COMIC GUESTS

Publishers & Organizations: Featuring J.T. Krul, Alex Konat, Joe Benitez and Frank Mastromauro. With William Christensen, Jacen Burrows, Max Brooks, and Mike Wolfer. (site). Flint Comix & Entertainment Featuring Randy Zimmerman Michigan Independent Film Makers Featuring Mark Nowotarski, Gordon Castelnero, Dave Drason, Brian Bukantis, and Dennis Wagner. R2 Builders Featuring Scott Schwarz Serenity Studios Celebrity Photography Will be providing celebrity photo ops. (site) William Stolpin Art

Dave Aikins - A Nickelodeon Publishing artist for books and DVD covers featuring Dora the Explorer, Diego, The Backyardigans, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Ni Hao Kai-Lan. (site)

Murphy Anderson - Legendary Golden Age artist.

Sergio Argones

Art Baltazar - Patrick the Wolf Boy and Tiny Titans. (site)

Darryl Banks (site)

Joe Benitez

Andy Bennett - Is best known as the artist for Moonstone Books' Vampire: The Masquerade-Tremere and Venture graphic novels. His newest releases include Moonstone's Kolchak the Night Stalker/Sherlock Holmes mini-series, Moonstone's The Avenger Chronicles, and IDW's Lifelike graphic novel. Andy's newest work can be found in Moonstone's The Phantom: Generations #13. (site)

Mark Bloodworth (site)

Mike Bocianowski (site)

Max Brooks - Max Brooks is the author of the two bestsellers The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. He has also written for Saturday Night Live, for which he won an Emmy. His first graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks was released in 2009.

Rebecca Buchman - Green Lantern Corps (site)

Alex Buechel (site)

Jacen Burrows - Jacen has worked with the best writers in the industry, praised for his detail and free-flowing story-telling, he has just finished Crossed with writer Garth Ennis and is currently working on Neonomicon with Alan Moore. Previously he has illustrated graphic novels by Warren Ellis (Scars, Bad World, Dark Blue), Alan Moore (Courtyard, Yuggoth Cultures) and Garth Ennis (303, Chronicles Of Wormwood).

Matt Busch (site)

Michael Calandra (site)

Laura Cascos (site)

Tommy Castillo (site)

Bernard Chang

William Christensen - Avatar Press editor-in-chief William Christensen's career in the comics has included contributions in publishing, writing, and journalism-as a prolific freelancer for Wizard during the magazine's formative years. After founding Avatar in 1996, Christensen became the architect of much of the early company line, including Pandora and The Ravening. As Editor-in-Chief of Avatar, he has become known for his knack for working with the industry's best writers, including Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and Garth Ennis.

Guy Davis

Michael DiPascale

Al Feldstein

Howard Feltman

Jay Fife (site)

Gnora Ford-Lepthien (site)

Sean Forney - (site)

Jay Fosgitt - Creator of Dead Duck, sketch card artist on Star Wars Galaxy 5 (site)

Robert J Garcia

Bruce E Gerlach (site)

Asif Gill - 48 Days in Tokyo (site)

David Girdley

Stacey Girdley

Rob Guillory (site)

Jill Hamilton-Krawczyk (site)

Chris Houghton (site)

Mike Indovina (site)

Ron Jacek

Rachel Kaiser

K.J. Kolka - The Cardinal (site)

Alex Konat - Artist on Mindfield

Robert A Kraus (site)

J.T. Krul - Writer and creator of Mindfield

Ray Kukurka

John Layman - Chew

J.E Lozano (site)

Eric Lynch (site)

Frank Mastromauro

Mike McKone - Mike Mckone has penciled many major titles including Teen Titans, Fantastic Four, Green Lantern, Punisher War Zone, Justice League of America and Exiles. He is currently an artist on Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man, and is working on covers for Deadpool: Suicide Kings and Punisher.

George McVey (site)

Josh Medors

Kevin Meinert (site)

Tony Miello (site)

Dave Nestler - (site)

Dave Nestler - pip-up artist. (site)

Darrell Oriley (site)

Dan Parent

Vincent Peeper - Hanger 18 shirts (site)

David Peterson (site)

Brett Pinson (site)

Chad WM. Porter

Andy Price (site)

Bill Pulkovski (site)

David Quinn - Influenced two 90's comics revolutions - comics for adults and creator-owned publishing -- with Faust: Love of the Damned and Nightvision. Scripted memorable runs on Doctor Strange, Vampirella and Chaos!. Contributed stories to every major comics publisher. Wrote screenplays, including the first Faust film, distributed by Lions Gate. Two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Scholarship and a Denis Johnson award for playwriting. David is pleased to launch The Littlest Bitch, the first book in the Not-for-Children Children's Book series at Motor City Comic Con.

Chris Ringler - (site)

Darick Robertson

Don Rosa - Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck

Stan Sakai - Usagi Yojimbo

Stuart Sayger - Known for his moody and expressive style, Stuart often uses many mediums when creating his art. Along with inks, gouache, chalk and oil pastels are standard when creating comic book pages. He is the creator of Shiver In The Dark, producing the comic independently from start to finish. (site)

Steve Seck (site)

Jay Shimko (site)

Mark Sparacio

Dean Stahl

Kelli Anne Stakenas (site)

Ryan Stegman

Diana Stein

Dirk Strangely

Adam Tally (site)

Herb Trimpe

Jason Ujvari

Ethan Van Sciver

Erika Wagner (site)

Joshua Warner - (site)

Larry Welz - Cherry (site).

Ken Wheaton (site)

Mike Wolfer - With the self-publication of Daikazu #1 in 1987, Mike Wolfer began a comic book career which has spanned over 20 years. After creating and publishing 14 issues of Widow for his own Ground Zero Comics, Wolfer moved on to work on various series such as Dark Horse Comics' Godzilla, Chaos! Comics Lady Death, and many others. Wolfer's largest body of published work has been for Avatar Press, where his unique brand of graphically illustrated horror and violence has been on display in Warren Ellis' Strange Kiss/Strange Killings, Alan Moore's Yuggoth Creatures and Garth Ennis' Streets Of Glory. In addition, Wolfer has contributed to several licensed comic series, serving as both writer and illustrator on such well-known properties as George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead, New Line Cinema's Friday The 13th and John Russo's Escape Of The Living Dead. Wolfer is currently serving as co-writer with Warren Ellis on Avatar's Gravel and Wolfskin, and with Brian Pulido on the new Lady Death series.

Chris Yambar (site)

Scott Zambell (site)

Randy Zimmerman

more to come soon...

MEDIA GUESTS Click the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) link to read each media guest's film/TV credits.
Billie Rae Bates - Author of "Them Dukes! Them Dukes!"

Josh Becker - Director of Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules. Director/writer/producer of four critically acclaimed independent films and three TV movies. His SyFy Channel film Alien Apocalypse was SyFy's highest-rated movie ever. (IMDb)

Stephanie Bellars - Formerly "Gorgeous George", valet/manager for "Macho Man Randy Savage", WCW, ECW, TNA. (IMDb)

Sandahl Bergman - All That Jazz, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja. (IMDb)

Linda Blair - "Regan" from The Exorcist and The Exorcist II: The Heretic. Also was "Janice" in Airport 1975. Linda Blair appearing on behalf of the Linda Blair Worldheart Foundation. www.lindablairworldheart.org. (IMDb)

Todd Bridges - "Willis Jackson" from Diff'rent Strokes. (IMDb)

Jeremy Bulloch - "Boba Fett" from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi. (IMDb)

Jake Busey - "Ace Levy" in Starship Troopers. Also in The Frighteners, Tomcats, Enemy of the State, The Hitcher II, Contact. (IMDb)

Tia Carrere - Showdown In Little Tokyo, Duck Dodgers, Wayne's World 1,2, Rising Sun, True Lies, Relic Hunter, High School High, Kull The Conqueror, Lilo & Stitch. (IMDb)

Byron Cherry - "Coy Duke" from The Dukes of Hazzard. (IMDb)

Rae Dawn Chong - Commando, The Color Purple, Soul Man. (IMDb)

Don Pedro Colley - "Sheriff Little" from The Dukes of Hazzard, also Beneath the Planet of the Apes. (IMDb)

Amy Dumas - Former 4-Time WWF/WWE Women's Champion known as "LITA". Amy is also the lead singer for the band The Luchagors. (IMDb)

Daphnee Duplaix - "Rachel Gannon" on soap One Life To Live. Also in Passions, Felicity, and Angel and Playboy Playmate Miss July 1997. (IMDb)

Angie Everhart - Actress/ supermodel. Bordello of Blood, Last Action Hero, Another 9 1/2 Weeks, Playboy, Sports Illustrated. (IMDb)

Charles Fleischer - A Nightmare On Elm Street, Back To The Future, åWho Framed Roger Rabbit, The Polar Express, and Zodiac (2007). (IMDb)

Lilian Garcia - Former WWE Diva and Monday Night RAW ring announcer (1999-2009). Lilian is also an international recording artist. (IMDb)

Mark Goddard - "Don West" from Lost In Space. (IMDb)

Larissa Gomes - "Emily" in SAW VI and SAW VII (in production). Also in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, "Naomi in La Femme Nikita, CSI: Miami and "Suzette" in Get Over It. (IMDb)

Johnny Green and the Greenmen - From the Batman TV series. Signing all week long. Performing Saturday night at the Double Tree Hotel party. (IMDb)

Nora Greenwald - Best known to wrestling fans as "Molly Holly", former two-time WWE Women's Champion and one-time WWF Hardcore Champion. Also wrestled with WCW from 1999-2000. (IMDb)
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Dorian Gregory - "Darryl" in Charmed. Also in Baywatch Nights, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 90210, Moesha and 3rd Rock From The Sun. (IMDb)

Robyn Griggs - From One Life to Live, Another World and over a dozen horror movies. (IMDb)

Paul Harrington Jr. - "Canada's Biggest Dukes Fan" seen in episode 2 of the reality show FANatical". (IMDb)

Jenilee Harrison - "Cindy Snow" from Three's Company. Also in Dallas and Curse 111. (IMDb)

Ernie Hudson - "Winston" in Ghostbusters 1 & 2. Also in Congo, Miss Congeniality, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Stargate SG-1. (IMDb)

Herb Jefferson, Jr. - "Boomer" from the original Battlestar Galactica. (IMDb)

Jim Kelly - Martial arts legend, Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, and Black Samurai. (IMDb)

Daniel Logan - "Boba Fett" from Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. (IMDb)

Dawn Marie - Former WWE & ECW Diva. (IMDb)

Julie McCullough - Playboy Playmate, Growing Pains, Big Bad Mama 2, The Blob(1988), Jack Rio. (IMDb)

Ryan Meade - Michigan filmmaker, 100 Miles to Midnight, You Can't Rent Here Anymore

Ray Park - "Darth Maul" from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace,"Snake Eyes" from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and "Edgar" from Heroes. (IMDb)
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Michael Popajohn - Spider-Man The Movie, Transformers, Terminator Salvation. (IMDb)

Timothy Patrick Quill - The Blacksmith in Army of Darkness and "Frank" in My Name is Bruce. (IMDb)

RAVEN - three-time world heavyweight wrestling champion (ECW twice & NWA once). WWF/E record holder as most reigns as Hardcore Champion (26 times). First pro wrestler to hold championships in each of the major American promotions of the last decade. Currently signed to TNA Wrestling in Florida. (IMDb)

Ola Ray - Thriller music video. (IMDb)

Eliza Roberts - "Miranda" from Doctor Who (1996 TV movie) and more. (IMDb)

Eric Roberts - "Thompson" from Heroes, "Salvatore Maroni" from The Dark Knight, voice of "Mongul" from "Justice League", "The Master" from Doctor Who (1996 TV movie) and more. (IMDb)

Louise Robey - The Money Pit, Raw Deal and "Micki Foster" on Friday The 13th:The Series. (IMDb)

Mark Ryan - Voice of "Bumblebee" in "Transformers" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". (IMDb)

Rekha Sharma - "Tory Foster " from Battlestar Galactica. (IMDb)

Cathy St. George - Star 80, The Men Who Loved Women, Brewster's Millions, Beverly Hills Brats, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Eden Formula. (IMDb)

Kevin Thorn - Former WWE Superstar, Smackdown 2004-2005, ECW 2006-2007. (IMDb)

Lindsay Wagner - "Jaime Sommers" from The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. (IMDb)

Claudia Wells - Back to the Future. (IMDb)

Dawn Wells - "Mary Ann" from Gilligan's Island. (IMDb)

Adam West - "Batman" from TV as well as "Mayor West" on Family Guy. (IMDb)

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TV VEHICLES
The Canadian Dukes Travelling Museum with
the General Lee, Sheriff's Car with Marine Unit Speed Boat.

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COMICS CANCELLATIONS

• Howard Chaykin - Due to family obligations.

All guest appearances are subject to change. Motor City Conventions is not responsible for cancellations, missed flights, or other unforseen circumstances. Some guests may have autograph fees.