Nerd Fest Guests & Vendors

 Neil  Vokes has been active in the comics field since the mid-1980s, drawing  his first comic, 'The Key Eternal', at Comico in 1984. He has worked for  several companies in various genres since. His work was published by  the two major comic book publishers: Marvel ('Untold Stories of  Spider-Man') and DC ('Superman Adventures'). He was also present at Dark  Horse with 'Adventures of the Mask' and 'Jonny Demon'. Among his other  credits are Malibu's 'Tarzan the Warrior', Crystal/Apple's 'Eagle' and  Comico's 'Robotech Masters'. He has also drawn graphic novels like  'Parliament of Justice' and 'The Black Forest' at Image Comics.  

  Bob Petrecca'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, 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 upcoming "The Rufus  Buck Gang". Currently, he is devoting as much time as possible to his  own graphic novel based on his screenplay, "The Armor  

 Carmen Costa is a writer and educator from the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia area and the founder of the publishing house Harpoon Creative Industries. Though passionate about education, he spends much of his free time writing about fantastic worlds and their characters. He has earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Rutgers University and a Master’s degree in education from Wilmington University. He recently finished his graduate studies in Reading Specialization at Rowan University. Along with the publication of Proctor issues 1-6, he will be releasing a children’s book in the coming months.