Special Guests ​Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo 

The 2024 Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo will be joined a number of special guests including 802 Ghostbusters, the Montreal X-Men, Still Toking Enterprises, Vermont Comic Creators, Shawn the Cosplayer, and WNFC esports Dojo. Plus artists Alexander Gustafson, Baggs Brothers Art, and Keith Champagne; Authors David Gerrold and Leanna Hieber.
Outer Rim Sabacc League
Official ORSL Event

We are excited to announce that the Outer Rim Sabacc League (ORSL) will be bringing the thrill of sabacc to the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo! Join us for interactive demos, tournaments, and more. Get ready to test your luck and strategy in a galaxy far, far away! 

The Outer Rim Sabacc League is more than just a group – it’s a worldwide gaming club dedicated to celebrating the art, strategy, and camaraderie of sabacc, pazaak, hintaro, and every in-universe Star Wars gambling game.
 
As the premier gaming community in the galaxy, the Outer Rim Sabacc League brings together players of all skill levels, from novice gamblers to seasoned veterans. 
Bill Diamond
Puppeteer & Puppet Fabricator

Bill Diamond is an American puppeteer, puppet fabricator, and producer. He worked for Jim Henson at his New York office, and has won three Emmy Awards for his work on the YES Network. 
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In 1976, Diamond created his production company, Bill Diamond Productions. Diamond produced and directed multiple television series in the 80’s and 90’s including, Stuffy’s Place, The Land of the Moonshins, and Dr. Rock’s Dinosaur Adventures, which appeared on Fox. He was also the associate producer of the documentaries, The Phantom of the Opera: Unmasking the Masterpiece, and The Aurora Monsters: The Model Craze That Gripped the World.

Diamond still works out of his studio in Cornwall on the Hudson in New York where he produces shows, commercials and entertains with his lively artwork at places like the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo in Vermont in April!
Montreal X-Men
Mutant Charity Cosplayers

​The Montreal X-MEN Charity Cosplay Group is a Canadian based nonprofit organization whose major goal is to entertain crowds while raising awareness and funds for worthy local causes. For their 2nd appearance at the Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo, they will be again supporting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Vermont Chapter (AFSP-VT). So, on the weekend of April 27th and 28th, come down and meet the Montreal-X-MEN, bub!
802 Ghostbusters
Cosplayers

Who ya gonna call?! Ghostbusters!

Come see Slimer, Dr. Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Dana Barrett, and the famous Ghostbusters Jeep, the ECTO-JK1 at the Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo!

The 802 Ghostbusters is a fan-group of cosplayers based in Rutland, Vermont.  This group is for fans and members alike, and support ALL ghostbusters from 1984 to 2016, to Afterlife, comics and movies, and all ghostbusters to come. 
501st New England Garrison:
Green Mountain Squad
Cosplayers

The 501st Legion is a worldwide Star Wars costuming organization comprised of and operated by Star Wars fans. The 501st New England Garrison is a unit of the 501st Legion serving Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 
Still Toking Enterprises
Comic Book/TV Series with Podcast

Meet Toking with the Dead - A comic book/TV series with live broadcast/podcast show and a full merchandise line. At the expo this weekend, Jeff Homan & Ben Bartlett of Still Toking Enterprises will share their comic book series - an educational experience of medicinal cannabis and it's unique effects using zombies as the test subjects.
Vermont Comic Creators
Comics
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Do you like to make comics (whatever that means to you)? Do you live or have you lived in Vermont (or a very good neighbor to VT)? This is your comic creator community!

Vermont Comic Creators is a statewide comic arts organization - a coalition of over 100 Vermont-based comic creators - who want to help you make comics too! Make or learn to make comics, graphic novels, and other 2D sequential art. 

Biographical, political mainstream, DIY, experimental, traditional, cartoon strip, superhero, funny, manga, western, bad, good, rough, punk, cut paper, collage or thumbprints- production art, model sheets character designs, practice for drawing, inking coloring lettering skills - all sequential or single panel comics and cartooning is welcome.
Leanna Renee Hieber
Actress, author and ghost-tour guide

Delight in first-hand paranormal experiences and discuss the lasting power of ghost stories on our collective consciousness with Leanna Renne Hieber. 

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright and the author of thirteen Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy novels for adults and teens for Tor and Kensington Books such as the Strangely Beautiful saga, the Magic Most Foul trilogy, the Eterna Files trilogy and The Spectral City series. The Strangely Beautiful series hit Barnes & Noble and Borders Bestseller lists and garnered numerous regional genre awards, with revised editions of the complete series now available from Tor. The Spectral City has been a bestseller across several genres and digital platforms. A four-time Prism Award winner and Daphne du Maurier Award finalist, her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and her books have been translated into many languages. She tours the country with By the Light of Tiffany: A Meeting with Clara Driscoll, a one-woman theatrical presentation about the 19th century designer of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s stained-glass lamps. A proud member of performer unions Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA, she lives in New York City where she is a licensed ghost tour guide for Boroughs of the Dead and has been featured in film and television on shows like Boardwalk Empire and Mysteries at the Museum.
Keith Champagne
Artist
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Meet the world’s 14th most handsome comic book creator - Keith Champagne - at the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo!

Champagne is a 1994 graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He began working professionally as a comic book inker during his second year at the Kubert School.

Titles he has contributed to (as writer) include: JSA, Green Lantern Corps, and World War III.[1] As an artist/inker, his work has appeared in many titles, most notably JSA, Firestorm, and Superboy.
Shawn the Cosplayer
Cosplayer

Looking for fun entertainment? Look no further than Shawn the Cosplayer. Shawn's goal is to always bring fun energy, raise spirits and raise money for local charity organizations. He will be selling T-shirts, trading cards and 8x10 posters to raise money for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s during the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo.