Guests - Big Lick Comic Con NOVA

CHANDLER RIGGS

Chandler rose to prominence for his iconic role as Carl Grimes on the AMC horror-drama television series The Walking Dead (based on the comic book series of the same name) from 2010 to 2018. For his work on the series, Riggs won three Saturn Awards from five nominations and a Young Artist Award from three nominations. Riggs has appeared in the films Get Low (2009), Mercy (2014), Keep Watching (2017), Only (2019), and Inherit the Viper (2019). In late 2017, Riggs started releasing electronic music under his stage name, Eclipse. In early 2019, he began recurring on the ABC drama series A Million Little Things. In 2023 he voiced Superman/Kal El/Clark Kent in Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One.

KATELYN NACON

Katelyn Nacon is known in The Walking Dead universe for her role as Enid on the flagship series from seasons 5-9. Initially, Enid lived in Alexandria and eventually moved to Hilltop, where she became a medical trainee under Siddiq and, years later, the doctor at Hilltop. Recently, she starred in the film Linoleum, winner of the San Francisco Film Festival’s Sloan Science on Screen Award. The film also stars Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Gabriel Rush, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Ian Black, Amy Hargreaves, Jay Walker and West Duchovny. Katelyn joins Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs (Carl), for a can’t miss reunion at Big Lick Comic Con - NOVA!

Voice Actors

BILLY WEST

Best known for his work on “Futurama” and “Ren & Stimpy”, Billy West has a career in radio and television that began in the 1980’s when he did comedic impersonations for Charles Laquidara’s “Big Mattress Morning Show” on Boston’s WBNC FM radio network. By the mid-90s, he had moved to doing impersonations of Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott on “The Howard Stern Show”, giving him greater exposure. From there, West became involved with the Nickelodeon shows “Doug” and “Ren & Stimpy”. Portraying the title characters on both shows, Billy West saw his voiceover work reach an even larger, yet younger audience. This led to Warner Bros. hiring him for the film Space Jam in 1996. Featuring Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and the cast of Looney Tunes, West voiced Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, two characters whom he has sporadically voiced throughout the next decade. He is also known for his portrayal of Philip J. Fry and several other characters on the cartoon “Futurama”, which began in 1999 and has continued on through a number of changes through 2012 and currently airs on Comedy Central. In addition he is also known for a lot of commercial work including the voices of the iconic Red M&M as well as Buzz The Bee in the Honey Nut Cheerios commercials. We're honored to welcome Billy to Big Lick Comic Con - NOVA!

DAVID HAYTER

David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the legendary voices of Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the massively popular Metal Gear video game series. As a screenwriter his credits include the screenplays to X-Men (2000) and X-Men 2 (2003). David wrote the 138-page screenplay adaptation to the graphic novel "Watchmen", by Alan Moore and David Gibbons, which has been hailed as one of the most accurate translations of comics to films ever written. His early voice acting career included the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. He also provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III in the English version of the anime film The Castle of Cagliostro and the voice of Tamahome in the English version of the anime series Fushigi Yūgi. He has since voiced dozens of characters from anime to Pixar. He was recently announced to join the cast of Voltron with Henry Cavill.

Comic Creators

JIM SHOOTER

Jim Shooter has been behind some of the most beloved comic stories ever told. Shooter achieved his first professional comics work at the age of thirteen, selling a Legion of Super-Heroes story to DC Comics and going on to write Superboy, The Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman and other titles. In 1978, he accepted the position of Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics under the condition that he would be allowed to improve things for Marvel’s creators. Jim introduced royalties and a spectrum of other incentives, rights and benefits, attracting a Who’s Who of talent. Later, he founded VALIANT, DEFIANT and Broadway Comics and was the principal creator of their characters and universes. Today, he's the Editor in Chief of Illustrated Media, a custom comics company.

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