Nikkol is an American horror illustrator, comic book creator & cover artist.

While creating fantastic & gory tales for her own comics & freelancing pin ups & painted canvas works,

Kim is an artist with over 30 years of experience, having worked at Marvel, DC Comics and other major comic publishers. He has inked literally thousands of comic pages, including Swamp Thing, Nick Fury, SheHulk, Defenders, etc. He is also an award winning painter and fantasy illustrator. And for the past 25 years he has been an instructor at the The Kubert School.

Lee Weeks has been drawing and occasionally writing comics for more than 30 years. Best known for his work on Batman, Superman, Daredevil, and Hulk, Weeks has illustrated nearly every major character while partnering with some of the most celebrated talents in the industry.

Don Oriolo[1] is an American artist, musician, and writer best known for his work in the music publishing industry and for overseeing the Felix the Cat cartoon franchise after his father, Felix co-creator Joe Oriolo, died in 1985.[2] Don Oriolo also owns and operates the Oriolo Guitar Company, a guitar, bass, and ukulele manufacture company[3][4] whose products often feature Felix and other Oriolo-designed artwork.

Bill has has hundreds of inking credits, 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.

Emma is a freelance comic book artist, writer, and teacher/alumni of the Kubert School. She has freelanced for various companies such as DC Entertainment, Marvel Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Image Comics, and Tapas Media. Emma has worked on various titles including DC Super Hero Girls, Teen Titans Go!, Batman: Audio Adventures, Women of Marvel: Squirrel Girl, and Red Sonja. Emma is currently writing, penciling, and coloring on-going series Inkblot,

Gus Mauk is coming to GSCF June 24-25th!

Gus started out as a portrait and charcoal artist and moved into comics as a cover artist. Currently working on covers for Image, IDW, and Blackbox Comics, such as Sweet Paprika, Department of Truth, GI Joe, and Nightmare Blog. Gus is also the Artist/ co-creator of Blackbox Comics' top selling title: Shi no Kage.

Tom Raney is coming to GSCF June 24-25th with thanks to Heroes Initiative!

Tom has drawn a lot of comics, mostly for Marvel and DC. From XMen to Batman, Stormwatch to Thor, lots more in and around those. Recently he’s drawing the Green Lantern, for DC!

Bob broke in at Marvel Comics in 1992 as a professional inker on Warlock & the Infinity Watch series which led to numerous projects at Marvel for the next decade straight like Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek: DS9 and later Annihilation: Conquest-Quasar and Heroes for Hire. Most significant was his 3 years of work as inker/storyteller with Priest and Sal Velluto on Marvel's Black Panther from 1999-2002.

Buzz is a veteran comic book artist of 36 years known for his work on JSA,VAMPIRELLA,ATOMIKA, , X-FACTOR,SHI and many more. Demands for Buzz's art has grown more recently with covers to many popular tiles.His variant covers to Vampirella, Red Sonja, Ninjak, Fight Girls, Power Rangers Shattered Grid comics,Usagi Yojimbo, Elvira, and the acclaimed Batman vs The Maxx were quickly sold out after their release.

Anthony Marques is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 24-25th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ!

Tom has been illustrating comic books for over 35 years. His credits include The Spectre, The Martian Manhunter, Batman, Swamp Thing, To Hell You Ride, Weapon X, The New Mutants, The Hulk!, The Punisher, GrimJack, Sidekick, The X-Files to name a few.

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. It was there that he studied under the LEGENDARY Klaus Janson, which quickly lead to a job with Marvel Comics and later DC Comics. The majority of his work is from DC, were he worked on titles such as Booster Gold, JLA, Legion of Superheroes, Hawkman, Aquaman and 52.