John Morris has been a professional voice actor since the age of 7 and is known best for his role as "Andy" in the Toy Story franchise and "Santa Boy" plus additional voices in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also voiced the roles of "Pepper Roni" in Lego Island, "Young Eugene" in Adventures in Odyssey, and has appeared in many commercials and other VO projects.

Justin Shenkarow has spent thirty years working as a talented actor and producer in television, film and animation. He has received numerous honors and distinctions including an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his work as an ensemble series regular playing Matthew on the hit CBS show "Picket Fences". Justin was a series regular on the critically acclaimed NBC show "Eerie Indian." He also played the bully Harold on the long running hit Nickelodeon animated show "Hey Arnold." Justin has worked on over 50 film productions including Oscar winning films "Avatar", "Good Will Hunting", "Silver Linings Playbook" and starred on numerous television shows including "Picket Fences," "Eerie Indiana," "Home Improvement" "Z Nation" and many others. Justin's voiced such acclaimed animation films, "Ice Age" "Garfield 2" "Marmaduke," "Barnyard" "Bee Movie" "Shrek 3" and has been a series regular on hit cartoons "Hey Arnold," "Recess," "Lloyd in Space."

We are so excited to have Michelle back for the first time in nearly 10 years when we were first starting out in our Roller Rink!
Michele has voiced over 650 episodes of Pokémon as the voice of Jessie, May, Misty, Nurse Joy, The Pokédex and roughly about 70 other lovable Pokémon! She has also brought to life The Pokémon Trainer, Squirtle and Various Pokémon in Super Smash Bros!
Other voice acting roles include:
• Carina in One Piece Film: Gold,
• Alisa Bosconovitch and Roll in Street Fighter X Tekken,
• Ogiue Chika in Genshiken,
• The Sparrow Nike and Mummified Izanami in SMITE,
• Neo Alraune in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle,
• Bazzi in KartRider Rush+,
• Lilliel Saotome in The Guided Fate Paradox,
• Athena and Akiko in Aria,
• Young Burndy Byojack in One Piece 3D2Y,
• Rol in The Last Dungeon Boonies,
• Koyuki Asagiri in Kujibiki Unbalance, Brawl, Yumi in Kitsune Zero,
• The Caryatid Sisters and Persephone in Gods’ School: The Olympian Gods
• (and a bunch of other anime, shows and video games)
Michele is the writer/script adapter for The Way of the Househusband, Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, Shaman King 2021 and many more awesome shows on Netflix!

Karan Ashley is an American actress, singer, and talk show host. She is best known as Aisha Campbell, the second Yellow Power Ranger in the Fox Kids series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In 1992, she was a member of the short-lived girl group K.R.U.S.H, who featured a song to the soundtrack of Mo' Money. She was known as "Ashley Jackson" at this time.

Trish Forstner is an Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated cartoonist from Baltimore, Maryland. She brings a lifetime of experience creating fun, lovable, and believable characters. She’s been drawing since she could hold a pencil. Trish loves classic animation and has drawn influence from many sources, particularly classic 80s and 90s toons. Her style has been compared to Don Bluth, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros., but she likes to think she’s found a way to separate herself from those comparisons while still drawing inspiration from them. Her love of expression and emotion is on full display in any work she creates. You’ve most recently seen her work in Image Comics’ ongoing scary “cat-pocalypse” series Feral and in the Eisner Award-nominated Stray Dogs. She is also an amazing cover artist for Dynamite’s Disney comics, from Darkwing Duck to Zootopia! From her beginnings as an artist for My Little Pony all the way to award nominated co-creator of Stray Dogs and Feral and everything in-between, Trish is sure to draw something you’ll love!

Andrew has been the lead artist on G.I. Joe and Transformers, written and drawn for Star Wars, as well as interiors and covers for everything from Godzilla, ROM, Micronauts and more and is currently working on Magic: The Gathering and his own creator-owned title.

Nick Davis is an Englishman in the USA, searching for a good cup of tea. He is also the writer and occasional artist of the monsta-hunta’verse, the world of threadbare cuddly toys, led by Mr. Button, the teddy bear bounty hunta, that protect us from the monsters under the bed and their master, the Boogeyman.

Occasionally, Nick can be found plodding away on a worn-out keyboard, drawing the adventures of a comedic teddy bear bounty hunter, or playing with Lego while he explores and tells the stories of the tea-powered fantasy worlds of the monsta-huntas!
Adventures ahead!!!

We are so excited to announce that John Gallagher is coming to the Harrisburg Comic and Pop Con 2026!!! We are proud to also announce the presence of Kids Love Comics with some other soon to be announced guests.

John is the creator of the critically acclaimed Max Meow: Cat Crusader series, the art director of Ranger Rick magazine with the National Wildlife Federation, and cofounder of Kids Love Comics, which promotes literacy and the magic of comic books. Welcome to to Team Four State Max and John!!!

Harrisburg native Jimmy Gownley is a New York Times best-selling cartoonist, and creator of the award winning and trendsetting Amelia Rules! series of graphic novels. He has been nominated for 15 Eisner awards and six Harvey Awards. His memoir, The Dumbest Idea Ever!, won the Children’s Choice Award for Book of the year.
In addition to his creator owned work, Gownley is a successful freelance writer; crafting many comics, graphic novels, and hybrid books for such global icons as: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tangled, Zootopia and more. Gownley’s work has been translated into ten languages, and he has spoken to countless children through his dynamic school presentations. He has been a guest lecturer at The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Cartoon Art Museum, and Artist in Residence at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. Outside of the comics world, Gownley had a decade long career in television news, where he was an Emmy nominated art director. He is also an entrepreneur and publisher, who co-founded the reading advocacy group Kids Love Comics.
Gownley also hosts two podcasts; his own Jimmy Gownley’s Dumb Ideas, and the internationally charting Unpacking Peanuts.

Dan Nokes has been a mainstay of the Indie Creator Owned Comics scene for almost a quarter of a century and a Night Guardians and Let's Hunt Monstas! regular artist. He has published such books as THE PARANORMALS, THE PISTOLEERS, ADAM & EVE: BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, IMPOSSIBLE SPACE TALES OF THE LAST PIT STOP, CHICKEN: USDA REJECTED and KEVIN! He has also done work for such titles as FUBAR, THE TEDDY BEAR TALES SAGA, Let's Hunt Monstas! and TEDDY SCARES.

Chris is a professional illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist and a web and graphic designer working in the Washington, DC area. In 2007, he created the webcomic Capes & Babes featuring Roy the Werewolf. You can read all 1200+ strips at www.capesnbabes.com. Chris has also collected those 12 years of strips into five trade paperback books and created three all ages coloring books on Amazon.com.

Chris attends several conventions throughout the year where he primarily draws caricatures of people as werewolves and other monsters, sells mash-up posters, coloring books, stickers and so much more.
He has also been a host of several web-comic and pop culture-related podcasts such as The Webcomic Alliance and The Nerd Salad podcasts. You can find archive episodes of both podcasts by Googling their names.

If you're interested in tabling at conventions, Chris also self-published a book a few years back called "Conventional Wisdom" and can be found on Amazon.

Tanner Geesey is a creative storyteller who specializes in family-friendly comic books and content. Known for his original character, No. 2 Pencil Man, and his comic book series of the same name, Tanner hopes to inspire and encourage the next generation of storytellers by helping them embrace creativity and find their unique creative spark.
Tanner posts his content under Tanner’s Tales Entertainment on YouTube and other platforms.
As No. 2 Pencil Man, Tanner also hosts various workshops and events to make a positive impact on the community.

arold Buchholz creates comics, animation, and television celebrating humor, kindness, and imagination. His credits include Sweetest Beasts and Netflix’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival.

Chris Ring has been a commercial illustrator for 30 years. His comic credits include the “CarbonKnight” mini series, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Nevermore”,“The Perfect Victim”and two Star Wars card series. He illustrated the Children’s book “The Scariest Creature” which led to two “Seamus (the Famous)” graphic novels. He also wrote and illustrated the graphic novelette “Allan Quatermain and the Tomb of Hephaestus” which is currently running in “A Kid and a Comic”. Most recently has completed the hardcover Children’s book “Oscar the Oyster Saves the Day”.

Bryan Tillman has been in higher education for 20 years and has done everything from professor to program director for Media. He is currently an Associate Professor for Illustration at Montgomery College in Rockville Maryland. Bryan has a BFA and MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, with a focus in sequential art and a minor in drawing. As an educator Bryan has conducted many panels and solo lectures for many conventions such as, AwesomeCon, MegaCon, Stan Lee's Comikaze, GenCon, Wizard World Conventions and San Diego Comic Con. The San Diego Comic Con has over the past 16 years invited him back to give his panel on Proper Pitching and Promoting Yourself. Bleeding cool did an article on it in 2017.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/.../comic-con-bryan.../
Aside from being an educator, Bryan is a Diana Jones Award recipient and Glyph award nominee and he is the owner and CEO of Kaiser Studio Productions LLC, a production studio for comics, toys, animation, and games that has been active in the industry for 24 years. Within Kaiser Studio Productions Bryan Tillman does many things. He is a sculptor for toys. He is the editor for all the comic books that come out from the studio. He also does layout and illustrations for multiple projects that are being worked on. Some of the clients that Bryan has worked for are Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Valiant Comics, UpperDeck, Cryptozoic, Rittenhouse, Lucas Films, Cartoon Network, Toys R Us, T.G.I. Fridays, Focal Press, FX, Miramax and Tandem Productions.
Bryan has published three instructional books; Creative Character Design for Focal Press, Creative Design vol. 2 for CRC Press and The 30 Day Pitch Bible as well as two character design workbooks for Kaiser Studio Productions. Bryan has also created and illustrated a tabletop RPG trading card game, Dark Legacy, which was acquired by UpperDeck and released in late 2018
Currently Bryan is hard at work getting Ninja Empire to the public. Ninja Empire is multi-platform IP that will be spawning comics, action figures, board and card games, and animations. Issue 0 was a successful Kickstarter campaign and was recently published in September. Issue 1 is set to release in August, and Issue 2 is in production.

Patricia A. Jackson — Author Biography
Patricia A. Jackson is an American author, high school language arts teacher, and advocate for diversity in literature. She is best known for her contributions to the Star Wars universe, particularly through short stories and a roleplaying game sourcebook that centered on people of color.

Career and Writing
Jackson’s Star Wars work began in the 1990s when she wrote numerous short stories for the West End Games quarterly Star Wars Adventure Journal. Her most famous creations include:

Drake Paulsen, a Socorran smuggler, and the Old Corellian language she invented for his stories.

Adalric Cessius Brandl, an Imperial Inquisitor, and his son Jaalib, featured in the Emanations of Darkness story.

The 1997 West End Games sourcebook The Black Sands of Socorro, a smugglers’ guide focusing on non-white characters in the Star Wars setting.

She also authored the canon short story “Gone to the Winner’s Circle”, published in the 2023 anthology From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi.

Debut Novel
In addition to her Star Wars work, Jackson is the author of Forging A Nightmare, an urban fantasy novel set in a dark, supernatural world. The book explores themes of identity, survival, and the supernatural, and she has spoken about drawing inspiration from her own experiences and the settings she imagines.

The Man,Myth, and Legend Gus Mauk returns to the Harrisburg Comic and Pop Con 2026!!!

Please help us welcome comic artist, Educator and all around great guy The Art of Jason Seaux to the Harrisburg Comic and Pop Con 2026. Jason is most known for his work on the Necro-Man series. His credits also include Major Tom vs the Spiders from Mars, Invisible, Jim Bob John and numerous covers.