The Loose Cannon Show with JarJar Jeremy

05/04/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes actor Cooper Andrews to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and 10x10 dealer booths are on sale at our website on www.terrificon.com

Andrews played the recurring character Yo-Yo Engberk in the first three seasons in AMC's Halt and Catch Fire. He went on to be cast as Jerry in The Walking Dead and Víctor Vásquez in Shazam! Movies . Andrews has also worked behind the camera as boom operator, stunt coordinator and assistant director. He also voiced Aquaman in the recent animated film Aquaman: King of Atlantis and appeared on SWAT, Hawaii Five-O and other shows.

04/04/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes artist/writer RYAN OTTLEY to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and 10x10 dealer booths are on sale now - see our website for details at www.terrificon.com

Ottley began drawing Invincible with issue 8, and continued on the book for 14 years, drawing 127 issues of its 144-issue run. During the course of his work on the book he co-created characters including Battle Beast, Angstrom Levy, Conquest, and Powerplex.

In an interview with comic book website Project Fanboy, Ottley discussed how he got into the comic book industry after being fired from his previous job working in a medical supply warehouse. Ottley decided now was a great time to try to get into comics again and began actively building exposure for his work on the internet through the websites digitalwebbing.com and penciljack.com.

Ottley penciled the first five issues of Kirkman and Todd McFarlane's Haunt, an ongoing series which debuted October 7, 2009. Ottley indicated on the letters page of issue #5 that he left in order to focus on Invincible.

In 2012, Ottley was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #100, which was released July 11 at the San Diego Comic-Con.

In 2016, Image Comics published Grizzly Shark, a three-issue miniseries written and drawn by Ottley, and has an average critics rating of 7.1 out of 10 on the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup.

In 2018 Marvel Comics relaunched a new volume of The Amazing Spider-Man, with writer Nick Spencer. Ottley supplied the art for 20 issues of the run. He co-created the villain Kindred with Nick Spencer. His work drew praise from Jesse Schedeen of IGN, who stated, "Ottley's expressive figure work and dynamic fight scenes make him a natural fit."

In 2021, Ottley was announced as the artist on that year's relaunched Hulk, teaming him with writer Donny Cates. In November 2022, it was announced that following Cates departure as writer of Hulk due to personal reasons, Ottley would take over as the writer for the remainder of the series, starting with issue 11.

28/03/2023

TERRIFICON Connecticut's One and Only Terrific Comic Con since 2012 is back on July 28-30, 2023 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT

26/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes back actor Sean Gunn to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and dealer booths are on sale now. See our website for information www.terrificon.com

Sean Gunn is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and Kraglin Obfonteri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this role, he has been in the films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers EndGame (2019), Thor Love and Thunder (2022), the television film The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) and the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He also played Weasel and Calendar Man in the Warner Bros./DCEU film The Su***de Squad (2021). He is the younger brother of director James Gunn and often appears in his brother's films.

22/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes actor Jeffrey Combs to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Dealer booths and tickets on sale now at www.terrificon.com

As a horror film leading actor, Combs is best known for portraying Herbert West in the cult horror film Re-Animator (1985). Re-Animator was based on H.P. Lovecraft's famous novel brought together by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, the producer and financier of the film. Combs stayed in the realm of cult films with both Gordon and Yuzna to return when making From Beyond (1986), and Bride of Re-Animator (1990) also from Lovecraft novels. He has also been in some supporting roles in _Pit and the Pendulum, The (1990) (V)_, the strange FBI Agent with Michael J. Fox in The Frighteners (1996), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and the remake of the William Castle thriller, House on Haunted Hill (1999).

Combs is the only actor to play three different recurring characters on Star Trek: Weyoun and Liquidator Brunt in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Commander Shran in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He has also played Tiron and Officer Kevin Mulcahey in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Penk in Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Krem in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He also provided the voice of AGIMUS on Star Trek Lower Decks. His other voice work includes The Leader on Marvel' Avengers, Scarecrow on The New Adventures of Batman, The Question on Justice League Unlimited and Ratchet on Transformers Prime.

21/03/2023

TERRIFICON’s ”Two for Tuesday” has us welcoming another legendary comic creator - Louise Simonson to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30! Tickets and dealer booths are on sale on our website www.terrificon.com

Louise Simonson is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Conan the Barbarian, Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman The Man of Steel, and Steel. She is often referred to by the nickname "Weezie". Among the comic characters she co-created are Cable, Steel, Power Pack, Rictor, Doomsday and the The The uncanny x-men villain Apocalypse.

You’ll find Louise and many other great comic creators at the Hero Initiative booth at TerrifiCon ™ - Connecticut's Terrific Comic Con at Mohegan Sun

21/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes back legendary artist/writer Walter Simonson to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30! Tickets and vendor booths are on sale now on our website at www.terrificon.com

Walter Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill. He is also known for the creator-owned work Star Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis. He has also worked on other Marvel titles such as X-Factor and Fantastic Four, on DC Comics books including Detective Comics, Manhunter, Metal Men and Orion, and on licensed properties such as Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Robocop vs. Terminator.

You’ll find Walt and many other great comic creators at the Hero Initiative booth at TerrifiCon ™ - Connecticut's Terrific Comic Con at Mohegan Sun

20/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes actor ANDREW ROBINSON to on July 28-30.

Andrew Robinson was born in New York City and attended the University of New Hampshire, later receiving his B.A. in English from the New School for Social Research in NYC. After graduation, he spent a year in England at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Robinson performed a wide variety of theater, movie and television roles. These included the infamous Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (1971), a stint on Ryan's Hope (1975), which earned him an Emmy nomination, and the title role in a TV movie about Liberace. He was chosen for the continuing guest role of "Elim Garak", the Cardassian tailor/spy on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), after first reading for the part of "Odo"! In the early 90s, Mr. Robinson helped found The Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles. In addition to acting in several of the company's productions, in 1995 and 1996 his direction of "Endgame" and "The Homecoming" at the Matrix earned him two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. This led to his TV directing debut on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), and Mr. Robinson has since gone on to direct episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1995). 1997-1998 directorial projects at The Matrix were "Dangerous Corner" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten".

17/03/2023

Get ready! CTGamerCon at Mohegan Sun is back starting tomorrow!!

16/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes back artist Tana Ford to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30! Tickets and dealer booths are on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Tana Ford is the Hugo and Eisner Award winning artist on LaGuardia (BergerBooks/Dark Horse).
Her first graphic novel Duck! won the Q***r Press Grant in 2010.
The sequel Duck! Second Chances was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2014.

Tana came in 2nd place for the 2019 HUGO Award for her work on
Nnedi Okorafor's Black Panther: Long Live the King.
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Tana has drawn for Silk, The Amazing Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, New Warriors, Jem and the Holograms, Star Trek,
Black Panther (where she co-created a new Black Panther character UZARU with Nnedi Okorafor), and Livewire.

15/03/2023

TERRIFICON's “Salute to Spider" week continues, please welcome artist RON FRENZ! Join us as we bring the largest guest list of comic creators to New England on July 28-30 at Mohegan Sun! Tickets and 10x10 dealer booths are on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Ron is known for his work for Marvel Comics. He is well known for his 1980s work on The Amazing Spider-Man and later for his work on Spider-Girl whom he co-created with writer Tom DeFalco. Frenz and DeFalco had earlier co-created the New Warriors in the pages of Thor .

Frenz has a history of working on comic book series in which the characters were not in their original costumes/identities. Spider-Man wore his black costume, Thor took on a new secret identity and look, and Superman changed costumes and powers while Frenz was the regular artist on their titles.

14/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes comic artist RICK LEONARDI to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and dealer booths are on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Rick Leonardi's first published comics artwork appeared in Thor #303 (Jan. 1981). He collaborated with writer Bill Mantlo on two limited series: The Vision and the Scarlet Witch (Nov. 1982–Feb. 1983) and Cloak and Dagger (Oct. 1983–Jan. 1984). Leonardi's works in the 1980s include various fill-in issues of The uncanny x-men and The New Mutants.

He is credited, along with fellow illustrator Mike Zeck, of designing the black-and-white costume to which Spider-Man switched during the 1984 Secret Wars miniseries, and later wore for a time. According to writer Peter David, the costume began as a design by Zeck that Leonardi embellished. The plot that developed as a result of Spider-Man's acquisition of the costume led to the creation of the Spider-Man villain known as Venom[7] although in a 2007 Comic Book Resources story, fan Randy Schueller claims to have devised a version of a black costume for Spider-Man in a story idea that he was paid for. Leonardi and writer Tom DeFalco created the Rose in The Amazing Spider-Man #253 (June 1984).

For DC Comics, Leonardi was one of the artists on Batman #400 (Oct. 1986) and he drew the Batgirl story in Secret Origins vol. 2 #20 (Nov. 1987). Back at Marvel, Chris Claremont and Leonardi introduced the fictional country of Genosha in Uncanny X-Men #235 (Oct. 1988). From 1992 to 1994, Leonardi was the regular penciler for the first 25 issues of Spider-Man 2099 with writer Peter David. Leonardi later launched the Fantastic Four 2099 series with Karl Kesel. Leonardi drew the 2000 intercompany crossover miniseries Green Lantern Versus Aliens. He drew one of the tie-in one-shots for the Sentry limited series in 2001.

His subsequent series work includes Nightwing, on which he was the regular penciler for issues #71-84 from 2002 to 2003 and Batgirl, of which he drew issues #45–52 from 2003 to 2004. Subsequent miniseries he drew include Star Wars: General Grievous in 2005, and the 2006 movie tie-in, Superman Returns Prequel #3. He followed up that with other superhero titles such as Superman #665 and #668 (2007), JLA: Classified #43 (November 2007), Witchblade #112 (January 2008), and the 2008 miniseries DC Universe: Decisions. Leonardi drew the Vigilante series that debuted from DC in December 2008.

Leonardi and inker Ande Parks are the illustrators on the 2019 Batman Beyond arc written by Dan Jurgens which debuted with issue #31 in April 2019.

08/03/2023

TERRIFICON is having "Welcome Back Wednesday" with our next guest, artist RUSS BRAUN who will be with us at Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and dealer booths are on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Here is more about Russ in his own words... " I started working in comics in 1989 when Joe Orlando, my teacher at the School of Visual Arts, gave me my first paying gig at DC Comics. For the next few years I learned the business on the fly, working on everything from Batman : Legends of the Dark Knight to DC's Swamp Thing , Animal Man, JLA and War of the Gods. During that period I had the good fortune to work with and learn from some of the greats in the field; Joe Orlando, Carmine Infantino, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez and George Perez to name but a few.

I put comics on pause for seven years to work at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida on the films Mulan, Tarzan, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo&Stitch and Brother Bear. When the studio closed in 2004, I returned to New York and comics.

From 2004 on, it's been all comics all the time. I've been lucky enough to work on numerous titles for most of the major companies: Fables, Jack of Fables, Fairest and Sixpack&Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin' Heroez for DC/Vertigo, Hellstorm: Son of Satan and Where Monsters Dwell for Marvel , and Battlefields and The Boys with Garth Ennis for Dynamite. Garth and I have just finished our creator owned Jimmy's Bastards for Aftershock. New and interesting projects are popping up all the time, and I continue to be happy and thankful to do a job that I love".

07/03/2023

TERRIFICON is pleased to announce that writer Garth Ennis is making a return visit to our show on July 28-30 at Mohegan Sun! Tickets and dealer booths are on sale at www.terrificon.com

Mr. Ennis is a Northern Irish–American comics writer, best known for the DC’s Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon, his nine-year run on Marvel's The Punisher franchise, and The Boys with artist Darick Robertson. He has collaborated with artists such as Dillon and Glenn Fabry on Preacher, John McCrea on Hitman, Marc Silvestri on The Darkness, and Carlos Ezquerra on both Preacher and Hitman. His work has won him recognition in the comics industry, including nominations for the Comics Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Writer in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.

03/03/2023

02/03/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes TERRY FARRELL to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and Dealer spaces on sale at www.terrificon.com

Terry Farrell is is an American actress and fashion model. After 18 months of modeling, she studied acting while still modeling on the side. Her first major roles were in the short-lived 1984 television series Paper Dolls, playing a model, and in the feature film Back to School (in her film debut) with Rodney Dangerfield, playing love interest to Keith Gordon’s character. In 1986, Farrell appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone .

In 1989, she began studying acting with Stella Adler and appeared in a number of guest-starring roles in series, including Quantum Leap and The Cosby Show. In 1992, she played Cat in a second pilot for a U.S. version of Red Dwarf.

Soon after the Red Dwarf USA project folded, she was offered a lead role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Farrell starred as Jadzia Dax, the space station's Starfleet science officer, a character from an alien species known as the Trill, who is host to a 300-year-old symbiont, and can draw upon the memories and knowledge of the symbiont's seven previous hosts. The series debuted in January 1993.

Farrell then co-starred on Paramount's television comedy series Becker. She played Regina "Reggie" Kostas, foil and love interest to Ted Danson's John Becker, for four years.

Farrell also provided the voice of Six of One in the animated short film Tripping the Rift, which eventually became a Sci-Fi Channel TV series with other actors providing the voice of Six.

01/03/2023

It's "Welcome back Wednesday" - as TERRIFICON announces a returning comic guest - please say hello to Ron Marz who will be with us at Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and Dealer booths on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Ron Marz has been writing comics for three decades, starting his career with a lengthy run on Silver Surfer for Marvel. Since then, he has worked for virtually every major publisher and compiled a long list of credits, including stints on Thor for Marvel, Green Lantern and Superboy for DC, Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics, and the historic Marvel vs. DC crossover. He co-created the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner during his landmark run on the title.

Marz is also known for penning numerous inter-company crossovers, including Green Lantern-Silver Surfer, Batman-Aliens, Batman-Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman, Green Lantern-Aliens, and Amalgam title Doctor Strangefate. He was Senior Writer at CrossGen Comics, where his titles included Mystic, Scion, Sojourn, and The Path.

Other credits include his acclaimed run on Witchblade, as well as Magdalena, Artifacts, and Cyber Force for Top Cow/Image, the Skylanders series for IDW, the Justice League: Endless Winter crossover for DC, Almost American for Aftershock, John Carter: Warlord of Mars and Turok for Dynamite, X-O Manowar at Valiant, Fathom for Aspen, and Swamp God in Heavy Metal magazine. He served as Editor-in-Chief for Ominous Press, penning Dread Gods, Demi-God, Beasts of the Black Hand, and Harken’s Raiders.

Marz’s creator-owned series include the all-ages tale Dragon Prince at Top Cow; the historical adventure Samurai: Heaven and Earth at Dark Horse; the vampire tale Shinku at Image; and cosmic graphic novel Resolution.

Marz has also written for video games, including multiple Skylanders titles, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Spider-Man 2, and more. He is currently part of the narrative team for Blizzard’s Diablo franchise. Marz also teaches comic book writing at the Jacob Krueger Studio, based in Manhattan.

23/02/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes artist Darryl Banks to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and dealer spaces are on sale now at www.terrificon.com

Darryl Banks graduated from college, he sent copious samples of his art to DC Comics and Marvel Comics and went to comics conventions to show his work to publishers. On the advice of friends, he began sending samples to smaller, independent companies. Eventually, Innovation Publishing offered him his first jobs: a two-part Cyberpunk story, followed by a run on Justice Machine.

At Millennium, Banks produced a three-issue mini-series based on The Wild Wild West TV series and a comics adaptation of Doc Savage with The Monarch of Armageddon.

Banks then went to work for DC Comics, illustrating Legion of Super-Heroes. He then became the penciler on Green Lantern vol. 3, starting with the "Emerald Twilight" storyline. Banks drew most of the issues from #50 through #142. Along with co-creating Kyle Rayner, he was responsible for designing costumes for Parallax, Grayven, Fatality, Dr. Polaris, and Dr. Light.

As of 1995 Banks was teaching two courses, one on illustration and one in comic book design at his alma mater, the Columbus College of Art and Design.

21/02/2023

17/02/2023

TERRIFICON welcomes artist JK Woodward to Mohegan Sun on July 28-30. Tickets and dealer booths are on sale now.

Woodward considered either a career as a rock musician or artist. He ultimately chose the latter and moved to Los Angeles, where he spent some years experimenting with his artistic style. He subsequently followed the example of one of his idols, David Bowie, and moved to Germany, where he went into self-publishing, producing a comic book composed of his expressionist paintings called Flesh Angels. He followed this up with an anthology comedic series called These Things Happen.

He then relocated to Desert Hot Springs, California, where he collaborated with A. David Lewis on the independent comic book Mortal Coils, and with Michael Colbert on the Digital Webbing Presents series Crazy Mary, for which he continues to do covers. Crazy Mary was noticed by IDW Publishing, which offered him the job of illustrating a CSI: NY miniseries. He subsequently illustrated a story in Boom! Studios' Zombie Tales. When Peter David moved his series, Fallen Angel to IDW, Woodward was chosen as the regular artist.

His painted work eventually caught the attention of Marvel editor, Mike Marts, who hired him to illustrate X-Men Origins: The Beast, which was released September 2008.