Ava Schrager is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Ava originally from Cincinatti Ohio, is a 2nd year student at The Joe Kubert School and winner of the Wave Blue World scholarship. She has worked with Philbo Publishing as a cover artist for their "Tragedy" comic book series.
George Vega is coming to Winter Fest 25’
George Vega is an accomplished illustrator and comic book artist who has collaborated with prestigious clients, including Paramount Pictures, Upper Deck/Marvel, and DC Comics/Cryptozoic. His artistic style encompasses a wide range, from comic book cartooning to concept work and classic illustration, reflecting a deep appreciation for the techniques and sensibilities of past masters.
Bud Larosa is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Bud trained formally at the illustrious Art Students League of New York and In 1985 he began a full time career as a freelance artist for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Neal Adams Continuity Studios under Neal Adams. This is not only where he perfected his craft, but also where he learned discipline, keeping deadlines, working under great pressure and how to grow creatively.
Jan Duursema is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25
Jan Duursema is an American comic artist best known for her work on Star Wars comics. She created characters like Aayla Secura and Quinlan Vos and began her comics career with Heavy Metal in 1979. She worked on Sgt. Rock and co-created Arion, Lord of Atlantis for DC Comics in 1982.
Nick Caponi is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Nick is a NJ based comic book colorist who has worked on titles for Dynamite (Bettie Page, Green Hornet), Pixie Trix Comix (Eerie Cuties, Infernica Sinn), Image Comics (Stray Dogs), Archie (The Archies), Ablaze Comics (Lovecraft- Unknown Kadath), Scout Comics (Canceled, Gods of Brutality) and more!
Jeff Brennan is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Jeff has been an artist for 15 years, starting as an inking assistant on Superman in 1991, which led to work at DC Comics and on titles like Deathstroke the Terminator. He later worked on comics like Bart Simpson Comics and Liberty Girl. Transitioning to animation, he animated commercials and did storyboards for shows such as Jumanji, Extreme Ghostbusters, and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Jason Baroody is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Jason is a Comic Artist for Image and Banana Tail press. He was A founding member of TEN TON STUDIOS and has been the Artist on several published comic books throughout the years.
Scott Hanna is back for GSCF: Winter 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. He later joined DC Comics, where he worked on major titles like Detective Comics and contributed to the Batman arcs Knightfall, Knightquest, and Knightsend.
Tom Mandrake is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Tom Mandrake (born 1956) is an American comic artist best known for his collaborations with writer John Ostrander on Grimjack, Firestorm, The Spectre, and Martian Manhunter. Influenced by Marvel Comics and Brandywine School painters, Mandrake studied at Cooper School of Art and The Kubert School. Early in his career, he worked on Sgt. Rock and New Talent Showcase for DC, and later contributed to New Mutants at Marvel.
Keith Williams is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Keith Williams is a comic book inker who studied Media Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (1976-1980), where he was taught by Will Eisner. With Marvel artist Don Perlin’s mentorship, he joined Marvel Comics in 1982 as a background inker, working with inkers like Joe Sinnott and Mike Esposito.
Bob Sharen is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Bob started as a colorist for Marvel in 1978. He’s had long runs on the Spider-man books, Captain America, GI Joe, Master of Kung Fu, Alien Legion, Iron Man, West Coast Avengers, and at one time or another worked on just about every Marvel title. Since leaving Marvel he is mostly doing hand coloring on fan commissioned one-of-a-kind recreations, and is available for digital coloring.
Bob Wiacek is GSCF: Winter Fest 2025
Bob Wiacek (born January 7, 1953) is an American comic book artist known for his work as an inker. He began his career in the mid-1970s with the "Crusty Bunkers" inking collective, working briefly on Superman backgrounds for DC Comics. By 1978, he started a long tenure with Marvel that lasted until 1993.
Ava Schrager coming to Morristown 2024 June 22-23rd!
Ava originally from Cincinatti Ohio, is a 2nd year student at The Joe Kubert School and winner of the Wave Blue World scholarship. She has worked with Philbo Publishing as a cover artist for their "Tragedy" comic book series.
Zeea Adams is coming to GSCF Sunday June 23rd!
Sunday Only! June 23, 2024
Zeea, daughter of colorist extraordinaire Cory Adams and legendary artist Neal Adams, has learned beside each of them. Both parents worked in many mediums, so Zeea has learned to work in pencil, ink, watercolors, acrylics, digital animation, even motion capture. Her commercial work was even part of a major Nasonex campaign featuring Antonio Banderas and the X-Men:Gifted motion comic!
Chris Campana is coming to GSCF: Morristown 24’
A 15 year veteran in the comic industry, Chris has worked with Marvel, Hasbro, IDW, Image, Dynamite and many others. His work can be seen on Ghost Rider, Spiderman 2099, Red Goblin, Venom, Deadpool, Gi-Joe, TMNT, Red Sonja, Death Dealer, Fire and Ice, Lady Death, Vampirella, Pathfinder, Tellos and many others.
Saturday Only Ryan G Browne @ GSCF Morristown 2024
Saturday Only June 22, 2024
Ryan is a New York based comic book artist who has done work including covers for Image comics, IDW, Aftershock, Happy Tank, BOOM, Dark Horse ( titles including TMNT, Last Ronin, Department of Truth, Usagi Yojimbo, Thundercats, MFKZ, MOTU and More) currently the cover artist and interior artist on the new book Murder Hobo along side writer Joe
Héctor Camacho Jr. is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 22-23rd!
Hector is an American-born Puerto Rican, Mexican professional boxer and published writer. He started boxing professionally at the age of 18. He is the son of the late three-time world champion Héctor "Macho" Camacho and the nephew of Felix "Showtime" Camacho. In 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2016, he won the World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation Light Middleweight title.
J. David Spurlock is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 22-23rd!
J. David Spurlock is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 22-23rd!
J. David Spurlock is an author, illustrator, editor, and artist's-rights advocate best known as the founder of Vanguard Productions, a publisher of art books, graphic novels, and prints.
Kristin Minter is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 22-23rd
Kristin is best known as Heather McCallister in Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Miranda 'Randi' Fronczak in ER.
Minter also played Kathy Winslow in the film Cool as Ice alongside Vanilla Ice, and Rachel MacLeod in Highlander: The Series
Minter portrayed Nina in the body horror film Excess Flesh and voiced Sophia Bossedon in Halo 2.
Sunday Only Bob Budiansky is coming to GSCF June 23 2024
Bob Budiansky is coming to GSCF SUNDAY June 23rd!!
Bob is a comic book writer, artist and editor who worked at Marvel Comics for almost 20 years. He's best known for his work on Transformers. After editing Marvel's 4-issue 1984 Transformers mini-series, Bob wrote most of the next 50 issues of the comic.