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Comicpalooza 2016 Celebrity List


Franchesco!

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Good Girl Art may be what Franchesco! is best known for, yet pin-ups of beautiful women are not the only thing he excels at. His images have appear...

Twinzik

Twinzik was created in 2006 by Texan fraternal twins Hee-Hee and Hopie. Known for their obscure and fun character choices, award-winning skits and ...

David Afsharirad

David Afsharirad is the editor of The Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction series, from Baen Books. His fiction has appeared in vario...

Quincy J. Allen

Quincy J. Allen, a cross-genre author, has been published in multiple anthologies, magazines, and one omnibus. His first novel Chemical Burn was a ...

Cornelia Amiri

Cornelia Amiri, who also writes as Maeve Alpin, is the author of 30 published books. Known as the Celtic Romance Queen, she writes Celtic fantasy r...

Arn Anderson

Appearing Sat, Sun

Arn Anderson is a former professional wrestler and author. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of t...

Kevin J. Anderson

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Kevin J. Anderson has published 120 books, more than 50 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has written numerous novels in...

Chris Avellone

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Chris Avellone started his career at Interplay's Black Isle Studios division and worked on ,em.Planescape: Torment, Fallout 2,, the Icewin...

Breandán Ó'Ciarraí

Breandán Ó'Ciarraí has authored articles on technology, criminal justice matters, Gaelic cultural issues and a succession of fantasy short stories....

Leonard Balsera

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Once thought to be a fictional creation of game industry satirists, Leonard Balsera is the lead developer for Evil Hat Productions' Fate system gam...

Frankie Banali

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Frankie Banali’s hard-hitting drumming was a mainstay of the ’80s LA rock scene, powering bands such as Quiet Riot and W.A.S.P. With influences inc...

Andrea Barbosa

Andrea Barbosa is an award winning novelist and poet who took creative writing classes at Texas Tech University and maintains an indie review blog....

Wayne Basta

Wayne Basta is editor-in-chief for d20 Radio's Gamer Nation blog, author of the space opera Aristeia trilogy and, literally, the "Worst. Book. Ever."

Kate Beckinsale

Appearing Sat

Kate Beckinsale is a celebrated, versatile actress who's starred in everything from Shakespeare and independent films to major blockbusters such as...

Andy Belanger

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Andy Belanger works as a freelance cartoonist/illustrator out of the Montreal-based Studio Lounak. He does work in the mainstream comic market, plu...

Burton C Bell

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Fear Factory, featuring Houstonian Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares, is a truly innovative band whose music combines death metal, alternative, indus...

Eva Bella

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Eva Bella wanted to start acting at the age of 6, so her family moved from Carmel, Indiana, to Los Angeles, where she quickly booked a role on ...

Camren Bicondova

Appearing Sat

The multi-talented Camren Bicondova is an actress, dancer and model who currently plays the young Selina "Cat" Kyle on Gotham. Camren bega...

Michael Biehn

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Michael Biehn is best known for his roles in James Cameron's science fiction action films The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss. H...

Jennifer Blanc-Biehn

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Jennifer Blanc-Biehn was on Broadway at age 13, starring in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, before moving to television with shows like Hu...

Jayme Lynn Blaschke

Jayme Lynn Blaschke's short fiction has appeared in such diverse publications as Interzone, Fast Ships Black Sails, Cross Plains Universe, Electric...

B. Alan Bourgeois

B. Alan Bourgeois saw a special niche market for Texas authors; Texas Assoc. of Authors was thus created to highlight the estimated 6,000 Texas aut...

Jacques Bourgeois

Jacques Bourgeois is the Executive Vice President and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Houston Gaymers. Jacques works extensively within ...

Fern Brady

Fern Brady began her career as a foreign correspondent. After 15 years teaching in Alief ISD, Fern chose to switch gears and open her own publishin...

Tony Burnett

Tony Burnett is an award-winning poet and songwriter. His poetry and short fiction have been extensively published in national literary magazines a...

Zach Callison

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Zach Callison currently stars as Steven on the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe. Some of Zach's TV appearances include Are You S...

Dennis Calloway

Dennis Calloway is a native of Detroit, Michigan, with deep roots in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He is married to Marcia (MJ) and has two daughters....

Jessica Capelle

Jessica Capelle is a writer of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and paranormal, primarily for kids and teens, who is also a ghostwriter for a bestselling ad...

C. Robert Cargill

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

C. Robert Cargill is an internet film critic, novelist and screenwriter who began his career with Ain't it Cool News under the pseudonym Massawyrm,...

Joe Casey

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Joe Casey is a comic creator and one of the founders of Man of Action Entertainment, the creative collective that created the megahits Ben 10

Katherine Catmull

Katherine Catmull’s young adult fantasy The Radiant Road was published by Dutton Young Readers/Penguin in January. Her first book, Summer and Bird ...

Dino Cazares

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Fear Factory, featuring Houstonian Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares, is a truly innovative band whose music combines death metal, alternative, indus...

Alan Cerny

Nordling has been writing reviews, news and assorted features for Ain't It Cool News for almost 15 years. He has also hosted local movie events for...

Ming Chen

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Ming Chen's journey to Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash began in 1995, when he developed a fan website based on the movie Clerks. Kevin Smi...

J. Kathleen Cheney

J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Iron Shoes" was a 2010 Nebula Award Finalist. Her novel, The Golden City, was a finalist for the 2014 Locus Awards (B...

J. L. Clark

J.L. Clark is a physician by day and YA fantasy writer by night. Her debut series, titled The Avalon Relics, has garnered praise from teen and adul...

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Cassandra Rose Clarke grew up in south Texas and currently lives in a suburb of Houston, where she writes and teaches composition at a pair of loca...

Carrie Clevenger

Carrie Clevenger landed in the urban fantasy genre when she couldn't decide between horror and humor. When not writing, she enjoys documentaries, n...

Clifton Collins Jr.

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Clifton Collins Jr. is an acting chameleon who loses himself in his film and TV characters. Hailing from a showbiz family, Clifton grew up destined...

Dominic Cooper

Appearing Sun

Dominic Cooper is a London-born British actor trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Dominic's career boasts a wealth of televisi...

CreepyPastaJr

Appearing Friday, Saturday, & Sunday

CreepyPastaJr terrorizes the internet with thrilling stories that are sure to keep you awake at night. With over 23 million views on his YouTube ch...

Jordan Cwierz

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Jordan Cweirz is known for creating and animating Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures, which he started working on as a fan of Rooster Teeth. Soon af...

Deborah L. Davitt

"In 1997, Deborah L. Davitt earned a BA in english from UNR, focusing on medieval and Renaissance literature. In 1999, she received an MA in englis...

David Della Rocco

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

David Della Rocco is an actor and comedian known for The Boondock Saints, in which he played a character also named “David Della Rocco” (a...

Larry Dixon

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Larry “the Gryphon King” Dixon is among the finest black-and-white fantasy illustrators in America. Larry is a modern Renaissance man, having been ...

Ira Domnitz

Ira Domnitz is an attorney who brings big firm experience to his clients, without the big firm cost. Ira worked for many years at some of the large...

Christopher Dunbar

Christopher Dunbar's day job is performing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, but his night job is coming up with creative ways to wound an...

Heather Poinsett Dunbar

A librarian by day and author by night, Heather Poinsett Dunbar found her creativity sparked during her travels to Europe. She now co-authors a boo...

Eliza Dushku

Appearing Sat, Sun

Eliza Dushku is an American actress known for her roles as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel, as well as starring in t...

Marianne Dyson

Marianne Dyson was one of NASA's first female flight controllers, the subject of her Space Shuttle memoir, A Passion for Space. She's a life member...

Christina Escamilla

Christina Escamilla is an author and illustrator who primarily writes in the horror and science fiction genres. Her work features speculative theme...

Erik-Michael Estrada

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Erik-Michael Estrada, the Bronx-born musician and actor, is best known for his work as a lead vocalist and member of the multi-platinum pop group O...

Thursday Euclid

Thursday Euclid is a queer, 30-something trans man from Houston, Texas. When he's not dreaming up new stories with his partner in crime, Clancy Nac...

Emily Evans

Emily Evans writes fun, young adult romance. She holds a BA in psychology from Texas A&M University and an MFA in creative writing from American Co...

Paige E. Ewing

Paige E. Ewing came up with an idea for growing food on Mars that NASA liked. For fun, she shoots arrows at people and things. I published The Prot...

Robert G. Ferrell

Robert G. Ferrell is a native Texan who writes science fiction, fantasy, hacker fiction and humor. He's a perennial finalist or semifinalist for as...

Lou Ferrigno

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Before Lou Ferrigno created a cult legend as the title character of the hit '70s TV show The  Incredible Hulk, he'd already found fame as...

Ric Flair

Appearing Sat, Sun

Ric Flair® is a celebrity and professional wrestler. Also known as the “Nature Boy," he is among the most famous and well-known wrestlers in the wo...

Sean Patrick Flanery

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Sean Patrick Flanery left Houston to pursue acting in Los Angeles, and it's turned out pretty well. After landing the title role in George Lucas' <...

Crystal Frasier

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Crystal Frasier is a writer, game developer and graphic designer with 18 years' experience, best known for her work on the Pathfinder line...

Alexander Freed

Appearing Fri, Sat

Over the past decade, Alexander Freed has worked as a writer and editor in the realms of video games, comic books and prose fiction. He spent six y...

Kathryn Friesen

As a teen author, Kathryn Friesen writes to inspire others to follow their dreams. Writing a fantasy series while finishing high school and doing s...

Rose Garcia

Rose Garcia writes YA science fiction/fantasy. Her trilogy, The Transhuman Chronicles, has garnered critical praise and high reviews. Rose plans to...

Alec Gillis

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Alec Gillis' first professional job was on Roger Corman's low-budget space epic, Battle Beyond the Stars, where he worked with many other ...

George Giordano

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

George Giordano, best known for his work in grindhouse special effects, commercial props and stunts (

Holly Gloha

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Holly Gloha is a cosplayer and attention seeker whose gallery runs the gamut from classy to cabaret, superhero to villain, and who portrays charact...

Jenette Goldstein

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Jenette Goldstein will always be a fanboy favorite for her work in James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi/action classic Aliens. Her character, Marin...

Isaac Goodhart

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Isaac Goodhart got his start in comics after winning the Top Cow Talent Hunt in 2014 as a penciler/inker. His first book at Top Cow was Artifac...

Doug Goodman

Doug Goodman is a writer who lives on the Texas Gulf coast. He works at NASA and in his spare time when he is not writing, he trains human remains ...

Donna Grant

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Donna Grant has been praised for her "totally addictive" and "unique and sensual" stories. She's t...

Dicey Grenor

Dicey Grenor is a wife, mother, attorney and author of racy fiction. As a writer, she dances to the beat of her own drum by ignoring typical genre ...

Kevin Grevioux

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Kevin Grevioux is a screenwriter, producer, actor and comics creator with 20 years' experience in the film industry. Kevin has acted in films such ...

Peter Gross

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Peter Gross is an Eisner-nominated and New York Times Bestselling creator, best known for his work on three of Vertigo's longest-running series:

Ammar Habib

Ammar Habib was born and raised in the Houston area. His debut novel, Dark Guardian, was released in August 2014 and went on to be one of its publi...

Gray Haddock

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Gray G. Haddock is the Head of Rooster Teeth Animation. Gray also serves as a co-director on RWBY and as a writer on Camp Camp. He voices RWBY's To...

Elizabeth Hamilton

Elizabeth Anne Hamilton is an editorial and publishing consultant who assists authors in creating their books and marketing them to bestseller stat...

Gerald Hanks

Gerald Hanks is the writer of award-winning short films Curveball (2013), Dreamland Murders (2014) and Breathe Easy (2015). He is also a screenwrit...

C. Stuart Hardwick

Author C. Stuart Hardwick is an L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future winner and Jim Baen Award finalist. His work has been called "Homer Hickam mee...

Rhodi Hawk

Rhodi Hawk won the 2009 International Thriller Writers Scholarship Award for her first novel, A Twisted Ladder. The sequel, The Tangled Bridge, wi...

Matt Hawkins

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Matt Hawkins is a veteran of the initial Image Comics launch. Matt started his career in comic book publishing in 1993 and has been working with Im...

Drew Hayes

Drew Hayes is the author of Super Powereds, NPCs and Fred the Vampire Accountant, among many others. He resides in Dallas, Texas, where legends of ...

Taeler Hendrix

Carrie Henn

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Carrie Henn was born on May 7, 1976, in Panama City, Florida, as Caroline Marie Henn. She is an actress, known for Aliens (1986), Alie...

Meghan Hetrick

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Meghan Hetrick is an artist who has been drawing for as long as she could hold a crayon, much to the dismay of both her mother and the walls of her...

Angela Holder

Angela Holder is the author of The Chronicles of Tevenar, an epic fantasy series. She lives in Houston, Texas, where she spends a lot of time in St...

Greyston Holt

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Greyston Holt is known for his role as Clayton Danvers in the hit series Bitten and for his work on the television series Durham Count...

William Hope

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

William Hope trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and after graduation, he worked almost uninterruptedly in theatre for the next seven yea...

Greg Horn

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Greg Horn is one of the top comic book artists working today. Though he's best known for his artwork on Marvel titles like Elektra, Emma Frost<...

Jody Houser

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer when she was 8 years old and never looked back.  She has written Faith for Valiant Comics, ...

Chuck Huber

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Chuck Huber started acting in anime in the roles of Garlic Jr. and Android 17 in Dragonball Z. Since then he has voiced hundreds of characters, inc...

Charlie Hunnam

Appearing Sat, Sun

Charlie Hunnam is the wildly talented actor best known as Jax Teller on the hit biker drama Sons of Anarchy. Charlie's career began in his...

Samantha Inoue-Harte

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Lennie James

Appearing Sat, Sun

Born in Nottingham and raised in South London, Lennie James trained at the Guildhall School of  Music & Drama. Lennie has had a rich and varied te...

Missy Jane

Missy Jane is a married mother of four who was born and raised in Texas. She spends most of her time lost in worlds of her own making, alternately ...

Mat Johnson

Appearing Sat

Mat Johnson is a novelist who sometimes writes other things. Showtime is adapting his latest novel, Loving Day. Mat is also the author of ...

Eri Kanada

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Daniel Kash

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Daniel Kash trained at the Drama Centre in London and the Banff School of Fine Arts. His credits include Aliens, Nightbreed, Street Legal, Goose...

Joe Kelly

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Joe Kelly is a comic creator and one of the founders of Man of Action Entertainment, the creative collective that created the megahits Ben 10

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Appearing Sat

Author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot on the bestseller lists. Since 2003, she has placed more than 75 novels on the New York Times l...

Leo King

Leo King was born in New Orleans and moved to Houston in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. He works during the day and writes at night, usually jugglin...

Chris Kirkpatrick

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Chris Kirkpatrick is the founding member of *NSYNC, whose albums *NSYNC and No Strings Attached sold over 10 million copies each....

Mark Kistler

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Emmy award winning PBS Artist Mark Kistler has taught millions of people around the world how-to-draw in 3-D. Nearly a million of his best selling...

Leslie S. Klinger

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Leslie S. Klinger is the New York Times–best-selling editor of the Edgar®-winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and the Bram Stoker Award®-nominate...

Roy Knyrim

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Roy Knyrim created the gory effects for the second and third Toxic Avenger films. Following that, he worked on productions like The Ab...

Walter Koenig

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Walter Koenig is best known for his roles as Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series and as Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. Born in Chicago, Illi...

Jason Kristopher

Jason Kristopher was born in Waco, Texas, and grew up in northern Colorado, enjoying the beautiful weather. Sometime later, he lost his mind – or f...

Adam Kubert

Appearing Sat

Adam Kubert is literally comic book royalty. Youngest son of legendary artist Joe Kubert, and brother of artist Andy Kubert, Adam earned his degree...

Mercedes Lackey

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Mercedes “Misty” Lackey is famed for the Heralds of Valdemar, Elemental Masters, Secret World Chronicles, Elvenbane, SERRAted Edge and Diana Tregar...

C. D. Lewis

C.D. Lewis reviews fiction, including at the Hugo-nominated Tangent.

Nicole Lindroos

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Nicole Lindroos entered the game industry in 1987. She co-founded Adventures Unlimited magazine, served on the board of the Game Manufacturers Asso...

David Liss

David Liss is the author of nine novels, most recently The Day of Atonement and Randoms, his first book for younger readers. His previous bestsel...

Ken Liu

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer.  A winner of the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awa...

Steve Long

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Steven S. Long is a writer and game designer who's worked primarily in the tabletop roleplaying game field for the past 20-something years, during ...

Lynn Lorenz

Lynn Lorenz is an award winning, best selling author in gay romance, with over 30 gay romance novels and 10 traditional romance novels under Theodo...

Miles Luna

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Miles Luna is a writer, director and actor at Rooster Teeth Productions. Best known for his work on RWBY and Red vs. Blue, Miles enjoys long walks ...

Steve Lund

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Steve Lund stars as Nicholas Sorrentino in Bitten. Steve originally pursued a career in hockey, which was promising; however, that changed...

Brian Mahoney

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Brian Mahoney is best known for his work as Detective Duffy in The Boondock Saints and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Th...

Mari Mancusi

Mari Mancusi is an award-winning author of books for adults and teens, including Gamer Girl and the Scorched and Blood Coven Vampires series. She l...

Lana Marie

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Originally from Houston, Lana Marie has been active for over 15 years in the Texas community as an actress, voice actor, model, cosplay guest and j...

B. L. Marsh

B. L. Marsh has been writing and telling stories her entire life. Her passion for history and preservation of manuscripts made her wonder, "What if...

Val Mayerik

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Val Mayerik has been a successful commercial illustrator for 40 years, working in all fields of illustration – from advertising to comic books to f...

Peter Mayhew

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Soon after his giant 7-feet-4-inch frame landed him an offer to appear in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as the Minoton, Peter Mayhew int...

Todd McCaffrey

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

New York Times bestselling author Todd Johnson McCaffrey grew up in the world of science fiction and fantasy, being the middle son of the late Nebu...

Matt McElroy

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Matt M. McElroy is the Director of Publishing for DriveThruRPG and DriveThruComics. Here, he works with publishers to deliver your favorite RPGs an...

Drew McGee

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Drew McGee is a freelance writer currently working in video games. He is the lead writer for Stoic's recently-released Banner Saga 2 and w...

Kymberlie McGuire

Kymberlie McGuire is a Vice President and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Houston Gaymers. Kymberlie is an outspoken activist of women’s...

Mark McKenna

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Mark McKenna is a 30-year veteran of the comic book industry. In that time, he has worked on Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man...

AJ McLean

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

AJ McLean has been known for a few things, such as his time as the perpetually sunglassed Backstreet Boy, who reached household-name-recognition st...

Robert Duncan McNeill

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Robert Duncan McNeill is beloved for his work as Flight Controller Thomas Eugene Paris in the series Star Trek: Voyager. Robert previously...

Henry Melton

Henry Melton is addicted to traveling the roads, both on this continent and others, finding locations that inspire a good story. With ten YA scienc...

Rachael Messer

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Gibson Michaels

Amazon Best Selling author Gibson Michaels was born in Beech Grove, Indiana – an only child because his parents took one look at him and moved into...

Wren Michaels

Wren Michaels hails from the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, where beer and cheese are their own food groups. But a cowboy swept her off her feet and c...

Kel Mitchell

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Two-time Emmy Award-nominated Kel Mitchell stars as Double G, an impulsive and unpredictable billionaire rapper, on the Nickelodeon sitcom Game...

Rebecca Moesta

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Rebecca Moesta (pronounced MESS-tuh) wanted to be an author since she was 12, and much of her writing focuses on teens. Her solo work includes nove...

John Moore

John Moore graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in engineering and has lived here all of his adult life. His stories have appeare...

Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler, also known at local SF/F writing conventions as "The Cookie Lady," writes fiction both dark and strange to counterbalance the sw...

Rob Mungle

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Over a 20-year career, Rob Mungle has appeared in more than one hundred different anime titles, including Blue Seed, Excel Saga and, most ...

Clancy Nacht

Clancy Nacht is an award-winning writer of LGBT sci-fi, paranormal and urban fantasy romance.

Mark Nelson

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Mark A. Nelson is a respected artist and an educator whose current project is Thunder Hunters, the story of an artist on a foreign planet....

Ashley Nemer

Ashley Nemer writes in a fun and interesting way that pulls you out of reality and takes you on adventures through different worlds and times. Her ...

Laura Lidell Nolen

Laura Liddell Nolen grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she spent lots of time making up adventure stories with her two younger brothers. Th...

Rebecca Nolen

Rebecca Nolen spent time in most of the states but always lived in Houston. She tried to publish her first novel when she was a teenager, and that ...

Kevin Nunn

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Kevin G. Nunn’s exposure to board games began as a toddler, when his mother began teaching him the principles of chess. His interest in game design...

Alan Oppenheimer

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

As a character actor, Alan Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in legendary television shows, including Hogan’s Heroes, The Six Million Dollar Ma...

John Ostrander

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

For a writer, John Ostrander is a man of many colors. Though originally an actor, John studied to become a priest before he started writing comics ...

George Wright Padgett

George Wright Padgett is a native Houstonian who grew up reading science fiction and comic books. After a brief stint as a children's picture book ...

Patricia Flaherty Pagan

Patricia Flaherty Pagan grew up in Red Sox Nation but has since traveled the world. She thought getting her MFA in creative writing from Goddard wa...

Carrie Patel

Carrie Patel is a novelist and narrative designer from Houston, Texas. She is the author of the science fantasy mystery The Buried Life and its seq...

Jacqueline Patricks

Jacqueline Patricks is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America. Writing became her passion as a teenager. She writes like she lives. Come and ex...

Bill Paxton

Appearing Sat

Bill Paxton's career has been exemplary, from blockbusters to iconic independent films to award-winning television projects. Bill has starred in mo...

John D. Payne

John D. Payne's debut novel, The Crown and the Dragon, was published in 2013 by WordFire Press. His short fiction has been most recently published ...

Kate Pentecost

Kate Pentecost specializes in all things Gothic (Southern, Classic and otherwise) as well as fantasy, magical realism, horror, Weird West and genre...

John Picacio

John Picacio is one of the most acclaimed artists in science fiction, fantasy and horror publishing. John illustrated the best-selling 2012 George ...

Alan J. Porter

Writer and award-winning editor Alan J. Porter has written adventures featuring Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Houdini and private eye Rick Rub...

Chris Pramas

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Chris Pramas is an award-winning game designer, writer and publisher. He is best known as the designer of the Dragon Age RPG and Warha...

Joy Preble

Joy Preble is the author of young adult novels, including Dreaming Anastasia (named an ABC Best Book in 2009) and its sequels; The Sweet Dead Life ...

Bob Proehl

Bob Proehl grew up in Buffalo, New York, where his local comics shop was Queen City Bookstore. He has worked as a bookseller and programming direct...

David Prowse

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Though you know David Prowse as the actor who (literally) embodied the iconic Star Wars villain Darth Vader, he's had many cool fanboy roles over t...

Adam Rakunas

Adam Rakunas has worked a variety of weird jobs. He’s been a virtual world developer, a parking lot attendant, a triathlon race director, a fast fo...

Naveen Ramineni

Naveen Ramineni is studied film in college and is an avid movie historian and fan. He has also written several screenplays in different genres, inc...

Richard D. Ramsey

Richard D. Ramsey is a restless spirit and native Texan. His novel Order of the Firewalker was released last October and has already been the subje...

Raven Raye

Raven Raye is the Fantasy Romance author of the award-winning Broken Prophecy, book one of the Heirs of Aeden series.

Norman Reedus

Appearing Sat, Sun

Norman Reedus has had a wide and varied career: He's modeled for Prada, Levi's and Lexus. He's appeared in music videos for R.E.M., Björk, Radiohea...

Tara Reid

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Tara Reid began acting as a child, appearing in more than commercials before breaking through in movies such as Urban Legend, Cruel Intentions...

Paul Reiser

Appearing Sat, Sun

A seasoned actor, writer, comic and producer, Paul Reiser continues to add to his list of accomplishments. Having co-created and starred in the cri...

H.C.H. Ritz

H.C.H. Ritz is a near-future science-fiction writer published through Grey Gecko Press. She has her degree in theater from the University of Housto...

Mark Rolston

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Mark Rolston is something of an action movie legend, having appeared in films such as Rush Hour, Lethal Weapon 2, RoboCop 2, The Departed ...

Michael Rooker

Appearing Sat, Sun

Michael Rooker is best known for his turn as blue-skinned alien Yondu Udonta in 2014's top-grossing film Guardians of the Galaxy, a role h...

Ricco Ross

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Ricco Ross received an MFA from UCLA. Soon afterward, he decided to study Shakespeare for a year in England at the London Academy of Music & Drama...

Duncan Rouleau

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Duncan Rouleau is a comic creator and one of the founders of Man of Action Entertainment, the creative collective that created the megahits Ben...

E. L. Russell

E. L. Russell's science fiction stories reflect an eclectic interest in the impact new technologies have on individuals and social groups. His rese...

K. J. Russell

K.J. Russell is an author of speculative fiction based in Houston. He has edited anthologies for the Houston Writers Guild and leads workshops for ...

Willie Schubert

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Once upon a time, Willie Schubert started lettering at First Comics, where he met Mark Nelson. Through Mark, he landed the Aliens letterin...

Hank Schwaeble

Hank Schwaeble is the two-time Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novels Damnable (Jove 2009), Diabolical (Jove 2011) and (coming soon from Co...

Heather Schwartz

Heather Schwartz is a 28-year-old wife and mother to two beautiful children. Weird, free spirit and animal lover. She loves the craziness of life ...

Cynthia Scott

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Cynthia Scott seems to be working her way through all of the arts in one lifetime. After receiving her degree in sculpture from Rhode Island School...

Steven Seagle

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Steven T. Seagle is a comic creator and one of the founders of Man of Action Entertainment, the creative collective that created the megahits B...

John Shade

John Shade is a short story writer living and working in Houston, Texas, with work that has appeared in webzines and collections such as Daily Scie...

Kerry Shawcross

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Kerry Shawcross was trained by his anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjitsu from a young age. From his home in the sewers of Austin, TX, h...

Rikki Simons

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Rikki Simons is a voice actor, writer and artist. He is most famous for being the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR, from Invader Zim. As a wri...

Amy Sisson

Amy Sisson is a writer, reviewer and former librarian currently living in Houston, Texas, with her NASA husband and a large group of ex-stray cats....

Nate Southard

Nate Southard is the author of more than a dozen books, including Pale Horses, Down, Lights Out and Red Sky. His short fiction has appeared in such...

Sparkling Shadows Belly Dance: Sparkling Shadows Belly Dance

Sparkling Shadows Belly Dance, formerly known as Chanson de Vie, has been performing at Comicpalooza since 2010. The ladies of Sparkling Shadows br...

Samuel Stewart

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Sam Stewart has been working for Fantasy Flight Games for eight years, most of which has been in the Roleplaying Game Department, which he manages....

Livvy Stubenrauch

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Livvy Stubenrauch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and started acting at the age of 6. At 8 years old, she made her first trip to Los Angeles, where s...

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's fiction and poetry has appeared in over 40 magazines and anthologies such as The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Beneat...

Shanna Swendson

Shanna Swendson earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas but decided it was more fun to make up the people she wrote about. She’s th...

The Modern Gypsy Project: The Modern Gypsy Project

The Modern Gypsy Project is a tribal fusion belly dance collaboration created by Varya Zoya Bellydance, Leigh Ann Moya Bellydance and Crystal Z Bel...

Lee Thomas

Lee Thomas is the two-time Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Ash St...

Tex Thompson

Arianne "Tex" Thompson is a "rural fantasy" author, professional speaker and comma placement specialist. She holds a bachelor's in history and a ma...

Jeff Timmons

Appearing Fri, Sun

Jeff Timmons met brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, along with Justin Jeffre, in college to form the group 98 Degrees. The boy band found major success...

Kerry Tolan

K. M. Tolan is a science fiction and fantasy author with six books published through Burst Books (Champagne Books SF/F imprint). His first two nove...

Kevin Tumlinson

Kevin Tumlinson is the Wordslinger—Author, Blogger, Host of the Wordslinger Podcast. He writes hopeful, character-driven fiction and mostly lives a...

Kumiko Uehara

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Kumiko Uehara encountered Lolita fashion when she was just a high school student and has been involved in the industry every since. Determined to b...

Michael Varhola

Michael O. Varhola is a publisher, author and game designer who lives in the Hill Country north of San Antonio. He is the founder of game company S...

Mark Verheiden

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Born and raised in Aloha, Oregon, Mark Verheiden was one of the first writers to work extensively with Dark Horse Comics, where he created the char...

Bev Vincent

Bev Vincent is an award-winning author of several books, including The Stephen King Illustrated Companion and The Dark Tower Companion, as well as ...

Shannon Walker

Dr. Shannon Walker began her professional career with the Rockwell Space Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center in 1987 as a robotics fligh...

Holly Lyn Walrath

Holly Walrath is an author, freelance editor, and the Associate Director of Writespace, a nonprofit literary center in Houston, Texas. Her speculat...

Carl Weathers

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Carl Weathers played with the Oakland Raiders and retired in 1974 to give full attention to acting. Carl first played small parts in two blaxploita...

Sigourney Weaver

Appearing Sat

Award-winning actress Sigourney Weaver is, perhaps, the ultimate action movie heroine. After her groundbreaking work in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic...

Martha Wells

Martha Wells has written over a dozen fantasy novels, including the Books of the Raksura series (The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, The Siren Depths...

Elizabeth White-Olsen

Elizabeth White-Olsen is the founding director of Writespace, Houston’s newest literary arts organization. She has two MFAs in creative writing, on...

Lisle Wilkerson

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Lisle Wilkerson is the powerhouse behind some of the gaming industry's most popular female fighting characters, such as Nina Williams and Sarah Bry...

Camden Wilson

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Renee Witterstaetter

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Writer, editor, and color-artist Renee Witterstaetter is the author of Nick Cardy: The Artist at War, Excess: The Art of Michael Golde...

Bernie Wrightson

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Legendary artist Bernie "Berni" Wrightson has been creating horror art for over 45 years and is known for his horror illustrations and comic books....

Cheyanne Young

Cheyanne Young is the author of the City of Legends series. When she’s not writing, she’s pretending to be a superhero whose power is drinking coff...

D. L. Young

D.L. Young is a Texas-based author. His award-winning stories have appeared in many publications and anthologies. His new novel is Soledad, a dys...

Mike Zeck

Appearing Fri, Sat, Sun

Michael J. Zeck is a renowned comic book illustrator and storyteller. Creator of the black Spider-man costume, Mike is a heavy-hitter in the comics...