Scott Wilson

Comic Con is the myriad of features, cosplayers, parties, panels and entertainment

By GTVW staff

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Salt Lake Comic Con announced initial guests, new features for its third annual Salt Lake Comic Con. The record-breaking event takes place September 24-26, 2015 at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Salt Lake Comic Con is an epic pop culture and comic convention that brings cosplay, comics, art, sci-fi, anime, fantasy, film and TV, and their associated celebrities, creators and professionals to meet and celebrate with their fans.

The first guest announcements include:

  • Ian Somerhalder is best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in The CW’s supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries.
  • Alex Kingston is an English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC drama ER and as River Song in the BBC series Doctor Who.
  • Scott Wilson has more than 50 film credits and starred in AMC’s zombie series The Walking Dead, as Hershel, the Greene family patriarch.
  • Austin St. John is best known for his role as Jason Lee Scott, the Red Power Ranger, in the first iteration of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
  • Joel Hodgson is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and starring in it as Joel Robinson.
  • Jim Butcher is a New York Times best-selling author who is best known for his contemporary fantasy book seriesThe Dresden Files and has written 15 novels set in the Dresden Files universe.
  • Terry Brooks is a fantasy writer best known for crafting the expansive Shannara series. He has written 23 New York Times best-sellers and has over 21 million copies of his books in print.