Larry KennEy
Larry is an American voice actor and radio personality. He is known for his voice work as Lion-O on the 1980s Rankin/Bass cartoon Thunder Cats, and Karate Kat, a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of The Comic Strip. He was also the voice of Bluegrass in SilverHawks and Dolph in TigerSharks. Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters, including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird.
Nikkol Jelenic
Nikkol is an American artist who has painted and penciled comic book covers and pages, music albums, and game design art.
Nikkol painted the cover art for Dynamite Entertainment’s Red Sonja vs. The Army Of Darkness series and is also a recent featured interior artist on the horror anthology The Haunted Box from Iron Age Comics as well as a frequent cover artist for Darby Pop Publishing’s Side-Kicked series.
Peter Newman
In ThunderCats, Peter provided the voices of Tygra, Wilykat, Bengali, and Monkian. In SilverHawks he provided the voices of Quicksilver, Mumbo Jumbo, and Timestopper. He also played the evil Duke of Zill & Wack Lizardi in Felix the Cat: The Movie. In 1987, Newman also provided the voice of the camp director of Camp Mimi-Mon for the Rankin/Bass show Mini Monsters
Mark McKenna
Mark is a 40 year veteran of the comic book industry. In that time he has worked on Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and more recently on Star Wars, counting over 550 comics in all.
Mark's work can be seen in Legendary Picture Books PACIFIC RIM movie prequel as well as Dark Horse Comic’s Star Wars-The Old Republic: The Lost Suns.
Lynne Lipton
Lynne provided the voices of all female characters on the popular 1980s animated series ThunderCats, until the second season, when Gerrianne Raphael joined the cast voicing Pumyra. Among the many roles Lipton performed in the show, she voiced Luna of the Lunatacs; Willa, Queen of the Warrior Maidens; the Female Unicorn Guardian; Wilykit; Mandora; and, most importantly, Cheetara (a role she later reprised for an episode of Family Guy)
Mike Decarlo
Mike is best known for his work for DC Comics in the 1980s inking the artwork of such artists as George Pérez, Greg LaRocque, Keith Giffen, and Jim Aparo. 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. He inked the Legion of Super-Heroes from 1986 to 1988 first with Greg LaRocque and then briefly with Keith Giffen.
Ryan G. Browne
A New York based comic book artist who has 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 along side writer Joe Schmalke.
Undisputed Comics King
The Undisputed comics King is coming GSCF! The king has been collecting comics since grade school, and still owns the first comic he ever purchased (an OK copy of Transformers #7).
Bob Wiacek
Bob has inked over such pencilers as Carmine Infantino on Star Wars, Paul Smith and John Romita Jr. on The Uncanny X-Men, June Brigman on Power Pack, John Byrne on Alpha Flight and Sensational She-Hulk, Walter Simonson on X-Factor and Orion, and George Pérez on Brave and the Bold, volume 2.
Spiderweb Art Gallery
Spiderweb Art Gallery, or Spiderweb Art, is owned and operated by Greg Hildebrandt and Jean Scrocco. Jean has been representing Greg and his art for over 36 years, and Greg has been creating art for over 56 years, making them the perfect team!
The Art Of Greg Hildebrant
Greg and Tim illustrated the first of a series of The Lord of the Rings calendars for Ballantine Books. In 1977, Lucasfilm hired the Brothers Hildebrandt to create the movie poster for the first Star Wars film, Star Wars: A New Hope. In 1981, they pursued separate careers. During the ’80s Greg’s art appeared on covers for Omni and Heavy Metal.
Amy Jo Johnson
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
Kevin eastman
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.
Thank You
We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the nearly 1000 people who came out and supported Winter Fest on Saturday. The vendors, guests, artists, and fans did not disappoint. In fact it turned out to be an amazing time.
Thank you to our staff that always pulls off the impossible and makes it look easy. No show has a better staff anywhere!
We will be back with Garden State Anime Fest April 18-19th and of course the main event GSCF this June at the Codey Arena. Announcements start soon so get ready!!
