Garden State Comic Fest

Garden State Comic Fest Join us this June 27-28th at Garden State Comic Fest, NJ's Coolest Comic Con! At the Codey Arena in West Orange NJ
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Do you love Batman, Spider-man, The X-Men, and other amazing comic book characters? If so you will love spending the weekend at Garden State Comic Fest. Whether it be film, animation, comic books, or video games. Come out with the whole family and see your heroes and villains come to life!

Charles Paul Wilson III is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!Charles is the illustrator and co...
09/02/2026

Charles Paul Wilson III is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!
Charles is the illustrator and co-creator of The New York Times Best-Selling Graphic Novel The Stuff of Legend (published by Th3rd World Studios), and illustrator for WRAITH (with Joe Hill, IDW Publishing). His drawings can also be found in the pages and on the covers for X-Files, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tales from the Darkside, Goosebumps, Superman, Captain America, The Shadow, and others.

Save the dates!!As we are almost sold out for Vineland We will be opening Winter, Anime, and Codey vendor spaces very so...
09/01/2026

Save the dates!!
As we are almost sold out for Vineland We will be opening Winter, Anime, and Codey vendor spaces very soon!!

Ernie Reyes Jr. is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!Ernie is an American actor and martial ar...
09/01/2026

Ernie Reyes Jr. is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!
Ernie is an American actor and martial artist, known for his acting work in films such as The Last Dragon and he shared the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen in Red Sonja, as Donatello’s stunt man in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Keno the pizza boy in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Surf Ninjas, The Rundown with the Rock.
He has also done stunt work in films such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as motion capture stunts in films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. His TV work includes season 3 episode 4 of Highway to Heaven, dramas such as the short-lived Sidekicks (in which he co-starred with Gil Gerard), NCIS: Los Angeles, MacGyver, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues alongside David Carradine and reality the TV series such as Final Fu.
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Raphael is in the House!!Kenn Scott is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!Kenn is an American a...
08/27/2026

Raphael is in the House!!
Kenn Scott is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!
Kenn is an American actor, puppeteer, filmmaker, former stuntman and martial artist.
He is most well known for his portrayal of Raphael in the hit films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as a stunt performer) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (as the suit performer),
Scott, has had starring roles in the direct-to-video action-adventure films Showdown, Star Hunter, and Sworn To Justice, and received national press attention for his directorial debut, the short, martial-arts comedy Better Never Than Late as well as the action film, Adventures of Johnny Tao: Rock Around the Dragon.
In 2019, he wrote a book called Teenage Ninja to Mutant Turtle: Becoming the Reel Raphael
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Tony Salerno is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th 2026!Tony is a versatile voice actor, writer...
08/26/2026

Tony Salerno is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th 2026!
Tony is a versatile voice actor, writer, and director known for his work in anime, animation, and commercials. He is best recognized for voicing Rex Raptor in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Chazz Princeton in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Donatello in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover film, Turtles Forever. With his dynamic vocal range and extensive experience, Tony Salerno has made a lasting impact in the world of voice acting.

Kevin Clash is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!Kevin is best known for Elmo (Sesame Street) ...
08/20/2026

Kevin Clash is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!
Kevin is best known for Elmo (Sesame Street) 1979-2012. as well as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (1991), Happy Time Murders (SFX) 2018, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) 2019. In addition to Elmo, Clash is also known for performing Splinter (TMNT) Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs), and Clifford (Muppets Tonight). Kevin was also invloved in Labrinth.
Kevin Clash has won 29 daytime Emmys, over one hundred fifty-six performing title credits, thirty-one producing title credits and twenty-seven directing title credits. In 2011, his documentary, Being Elmo, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. He has appeared in numerous television specials, commercials, feature films and direct-to-video products.
During his career, he has worked with great innovators who founded the classic puppet television industry including Kermit Love, Frank Oz, and Jim Henson.
Clash has recruited, auditioned, and trained puppeteers from all over the world. He was the senior puppet coordinator, and was also a director, co-producer and senior creative adviser on Sesame Street. Kevin was essential to the success of Elmo's World and the creative branding powerhouse of Elmo. Business Insider states that in 1996 the toy company Tyco saw their sales grow from $70 million to an astounding $350 million thanks to the Tickle Me Elmo Doll.
Clash's most recent project, Earth to Ned That's airing on Disney+ & a Reboot of Fraggle Rock 1&2 on AppleTV+ and he currently has several film & Television projects in development.
Kevin is sponsored in part by Komic Knights!

Bob Petrecca is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th.Bob's comics career began in 1990 as one of ...
08/18/2026

Bob Petrecca is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th.
Bob's comics career began in 1990 as one of John Romita's Raiders at Marvel Comics and continued as a freelance inker/artist for Marvel, DC, Continuity and Malibu from there.
Some Marvel titles include Captain America, Thor, Dr Strange, What If, Hyperkind, Spider-Man. Some DC titles include Batman Confidential, Justice League Unlimited, Green Lantern, JLA, Birds of Prey, Action Comics, Aquaman, even Scooby Doo among others.
Also, countless sketch cards for Upper Deck that include Marvel, DC, Firefly, X-files and Aesop's Fables.
He has worked with prog-rockers, The Dear Hunter in bringing their music to comics in the form of "All Things Regarding Ms. Leading".
Bob has also done movie work for the CROSS franchise of films as well as the recent "The Night They Came Home". Currently, he is devoting as much time as possible to his own graphic novel based on his screenplay, "The Armor".

GSCF is proud to announce Robbie Rist is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!Robbie is known for...
08/14/2026

GSCF is proud to announce Robbie Rist is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th!
Robbie is known for voicing assorted characters in television shows, games and movies, most notably as the voice of Michelangelo in the films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, and Casey Jones; his other voice roles include Stuffy in Doc McStuffins, Whiz in Kidd Video, Star in Balto, Maroda in Final Fantasy X, and Choji Akimichi in Naruto. Additionally, he and director Anthony C. Ferrante provided music for the Sharknado film and the theme song for the Sharknado franchise. He played Ted and Georgette Baxter's adopted son David on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He was also the voice of the stick man from the Handi Snacks commercials.
Robbie is also known for playing Cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch, Martin in Grady and "Little John" in Big John, Little John.
Get your passes today and Come meet Robbie at GSCF Vineland this November!

Garden State Comic Fest Vineland welcomes legendary Animator Tom Cook November 14-15th!Tom began his career as an anima...
08/12/2026

Garden State Comic Fest Vineland welcomes legendary Animator Tom Cook November 14-15th!
Tom began his career as an animator and director in 1978 at Hanna-Barbera Studios where he worked as an assistant animator on Challenge of the "SuperFriends", "Godzilla", "Scooby Doo", "Smurfs", "Pacman" and the "Flintstones".
A short stop at Ruby-Spears had him working on "Thundarr the Barbarian", "Heathcliff", "Fang Face" and "Plastic Man". Freelancing at Film Roman he worked on the Emmy Award Winning Garfield Special "Babes and Bullets" and for Bill Melendez on the Peanuts Special "This is America Charlie Brown".
Moving to Filmation Studios in 1980, which at this point had become the only animation studio doing animation in the United States, and worked on "Tarzan", "Flash Gordon", "Blackstar", "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids", "The Brown Hornet", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "She-Ra Princess of Power", "Ghostbusters", "Lone Ranger", "Zorro", "The Kids Super Power Hour with Shazam" (Captain Marvel), "Hero High" and the futuristic Western "Bravestarr". He was also involved with many TV commercials such as The Jolly Green Giant, Chevrolet, the 7 Up Spot campaign and the Paula Abdul video for "Opposites Attract" featuring MC Skat Kat.
He then directed many episodes of these favorite TV cartoons: "Road Rovers", Disney's "Mighty Ducks", "PB & J Otter", "Duckman", "King of the Hill", "Savage Dragon", HBO's "Happily Ever After Fairy Tales", "Extreme Ghostbusters", "Extreme Dinosaurs", " TheSimpsons" and many more.
He also animated or was the Key Clean-up artist on a number of motion pictures such as Walt Disney's "Prince and the Pauper" starring Mickey Mouse, Roger Rabbit in "Tummy Trouble", "The Jetson's Movie", "Rover Dangerfield", "Stay Tuned", "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night", Steven Spielberg's "Were Back", and Don Bluth's "Thumbelina".

Lets Do This!Michael Turney is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th at the Vineland Convention Ce...
08/10/2026

Lets Do This!
Michael Turney is coming to Garden State Comic Fest Vineland November 14-15th at the Vineland Convention Center!
Michael was born in New York City. He is a former child actor starring in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) as Danny Pennington.
In 2024 Michael wrote and directed the award winning retro tech body horror, Video Vision, that screened at Fright Fest in London. Michael was also a comics artist for Marvel and Image in the 90's and has returned to the medium this year with his new series Bubblegum Samurai.
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