Lake Tahoe Comic Con

celebrities 

Mark Dodson

Mark Dodson is an American actor who voiced Salacious Crumb in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and provided various voices for Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. He is best known as the voice of the eponymous creatures in Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

C. andrew nelson

Darth Vader himself. Nelson is most notable for having played the role of Darth Vader for Lucasfilm since 1994. His appearances as Vader include LucasArts’ Star Wars: Dark Forces and Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire games, the Special Edition of the original Star Wars trilogy, commercials, print ads, TV shows, and magazine covers

Alan Fernandes

Alan portrayed a Tusken Raider in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope according to fan site Planet Dagobah and assisted the elephant Mardji, who portrayed a bantha.^[1]

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Sam de la Rosa

Artist Sam de la Rosa has inked/finished comic books for over twenty-five years. His first major comic book credit appeared in 1982 for DC in Action Comics #534. He then finished layouts by Keith Pollard for Green Lantern #160 and became the regular embellisher on World’s Finest #285, with layouts by Silver-Age great, Rich Buckler. Sam caught the attention of Marvel Comics that same year when Bob Layton and Mark Gruenwald asked him to finish a few pages of (Bob’s) layouts on Hercules Prince Of Power Mini Series issue #4. That led to 15 years of regular work for Marvel doing inks/finishes on various Spider-Man titles, Venom Lethal Protector, Venom Separation Anxiety, Captain America, Black Panther, Squadron Supreme, Iron Man, What If, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, The Thing, Spider Woman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and many more.

Sam’s favorite work was always on Spider-Man and Venom! He still does commission art, pencils, inks, and re-creations on request. Check out his website at http://www.samdelarosa.com

Sam J. Jones

Samuel Gerald Jones, known professionally as Sam J. Jones, is an American actor and former football player. He is known for playing the title character in the 1980 film Flash Gordon and for starring in the short-lived TV series The Highwayman. Also has starred in both Ted movies and has many other acting credits to his name including guest roles in the TV shows Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder and Walker: Texas Ranger. 

kevin sorbo

Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor and producer. He had starring roles in two television series: as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and as Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda.

celebrities

Mel smith

brad l johnson

Artist, Author, Publisher

Writer the Comic Collectors Handbook Volume 1.

Larry todd

Larry Todd was born in Buffalo, New York in 1948. He studied art at Syracuse University, and published his first comic work in Galaxy magazine. In 1967 he met another Galaxy artist, Vaughn Bodé, and they did a series of oil paintings together that were used as covers for Warren magazines. Todd moved to New York in 1971 to work for this company, but he soon returned to San Francisco, where he met up with the Air Pirates and was inspired by Bobby London to create a mad scientist comic character. This became ‘Dr. Atomic’, a comic which first appeared in The Sunday Paper.

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chris wisnia

Chris Wisnia is a comics creator and musician who grew up in South Lake Tahoe and lives just down the hill in sunny Davis, California with his long-suffering wife and unruly dogs and sons. He self-published his first comic in 2004, a pseudo tabloid anthology that introduced Doris Danger as a back-up feature. He then produced three Doris Danger books for SLG Publishing and one for Fantagraphics. He drew Ojo with Sam Kieth at Oni Press and Godzilla for the Criterion blu ray box set.  His YouTube channel @ChrisWisniaArts interviews the biggest names in the comics industry about struggles they face trying to get into and continue to find work as comics creators. Find out more about Chris and his work at www.ChrisWisniaArts.com/blog

chippy

Meet Chippy, our Lake Tahoe Con mascot. 

sponsor

IAPP Int’l Assoc of Press Photographers.

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raye hollitt

John hageman

Fremont, CA native John Hageman has been drawing cartoons since 1992. He began chasing professional status in 2006 with his weekly webcomic Social Vermyn, which ran online until 2013. He has done cartoons and design work for Creepy KOFY Movie Time, a late-night Bay Area horror host show. Through CKMT he met up with Mel Smith and Manuel Martinez at ACME Ink and began helping publish Rock and Roll Biographies since 2015. He illustrated The Woodland Welfare Manifesto for writer Justin Sane published by Slave Labor Graphics (a personal high mark). In 2017 ACME Ink was rebranded as 10 TON PRESS with John as co-publisher. Shortly after, 10 TON released one of their flagship titles, Charley & Humphrey. Illustrated by John and written by Justin Sane. Through 10 TON John has published books for the SF Giants, Castro Valley Sanitation District with Many more on the way!

clint

Your Lake Tahoe Comic Con host.