Amy Chu is coming to Garden State Comic's Winter Fest Saturday January 24th. Amy is a writer for comics and animation. Her most recent graphic novel is Carmilla: The Eternal (Dark Horse / Berger Books) the final book in the award winning Carmilla the First Vampire trilogy. For Marvel she wrote the miniseries Emma Frost: White Queen, and for Gearbox/Dark Horse the Borderlands mini series Moxxi's Mysterious Memento.

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Rudy is a Filipino comics artist who has worked mostly as an inker in the American comic book industry. Known for his lush, detailed inklines, Nebres' most prolific period was in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Before coming to the United States, Nebres studied fine arts in the Philippines and worked in the Filipino comics industry.

Born in Brooklyn N.Y. and selling his First piece of artwork at age 11. A comic book mural for a comic store wall. Bud has not stopped producing artwork since, that was forty years ago. Bud trained formally at the illustrious Art Students League of New York and In 1985 he began a full time career as a freelance artist for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Neal Adams Continuity Studios under Neal Adams.

Bob started as a colorist for Marvel in 1978. He’s had long runs on the Spider-man books, Captain America, GI Joe, Master of Kung Fu, Alien Legion, Iron Man, West Coast Avengers, and at one time or another worked on just about every Marvel title.

Amy is a multi-faceted artist with over twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. With her main focus now being behind the camera, Johnson’s feature film TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING had its world premiere at the TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. She worked for over 20 years as an accomplished actor, starring in popular tv shows such as FELICITY MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS & FLASHPOINT

The Collectible Conservancy will be acting as our official CGC Facilitator for Winter Fest, January 24-25th at the Sussex County Fairgrounds. The Collectible Conservancy will be accepting on-site grading submissions(not on-site grading) and CGC Signature Series witnessing.

Keith, a comic book inker, enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City from 1976 to 1980. Majored in Media Arts and studied under Will Eisner, the creator of the Spirit comic strip. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art. With the help of Marvel comic book artist and mentor Don Perlin, Keith started working for Marvel Comics in 1982 as a background inker. He worked for inkers including Joe Sinnott and Mike Esposito.

Jan is most well known for her work on the Star Wars comics franchise and, believe us, that only touches the surface of her extraordinary career to date. She is the creator of the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and her Kiffar Jedi master Quinlan Vos as well as Denin and Vila from Naldar

Tom has been illustrating comic books for over 35 years. His credits include The Spectre, The Martian Manhunter, Batman, Swamp Thing, To Hell You Ride, Weapon X, The New Mutants, The Hulk!, The Punisher, GrimJack, Sidekick, The X-Files to name a few.

Born in Portland, Maine in 1962 Kevin Eastman began drawing at a very young age. copying children’s books and reading comics. Inspired by master storyteller Jack Kirby, and later by self publishing creators Richard Corben, Vaughn Bode, and Dave Sim, all his early work focused more on Science Fiction influences than traditional Superhero style comics.

Keone Young is coming to Garden State Winter Fest January 24 & 25, 2026!
Keone has been a performer for over 50 years. Spanning the fields of films, tv, theater, animation, and video games. Well known for his role of Storm Shadow on the original GI Joe series. Also as Grandpa in Disney’s Jake Long and the American Dragon and Commander Sato in Star Wars Rebels

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Larry Hama is best known as writer of the Marvel Comics licensed series G.I. Joe, based on the Hasbro line of military action figures. Hama said in a 2006 interview that he was given the job by then editor-in-chief Jim Shooter after every other writer at Marvel had turned it down.