As a teenager, and later, at Columbia University, Sanderson's first involvement in the comics field was as a "letterhack," a frequent contributor to comic book letter columns. His missives impressed DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz enough for Schwartz expand the letter columns in some titles to a second, separate page (such as "Flash-Grams — Extra", "Letters To the Batcave — Extra", and "JLA Mailroom — Special Peter Sanderson Edition") to facilitate Sanderson's analysis. In the early 1980s Sanderson wrote for comics hobbyist magazines, including The Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes, and Comics Feature.

Danny is a fantasy illustrator from Westfield, NJ. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, games, television shows and galleries across the United States for over fifteen years. Recent clients include: Wizards of the Coast (Magic: The Gathering), Wyrmwood Gaming, Viacom/CBS (Late Nite Cartoons), Orbit Books (The Witcher), and Thousand Ant/Unity Engine, among many others.

William is a professional comic cover artist and creator, with over 180 covers under his belt in eight years. With covers for image comics, dynamite comics, coffin comics, and tons of indie titles. He is also the creator of the hit horror comic Psycho Sal.

A longtime comics pro, Mark has worked for many companies, including Image, Dark Horse, Chaos, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, mostly as an inker. Past projects from Mark include Thor, Daredevil, Batman, Red Hood, Avengers vs. X-Men, Spider-Man/Deadpool, Currently, he is working on X-Men from Marvel Comics and his creator owned book Until You Die with Sajad Shah.

Best known for her role as April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.[1] Other notable roles include Melanie Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera All My Children, Terri Lowell in the CBS series The Agency, Gail Emory in the CBS series American Gothic and appearances in NYPD Blue, Party of Five and Person of Interest.

Lisa started her career at Marvel Entertainment as an assistant editor for the STAR comics, later writing and drawing storyboards for its Heathcliff, Barbie and Barbie Fashion series. She enjoyed turning the world’s best-selling doll into a fully rendered, modern female character. Lisa also wrote Morbius the Living Vampire for Marvel, and Apartment 3-G.

Rick is an award winning artist/writer whose memoir graphic novel, DRAFTED, was released from Abrams ComicArts in 2024. It is about his military service during the Vietnam War, the first in a series about his life and work. Rick’s comics career started at Marvel in 1976 where he hand-lettered 30,000+ pages;

This is Michael Turney’s 1st scheduled appearance EVER at a comic con!
Michael Turney was born in New York City. He is a former child actor starring in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) as Danny Pennington. In 2024 Michael wrote and directed the award winning retro tech body horror, Video Vision, that screened at Fright Fest in London.

James is the award-winning creator of The Crow, and writer of the two hit series Curare and Skinning the Wolves from IDW Publishing.

James likes to lament that he was born in a trailer in Detroit just in time to see Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy die, but claims no responsibility for either. He spent his first seven years in an orphanage and foster care where he spent most of his time drawing. When he was adopted, he brought along his crayons and has been using them ever since.

Pete is an American musician and composer who was part of the recording staff on ThunderCats.
After graduating from Indiana State University, Cannarozzi studied music theory and composition at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.

Dave is a creator who broke into the comic scene in the early 1990s. Since then, he has founded Red Anvil Comics and co-published, such titles as Penance, War of the Independents, The Mighty Titan, Owlgirls, Cyberines, Monsterjunkies, Shadowflame, Ripperman, Mazscara, Unit 5 and the upcoming World Wide Warriors.

In a remarkably varied writing career, Peter is probably best known for the cult horror movie, The Burning, and for his work on several loved and successful animated shows, notably the Rankin/Bass series ThunderCats, SilverHawks and TigerSharks.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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).