

Codename Citadel
Renee aka @codenamecitadel on social media, has been cosplaying over a decade at various conventions, charity events, hospital visits, competitions, movie premieres, NY Fashion Week and even won a global contest to earn a part in Madame Tussaud’s Marvel 4D show.
Photo by: Alex Valderana Fotos

Frank Fosco
Frank is best known for his stint on the 23 issue run of Image comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also has worked for DC on Legionnaires, Superman/Elseworlds, Steel, Robin and Zero Hour among others. For Marvel he has contributed with pencils on The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine: A 12 issue 40 year anniversary of The Fantastic Four paying homage to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Chris Ivy
Christopher's career in the comic industry started at Marvel Comics, right after graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York City. After a year working on staff in their art dept. for art directors John Romita and Don Perlin in the Marvel Bullpen, he started freelance work as penciler, inker and colorist--but he's most known for his inking runs on such titles as Daredevil, Cage, Avengers, Alpha Flight, Ghost Rider

Tom Cook
Tom began his career as an animator and director in 1978 at Hanna-Barbera Studios where he worked as an assistant animator on Challenge of the "SuperFriends", "Godzilla", "Scooby Doo", "Smurfs", "Pacman" and the "Flintstones".

Joe Staton
Joe, a legend in the comic world and co-creator of such notable characters as Earth 2’s Huntress and the Green Lantern Corps Salaak, Arisia Rrab, and the toughest GL of all, Kilowog to name only a few.

Barbara Friedlander
Barbara is the first woman to create a character for DC Comics. The comic book was Swing With Scooter. Scooter, a former British musician and rock star, became a staple of the DC Universe for many years, even after her departure. The characters were wonderfully drawn by the great Joe Orlando.

Jan Duursema
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 Mandrake
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.

Jame Saito
Saito is best known as the original Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dr. Chen in the ABC series Eli Stone, Harry Kim in the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe, and Kenji in Modern Love.

Nick Caponi
Nick is a NJ based comic book colorist who has worked on titles for Dynamite (Bettie Page, Green Hornet), Pixie Trix Comix (Eerie Cuties, Infernica Sinn), Image Comics (Stray Dogs), Archie (The Archies), Ablaze Comics (Lovecraft- Unknown Kadath), Scout Comics (Canceled, Gods of Brutality) and more!

Mike DeCarlo is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Mike DeCarlo entered the comics industry as an assistant to Dick Giordano. When Giordano became an editor at DC Comics in 1980, DeCarlo became an inker in his own right. DeCarlo inked the penciled artwork of George Pérez on "The Judas Contract" story arc in Tales of the Teen Titans with Giordano.

Kale Cosplays is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Kale hails from Ireland and moved to the US 5 years ago. She attended her first convention in 2014 but didn't start cosplaying and making her own cosplays until just a few years ago.Kale started cosplaying as a way to make friends and have fun but most importantly as an excuse to make anything her heart desired.

Keith Williams is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
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.

Agents of SLABS is coming to GSCF 2025
GSCF's Exclusive CGC facilitator, Agents Of SLABS Signature Service, one of the best companies around will be at @Garden State Comic Fest 2025 at the Codey Arena in West Orange NJ June 28-29th! Make sure to bring your submissions and they will take care of everything from grading, pressing, signing, and everything in between, the Agents are the ones to trust with your comics. We trust them with ours.

Kevin Altieri is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Kevin Altieri is a television director of animated cartoons. Altieri's directorial works include episodes of C.O.P.S., Batman: The Animated Series, GI Joe Renegades, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, and Stripperella.
He also was the Storyboard design, sequence director of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Emma Kubert is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Emma is a comic book creator, writer, artist, and teacher of the Joe Kubert School. After graduating from the Kubert School in 2018, Emma went on to work for many different companies including DC Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Tapas Entertainment, Dynamite Comics, and more! Starting her career as a layout artist for DC’s Teen Titans Raven graphic novel, she also served as an artist for Teen Titans Go!

New Jersey Veterans Network to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
New Jersey Veterans Network is a volunteer mobile outreach program that is completely dedicated to helping our veterans and their families live a better life.
Under the leadership of Francisco “Doc” Schupp, a retired Army Medic/Iraqi War Vet, and Veteran Activist and Shadow "America's Pup" GSCF is able to provide many veterans and their families a fun filled weekend.

Chris Campana is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Chris has worked with Marvel,DC, Hasbro,IDW,Image,Dynamite and many others. His work can be seen in Amazing Spider-man,Ghost Rider,Spiderman 2099,Red Goblin, Daredevil,Masters of the Universe,Green Lantern, Gi-Joe,TMNT,Red Sonja,Death Dealer, Fire and Ice, Lady Death,Vampirella,Pathfinder,Tellos and many others.

Ryan G Browne is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Ryan is a New York based comic book artist who has done work including covers for Image comics, IDW, Aftershock, Happy Tank, BOOM, Dark Horse ( titles including TMNT, Last Ronin, Department of Truth, Usagi Yojimbo, Thundercats, Transformers, GIJoe, MFKZ, MOTU and More) currently the cover artist and interior artist on the new book Murder Hobo

Dan Fraga is coming to GSCF June 28-29th!
Dan is a director and comic book artist who’s career as a storyteller started in late 1991 when Cable and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld hired the 18 year old to join Extreme Studios and the newly formed Image comics.