Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo

27/10/2026

You all liked yesterday's announcement so much so we figured, let's not leave Derry just yet! Please welcome the incredibly talented Chris Chalk!

Weekend and VIP tickets available now at www.hsvexpo.com

Christopher Eugene Chalk is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Lucius Fox in the Fox drama series Gotham and Dick Hallorann in the HBO horror series It: Welcome to Derry. He is also known for co-starring in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom and the HBO historical drama series Perry Mason.

On stage, Chalk is known for his role in the 2010 Broadway play Fences.

He is known for television roles such as journalist Gary Cooper in The Newsroom, Marine Tom Walker in Homeland, and murderer Jody Adair in Justified.

Chalk has also been in multiple Law & Order episodes and appears in Gotham as a young Lucius Fox and in It: Welcome to Derry as a young Dick Hallorann. He appeared in the films 12 Years a Slave (2013) and The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019).

He made his directorial debut with the film Our Deadly Vows in 2023.

26/10/2026

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Walter Koening and our thoughts are with his family, friends, and many fans. We were so glad to have Walter join us for the April 2025 Expo. If you met him or got a picture with him, feel free to share your memories in the comments. 💙 

26/10/2026

Let's get some announcements rolling again and let’s make it a little spooky this week! Kicking things off is the amazingly talented Blake Cameron James!

Weekend and VIP passes available now at www.hsvexpo.com

Blake Cameron James is best known for his portrayal of Will Hanlon in the Max / HBO series It: Welcome to Derry (2025).

Blake was born in Hoover, Alabama, is an athlete (basketball and football), Christian faith-based advocate, and anti-bullying advocate. He began commercial acting around 2021.

His breakthrough film role was starring as Malik in the acclaimed 2023 coming-of-age drama We Grown Now alongside Jurnee Smollett and S. Epatha Merkerson, earning an NAACP Image Award nomination and recognition from the Black Reel Awards.

17/09/2026

Hey Expo fans! Got a cool announcement for all of you! Our friends at Misty Mountain Gaming Dice are putting together something truly unique. A legendary collaboration with The Frazetta Art Museum to bring you some one of a kind dice sets. You can check it out and back the kickstarter at

These one-of-a-kind dice sets were designed to highlight some of Frank Frazetta's popular art pieces.

08/09/2026

Hey Expo fans! Just a heads up the *Rocket City Toy and Comic Expo* is this weekend September 12-13! Tickets are only $5 a day and it will feature some awesome vendors! Located at the Jaycees building in Huntsville, AL! We will also be there, so come by and we just might let a guest announcement slip!

24/08/2026

In case you missed it, Weekend and VIP Tickets are now on sale on the website, hsvexpo.com

Early bird pricing is now available for Weekend tickets. The price on the website is the lowest they’ll be, so don’t miss your chance to purchase.

Single Day tickets go on sale January 1.

There are a VERY limited number of Lifetime VIP Tickets currently available.

Here’s what your VIP tickets include:

VIP
- Weekend Pass
- Expo T-shirt
- Exclusive VIP lanyard
- 30 minute early access to the show all three days
- VIP line for every special guest
- Priority seating for panels
- Exclusive print

ULTRA VIP
- Weekend Pass
- 2027 Expo Jersey
- Exclusive VIP lanyard and badge
- 30 minute early access to the show all three days
- VIP line for every special guest
- Priority seating for panels
- Exclusive print

LIFETIME VIP includes all of the following every year forever:
- Weekend Pass
- Expo T-shirt
- 30 minute early access to the show all three days
- VIP line for every special guest
- Priority seating for panels
- Exclusive print
- You will also receive an VERY exclusive limited edition badge that you will use every year.
*Lifetime memberships are non-transferrable.

21/08/2026

Kickoff Week wraps up with the man of a million faces, Doug Jones!

Weekend and VIP Tickets on sale now at www.hsvexpo.com

Doug Jones is one of the most accomplished and recognizable creature performers and character actors working today. Often described as this generation’s Lon Chaney & Boris Karloff, his career spans over 30 years across film, television and stage.
Fans will remember Doug for his work as The Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as Abe Sapien in both Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and as the unforgettable dual roles of Pan and The Pale Man in Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth. He learned all of his lines for the film in Spanish, working from a specially prepared bilingual script.
Doug teamed up with del Toro once more to bring an original story to life in the Academy Award-winning The Shape of Water. He also stars as the infamous Count Orlok in the remake of the classic Nosferatu.
On the small screen, Doug is beloved for his role as Captain Saru in Star Trek: Discovery and can be seen in What We Do in the Shadows. His earlier television work includes Falling Skies, Teen Wolf, Fear Itself, The Neighbours, and perhaps most iconically, the lead Gentleman in the Emmy-nominated “Hush” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Another fan favorite is the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus, in which Doug plays the lovable zombie Billy Butcherson, a role he reprised in Hocus Pocus 2. His earliest comic book appearance was alongside Danny DeVito as a circus clown in Batman Returns.
A feature-length documentary about Doug’s life and career, Get Me Doug Jones, is currently in production, directed by William Conlin and produced by Coolwaters Productions.

20/08/2026

Day Four of kickoff week continues with the amazing Laura Prepon!

Weekend and VIP tickets available now at www.hsvexpo.com

Laura Prepon is an American actress and television director. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006). She is also known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). Prepon made her film debut in 2001 with the independent drama Southlander. Her other films include the romantic drama Come Early Morning (2006), the comedy Lay the Favorite (2012), the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the drama The Hero (2017).

19/08/2026

Day Three of Kickoff Week continues with none other than Foxy Brown herself, the amazing Pam Grier!

Weekend and VIP Tickets available now at www.hsvexpo.com

Pamela Grier is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.

Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974); her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975) and Friday Foster (1975). She also played alongside Richard Pryor as his character Wendell Scott’s wife in the film Greased Lightning (1977). She portrayed the title character in Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), nearly three decades after her first starring role. Grier also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke! (1999), Snow Day (2000), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011) and Poms (2019).

On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019–2020). She received praise for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999).

18/08/2026

Kickoff Week rolls on and oh boy is it a doozy! We are thrilled to welcome the man of a million voices, and newly inducted Disney Legend, Alan Tudyk, to the April 16-18, 2027 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo!

Weekend and VIP Tickets available now at www.hsvexpo.com

Alan Tudyk is an American actor. His film work includes roles in 28 Days (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Trumbo (2015). He starred in the black comedy horror film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010).

Known for frequently appearing in science fiction, Tudyk's roles in the genre include Wash on the cult classic space Western drama series Firefly (2002–2003), which he reprised in the 2005 continuation film Serenity, the title role in the series Resident Alien (2021–2025), Dollhouse (2009–2010), and Eric Morden / Mr. Nobody on the series Doom Patrol (2019). He provided voice and motion capture for the robot Sonny in I, Robot (2004) and appeared in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015).

Tudyk’s voice acting work include K-2SO in the film Rogue One (2016) and its prequel series Andor (2025), the superhero series Young Justice (2010–2013, 2019), Ludo in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015–2019), and Dangerboat in the series The Tick (2017–2019). Tudyk currently voices The Joker and Clayface in the series Harley Quinn. From 2022 to 2025, Tudyk voiced Optimus Prime in the animated series Transformers: EarthSpark. In 2024, he voiced Alex Sartorius / Doctor Phosphorus and returned as Clayface in Creature Commandos. In 2025, he voiced and provided motion capture for 4, AKA "Gary," in James Gunn's Superman. In video games he voiced Mickey in Halo 3: ODST (2009) as well as reprising his roles as K-2SO in Star Wars Battlefront (2015) and as the Green Arrow in the DC Comics video game series Injustice (2013, 2017) and has voiced characters in Walt Disney Animation Studios films since 2012.