Actors Roger Craig Smith and Patricia Summersett take questions from fans during a celebrity Q&A at Geek U.P. Saturday. Smith and Summersett also signed autographs before and after the event.

HOUGHTON — Saturday afternoon, fans of all kinds could find something at Geek U.P.

After two years off, the comic convention returned to the Memorial Union Building at Michigan Technological University. The event raised money for Unite Mental Health and Wellness.

The event blended vendors, a cosplay contest, celebrity guests and games.

Austin Calderon of Marenisco liked seeing the vendors as well as the cosplay contest, which for the first time was set up on a raised stage. He was also excited for the chance to meet Roger Craig Smith, who voiced Batman in video games and animated features.

“I’m an avid Batman fan, and he was here, so I got his autograph,” he said.

Smith and Geek U.P. co-founder Patricia Summersett signed autographs for fans as well as talked with fans during a question-and-answer session.

Summersett, a L’Anse native, has voiced characters such as Princess Zelda in “Breath of the Wild” and Ash in the “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six” games.

“I’ve always enjoyed playing strong, complex female characters, and the more time goes on, the more they’re writing for those types of characters in less cliche ways,” she said.

Summersett started acting in plays at Houghton High School. After first pursuing a career in competitive ice dancing, she attended theater school in Montreal, eventually moving to TV and video game work. It’s a path she never anticipated, but she has no regrets.

“I highly recommend pursuing what you need to do, because it always leads you to where you’re going to go naturally anyway,” she said. “And it may not lead you exactly where you think.”

She and Smith talked about the hurdles of the industry, whether the vocal toll of yelling for multiple takes, or secretive role descriptions that reveal nothing about the character. Both have also dealt with the criticism that comes with taking on the roles of beloved legacy characters.

“It’s kind of nerve-wracking, but you can’t focus or think about that,” Smith said. “…If you sit there and worry about ‘Is this new fanbase gonna like me?’ or that kind of thing, then you’re not being in the moment, you’re not delivering a performance.”

Vendors also set up with comics, action figures, novels, art and games. Jim and Moriah Goodall created a treasure game where people solved three riddles to find three locations in the Keweenaw, which allowed them to unlock a box with treasure inside. A bonus question takes the player to a geocache.

“People need to explore and get out there and learn about places they didn’t know were there,” Jim Goodall said.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Moriah Goodall said. “We’re meeting a lot of new people.”

Best in show for the cosplay contest went to Jimi Kokko of Baraga. She blended her interests in music and comics by dressing as Jetstar, a character from emo band My Chemical Romance’s concept album “Danger Days.” She’d been collecting pieces for several years.

“It’s a lot about post-apocalyptic stuff, which I thought was cool because of the weird times that we’re in,” she said.

Beyond the cosplay contest, Kokko was enjoying looking at the rest of the convention.

“I wish I knew how to play D&D better, or I’d go down and play some D&D,” she said.

A game of Dungeons & Dragons was going on downstairs, along with tabletop games like Warhammer courtesy of the The Husky Amateur Wargaming Club. The club is open to both Tech students and the community, said secretary Dolan Moles.

“All you need to come with is enthusiasm,” he said. “We have tape measures, we have dice, we have models, we have everything you need to play the game.”

Alexandria Siira of Calumet came to support a local artist she knew who had a booth. She was also excited to see Summersett and Smith.

But she’d also found other things she was interested in, whether manga, the virtual reality games on the first floor, or the Dungeons & Dragons game on the second.

“It was kind of chaotic, because there were a bunch of new players,” she said. “Honestly, they did a really good job.”