Hal-Con 2013

As Host of InnerSPACE, AJAY FRY is no stranger to SPACE or the airwaves. Born in Toronto, Ajay attributes his bizarre and creative sense of humour to growing up in Ottawa. His career in television began at an early age with roles on LASSIE, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK and BIG WOLF... Read More →

Brenda Hickey is a comics illustrator from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Since 2007 she has been working on her creator owned webcomic In the Air, as well as a handful of freelance and self owned mini comics. Recently she has gotten work for IDW’s My Little Pony Friendship... Read More →

Most of Chris’ work in recent years has been penciling for DC Comics, including penciling, inking and interiors and covers for “Young Justice,” based on the hit Cartoon Network animated TV series, and was the regular penciler on The Batman Strikes. Other DC Comics credits include... Read More →

Christopher Torres knows a few things about cats, Internet memes and comics. Torres has been drawing his web comic “LOL Comics” since 2005, before reaction images were even a thing. Featuring adventures from previous employment, his family and lots of cat stories – his comics... Read More →

D.C. Rhind is the author of the Calebra Fantasy Series and, more recently, the Agent Samurai, Vampire-Hunter Series. A Halifax area native, David returns to Hal-Con 2013 with great enthusiasm “Hal-Con have been such gracious hosts that it’s always a pleasure to return.” David... Read More →

Danica Brine, pen name KARIBU, is a freelance illustrator from New-Brunswick, Canada. She published her first works in an independent sci-fi comics magazine in France called “Rocket Science” in 2012. More of her work will appear this year in Heroes of the North comic, specifically... Read More →

David Nykl has appeared heavily in Vancouver and Prague in dozens of theater, film and television productions. Known for his versatility and depth as an actor, he has also produced theatre and film projects, and in 1994, he co-founded Prague’s Misery Loves Company Theatre with Richard... Read More →

Drakaina made her mark by becoming the first of her kind in France, and incidentally in Europe. A Model raised to the rank of Modern Muse, inspiring artists, painters, writers and poets around the world since 2001 as well as influencing a whole new generation of models attracted by... Read More →

Ellen Curtis is a writer and web TV personality born and raised in St. Johns, Newfoundland; whose aptitude for the written word began at a young age, when she began writing short stories, poetry, lyrics and novellas. She was ‘discovered’ at a Sci-Fi on the Rock II writing panel... Read More →

Faith Erin Hicks writes and draws way too many comics. Her online work includes the webcomics Demonology 101, Ice and The Adventures of Superhero Girl. Her published works are the graphic novels Zombies Calling, The War at Ellsmere, Brain Camp (art only), Friends With Boys and the... Read More →

Fat Apollo, Michael McCluskey, is a mixture of all things geeky and nerdy rolled up in a crunchy comedic shell. Donning Everlast boxing gloves, as well as a cape and shirt made of vintage Battlestar Galactica bed sheets (circa 1977) – Fat Apollo is a true multimedia juggernaut... Read More →

Born in Riverside, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Garrett Wang(pronounced Wong) spent his formative years on the move, living in Indiana, Bermuda and Tennessee. He moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA where he majored in East Asian Studies and minored in theater. He was especially... Read More →

Hal Hilden currently writes for Red Leaf Comics, penning MacSorly, RCMP, a current Leaf Vs. The Memphere story, The Ministers of Magic and his co-creator owned Dreamland 2047 limited series. He has dabbled in animation scripting, writing a spec script for Wetsand Animation, and he... Read More →

Ian Boothby is a multiple Shuster Award, Harvey Award and Eisner Award nominee and Eisner Award-winning comic book creator best known for his work as one of the main writers on The Simpsons and Futurama comics for Bongo including the Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis and Comic Book... Read More →

J. August Richards was introduced to fans of “Angel” during the series’ first season the rogue, street-savvy vampire hunter Charles Gunn. In season five, his character was transformed into a “take-no-prisoners” lawyer at the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart. In “Conviction... Read More →

Jewel Staite most recently starred as ‘Raquel’ in the CW series “The L.A. Complex”, which premiered in the Spring of 2012. Prior to that, she was seen starring in the Hallmark Channel telefilm “Call Me Mrs. Miracle” opposite Doris Roberts. This premiere was the highest... Read More →

Joel Duggan is the cartoonist behind the online comic Starcrossed, host and producer of The Citadel Cafe podcast, and co-host and producer on Comics Coast to Coast on the FrogPants podcast network. In 2012, he self-published his first book, Starcrossed: Volume One a collection of... Read More →

Julia is the author of dark fantasy novel Bound by Dragonsfyre, as well as Dark Ages vampire novel Saint Sanguinus, available through online retailers Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, iTunes and Kobo. What a joy to put on her director’s hat when it came time to shoot the book trailers... Read More →

Kelly Tindall is the creator of Strangebeard, the hit pirate webcomic about the world’s deadliest pirate (who happens to be a twelve-year-old girl). He wrote and drew the adventures of feline detective Archie Snow for Image Comics’ Proof and the mash-up webcomic That’s So Kraven... Read More →

Lar deSouza, raconteur, bon vivant and artist about town was born to humble surroundings on a Hallowe’en night many years ago. Fortunately his monumental ego was able to overcome the humble bits. After an apparently normal childhood, he attended Sheridan College of Visual Arts... Read More →

Matthew studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland and has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubador. He has written five novels for Engen Books, Black Womb, Transformations in Pain, Smoke and Mirrors... Read More →

Monte Cook has worked as a professional writer for more than 25 years. As a fiction writer, he has published numerous short stories and two novels, The Glass Prison and Of Aged Angels, and attended the Clarion West SF&F writer’s workshop and the Launchpad Astronomy Workshop for... Read More →

Nick Bradshaw is a Maritime based artist, born and raised, currently living and working in Moncton. He’s worked in animation and comics as an artist for Dynamic forces (Army Of Darkness/Darkman), Wildstorm/DC (Danger Girl, Rokkin) and currently Marvel comics on Wolverine and the... Read More →

Pete Williams is the creator of the animated series Undergrads that aired on MTV and Teletoon in 2001. Along with designing the look of the show and writing a number of episodes, he also voiced the four main characters. Undergrads was cancelled on MTV after just one season, but has... Read More →

Peter Chiykowski is a cartoonist, writer, and professional ragamuffin. He doodles Rock, Paper, Cynic, a webcomic about geek culture, turtles, and making the world a more interesting place. He actually started writing and publishing his silly little cartoons in Halifax in 2008, and... Read More →

Peter Davison, born Peter Moffett in London 1951, played the 5th incarnation of the Doctor in BBC’s Doctor Who from 1981 to 1984. He has replayed the role twice since then, including the 2007 Children in Need special Time Crash. He is one of the few actors to star in both the classic... Read More →

Richard Hatch has enjoyed international recognition for more than three decades. He has starred in such series as The Streets of San Francisco for which he won Germany’s Bravo Award (the equivalent of an Emmy Award), Battlestar Galactica, for which he was nominated for a Golden... Read More →

Rob DenBleyker is one of the leading voices of web comics today. Starting with his personal website Explosm.net in 2004 to showcase his comics along with co-creators Dave McElfatrick, Kris Wilson, and Matt Melvin, Rob built Cyanide and Happiness into one of the most recognized webcomics... Read More →

Robert Bailey is originally from England, where he attended College of Art during the sixties. After careers in television and newspapers, and later as a full time aviation combat artist, he was suddenly approached by Lucasfilm some years ago. George Lucas had seen his website and... Read More →

Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won in 2003 for Hominids), the Nebula (which he won in 1996 for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial... Read More →

A French Canadian from rural New Brunswick, it was clear from an early age that Robert would be a very big boy. In the first grade he stood taller than his teacher and that made him awkward and a bit shy, so growing up he took shelter in his own dreams. One of those dreams was to... Read More →

Shawna grew up in around farms in the heart of Missouri but went to the University of Kansas, was raised in the US but now lives on the ocean in Nova Scotia with her husband, two sons, two rescue dogs and one overgrown puppy from hell. She’s a non-conformist who follows her heart... Read More →

Terry Brooks spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College... Read More →

Tom Fowler is an Ottawa based artist who has worked on such publications as MAD Magazine, Revolution of the Planet of the Apes, Mysterious: the Unfathomable, Green Arrow, Star Wars: Jango Fett, Batman: The Legends of the Dark Knight and Venom. He has also illustrated several cards... Read More →

Two time Eisner nominee and Xeric recipient, Troy began a career in animation after graduating from the Interpretive Illustration course at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. In 2000 he began self-publishing his comic series Chiaroscuro which garnered him both a Xeric and PEICA... Read More →

Ty Templeton has been creating comics for more than twenty-five years, working on Batman, Superman, the Avengers, the Justice League, Howard the Duck, Mad Magazine, Star Trek and more. Currently, he is drawing and writing stories for Marvel’s all-ages Spidey book. He also teaches... Read More →

Vic Mignogna has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But he started his career in anime a little over ten years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II. Since then Vic has been in more than two hundred shows and video games, known for such roles as Edward Elric in Fullmetal... Read More →

A consummate performer, freestyler and improviser, Halifax’s own Wordburglar has carved a niche for himself across Canada and beyond with whimsical lyrics, a unique sense of humour and geek-infused storytelling songs. Unapologetic in his love of double-entendres, ridiculous similes... Read More →

Yaya Han is one of only few cosplayers in the world to build a business in this hobby-ist community, but even after a decade of success, she strives to stay true to what got her into this field originally – fun and creativity. To this day, Yaya has made a myriad of costumes in the... Read More →