Our 2013 Lineup is unfolding!
The following guests have already commited to our 2013 convention!
Keep checking back here! Guest announcments will be made almost weekly until the weekend of the con this year!
Billy Dee Williams
Lando Calrissian!
An icon of not only Hollywood but also the African-American community, Billy Dee Williams was a long anticipated and much needed addition to the cast of heroes in the STAR WARS universe. His considerable presence brought many viewers to the seats of the theater to see THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK who may not have originally purchased a ticket. His overwhelming popularity and powerful performance opposite Diana Ross in the films MAHOGONY and LADY SINGS THE BLUES led many women flocking to see his character Lando Calrissian in George Lucas' space fantasy. Billy Dee's career has encompassed so much, including the films "Undercover Brother", "Nighthawks", "Bingo Long", "Bryan's Song", and the television show "Dynasty". His introduction in the "Star Wars" trilogy allowed Billy Dee to continue his role in "Return of the Jedi"; as General Calrissian he piloted the Millennium Falcon directly into the second Death Star destroying it from within. His popularity in the fantasy/Sci-Fi genre continued when he took the role of Gotham's district attorney Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's "Batman", lending his charming good looks and suave attitude to the film.
Billy Dee is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Mystery Guest
To be announced later this year!
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Marina Sirtis
Counselor Deanna Troi
Marina Sirtis was born to Greek parents who did not want her to become an actress. As soon as Marina completed high school, she applied to the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama secretly. After her graduation, she worked in musical theater, repertory and television. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles, California. For six months, she auditioned for parts but was unsuccessful. Just before she planned to go back home, she got the part of Counselor Deanna Troi in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987). After the series ended, she reprised her role for a string of successful Star Trek films: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). In 1992, Sirtis married Michael Lamper, a rock guitarist. She occasionally attends Star Trek conventions so that her loving fans can meet her, and she can meet the fans.
Marina is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions!
Mystery Guest
To be announced later this year!
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Cerina Vincent
Maya - The Yellow Ranger!
Shortly after her move to Los Angeles, Cerina found success in front of the camera. After almost instantaneously booking a job as "Maya" the yellow Power Ranger, Cerina moved from the small screen to big with prominent roles in the hit films "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Cabin Fever." After which, Cerina has found much success in Guest Star roles on most television's major hit shows including "CSI," "Bones," and "2 1/2 Men." Currently, Cerina splits her time between acting and writing. She is the co-author of a weekly lifestyle column on the Huffington Post, as well as, the co-author of the incredibly successful book "How to eat like a Hot Chick." To which write-ups and praise can be found in nearly every magazine on the racks. Spending much of her time in the air between New York and Los Angeles, Cerina focuses on reading (and writing) scripts and the release of her next book. Cerina is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Walter Jones
The Original Black Ranger
Jones played the character of Zack Taylor, the original Black Ranger in the Power Rangers universe. Jones returned to Power Rangers in the Lost Galaxy season where he played the voice of Hexuba's Nightmare Monster in the episode "Dream Battle"; he also acted in an episode of Power Rangers: Wild Force entitled Forever Red in which many previous Red Rangers teamed up. Again, he did not appear as his original character, Zack, but rather provided the voice for one of the antagonists, a general in the Machine Empire named Gerrok. He guest starred in an episode of Family Matters as Kissel, and portrayed a supporting character in the first season of The Shield named Rondell Robinson, a drug dealer. Additionally, he also played a small role in the film House of the Dead 2 as "locker zombie". Jones also had a cameo appearance in the movie "Fast and the Furious 3 - Tokyo Drift." - Walter is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions!
Mystery Guest
To be announced soon!
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Jason David Frank
Tommy Oliver!
Best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the long-running TV show Power Rangers, Jason morphed into a series of different rangers over the years: Mighty Morphin Green and White, Red Zeo, Red Turbo, and then returned in 2004 as the Black DinoThunder Ranger. All in all, ‘Tommy’ appeared in more episodes than any other character, 225 in total, and appeared in both full-length movies, “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie” (1995) and “Turbo” (1997).
A highly accomplished and respected martial artist with 33 years experience, Kyoshi Frank currently holds a seventh degree black belt in American Karate and a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He is the owner/operator of Rising Sun Karate and MMA, with two schools in Texas and one in California.
An actor at heart, Jason has taken on several small and big screen roles with his most recent being “The One Warrior”—an action/fantasy film which also stars James Russo and Dominic Keating.
Cindy Morgan
Tron / CaddyShack
Cindy moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and became the Irish Spring girl. While she did TV commercials, she studied acting, and was rewarded with her first screen role in CADDYSHACK, playing the role of Lacey Underall, an over-amorous ingenue.
Disney made film history with TRON, the first computer-generated film. Cindy played two characters: Lora, a compute programmer in the “real” world, and Yori, her alter-ego in the film’s computer generated flights of imagination.
Cindy Morgan’s television credits to date include “Falconcrest”, “The Larry Sanders Show”, “Amazing Stories” and “Bring ‘Em Back Alive”.
Cindy also associate-produced five films with Larry Estes, best known for “Sex, Lies and Videotape”.
She’s now finishing her first book, a story about how a nice Catholic girl became Lacey Underall in CADDYSHACK. Cindy is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Mark Ryan
The voice of Bumblebee
Mark Ryan has been combining his acting, singing, writing and action direction talents in an eclectic and successful international career ranging over 30 years. While he may be best known for being the voices of Bumblebee and Jetfire in the Transformers movies, Mark is also a very accomplished writer. In the fall of 2008 the online publisher, ComicMix, began running "The Pilgrim" written by Ryan and drawn by legendary graphic artist Mike Grell. Mark is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Doug Jones
The Silver Surfer
Fans will long remember Doug for his work as THE SILVER SURFER in FANTASTIC FOUR RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. He's also the life and soul of ABE SAPIEN in HELLBOY and HELLBOY II THE GOLDEN ARMY (based on the popular Dark Horse comic book, returning to his role of ABE SAPIEN as well a taking on 2 other roles, that of THE CHAMBERLAIN and THE ANGEL OF DEATH.
Doug played 2 characters in the film Pan's Labyrinth. He plays BOTH Pan (the faun creature) and The Pale Man.
Aside from these films you can also find Doug's work as the voice of Abe Sapien in the HELLBOY cartoon series, as Bette Midler's boyfriend BILLY in HOCUS POCUS, he was side by side with Danny De Vito in BATMAN RETURNS, PLUS he was one of the "Gentlemen" in the fan favorite TV series BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER! Doug is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Margot Kidder
Lois Lane
Kidder is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie and its sequels. She won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for Superman: The Movie. She publicly disagreed with the decision of producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind to replace Richard Donner as director of 1980s Superman II & it was reported that as a result, Kidder's role in 1983's Superman III consisted of less than five minutes of footage, though the producers have denied this in DVD commentaries. Her role in 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was more substantial.
In 2004, Kidder briefly returned to the Superman franchise in two episodes of the television program Smallville, as Dr. Bridgette Crosby, an emissary of Dr. Swann (played by her Superman co-star, Christopher Reeve).
Her turn as Kathy Lutz in The Amityville Horror further cemented her status as one of Hollywood's leading ladies. Margot is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Felix Silla
This is Itt!
Felix was born in a small village outside Rome, Italy. Silla trained as a circus performer, came to the United States in 1955, and toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His multiple talents as a bareback rider, trapeze artist and tumbler brought him to Hollywood, where he became a stuntman, starting with the Gig Young-Shirley Jones vehicle, A Ticklish Affair. His best-known roles are Litvak, the maniacal, miniature Hitler who menaces George Segal in The Black Bird (his favorite role), and Cousin Itt on the long-running TV series, The Addams Family. He was also responsible for the physical performance of the robot Twiki in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, a role for which the voice was supplied by Mel Blanc or Bob Elyea. In part due to his short stature of 1.19 m (3 ft 11 in), he has doubled, often for children, in such movies as The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, and Battlestar Galactica. He also played an Ewok in ROTJ! Felix is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions!
Dickey Beer
Boba Stunts
Dickey Beer is an actor/stuntman who portrayed Barada, a Stormtrooper, and a Biker scout in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He also was a stunt double for Boba Fett and Luke Skywalker. Dickey has appeared in or done stunts for many of the most popular movies of all times including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Terminator 3, Starship Troopers, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom and of course, Star Wars Episode 6 – Return of the Jedi.
Dickey is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions.
Mark Dodson
Salacious Crumb
Mark is the voice actor responsible for many fun charactors including Salacious Crumb in Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and multiple Gremlin voices in Gremlins 1 & 2. He also did voice work in "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and Day of the Dead. Mark rarely does convention signings so we are pleased to have him. You can check out his work on his website! Mark is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions.
Nalini Krishan
Jedi Barriss Offee
Nalini Krishan is an Australian actress who has had roles in "Swift Shift Couriers", "Love Pizza" and has been in an array of tv commercials. She has starred in some Bollywood films such as "Prem Aagan" and "Soldier", just to name a few.
Nalini has been acting and modelling for the last 15 years. She is a former miss Fiji Indian Sun and also has graced the catwalk through many Indian community events.
Nalini’s resume includes the lead role in "Noise" her most recent project, before that she played the lead in the theater play "Curry for Lunch".
Her most notable role seen around the world by millions of fans was that of the character JEDI BARRISS OFFEE as seen in George Lucas' epic films "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" & "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"... sadly her character gets killed off in Episode III. Nalini is appearing courtesy of Galactic Productions!
Craig Boldman
Jughead & More
Craig Boldman has written the Archie syndicated comic strip since 1992. He has also written over 100 issues of the Jughead comic book teamed with artist Rex Lindsey. Craig has worked on Superman, 'Mazing Man, Bugs Bunny, Disney's Doug, Disney's Recess, Ed Edd & Eddie, Bazooka Joe and his own webcomic - Tailipoe. Craig is also the chairperson of the Great Lakes chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.
Mike Grell
Longbow Hunter
Mike Grell is a storyteller. Since his comics debut in 1973, he’s brought his own creations and their worlds to life with a cinematic style of visual storytelling. Some of his more famed work includes The Warlord for DC Comics, Starslayer, Jon Sable, Shaman's Tears, Bar Sinister, and Maggie the Cat.
He has also had successful runs on such features as Batman, Iron Man, Green Arrow, and the internationally acclaimed Longbow Hunters. Mike is appearing courtesy of Coolwaters Productions!
Mystery Guest
Bio Coming Soon!
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Jamal Igle
Prolific Penciling
One of the most popular and prolific pencillers in the comic book industry, Jamal Igle is an award winning artist and writer. Best known for his run on Supergirl with writer Sterling Gates, Jamal has been a professional jack of all trades for nearly 20 years, drawing every title from Action Comics to Zatanna for DC Comics. Jamal's clients include Marvel Comics, image Comics, Dark Angel productions/ Simmons and Company, Devil's Due Studios, Crusade Entertainment, Walt Disney inc., Sony Television, CBS Television and Scholastic Entertainment.
Uko Smith
The Art of Uko Smith
Uko graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a degree in illustration/design. He is becoming known for his unique style for the erotic pinup and his sensual style of work. Collectors and admirers of his work have come to notice his distinctive use of linework and stylized realization. Always looking to make his work distinguished, he is blending his design & illustration into a very unique package.
Ronda Pattison
Eisner nominated!
Ronda Pattison is an Eisner and Shuster Award nominated comic colorist who's current titles include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Godzilla, Atomic Robo, and Next Men. In her 15 year career she has worked for DC, Marvel, Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Red5, and others. You can see her work in Clone Wars, Star Wars: Dark Times, Indiana Jones, Angel, Girl Comics, Wolverine, Jurassic Park, Dark Sun, and many, many others.
Mystery Guest
Bio coming soon!
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Jamie Snell
One Man Art Machine!
Jamie is a freelance illustrator who can do just about anything you need. From penciling and inking, to paints, to sculpting, to etching, etc. Working on various sketch card sets from Topps, Posters for LFL and Acme Archives: Celebrations V and the 30th Anniversary of ESB. He has also worked for IDW publishing doing various covers for IDW's Godzilla #1 and various characters for the Transformers Beastwars Source book.
Drew Curtis
Fark.com
Drew Curtis runs Fark.com in Kentucky and owns 100% of the company. He has appeared on every major news outlet dozens of times (each), and has done over 1,000 radio interviews to date. Fark.com is heavily watched by media outlets for story ideas, and as a result many of the eye-catching news stories of the week originate from there. Drew is also the author of It's not News, it's FARK, How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News.
Mark Kidwell
Creator of "68"
Writer and artist Mark Kidwell is the co-creator and writer of the new ongoing Vietnamese zombie epic "68" from Image comics, writer, illustrator, and creator of the splatterpunk horror mini-series BUMP as well as the writer of Frazetta Comics' DARK KINGDOM series and the Frazetta western, FREEDOM. His most recent work with Jay Fotos and Jeff Zornow, TYRANNOSAURUS REX, sold out in one day.
RD Hall
American Wasteland
R.D. Hall writes comics, screenplays, and other works. R.D.'s first comic was Frankenstein: Monster Mayhem for Dead Dog Comics. More recently, R.D. wrote American Wasteland: Blood and Diesel for Arcana Comics. He also wrote an unproduced screenplay for The Craving. Additionally, R.D. has written articles for Cryptic Magazine, and he writes the Brain Juice column at comicmonsters.com. His comic Horror Book (Image Comics) was published in 2008, and the American Wasteland Trade Paperback was published in 2010.
Guest Terms & Conditions
All guest appearances are confirmed but guest schedules are always subject to change. We will NOT guarantee appearances but we will always try to tell you in advance of any changes to the guest line-up.
Most guests will charge a nominal fee for autographs and those fees are at the sole discretion of the particular guest in question. In general they will range from free all the way up to $35 per autograph. We DO NOT set, monitor or control pricing of autographs.
Photos are also at the sole discretion of each guest. Some may allow in booth photos, others may not. For some guests we will have a scheduled time for a professional photo opportunity. A schedule of photo op times will be available at the admissions window.
If you have any questions please email us!