2025 Guests List

Actors

Chad Michael Murray

Chad Michael Murray

Chad Michael Murray first caught our attention as Lucas Scott in the popular teen drama series One Tree Hill (2003-2012). The model-turned-actor has also serenaded Jamie Lee Curtis with Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" in Freaky Friday (2003), became...

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Harvey Guillen

Harvey Guillen

Autographs: $85 CAD Photographs: $85 CAD Table Selfie: $60 CAD Combo autograph and table selfie: $115 CAD HARVEY GUILLÉN is best known for his role as ‘Guillermo de la Cruz’ on 6 seasons ofthe critically acclaimed and award-nominated FX comedy series What We Do in...

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Alan Tudyk

Alan Tudyk

Autographs: $110 CAD Photographs: $130 CAD Alan Tudyk is a multi-dimensional actor whose credits span throughout stage, film, television and voiceover entertainment platforms. Over the span of his career, his films have garnered over $2 Billion at the Box Office.   In...

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Sean Astin

Sean Astin

Autographs: $110 CAD Photographs: $130 CAD Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is an American film actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, and the title...

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Authors

Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Rice grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He’s a writer, listener, speaker, language learner, and a martial artist, holding a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is the...

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars. This title is the first book in the Lady Astronaut series, which continued in 2025 with its fourth installment, The...

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Kevin Hearne

Kevin Hearne

Kevin Hearne is the New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, and the Seven Kennings trilogy, as well as co-author of the Tales of Pell with Delilah S. Dawson. He’s into heavy metal, nature photography, and beard maintenance, and...

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Comic Creators

Emilia Strilchuk

Emilia Strilchuk

Emilia Strilchuk is a queer Ukrainian comic artist and writer based in Canada, creating stories in autobiography, fantasy, and horror that explore neurodiversity, mental health, and resilience. Her autobiographical graphic novel, Be Yourself ! Oh, Not Like That,...

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Dino Caruso

Dino Caruso

Dino Caruso is a comic book writer from Hamilton, Ontario. His projects have been published by Caliber Comics, Antarctic Press, Markosia and others. His short comics have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies. Find him on the web at dinocaruso.ca.

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Dan Parent

Dan Parent

Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics. A graduate of The Kubert School, Dan began working for Archie immediately after graduation. His writing of the Love Showdown series...

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Andrew Thomas

Andrew Thomas

Andrew Thomas, hailing from southwestern Ontario, is a comic book artist and letterer knownfor his contributions to renowned titles such as Kevin Smith's Quick Stops (Dark Horse), CaptainCanuck, Archie Comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW), and his groundbreaking...

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Cosplayers

Sarcasm Hime Cosplay

Sarcasm Hime Cosplay

Sarcasm-himé has been cosplaying for longer than the average convention attendee has been alive, and has the Party City wig horror stories to prove it. Addicted to anything shiny, she has a deep love for embroidery, beading, goldwork, and the sort of detail that makes...

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