Updates

Big News – We’re Expanding!

In case you missed the BIG news… Granitecon is expanding, and adding a second venue! For 2024 we will occupy both the DoubleTree by Hilton and the SNHU Arena, and that means we can give you: • More For Your Money! • More Special Guests! • More Vendors! • More Food Choices! • More Special […]

BIG NEWS!

Hey there Graniteers we hope you’ve enjoyed our 24 Days of Guestmas, announcing our first guests for 2024! Don’t worry, the announcements will resume in the New Year, but first we have the biggest announcement in Granitecon history to make. The news is so big we’re going LIVE, here on Facebook — Wednesday December 27th […]

Please welcome, Stan Sakai!

Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. He began his comic book career by lettering Sergio Aragonés’ Groo the Wanderer. He also worked with Stan Lee, lettering the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips for 25 years. Sakai is most famous for his original creation, Usagi Yojimbo, an epic graphic novel […]

Please welcome, Mike Rooth!

The 2022 Granite State Comicon Ultimate Sketch Off Champion returns! Mike Rooth’s artwork has appeared in hundreds of publications including board games, role playing games, children books, graphic novels, textbooks, illustrated history books and more since the mid 1990’s. Mike Rooth is best known for creating cover art for comic companies such as DC Comics […]

Please welcome, Rick Leonardi!

Rick Leonardi is an American comic book illustrator, he was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in New England. His work is characterized by his use of dynamic poses, panel composition, and shifting of the camera eye and perspective. His well-known works include various sporadic fill-in issues of The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants, as […]

Please welcome, Jim Lawson!

My career in comics began in 1986, when I first joined Mirage Studios (owner and publisher of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). At the time I came on board, things were really beginning to take off for the TMNTs and their creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. In an effort to ease the growing workload, […]

Please welcome, Freddie Williams II!

In 2005, Freddie began work with DC Comics on the Eisner Award winning series Seven Soldiers Mister Miracle. He’s probably best known for illustrating a series of fun and improbable crossovers: The New York Times best selling “Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” “He-Man/ThunderCats” and “Injustice VS Masters of The Universe”, as well as writing […]

Please welcome, Erin Lefler!

Erin Lefler is a character designer, illustrator, and storyteller. She currently is creating licensed Marvel merchandise artwork for an upcoming project, and previously worked as a merchandise artist creating licensed artwork used for Lucasfilms LTD. from 2017-2020. Erin is the producer and host of her own interview talk show called, “The Drawing Board” since 2020 […]

Please welcome, Jon Sommariva!

Jon Sommariva has enjoyed a long career as a comic book artist since 2002 with his fun, energetic and youthful style of drawing. His work has appeared in books from Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics Marvel and IDW. Jon has also worked as a concept artist and illustrator for Disney, Marvel, Insomniac, Upperdeck, […]

Please welcome, Hugh Rookwood!

Hugh Rookwood is a freelance artist and owner of an illustration and design studio called “Chozen Studios”. For over 20 years he has incorporated his love of comics and comic art into his profession and developed an extensive portfolio. Hugh was an original founding member of Draxhall Jump Studios created by Artist/CEO Ken Lashley of […]