If you’ve got a free weekend and a soft spot for voice actors, Michigan has a good one lined up. Motor City Comic Con returns to Novi on November 13 to 15, and the guest list is stacked with people whose voices you’ve probably heard more than their faces: the cast behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate 3, Final Fantasy XVI and the Sonic games are all on the official roster.
The show is five days out, so here’s a practical rundown: who’s confirmed, what tickets cost, and a few things worth knowing before you pull into the parking lot.
The basics: dates, hours, and what it costs
Motor City Comic Con takes over the Vibe Credit Union Showplace (the building long known as the Suburban Collection Showplace) at 46100 Grand River Ave. in Novi. According to the official ticket page, doors run noon to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Online adult admission is listed at $38 for Friday, $48 for Saturday, $43 for Sunday and $105 for the weekend, plus processing fees. Buying at the door costs more: $43, $53, $48 and $115 respectively. If you’re going, buying ahead saves real money, especially on Saturday.
Kids ages 6 to 12 pay less (online, $5 Friday, $10 Saturday, $15 for the weekend), and Sunday is free for that age group. Children 5 and under get in free all weekend with a paying adult. A VIP pass is $285 online, which bundles a weekend pass with fast-pass access to autograph and photo lines. Autographs and photo ops are always sold separately.
One tip: the organizers list free early wristband pickup at the outside box office window on Monday, November 9 through Wednesday, November 11, noon to 8 p.m. each day. Bring your order confirmation or a photo ID matching the order. Local coverage from the Northville-Novi News also puts parking at $10 per vehicle per day, so budget for that.
The gamer’s guest list
The headliners are Hollywood names. The official celebrity page lists Aaron Paul on Sunday only, Jack Quaid on Saturday and Sunday, and Kyra Sedgwick and Martin Sheen on both weekend days. (A radio station’s guest write-up put Paul on Saturday, so trust the organizer’s page and check it again before you go.)
But if you play games, the interesting part is further down the list, and most of these guests are booked all three days:
- Ben Starr is credited on the show’s page for Final Fantasy XVI, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades II and Warframe: 1999.
- Jennifer English is billed as the voice of Shadowheart in Baldur’s Gate 3, with credits in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Elden Ring as well. She and Ben Starr offer a duo photo op, and the page also lists a trio option with Tracy Wiles, who has credits across several major game franchises.
- Jason Griffith, Colleen O’Shaughnessey and Mike Pollock, all known for Sonic roles, are listed Friday through Sunday. O’Shaughnessey’s credits also include Final Fantasy VII Remake, Persona 5 Strikers and Marvel Rivals.
- Dee Bradley Baker is on the roster all three days too. The organizers highlight Captain Rex in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb.
- BD Wong (Saturday and Sunday) has a Kingdom Hearts credit alongside Jurassic Park, and Ross Marquand of The Walking Dead is booked Friday through Sunday.
Prices vary by guest. For example, autographs for Jennifer English and Dee Bradley Baker are listed at $60 each, while Ross Marquand’s is $50. Photo-op sessions are sold through the event’s Capture ticketing page, and the organizers say the photo-op schedule is live.
Fine print worth reading
Conventions are living schedules, and this one has already had some changes. The Northville-Novi News reports, citing a Banana 101.5 report, that Chad Michael Murray, Tomer Capone, Jake Weary and Erin Moriarty have canceled. The organizer’s page lists the same four names at the bottom of its roster, below the active guests.
The policy matters if you’ve been eyeing a photo op. Motor City says that if a guest cancels, it refunds autograph and photo-op tickets for that guest, but admission tickets are not refundable. That’s a good reason to check the guest page right before you buy, and again before you leave home.
Aside from the celebrities, the show runs comic creators, an artist alley, vendors and cosplay programming across what local coverage describes as roughly 300,000 square feet of space. The convention has been running since 1989, per the same report, which makes it one of the longer-lived shows in the region. And if you’re cosplaying, the organizers publish a cosplay and weapon policy on their site, so read that before you pack a prop.
Cody’s take
I grew up on a PlayStation 2, and I’ll admit game voice casts hit me differently than movie stars do. A comic con where you can actually thank someone for a performance you spent 60 hours with is a very different kind of celebrity event, and it’s a lot easier to have a real, two-minute conversation at a table than in a long photo line.
The tradeoffs are the usual ones. Add-ons stack up fast: a weekend pass, an autograph and a photo op can easily cost more than the ticket itself, and guest lineups can shift. My advice is to pick one or two people you actually care about, buy those add-ons ahead of time, and treat the rest of the weekend as a bonus. Friday is also the cheapest single day if you just want to browse the artist alley, and Saturday is the priciest.
If you head out, let us know what you saw. We’ll keep covering conventions and events as the holiday season rolls in.
Details are drawn from the organizers’ official pages and local reporting as of November 8, 2026, and are subject to change. Confirm guests, prices and times with the show before you go.
