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  Glenn  Taranto’s numerous prime time TV appearances include Agent Carter,  Charmed, Shameless, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Law &  Order and Murder She Wrote. Portraying the all together kooky Gomez  Addams in 65 episodes of The New Addams Family brought him the most  acclaim. Daytime audiences remember him from recurring roles on Days of  Our Lives and most notably as Vincent Novak on General Hospital. Film  roles include, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, 8 Heads In a Duffel  Bag and Crash. Gamer's know him best from the MAFIA franchise voicing  Don Salieri. Glenn writes as well. His first screenplay, STOLEN, starred  Jon Hamm and Jessica Chastain. 

 Toni  Ann Gisondi !!!!A former child actress, best known for playing Molly  (the youngest orphan in the 1982 film ANNIE). Toni Ann was six when she  was picked for the role of Molly in the 1982 film version of the musical  ANNIE, which starred Aileen Quinn in the title role. She was nominated  "Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture" in the 1981-1982  Young Artist Awards and merits a mention in the 2002 edition of the St.  James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture for her "Sweet" performance.  She also performed on the best selling soundtrack album to the movie  ANNIE and went on to act in a made-for-TV Movie The Children's Story,  also in 1982 in which she played a student. 

 Rosanne  Sorrentino ! A former child actress best known for playing the role of  the bossy orphan Pepper in the 1982 film of the musical ANNIE, she made  her professional stage debut at age 12 in the third national tour of  ANNIE in 1980-81, playing the title role of ANNIE. Rosanne was "bitten  by the acting bug" in 1976, when she played a schoolgirl in the American  Academy of Dramatic Arts summer workshop production of The Prime of  Miss Jean Brodie. 

 Jeff  Brennan a well known and legendary comic book artist and creator!    Best known as the writer and artist of Cyber Girl Leeta, Jeff's other    credits include storyboards and design for Courage the Cowardly Dog,    Dragon Tales, and Extreme Ghostbusters as well as inking on Deathstroke    the Terminator and penciling on Bart Simpson Comics as well as the Set    Art on Big Bang Theory. 

  Denny Fincke is veteran of the Animation business who has worked on  numerous series including Daria, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Venture  Bros., Blaze and the Monster Machines,  Teenage Euthanasia, Deadly  Class, Midnight  Gospel, Inside Job, Kiff, Digman, and the Paloni Show.   He  recently  finished work on the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks where he  served as a Background Design Supervisor.  In his very spare time, he  works on side projects such as his newspaper style comic strip Twit Troo  of the Moon, his super hero comic Anti-Star, or drawings of his  favorite DC and Marvel characters. 

 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" 

 Criss  Madd is a New Jersey based penciller best known for his work on  creatures and characters from horror. He has contributed pinups and  covers to multiple publications and has been involved with successfully  funded Kickstarter projects. In 2022, he pencilled a short story in the Cthulhu Invades Wonderland comic. 

  Ramon  Gil got his first cartooning byline at the age of ten and he’s  still  waiting to get paid. Despite that he has been making up stories  ever  since though sometimes for highly questionable reasons. He is the   creator of Scifies, The Whiz Kids from DARPA, The Hard Code, Black   Stories Matter and Senturies. His favorite genres  are science fiction,  espionage and conspiracy theories sprinkled  with  lots of witty dialogue which he plagiarizes from conversation with   people who are way smarter and funnier than he is. 

Mark Holmes has been writing and drawing comics since grade school. If anyone finds his scrapbook filled with comic stories, lost in a move, he would really like it back.

Oddly enough it was not until he was in his 40’s when AC Comics published his first written story “Book em Synn” in their long running and popular title FemForce. He started a long run writing for FemForce with well over thirty back up stories written covering many genres. Superhero, western, horror and even a little romance mixed in.

While writing for FemForce he met Creator/ Publisher of AC Comics Bill Black. Black is also a film maker and soon he had Mark working both in front of and behind the camera as an actor/ camera guy. Mark was featured in Black’s “Amazing Collosal Woman”, “Shadow Slayer” and “The Mummy Creeps” along with other films.

Hooking up with a young film maker Joshua Kennedy, who Mark met on social media, he worked on such projects like “Dracula AD 2015”, “Slavegirls on the Moon” and “House of the Gorgon”. Once again on both sides of the camera.

Mark got the bug and soon created his own short films like “A Coffin for the Black Phantom”, “All in a Day’s Work” and the award winning “Cyber Ape vs the Hel-Bots” which can all be found on You Tube.

He has not given up on writing though with his short prose sci fi story “Dunn” featured in a recent issue of Dark Sister Anthology magazine.

Tony DiGerolamo is a New Jersey screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, game designer and comedian. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books. He has also been a joke writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, a scriptwriter for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and a blogger for Comedy Central’s Indecision website. He has written the screenplays including Mafioso: The Father, The Son starring Leo Rossi. His novels, Fix in Overtime and The Undercover Dragon are available through Padwolf Publishing. After publishing his own comic books (Jersey Devil, The Travelers and The Fix) with SJRP, he eventually got a publishing deal with Kenzer & Company. Kenzer published The Travelers. Tony also wrote Everknights (another Kenzer comic book), as well as the Hacklopedia of Beasts (Volumes 1 thru and Slaughterhouse Indigo (an adventure for the Hackmaster RPG). He also adapted Mark Twain's Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc for Campfire.  Performing in the Philly comedy scene for over ten years, Tony performed and directed such improv groups as Next Line Improv, The Cabal, The Ninjas and Bulletproof Giraffe. 

Besides writing for various comedy websites, he had a long running comics review column in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. He was the marketing director for comics publisher, Silent Devil. He is creator of Tony DiGerolamo’s Complete Mafia for d20, creator/biographer for the online webcomic, Super Frat at , the co-creator of the Webcomic Factory and writer for the over two dozen webcomics on the Webcomic Factory site including Lester Crenshaw is Still Dead, Pandamodium and Tales of Pizza.  He is the writer for F*ck You, I’m Italian: Why We Italians Are Awesome, from Ulysses Press.  His current project is a comedy/horror novella series about the hunters of the kin of the Jersey Devil called The Pineys.  You can find all his ebooks and books on Amazon.

Tom Schloendorn has been an inker for more than ten years, whose work can be found in Trailer Park of Terror, as well as Tales of the Starlight Drive-In and Phantom Jack: The No Where Man Agenda.  Currently working on project BRICK which is a series of Classic and Iconic comic cover reimagined as LEGO.  Senior contributor to Inkwell Awards.

http://www.inkwellawards.com

LaToya Smith has been drawing since 2013 and has continued her love of drawing and painting to this day.  LaToya is involved with ARC of Atlantic County and has showcased her artwork at several events thru ARC and at outside events as well such as Smithville Artwalk, and Nerd Fest.

Richard Mead is an aspiring film maker, writer, and artist.  He and LaToya are best friends who met thru work and continue to encourage and support each other with their art.  Richard is an amazing painter and has shown his work at Artwalk and Nerd Fest.  Richard has also written a book titled Lucid about living with mental disabilities, depression, anxiety, and recovery.

Kevin is a veteran cosplayer and a fixture of East Coast events in years past. He even appeared as Captain America in a Southern NJ comic shop commercial, as Negan in a local restaurant commercial, and as Batman in a local Toy Store commercial.  You may have seen him as Batman, Captain America, Wolverine, James Bond, The Comedian, and many more, at just about every major convention on the east coast. His award winning costumes have been featured by multiple online publications including Pop Culture Uncovered, Fan Boy Nation, as well as many others. Recently one of his Batman cosplay photos has been selected, along with his cosplay, to be displayed at a gallery in Barcelona, Spain.   

When not appearing at conventions in his impressive cosplay, Kevin attends charity events as some of his most famous characters as a founding member of the Philadelphia Avengers.

https://www.facebook.com/kevindcosplay/
https://twitter.com/kevindcosplay/
https://www.instagram.com/kevindcosplay/ 

Dawnchu is a Southern NJ resident, and has been a fixture in the comic and anime convention circuit for the past few years in the tri-state area. Hosting many panels and events on anime and the overall Otaku culture. Having watched over 500 anime making her somewhat of an expert on the this style of Japanese film and television animation. Her cosplays combine traditional looks, along with her unique gothic fashion.

https://www.instagram.com/therealdawnchu/ 

 The Philadelphia Avengers Initiative:  To express our love of cosplay through charity work and promoting the importance of cospositivity and anti-bullying.   Our mission is to become the superheroes the children see when they look upon us by fundraising, showing compassion, kindness, selflessness, practicing acceptance to all, and spreading the ability of learning to tap into the power we all have within.  We are showing others what more you can do with cosplay…not just with charity work but with promoting Cospositivity (which is that anyone can cosplay no matter the age, race, size, sexual orientation, and etc.)  As a charity-based business, we attend charity and community events as superheroes, princesses, and other requested characters; we play games and other activities such as super hero training, take pictures, and promote positivity and anti-bullying through discussions and having kids model the behavior of their favorite superheroes. Most of the time, we also happen to be the instigators of large group dancing!  The group is known for their love of comics and movies and often uses this to find fun and creative ways to incorporate cosplay into fundraisers for the charities and community organizations we work with.  Some of the amazing charity organizations we work with are Toys for Tots, Alex Lemonade Stand, Ronald McDonald House, March for Babies, Breakthrough T1D and many more.   Nearly all of our members have experiences from bullying, family loss, and sickness…When we assemble, we use these experiences to help others that might be suffering and provide a shoulder for them to steady themselves and a friend to walk with them on their path.

 "Shannon Noelle is a cosplayer and artist from the Philadelphia area who has always had a passion to create since childhood.  Starting her cosplay career in 2011, cosplay has been a way to portray some of her favorite characters and has helped build confidence both socially and in her crafting abilities. With an eye for every detail, each cosplay created has acted as a stepping stone towards learning and mastering new skills including but not limited to: sewing, LEDs, motors, foam armor, wig styling and much more. Shannon prides herself on being 100% self-taught through her journey with her very first cosplay being handmade. The things she looks forward to the most with each costume is the research that goes into planning the build and figuring out which technique or materials will be utilized to reach the end goal. "