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Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 Celebrity List
Jeff Annison
Jeff Annison is Legion M’s co¬-founder and has been the president of Legion M since its inception in March 2016. In 2009, Mr. Annison co¬founded Un...
Siamak (Ash) Ashrafi
Ash - CTO @ ZoeWave building physiologically intelligent clothing called ZoeWear. Combining biotech, mobile and fashion to build clothing that keep...
Sean Astin
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“People will root for anyone who shows them their heart.” —Sean Astin . Sean Astin has demonstrated his innate ability to share his heart with ...
Jason Ballard
Jason Ballard has dedicated his life to working on big problems at the intersection of human civilization and the natural world, most notably as th...
Matt Banning
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New York Times best selling comic book Inker/Artist Matt "BATT" Banning had a meteoric rise at Top Cow Productions, most notably as the inker of Th...
Stonly Baptiste
Stonly Baptiste is the co-founder of Urban Us, the leading early stage venture platform built to serve startups re-imagining city life. He's also a...
Justin Barad
Justin Barad, MD is the co-founder and CEO of Osso VR, a clinically validated and award-winning surgical training platform. Dr. Barad is also an or...
David Baxter
Head of Content Development for Legion M, the world’s first equity crowd funded entertainment company, Baxter has been a member of the Writers Guil...
Lisa Smith Beasley
You will find Lisa at a table of people creating fabulous craft projects at Cons up and down the West Coast. Her masters in Marine Science involv...
Ethan Beavers
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Ethen Beavers lives in Central California and has been working in Children's Books, Comics and Animation for over ten years. He works traditionally...
Joe Benitez
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Joe Benitez is the creator/writer/artist of the best-selling steampunk comic "Lady Mechanika". Known for his intricate designs and dynamic layouts...
Simon Bisley
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Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints… as well a...
Lord Blood-Rah
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Host of the syndicated TV series Lord Blood-Rah's Nerve Wrackin' Theatre. This September Lord Blood-Rah begins his 10th year of hosting horror and...
Daniel Brereton
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Native Californian Dan Brereton has written and illustrated for every major comics publisher. A combination of lush color and moody lighting in his...
Danny Bulanadi
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Danny Bulanadi has been in the comic book business for over forty five years. He was an artist for many of the prestigious “Komiks” published in th...
Frank Cirocco
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FRANK CIROCCO Born in New Jersey and raised in San Jose, California, Frank began his professional career at Continuity Studios in New York (1976...
Keith Coogan
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Born into Hollywood as the proud grandson of Jackie Coogan, Keith picked up the acting bug while watching "Sesame Street" when he was five years ol...
Kohalu Cosplay
Kohalu loves cosplay in all its aspects and is an expert on all things involving the craft. The hard work and craftsmanship, presentation in the h...
Dean Devlin
An acclaimed writer, producer and director of blockbuster films and highly-rated television projects, Dean Devlin serves as chairman and CEO of Ele...
Steve DeWinter
Steve DeWinter a #1 Bestselling Amazon Author who also co-authored two fantasy novels with Charles Dickens. More important to him is the impact of ...
Barbra Dillon
Barbra Dillon is an editor, producer, and actress. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Barbra moved to Los Angeles in 2005 and got her start in tal...
Mackenzie Donaldson
Mackenzie Donaldson is a Toronto and LA based producer, director and writer. Named “One to Watch” by Playback’s Top 5 in 2015 and a 2016 TIFF Emerg...
Ivy Doomkitty
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Ivy Doomkitty is an Internationally recognized Cosplayer, Artist, Gamer, and Published Model, based in Los Angeles. Ivy was also featured as a GUES...
Lela Dowling
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Freelance commercial illustrator Lela Dowling has worked in comics, done book illustration, fantasy fine art prints & portfolios for Schanes & Scha...
Jason Dunn
Jason Dunn is an international pioneer in the fields of commercial space, digital manufacturing, and disruptive technologies. In 2014 he was recogn...
Kevin Eubanks
Appearing 1
Kevin Eubanks: Guitarist, composer, lover of nature – Toured with Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Sam Rivers, Ron Carter. 15-year Musical Director for The ...
Glenn Fabry
Appearing 3
Glen Fabry was first professionally published at 15. His first professional comic-strip work was Jackinblack in‘Strangled’, the Stranglers fan club...
Andrew Farargo
His writing credits include The Looney Tunes Treasury, the Harvey Award-winning Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History, Marvel C...
Jono Forbes
Jono is a programmer and designer obsessed with Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and how to use these technologies to give people creation super...
Steve Frankel
Steve has been a SiFi and Fantasy Fan since he was reading Star Beast in grammar school. When not working as a project manager, he collects and re...
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of 60 books on pop culture, from Superheroines and the Epic Journey to Hamilton's Who Tells Your Story and Ho...
Shaenon K. Garrity
SHAENON K. GARRITY is a cartoonist and writer, best known for the webcomics “Narbonic” and “Skin Horse.” Her comics have appeared in many anthologi...
Parnaz Gharah
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Parnaz Gharah is a working face painter at Disneyland in Anaheim, California for 8+ years. She has experience painting both kids and adults alike a...
Douggary Grant
Douggary Grant of G33k-HQ.com is a promoter and convention organizer. Creating the very first all inclusive Geek Fashion Show in 2007 he has broug...
Mick Gray
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Mick is an Eisner Award winning inker and has worked continuously for DC comics for over 25 years on projects such as Son Of Superman hardcover (J....
Chris Greene
Chris Greene joined the 501st Legion in July 2014 and during that time, he has served the Legion in many capacities. He has twice served in the ro...
Steve Greene
Steve Greene is a Los Angeles–based TV Staff Writer at IndieWire. In addition to writing about different areas within the TV and podcast worlds, St...
Judy Greer
Judy Greer's career in both film and television has been prolific, with her appearing in over 80 roles to date. She starred in the FX comedy series...
Matt Haley
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Most recently the creator and director for the viral hit Blackstar Warrior, Matt Haley has been illustrating hit graphic novels for Marvel and DC C...
Lydia Harari
Lydia Harari is the co-founder of Fourth Way Comics, whose central mission is to expand and deconstruct the definition of "comics." As writer and a...
Matt Hawkins
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Matt Hawkins A veteran of the initial Image Comics launch, Matt started his career in comic book publishing in 1993 and has been working with Imag...
Martha Higareda
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Martha Higareda is the female lead of the Skydance / Netflix series, ALTERED CARBON to be released in early 2018. Produced by Laeta Kalogridis and...
Madeleine Holly-Rosing
A TV, feature film and comic book writer, Madeleine is the winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly ...
Alex Hutchinson
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Alex Hutchinson is currently Creative Director and Co-Founder of Typhoon Studios. Previously he was Creative Director on Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s C...
Dr. Mae Jemison
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Dr. Mae C. Jemison broke more than the sound barrier in 1992 when she climbed aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and became the first woman of colo...
Terrance Johnson
Terence Johnson is an award winning producer/director and an MFA graduate of Loyola Marymount University. Born in San Francisco and now living in L...
Dr. Michio Kaku
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Dr. Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is professor of theoretical physics at the City College of ...
Chris Kattan
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He became a featured player on Saturday Night Live (1975) in March of 1996, and a cast member in September of the same year.
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy is currently CEO at Tigertron and Executive Producer on the company’s debut title Jupiter & Mars. A 20-year video game industry veteran...
Barbara Kesel
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Barbara Randall Kesel is a writer and editor of comic books who has worked at DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and CrossGen Comics, with freelance ass...
Jonathan Knowles
Jonathan explores the dynamics of large-scale, long term change with a focus on beyond the horizon technologies, providing insight on the evolving ...
Scott Koblish
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Scott has been working of Marvel, DC and most other big comic companies for over 20 years. He is best known for his work on Deadpool. He as also wo...
Wanda Kurtcu
Dr. Wanda Kurtcu owes her 15 minutes of fame to writing the script for Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 'A Matter of Honor' and received an award f...
Jason Lederman
Jason Lederman is an Associate Producer at Popular Science, where he covers space exploration, technology, security, DIY projects, culinary science...
Stan Lee
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Stan Lee is an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was formerly executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics. Lee co-...
Susan Lee
Susan Lee is a comic book creator, a fine artist, a writer, and a director. Her novel, “Shadow of the Knight” has been praised as “a solidly writte...
Jonathan Lemon
JONATHAN LEMON is the syndicated cartoonist behind several strips including “Rabbits Against Magic,” which has been twice nominated for a Silver Re...
Matthew Lewis
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Matthew Lewis was born on June 27, 1989 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. His acting career started when he was only 5 years old, in a TV show cal...
Mayor Sam Liccardo
Mayor Sam Liccardo took office in January 2015, becoming the youngest mayor in San Jose’s modern history. As the Mayor of the Silicon Valley’s ca...
John Livesay
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Comic book artist/inker since 1994 for such companies as Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Image, Top Cow, and Valiant. Highlights from the last year include- T...
Daniel Logan
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Daniel Logan started acting when he was 10 years old. He was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He got his break when Auckland youth rugby t...
Nicole Lombardo
Nicole Lombardo has over a decade of experience in renewable energy and software technologies, spanning consumer and B2B marketing, business strate...
Bradford Lyau
Dr. Bradford Lyau has taught history at universities in California and Europe, worked at start-ups, and been a political activist and consultant. ...
Toshio Maeda
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Maeda Toshio, is a artist who was prolific in the 1980s and '90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for Original video animations ...
Costas Mandylor
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Mandylor's first major role was in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit playing a European Jew, which was filmed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death cam...
Jerry Mathers
Appearing 3
In 1957, with the debut of the series "Leave It To Beaver" Jerry entered the hearts and homes of America. An immediate success, the show gained na...
Razmig Mavlian
Razmig Mavlian is a graduate of the Classical Animation program offered at Sheridan College. He began his professional life at LucasArts, where he ...
Ian McDiarmid
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Ian McDiarmid studied for a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, but eventually found that his calling was in t...
Jane Metcalfe
Jane Metcalfe is the CEO and Editor in Chief of NEO.LIFE, a new media company she created last year to explore the astounding developments in neuro...
Stacy Meyn
Stacy Meyn has operated her freelance writing business, Space Ltd, since 1994. She holds a master’s degree in education and is an instructional des...
Peach Momoko
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Peach Momoko is a manga artist/illustrator flying in from Japan. She’s currently working illustrating for Heavy Metal Magazine starting with issue ...
Michael Moorcock
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Michael Moorcock widely acknowledged as one of the premiere masters of SF and fantasy and selected by The Times of London as one of the fifty great...
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
Jacky Morales-Ferrand currently serves as the Director of the Housing Department for the City of San José, California. She has more than twenty-nin...
Temuera Morrison
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Dubbed over Jason Wingreen's voice for the character Boba Fett in the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Mo...
Jon Nagel
Jon Nagel has been a member of the 501st Legion since 2004. He’s served as Captain of the Guard of the Golden Gate Garrison for the past two years,...
Evan Narcisse
Journalist and critic who often focuses on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. Kotaku, io9, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and Rise of the ...
Brad Neuman
As Lead Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Engineer, Brad plays a vital role in the A.I. development and implementation at the heart of Anki’s innovati...
Lee Nordling
LEE NORDLING is a writer, editor, designer, and book packager. He's worked on staff at the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Disney Publishing, DC Comic...
Diane Osborne
Frequently seen as a blur of light, Diane's boundless energy, love of SF&F and parties are legendary. Project Manager by day, Outreach and Logistic...
Ray Park
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"Ray Park is best known as Darth Maul from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the murderous, demon-like duelist with the double-bladed ligh...
Pat Priest
The Munster series ran another two seasons with Pat, then she went on to what would become a less-than-enviable post-Munsters career. Other than a ...
Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Finland. At the age of eight he approached the European Space Agency with a fusion-powered spaceship design, which was ...
Ricky Resurrecion
Ricky Resurreccion joined the 501st in 2016 and holds the distinction in the garrison of having 9 costumes approved within his first year of member...
Dr. Lynn Rothschild
Lynn Rothschild is an Ames astrobiologist/ synthetic biologist specializing in “molecular approaches to evolution, particularly in microbes, and th...
Joe Rubinstein
Appearing 3
Josef "Joe" Rubinstein started his artist career in the early 1970s as a teenager. Primarily working as an inker, his artwork has been published by...
Katee Sackhoff
Appearing 2
Katee Sackhoff was born on April 8, 1980 in Portland, Oregon, USA as Kathryn Ann Sackhoff. She is an actress and producer, known for Battlestar Gal...
Sandra Saidak
Sandra Saidak teaches high school English, is the mother of two daughters, and has been writing fiction since the fifth grade. Her first novel, “D...
Sumiko Saulson
Sumiko Saulson is a cartoonist and horror writer, editor of Black Magic Women and 100 Black Women in Horror Fiction, author of Solitude, Warmth, Th...
Paul Scanlan
Paul Scanlan is Legion M’s co¬-founder and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Legion M since its inception in March 2016. Immediately before t...
Reid Schneider
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Reid Schneider is currently Executive Producer and Co-Founder of Typhoon Studios. Previously he was VP/Head of Production for WB Games Montreal wh...
Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane’s neural network blog, AIweirdness.com, features computer programs that try to invent human things like recipes and paint colors and ...
Jim Shooter
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I did my first professional comics work at the age of thirteen, selling a Legion of Super-Heroes story to DC Comics and going on to write Superboy,...
Ryan Sook
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Ryan Sook has been drawing comics for the past twenty years. Creating work for every major publisher and drawing many of comics most enduring heroe...
Jewel Staite
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Jewel Staite starred as ‘Raquel’ in the CW series “The L.A. Complex”, which premiered in the Spring of 2012. Prior to that, she was seen starring i...
John Stanley
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John Stanley is a writer and producer, known for Nightmare in Blood (1977), Creature Features (1971) and John Stanley Meets Jack the Ripper and 25 ...
Sarah Stegall
Sarah Stegall’s novel “Outcasts: A Novel of Mary Shelley”, about the writing of “Frankenstein”, debuted in 2016. Her other novels include mysteries...
David Tennant
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One of Scotland's greatest ever actors, David Tennant has won almost universal acclaim from audiences, critics and fellow professionals for his out...
Matt Thompson
Matt Thompson hates two things: taking pictures and writing biographies. Usually, when pressed, he does something silly for each. Below, in handy b...
John Ulmen
John Ulmen co-founded Boosted and leads engineering. John's engineering projects growing up include starting a radio station with his own equipment...
Vincent Van Dahl
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Hailing from the town of Luton near London, Vincent came to America in the late 80’s with the members of his band Prince of Darkness. Riding off th...
Vincent Vigil
Vincent Vigil Jr joined the 501st in 2013 and has completed four sets of armor during this time. He makes a habit of choosing difficult to build c...
Jyotika Virmani
Dr. Jyotika Virmani is Senior Director for Planet & Environment at XPRIZE and prize lead for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Dr. Virmani has over...
Mac Walters
Mac Walters is a Creative Director at BioWare, where he’s been creating worlds and games for over 14 years. He started as a writer on several AAA t...
Jeff Warwick
Jeff Warwick is an artist and sculptor at Reito Design, designing and making things. His wife is also into sci-fi/fantasy, and their children have ...
Lisa K. Weber
Lisa K. Weber’s illustration work has included graphic novel adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, S...
Andy Weir
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Andy Weir is a novelist and software engineer known internationally for his debut novel “The Martian,” which was later adapted into a film of the s...
Gary Whitta
GARY WHITTA is an award-winning screenwriter and author best known as the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and for writing the post-apoca...
Casey Willis
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Casey Willis has been working with Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for over 10 years. When not writing songs about interracial buttocks, he can be foun...
Brianna Winner
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The Winner Twins, Brittany and Brianna, are identical twin science fiction authors best known for The Strand Series of books, and the fact they wer...
Brittany Winner
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The Winner Twins, Brittany and Brianna, are identical twin science fiction authors best known for The Strand Series of books, and the fact they wer...
Kiki Wolfkill
Kiki has been in the videogames industry for 20 years, starting off as a motion graphics and cinematics artist. Before joining 343 Industries, Kiki...
Marv Wolfman
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Marv Wolfman has created more characters that have segued from comic books to TV and movies than any other comics writer except Stan Lee. Marv was ...
Lana Wood
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Younger sister of Natalie Wood, Lana has made movies and had tv roles from 1956 until 1982. A devoted animal lover, the still-stunning, five-times-...
Richard Saul Wurman
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He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, Graham Fellowships, a Guggenheim and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as ...
Lucky Yates
Born and raised in Detroit, Lucky Yates graduated from Wayne State University with a B.F.A. in acting before heading off into the world to seek wea...
Joshiah Zayner
Dr. Josiah Zayner is a Biohacker and CEO who is constantly pushing the boundaries of Science outside traditional environments including human genet...