The Joe Kubert School is back for GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Vendor Eric Bellomo Vendor Eric Bellomo

The Joe Kubert School is back for GSCF: Winter Fest 25’

The Kubert School, founded by the legendary comic book artist Joe Kubert, stands as an iconic institution in the world of comic book and graphic novel education. Located in Dover, New Jersey, this esteemed institution has nurtured and honed the talents of countless aspiring comic book artists and illustrators.

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Jan Duursema is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Nick Caponi is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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!

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Jeff Brennan is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Scott Hanna is back for GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Tom Mandrake is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Keith Williams is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Bob Sharen is coming to GSCF: Winter Fest 25’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Bob Wiacek is GSCF: Winter Fest 2025
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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GSCF: Summer 2025 Vendor/Artist Registration Now Open
Eric Bellomo Eric Bellomo

GSCF: Summer 2025 Vendor/Artist Registration Now Open

As you may have seen in our recent social media updates, we’ve moved our Summer Show to an exciting new location Codey Arena in West Orange, NJ. We’re vibrating with excitement like The Flash, eager to bring you a fantastic event in our new home. We're thrilled to have you with us on this incredible journey and cannot thank you enough for being part of the GSCF family

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Charity Art Auction
Auction Eric Bellomo Auction Eric Bellomo

Charity Art Auction

For Garden State Comic Fest's remarkable 10-year anniversary We are proud to announce that Garden State Comic Fest will be hosting its annual charity art auction on June 22nd as part of our milestone celebration. Over the years, the art auction has grown to become a GSCF tradition with proceeds from this year's auction dedicated to supporting two remarkable charities: The Inkwells and 11th Hour Rescue. Bid on some amazing charity art donated by some of the best in the business.

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GSCF: Morristown 2024 Cosplay Contest
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GSCF: Morristown 2024 Cosplay Contest

ATTENTION COSPLAYERS:
Here at Garden State Comic Fest we are always trying to evolve and test new things. Last year for our cosplay contest, we threw out the book, so to speak, and tried something completely new.
Instead of the traditional contest, at a certain time in a certain area on a certain date, we are transformed all of GSCF into the proverbial stage.
And it was awesome so we are doing it again!!

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Zeea Adams is coming to GSCF Sunday June 23rd!
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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!

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Chris Campana is coming to GSCF: Morristown 24’
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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.

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Saturday Only Ryan G Browne @ GSCF Morristown 2024
Creator Eric Bellomo Creator Eric Bellomo

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

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