

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.

Graham Nolan is coming to GSCF June 28-29th!
Graham is a Inkpot Award winning cartoonist best known for his long run on BATMAN in Detective Comics and as the designer and co-creator of the iconic Batman villain: BANE. Since 1983, Nolan has worked in the comic book industry for all the major publishers as a penciller, inker, writer and publisher as well as illustrating the syndicated newspaper strips, The Phantom and Rex Morgan, M.D. for King Features Syndicate.

Billy Tucci is coming to GSCF June 28-29th!
Billy is an award-winning cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai fable, “Shi”. Through Billy’s Crusade Fine Arts, the multi-Eisner Award-nominated Shi has been printed in five languages sold more than 3 million comic books. He has also worked on a litany of projects for DC Comics’ including “Sgt. Rock”, “Harley Quinn”, “Flash Vs. Superman,” and “Batman.”

Ron Garney is coming to GSCF Summer 25
Over the course of his thirty five year career, Ron Garney has built a large fan following, illustrating some of the industry's greatest characters including Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Thor, X-Force, Captain America, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Silver Surfer, G.I. Joe and the Justice League of America, along with original series like Men of Wrath with Jason Aaron and acclaimed runs on Daredevil and Savage Sword of Conan at Marvel Entertainment.

Andy Smith is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Summer 2025
Andy has been working as a professional artist since 1991. Mostly working in the field of comic books for major publishers such as Marvel, DC, Image, Acclaim and, Cross Gen Ent. Not content with just comic book projects Andy has also done a variety of commercial jobs for clients such as Athlita Entertainment/ Chicago Bears,

V Ken Marion is coming to GSCF: Summer 25
V Ken Marion is a comic book artist, concept artist, and illustrator best known for his work with DC Comics, Aspen Comics, Image Comics, and Dream Key Studios. Notable works include “Aquaman: Deep Dives”, “Trinity,” “Deathshroud,” “Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps,” “Green Lanterns,” “Titans,” “Vanish,” “Jirni,” and “All New Soulfire.”

Howard Mackie is coming to GSCF: Summer 25
Howard was dragged kicking and screaming into writing his first comic book (Iron Man #211) a few years ago and has been working in comic book publishing ever since. Chronicling the adventures of GHOST RIDER, SPIDER-MAN, THE X-MEN, X-FACTOR, GAMBIT, WOLVERINE, BATMAN, and countless other characters for Marvel, DC, and Archie Comics. His most recent work for Marvel was GHOST RIDER: RETURN OF VENGEANCE and the 2023 GHOST RIDER:: BLOOD AND VENGEANCE featuring his return to writing Danny Ketch as the Spirit of Vengeance.

Don McGregor is coming to GSCF: Summer 25
McGregor began his comic writing career in 1969, creating his own series DETECTIVES INC. as a fanzine that he took to the annual New York Comic Convention. It was after meeting publisher Jim Warren in hot debate at that convention that his comic writing career began, writing horror stories for Warren's illustrated horror line of CREEPY, EERIE and VAMPIRELLA.
After working as a proofreader, and eventually editor on several of MARVEL COMICS B&W line of comic/magazines, he was assigned to write the BLACK PANTHER in Marvel's JUNGLE ACTION comics. The "Panther's Rage" series was the first mainstream comic to have an essentially all-black cast of comics, in 1973. Before that, the few comics that did have black leads were normally surrounded by a white supporting cast.

Jamie Jameson is coming to GSCF Summer 25
Jamie Jameson has worked on the comic of American Gods (Dark Horse Comics) – photography, layouts, and has portrayed many of the female characters, including Laura Moon and Zorya P.

Jeff Balke is coming to GSCF Summer 2025
Jeff Balke is an entrepreneur, writer, voice actor and upcoming producer/director of his own animations. He founded his own animation studio, Jeff Balke Studios, which focuses on 2D Animation (using what he calls, Digital Cel Animation). He’s created a number of characters, but is best known for Stanley and Friends (Stanley Squirrel, Natasha Squirrel, Chester, Baby Fang, Billy Billington and Bandit).

Christopher Uminga is coming toGarden State Comic Fest 2025
Chris is an artist who has spent his career developing a unique style that blends together creepy and cute. He has worked on several projects for DC Comics/Warner Bros, Lucasfilm, Footlocker and many others.

Louise Simonson is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Louise is a writer and editor best known for her work on comic book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, World of Warcraft, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel. In recognition of her contributions to comics, Comics Alliance listed Simonson as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition.

Walter Simonson are coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Walter is most known for his work on Thor, which he wrote and illustrated from 1983-1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill and Malekith the Accursed Among others. He has also worked on other Marvel titles such as X-Factor and Fantastic Four, and on DC books

The Art of Greg Hildebrandt is coming Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Greg and his twin brother, Tim, were born in Detroit, Michigan in 1939, Both boys were avid artists and creative thinkers from a young age, and carried their artistic passion with them throughout their childhoods. For years Greg and Tim worked together and apart, receiving international recognition and numerous awards and honors.

Chrissie Zullo Uminga is coming to GSCF Summer 25
Chrissie Zullo Uminga is a Connecticut-based illustrator, and a full-time drawing machine. She has worked for Marvel, DC, and Lucasfilm to name a few, working primarily in comic book illustration, as well as product and statue design. She lives with her husband and their three dogs Sandwich, Wolfie, and Ketchup.

Tana Ford is coming to GSCF: Summer 25’
Tana Ford is a Hugo and Eisner Award winning artist whose work has appeared in Marvel, Dark Horse, Vertigo, iDW and other publications. She began her career by self-publishing queer comics, first winning a Queer Press Grant then going on to become a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

Scott Hanna is back for GSCF: Summer Fest 25’
Scott Hanna is a comic artist with over 30 years of experience, known for his adaptable inking style and over 21,000 inked comic pages across 100+ graphic novels. Starting as a penciller/inker for Eternity Comics, his first published work was DeathHunt #1.

Mark Bagley is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Throughout his career Mark has worked for Marvel Comics on such titles as The Amazing Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, New Warriors, Venom and Ultimate Spider-Man and for DC Comics on Justice League of America, Batman, and Trinity. He got into comics by winning the contest in the Marvel Try-Out Book and in 1991 Mark was assigned to work on Amazing Spider-Man.

Mark Morales is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
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, X-men, Justice League, Avengers vs X-men, Spider-man/Deadpool, Invincible and Astonishing X-men and The High Republic

Chris Batista is coming to Garden State Comic Fest 2025
Chris was born and raised in New York City. Growing up It was hard to find him without a pencil in his hand. All he drew was superheroes and devoured comic books. This eventually led to his attendance at Laguardia HS, were he studied the arts for 4 years instead of getting better at math and science. He then attended the School of Visual Arts were he studied illustration and animation.