2026 GUESTS
More guests will be announced as they are confirmed!
Larry Hama
LARRY HAMA is an Eisner Hall of Fame writer/artist/editor/actor who has is best known as the writer of MARVEL’S GI JOE and WOLVERINE comics in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Larry created and scripted BUCKY O’HARE, which was a comic, an animated show, and Toy line from Hasbro. He has also written, edited or drawn for AVENGERS, CONAN, BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN, X-MEN, SPIDER-MAN, and dozens more. His illustrations and cartoons have appeared in NATIONAL LAMPOON, ESQUIRE, NEW YORK and ROLLING STONE. His most recent novel is THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA, which was also released as an audio book. In comics, he has recently scripted IRON FIST /Heart of the Dragon for Marvel, and SPY HUNTER/PAPER BOY for DC. He has also done layouts for DEATHSTROKE, DAMAGE, and MICHAEL CRAY @ DC. Currently writing GI JOE ARAH for SKYBOUND. He is also an INKPOT award winner, and an inductee in the HARVEY AWARDS Hall of Fame.
As an actor, he has appeared on TV in M.A.S.H., SNL, and ANOTHER WORLD. He originated the characters of Lord of the South, and Lt. Williams in the 1976 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s PACIFIC OVERTURES, and has done commercials and voice-overs.
Thomas Yeates
THOMAS YEATES is an award winning comic book illustrator who has worked for most of the major comic publishers and was one of first graduates of the prestigious Joe Kubert School. He is best known for illustrating The Saga of The Swamp Thing for DC, Tarzan, John Carter, Zorro and for his current dream job illustrating Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper strip. In the past he drew Timespirits and Universe X specials for Marvel. In recent years he has drawn Groo Versus Conan with Sergio Aragones, Louis L’Amour’s Law of the Desert Born, and illustrated lots of legends and mythology.
Anthony Tollin
ANTHONY TOLLIN has a 25-year history in comics, including a 15-plus year tenure with his late wife Adrienne as the regular colorists on about 85% of DC's top-selling titles: Superman, Green Lantern, New Teen Titans, Batman, Detective Comics, Mike Grell's Warlord, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Justice League of America, Ambush Bug, etc. He started out on DC's staff back when they numbered only 33 people (including the payroll department upstairs), and his two immediate bosses had both worked on Action Comics #1. He worked regularly with almost all the major Silver and Bronze Age artists including Curt Swan, George Perez, Don Newton, Gil Kane, Jim Aparo, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, Don Heck, Jerry Ordway, Mike Grell, etc., and co-authored 1979's The Shadow Scrapbook with Walter Gibson (creator of The Shadow).
Buddy Saunders
We are proud to welcome back BUDDY SAUNDERS from MyComicShop.com this year! Saunders started out in the world of fanzines. As part of the "Texas Trio" (with Larry Herndon and Howard Keltner) Saunders published the fanzine Star-Studded Comics from 1963–1972. It featured early work by George R. R. Martin, Grass Green, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Sam Grainger, Alan Weiss, Dave Cockrum, Mike Vosburg, Biljo White, and Keltner, among others, and featured the early appearances of Dr. Weird, Xal-Kor, Wildman and The Eye. Saunders' cover for its second issue won an Alley Award in the amateur division in 1963. In addition, during this period Saunders was a regular contributor (as an artist) to the seminal comic book fanzine Rocket's Blast Comicollector.
Saunders operated his own mail order service starting in 1961. He owned and operated Lone Star Comics, a chain of seven Texas comic book stores founded in 1977. With the sale of the Lone Star comic book store chain in 2013, Mr. Saunders and his family now operate the online Lone Star Comics, www.mycomicshop.com.
As a writer, he co-authored A Voice and Bitter Weeping with Howard Waldrop, later expanded into the 1974 novel The Texas-Israeli War: 1999, as well as Time and Variance, with Waldrop and Steven Utley. Saunders' story "Back to the Stone Age'" was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Storyin 1976. Saunders' recent work includes two novels based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Martian Legion (2014) and Tarzan and the Cannibal King (2017).
Buddy will be buying collections on the exhibit floor. We also want to thank him for sponsoring the show!