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GSCF is proud to announce Robert Atkins is coming to Garden State Comic Fest!!!
Robert has worked as a penciler, inker and colorist within the comic industry. His most recent work includes the penciling chores on Red Dog for 451 Publishing. Other recent works include Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen for Dark Horse Comics, America's Army for IDW and ABC's Castle forMarvel Comics. He is most known for his work onIDW Publishing's Snake Eyes and relaunch for G.I. Joe! Robert has also worked on Amazing Spider-man, Venom, Heroes for Hire, Ultimate Fantastic Four, and The Savage She Hulk for Marvel comics. Other works include Legion of Superheroes for DC Comics Snake Eyes:Declassified and Forgotten Realms for Devil's Due Publishing. 

He creates artwork for toy packaging for various companies and brands including Nerf, Marvel Legends, and Star Wars for companies such asHasbro, Inc., and Mattel. His toy package artwork has been featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and various TV commercials promoting the NERF Zombie Strike line. 

He is co-creating a comic series titled Elders of the RuneStone with writer Quinn Johnson (KungFu Panda, TMNT). Which is scheduled for release soon! 

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GSCF is proud to announce Tom Raney is coming toGarden State Comic Fest!!!
Tom Raney is one artist that really gets around. Over the years he's done a large amount of work on the various X-Men titles, revamped Stormwatch withWarren Ellis, the Outsiders with Judd Winick, co-created Threshold with Keith Giffen, and co-createdMutant X. A few notable titles he's worked on include Thor, Avengers Academy, The Hulk, DV8, Warlock and the Infinity Watch and Warlock Chronicles. With Ron Marz he's working on their high fantasy creation Destiny's Rogues. He recently drew Infinite Crisis, Batman-Superman, and Future’s End for DC ComicsCurrently he’s focusing on creator owned work.

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GSCF is proud to announce Ashley M Witter is coming back to Garden State Comic Fest!
Ashley is the comic illustrator for the hit comic book series, Squarriors.
Ashley also recently finished work with Yen Press illustrating and adapting the graphic novel of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story and Anne Rice’s The Wolf Gift. 
She has done work Fantasy Flight Card Games, and on Netrunner, the comic book series – Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water, and the hit web comic – Scorch. She has recently been doing some work for Dynamite, DC Comics, including a cover for Harley Quinn and has been working on Squarriors TCG 
Ashley graduated from Madison Area Technical College with a degree in Animation and Conceptual Development and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. 
She is one of the hottest young artists in the world of comics today!!

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GSCF is proud to welcome Scott Hanna to Garden State Comic Fest!!
An Eisner Award winning artist in the graphic novel industry, Scott has been drawing and inking comic books for over 30 years. His work has been published in well over 1000 comics and graphic novels, and he’s inked more than 20,000 pages of comic art.
A founder of the Arts and Fashion Institute in PA with his wife Pamela Ptak, Scott teaches classes in Sequential art, anatomy, drawing and cartooning.

At DC Comics he worked on most of their major titles, most notably a five year run on Detective Comics starring Batman, Green Lantern Corps, and working with David Finch on Wonder Woman.

At Marvel Comics, Scott’s worked on all the top characters at the company, including the Avengers, Spider-Man, Ironman, the X-Men, and the Hulk. He’s drawn Spider-Man for 15 years, working on almost every title starring the wall-crawler.

Over the past year Scott has worked on Wonder Woman, Superman; Lois and Clark, and Action Comics for DC Comics, and Avengers, Nova, and Uncanny Avengers for Marvel.

Scott has received a total of 5 Inkwell Awards for “Favorite Inker”, “Most Adaptable Inker”, and “Props Award” from 2010-2012, the 2005 Wizard Fan Award for “Best Inker” and the 2002 Eisner award for “Best Serialized Story” - Amazing Spider-Man #30-35: “Coming Home”. His work appeared in the Smithsonian's 9/11 anniversary exhibit with artwork from the book Heroes.

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John Wesley Shipp is coming to Garden State Comic Fest this July 8-9th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ!!
The Flash is coming Back!!!!
John played the title role in the CBS sci-fi adventure series The Flash (1990-1991), a cult favorite based on the comic book character that allowed the actor to play the dual roles of scientist Barry Allen and the titular The Flash. The show continued on in reruns and in fan communities long after its network demise. He briefly returned to daytime with a recurring role on ABC's All My Children in 1992. Shipp has reached a new generation of viewers as Dawson's dreamer dad Mitch Leery on The WB's hit drama Dawson's Creek, a role he played from 1998 until the character's death in 2001.

Most recently John has been on Teen Wolf, and can be seen in a recurring role as Henry Allen, the father of Barry Allen in the CW's The Flash (2014) reboot. In the second-season finale of The Flash, Shipp played The Flash (Jay Garrick), an alternate universe counterpart of The Flash. He also provided the voice to the villain Professor Eobard "Zoom" Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, in a 2010 episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

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GSCF is proud to announce CGC Comics is coming to Garden State Comic Fest!!
CGC is an impartial third-party grading service for collectible comic books, magazines & more and has graded over 4,100,000 comics.
CGC also pioneered witnessed signature authentication when it introduced CGC Signature Series — a certification service that assures signatures are 100% authentic. When your comics are graded by CGC they bring with it the highest level of expertise, impartiality and consistency to every comic, every day. CGC is committed to enhancing the experience of comic book collecting and to promoting the hobby itself. Our consistent standard allows collectors and dealers to buy and sell with confidence.

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GSCF is proud to welcome Charles Paul Wilson IIIto Garden State Comic Fest!!!
Charles is the illustrator and co-creator of The New York Times Best-Selling Graphic Novel The Stuff of Legend , published by Th3rd World Studios, as well as the illustrator for Joe Hill's graphic novel Wraith for IDW Publishing. His art can also be found in the pages and on the covers for publishers BOOM! Studios, Archaia, IDW, Image Comics, DC Comics,Marvel Comics, in the pages of GI Joe, X-Files, Red Sonja and TMNT to name a few. Charles attended The John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art where he was awarded The Norman Mauer Scholarship for his work as a first-year student. In 2010 he was nominated for The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for his work on The Stuff of Legend. 

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GSCF is proud to announce we will have our very own exclusive variant Vampirella comic this year at Garden State Comic Fest! This extremely limited run and beautiful cover was done by special guest Anthony Marques through Dynamite.
These will be available for purchase at the GSCF booth and EVERY VIP TICKET HOLDER WILL GET ONE FREE!!!
Get your tickets at www.gscomicfest.com today!!

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GSCF is proud to announce Tom Mandrake is coming to Garden State Comic Fest July 8-9th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown, New Jersey!!
Tom Mandrake has been illustrating comic books for over 35 years. His credits include The Spectre, TheMartian 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. 
Currently Tom has also been working with writer John Ostrander on their creator owned graphic novel, Kros: Hallowed Ground.

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
GSCF Is Very Excited to Welcome Back Adam Kubert to Garden State Comic Fest for a rare signing!! 

ADAM WILL BE SIGNING AT THE KUBERT SCHOOL BOOTH ON SATURDAY JULY 8TH AT 2PM!!

Adam, known for his legendary work for publishers such as Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, andDC Comics, including work on Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Superman, and Avengers vs. X-Men. He is probably best-known for his work at Marvel Comics, in particular for a sporadic run on the solo Wolverine title with writer Larry Hama.
Adam graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in medical illustration. He also attended the The Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey, from which he duly graduated and has since become one of the industry's leading professional comic book artists. 
Adam and his brother Andy Kubert are instructors at The Kubert School, which was founded by their father Joe Kubert. 
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SATURDAY ONLY!!
GSCF is proud to announce Louise Simonson is coming to Garden State Comic Fest July 8th!!
SATURDAY ONLY!!!
Louise is a writer and editor best known for her work on comic book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, World of Warcraft, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel. 
In recognition of her contributions to comics, Comics Alliance listed Simonson as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition.
As an Editor Louise worked on such titles as (Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella) for Warren publishing and Uncanny X-Men, The New Mutants, Star Wars and Indiana Jones comics for Marvel.
As a writer She created the Eagle Award-winning Power Pack. The title, which debuted in August 1984, featured the adventures of four pre-teen superheroes. Simonson would write the majority of the title's first forty issues, even coloring one issue (#18). Her other Marvel writing work included Starriors, Marvel Team-Up, Web of Spider-Man, and Red Sonja. Louise helped her husband Walter Simonson color his "Star Slammers" story in Marvel Graphic Novel #6.
In 1986 Louise started on the X-Men spin-off X-Factor, In #6, her first issue, she and artist Jackson Guice co-created Apocalypse, a character who would go on to become a major character in the X-Men franchise. From #10 of the title, she was joined by her husband, Walt Simonson, on pencils. In #25, the creators gave the character, Angel, blue skin and metal wings in a process which would lead to his being renamed as "Archangel". It was at Simonson's suggestion that X-Men writer Chris Claremont's "Mutant Massacre" story idea was turned into a crossover through all the "X-books", the first of its kind.Her run on X-Factor included the relevant installments of "Mutant Massacre", and the subsequent crossovers "Fall of the Mutants," "Inferno", and "X-Tinction Agenda".
In 1987, beginning with issue #55, she became the New Mutants scripter where she ended up writing the series for three and a half years. It was during this run that she and artist Rob Liefeld introduced Cable, another important character in the X-Men franchise. 
In 1991, Simonson began writing for DC Comics. She, artist Jon Bogdanove, and editor Mike Carlinlaunched a new Superman title, Superman: The Man of Steel , a title she would write for eight years. Simonson (along with Carlin, Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern and others) was one of the chief architects of "The Death of Superman" storyline, in which Superman died and was resurrected. It was during that storyline, in The Adventures of Superman #500 that Simonson and Bogdanove introduced their character Steel. Simonson was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 where Clark Kent married Lois Lane.
Louise also co-wrote the comic World of Warcraft, based on the multi-million player internet game, for Wildstorm, and a manga story, based in the Warcraft universe, for Tokyopop.
She is also the author of the non-fiction DC Comics Covergirls.

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GSCF is proud to welcome Bud LaRosa to Garden State Comic Fest in his first con appearance in over 10 years!!
Born in Brooklyn N.Y. and selling his First piece of artwork at age 11. A comic book mural for a comic store wall. Bud has not stopped producing artwork since, that was forty years ago.

Bud trained formally at the illustrious Art Students League of New York and In 1985 he began a full time career as a freelance artist for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Neal Adams Continuity Studios under Neal Adams. This is not only where he perfected his craft, but also where he learned discipline, keeping deadlines, working under great pressure and how to grow creatively.
Bud said, “Being in the comic book industry for eighteen years taught me the dramatic cinema style which lends itself to my other areas of art, painting, photographic or otherwise.”
Bud worked as regular on The Amazing Spiderman, X-Man, X-Force, The F.F. ,The X-Men, Wolverine, Conan, Dead Pool, The Hulk, Blood of the Demon, The Titans, Big Hero Six, Dr. Strange, and a multitude of others.
In 2001, Bud was involved in a severe car accident. As a result, he started to paint in Oils and Watercolors seriously. His work has been showing at all the finer galleries all across the United States, including the Chelsea area in Manhattan N.Y. and San Francisco CA.

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Loren Lester, The voice of Nightwing and Robin ofBatman: The Animated Series is coming to Garden State Comic Fest!!! 
1st ever area appearance!!
Loren, a native of Los Angeles, began his career as a teenager and has amassed over 35 years of film, stage, and television credits.
His voice has been heard in hundreds of TV and radio commercials and in numerous critically-acclaimed audio books and in popular interactive games such as Halo 4.
A highly successful voice-over artist, Loren is best known as the quintessential voice of “Robin” and “Nightwing” on Batman: The Animated Series and The Adventures of Batman & Robinn. Other iconic roles include “Barbecue” on G.I. Joe (Sunbow series) and "Rick Gordon" in Defenders of the Earth. He has recurred on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (as the first actor to ever voice the character “Iron Fist”) and as “ Hal Jordan, The Green Lantern” on Batman : The Brave and the Bold. Most recently he took on the role of villain as "Dr. Kirk Langstrom"
AKA "Man Bat" in The Arkham Knight. 
To see his full bio please visitwww.GSComicFest.com

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Thomas DePetrillo and his company Extreme Costumes is coming to Garden State Comic Fest this July 8-9th at Mennen Arena in Morristown, New Jersey!
Extreme Costumes was formed in 2009 as a You Tube channel to show videos showcasing any Extreme Costumes. Since that time the channel and people have grown to the point of being a full time business. With clients like Disney, Chevy, Marvel, Sky Network and Power Rangers. The team has won best in show at the nation's largest comic con, twice! 
They have more than 260 million views on their work and have been featured on national TV numerous times over the years. 
This year we welcome the Extreme Costume Reinhardt!!!
You don't want to miss this!!!
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Keith Giffen is coming to Garden State Comic Fest!
Keith is a legend in the comic field for both his artwork and writing. Not to mention characters he has created and co-created including Rocket Raccoon of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, DC Comics alien bounty hunter Lobo , and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. 
He is best-known for his long runs illustrating and later writing the futuristic superhero team book Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1980s and 1990s, and for co-creating the humorous, international version of the Justice League in the late 1980s. 
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black and white series with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax: The Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios.), T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. 
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. 
When he returned to comics after a hiatus, his style was more precise and reminiscent of George Perez and Jim Starlin and helped make Legion of Super-Heroes one of the most popular books of the era. It was his work on the Legion that rocketed him to comic book artist fame and gave him creative control with the national companies that few artists achieved. He peppered his artwork with in-jokes such as upside down Superman logos, hidden Marvel characters, and eyeball creatures, and created an alternate futuristic alphabet in which he scrawled humorous messages on signs in the background of his panels. 

Giffen is known for his humorous takes on existing characters, often focusing on their personality clashes. He also has a tendency to poke fun at trends in comic books or character archetypes. His Ambush Bug miniseries is especially noted for its in-jokes such as Villian the Villain, Cheeks the Toy Wonder, and the use of DC editor Julius Schwartz as a character. 
He is also known for sudden plot twists and abrupt often tragic turns of fate.

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We are 10 days away!!

Here is the complete list of all of our AMAZING vendors and artists in both arenas attending Garden State Comic Fest! Remember, 2 HUGE ROOMS!

Check out: www.GSComicFest.com for more info

And get your tickets now at: https://register.growtix.com/e/garden_state_comic_fest_2017

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SUNDAY ONLY!!!!
Garden State Comic Fest is proud to announce thatParis Cullins is coming to GSCF Sunday July 9th!
Paris is best known for his work on DC Comics' Blue Devil and Blue Beetle, and Marvel Comics' Hyperkind
After co-penciling Justice League of America #212 with Rich Buckler, and making his cover debut with The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #7, Cullins penciled his first full-length comic, Blue Devil #1, starring a superhero he had co-created with writers Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin earlier that month for a backup feature in The Fury of Firestorm #24 
Blue Devil ran 31 issues, through cover–date December 1986, with Cullins penciling the first six and Blue Devil Annual #1, and covers through the end of the run. Cullins additionally drew dozens of DC covers and occasional stories through the decade, and numerous character pages for Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe. Cullins and writer Len Wein produced a Ted Kord Blue Beetle series for DC, which had acquired the character from the defunct Charlton Comics. Cullins penciled issues #1–9, 11–14, and 17–18 He was one of the artists on Batman #400
Cullins began working for Marvel Comics by penciling three six–page High Evolutionary backup stories, one each in the X-Factor Annual #3, The Punisher Annual #1, and Silver Surfer Annual #1. He was still freelancing primarily for DC, collaborating there with writer J. M. DeMatteis on a six-issue miniseries revival of Jack Kirby's The Forever People, penciling the stories and covers. With writer Mark Evanier, primarily, Cullins co-plotted and penciled issues #1–9, 11–12, and 15–18 of a revival of Kirby's The New Gods.

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GSCF is proud to announce Metropolis Comics & Collectibles is coming back to Garden State Comic Fest July 8-9th at the Mennen Arena in Morristown NJ!!!
Metropolis collectibles is the worlds largest dealership of vintage comic books with over 150,000 vintage comic books for sale. Metropolis also ownsComicconnect the premier online auctioneer site that covers everything from discount books to original art.
Let us not forget they also run Metropolis Gallery inNew York, New York that exclusively sells original comic and fantasy art. Metropolis holds fiveGuinness World Records in comics including the most expensive purchased comic ever, Action Comics Number 1 with 9.0 condition grade and white pages for $3.2 million.
So whether you are looking for that crown jewel for your collection or just taking a trip through comic history their booth is a must see for any fan.

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As the countdown officially begins for Garden State Comic Fest! Next weekend make sure to come out to meet Adam Kubert, Ash Maczko, Ashley Witter, Barry Kitson and so many more unbelievable artists,guests, and vendors!
Get your tickets now at www.GSComicFest.com

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6 DAYS for Garden State Comic Fest! Next weekend make sure to come out to meet Billy Tucci, Bob Almond, Bob Wiacek, Cartooning with Bruce Blitz and so many more unbelievable artists, guests, and vendors!
Get your tickets now at www.GSComicFest.com