James 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.
Some of James's other credits include Life of Pi, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Devil's Advocate, Home Alone 3, Pearl Harbor, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Hot Dog…The Movie, Grey's Anatomy, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Elementary, Instinct, Iron Fist, House of Cards, Hawaii Five-0, Person of Interest, 30 Rock
Reilly Brown
New Jersey native Reilly Brown is a top selling comic artist for DC comics, Marvel Comics and Line Webtoon. He's known for bringing a sense of character and personality to the projects that he works on, balancing a combination of light-hearted humor, with fast paced superhero action.
Best known for his work on several DEADPOOL titles, Reilly has also lent his talents to series such as BATMAN/FORTNITE: ZERO POINT and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN among others, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE,
Bill Anderson
Bill has inked hundreds of comics for Marvel (Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Cosmic Powers, Uncanny Origins); DC (Action Comics, Superman, Superboy, Batman and the Outsiders); Mirage (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtle Soup); Image (Vanguard, Ethrian); Comico (Elementals, Robotech, Jonny Quest); Claypool Comics (Elvira) and countless other publishers.
Chris Graves
Chris is a self-taught freelance artist specializing in both traditional and digital mediums. His dynamic and detailed artwork has been featured in several notable comic projects, including Naughty N Nyce: Halloween Special from Marat Mychaels’ Counterpoint Comics and a two-issue arc of Christopher Priest’s Vampirella for Dynamite Entertainment.
Jim Starlin
Jim is best known for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Nebula, and Shang-Chi, as well as writing the miniseries The Infinity Gauntlet and its many sequels including The Infinity War and The Infinity Crusade, all detailing Thanos' pursuit of the Infinity Gems to court Mistress Death
Jim Calafiore
In 30-plus years in comics, Jim has worked on Peter David's AQUAMAN, Judd Winnick's EXILES, GOTHAM UNDERGROUND with Frank Tieri, RED LANTERNS with Charles Soule, various BATMAN books, DEADPOOL, and BLACK PANTHER. After a run on the critically acclaimed SECRET SIX with Gail Simone, they reunited for their creator-owned success LEAVING MEGALOPOLIS.
Keith Williams
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.
Tom Raney
Tom has drawn a lot of comics, mostly for Marvel and DC. From X-Men to Batman, Stormwatch to Thor, and lots more in and around those. Recently he’s drawing the Green Lantern, for DC!
Peter Sanderson
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 Schwartz
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 Russell
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.
Mark Morales
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.
Paige Turco
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 Trusiani
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 Parker
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;
Michael Turney
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 O’Barr
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 Cannarozzi
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 Ryan
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.
Peter Lawrence
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.
