Kristin Bauer

American film and television actress Kristin Bauer is best known for her role as Pam, the vampire co-owner of Bon Temps' Fangtasia bar in True Blood. She got her start in TV portraying flight attendant Maggie Reynolds in the FOX comedy The Crew. In 1996, Bauer appeared in one of her most memorable guest roles as "Man Hands" Gillian, Jerry's girlfriend, on Seinfeld. Throughout the years she has played other series-regulars, including Geneva Renault on the short-lived action drama Total Security, and Candy Cooper on the CBS Family drama That's Life.

Christopher Judge

Actor Christopher Judge has acted in a variety of films (House Party 2, A Dog’s Breakfast), television shows (Andromeda,), animated series (X-Men: Evolution, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) and video games (Def Jam Vendetta, Turok), but he’s undoubtedly best known for his work as Teal’c on the sci-fi series Stargate SG-1, on which he has appeared more often than any of the show’s other actors. Look for Judge in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises.

Peter Mayhew (Celeb)

Soon after his giant seven-foot-four frame landed him an offer to appear in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as the Minoton, Peter Mayhew interviewed with George Lucas to play the lovable Chewbacca the Wookiee. After filming the Star Wars films, Mayhew retired to private life for 14 years in England before marrying, moving to Texas, and then becoming an American citizen. Mayhew reprised his role for the Star Wars prequels, and consulted with Lucasfilm creatives to bring Chewie into The Clone Wars Cartoon Series. He finished his consulting by recording "the voice of Chewbacca" for the first time in 30 years. Mayhew still acts occasionally, but enjoys spending time with fans at events around the world.

Kevin Sorbo

Kevin Sorbo has fought gods and monsters and traversed the stars — not bad for a guy from small-town Minnesota. Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Kevin jobbed around a while before eventually finding the ideal showcase for his particular combination of talents. For 111 episodes, Kevin starred in the fantastic Hercules: The Legendary Journeys for Sam Raimi before moving on to Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi series, Andromeda. Kevin has recently written a memoir, True Strength, revealing his real-life hero’s journey.

George Takei

George Takei is known around the world for his founding role as Starship Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu for three seasons of television’s Star Trek, a role he later reprised in six movies. Other television credits include guest appearances on a variety of popular sitcoms, and he has provided Grammy award-winning narration to a range of projects. His voiceover talents have brought life to hundreds of characters in film, television, video games and commercials. Takei is also an accomplished author and award-winning community activist and human rights supporter. More recently, Takei had a recurring guest role on the TV sci-fi drama Heroes, is featured in the film Larry Crowne, and stars in the Nickelodeon series Supah Ninjas. He is also developing a new musical intended for Broadway. Look for more of Takei on NBC-TV’s 2012 season of Celebrity Apprentice.

Eric Basaldua

Eric Basaldua is an American comic book artist working exclusively for Top Cow Productions on interior artwork. Basaldua started his career at Top Cow Studios, working on backgrounds directly under its founder, Marc Silvestri. Basaldua's most recent interior artwork can be seen in Witchblade Annual #1.

Howard Chaykin

Pioneering creator Howard Chaykin is among the most innovative artists and writers ever to work in the medium of comics. While he’s worked for all the major publishers on their biggest characters, Chaykin is probably most revered for his own boundary-pushing creations, such as American Flagg!, which makes him a rarity in an industry that seldom favors true individuality.

Shane Davis

Working in the industry since 2003, Shane Davis illustrated the first issue of the JLA/JSA crossover storyline "The Lightning Saga," in 2007 and then penciled Superman/Batman issues #44–49. Davis was tapped by writer Geoff Johns in 2008 to be the artist for the Final Crisis tie-in one-shot Rage of the Red Lanterns, featuring a lead-up to a story in the main Green Lantern title and its 2009 crossover Blackest Night. His last project was with writer J. Michael Straczynski on the original graphic novel Superman: Earth One, which has been on the New York Times best-seller list for 37 weeks. Davis is currently working on the highly anticipated Superman: Earth One, Volume 2.

Michelle Delecki

Michelle Delecki is an American artist known for her paintings of women, often referred to as pinup art. Her artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the United States, Italy and Canada, and is collected by fans worldwide. 

Bob Eggleton

Considered the most “commercially successful” artist in science fiction and fantasy, Bob Eggleton has been putting brush to canvas and board for over twenty years, and is winner of 9 Hugo Awards and 12 Chesley Awards, among others. In the 90s, Eggleton worked on Dark Horse Comics’ Godzilla series, and is now working on IDW's incarnation of the Godzilla comics over 15 years later. Eggleton has also worked as a conceptual illustrator for thrill ride Star Trek: The Experience (Las Vegas) and the 1998 film Sphere. His most recent film work includes concept art and character design for the John A. Davis animated feature The Ant Bully and for Davis’ Academy Award-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Dave Johnson

Dave "The Reverend" Johnson is a comic book artist best known for his work on the covers for the title 100 Bullets. He has also done a number of covers for Detective Comics and earned the 2002 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist. Johnson was nominated for an Eisner again in 2004 thanks to his work on the critically acclaimed DC Elseworlds miniseries Superman: Red Son, which is now a perennial best seller in graphic novel form. He is currently working with the Cartoon Network as well as providing cover art for PunisherMax, Deadpool and Unknown Soldier.

Tyler Kirkham

Tyler Kirkham’s first paid art gig was drawing for a local newspaper, until he landed a job drawing indy book The Gift. Kirkham has since worked at Top Cow Studios (with artists like Marc Silvestri) and later on titles such as Strykeforce, Tomb Raider, The Darkness, Transformers, Amazing Spiderman, X-Men: Phoenix Warsong, and Ultimate Fantastic 4. He has been featured in FHM, Wizard, and Nintendo Power, among others. Kirkham is currently working for DC Comics on Green Lantern: New Guardians and is developing his own stories for shelves in the near future.

Gerry Kissell

Gerry Kissell has worked on Xbox’s Alan Wake comic, IDW’s The A-Team, Army of Two, and the comic tie-in for the sci-fi film Iron Sky. He has also worked on Vanquish, Tim Kenyon's Endtime and finally Tyler Button's Bayeux. Most recently, he created and was penciler and colorist on IDW's best-selling graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo. Look for the titles SLEEPERS: INCEPTION and Detective Nobody, planned for 2012 release by Kissell’s Hazmat Studios.

Paul Maybury

Paul Maybury is an Award-winning artist and writer whose work has been featured by Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, Ubisoft, Metro, Image, Criterion and Fast Company. He previously collaborated with writer Mark Andrew Smith for the Image Comics graphic novel Aqua Leung, and currently works on his new graphic novel Grace, along with his webcomic Party Bear for webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE. Maybury’s webcomics have also appeared on the DC Comics site Zuda.

Tommy Phillips

Known for his ability to meet difficult deadlines and for his unique, etched-metal trading cards, Tommy Phillips has penciled, inked and colored many projects, including his own Kullen. His most recent projects include the graphic novels Midnight to Daylight and Death's Row with Arcana Comics, as well as Phybernetix Hardwear with Shadow Dance Entertainment. Other projects include One Man Army, The Renaissance, Flight and Time Bomb.

Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson joined the army after high school to pay for art classes. In his senior year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, he began illustrating short stories for Dark Horse Comics. Robinson has since worked for all the major comic book publishers as well as many of the major gaming companies. His current projects include a painted graphic novel about Brian Epstein and the Beatles, as well as his own comic, called Dusty Star.

Dirk Strangely

Dirk Strangely is a conceptual designer, fine artist and writer of horror and fantasy. He is known for his newest published graphic novel, Dirk Strangely’s Graveyard Girl, as well as his children’s book Dirk Strangely’s Myrtles Broken Turtle. Strangely has also freelanced many designs for clothing apparel, unique vinyl toys, and album covers. He is frequently involved in projects that allow him to branch into film, digital art, sculptures, puppetry, and writing.

Chris Summers

Chris Summers is a freelance colorist that has been working professionally for the last 7 years. He has colored various titles, including GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Superman, Nightwing, The Perhapanauts and Spartacus: Blood & Sand, among others. Summers is also a host of the Comic Book Confessions podcast, has been a Guest Lecturer at Hardin-Simmons University’s Art dept, worked as part of Hi-Fi Design, and has done artwork for band merchandise, tattoos and video game concepts.

Marcio Takara

Marcio Takara has been working in comics since 2006, on titles such as SpiderMan & Fantastic Four: Hard Choices (Marvel), Marvel Adventures Super Heroes (Marvel), Dynamo5 (Image Comics) and The Incredibles (Boom! Studios). He has also done concept design artwork for video-games and animation projects. In 2011, he moved from Toronto, Canada, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he is currently working on the Incorruptible title as the regular monthly artist, with artist Mark Waid, for Boom! Studios.

Ben Templesmith

Award-winning artist Ben Templesmith has risen to the top of the comic world with his work on such horrific books as 30 Days of Night, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse and Hellspawn, but he’s also done illustrations for the worlds of film, gaming and trading cards. For a deeper look at Templesmith’s particular dark vision, pick up one of his intriguingly titled art books: Conluvio, Tommyrot or  SquidGirls: Erotica Tentacular.

Thom Zahler

Thom Zahler is the writer and artist of the critically-acclaimed, fan-favorite superhero romantic comedy Love and Capes, currently published by IDW. Zahler is also a letterer (Claypool Comics, Stan Lee/NHL The Guardian Project) and co-wrote a short story in the Star Trek: Next Generation collection Sky’s the Limit. His cartooning clients include the Cleveland Indians, the Colorado Rockies, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Baltimore Spelling Bee.

Paul Black

Paul Black is a celebrated author whose first novel, The Tels, won the Writer’s Digest 2005 Book of the Year for Genre Fiction. His second book, Soulware, took second place in ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards for Science Fiction, while the third book in the Tels series, Nexus Point, later won first place. Black’s The Presence won the Independent Publisher’s Book Award for Science Fiction, along with ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year. He is also creative director of Paul Black Design, a strategic design and branding firm in Dallas, Texas.

Joe R. Lansdale

While he’s written graphic novels, sci-fi tales, mysteries and westerns, Joe Lansdale is probably best known for his horror work, such as the novella Bubba Ho-Tep, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker award and later made into a much-loved cult film. A life-long Texan, Lansdale is writer in residence at Stephen F. Austin State University as well as a martial arts instructor and member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Lansdale has won the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award and seven Bram Stoker awards.

Larry Niven

While Larry Niven is many things — award-winning novelist, mathematics scholar, television writer and comic book creator — he’s perhaps best known as the author of the 1970’s Ringworld science fiction series, for which he received the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards. Niven has also tackled other mediums, writing for cult-classic TV shows Land of the Lost and The Outer Limits, and later retooling the Green Lantern universe for DC Comics. He recently collaborated with Edward M. Lerner on Betrayer of Worlds, and continues to create new tableaus in Known Space.