2025 SEPT 26-27-28
Gas South Convention Center
6400 Sugarloaf Pkwy
Duluth, GA 30097
Larry Hama is an artist, writer, editor, actor and musician who has worked in comics, TV and film. A recent inductee into both the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame (NYCC,) and the Will Eisner Hall of fame (SDCC,) he is also the recipient of the Inkpot Award. He is best known for creating the G.I. Joe characters and writing the comic for over 300 issues. His ground-breaking run on Wolverine spanned eight years. He has written, drawn, or edited for Avengers, Blaze, Nth Man, The Nam, Conan, Batman, Wonder Woman, X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil and dozens more. His illustrations and cartoons have appeared in National Lampoon, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Gothic Blimp Works, and London's Oz Magazine. He was a principal actor in Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures on Broadway, and appeared in M.A.S.H., The Warriors, SNL, Another World, Robot Chicken and many commercials. His band, the K-Otics has played at CBGBs, the Bitter End, Irving Plaza, Downtown Beirut, and many other NYC venues.
Ron Rudat began working for Hasbro in 1971 just after graduating from the Vesper George School of Art. In 1980 he and a small group were tasked with designing G.I. Joe in 3 & 3/4 in the hope of revitalizing the toy line. The rest is legendary history. He designed every action figure from 1982-1986 (except Claymore). Despite his proclamation even to this day that he “wasn’t a figure guy;” he also found time to design several iconic vehicles; graphics; and decals. The most recognizable of which, is the Cobra logo. Several documentaries and web series have featured Ron Rudat’s story, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Toy Collector’s Hall of Fame.
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Mr. Hill was a producer & writer during his time with Sunbow Productions for the 1980s hit cartoons G.I. Joe & Transformers writing episodes like Transformers: "The Gambler" in which he created the character Devcon; G.I. Joe: "Cold Slither"; G.I. Joe: "Ninja Holiday" and more! Be sure to ask him about some of the other awesome 80s cartoons for which he holds writing credits!
R. Carson Mataxis is an Emmy winning editor and animator. He created 3DJoes.com to preserve the sculpt and package art of G.I.JOE: A Real American Hero in 2012. He completed documentation of the figures, vehicles, and playsets with the help of dozens of like-minded fans. Their work continues – documenting peripheral products and preproduction artifacts, and creating Creator Profiles for the legendary marketers, writers, designers, illustrators, and sculptors of the ARAH line. Carson teamed up with fellow archivist Chad Hucal in 2015 to create The Art of G.I.JOE: A Real American Hero, a fully licensed 712 page Omnibus Hardcover documenting every piece of painted ARAH art, and so much more. This unparalleled love letter to the greatest toy line of all time was met with commercial success and critical acclaim. He looks forward to announcing his next licensed project. In the meantime, Carson is developing an all-new line of o-ring action figures with former 1980s-1990s Hasbro employees, entitled Operation: Recall!
Guy Dorian Sr. is a versatile artist known for his contributions across multiple creative fields. With over 30 years of experience, he has made significant impacts in comic book art, toy design, and cinematic artistry. Guy has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Marvel, DC, IDW, JusToys, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, and Storm King Productions.
In the realm of comic books, Guy has left his mark as an inker on various Marvel Entertainment products worldwide. His work spans magazines, coloring & activity books, video games, wall posters, cups, hats, t-shirts, and more. From The New Warriors to Marvel Comics Presents and Night Thrasher, Guy’s portfolio includes notable titles. He is also celebrated as the co-creator, alongside Dan Slott, of the character Scorch, featured in Marvel comics and the TV series Marvel Agents of SHIELD. Recent projects include pencil work on ROM for IDW, ROM & The Micronauts, John Carpenter’s Hyperbreed, GI Joe: A Real American Hero, and many others.
Guy Dorian Sr and Larry Hama recently ran a successfully crowdfunded new series, MOUNTIES VS WEREWOLVES!
Terence Muncy is an artist, illustrator and filmmaker with over 25 years in the field! His work(s) include comics, toy line art, special effects, special effects make up, set fabrication and directing. His art is featured in the German Masters of the Universe Magazine “Die Welt der Meister – Magazin.” He is the head artist for Indiana horror icon Sammy Terry and has done design work for many bands and celebrities including G.I. Joe legends Sgt Slaughter and Michael Charles Hill!
Keone is a man of many voices and has many voice-over credits to his name including: Storm Shadow in the GI Joe series, Commander Sato in Star Wars Rebels, Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Mr. Sanban in Codename: Kids Next Door, the Firebending master Jeong Jeong in the Asian-influenced Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sasaki Kojiro on Record of Ragnarok, the Hard Master in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Mr. Wu on Nickelodeon's show The Mighty B!, Babaram on Surf Ninjas, Marshall Kai Ti Chang in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Silver Samurai in X-Men: The Official Game and Wolverine and the X-Men, Sensei in Young Justice, Chen Stormstout in the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria and Yamamoto in Godzilla:Singular Point; He currently stars in Ultraman Rising as the villain Dr Onda.
He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Diff'rent Strokes, The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters, Futurama, The Simpsons, Alias, JAG, The Steve Harvey Show, Zeke and Luther, Shake It Up: Made In Japan, Boy Meets World, etc.
He also starred in the HBO series DEADWOOD as MR WU and played Henry Lin's Uncle on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He also played Mr. Wu, unrelated to the Deadwood character, in the movie Men in Black 3. Young also joined the cast of HBO's True Blood as Dr. Hido Takahashi, the man responsible for inventing the titular blood substitute.
Robo has five decades of loving action figures and pop culture under his belt and has spent ten of those years talking about it on YouTube. Ranging from reviews to news to customizing to just finding joy in the hobby, if he finds it interesting or nostalgic he'll give it a gander. Essentially, he'll be rambling about Marvel, Star Wars, and other toy lines until it's not fun anymore....which won't happen any time soon.
Gregg Berger is an American Voice / Actor, who is internationally known for his iconic roles as GRIMLOCK in G1 Transformers and Transformers Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Devastation, Power of the Primes and more. His classic and contemporary iconic roles also include Odie, Squeak, Harry and others in the Garfield franchise, Spirit and Firefly in the original animated G.I. Joe, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter in Spider-Man, Cornfed in Duckman, Agent Kay in Men in Black, The Animated Series, Sir Jecht in Final Fantasy, Eeyore in Kingdom Hearts 2, The Pain in Metal Gear Solid 3, The Gromble in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, and many more including, Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Droid General Kalani, Resident Evil: Raccoon City as Harley, Guild Wars 2 as Conrad and Duggadoo, Dishonored as Street Speaker and Halo Wars as Cutter and in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy as Ripto. On camera, he had leading roles in the classic comedy Police Academy: Mission To Moscow and the Sci Fi Comedy cult classic Spaced Invaders as well as three pilots for CBS. Gregg Berger is the author of Think Globally… Act VOCALLY! (And Voice Virtue) and is the reader of the Audiobook. It is available on iTunes and Audible.com. For many years he was associated with Famous Fone Friends, making calls in requested iconic animated character voices to children in Pediatric Hospitals.
Erik Arana is a freelance designer. He has worked at Hasbro; was a founder at Boss Fight Studio; and has designed costumes for professional luchadors and wrestlers. With more than 20 years in the toy industry, he has designed toys for GI Joe, Star Wars, Transformers, Marvel, Beyblade, Phantom, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Zorro, La Borinquiña, MLW, and Legends of Lucha Libre. He also co-created Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S. He currently freelances within the toy and wrestling communities designing figures, costumes, and characters for C.H.A.O.S., I.M.P.A.C.T., Dime Novel Legends, AEW, and more…
Cory is a professional action figure sculptor and designer who helped bring fan-favorite lines like GI Joe Classified Series and Power Rangers Lightning Collection to life. Since 2023, he’s been freelancing with toy companies big and small, sharing his passion and expertise to create amazing collectibles and make cool stuff across the industry.
Jarrod Alberich, ‘The Yard Sale Artist,’ is known for his book page sketches. He hunts tattered and old books to draw the characters from the books on the pages, in attempt to give books once bound for the trash a second life as art. He is a US Air Force combat veteran; creator/writer of “Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale;” trading card artist for Marvel Comics & Upper Deck Trading Cards; published comic writer for Z2 Comics; cover artist & inker for White Rocket Books; and podcast host for the Longbox Crusade Network and the ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret’ Podcast Network.
The Yard Sale Artist does FREE 3-minute sketches for kids and takes pre-show commissions.
Flint Dille has worked on 80s cartoon classics like Transformers, G.I. Joe, the Garbage Pail Kids, and Inhumanoids as well as the interactive novels he wrote with Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons. Flint had a hand in many pockets of 80s popular culture. He's worked with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, and a host of others as a writer, story editor, show runner, and/or producer of iconic entertainment in almost every medium.
Flint has proven his talents as a screenwriter and showrunner for animated and live-action projects. Notable credits include Transformers G1, American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, and Starship Troopers: Invasion.
Flint also has an extensive career in the gaming world. Deemed "The most published Game Writer in the World" by the Writer’s Guild of America, Flint has twice won 'Game Script of the Year' (Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (with John Zuur Platten) and Dead to Rights and was nominated for Ghostbusters and Dark Athena. He has multiple platinum titles and has worked on crown jewel franchises including James Bond, Mission: Impossible, Tiny Toons, Batman: Rise of Sin Tsu (Guinness Book of Videogame Records for creating the first Batman villain outside of the comics) and also adapted as a novel, Superman, Dungeons & Dragons, Teen Titans and Scooby-Doo. Mr. Dille will be at the convention center Friday 9/26 and Saturday 9/27 only!
“Mega Jay Retro” Is a self proclaimed Geek, and avid collector of Action Figure Toys, Collectibles, video games and comic books. The host of the Youtube Channels “Mega Jay Retro” and “MJR Collector” creating content related to the pop culture of the 70s, 80s, and 90s and of course Toy Collecting. Jay’s love of Comic Books led to the creation of his own comic in 2009 “The Legend of SteelBreed”, as well as being a producer and editor on “Apocalypse4” in 2014 and most recently working on the “Delta-17” Comic Book for 5by5 Toys. Jay is now working with Danny Green Collects on a new Comic IP "El Dragoon" which has an upcoming kickstarter details on eldragoon.com In 2024 Jay was the Project Manager for the “Flip-Or” action figure along side creator “Mad Hatter Reviews” and helped to successfully raise over $200K to bring “Flip-Or” line of action figures to life.
Jay has also been fortunate enough to be a featured expert on Nacelle Company’s "A Toy Store Near You" Season 7.
"Danny Green Collects" is a life long collector of Action Figures and custom dioramas. An active member of the collector community, Danny is the “BOSS” at Titan Toyz in Toronto Canada. Danny is creating his own Comic book & action figure IP titled "El Dragoon", which is an action - packed epic story about Juan Juanes, a washed-up retired Lucha Libre wrestler who discovers the tragedy and darkness in his past is linked to an ancient spiritual war. Now Juan must now step back into the ring guided by an ancient power, not to just fight, but to survive and save the souls of mankind!
At the age of 15 Ann Marie Crouch started her career as a professional model. 20 Countries and as many years later she was given the opportunity to put acting on her resume and jumped right in. She moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career. One of her dreams came true when she was cast as Princess Shayla on the Power Rangers Wild Force television show. After producing a video titled "Being Beautiful Inside & Out" Ann Marie realized her passion for teaching and inspiring others along their journey. She and her family moved back to Florida in 2007 to begin the next chapter in her life. She now teaches the next generation of aspiring actors and models and manages a group of talent to help them achieve their goals in the industry.
Cancellations
Due to an emergency Ms. Burrise had to cancel her appearance at Joelanta 2025. Our thoughts are with her and we hope to see her at future Good Journey LLC shows.
The Doll Swap will proceed as scheduled on Friday 9/26 at the Holiday Inn Gas South from 8:00pm - 10:00pm.
Due to a family emergency Joshua Sky had to cancel his appearance at Joelanta 2025. Our thoughts are with Joshua and his family. He is already a big part of the Good Journey LLC show community, and we know we'll see him at many shows to come!
Due to a scheduling conflict, D-Amazing had to cancel his appearance at Joelanta 2025. We wish him safe travels and hope to see him at future shows!
The "Growth of an Industry Panel" will still proceed as scheduled Saturday 1:30pm - 2:30pm in Juniper.