2026
Special Guests
Dan Brereton
Dan Brereton is a Northern California native, five time Eisner nominated, award- winning comics illustrator, cover artist, graphic novelist, and creator of such properties as NOCTURNALS, GIANTKILLER and THE PSYCHO.
He’s well-known for the Eisner-nominated BATMAN: THRILLKILLER, and LEGENDS OF THE WORLD’S FINEST for DC Comics, as well as JLA: Seven Caskets, and LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT. Since before finishing art school at San Francisco’s Academy of Art College in 1989, Dan has worked for every major comic book publisher including Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse and Image on characters like Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Justice league, Red Sonja, and the X-Men.
He is known for his work in the Horror genre as well, including story and art for Vampirella, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the graphic novel adaptation of Clive Barker’s DREAD, which earned Dan an Eisner nomination. Dan’s penchant for monsters, ghost stories and Halloween has a tendency to show up in much of his work.
Dan has collaborated with Christopher Golden , Cullen Bunn, Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, and many other masterful authors. Freelancing clients include The Walt Disney Co, Hasbro, NBC, Topps, and musicians such as Rob Zombie and Toto. (Yes, really, Toto!)
You can find Dan and his work on both Meta platforms , Bluesky, his Patreon page, as well as annual Kickstarter projects. Dan’s books can be purchased from budsartbooks.com - Brereton23@sbcglobal.net
Keone Young
Keone is legendary for many of his voice over credits which include Storm Shadow in the GI Joe animated series, Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Mr. Sanban in Codename: Kids Next Door, the Firebending master Jeong Jeong in the Asian-influenced Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Hard Master in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Mr. Wu on Nickelodeon's show The Mighty B!, Babaram on Surf Ninjas Marshall Kai Ti Chang in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Silver Samurai in X-Men: The Official Game and Wolverine and the X-Men, Sensei in Young Justice, Chen Stormstout in the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion and Heroes of the Storm by Blizzard Entertainment, and Commander Sato in Star Wars Rebels. Recently, he appeared as Kojiro Sasaki in Record of Ragnarok, Tsunetomo Yamamoto in Godzilla: Singular Point, and will be appearing in the new Anime Star Wars: Visions project playing the role of Kamahachi.
He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Head of the Class, Diff'rent Strokes, The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters, Futurama, The Simpsons, Alias, JAG, The Steve Harvey Show, Zeke and Luther, Shake It Up: Made In Japan and on the daytime soaps The Young and the Restless and Generations. He also portrayed the bodyguard of the Ancient One (Keye Luke) during the Asian Quarter storyline on General Hospital.
Mr. Young starred in the HBO series Deadwood as the iconic character Mr. Wu boss of Deadwoods Chinatown and played Uncle Lin on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He also played Mr. Wu, unrelated to the Deadwood character, in the movie Men in Black 3, played the role of Ellison Onizuka In the TV film Challenger, and HBO's True Blood as Dr. Hido Takahashi, the man responsible for inventing the titular blood substitute. Young also has several Star Trek links: he played Buck Bokai, a famous baseball player in the 24th century in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". He also played Hoshi Sato’s father in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Vanishing Point". Young appeared as Governor Ho in the movie North starring Elijah Wood. He is presently starring in Ultraman Rising as the villain Dr Onda. Also starring with Jessica Biel in The Better Sister a TV dramatic series on Prime Time.
Michael Bair entered the comics business in 1982, first gaining attention for his pencil work on Eclipse Comics' Aztec Ace series. Michael continued penciling until 1989's Catwoman mini-series. He illustrated Marvel's Hellstorm, Spider-Man/Dr. Strange, Alpha Flight, Ghost Rider, X-Men and Harris Comics' Vampirella before settling in at DC, primarily as an inker. His other credits include Ghost/Batgirl, JLA: Year One, Young All-Stars, JSA, Hawkman and Wonder Woman. Michael makes his home in Baltimore.