom, 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.

Sebastien de Castell

Sebastien de Castell's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats, was shortlisted for both the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. His YA fantasy series, Spellslinger, is published in more than a dozen languages. He spends his time writing, travelling, and going on strange adventures.

John de Lancie

John de Lancie is known for his portrayal as Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard. He has previously appeared on Stargate SG-1. De Lancie has voiced Discord on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and characters in multiple video games and shows during his career.

Valentine De Landro

Valentine "Val" De Landro is a Canadian comic book artist, illustrator, and designer. His credits include titles from Marvel, DC Comics, IDW, Valiant, and Dark Horse. He is known for Marvel Knights: 4 and X-Factor. He is the co-creator of Bitch Planet with Kelly Sue DeConnick.

Fabrizio De Tommaso

Fabrizio De Tommaso is an artist from Brindisi, Italy.  He collaborates as a cover artist for some Sergio Bonelli Editore properties like Dylan Dog and Morgan Lost, Cyberpunk for Dark Horse, and Something is Killing the Children for Boom Studio.  He has recently begun a collaboration with Marvel.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

Keith R.A. DeCandido has written tons of novels, short fiction, and comics in licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, in his own milieus in the fictional cities of Cliff's End and Super City, and also New York and Key West.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Award winning Kelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film, and television. She is best known for Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Bitch Planet, and Pretty Deadly. A founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, she has helped produce educational comics for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’s Run.

Majandra Delfino

Majandra Delfino is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell, and as Andi on the CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives.

Ernest Dempsey

Ernest Dempsey is a USA Today bestselling author of archaeological thrillers and urban fantasy with over 50 books published since 2011. Inspired by books about ancient history, mysterious relics, and films, Dempsey's books offer a unique blend of history and fiction that blur the lines of reality.

Ariel Diaz

Ariel Diaz is a self-taught multimedia artist/illustrator fully devoted to her career. Her unique style has mad a strong and positive impression in the comic industry, with her art being featured in DC and Marvel Comics.

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

Dan dos Santos' work spans many genres including novels, comics, and film. He has worked for every major publisher in the US, and his illustrations have graced the #1 spot on the New York Times BestSeller list. His illustration credits include covers for Brandon Sanderson, Patricia Briggs, and Patrick Rothfuss.

Margaret Downey

Margaret Downey is best known at Dragon Con as the world's only friggatriskaidekaphobia treatment nurse. She developed the character in 1996. Downey has organized and implemented the Skeptics parade for 15 years. She is also a panelist at the Skeptrack and occasionally delivers presentations of interest to the Skeptic community.

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.

J.M. Dragunas

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

Elonka Dunin

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

Ben Durocher

Ben Durocher is an actor, puppeteer, and puppet builder for Jim Henson Company with credits Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Helpsters, and Pineapple Playhouse and upcoming Dying For Sex and Mr. Crocket. Durocher has completed 1300+ performances in Avenue Q off-Broadway and performed in Madame Butterfly. He is a two-time Emmy Award winning puppet wrangler on Sesame Street.

Scott G 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 engineering liaison on the Mars Perseverance mission.

Nicholas Eftimiades

Nicholas Eftimiades is a professor at Penn State University, Homeland Security Program.​ He retired from a 34 year government career that included employment in the CIA, the Department of State, and Defense Intelligence Agency. ​Eftimiades has appeared as an expert before Congress and on dozens of news articles and shows.

Jeff Ello

Jeff Ello (aka "jello") is a filmmaker/technologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the latest technology and techniques for filmmakers, CG artists, and content creators of all kinds. He develops solutions for visual effects, high-volume video production, and live streaming.

Jennifer English

Jennifer English trained as an actor at the Royal Birmingham conservatoire, with extensive experience across stage, screen, and video games. Her video game credits include projects such as Divinity: Original Sin II, Latenna in Elden Ring, and most recently as the iconic role of Shadowheart on Baldur's Gate III.

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.

Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo "Gus" Fring on the AMC series Breaking Bad. He has portrayed Sidney Glass/Magic Mirror on ABC's Once Upon a Time and currently portrays Major Tom Neville in the NBC series Revolution.

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.

Bill Fawcett

Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive, college dean, and game designer. As a book packager, he has created and edited over 400 books. He has collaborated on the Mycroft Holmes and Madame Vernet mysteries. His non-fiction includes Hunters & Shooters, The Teams, and Making Contact: a UFO Handbook.

Brendan Fehr

Brendan Fehr is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami. Fehr also played Jared Booth in the Fox television series Bones.

Nathan Fillion

Nathan Fillion is an actor and voice actor known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle, and his earlier portrayal of the lead role of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its feature film continuation, Serenity. He recently starred in ABC's The Rookie.

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 has recently collaborated with writer Nnedi Okorafor in the Black Panther universe.

Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.

Omar Francia

Omar Francia is a comic book illustrator from Argentina. His works include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, multiple Mass Effect comic series, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and Doom Patrol. Currently, he is assisting pre-production on the DC animated series Creature Commandos.

Matt Frank

Since 2011, Matt Frank has been known in both Japan and America as the "Kaiju King", one of the most prolific American artists associated with the Godzilla franchise. In addition to many Godzilla comics, he has also provided art for franchises like Ultraman, Gamera, Power Rangers, Tremors, and more!

Chandra Free

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

Esther Friesner

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

Jeaniene Frost

Jeaniene Frost is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy romance. She is best known for the following series: Night Huntress, Night Prince, Night Rebel, and Broken Destiny. Frost's novels have also appeared in Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, ABA Indiebound, and international bestseller lists.

Antonio Fuso

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.

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 (four Nebula and two Dragon finalists) and The Vortex of Worlds epic fantasy saga (the most recent was a 2023 Dragon finalist).

Brianna Garcia

Brianna Garcia is a professional comic artist and storyboard artist, working on titles such as My Little Pony, Disney Princess Comics, Batman and Harley Quinn, and Justice League Dark.

Meredith Garretson

Meredith Garretson can currently be seen in the leading role of Kate Hawthorne in Resident Alien. You can also see her portray Ali MacGraw in The Offer. She is also a member of the DC Comics universe, having portrayed Delores Winters on Stargirl on the CW.

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.

Anna Stegg Gerard

Annie Stegg Gerard has always loved to paint. Her art career began at seven years old, when she had her first art show at school. Since then she has worked for clients across the world. Inspired by nature, folklore, and mythology, her work evokes emotion and imagination in the viewer.

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 including: Airport '77, Beyond, Bone Eater, Ghost Town, and many more.

Justin Gerard

Justin Gerard is an American illustrator heavily inspired by the works of JRR Tolkien, classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the natural world. Using methods gleaned from the golden-age illustrators, he paints narrative-driven paintings of giant dragons, terrible monsters, and heroic figures in scenes of mythic chaos and medieval fantasy.

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.

Thomas Gofton

Producing the Adventurers League series Legacy of Worlds and The Gamers: Natural One, Thomas designed Lynnvander's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pathfinder: Level 20, The World of Imaria, Cowboy Bebop, Dr. Who: Don't Blink, Evil Dead 2, Star Trek Alliance, and Battletech: Aces. Thomas streams D&D on Six Sides of Gaming.

Nicole Goldman

Nicole Goldman oversees marketing and live events for The Jim Henson Company, launching brands like Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Puppet Up! – Uncensored, and Farscape. Productions include Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness, Uni-Verse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, and the new Fraggle Rock stage show. 

Bill Golliher

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

Barry Gordon

Barry Gordon became a fixture as a character actor in feature films and television, most prominently as a co-star on the hit series The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Fish, and Archie Bunker's Place. His voice was heard for decades as the Nestle Quik Bunny and he originated the voice of Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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 Earth Station One, Earth Station Who, and Dragon Con Report podcasts.

Stacey Gordon

Stacey Gordon is a puppeteer based in Phoenix, Arizona, where she runs Puppet Pie, a puppetry arts studio and puppet ice cream truck. She is the puppeteer for Julia on Sesame Street and works with and advocates for neurodivergent communities.

Amelia Gotham

Amelia Gotham has voiced characters in video games such as Disneyland Adventures for Kinect, Final Fantasy XIII, as well as the voice of Mipha in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Stephen Granade

Stephen Granade is a physicist, writer, and interactive narrative designer specializing in robotics and machine learning. He was most recently on the Science Channel's NASA's Unexplained Files, and his game, Professor of Magical Studies, is out now from Choice of Games.

Erin Gray

Erin Gray is best known for her roles as Kate Summers in the comedy Silver Spoons, Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and roles in Six Pack, with Kenny Rogers, and Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to Hell.

Kevin Grazier

Kevin Grazier, PhD is a planetary physicist by education and is currently on the faculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. Grazier was previously a scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn. He has served as the science advisor for several television series and films and is  co-author of the Hollyweird Science series of science books.

Matt Green

Since 1986, Matt Green has served as a special effects coordinator, producer, and director. He brings a relentless drive to make captivating cinema and has directed 11 feature films and has over one hundred special effects credits to his name. Green has been a speaker at Dragon Con since 1987.

Seth Green

Seth Green is an actor known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and comedy films like Idle Hands and the Austin Power film series. Fans may recognize his voice from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Family Guy, Mass Effect, and more. Green created, directed, wrote, and produced Robot Chicken and its spinoffs.

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.

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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 cast members, Cairns brings knowledge of literature, music, theatre, and fantasy to all her interactions with fans and celebs!

Sanford Greene

Sanford Greene has worked as a professional illustrator for over 18 years for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics. He helped reshape Marvel Comics characters Powerman and Iron Fist and illustrated Black Panther and Luke Cage. Greene is a 2-time Eisner and Ringo Award winner for Bitter Root, which is slated to become a film. 

Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood is a Canadian writer, game designer, actor, scriptwriter, and librarian who created The Forgotten Realms fantasy setting. Greenwood has also created or co-created Stormtalons, Mornmist, and worked in Amber, Oz, and Middle Earth. His 450-plus books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide in over 40 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 the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, The Flash, and Arrow. He is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He recently wrote fiction in the Throne & Bones RPG universe.

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.

Greg Grunberg

Greg Grunberg is known for his role as X-wing pilot Snap Wexley in Star Wars, and roles in Star Trek, A Star is Born, and alongside Al Pacino in the Barry Levinson film Paterno. Additionally, he has held series regular roles on shows Heroes, Castle Rock, Lost, Alias, and Felicity.

Harvey Guillén

Harvey Guillen is currently one of the leads in the new FX series dark comedy What We Do In The Shadows. Guillen previously appeared in The Magicians, Eye Candy, Huge, Little America, Room 104, The Good Place, Raising Hope, and more.

Stoner Gump

Daniel Gossard, AKA StonerGump. Author of Herbally Infused and Chronically Bemused. Elevated funny man and head astronaut.

Luke Gygax

Luke Gygax is the son of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax and Founder of Gary Con®, a memorial convention held annually in Lake Geneva in honor of his father, Gary Gygax. Luke grew up at the gaming table with the designers that built the foundation of the RPG industry. He played the iconic character Melf, aka Prince Brightflame.

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.

Larry Hama

Larry Hama is a comic book writer, artist, and editor, best known for G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, which he is currently writing. He has also written for Wolverine, Venom, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He co-created the character Bucky O'Hare. 

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, Hamon leads the creation of Fifth Edition books from conception through publication and beyond.

Emily Hampshire

Emily Hampshire is best known for roles including Angelina in Boy Meets Girl, Vivienne in Snow Cake, Jennifer Goines in the Syfy drama series 12 Monkeys, and Stevie Budd in the comedy series Schitt's Creek, as well as the voice role of Misery in the animated series Ruby Gloom.

Robert E Hampson

"Dr.Rob" Hampson hasn't quite figured out what he wants to do when he grows up. He's a neuroscientist who recently joined an issue engineering and regeneration institute, an SF/F consultant on nonfiction topics ranging from brain science to bionics, and writes fiction ranging from zombies, to military SF, to…bionics!

Yaya Han

Yaya Han is a cosplayer, designer, and author with over 400 costumes, two US Network TV shows and 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.

Ian Harris

Ian Harris, "The Skeptic Comedian", is a 10 year veteran of Dragon Con; with his biting "thinking man's" comedy mixes, science, skepticism, and pop culture. For the past five years, he and Leighann Lord have done the Dragon Con favorite Science and Fiction Comedy Show.

Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 bestselling Hollows series, but she has traditionally published more than two dozen books spanning multiple genres. She is currently working on a new Hollows book between other, non-related, modern fantasy projects.

AJ Hartley

A.J. Hartley AKA Andrew Hart is the bestselling author of 26 novels including Hideki Smith, Burning Shakespeare, Cold Bath Street, Impervious, Steeplejack, and (with Tom DeLonge of Blink 182) Sekret Machines. He is Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte and has a J-rock 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.

Matthew L Hawkins

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

Tom Heintjes

Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of Hogan's Alley magazine, the Eisner award winning magazine about 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.

Robert Hendrickson

Robert Hendrickson has created artwork for some of the largest brands in entertainment, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and more. Clients include, Lucasfilm, Disney, and New Line Cinema. He has produced artwork for over 15 years in the Star Wars Universe seen worldwide.

Leanna Renee Hieber

Actress, playwright, narrator, and author for Tor and Kensington, her Strangely Beautiful saga won numerous genre 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+ tabletop roleplaying game books, including the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, Trail of Cthulhu, The Dracula Dossier, Night's Black Agents, The Fall of DELTA GREEN, and Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. He is half of the multiple-award-winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

Bill Holbrook

Bill Holbrook is the creator of three comic strips; the internationally syndicated On the Fastrack and Safe Havens which are distributed by King Features, and the internet's longest-running daily webcomic Kevin & Kell.

Bruce Horak

Bruce Horak is a Canadian artist and television and stage actor, known for portraying Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Steve Horton

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

Jody Houser

Jody has written numerous titles including: Mother Panic, Supergirl, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy, Star Wars, Web of Black Widow, Stranger Things, Critical Role, StarCraft, Doctor Who, Orphan Black, Star Trek, X-Files, and Faith. Her upcoming works include: Star Wars Yoda, Assassins Apprentice, and Stranger Things Tales from Hawkins #2.

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.

Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey is the New York Times bestselling author of Wool, Beacon 23, Sand, and over 20 other titles. His novel, Wool, was adapted into the TV show Silo on Apple TV and his book, Beacon 23, has two seasons on MGM+.

Deric A. Hughes

Deric A. Hughes is writer/co-executive producer for NBC’s Quantum Leap, CW’s Legacies, Arrow, The Flash, Beauty & the Beast, and Syfy’s Warehouse 13. Additionally, he was writer/producer for EFE’s webseries, Gemini Division and Afterworld, Virgin comic book series, John Woo’s 7 Brothers, and co-creator for comic book, Living In Infamy, and Renegade.

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.

Manny Jacinto

Manuel Jacinto is an actor whose breakout role came as Jason Mendoza on The Good Place. Jacinto had minor roles in Bad Times at the El Royale and Top Gun: Maverick and portrayed Qimir in the Star Wars series The Acolyte. He also provides the voice of Scott Denoga in the Disney Channel and Disney+ animated series Hailey's On It!

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 Chalice War Celtic fantasy series. He has a PhD in US History from Stanford University.

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. He is a citizen of the Internet until Texas cleans up its act.

Renae Jacobs

She is best known as the voice of April O'Neil in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Jacobs has been heard on numerous animated shows such as Rose Petal Place, Rose Petal Place: Real Friends, It's Punky Brewster!, My Little Pony, and Moon Dreamers.

Stuart Jaffe

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.

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.

Eric Johnson

Known for his early roles in Smallville and Flash Gordon, Eric Johnson has appeared in Vikings, American Gods, and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. Johnson also has roles in the video games Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Assassins Creed: Valhalla, and the upcoming game Star Wars: Outlaws.

Les Johnson

Les Johnson is a physicist, author, and chief technologist at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. His recent books include A Traveler's Guide to the Stars (Princeton Press), The Spacetime War (Baen), and the forthcoming Pluto: The Dark World (Tor) and Crisis at Proxima (Baen).

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E.K. Johnston

E.K. Johnston is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of 15 YA novels, including Aetherbound and The Afterward, and sometimes she gets to play in the Star Wars sandbox, too.

Dan Jolley

Dan Jolley began writing professionally at age 19, and has written comic books, novels, children's books, video games, and the occasional screenplay. He is most noted for co-creating the Jason Rusch incarnation of DC Comics' Firestorm and scripting the main story of the global bestselling video 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.

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!

Sebastian A. Jones

Sebastian Jones is the owner of Stranger Comics and the creator of the world of Asunda, a shared fantasy comic universe with an emphasis on representation that is coming soon to HBO, where Jones will write and produce. Jones' flagship character Niobe was honored with a foreword by Viola Davis.

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.

JP Karliak

JP Karliak is the voice of Morph (X-Men '97), Green Goblin (Spidey and His Amazing Friends), the Joker (Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League), N.Tropy (Crash Bandicoot), Kozo Fuyutsuki, and Boss Baby (both Netflix). He advocates for LGBTQIA+ voice talent as founder of Queer Vox and is co-founder of NerdsVote.

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®.

Donna Kimball

Donna Kimball plays Mokey in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock and voiced Aughra in Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. Other credits include Happytime Murders, Word Party, Sid the Science Kid, and Doc Ock's badass upper right claw in Spider-Man 2. Donna co-created GLOP: The Glorious Ladies of Puppetry.

Matt Yang King

Matt Yang King is known for his roles as Appa and Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat 1, Marty Mantle on Riverdale, Lutz and Alan Ripple in Pixar's Elemental, and Kerry Eurodyne in Cyberpunk 2077. He has lent his talents to franchises such as The Witcher, GI Joe, Transformers, Batman, Justice League, and Love, Death, and Robots.

Nancy Knight

Knight's writing career has spanned 40 years, her first professional sale in 1983. Author of 15 novels, with three scheduled for 2024, including a novel for Falstaff Books. She is a playwright, screenwriter, won the 2004 Hank Reinhardt Award, and was awarded a The Polaris Award for a lifetime achievement.

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.

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.

Nancy Kress

Literary Guest of Honor Nancy Kress is the author of 34 novels, four story collections, three books on writing fiction, and over 100 short stories. She has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Most recent work is Observer (2023), written with Dr. Robert Lanza.

Kristin Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk returns to The CW in the drama Burden of Truth. After her first role on Edgemont, she scored the title role of the television movie Snow White, and landed the role of Lana Lang on Smallville. Kreuk also starred in and helped produce Beauty and The Beast.

Mike Krome

Mike Krome is an Australian artist whose work has been featured in children's books, magazines, computer games, film promotions, and comics. His work can be seen on the covers of Dynamite, Zenescope Entertainment, Image, Coffin Comics, Valiant Comics, BOOM! Studios, and Rothic Novels.

Adam Kubert

Adam Kubert began his career in comics at the age of 12, lettering for DC Comics. He is best known for his work at Marvel. Kubert's work includes the X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Avengers, Superman, Ghost Rider, and most notably, Wolverine.

Cheralyn Lambeth

Cheralyn "Cher" Lambeth is a professional costume, prop, and puppet builder, whose work includes feature films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland), live/interactive properties (StarTrek: 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. Eloy has undoubtedly left his mark on the tabletop and video game industry.

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.

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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 – most recently as the co-creator and artist of Bounty, and the artist of Crimson Lotus, both published by Dark Horse Comics.

Leo Leibelman

Leo Leibelman has worked in the comics and film/tv industry for nearly 30 years for many companies and has worked on dozens of films and tv shows.

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis rose to fame as Neville Longbottom in all eight Harry Potter™ films. He went on to star in Wasteland and appeared in Me Before You. Lewis's TV credits include Bluestone 42, The Syndicate, Ripper Street, and Happy Valley. His live stage performances include Our Boys, Verdict, and Unfaithful.

Jason Liebrecht

Jason Liebrecht is an actor & performing artist based in Austin, TX. His voice acting includes credits in genres from anime to gaming. Liebrecht is also a long-time company member and collaborator with the Rude Mechs. He also has a number of on-camera credits in independent projects and network television.

Dallas Liu

Dallas Liu is an American actor who made his acting debut as young Jin Kazama in Tekken. He has gone on to appear in the television series PEN15 as Shuji Ishii-Peters and as Carter in Legendary Dudas. He portrays Prince Zuko in the Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action remake of the animated series of the same name.

Jordan Lockhart

Jordan Lockhart is a Sesame Workshop trained puppeteer and writer whose work has appeared on Apple TV+, Netflix, Nickelodeon and TVOKids. Some of his credits include Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, The Barbarian and the Troll, Canada Crew, and the preschool hit Hi Opie!, earning him two Canadian Screen Award nominations.

Todd Lockwood

Todd Lockwood's illustrations have appeared on bestselling novels, magazines, collectible card games, and fantasy RPGs, honored with numerous industry awards, including appearances in Spectrum and other illustration annuals. Lockwood's novel, The Summer Dragon, was published by DAW Books in 2016, and his art collection, Found Worlds, in 2023. Visit http://www.toddlockwood.com

Leighann Lord

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

Comfort Love

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!

Astrid OddPride Lundberg

Astrid Lundberg, also known as @OddPride, is a science communicator known for her short-form videos demystifying evolution and paleontology for a general audience. In 2023, she gave a short series of talks at Binghamton University on the accessibility of science in the digital age. She has also worked as a scriptwriter for SciShow.

Erin Macdonald

Erin Macdonald has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a writer, speaker, producer, and science advisor; currently the official science advisor for the Star Trek franchise. She has also voiced her fictional counterpart Lt. Cmdr. Erin Macdonald in Star Trek: Prodigy and the video game Star Trek Online.

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.

Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire is an artist/writer/creator primarily known for his 1987 debut series Justice League International with writers Keith Giffen and Marc DeMatteis. From there he was penciller on Adventures Of Captain America, Batman Confidential: The Cat and The Bat, Created Equal, and X-Men Forever with writer Fabian Nicieza.

Jim Mahfood

Jim Mahfood aka "Food One" has been a freelance artist for 25 years and has worked in the fields of comics books, illustration, advertising, animation, feature films, toy design, live art, and gallery exhibitions. Mahfood's current projects include illustrating loading screens for the Fortnite video game.

Mari Mancusi

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

Brianna Marie

Brianna Marie: co-owner of Dungeons and Randomness podcast. Behind-the-scenes wizard with a passion for D&D, anime, and obscure horror films. Excel queen and organizational guru keeping the podcast in line. A true nerd with diverse interests and indispensable skills.

Ross Marquand

Ross Marquand is an American actor that has appeared on film, stage, and television. He is best known for portraying the role of Aaron on The Walking Dead. His voice acting talents can be heard in the likes of Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad.

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 12 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.

Elizabeth Maxwell

Elizabeth Maxwell is a voice actress known for her work in Attack on Titan (Ymir), My Hero Academia (Midnight), and Dragon Ball Super (Caulifla/Kefla).  Other popular titles include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (Urbosa/Riju), Overlord (Albedo), Persona 5 (Sae Niijima), Genshin Impact (Rosaria), RWBY (Winter Schnee), and Fruits Basket (Arisa Uotani).

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 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.

Gates McFadden

Gates McFadden is best known for portraying the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.

Don L McGregor

Don McGregor, original writer of Black Panther comic books, has become one of the foremost writers in comic books today. With almost 30 years of experience in the field, McGregor incorporates a deep understanding of human nature into his stories, blending humanity with humility and pain with glory.

Mark Meer

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

Jonna Hiestand Mendez

Jonna Mendez is a retired CIA officer who was Chief of Disguise in the CIA's "Q" branch. Her new book is In True Face. She has briefed presidents and prime ministers, and worked with Hollywood's makeup and magic industries. She explains the importance of deception and illusion to CIA.

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 across the Marvel and DC Cinematic Universes.

Frank Meschkuleit

Jason Metcalf

Jason Metcalf is a comic book cover artist whose work includes The Last Ronin, Batman and Maxx, Van Helsing, RAI, Bloodshot, War Angels, and more. Outside of comics, Metcalf has done production story art for HBO's Game of Thrones, History Channel's Vikings, and character design for Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment.

Sarah M Milkovich

Dr. Sarah M. Milkovich is a science storyteller, sharing her enthusiasm for robotic space exploration and the stories of the people behind the robots. She has spent decades exploring the solar system with a variety of spacecraft.

John Jackson Miller

John Jackson Miller is a New York Times bestselling author of novels and comics for Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Marvel. His new novel, Star Wars: The Living Force, releases in 2024 from Random House Worlds. He is a Dragon Award winner and recipient of four Scribe Awards.

Rebecca Moesta

Rebecca Moesta is the bestselling author of 40 books, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Junior Jedi Knights novels. In collaboration with her husband, Kevin J. Anderson, she wrote the Crystal Doors trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series, and others. Rebecca and Kevin are the publishers of WordFire Press.

Andrea Lorenzo Molinari

Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, PhD is co-writer of The Shepherd Series with Scout Comics. Molinari serves as editorial director for Scout Comics. He has edited for Caliber Comics and Amigo Comics, and has edited books published by Action Lab Entertainment, Behemoth, Second Sight, Cosmic Times, and New Friday Comics.

Dominic Monaghan

Widely known for his role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you might also know him as Charlie from the iconic series Lost, Chris Bradley aka Bolt in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or as Beaumont in Star Wars, along with award winning podcasts and dozens of cameos in series and films.

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.

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, and Captain Christopher Pike in season two of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Paul Mounts

Paul Mounts is an artist who has worked as a colorist on comics including Fantastic Four, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Ultimates. Mounts was one of Marvel's most prolific comic book-themed trading card colorists in the early 1990s.

Mostafa Moussa

Mostafa Moussa is a 25 year veteran of the comic book industry. Over his career he has worked for Marvel, DC, Image, Top Cow, Dark Horse, Hasbro, IDW, Mad Cave, Dynamite, Action Lab, Coffin, Zenescope, and many other publishers. Check out more of his work at: www.MostafaINK.net

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.

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.

Neil Newbon

Neil Newbon has been an actor and director in performance capture and voiceover in games, television, and films for 14+ years in 130+ titles. He is known for his work as Astarion on Baldur's Gate III, Deliver Us Mars, Trailer Farms: Happy Together Borderlands 3 trailer, and Total War Three Kingdoms.

Tawny Newsome

Tawny Newsome is an American musician, comedian, and actor best known for playing Chelsea Leight-Leigh on Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, co-starring in Space Force and the third season of Brockmire, and co-hosting the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?. She voices one of the main characters, Beckett Mariner, on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Dustin Nguyen

Dustin Nguyen is an American comic artist whose body of work, for the past 10 years, includes flagship titles for both DC Comics and WildStorm.

Paul Edwin Niemeyer

Paul is the original artist on Mortal Kombat, TRON, PacMan Plus, Super PacMan, Professor PacMan, Tapper, Spy Hunter, WACKO, Satan's Hollow, Midnight Marauders, Time Killers, PopCap's Peggle and Bejewled II, Demolition Man pinball, Legends of Valhalla pinball, creative director at Eagle Games, and currently working on a seventh Nintendo Switch game.

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.

Cary Nord

Cary Nord is the award winning artist of comic books and graphic novels such as Daredevil, X-Men, and Conan The Barbarian. Throughout his career, Nord has drawn virtually every major character in comics; having worked on Superman, Wolverine, Mutant X, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Thor, and Star Wars.

Kayvan Novak

Kayvan Novak is an actor and comedian who co-created and starred in the comedy series Fonejacker and Facejacker, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy in 2008. He also portrayed Waj in the comedy film Four Lions, Nandor the Relentless in the mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows, and Fabian Kingsworth in Archer.

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.

Babs Olusanmokun

Babs Olusanmokun is a Nigerian-American actor best known for playing Dr. Joseph M'Benga in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present) and Jamis in Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). He also appeared in the video game Max Payne 3 as Serrano, providing both acting and voice content.

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.

Jared Padalecki

Jared Padalecki is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural. He rose to fame after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films New York Minute, Flight of the Phoenix, House of Wax, and Friday the 13th.

Jimmy Palmiotti

A multi-award winning writer, creator, and editor. Palmiotti's works include Harley Quinn, The New West, Jonah Hex, Monolith, 21 Down, The Resistance, The Pro, Gatecrasher, Beautiful Killer, Ash, Cloudburst, Trigger Girl 6, Thrill Seeker, Trailblazer, Ballerina, The Twilight Experiment, Killing Time in America, Rage, Queen Crab, and Retrovirus.

Panterona

Panterona is an award winning cosplayer, fashion/carnival costume designer from Trinidad and Tobago. She has been cosplaying and designing costumes for 20 years and has won several cosplay competitions around the world. Panterona has also directed, produced, and starred in television programs on costume design in the Caribbean region.

Ande Parks

Ande Parks has inked titles such as Daredevil, Ant-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Nightwing. He is best known for Green Arrow, with collaborator Phil Hester. Parks has written three graphic novels for Oni Press; the most well-known, Ciudad, was developed with the Russo brothers for Netflix as Extraction.

Adrian Pasdar

Adrian Pasdar has established himself as one of the finest and most versatile actors on the scene today. Pasdar has recently appeared on Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the CW's Supergirl, and starred for four seasons on the hit NBC series Heroes.

Rob Paulsen

Emmy award winning Rob Paulsen voices some of the most well-known characters of all time, including Yakko Warner and Pinky (of Pinky and the Brain) on the Animaniacs, Raphael/Donatello in the TMNT, Arthur in The Tick, the title role in The Mask, Carl Wheezer in Jimmy Neutron, and many more!

Ethan Peck

Actor Ethan Peck is best known for his roles in the movies The Sorcerer's Apprentice and In Time, and the series 10 Things I Hate About You and Star Trek: Discovery. In addition, Peck has lent his voice to Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

Bob Pendarvis

Bob Pendarvis was the original creator of SCAD's Sequential Art Department (he even named it) and taught dozens of unique classes for over 18 years. Pendarvis's most recent accomplishments are the successful publication of A Girl Teaching Art Classes in the Spooky Woods Near a Witch and the sequel James.

James Phelps

James and Oliver Phelps play the Weasley twins, Fred and George, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Oliver Phelps

James and Oliver Phelps play the Weasley twins, Fred and George, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

John Picacio

Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio is a three-time Hugo award winner and one of the most acclaimed artists in sci-fi and fantasy over the last two decades. He has created bestselling cover artwork for 150+ major sci-fi/fantasy books including works by George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Leigh Bardugo, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Harlan Ellison.

Lan Pitts

Lan Pitts was born in Atlanta, now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he writes comics and is a staff writer for GameSpot. He loves wrestling, The Simpsons, and 1980s' animation. He is probably best known for his work on BOOM!'s WWE series and his tokusatsu-based comic, BEAST HEART! Strikers.

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 multiple video and podcast channels covering James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers, and more.

Robert Pope

Atlanta-based cartoonist, animation director, and illustrator Robert Pope draws Looney Tunes for DC comics, and Snoopy and the Peanuts gang for Simon and Schuster. Over the past 35 years, Pope has drawn Scooby-Doo, Batman The Brave And The Bold, Johnny Bravo, Grim Adventures, Powerpuff Girls, and many, many more.

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.

Karen Prell

Karen Prell puppeteered Red Fraggle on the original Fraggle Rock TV series and on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, currently streaming on AppleTV+. She performed on many other Jim Henson productions for over 40 years and has also worked as a computer animator for Pixar, Disney, and Valve.

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 nine years!

Jessie Pridemore

Jessie Pridemore is a nonbinary cosplayer who has been cosplaying for almost 25 years! They have cosplayed for numerous anime and video game companies including Funimation, Aniplex, Ubisoft, Amazon Games, and many more. They were also a contestant on Syfy's Cosplay Melee.

Cherie M. Priest

Cherie Priest is the author of more than two dozen books and novellas - most recently The Drowning House from Sourcebooks and Cinderwich from Apex Book Company. She is perhaps best known for the Clockwork Century series, beginning with the Hugo/Nebula/Locus nominated Boneshaker.

Alan Quah

Trina L. Ray

Currently the deputy science manager and investigation scientist for the radar instrumentation 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.

Aaron Reynolds

Aaron Reynolds is the 4-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.

Rikishi

Solofa Fatu Jr. is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is a one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion.

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: Dragon Calendars, Wanderlust card deck, Unreal Estate, and more.

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.

Rogue

Rogue is the lead singer, song writer, front-man, and founder of the band the Cruxshadows. With close to 200 song-writing credits, over 20 CDs, several chart-topping hits in Europe and the U.S., and well over a thousand live performances all over the globe.

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

Rosa became internationally famous in 1987 when he began creating stories based on his favorite comics, Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge, for publishers in Europe where Barks' Duck comics continue to be the bestselling comics as they once were in America.

Josef "Joe" Rubinstein

The first artist for Gambit, Elektra, and Apocolypse, Josef Rubinstein has inked more than 2,500 comic books in his career. Working with Dark Horse, Marvel, DC Comics and creating original fine art has brought him a diverse fandom, and an induction to the Joe Sinnott Inkwell Hall of Fame.

P. Craig Russell

Harvey and Eisner Award winning P. Craig Russell has spent 40 years producing graphic novels, comic books, and illustrations. His work includes Coraline, Sandman, Elric, Killraven, Batman, Star Wars, Conan, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde series, classic operas, Jungle Book series, and many more.

Chris Ryall

Chris Ryall is co-founder and publisher at Syzygy Publishing, writer/co-creator of Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, Groom Lake, The Hollows, and Dreamweaver. He has written Transformers, Rom Spaceknight, Mars Attacks, The Mighty Marvel Calendar Book, Origins of Marvel Comics, and was an executive producer on Netflix's Locke & Key.

Steve Saffel

Steve Saffel has worked at Del Rey and Titan Books editing SF, fantasy, horror, and licensed fiction. He has collaborated with Eric Flint, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Graham Jones, Stan Lee, Robert McGinnis, David Morrell, Scott Sigler; and on Alien, Batman, Black Panther, Conan, Mass Effect, Spider-Man, Star Wars, among others.

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.

John Scalzi

John Scalzi is the New York Times bestselling, Hugo, and Dragon Award winning author of Old Man's War, Starter Villain, and other books.

Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull is an actor and former professional ballet dancer. She is known for her lead role in Center Stage, and for her recurring roles on One Tree Hill and Pretty Little Liars. She starred as Dr. Cassandra Railly in 12 Monkeys, and played a recurring role on Suits before being promoted to series regular.

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.

Martin Simmonds

Jack Skillingstead

Since 2003 Jack Skillingstead has sold three novels and 40+ short stories. He has been a finalist for both the Sturgeon Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. His second collection, The Whole Mess and Other Stories, was published in 2023 by Fairwood Press. He lives in Seattle with his wife, writer Nancy Kress.

Cobie Smulders

Cobie Smulders has worked in film, television, stage, and audio narration. Smulders is known for her starring roles as Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother, Anne Coulter in American Crime: Impeachment, Simone in High School for Amazon Studios, and most recently Maria Hill in Marvel's series Secret Invasion.

Theo Solomon

On screen, Theo Solomon appeared in ITV's Vera, Sky's Temple, and BBC's Enterprice. On stage, he played a lead in the Old Vic's Woyzeck, toured Hamlet, and performed the award winning play Shebeen in London and Nottingham. Most recently he has appeared as Wyll in the record breaking Baldur's Gate III.

Charles Soule

Comics writer and novelist whose works include Daredevil, Death of Wolverine, Eight Billion Genies, The Rise of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, The High Republic, and Dark Droids. His books include Oracle Year, Star Wars: The Light of the Jedi, Anyone, and The Endless Vessel.

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 Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, and Kim Harrison.

Brent Spiner

Brent Spiner is best known for his portrayal of the beloved android, Data, on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.

Ash Sroka

Ash Sroka, known as Tali'Zorah in Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy, has been acting professionally since age six. She has worked for Comedy Central, CBS, Fox, ABC, Nickelodeon, and Nick Jr. In addition to being a voiceover, TV, film, and theater actor, Sroka is a writer, dancer, and medical clown.

Michael A. Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times bestselling author best known for his Star Wars novels I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron.

Aaron Stanford

Aaron Stanford is an American actor known for his roles as Pyro in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Deadpool & Wolverine, and Doug in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes. From 2010 to 2013, he starred as Birkhoff in Nikita. He has also starred as James Cole on the television series 12 Monkeys, based on the 1995 film of the same name.

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.

Todd Stashwick

Todd Stashwick is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as Dale Malloy on The Riches and Theodore Deacon on 12 Monkeys. He played Captain Liam Shaw in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.

Kim Steadman

Kim Steadman is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently she is a systems engineer for the Perseverance Rover Engineering Operations team and the technical group supervisor for the Integrated Planning and Sequencing for Surface Missions group. She has also worked on Opportunity, Curiosity, and Cassini.

Steranko

Steranko is a graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, magician, publisher, and film production illustrator, best known for his work on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Steranko earned lasting acclaim for his innovations in sequential art during the Silver Age, particularly his infusion of surrealism, op art, and graphic design into the medium.

TJ Sterling

TJ Sterling is a former Marvel and DC comics artist. Sterling also publishes comics through his own imprint, RAE Comics, and is a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon Art.

S. M. Stirling

S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents. He published his first novel, Snow Brother, in 1984. In 1995 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. His latest are Conan: Blood of the Serpent and To Turn the Tide, a time-travel novel coming out from Baen in August.

William Stout

William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design.

Sway

Joshua "Sway" Swaby has provided cover artwork for Entertainment Weekly, DC Comics, Vault Comics, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. His art has brought to life many iconic properties, including Star Wars, Black Widow, Wonder Woman, Miles Morales, Thanos, Loki, and more.

Jamy Ian Swiss

Jamy Ian Swiss is a sleight-of-hand artist, speaker, and author. Television appearances includes The Today Show and The Late, Late Show. Penn and Teller call him, “James Bond with a deck of cards as a pistol!” The New Yorker declared, “Swiss is widely thought to have one of the most masterly sleight-of-hand techniques in the world today.”

John Tartaglia

John Tartaglia is an acclaimed actor, director, writer, and puppeteer. Known for originating both Rod and Princeton in Broadway's Avenue Q, he currently performs Gobo, Architect, Gunge, Barry Blueberry, and Sprocket in Apple TV+'s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, for which he also writes, directs, and executive produces. 

Fred Tatasciore

One of the #1 video game voices in the world, Fred Tatasciore is the animated voice of the Hulk since 2008. He has done over 30 episodes of The Family Guy and American Dad. His IMDB page lists over 450 credits, including Soldier: 76 in Overwatch.

Catherine Tate

Actor and writer, Catherine Tate is well-known in the UK and internationally for a diversity of work in television, film, and on the stage - in particular, for the award winning The Catherine Tate Show and her roles on Doctor Who and The Office.

Courtenay Taylor

Psychotic biotic? Check. Conflicted Jedi? Check. Elusive and sexy spy? Check and check! That's right; Jack from Mass Effect, Juhani from Knights of the Old Republic, and Ada Wong of Resident Evil 6 all share the same vocal chords of actress Courtenay Taylor!

Elisa Teague

A 23 year veteran in tabletop games, Elisa Teague has worked on 100+ boardgames/RPGs, including writing for Dungeons & Dragons and the Marvel Multiverse RPG, and lead designing Kingdom Hearts Talisman, Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk, and the G.I. JOE, Transformers, Power Rangers, and My Little Pony RPGs.

Sarah Tomko

Sara Tomko is an actor and CEO of In The Pocket Productions. She is most notably known as Asta Twelvetrees in the hit show Resident Alien. She is an actor, producer, poet, singer, artist, earring maker, thrift store seeker, and mental health advocate. You can find her on Instagram @saratomko19

Danny Trejo

Trejo has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, Con Air, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the Spy Kids movies, Machete, Machete Kills, the Bad Ass trilogy, Dead Again in Tombstone, and co-starred in Death Race 2, Death Race: Inferno, and more.

Abby Trott

Abby Trott is known for portraying Nezuko in Demon Slayer, Annette in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ivy in Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, Windblade in the Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy, and singing the English version of the theme for Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Alan Tudyk

Multi-dimensional actor Alan Tudyk never fails to surprise us. He made us think in I, Robot, terrified us in Dollhouse, made us love him in Firefly and Serenity, and commiserate with him in Con Man. He is currently starring in Resident Alien. And that only skims the surface.

Jamie Tyndall

Jamie Tyndall is a Canadian Comic Book artist that has worked in the industry for over 10 years. He has worked for various publishers including Red Sonja, Vampirella, The Boys, Lady Death, TMNT, and Zenescope. Tyndall worked with Fox Studios on movies like Deadpool and X-Men.

Trevor Valle

Trevor Valle is a former paleontologist and science writer who has appeared in documentaries on History Channel, Discovery, and in IMAX, and is a professional GM, TTRPG writer, creator, game tester, Twitch and YouTube Actual Play regular, and the dinosaur creator for Atlas Games' Planegea D&D setting.

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 such titles as Superman/Batman, Civil War, and Wolverine: Old Man Logan. His recent projects include Ahsoka and Mace Windu.

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.

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.

Patrick Warburton

Patrick Warburton is known to audiences worldwide from his starring roles on Seinfeld, The Tick, NewsRadio, Less Than Perfect, and Rules of Engagement. Voice performances include Kronk on The Emperor's New Groove, Brock Samson on Venture Brothers, Joe Swanson on Family Guy, and Steve Barkin on Kim Possible.

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 Book Bale and a frequent contributor to the online convention ConTinual.

H C Warner

HC Warner is responsible for the birth of the comics and pop art installation in a double suite poolside at the Courtland Grand, featuring an array of present leaders in the lowbrow and pop art arena. Warner has been part of Atlanta's lowbrow scene since the early '90s .

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.

David Weber

David Weber is a science-fiction and fantasy author best known for his Honor Harrington and Safehold series. He lives in South Carolina with his wife Sharon Rice-Weber, whom he loves a lot.

Nick Wechsler

Nick Wechsler is an American actor best known for his roles as Kyle Valenti on the WB teen drama series Roswell, and as Jack Porter on the ABC drama television series Revenge.

Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She has edited numerous anthologies, and is the co-author of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts.

Ming-Na Wen

The diverse actress Ming-Na Wen is best known for her roles in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Previously, she has be seen on ER, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka, and heard as the voice of Mulan. She can most recently be seen playing in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

Alice Wetterlund

Alice Wetterlund is a stand-up comedian and actor who performs regularly at San Francisco's Punchline, LA's Largo, and The Hollywood Improv. You can see Wetterlund in Silicon Valley, People of Earth, and Resident Alien. Her special My Mama is a Human and So Am I is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Jeremy Whitley

Jeremy Whitley is a comic book writer and the creator of Princeless and Raven Pirate Princess, the writer for Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp and Titan's Sea of Thieves series, as well as a frequent contributor to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Jodie Whittaker

Jodie Whittaker is best known for portraying the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Beth Latimer in Broadchurch, Adult Life Skills, and Wired. She will be appearing on Sunday only. 

Devora Wilde

Devora Wilde, BAFTA Breakthrough Longlist nominee 2022, is a Bulgarian-born actress who grew up in the UK. She plays one of the main origin characters, Lae'zel, in Baldur's Gate III from Larian Studios, as well as voicing characters in games such as Arknights, Battlefield 2042, and Total Warhammer III, among others.

Dai-Shihan Roy Wilkinson

Dai-Shihan Roy Wilkinson has been training in Ninjutsu for over 40 years, and is one of the most senior master instructors of this art in the western world. He is ranked Judan Kugyo and is chief instructor of the Atlanta Bujinkan Dojo, the original Ninjutsu dojo in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

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 an award nominated creative duo. Comfort and Adam made their name as professional self-publishers with their acclaimed comic 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.

Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood is an actor and producer known for his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Wood can also be seen in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Wilfred, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Bonnie Wright

From 2001 to 2011, Bonnie Wright played Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter series, where she developed an interest in directing. She went on to received a BA in film and television from London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Wright's production company, Bon Bon Lumière, was founded in 2012.

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.

Thomas Zahler

Thom Zahler created the Webtoons Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label as well as Love and Capes, Long Distance, and Time and Vine. He writes and draws for IDW's My Little Pony series, has written for Disney Tsum Tsum, Star Trek, Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man, and Knights of the Zodiac.

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, and A Call to Insurrection (with David Weber and Thomas Pope). Upcoming books include The Icarus Job and The Icarus Changeling.

Dr. Emily Zarka

Emily Zarka is a monster expert and the creator, writer, and host of the popular YouTube series Monstrum.