

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.

Colleen Doran is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 28-29th!
Colleen is a The New York Times bestselling cartoonist. From her first work with on The Sandman, she also adapted the short stories Troll Bridge, Snow Glass Apples, and Chivalry, winning two Eisners, The Bram Stoker, Locus, and Ringo Awards, and nominations for Best Penciler/Inker Eisners, Reubens, the Excelsior, Rondo, and Tripwire Awards.

Uko Smith is coming to GSCF 25’
Uko Smith is becoming known for his unique style for the erotic pinup and his sensual style of work. As always admiring the female form, Uko gives great attention to the emotion and alluring look of his females whether it be the eyes, hair or clothing designs he decides to adorn them with( if any at all)

Nikkol Jelenic is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 28 & 28, 2025
Nikkol painted the cover art for Dynamite Entertainment's 'Red Sonja vs. The Army Of Darkness' series & is also a recent featured interior artist on the horror anthology 'The Haunted Box' from Iron Age Comics as well as a frequent cover artist for Darby Pop Publishing

The Legendary Bob Wiacek is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 28-29th at the Codey Arena!
Bob has inked over such pencilers as Carmine Infantino on Star Wars, Paul Smith and John Romita Jr. on The Uncanny X-Men, June Brigman on Power Pack, John Byrne on Alpha Flight and Sensational She-Hulk, Walter Simonson on X-Factor and Orion, and George Pérez on Brave and the Bold, volume 2.

Bill McKay is coming to Garden State Comic Fest
A fan favorite, Bill is a comic illustrator best known for his cover work on Zombie Tramp, Unnatural, Red Sonja, Lady Death, Dollface, Vampblade, Sad Girl Psycho Baby, Penny For Your Soul and Danger Doll Squad.