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Michigan’s largest and longest running pop culture convention, Motor City Comic Con is set to start from November 13 and ends on November 15, 2026 at the Vibe Credit Union Showplace. It’s a new location as previously was held at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. The event will bring in many familiar and famous guests from video games, comic book creators, anime, movies, and more. Few of these special guests will have presales for autographs and photo ops available on the website. Some celebrity guests will be onsite during convention times. Fans can visit the official website for more details.
The event will host a variety of activities from interacting with fans dressed up a Ghostbusters to make your own Slimer, cosplay contests, anime club screenings, and more. There’s a lot of activities to explore and there’s something for everyone.
Those who are interested to know who is coming, below is a confirmed guests.
Celebrity Guests
Aaron Paul
Known for his roles in Breaking Bad, BoJack Horseman, Need for Speed, and The Last House on the Left.
Appearing: Sunday, November 15
BD Wong
Known for his roles in Jurassic Park, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gotham, and Mr. Robot as well as Jurassic World, Bird Box, Mulan, and The Freshman.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Ben Starr
Known for his voicing roles in video games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades II, and Final Fantasy XVI.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Colleen O’Shaughnessey
Known for her voice acting roles in Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, including the video games, Sonic Boom, and Sonic the Hedgehog films, and the Knuckles series.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Dan Phillips
A makeup artist known for his makeup and special effects work on films like The Hobbit Trilogy, Real Steel, and Oz The Great and Powerful.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Dee Bradley Baker
Known for his voicing acting in American Dad, Space Jam, Phineas & Ferb, Lobo, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Elizabeth Yu
Known for her voice acting in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Somewhere in Queens and May December.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Ian Ousley
Known for his roles in Avatar: The Last Airbender, 13 Reasons Why, Physical, and Big Shot.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jack Dylan Grazer
Known for his roles in It, It Chapter Two, Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jack Quaid
Known for his role in The Boys, The Hunger Games, Scream, Novocaine, Companion, and Logan Lucky.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jaeden Martel
Best known for his roles in It, It Chapter Two, Knives Out, Defending Jacob, and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
James Jude Courtney
Known for his roles in the last three Halloween films, Halloween, Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
James Lafferty
Known for his roles in One Tree Hill, Oculus, The Haunting of Hill House, Underground, Crisis, The Right Stuff and Everyone is Doing Great.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
James Marsters
Known for his roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Smallville, Dragon Ball Super, Torchwood, and Runaways.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jason Griffith
Known for his voice acting roles in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, One Piece and Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jennifer English
Known for her work in video games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate III, and Elden Ring.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jon Tenney
Known for his roles in The Closer, Scandal, True Detective, The Romanoffs, Tombstone, Fools Rush In, I See You, The Seagull, Rabbitt Hole, Green Lantern, and Beverly Hills Cop III.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Jonathan Del Arco
Known for his roles in The Closer, Major Crimes, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Juliet Landau
Known for her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Ed Wood and Bosch.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Ken Kirby
Known for his roles in The Pitt, Good Trouble, Dynasty, The Gifted, English Teacher, Ballard, Minx, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Magnum P.I., The Conners, and Supernatural.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Kyra Sedgwick
Known for her roles in The Closer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Call Your Mother, Another World, The Woodsman, Phenomenon, Something to Talk About, The Game Plan, and the horror film Family Movie.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Maria Zhang
Known for her roles in Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Rookie, WorkInProgress: A Comedy Web-Series, A Man on the Inside, and You’re Dead to Me.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Marisol Nichols
Known for her roles as Hermione Lodge on Riverdale and Special Agent Yassir on 24. He has been in Vegas Vacation, Scream 2, Can’t Hardly Wait and has appeared in Teen Wolf, NCIS, and Criminal Minds.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Marlee Matlin
Known for her roles in Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing, Coda, Quantico, Seinfeld, and The L Word.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14
Martin Sheen
Known for his roles in Apocalypse Now, The Departed, The West Wing, Grace and Frankie, and Anger Management.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Mary McDonnell
Known for her roles in Battlestar Galactica, The Closer, Major Crimes, Dances with Wolves, Passion Fish, Independence Day, Donnie Darko, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Michael Cudlitz
Known for his roles in Southland, The Walking Dead, The Kids Are Alright, Marshals, Grosse Pointe Blank and Sex Drive.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Michael Mando
Known for his role as Nacho Verga in Better Call Saul and as Vass Montenegro in the video game Far Cry 3. His upcoming projects include Gundam, 72 Hours, and Criminal.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Mike Pollock
Known for his voice acting in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, and in Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Pokémon, Berserk, and Howard Stern’s Master Tape Theater.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Nathan Mitchell
Known for his roles in The Boys, Ginny & Georgia, Arrow, Supernatural, The Good Doctor, and Altered Carbon.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Richard Schiff
Known for his roles in The West Wing, Man of Steel, Jurassic Park, Se7en, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Black Panther, The Good Doctor, Ballers, and The Affairs.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 /Sunday, November 15
Rick Steiner
The Steiner Brothers, Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner are iconic American professional wrestling tag team. They are famed for their amateur wrestling backgrounds from The University of Michigan.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Ross Marquand
Known for his roles in The Walking Dead, Avengers: Infinity War, What If…?, Invincible and X-Men ’97.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Scott Steiner
The Steiner Brothers, Scott Steiner and Rick Steiner are iconic American professional wrestling tag team. They are famed for their amateur wrestling backgrounds from The University of Michigan.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Shawn Hatosy
Known for his roles in Animal Kingdom, The Pitt, Southland, Fire Country, Fear the Walking Dead, Dexter,Reckless, The Faculty, Alpha Dog, Outside Providence, and John Q.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Torrey DeVitto
Known for her roles Chicago Med, Pretty Little Liars, Army Wives, Vampire Diaries, One Tree Hill, and Love’s Greek to Me.
Appearing: Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Tracy Wiles
Known for her voice acting roles in Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Marathon, Saros, and The First Descendant.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
William Fichtner
Known for his roles in Prison Break, The Dark Knight, Armageddon, Black Hawk Down, Head, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mom, Crossing Lines, Entourage, and Invasion.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Will Yun Lee
Known for his roles in The Odyssey, The Good Doctor, The Wolverine, Altered Carbo, Hawaii Five-o, Die Another Day, Elektra, Rampage, San Andreas, True Blood, Bionic Woman, Sleeping Dogs, and Witchblade.
Appearing: Friday, November 13 / Saturday, November 14 / Sunday, November 15
Comic Creator Guests
Regarding comic book creators, below is the confirmed list of guests that will be attended all three days of the convention, otherwise noted:
Amanda Connor
She is an award-winning comic book artist best known for her work on Harley Quinn, Birds of Prey, Lois Lane, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre, and The Pro.
Amit Tishler
He is an award-winning creative director, designer, animator, and writer, best known for his work with on the podcast series The Last Wardens, and collaborated with leading brands including Cartoon Network, HBO, Nickelodeon, Roblox, WB Games, and Skydance for TV series like Animal, Camp WWE, Lalaloopsy, and Mr. Pickles.
Anthony Marques
He is a comic book artist and graduate of the Joe Kubert School. He serves as the Director of the Joe Kubert School and teaches the next generation of comic book creators.
Ariel Diaz
She is a self-taught illustrator working across both traditional and digital mediums. She is known for her bold and colorful expressive style.
Arvell Jones
Comic artist known for his penciling work for DC and Marvel over the past 40 years. He created characters, Iron Fist, Misty Knight, Cockroach Hamilton, and Parana Jones with other amazing artists.
Brian Azzarello
He has worked on some of DC’s most popular series such as Batman and Wonder Woman, currently working on DC’s Black Label Suicide Squad.
Brian Pulido
He is a comic book writer, creator, publishers, and founder of Coffin Comics. He previously founded Chaos! Comics in the 1990s. He has written and published comics based on properties including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Chucky, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and WWE.
Chris Batista
He is an American comic book artist, known for his work on several titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Steel, Spaceknights and Thunderbolts.
Deegan Puchkors
He is a comic book illustrator who has done work with CD Comics, Image Comics, Skybound, IDW, and BOOM!
Doc Shaner
He is a comic book writer and artist best known for his work with DC Comics. His credits include Strange Adventures, Man of Steel, and New Champion of Shazam!
Frank Tieri
He is a comic book writer and creator whose career spans more than 20 years across comics, television, and film. He is best known for his work on Godzilla, Harley Quinn, Deadpool, Ravencroft, Pestilence, Wolverine, and Red Sonja, among many other popular titles.
Ian Glaubinger
He is an illustrator and designer best known for his bold screen prints, posters, apparel, and pop culture-inspired artwork. He is the Art Director and Production Designer for RSVLTS, creating licensed and original designs celebrating comics, movies, television, animation, and more.
Jim Benton
He is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. He is best known for creating the bestselling series Dear Dumb Diary, Catwad, Franny K. Stein, Clyde, and It’s Happy Bunny.
Jim Calafiore
He is a comic book artist and writer who is best known for his work on Aquaman, Exiles, Red Lantern, Gotham Underground, Secret Six, Deadpool, Black Panther and numerous Batman titles. He is also the creator of the comedy-horror series Ned, Lord of the Pit.
Jim Starlin
He is an award-winning comic book writer and artist best known for creating some Marvel Comis’ most iconic characters and storylines, including Thanos, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, and Shang-Chi.
Jimmy Palmiotti
He is an award-winning writer, editor, and creator whose career has spanned comics, film, television, and video games. He’s best known for his work on Harley Quinn, Jonah Hex, Painkeller Jane, and The Pro. He is the co-founder of Marvel Knights, Event Comics, Black Bull Media, and PaperFilms.
Joe Eisma
He is an Eisner nominated artist and co-creator of the New York Times Bestseller, Morning Glories, from Image Comics. He has drawn Godzilla vs Texas and Star Trek from IDW Publishing.
Justin Mason
He is a comic artist known for his work on Spider-Punk and its sequel series. He has also done with on Star Wars, Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis, Death of the Venomverse and Marvel Zombies Black, White & Blood.
Karl Jones
He is a US based illustrator whose artwork has appeared on licensed trading cards, comics, and collectibles. His work features fan-favorite properties including Star Wars, Garbage Pail Kids, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The X-Files.
Matt Horak
He is an artist and designer known for creating artwork for EarthQuaker Devices guitar pedals and merch.
Paul Pelletier
He is a veteran comic book artist who worked for both Marvel and DC comics. He is best known for his work on Aquaman, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Incredible Hulk, Green Lantern, and Fantastic Four.
Pop Mhan
He is a comic artist known for his work on Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Warner Bros Studios, Mattel and Hasbro.
Ramon Perez
He is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator best known for his graphic novel adaptations of Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand and Jane.
Rielly Brown
He is a comic book artist and writer known for his dynamic storytelling, expressive character work and blend of humor and action, earning him widespread recognition for his contributions to multiple Deadpool series.
Rod Reis
He is a comic book artist and colorist who is best known for his work on Doctor Strange, Winter Soldier, New Mutants, C.O.W.L, and Hadrian’s Wall. He is currently illustrating a six-issue Supergirl Elseworlds series for DC.
Ryan Kincaid
He is a comic book artist and cover artist. His artwork has appeared on covers for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Coffin Comics, Dynamite IDW, Image Comics, Counterpoint Comics, and many more. He is also the creator and writer of his self-published titles, Persuasion and Con Artists.
Sam de la Rosa
He is a comic book artist and current Marvel Comics cover artist whose career spans more than five decades. He is best known for his work on iconic characters and titles including Spider-Man, Venom, Black Panther, The Avengers and more.
Scott Kolins
He is an award-winning comic book writer and artist best known for his work on The Flash, The Avengers, Justice League and many more.
Tehani Farr
She is an award-winning cover artist, illustrator, and graphic designer known for her striking, mythological, and sci-fi inspired artwork. Her work spans comics, video games, film, music, and fashion.
Timothy Zahn
He is an award-winning science fiction author best known for his sixteen Star Wars novels. He has published more than 70 novels, over 100 short stories and novelettes, and eight short fiction collections.
Tom Raney
He is a comic book artist who has drawn various comics for Marvel, DC, and Webtoon on series like Deadpool, Spider-Man, Batman, Fortnite, and Outrage.
Motor City Comic Con begins November 13-15, 2026. Tickets are available now through the convention’s official website.
