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Phoenix Comic Fest 2018 Celebrity List


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Arthur Adams

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Arthur Adams is a self-taught comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries, Lon...

Dania Al-Qasemy

Marcella Amparano

Anime Anonymous

Katherine Arden

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

KATHERINE ARDEN is the author of the Winternight Trilogy, which includes The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and the upcoming The ...

Brian Augustyn

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brian Augustyn is an award-winning comic book editor and writer. His most notable works are The Flash from 1989 to 2000, The Justice League franchi...

Brian Azzarello

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer and screenwriter. He is the author of Spaceman, Batman: Broken City, and the Harvey and Eisner Awa...

Margarette Balajo

David Baron

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

David Baron, the creator & writer of the smash-hit and sold-out series STAINED, will be appearing at 451 Media's booth all days of show (Booth 1068...

John Beatty

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

John Beatty ( Inker – Marvel Super Heroes “Secret Wars”, Captain America, The Punisher, Thanos Quest, Batman )nn nnJohn Beatty is a veteran comic b...

Delila Begat

Manu Bennett

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Manu Bennett is an actor best known for his portrayals of Crixus in the TV series Spartacus, Azog the Defiler in the Hobbit film trilogy, and Slade...

Marguerite Bennett

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Marguerite Bennett is an American comic book writer. She has worked on Bombshells, Angela, Josie and the Pussycats, and her creator-owned book InSe...

Zachary Billings

Joshua Blaylock

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Josh Blaylock is a writer, artist, and the commander-in-chief of indie powerhouse Devil's Due Comics. In addition to his own recent comics Mercy Sp...

Steve Blum

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Veteran Voice Monkey Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop...

Justin Briner

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Justin Patrick Briner is an American voice actor affiliated with Funimation. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Ja...

Amber Brite

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Amber Brite has been dressing up in costumes for as long as she can remember. Halloween, movie premieres, and any event she could get away with it...

Jeffrey Brown

Appearing Sat,Sun

Jeffrey Brown is the author of numerous bestselling Star Wars books, including Darth Vader and Son and the middle-grade Jedi Academy series. He gre...

Jeremy Bulloch

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Jeremy was born in the town of Market Harborough in the middle of England. He is one of six children and even at the young age of five was on stage...

Christopher Bush

Dave Butler

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

D.J. Butler (Dave) is an international corporate lawyer by training, and by day he now teaches business acumen to employees ofnlarge corporations. ...

Ryan Cady

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Ryan Cady is a writer of comics and horror fiction based in Southern California. A member of the 2017 DC Comics Talent Development Workshop, he has...

Jim Calafiore

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

In 28 years working in comics, Jim Calafiore has spent extended time at Valiant, DC and Marvel, notably on Peter David’s AQUAMAN, Judd Winnick’s E...

Bob Camp

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Bob Camp is an animator, cartoonist, comic book artist, director, and producer. Camp has been nominated for two Emmys, a CableACE Award, and an Ann...

Eric Canete

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Eric Canete works as an artist in comics, animation, and video games. His past work includes Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin for Marvel, TRON Uprising...

Greg Capullo

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Greg Capullo is a self taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed BATMAN series for DC Comics. Prior to tha...

Gail Carriger

Appearing Thursday - Sunday

Gail Carriger is an author known for writing comedies of manners mixed with paranormal romance (and the sexy San Andreas Shifter series as G.L. Car...

Rae Carson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Rae Carson is the award winning, New York Times best selling author of fantasy and science fiction for teens and adults. She lives in Arizona with ...

Beth Cato

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

Nebula-nominated Beth Cato is the author of the Clockwork Dagger duology and the new Blood of Earth Trilogy from Harper Voyager. BREATH OF EARTH an...

T.J. Chambers

Kristi Charish

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Kristi is a Canadian cell biologist and geneticist (MSc, PhD) who writes urban fantasy. She's the author of The Kincaid Strange Books (The Voodoo K...

Michael Chiklis

Appearing Sun

Joyce Chin

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Joyce Chin is a penciller who has worked for DC, Top Crow and Dynamite. She has been working in the comic industry since 1995 when she penciled fo...

Frank Cho

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

The second of three children, Frank Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsv...

Peter Clines

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Peter Clines is the author of the time-travel adventure Paradox Bound, the sci-fi/ thriller The Fold, the acclaimed -14-, and the bestselling Ex-He...

Tracee Cocco

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Tracee is an actress, model, and stuntwoman most known for her various roles on the hit television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Tr...

Myke Cole

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Myke Cole is the author of the SACRED THRONE trilogy (THE ARMORED SAINT, THE QUEEN OF CROWS, THE KILLING LIGHT) from Tor, as well as the SHADOW OPS...

Gregory Colella

Katie Cook

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

Katie Cook is a comic artist and writer that hails from Michigan. She is the creator of Nothing Special on WebToon and Gronk: A Monster's Story. Sh...

Joe Corroney

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Joe Corroney has been illustrating official Star Wars and Star Trek artwork for books, games, trading cards, comic books, fine art prints, posters ...

Cos A Commotion Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Shellane is a CrossFit Trainer, Model, and Student. Dean is a Firefighter. They prefer things that aren't status quo, hence the name Cos A Commotio...

ElfyAubrie Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

ElfyAubrie is a positive, energetic, bubbly, cosplayer, gamer and costume designer from Arizona. She has been an avid gamer her whole life, but Wor...

Jaze Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Aime and Lance Jaze are the owners and creators of Jaze Cosplay Studios. They are the WOW couple with a passionate love of all things in entertainm...

Junkers Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Johnny is a Navy veteran turned engineer and cosplayer. Currently working as a full-time engineer, he creates costumes as a hobby for both fun and ...

Krash Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Krash is a self-taught cosplayer, costume designer, and prop maker from Arizona. After receiving her 3rd degree black belt she was itching for a ne...

Moderately Okay Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

I'm a cosplayer based out of Orlando, Florida. I make cosplays from a bunch of forms of media! From anime, to video games, to comic books! If yo...

Pretend Princess Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Hi, I'm Coral! I've been cosplaying in Arizona for almost ten years now. This is actually the tenth Phoenix Comic Fest I've attended! I've lived he...

Smolder Cosplay

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sean Rhoades is a cosplay entertainer. Originally from Akron Ohio, Sean Rhoades now resides in Phoenix Arizona. Sean has been "cause/cosplaying" s...

Ben Costa

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Ben Costa is a writer and artist living in the Bay Area. He has self-published two volumes of his award-winning, martial arts historical fiction co...

Ben "hbi2k" Creighton

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Ben "hbi2k" Creighton is an Arizona native who has been with Team Four Star from the beginning. He moved to Texas in 2016 so that he could physica...

Javier Cruz

Shawn Crystal

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Shawn Crystal dropped into this world with a Batman T-Shirt and a pencil in his hand. He spent his childhood days drawing dinosaurs and super heroe...

Tim Curry

Appearing Sat,Sun

Tim Curry is an English actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show...

Ryan Dalton

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Ryan Dalton is the author of the young adult Time Shift Trilogy. His debut novel The Year of Lightning was released January 2016, and the sequel, T...

Peter David

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Peter David is a prolific author whose career and continued popularity spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Televisi...

Alan Davis

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Alan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Ex...

Daniel Davis

Delilah Dawson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling writer of Star Wars: PHASMA, The Secrets of Long Snoot, The Perfect Weapon, and Scorched; the B...

Deborah Deacon

Mike Debalfo

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mike DeBalfo is a freelance illustrator best known for his charming and flirty “good girl” brand of pinup art. Since 2009 Mike has been working pro...

Rob DenBleyker

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Maise Designs

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Gabrielle “Gabby” Donathan is a seamstress, leather worker, & jewelry artist with pieces ranging from Renaissance fantasy to Disney princesses, but...

Lar deSouza

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

A professional illustrator for over 20 years, Lar deSouza is the cartoonist for the 2008 Shuster Award winning online comics, Least I Could Do (www...

Emily Devenport

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Emily Devenport has published multiple short stories and novels under three different pen names and her novels includes Shade, Larissa, The Kronos ...

Jeffery Digne

Larry Dixon

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Larry Dixon is a fantasy artist and novelist. Dixon, the son of a Delta Force career commando, studied at The North Carolina School of the Arts and...

Cory Doctorow

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the...

Markus Dulgar

Barbara Dunkelman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Barbara Dunkelman is an actor/voice actor based in Austin, TX, and is known for her voice roles in various Rooster Teeth Productions including Yang...

Brian Durfee

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brian Lee Durfee is an artist and writer who has done illustrations for Wizards of the Coast, Tolkien Enterprises, Dungeons & Dragons, Humane Socie...

Elizabeth Einstein

Lindsay Elyse

Appearing Sat,Sun

Lindsay Elyse is a cosplayer, gamer, and content creator from Phoenix, Arizona. She started cosplaying in 2005 and has since attended conventions a...

Randy Emberlin

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Randy Emberlin is a comic book artist/inker who has spent the past 30 years working in a variety of creative fields. Whether as an illustrator of e...

Corey Encinas

Nate Evans

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Nate Evans is a New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of over 40 children’s books. The latest of these is a graphic novel for middle-grade ...

Willow Evergreen

Mark Farmer

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mark Farmer, born 1957 in Birmingham, UK, wanted to be an “artist” from his earliest childhood. After studying Graphic Design at Leicester Polytec...

Jason Fernandez

Andy Field

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Voice actor Andy Field is best known as the probably-friendly voice of Hand Unit, the smooth-talking computer guide through Five Nights at Freddy’s...

Sean Patrick Flanery

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor, author, and martial artist, known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints, Greg Stillson in T...

Dan Fogler

Appearing Sat,Sun

Dan Fogler is an actor, voice-over artist, filmmaker, playwright, graphic novelist, stand-up comedian, and musician. He has appeared in films Balls...

Cecalie Fort-Diab

Frank Forte

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Alan Dean Foster

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contempor...

Jay Fotos

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jay Fotos, a multi award-winning comics veteran who is currently working professionally in the comics industry for nearly two decades on hundreds o...

Dave Franchini

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Dave Franchini is a comic book writer for Zenescope Entertainment, best known for the Grimm Universe, Cinderella Serial Killer Princess, Spirit Hun...

Stephan Franck

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Stephan Franck was a supervising animator on the cult classic THE IRON GIANT, co-created Nicktoon’s CORNEIL & BERNIE, received an Annie Award nomi...

Jason David Frank

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Jason David Frank is an American actor and professional mixed martial artist known for his role of Tommy Oliver, the original Green Ranger, in the ...

Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is a Texas-based, California-native voice actor, graphics designer, and writer. Co-founder of TeamFourStar, he is the d...

Jason Fry

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jason Fry is the author of more than 40 Star Wars books and short stories, including the novelization of The Last Jedi, The Essential Atlas, The We...

Diana Gabaldon

Appearing Sat

Diana Gabaldon (it’s pronounced “GAA-bull-dohn”—it rhymes with “bad to the bone”) is the author of the award-winning, #1 NYT-bestselling OUTLANDER...

Michael Galbreath

Chris Gall

Appearing Sun

Chris Gall has been drawing pictures for as long as he can remember. When he was caught doodling on his desk in second grade, his teacher suggeste...

Gabriel Gallo

Brianna Garcia

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brianna is a freelance artist who loves all things geeky, and can usually be found running around Disneyland for fun. She has worked as a storyboar...

Isaiah Gaskin

Mitch Gerads

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mitch Gerads is an American illustrator who has made a career out of bringing humanity and realism to the superhuman and unreal. Best known for his...

Jonathan Glapion

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jonathan Glapion began his comics career in 1998 at Image, where he contributed inks to such titles as Curse of the Spawn, Sam and Twitch and Unive...

Scott Godlewski

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Kellen Goff

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Kellen Goff is a Los Angeles-based voice actor with more than 400 video games and animation roles to his name. Ever since the age of 5, he’s been p...

Joel Gomez

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Joel Gomez got his start as an intern at Top Cow Productions doing background assists on books such as Tomb Raider and Witchblade, then joined Asp...

Taylor Gonzalez

J Gonzo

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

J. Gonzo is the writer and artist of La Mano del Destino. He is a Chicano artist - born and raised in Cypress, CA., who resides in Phoenix, AZ. Art...

Adi Granov

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Adi Granov Adi works as an illustrator and designer primarily for Marvel. His most notable works include the Iron Man: Extremis series, written by...

Joe Graves

Julia Graves

Raven Gregory

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Raven Gregory was born in Phoenix, Arizona 1979, the youngest of three brothers. Discovered in 2000 by then Vice President of Publishing at Top Co...

Greg Grunberg

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Actor, Writer, Producer Greg Grunberg is best known for his roles as Matt Parkman in “Heroes,” The Pretzel King of St. Louis on “Masters of Sex”, P...

Sean Gunn

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Actor and writer Sean Gunn is best known for his role on Gilmore Girls as the quirky Kirk Gleason and Kraglin in the Marvel Universe films Guardian...

Jim Hanna

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Travis Hanson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jesse Heagy

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Born in Wheeling, WV and is a veteran of the USAF. He colored for HiFi Design in 2008 and worked on DC's Nightwing, Justice Society of America, Bo...

Kealy Heartly

Summer Helene

Executive Vice President of California Pictures at Paramount Summer Helene is not only one of the youngest executives in Hollywood history, she wil...

Esperanza Hernandez

Tom Hodges

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Tom Hodges, known mostly for working in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, has been concentrating on building his own comic universe with Antiis Comics. Tom ...

Paige Holcomb

Jennifer Holm

Appearing Sat,Sun

Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm are the brother-and-sister team behind the Eisner Award–winning Babymouse graphic novel series and the New York T...

Matthew Holm

Appearing Sat,Sun

Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm are the brother-and-sister team behind the Eisner Award–winning Babymouse graphic novel series and the New York T...

Greg Holmes Jr

Mekenzie Hopson

Danielle Hulse

Elijah Hurley

Molly Idle

Appearing Sat

Molly Idle was awarded a Caldecott Honor for Flora and the Flamingo. She is the creator of Flora and the Penguin, Flora and the Peacocks, and the R...

Carissa Hazel Infante

Mark Irwin

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mark Irwin has worked with many of the world's largest entertainment properties, as an artist, art director, brand manager, and in business develop...

Autumn Ivy

Cortez James

Klaus Janson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Klaus Janson is a comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. While he is best-known as an inker, Janson has frequently w...

Dave Johnson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

An officially ordained Methodist Deacon. "Reverend" Dave Johnson may be best known for his minimalist covers on the noir Vertigo series, 100 Bullet...

Sam Jones

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

For a generation of moviegoers, Sam J. Jones is better known as Flash Gordon. Sam’s engaging portrayal of the quintessential comic strip space adv...

Daniel Jose Older

Appearing Sat,Sun

Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher (Scholastic), the Bone Street Rumba ur...

Joe Jozwowski

Adelaide Kane

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Adelaide Kane is an Australian actress best known for roles as Lolly Allen in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, Cora Hale in MTV’s Teen Wolf, M...

Kelcie Kanetani

Yuhki Kanetani

Chris Kenreigh

Amanda Keys

Scott Kolins

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

SCOTT KOLINS, award winning comic book creator, for his art on THE FLASH, and THE AVENGERS, JUSTICE LEAGUE and BLUE BEETLE. Scott has written and ...

Natalie Kriese

Andy Kuhn

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Andy Kuhn is the artist, and co-creator of the comic series Firebreather, with writer Phil Hester. In 2010 Firebreather was adapted into an Emmy ...

Mike Kunkel

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

First and foremost, Mike would say he's a cartoonist. Something he's wanted to do since he was a kid was write and draw cartoon stories. And wit...

Mercedes Lackey

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated fromnPurdue University in 1972. During the late 70’s...

Nick "Lanipator" Landis

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

After being forged in Asgard, Nick "Lanipator" Landis was deemed too powerful to be contained! Thus, he was banished to Earth, where he became an A...

Linda Larkin

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Linda Larkin (born March 20, 1970) is an American actress and voice actress. She is best known for voicing Princess Jasmine in Disney’s 1992 animat...

John Layman

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

John Layman is the creator, writer and letterer of CHEW, the New York Times best-selling, Harvey Award and multi-Eisner Award winning cannibal cop ...

Jae Lee

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jae Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, known for his dark and elegant style. In 1990, he became one of the youngest artists ever to work f...

Melissa LeGrand

Courtney Leigh

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Courtney is a gamer nerd, horror enthusiast, costumer, and all around geek. After growing up on an Ostrich farm in rural Arizona, Courtney Leigh mo...

Tom Leveen

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Tom Leveen is the author of eight novels with imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster, has written for Image Comics’ Spawn comic book series,...

Justin Lizarraga

Amy Lukavics

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Ever since she was little, Amy was especially intrigued by horror books and movies. Raised in a small town in Northern Arizona, she sustained herse...

Jody Lynn Nye

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon thisnworthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science ficti...

Mike MacLean

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, Mike MacLean took a flying leap into the comics’ world, co-writing Lady Death, La Muerta, and Zack the Zombie Ex...

Ash Maczko

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sam Maggs

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sam Maggs is an Associate Writer at BioWare, a writer on STAR TREK: WAYPOINT for IDW, and the bestselling author of WONDER WOMEN and THE FANGIRL'S ...

Rick Magyar

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Rick Magyar began his professional comics career in 1981 as a background inker at Marvel Comics. Since then he has been an inker for several publis...

Sean Maher

Appearing Sat,Sun

Sean Maher is well known to television and film audiences for his role as ‘Dr. Simon Tam’ in Joss Whedon’s feature “Serenity”. The film was based o...

Aaron Mahnke

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

AARON MAHNKE is the creator, producer, and host of the hit podcast Lore (Best of iTunes 2015 & 2016), Executive Producer of the Lore television sho...

Brianna Manjarrez

Kuta Marler

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Kuta Marler has lived all over the world. Erika is innately curious, and has picked up annassortment of facts and anecdotes over the years and rese...

Melissa Marr

Appearing Sat,Sun

Melissa Marr is a NYT bestselling, award-winning author of novels, picture books, and short fiction. She is best known for the Wicked Lovely serie...

Chris Marshall

Michael R. Martin

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Michael R. Martin is a local Phoenix Creator and the Co-Creator & Writer of the critically acclaimed vampire horror comic Blood & Dust. Volume 1, T...

Charles Martinet

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor best known for voicing Mario in the Super Mario video game series. Martinet has voiced other ...

Jennifer Martinez

Juana Martinez-Neal

Appearing Sat

Juana Martinez-Neal is the daughter and granddaughter of painters. She started her story in Lima, Peru, and then moved to the United States. Juana ...

Sylvia Matthews

Eddie McClintock

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Eddie McClintock is a rare triple threat; handsome, dramatic and funny. After years of short lived network series, Eddie hit gold on “Warehouse 13”...

Christopher McCullough

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an American voice actress, writer, singer, and director. She is best known for her extensive English-language dubbing of ...

Rebekah McKendry

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Rebekah McKendry, PhD is an award-winning film and television director with a strong focus in the horror and science fiction genres. She is the co-...

Graham McTavish

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Graham McTavish is a Scottish television, and film actor best known for his roles as Dougal Mackenzie in the popular TV series "Outlander" (2014-16...

Shannon Messenger

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Shannon Messenger graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she learned--among other things--that she liked watching movies much better...

David Michelinie

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

David Michelinie has been a professional writer for over 40 years. He has written more than 600 comic book stories, in which he created several ch...

Brian and Kristy Miller

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brian & Kristy Miller are the founders of digital color studio Hi-Fi Colour Design. The team at Hi-Fi colors comics like Doctor Who, Supergirl, Har...

L.E. Modesitt Jr

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

L.E. MODESITT, JR. is the bestselling author of over seventy novels encompassing two science fictionnseries and four fantasy series including the S...

Sara Moni

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sara Moni grew up in Phoenix and had a fascination with fantasy and sci-fi. In high school, she taught herself to sew by sewing together t-shirts, ...

Alexandra Monir

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Iranian-American author and recording artist Alexandra Monir has published five novels for young adults, including her popular debut, Timeless. A B...

Michael Moore

Albert Morales

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

ALBERT MORALES is the lead dropping cartoonist/comic book artist behind ANGRY ROOSTER STUDIOS. Albert is currently working on a new “secret X” MAR...

Joseph Mueller

Brandon Mull

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

Brandon Mull is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. He also created and outlined the S...

Marat Mychaels

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

MARAT MYCHAELS has worked in the comic book industry for over 25 years. He started out as Image Comics first rookie at the at the young age of 19 w...

Joseph Nassise

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Joseph Nassise is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than forty novels, including the Templar Chronicles series, the Jerem...

Todd Nauck

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Todd Nauck is a well-known artist of the comic book industry and works regularly for Marvel, DC, and Image Comics, with credits including Amazing S...

Yvonne Navarro

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

An American author who has published over twenty books, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That’s Not My Name and...

Sylvain Neuvel

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

SYLVAIN NEUVEL dropped out of high school at age fifteen. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream i...

Amy K. Nichols

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Amy K. Nichols has been a musician, a web designer, a political assistant, a teacher, and an armchair scientist. She has traveled overseas, studied...

Trina Nishimura

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Trina Nishimura has become a fixture in the anime scene over the past few years, primarily working with FUNimation Entertainment. At age 3, her fam...

Cary Nord

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Cary Nord is an Eisner-award winning comics artist and writer known for his work on books such as Daredevil and Conan The Legend. Cary Nord is t...

Alexis Noriega

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alexis Noriega grew up in a family of nerds and geeks. Her father taught her a love of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and cinema, and her mother taught her a lov...

Greg Nosek

Paige O'Hara

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Donna Paige Helmintoller, better known as Paige O’Hara (born May 10, 1956), is an American actress, voice actress, singer and painter. O’Hara began...

Adam Orndorf

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Adam Orndorf has worked in indie comics for over 16 years as both a writer and an artist. With projects ranging from online comics to anthologies, ...

Phil Ortiz

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Come and be sketchanized by Phil and see what you would look like if you were to appear as a character on the Simpsons! It costs $70 per person to ...

Chantelle Aimee Osman

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Chantelle Aimée Osman is the Editor of New Wave Crime at Down & Out Books. The former Editor-in-Chief of RT Book Reviews and a freelance editor for...

Overly Critical Otakus

James A. Owen

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

James A. Owen is the author of the bestselling “Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica” series (“Here, There Be Dragons”), the creator of the cr...

Dan Panosian

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dan Panosian is a comic book artist, with extensive credits as both a penciller and an inker and has additional credits as an advertising and story...

Christopher Paolini

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Christopher Paolini's love of fantasy and the natural beauty that surrounds his home in Montana inspired him to begin writing the Inheritance Cycle...

Bryce Papenbrook

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Bryce Papenbrook has been a professional voice over artist since the age of eight. He was introduced to the voice acting scene by his father, Bob P...

Dan Parent

Appearing Thursday-Sunday

Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer[ best known for his work for Archie Comics. A graduate of The Kubert School, Dan began work...

Morgan Parker

Tony Parker

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Tony Parker is an Eisner nominated comic artist and illustrator. He has drawn for nearly all major comic companies, is an Inkwell judge, and a form...

James Parks

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

James Parks is a speculative fiction writer and graphic novelist living in the Bay Area. James was weaned on monster flicks, ghostbusting, lightsab...

Mr. Creepy Pasta

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Creepy Pasta is the new Urban Legend. Horror stories and experiences from around the internet are crawling out of the wood work and coming to your ...

Buddy Perkins

Jason Peters

Aprilynne Pike

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Aprilynne Pike is an internationally best-selling American author best known for her debut novel Wings, which was released in English on May 5, 200...

Phoenix Fandom Productions

Brian Pulido

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brian Pullido is an American comic book writer, creator, and director best known for his unique brand of edgy, pop culture entertainment and mercha...

Glenn Rane

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Glenn is an artist and art director who has worked in the video game industry for over 15 years. If you are familiar with Blizzard Entertainment, y...

Tom Raney

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Tom Raney, over the past 20 years has spent his time predominantly at Marvel and DC, he’s drawn a bit of everything, from XMen to Batman. Superman...

Jens Ranieri

Oscar Renderos

Adam Rex

Appearing Sun

Adam Rex wrote and/or illustrated all the books you like including the New York Times bestselling Chu’s Day (written by Neil Gaiman), the New York...

Derek Riggs

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Born in Portsmouth, England and growing up in Coventry, Derek Riggs is a self-taught artist in traditional painting as well as digital. As an indep...

K Arsenault Rivera

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

K Arsenault Rivera was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, but moved to New York when she was a toddler. While not managing a nutritional supplement sto...

Shelby Robertson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Shelby Robertson is a Phoenix, Arizona based comic book artist, writer, and recetly provided inks on Rob Liefeld's DEADPOOL : BAD BLOOD graphic nov...

Andrew Robinson

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Andrew started his comics career at Dark Horse comics. From then on, he’s working for every major comic publisher and gaming company. His creator o...

Michael Rooker

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Michael Rooker is an American actor best known for his turn as the blue-skinned alien Yondu Udonta in 2014’s top grossing film Guardians of the Gal...

Madelyn Ruiz

Romina Russell

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Romina Russell is the author of the NYT/International Bestselling YA SF-Fantasy series, ZODIAC (Razorbill, Penguin Random House). Born in Buenos Ai...

Susan Sackett

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Tim Sale

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Born in Ithaca, NY on May 1st 1956 Tim moved to Seattle WA shortly thereafter. Tim was educated at the University of Washington and then the John B...

Jim Salicrup

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jim Salicrup is the Editor-in-Chief of Papercutz, the graphic novel publishing company he co-founded with Terry Nantier. Papercutz is devoted to pu...

Sincerely Sam

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Hello!My name is Sam and I am 22 years old. I’ve been what I would like to call an artist since I was a young kid, but didn’t start doing art as a ...

Larry Sanchez

Stuart Sayger

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Stuart Sayger is best known for his moody and atmospheric art. Recently he has produced covers for G.I.Joe, Dejah Thoris and Xena: Warrior Princess...

John Scalzi

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

John Scalzi is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for ...

Lisa Schepper

Brittany Schmidt

V.E. Schwab

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the #1 NYT, USA, and Indie bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, ...

Scott Serkland

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Scott Serkland was once a mild mannered illustrator and designer. At least he was until the effects of an unfortunate incident involving a microwav...

Daemon Seth

William Shatner

Appearing Fri,Sat

William Shatner is an actor, musician, singer, author, film director, spokesman and comedian. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon f...

Julie Shields

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Hillywood Show

Appearing Sat,Sun

The Hillywood Show® is the brainchild of internet celebrities, sister duo, Hilly & Hannah Hindi. Each production features song and dance parodies ...

Scott Sigler

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat

#1 New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler is the creator of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. He gives away his st...

Savannah Sims

Amber Skies

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

AmberSkies is no stranger to the world of creation and has been a professional cosplayer hitting the circuit and making waves since 2010. She was r...

Jon Skovron

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Jon Skovron writes fantasy novels for adults and teens. Most recently, he is the author of the Empire of Storms trilogy published by Orbit book, be...

Melinda Snodgrass

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Melinda M. Snodgrass is a recovered lawyer, a screenwriter and novelist with novels available from both Tor Books — The Edge of Reason, The Edge of...

Scott Snyder

Appearing Sat,Sun

Scott Snyder has written comics for both DC and Marvel, including the bestselling series AMERICAN VAMPIRE, BATMAN and SWAMP THING, and is the autho...

Jazmine Sotello

Beth Sotelo

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

In 2001 Beth Sotelo began working in the comic book industry as a colorist for Top Cow Productions and has since worked for Aspen Comics, DC and M...

Charles Soule

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Charles Soule is an American comic book writer best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars comics from Ma...

Priscilla Spencer

Lorenzo Sperlonga

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Lorenzo was born in 1969 in Rome, Italy and he has been living in Los Angeles, California since 1997. He is an internationally acclaimed pin-up ar...

Michael Stackpole

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sam Sykes

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Sam Sykes is a very tall man who makes good books. His books include The City Stained Red, The Mortal Tally, God's Last Breath, and the Brave Chef...

Ralph Tedesco

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Ralph co-founded Zenescope Entertainment with Joe Brusha in 2005. He also serves as Zenescope’s Head of Film & Television and has written and creat...

John Timms

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

John Timms is a comic book artist for DC Comics. He is known for his work on the current run of Harley Quinn.

Billy Tucci

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

About Billy Tucci Billy Tucci is an award-winning cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai fable, “Shi”. Through Billy’s Crusade Fine A...

James Tynion

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

James Tynion IV is an American comic book writer best known for his work on the Batman franchise at DC Comics. Tynion has worked on a number of ad...

Scott "Doc" Vaughn

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

‘Doc’ is a Phoenix based comic artist, illustrator and writer originally hailing from Wisconsin. His webcomic creation WARBIRDS OF MARS has spawne...

Armand Ventura

Sarah Vicary

Armand Villavert

Dom Vitalli

Brett Weldele

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Brett Weldele is an Eisner-nominated comic book painter and New York Times Bestselling Author. He has been published by nearly every major comic bo...

Ming-Na Wen

Appearing Sat

Ming-Na Wen currently stars as the kick-ass “Agent Melinda May” on Joss Whedon’s show for ABC, AGENT’S OF S.H.I.E.L.D. However, Ming-Na Wen first w...

Chuck Wendig

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Aftermath, as well as the Miriam Black thrillers, the Atlanta Burns books, and ...

Madison West

Anne Wheaton

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

After 17 years as a hairdresser, Anne Wheaton retired from her career to focus full time on her true passions: her love of rescue pets and helping ...

Wil Wheaton

Appearing Fri,Sat

Wil Wheaton is an American actor, blogger, voice actors, and writer. He is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher in the television series...

Lisa Lou Who

Appearing Thursday - Sunday

Lisa Lou Who, winner of SyFy’s Cosplay Melee, started out as a seamstress for theatre and dance. Her obsessive love of video games, cartoons, and a...

Eric Wile

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Eric Wile is a credited video game designer. He has done level design, story boarding, concept design, game engine design etc. He currently reside...

Joshua Williamson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Joshua Williamson resides in Portland OR, home of big trees, rain, and half the comic industry. Joshua has written for nearly every comic publisher...

Bennie Willie

Blake Wissman

Hana Wissman

Ashley Witter

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Renee Witterstaetter

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Writer, editor, colorist and publisher Renee Witterstaetter has acted as editor on such books as "Hercules," "Xena," "X-Files," "Conan," "She-Hulk,...

Asta Young

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Asta Young is a 4 ft 5 little person cosplayer, artist, gamer, and the mother of pugs. She was born in Hong Kong and moved out to the United States...

Suzanne Young

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Suzanne Young is the New York Times bestselling author of the Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue h...

Mike Zeck

Appearing Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

When discussing comics heavy hitter, Mike Zeck, you’d have to argue which is his most influential work, or which is most deeply embossed on our pop...

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