Hal-Con 2016

Joel is a cartoonist, podcaster and publisher from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. His fifteen years as a professional artist have covered a lot of ground in the creative world. Currently, he is the cartoonist behind the webcomic Starcrossed, the host of two podcasts, The Citadel Cafe an... Read More →

ALB is a Toronto based illustrator and content creator for Youtube. Through her ever growing platform she explores lifestyle, fashion, pop culture, contemporary feminist issues, and creates unique meditative sleep aids. Her most recent sequential art can be found in the runaway Kickstarter... Read More →

Clare C. Marshall grew up in rural Nova Scotia with very little television and dial-up internet, and yet she turned out okay. Her YA sci-fi novel Dreams In Her Head was nominated for the 2014 Creation of Stories award. She is a full-time freelance editor, book designer, ghostwriter, and web manager. If there’s time left in the day, she devotes it to Faery Ink Press, her publishing imprint. When she’s not writing or fiddling up a storm, she enj... Read More →

Rodney had a passion for teaching and playing board games that led him to start a Youtube channel in 2011 dedicated to the idea of sharing the hobby. Since then, Watch It Played has fully taught over 100 games and produced over 750 videos, growing to be the number one source for board game instructional content in the hobby. A project that began as a part time hobby from his basement in Prince Edward Island, has turned into full-time work that now has him worki... Read More →

Ben Templesmith is a New York Times best selling artist and writer most widely known for his work in the comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the International Horror Guild Awards as well as the industry’s top prize, the Eisner Award. He also won a... Read More →