Comicpalooza has begun their guest announcements. To start off, the guests include maker extraordinaire, science communicator and industry legend, Adam Savage! Horror fans will also be excited to know that Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World, along with Dune and Longlegs star, Alicia Witt will be part of the upcoming roster of lists.

Adam Savage is a lifelong maker, science communicator and storyteller. With 40 years of experience in every imaginable form of fabrication, he’s built everything from robot ghost chairs for the Berkeley Repertory Theater to spaceships for Star Wars: Episode 1. In 2003, he became known worldwide as a host and producer of Discovery Channel’s long-running hit series MythBusters. Today, Adam is just as well known for the content he makes on Tested. His appearances at conventions are packed with thousands of fans, eager to ask questions about his past experience, build projects, costumes, and making in general.

In 2019, Adam published his New York Times best-selling book, Every Tool’s a Hammer, which chronicles his life as a maker, further cementing his position as the “pied piper” of the maker movement. His commitment to storytelling extends beyond the bounds of TV, film and YouTube: Adam also sits on the board of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He has been teaching high school math for a long, long, time, and he lives outside Boston with his family.

Actor and singer-songwriter Alicia Witt has been acting since the age of 7, when she made her film debut in David Lynch’s sci fi classic Dune. Most recently, she starred opposite Nicholas Cage as ‘Ruth Harker’ in the thriller Longlegs. Additional credits include critically acclaimed festival hit Fuzzy Head (2023); I Care A Lot (2021) on Netflix, starring Rosamund Pike and Dianne Wiest; and as Zelda on the final season of Orange Is the New Black.

Witt’s many films include Two Weeks’ Notice, Last Holiday, The Upside of Anger, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Urban Legend, Four Rooms, 88 Minutes, Vanilla Sky, and Fun, for which she was awarded the Special Jury Recognition Award from the Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. TV credits include Paula in Season 6 of AMC’s critically acclaimed series The Walking Dead, ‘Autumn Chase’ in ABC’s Nashville, and Season 3 of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks on Showtime where she reprises her role from the original as ‘Gerstein Hayward’. Other TV includes FOX’s The Exorcist; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; The Mentalist; Friday Night Lights; The Sopranos; Cybill; and Ally McBeal.

On stage, Witt starred in Neil LaBute’s Tony nominated play Reasons to Be Pretty at the Geffen Playhouse. She also appeared at London’s Royal Court theatre in Terry Johnson’s Piano/Forte and made her West End debut with The Shape of Things. She has performed at Williamstown
Theatre Festival and has made many appearances in the 24-Hour Plays on Broadway and the 24-Hour Musicals off-Broadway.

Comicpalooza returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center June 20-22, 2025!