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Celebrities
Tricia Helfer
Tricia Helfer is a Canadian covergirl model-turned-actress with a storied career and natural screen presence. Tricia currently just wrapped independent features PRIMITIVE WAR, playing a Russian scientist during the Vietnam War, and HELLO BEAUTIFUL, playing the lead role - a true story of a woman fighting breast cancer, based off the best selling book “Walk Beside Me.”
Recently Tricia starred in the Starz series STEP UP as the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, alongside Neyo and Enrique Murciano. She also had the final season of the Syfy/Netflix series VAN HELSING air, playing none other than the iconic vampire of legend, Dracula.
She can be seen in the Lionsgate feature BOMBSHELL with Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie. Prior to VAN HELSING, Tricia starred in Netflix’s LUCIFER, switching gears from the role as Lucifer’s mother Charlotte to an attorney by the same name in the third season. Perhaps best known for her Leo award-winning role as the humanoid Cylon ‘Number Six’ in the critically acclaimed Syfy show BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, Tricia has also had leading roles in Syfy’s ASCENSION, ABC’s KILLER WOMEN, Jerry Bruckheimer's DARK BLUE, and a variety of terrific roles in hit series such as BURN NOTICE, TWO AND A HALF MEN, CHUCK, LIE TO ME, SUITS, KEY AND PEELE, COMMUNITY, FRANKLIN & BASH, and countless others.
Adding to her impressive resume, Tricia can be seen on the big screen in films such as NBC’s BEHIND THE CAMERA: THE UNAUTHORIZED STORY OF CHARLIE’S ANGELS, playing Farrah Fawcett; in MEMORY opposite Dennis Hopper and Billy Zane; A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO ENDINGS with Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan, and JK Simmons; and AUTHORS ANONYMOUS with Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. Tricia has also done prolific voiceover work in mega-hit video game franchises, playing Commander Veronica Dare in Halo: ODST, EDI in Mass Effect 2 and 3, and Sarah Kerrigan in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, winning the 2010 VGA for Best Performance by a Human Female.
Tricia, a dual citizen of the US and Canada, currently resides between Los Angeles, CA and Chattahoochee Hills, GA.
Tracee Cocco
Tracee Lee Cocco is an accomplished actress, model, and stuntwoman known for her work in the Star Trek franchise. Born on March 2, 1961, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, she moved to California at the age of 2. Cocco began her career as a model and gained recognition for her roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, where she portrayed Lieutenant Jae and various alien characters. Cocco has appeared in over 100 episodes of Star Trek and continues to be active in the film industry. Tracee holds the distinction of being the only actor who has worn all four uniform colors.
She also appeared in films such as Demolition Man, Virtuosity, and Bulletproof, and has been featured in the daily soap General Hospital and the TV series Baywatch.
A fan compiled a video of some of her screen time on the Next Generation here.
Ray Hurd
Ray Hurd has worked for nearly 2 decades in the voice over industry, voicing some of the world's most famous characters and for the world's most trusted brands! Brands like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Chevrolet, CHAMPION Sports, Cartoon Network, Funimation, The United States Coastguard and much more. Also voicing popular characters on hit shows televised weekly like, My Hero Academia, One Piece and Dragon Ball Super!
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld is a voice actor best known for her roles as Bonnie, Nurse Joy & Sophocles on Pokémon, Aina Ardebit in Promare; Strawberry Shortcake on Strawberry Shortcake; Polly Pocket on Polly Pocket; Olivia on Nella the Princess Knight; Rio Kastle, Queen, Grace & Gloria Tyler on Yu-Gi-Oh!; Siri on LastMan; LunaMaria Hawke in Gundam Seed Destiny; Kahori Harukawa in Psychic School Wars; Isaki in Lu Over the Wall; Sayaka Yumi in Mazinger Z: Infinity; Hansel in Secret Magic Control Agency; Joy LeFrog on Regal Academy; Musa in Winx Club; and Fraw Bow in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. She has provided voices for numerous cartoons, video games, toys and commercials. She can also be seen performing theatre in New York City (most recently in the critically-acclaimed Once Upon A Mattress), and on-screen in her web series Crumbly Kitchen. For more info, check out her website (alysonleighrosenfeld.com), follow her on Twitter (@AlysonRosenfeld), Instagram (@alysonleighrosenfeld), or TikTok (@alysonleighrosenfeld).
Oliver Wyman
Ollie is a voice actor best known for his roles as Zigfried von Schroeder in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Aster Phoenix in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Big the Cat in Sonic X, The Fugitoid in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Morty Oyamada in Shaman King, Jango in One Piece plus many other characters. He has also narrated over 350 audiobooks and is a streamer on Twitch.
Artists
Don Aguillo
Illustrator Don Aguillo is a comic, gaming, and literary illustrator and graphic designer, currently living and working in San Francisco, California. With a background in fine arts along with production and stage design, he entered the comic industry through self-published independent work and entries into anthologies with IH Studios, which he co-founded.
Don moved heavily into comic cover work when he was brought onto the stable of Todd McFarlane Production’s artists, currently providing covers for Spawn, King Spawn, Scorched, Gunslinger, Misery, and Sam & Twitch. His DC work includes contributions to titles like Aquaman, Superman Unlimited, Green Lantern, Superman: Ghosts of Krypton, The Atom, The Outsiders, as well as the DC Pride and Halloween anthology with covers for Killadelphia (Image) Beastlands (Dark Horse) and Power Rangers Prime & BRZRKR (Boom).
Aside from being an established creator-owned comic writer and interior artist on Rise, he is currently prolific in indie comics and is a mainstay on projects from a host of independent publishers.
In entertainment, he has provided concept art and illustration for Adi Shankar on the Netflix production Guardians of Justice, game art for Disney & Ravensburger’s Lorcana, Upper Deck & Marvel’s Legendary, Second Dinner’s Marvel Snap and Lazarus Rising’s Overpower. He is currently developing a self-published horror anthology to explore Filipino-American immigrant experience with Philippine urban legend and horror mythologies.
Oh...did we mention that he went to State College High School and is a graduate of Penn State?
Kevin Conrad
Kevin broke into comics in 1993, inking fill-in pages in X-Force #22 in March 1993, which led to inking X-Force monthly. Other titles included - Cable, X-Men, Hulk, Amazing Fantasy, and Gambit and the Externals. DC titles include JLA, Action Comics, Tangent Doom Patrol, Outsiders, Wonder Woman, and Teen Titans.
Kevin served as an inker for Todd McFarlane's Spawn, issues 27 - 30, 32- 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, Spawn Blood Feud, Spawn the Dark Ages, issues 16 - 28, and the entire 3 year run of KISS Psycho Circus. Other Image titles include Witchblade, Tales of the Witchblade, Shattered Image, Tony Daniel's The Tenth, and F5, as well as Weapon Zero, Cyber Force, and Wild C.A.T.S.
Wayne Faucher
Wayne Faucher is an American comic book inker. He is known mostly for his ink work on the Batman family of comics for DC Comics and for Spider-Man titles for Marvel Comics.
Raised in Rhode Island and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he worked for years as a graphic designer in New York City and Boston before setting his sights on working in comics. He started in the industry in 1995, with the DC Comics series Impulse. Since then, Faucher has worked on dozens of titles for a variety of publishers. Pencillers with whom he is frequently paired include: Humberto Ramos, Alex Maleev, Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Mike Deodato, Chad Hardin, Alberto Ponticelli and others. We are thrilled to have him back. If original art is your thing then be ready, because Wayne brings a ton of it to shows.
Scott Hanna
An Eisner Award winning artist in the graphic novel industry, Scott Hanna has been drawing and inking comic books for over 30 years. His work has been published in over 1,000 comics and graphic novels, and he’s inked over 22,000 pages of comics art. Some of his most recent work includes the ongoing flagship book for marvel – The Amazing Spider-Man, inking over John Romita Jr.
V Ken Marion
We are so excited to host V Ken Marion for a second year. VK is a comic book artist, concept artist, and illustrator best known for his work with DC Comics and Aspen Comics. Notable works include Nightwing, Trinity, Wonder Woman, The Silencer, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, and a host more. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancé and their two cats.
Ron Marz
Ron Marz has carved out a long and acclaimed career in the comics industry, starting with a lengthy run on Silver Surfer for Marvel. Since then, he has worked for virtually every major publisher and compiled a long list of credits, including Thor for Marvel, Green Lantern and Superboy for DC, Star Wars for Dark Horse, and the historic Marvel vs. DC crossover, among many others.
Marz’s long credits list also includes his legendary run on Witchblade for Top Cow/Image, the Skylanders series for IDW, the Justice League: Endless Winter crossover of DC, a triumphant return to one of his signature characters in Silver Surfer Rebirth, and Swamp God for Heavy Metal magazine. Marz has also written for video games, including multiple Skylanders titles, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and Spider-Man 2. He is currently part of the Diablo narrative team at Blizzard.
Mark Mckenna
Mark McKenna has been a comic book creator for over 30 years with nearly 600 credited comic book titles, having worked for both Marvel and DC comics on the likes of The X Men and Spider Man to Batman and The Justice League. Mark’s work can be seen in Legendary Picture Books PACIFIC RIM movie prequel as well as Dark Horse Comic’s Star Wars-The Old Republic: The Lost Suns. His children’s book series Banana Tail and Friends is a labor of love that he created when his daughter was four and had a newborn son.
Brian Middleton
Brian Middleton has been telling stories in one form or another for his whole life. His first comic book (published by his brother's 4th grade teacher and the school's copy machine) sold out at the distributor level. After that there was no looking back! He continued drawing as the years went on and wrote several short stories. Eventually he married the woman of his dreams and together they started a family. At this point his mind began to drift back to his first creative passion: comic books!
After dipping his toe in the water with a handful of self-published and work-for-hire comics, he decided to take the deep dive and create his first series, Wulfborne. The three issue mini-series, published by Scout Comics, released in February 2019 to rave reviews. Reading With A Flight Ring called the book "an understated masterpiece of fiction" and called Brian "a madman, a fool and a genius", which, as far as anyone knows, is all true. With the creation of Wulfborne complete Brian has turned his creative attention toward his next project, Poiko's Quests and Stuff. The rest of his attention is focused squarely on his one wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters and six (feel free, dear reader, to fill in here the adjective of your choice) cats.
Rags Morales
"Rags" Morales is a renowned comic book artist known for his work on various books for DC Comics, including Identity Crisis, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman Confidential, and The New 52 reboot of then Superman-centric Action Comics. Morales is the co-creator, along with Brian Augustyn, of the 1990s version of Black Condor and since he doesn’t do too many shows each year, we are thrilled to have him as a guest!
Fabian Nicieza
Fabian Nicieza, co-creator of Deadpool, has been in the entertainment industry for over thirty years as a writer, editor, publisher and chief creative officer whose signature co-creation, Deadpool, has become one of the decade’s biggest entertainment and consumer product phenomenon for teens and adults.
He has written thousands of characters and his titles have sold over 100 million comics, including X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Thunderbolts, and Robin.
The children’s animated series he developed, Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten with Arnold Schwarzenegger debuted on the Kartoon Channel! in 2021.
His debut novel, Suburban Dicks, published by Putnam, was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America as Best First Novel by an American Author. His second novel, The Self- Made Widow, was released in 2022.
Bob Wiacek
Bob Wiacek has been active since the 1970s. He was a member of a group of comic book inkers known as the Crusty Bunkers. This group of comic book professionals were based around Continuity Studios, a jointly run art and illustration studio that was notable for the expansion of graphic novels into genres not usually associated with comic books. After a brief exposure to Superman (inking over Curt Swan's pencils) he moved on to regular employment with DC. In 1978 he began his long time association with Marvel and has worked on notable franchises such as X-Men, Star Wars and Hulk.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams, also known as Cdubbart, is a versatile comic artist, writer, and creator. He has a BA in Animation & Media Arts from the Art Institute of Philadelphia and has sold many commissioned works both locally and internationally. His notable published works include cover art for Big Dog Ink's Critter & Penny For Your Soul, Kenzer & Co.'s Knights of The Dinner Table, Markosia's Geek-Girl, and Source Point Press' Salvagers & Franklin & Ghost. He is currently working on his creator-owned comic series, SUMMONS, and an upcoming Native American-themed comic called Tribal Force.
Keith Williams
Keith Williams is an American comic book and comic strip artist. He is best known for illustrating The Phantom for over a decade together with George Olesen. He also worked on Superman with John Byrne.
Since Paul Ryan took over the Phantom strip, Williams has mainly worked in comic books, like Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Buckaroo Banzai and Domino Lady from Moonstone Books.
In 2023, Williams was awarded the Inkwell Awards Above & Beyond Award for his outstanding involvement in the Joe Sinnott Inking Challenge and the Joe Sinnott Tribute Challenge.
Ethan Young
Ethan Young is an award-winning cartoonist, prolific cover artist, and character designer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on Disney+.
Born and raised in New York City, Young’s notable graphic novels include NANJING: The Burning City (winner of the 2016 Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel, along with Eisner and Harvey nominations), The Dragon Path, Space Bear, and Life Between Panels. He has been busy with Dc Covers recently and we are very excited to have him.
Cosplayers
Happy Valley Chewie
Happy Valley Chewie is Centre County resident Aaron Kujawski, who created his own Chewbacca suit from scratch! He will be roaming around the comic convention both Saturday and Sunday and he is more than willing to take a picture with you!
Ryan Brown
Ryan Brown is from St. Clairsville, Ohio and travels all over the country in order to raise money for animal charities. This year, Ryan is donating his proceeds to the Butler County Animal Rescue League.
He usually appears as Dwight Schrute from the TV Show The Office’ He travels everywhere with the same desk he uses for Dwight’s office and many celebrities have visited and left their signature there, including Dwight Schrute himself.
He actually has been on television as well, having a small part in the Netflix series Mindhunter.
This year Ryan will be joined by his good friend Brian Bowser, as the cosplay duo will be Ted Lasso and Coach Beard!
The Grumpy Ole Green Guy
The Gumpy Ole Green Guy is Julio Perez-Wright, who is not only a cosplayer with his own Mascot business known as Oliver The Rabbit and Mascot, but an ex-professional wrestler that wrestled for 17 years under the moniker “The Two-Face Violator". A regular cosplayer at local comic cons, we welcome “The Gumpy Ole Green Guy” to ours!
Groups
Alliance for Heroic Hearts
Based at University Park with volunteers comprised of Penn State students, the Alliance of Heroic Hearts is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of bringing out the hero in ordinary people. If you would like to get your face painted, have a balloon animal made, or just get a picture with their many cosplayers, go visit their station at the convention! http://www.allianceofheroichearts.org/index.php
Garrison Carida
Garrison Carida is the Central and Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the 501st Legion. The 501st, also known as “Vader’s Fist”, is truly dedicated to brightening the lives of those less-fortunate and has become a leading force in fan-based charity events. https://501stgarrisoncarida.org/
Malachor Temple (PA Chapter of the Saber Guild)
Would you like to learn the ways of the force or learn how to wield a lightsaber? This preferred Lucasfilm lightsaber performance group will be holding free presentations and Padawan Training Sessions. The Padawan Training Sessions will also be free and there will be multiple children as well as adult training sessions. Sign-ups and release forms will be at the Malachor Temple’s booth! https://saberguild.org/
Ruby the Impala
Inspired by Baby from the TV show Supernatural, Ruby’s owner, Mike Yarnell, will be offering free outside pictures of the car using your own phone. If you want to sit in the car and pretend to drive it, or hold some of the weapons from the trunk, the cost is merely $10 for unlimited pictures using your phone!
The Penn State All-Sports Museum
At the Penn State All-Sports Museum, visitors encounter, firsthand, the athletic history and heritage of one of the greatest universities in the nation. Staff from the museum will just have a small sample of the many artifacts available at the museum! www.gopsusports.com/sports/2018/8/8/all-sports-museum-psu-all-sports-museum-html.aspx
USS Solstice
The U.S.S. SOLSTICE – NCC 1221 is the Greensburg, PA-based chapter of STARFLEET, The International Fan Association, Inc..
As a fan club, we hope that our members have fun by encouraging them to dress up and attend conventions, recruit new members, and ask for you to attend STARFLEET Academy, free of charge! We hope to keep the ideals of Star Trek alive and healthy into the future.