2024 GUEST LIST
SGCC has played host to countless renowned comic book artists, toy creators, entertainers, cosplayers and other pop culture figures. We listen to our fans and bring in the most exciting personalities to create the ultimate pop culture experience.
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Artgerm
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Born and bred in Hong Kong, the multifaceted Stanley wears different hats as an illustrator, designer, concept artist, creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios — a world acclaimed digital art studio that produces high quality artworks for the likes of Capcom, DC Comics, Marvel Comics and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industry. Formally trained in graphic design and advertising, Stanley's art is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetics and visual fluidity. It is a perfect blend of eastern and western art styles.
Presently, Stanley and his partners of IFS (Kendrick & Kai) are running an award winning full-time diploma course in Digital Design & Illustration for aspiring artists worldwide, in collaboration with 3dsense Media School Singapore.
Belén Ortega
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Belén is a comicbook artist and illustrator from Granada, Spain. She works as a cover and interior artist for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Heavy Metal and Dupuis as well as being an illustrator for video game companies such as Riot Games and Fortnite.
Bjorn Barends
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Björn Barends was born in Germany in 1982. His passion for art began at a young age and has been obsessed with the creation of the macabre, the weird and the monstrous. At age of thirty, he began working full-time as a commercial illustrator and freelance artist. This set his foundation as an artist and throughout his early years as he focused primarily on Indian ink, watercolors and airbrush. Today Björn works mostly digital in 2D and in 3D creating fantasy, scifi and dark art images for novels, games, toys and comics. He has worked for CoolMiniOrNot (CMON), Modiphius Entertainment Ltd, McFarlaneToys/McFarlane Productions, Topcow and Image Comics.
Chris Ng
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Chris Ng aka Chrisnfy is new to comic industry as a cover artist, worked on DC comics titles Birds of Prey and some other exclusive covers like Dynamite. Although Chris is new to the comic scene , he has been an illustrator and character designer since 2008, formerly work in Imaginary Friends Studio and as a freelance artist through the years.
Christopher Khayman Lee
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Christopher Khayman Lee is an American actor who played Andros in Power Rangers in Space. Get ready, Power Rangers fans! Don’t miss your chance to meet this legendary hero and relive the excitement of the Space Rangers!
Darren Tan
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Darren Tan is a freelance illustrator from Singapore who is currently an artist for Magic: The Gathering. He is also a well known Star Wars artist, having worked with a number of official SW licensees like Fantasy Flight Games, Atomic Mass Games, Sideshow Collectibles and Del Rey Publishing. Occasionally he also contributes work for Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k franchise and historical military art for Osprey Publishing.
David Messina
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David is an artist from Rome, Italy. After he graduated in artistic study he worked in animation and graphic advertising as visualizer. He has been working in comics since 2005. He has worked for the major publishers such as IDW Publishing (Angel, Star Trek, ROM and True Blood), Marvel (Ultimate Spiderman, Wolverine and the X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Ironheart 2020 and Star Wars), Image (The Bounce and 3 Keys) and DCcomics (Catwoman, Action Comics, Midnighter, Wonder Woman and Red Hood The Outlaw).
Derrick Chew
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Born in Singapore, Derrick Chew is a comic cover artist for Marvel, DC comics, Skybound Entertainment, Image comics, Boom studios, Udon entertainment, etc. He has also done extensive work over the years for various entertainment and gaming companies like Games workshop, Kabaam, Kingdom Death, Square Enix, Epic Games, Ninja Division, Applibot, Mobile legends and many more.
Don Burgos Tan
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Don Burgos Tan is a master craftsman, proficient in various fields such as Comicbook Artistry, Animation, Layout Design, Character Design, Storyboarding, and Film Direction. He has contributed his talents to renowned companies including Disney, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Tuko Film Productions, and other leading entities in the TV production and Animation Industry. When not drawing badass cars for the Manila Sports Car Club, Don draws caricatures with his colleagues from Samahang Kartunista ng Pilipinas."
Dorothy Hwee
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Dorothy J. Hwee is a senior concept artist at Bandai Namco Studios Singapore with years of design experience in the video game industry. Outside of her full-time job, Dorothy enjoys virtual plein air painting and is working on a new series, Places We Know (Title to be confirmed), paintings depicting places around Singapore and around the World in the past, present and perhaps future. She has self-published Journey, a book featuring a collection of digital plein air paintings and sketches, which also shows her process of how she creates environment art.
Ejikure
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Wee Kiat “Ejikure”
Kiat, who also goes by the handle “Ejikure” online, is a former alumni of NYP and Imaginary Friends Studio. He has been working in the entertainment industry for more than a decade and has had the opportunity to work with studios and publishers such Games Workshop, Marvel, DC Comics & Boom.
When he’s not at work his main interests are manga, anime, movies and gaming, which are also his source of influence and inspiration.
Elia Bonetti
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Elia graduated and studied in the "International School of Comics" where he is currently a teacher at the headquarters of Reggio Emilia. He began his professional career as illustrator and storyboarder, where he collaborated with Astorina (Diabolik), Star Comics and Rizzoli. He has worked for Marvel and DC comics: Captain America (writer: Paul Jenkins), Spider-verse, Death of Wolverine, Agents of Atlas and Fear Itself Home Front, Catwoman
Emma Wu
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Emma Wu is an accomplished artist known for her stunning art works. Exhibiting at Comic-Con, she showcases a diverse range of art, from vivid fantasy scenes to expressive portraits. Emma’s ability to blend classical techniques with contemporary themes makes her a standout talent in any genre she explores.
Eric Chen
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Eric Chen “WeijiC”
Eric otherwise known as “WeijiC” - is a freelance artist based in Tokyo, Japan.
Working mainly with traditional mediums, he has had the opportunity in recent years to illustrate covers for Dynamite Entertainment as well as some work for Ablaze publishing, TOKYO SHOSEKI and covers for various indie comic books.
When not busy drawing, he likes to cook for friends, spending time with his cat Leeloo and tending to his houseplants. The occasional long haul trips to new destinations also refuels his inspiration tank for future work.
Fernando Blanco
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Fernando Blanco is one of the most prolific Spanish authors at DC, with whom he started working in 2013 on titles such as Detective Comics, Catwoman, and Justice League Dark. Fernando Blanco is also the co-creator of the worldwide acclaimed and popular success W0RLDTR33, written by James Tynion IV and published by Image Comics.
Freely Abrigo
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Freely Abrigo is a Filipino-born citizen who started his career as a Cartoonist for more than a decade.
Lately he invaded the world of toys as a Toy Designer. He is also part of Warner Bros as a Concept Artist working on DC Characters for the local studio. As a regular at comic and toy conventions. Freely takes commissions from around the world.
Giuseppe Camuncoli
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Giuseppe Camuncoli is an Italian comic book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics titles The Amazing Spider-Man and The Superior Spider-Man and the DC Comics/Vertigo series Hellblazer as well as his work illustrating The Storms of Chai, the last installment in the Lone Wolf gamebook series published before the death of author Joe Dever.
James Frederick
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James Frederick Tan, a dedicated cosplayer since 2014, has participated in numerous events in Singapore, including SGCC, where he was crowned Grand Champion in 2018. With a focus on western superheroes and achievements across international conventions, he is committed to inspiring and mentoring the next generation of cosplayers.
James C Mulligan
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James C. Mulligan is a familiar face at SGCC. His work is represented in galleries internationally, and collected by everyone from Hugh Hefner (where his work was recently featured in Mr. Hefner‘s lifetime estate auction) and Johnny Depp to Dick VanDyke, Richard Sherman (half of the Oscar-winning song writing duo of Mary Poppins) and Roger Daltrey. An artist with a career long relationship with the Walt Disney Company, spanning over two decades, projects include Animazement, Light Magic, Haunted Mansion Holiday, and newly revitalized classics from Walt Disney Feature Animation.
Javier Fernandez
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Javier Fernández is a comic book artist from Granada, Spain, known for his interior art and covers for DC Comics and also for being the main artist of King Spawn. Javier's first professional job was in 2010, working on titles for Kickstart Comics. In 2011 he began working with Marvel Comics on Captain America. He also worked on a series of Magneto issues in 2014. Since 2011, Javier has been a regular on many successful DC Comics titles, such as Batman, Nightwing, Detective Comics, Justice League, Green Arrow and many more. In 2021, Javi began working as lead artist on King Spawn, one of Todd McFarlane's expanded Spawn Universe titles. Currently, Javier is working on King Spawn
Jay Anacleto
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Jay Anacleto is an illustrator who is currently based in the Philippines. Known for his highly detailed pencil work, he got his first major break on Image Comic's Aria working with Brian Haberlin. Since then he has worked continuously and has found further recognition doing cover work for Marvel, DC, Dynamite, Boom!, Skybound, Titan and Zenescope among others, on a variety of titles including recently, Vampirella: Dark reflections, Transformers, Gun Honey: Heat Seeker, Wolverine and X-Factor.
Jin Behind Infinity
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Jin is a cosplayer and crafter known for her cinematic approach to costume creation and cosplay photography, inspired by her industry experience in theater and media productions. Jin's years of cosplay knowledge have led to her to being a highlight guest, panelist, and competition judge at conventions all around Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe.
Joe Rubinstein
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Joe Rubinstein is a veteran comic book artist, inker, illustrator and portrait artist renowned for his work in the acclaimed 1982 Wolverine miniseries along with Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, as well as his record-setting 20 years tenure on the Marvel Comics’, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. He was the recipient of the prestigious Eisner Award in 2004 for best humor publication for DC’s Formerly Known as the Justice League. Working primarily as an inker, Joe’s artwork has been published by such other iconic U.S. comic publishers as DC Comics and Dark Horse.
Julian Kok
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Julian Kok is an art director and illustrator from Singapore.
He is well known for his Magic: the Gathering environment and architecture art such as Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire and Command Tower. As an Art Director from Ubisoft Singapore, he has also produced numerous key art and cover art illustrations for AAA games. His work has also been featured on publications such as Spectrum and ImagineFX.
Justin Nimmo
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Justin Nimmo is an American actor who played Zhane in Power Rangers In Space. Get ready, Power Rangers fans! Don’t miss your chance to meet this legendary hero and relive the excitement of the Space Rangers!
Ju Zhen
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Ju Zhen is a cartoonist, illustrator, CG painting artist, and an expert of the ACAA China Digital Art Expert Committee. Graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and now lives in Beijing.
Before 2005, he participated in the creation of many children’s illustrations. As his readership grows, his style of painting has gradually changed. In 2006, he started to contact the American market and published comics on the Internet, such as “Borderline”. In 2009, his five-volume comic “Lillim” was published in the United States. Two years later, his paintings came to France. Greiner Publishing published a three-volume series “Konungar” written by Matrix Drawing and Sylvain Runberg, which described the epic story of the fantasy war between the Vikings and the centaur. In 2017, Ju Zhen once again collaborated with Greiner Publishing to adapt Laurent Queyssi’s sci-fi story “After the Doomsday” into a comic. In the same year, he also participated in the creation of the storyboard storyboard of the film “Di Renjie: The Four Heavenly Kings” directed by Tsui Hark, which was also an important attempt by a cartoonist to cross the field.
Khoo Fuk-Long
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邱福龍於1978年投身漫行並於1980年正式加入“玉郎集團有限公司＂，為暢銷作品《龍虎門》、《如來神掌》及《醉拳》製作封面及彩稿,並在1989年推出首部個人作品《鐵將縱橫》，於1992年與友人合組“騰龍出版社”推出成名作《龍神》。1993年，黃玉郎先生成立“玉皇朝出版集團有限公司，邱福龍出任公司美術總監. 2007年成立“福龍動漫畫有限公司＂，在五年間推出了多部口碑載道的漫畫作品，包括《神兵4》、《少林寺第8銅人》、《功夫》及《刺皇》等。邱福龍於同年成立“D a r k Comics & Toys Ltd.＂，出版作品《鐵將縱橫》及《山海逆戰》並同時在漫本網上平台發放！2014年榮獲由香港傳藝中心頒發的「十大傑出設計師」。2023年6月邱福龍全(心)製作，科幻題材漫畫《虎甲人》為港漫帶出一股新動力!
Kendrick Kunkka Lim
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Kendrick “kunkka” Lim
Kendrick Lim, also known as “kunkka”, is an illustrator, and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios (IFS) - a concept art studio working with industry clients such as Valve and Capcom. He is the artist responsible for many of the legacy loading screen art for the hugely popular game DOTA, and has the honour of having a game character named after him.
Kunkka is recently known for his cover art for comics. Most notably as the lead cover artist for Marvel’s Carnage and Hellverine, among a variety of other popular titles.
Presently, Kendrick and his partners of IFS are running an award winning full-time diploma course in Digital Design & Illustration, in collaboration with 3dsense Media School Singapore.
You can find him on socials with the handle @artbykunkka and find his comic work at www.artgermcollectibles.com
Leos Ng
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Leos Ng is a freelance illustrator from Singapore with over 15 years of experience in the game industry. He had contributed illustrations for Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k, and Age of Sigmar
Lesley Leirix Li
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Lesley "Leirix" Li is a celebrated comic book cover artist from Singapore. She is known for her
vibrant, detailed artwork with publishers like Marvel, DC Comics, and Dynamite. Her covers for
popular titles such as Harley Quinn, Darkwing Duck, and Red Sonja showcase her skill in
bringing characters to life.
Marc Lee
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An artist versatile in a wide range of styles both digital and traditional, Marc Lee has worked professionally since 2006 doing concept and splash art. While most of his client work is digital, he is also known for his unique style blending traditional ink styles with digital painting depicting international military and special operations units, under his Coffee and Perspective tag online.
Michael Gaydos
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MICHAEL GAYDOS has worked in the world of the illustrated word and graphic novel for over 30 years.
His list of credits include work for nearly every comic company and many illustrations for both book and RPG publishers.
With writer Brian Michael Bendis, he is co-creator of Jessica Jones and Pearl.
Miguel Mercado
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Miguel Mercado is an artist based in Manila, Philippines. He has done art for BOOM! Studios, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering. Miguel is primarily known for his cover illustrations and his painterly style. His work is heavily influenced by both classical and modern traditional paintings.
Mike Choi
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Mike Choi was named one of the 20 best X-Men artists of all time by Kotaku in 2015, and one of the 10 best X-Men artists of all time by Screen Rant in 2021. His work on X-23: Target X in 2006 established the look of the character as she appears today, and his design for the character of Bastion was used in the acclaimed series X-Men 97 as the show's main antagonist's climactic final form. He has most recently completed two miniseries for AWA with writer J. Michael Straczynski, and is now working on his first creator-owned book, titled Gochugaru.
Mike Zeck
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Michael J. Zeck is an American comics artist, best known for his works for both Marvel & DC on such series as Captain America, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars, Batman "Ten Knights of the Beast", and The Punisher as well as the "Kraven's Last Hunt" 6-part storyline in the (Amazing, Spectacular & Web of) Spider-Man titles.
As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 12-issue series “Secret Wars,” with writer Jim Shooter and inker John Beatty, specially Issue 8, completely mesmerize many fans of all ages. Zeck’s design for Spider-Man’s black costume remains iconic, as it eventually became the living entity, Venom. Michael is currently retired from active drawing and residing happily in the Philippines.
Miki Okazaki
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Miki Okazaki is a Comic cover artist from Japan and has notable projects with Image comics, Titan comics, Udon entertainment and many more.
OSHred
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OSHRED is a digital illustrator currently based in the Philippines who spends most of their time drawing variant comic covers and watching horror movies. Red has a penchant for the cute, the macabre, the subtly erotic, and draws inspiration from sculpture, pop culture, and abstract art.
Ram V
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Ram V, is an award winning author and creator of comics & graphic novels such as THESE SAVAGE SHORES, THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR & the Eisner winning BLUE IN GREEN. Since publishing his first book internationally in 2016, Ram’s work has gone on to garner critical and popular success and multiple awards. Apart from creating original work, since 2018 Ram has also written for iconic characters & titles such as Swamp Thing, Justice League Dark, Catwoman, Batman and Thor at DC Comics and Marvel. Ram lives in London-- dog person, doodles, argumentative melancholic.
Roland Amago
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Roland Amago is a Philippines-based graphic artist. He often collaborates with his wife, a writer, and their graphic novels--Doobiedoo Asks and Cautionary Tales from a Filipino Childhood--have met both popular and critical acclaim. He also currently works as a letterer for Seven Seas Entertainment.
Rurusama
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RURUSAMA is a cosplayer, content creator and an entrepreneur.
She started cosplaying back in 2018, and has since attended various international events be it to booths or as a guest. She's also one of Singapore's biggest content creators, amassing over 3.5m followers across her social platforms working alongside many brands to create the wildest content.
In 2023 she pushed the boundaries to host one of the biggest cosplayer booths EVER, which featured her own merch, various fan activities as well as guest invites. Which we'll see made bigger and better with the support of SGCC. Outside of social media, Ruru's also just launched her very own beauty salon and marketing agency as well.
Selwyn Ward
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Selwyn Ward is an American actor who played T.J. Johnson in Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers In Space. Get ready, Power Rangers fans! Don’t miss your chance to meet this legendary hero and relive the excitement of the Space Rangers!
Shen Xin
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A Chinese ink painting artist, is renowned for his profound understanding and innovation in
Chinese traditional culture and art. Throughout his diverse career, Shen Xin has made his mark in the fields of animation and game development, eventually evolving into a highly influential artistfocused on exploring and disseminating the ancient civilization of the East through ink art.
Simone Legno
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Simone Legno is an Italian artist best known for the creation of the tokidoki brand. Legno's designs are influenced by his interest in Japan and its culture, as well as street art and graffiti.
The Square Comics
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The Square Comics is a mix of funny and thoughtful comics that touch on topics like emotions, friendships, and the little things we go through every day.
Trevor Hairsine
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Trevor Hairsine, a British comic artist, began in the US, working with Ed Brubaker on X-men Deadly Genesis, Ultimate Six and Ultimate Galactus Ultimate Nightmare. He then moved over to Valiant Entertainment to work on various Eternal Warrior mini series; “Armor Hunters: Bloodshot”, "Divinity" and "Divinity II".
He recently penciled several DCeased mini series for DC, and has since done a number of Covers for them.
Valerio Giangiordano
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Valerio made his debut in 2019 in Marvel as a Cover Artist on various series (Savage Avengers, Taskmaster, Jessica Jones, etc...) and also does covers for the major US publishers/Series. He created with John Arcudi TWO MOONS for Image comics. With the miniseries MONOLITH he expanded the SPAWN universe and he is currently working with Mark Millar on Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery for Netflix/Millarworld/Dark Horse.
Von Randal
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Von Randal from the Philippines. I am currently working as interior and cover artist for Todd McFarlane Productions and just recently, I was hired by Marvel Comics. I did interiors for Iron Fist 40th Anniversary and Spider Gwen #7. My art is hugely influenced by incredible artists such as Leinil Yu, Jerome Opeña, Stephen Segovia and my mentor, Harvey Tolibao.I'm excited to do more projects in the future and give the readers a whole new experience through my art.
Yuko Shimizu
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YUKO SHIMIZU is a multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. Yuko is also an instructor at The School of Visual Arts and has 20+ years of experience illustrating.
Her work includes multiple disciplines; from pages of The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker to WIRED, covers for DC Comic, Penguin, and Scholastic, and advertising for BBC, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Universal Pictures, SONY, Paramount, MTV, Nike, Hasbro, and Target, to name a few.