The Great Allentown Comic Con! welcomes reknown artist Terry Naughton!

Terry Naughton is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to anything art related. He can handle various styles of art in literally every form of media known to man... and then some! Naughton worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation for 17 years as an animation assistant and storyboard artist. He's personally worked on every recent classic including The Little Mermaid (King Triton), Beauty and the Beast (the Beast) and Aladdin (the Genie) to name only a few.

Terry has also created the last ten U.S.C. football posters and has the bragging rights of various works for the NFL on his resume. Terry illustrates book covers and helps to create and illustrate children's books. Currently, Naughton is working on the "Abyss Walker Series" by Author Shane Moore.

For more information, visit www.terrynaughton.com or check out the Terry Naughton Fan page on Facebook!

Added guest – Underbelly!

Underbelly is part infotainment and part skit comedy. Their scripts blend research and wit as they describe, rant about, and expose nerdy subjects in the vein of video games, movies, comics, and the Internet. Underbelly covers a variety of live events, including conventions, movie screenings, and functions they create and host themselves. Underbelly could be de­scribed as a perfect blend of G4’s Attack of the Show and Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bullshit and is currently partnered with YouTube and Next New Networks. Shot in a studio and filmed in HD, the show has some of the highest production values on the web. Underbelly is the next step in web produced media.

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by Julie Wright

Added guest – Julie Wright! 

Julie Wright is a recent graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. She hit the ground running, picking up work as a colorist for both independent studios and well-known publishers. Each week she adds her own touch to the popular webcomic "The Dreamer" by Lora Innes, also in print through IDW. Julie also has two personal comic projects which will debut online at the beginning of next year. Sterblichkeit (Mortality) is a WWII graphic novel which explores the choices its cast of characters make and the consequences that ensue. She takes a notably different direction with her second project, Iannua, a fantasy piece in a Victorian setting where magic is commonplace and technology is considered aberrant.

When she isn't at her computer, Julie travels around the globe attending Comic Book and Anime Conventions. She is also an avid cosplayer, having an entire closet at home dedicated to past and present projects.
Visit her website at http://oneoftwo.deviantart.com for more from Julie!

Added guest – Tommy Castillo!

Tommy Castillo is a master artist of the twisted and the macabre. Whether creating a slimy corpse reaching for you or the gentle glance of a mighty dragon, Tommy will capture you with the dynamics of his penciling and the intensity of his palette.

With a career spanning eighteen years, Tommy is famed and sought after for his dark humor, brilliant attention to detail, and his love of the darker side of art. Tommy has put paint and pencil to such titles as Batman Detective; Legends of the Dark Knight; Toetags, with Horror legend George Romero; Evil Ernie; Tales From the Crypt; Alice in Wonderland; King Kong; Dragons, Myths, and Mayhem; various storyboards and designs for films; and many more of the macabre based literature.

Tommy has been sought out by the fields largest companies: DC comics, Paramount Pictures, Warhammer, Wizards of the Coast, and Image and as offbeat as Rolling Stone magazine. His diverse styling and insane line work have defined him as one of today’s greatest in the field of comics and fine art…and y’know, he renders some of the scariest books of today, and the guy will get as giddy as a schoolboy on Sunday at the sight of a muppet. You gotta love that.

Added guest – Peter Mayhew!

Peter Mayhew grew up in England the son of a London Bobby. After treatment as a teenager for giantism, he went to work at a teaching hospital. While working there a reporter took a picture for a local paper of Mayhew carrying his mother to demonstrate his giant frame. Peter was seven foot four at the time. While this didn't make him the tallest man in England or win him a big foot contest, it did get him a job offer to appear in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as the

Minoton. The next year, it got him an interview with George Lucas to play the quirky and lovable side kick of Han solo, Chewbacca the wookiee.    After the filming of Star Wars, Mayhew returned to the job he loved as porter at Mayday Hospital in London. He was called back twice to reprise his role for Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Mayhew retired to private life for 14 years after Jedi working mostly with wood. He lived in Yorkshire north England until he met and married his wife in 1999 and moved to Texas. He became an American citizen in 2005. He reprised the role of Chewbacca again for the prequels appearing in Revenge of the Sith to whisk Yoda to safety and provide continuity for the six episode movies of Star Wars.

This year, Peter officially became the voice of Chewbacca after making a trek to Skywalker Ranch to do voice-over for The Clone Wars.    Peter does other acting occasionally but enjoys spending time in fandom at comic and science fiction events around the world. He is considered fan friendly and a good will ambassador to the extended family of fandom of geeks, nerds, gamers, hobbyist collectors and costumers everywhere. 

Added guest – Robert Picardo!

"The Doctor" (EMH)

Robert Picardo Was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Robert Picardo (“Bob”) graduated from the William Penn Charter School. He entered Yale University as a pre-med student, not knowing that he would someday portray doctors in three separate productions: first as Dr. Dick Richard on the ABC series “China Beach, “then as Dr. McCaskill in the theater production “In The Waiting Room” at the Mark Taper Forum, and now as The Doctor on “Star Trek: Voyager.”

In addition to the Star Trek universe, Bob is also a member of Stargate fandom, having portrayed Richard Woolsey in each series.

Robert will be available both days for signings and Photo ops.  Be sure to attend his panel discussion as he is known to sing a song or two!

Special "Star Trek" Weekend Passes that include a personalized Photo with Bob can be prepurchased at:  http://thegaccmegashow2011.eventbrite.com/

For real this time!

Ok regular updates going forward!

.....i mean it this time!