Guests
Media Guests
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Erica Durance
Erica Durance (born June 21, 1978) is a Canadian actress. Erica Durance was born in Calgary, Alberta. Erica Durance grew up in Three Hills, Alberta. In 2004, Erica Durance guest-starred on The Chris Isaak Show, Tru Calling, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, and The Collector. However, Erica Durance is perhaps best known for her role on the WB series Smallville as Lois Lane. Erica Durance was a frequent guest-star for the fourth season of the show (2004-2005), and joined the regular cast for the fifth season (2005-2006). In January 2005 Erica Durance married actor David Palffy. The couple live in Vancouver.
Autograph Fee: $30.00 w/ photo
David Palffy
Played two different recurring Goa'uld characters on "Stargate SG-1" (1997) who were both extremely powerful and were considered far worse than the majority of their race: Sokar in the Season Three episodes "Jolinar's Memories" and "The Devil You Know" and Anubis during Seasons Five, Six and Seven.
Autograph Fee: $20 with photo
Gerard Christopher
Gerard Christopher is best known for his portrayal of the classic American comic book hero Superboy and his alter ego Clark Kent in the number ten ranked Viacom production of The Adventures of Superboy which aired internationally from 1988-2000.
Fortunately, just weeks after Gerard donned his tights and cape, the show's rating soared to number ten. Soon thereafter, Gerard's writing talent and business savvy caught the attention of Viacom and he was made a contributing writer in his second season and producer in his third. Viacom also gave him a directing contract in his third and final season.
For more on Gerard visit http://www.gerardchristopher.com
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ photo
Helen Slater
Helen Slater's career has encompassed motion pictures, television, music and legitimate stage. Upon graduating from the famed High School of Performing Arts, her debut film performance, opposite Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole in "Supergirl" won praise from the most cynical of critics and launched her performing career. She went on to star in such films as "The Legend of Billie Jean," "Ruthless People," "The Secret of my Success," "City Slickers," "Sticky Fingers," "Lassie," "No Way Back" and "The Steal," among others. She is currently in "Seeing Other People," opposite Jay Mohr, Andy Richter and Josh Charles, and appeared this season on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."
For more on Helen, visit http://www.helenslater.com
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Herb Jefferson
Best known for his role as Lieutenant Boomer on the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Later, in the 1980 spin-off Galactica, his character had moved up in the chain of command, becoming Colonel Boomer, Executive Officer of the Battlestar Galactica.
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Charlie Adler
Charlie Adler, the name sounds so familiar, and yet why? Well, aside from playing the voice of Starscream in the recent Transformers 2007 movie, he has also been the voice of many characters since the 1980's. Everything from Smurfs, Disney, Tiny Toon Adventures, Cow and Chicken, Brave Starr, G. I. Joe's Low Light, Mr. Whiskers from Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Charlie has had a budding career. He is an emmy award winning director and producer that has voiced over 200 characters in his long list of cartoons and movies! Charlie will be teaching Voice Acting for Animation on Sunday from 3pm - 7pm at the con. Click here for more information!
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Kyle Hebert
Hebert got his start in the mid 1990s as a disc jockey for Radio Disney, under the pseudonym Squeege. This lasted until September 2005, when he moved from Dallas to Los Angeles, to pursue bigger interests in the world of voice acting. Kyle has also had cameo roles in various anime dubs such as Case Closed, Fruits Basket, and Kodocha, and a recurring role in Fullmetal Alchemist. He voiced over for Nefertari Cobra in One Piece The Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates' Adventures in Alabasta.
Currently, Kyle is the dub voice of Kiba Inuzuka on Naruto and Sōsuke Aizen and Ganju Shiba in Bleach. He is also the voice of Ken-Goh on Eureka Seven following Bob Papenbrook's death, from Episode 29 till the end.
Kyle is also a podcaster, hosting the weekly Big Bald Broadcast, with a webmaster/musician/author simply known as OtherworldSteve.
John "Q" De Lancie
John De Lancie was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Kent State University where he won a scholarship to Juilliard. John's father was a professional oboist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Mr. De Lancie is probably best known for his portrayal as "Eugene Bradford" on Days of Our Lives and "Q" on TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987).
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Justin "Green Arrow" Hartley
Justin Hartley was born in Knoxville, Illinois on January 29, 1977. He was the second of four children. An older brother, Nathan, and two younger sisters, Megan and Gabriella. He grew up in Orland Park, Illinois. He attended Carl Sandburg High School. After that he went to college at Southern Illinois University and then the University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in theatre and history. He worked in commercials and then got his role in NBC's soap opera, Passions. He departed from the soap in 2006 and shot the pilot episode for Aquaman. However, the CW failed to pick up the show for its fall line-up. Justin was later cast as Oliver Queen (a.k.a the Green Arrow) on Smallville. Hartley married Lindsay Korman (now Lindsay Hartley) in May of 2004. They have one child together, Isabella Justice Hartley, whom was born in July 2004.
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Lou "The Hulk" Ferrigno
An internationally famous and well respected bodybuilder / actor, Lou Ferrigno first appeared on TV screens in 1977 as the musclebound "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), the alter ego of meek scientist David Banner. Ferrigno was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951 and as a child suffered from an ear infection that resulted in permanent partial hearing loss. Undeterred by what some may have perceived as a disadvantage, Lou threw himself into athletics (predominantly weightlifting and body building) and at the age of 21 won his first Mr. Universe title. For good measure, he came back and won it again the following year!
He also played professional football in the Canadian Football League, before coming to the attention of producer Kenneth Johnson, who was seeking just the right person to portray on screen the comic book superhero, The Incredible Hulk. With his 6'5", 285-lb. frame, Lou was the biggest professional bodybuilder of the time, and had recently starred in the documentary Pumping Iron (1977), about the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest in South Africa. He successfully auditioned for the part of the green-skinned Goliath, and that is the role with which he is most closely identified.
Big Lou is also a successful author with two books detailing his bodybuilding knowledge, and his life behind the scenes playing the Incredible Hulk on TV in the 1970s, plus he has a popular website frequented by his many fans worldwide.
Autograph Fee: $25 w/ Photo, plus various prices on other items available.
Jeremy "Boba Fett" Bulloch
Jeremy was born in the town of Market Harborough in the middle of England. He is one of six children and even at the young age of five was on stage in his school show enjoying acting and singing. After failing a school exam at the age of eleven Jeremy seemed destined for the acting profession and was soon attending Corona Academy Drama School, making his first professional appearance at the age of twelve when he appeared in a commercial for a breakfast cereal.
In 1978 Jeremy was asked to play a small part in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). The part, of course, was 'Boba Fett' - proving the old theatrical saying that "there is no such thing as a small part"! Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) soon followed and Jeremy was invited to reprise the role of Boba.
Jeremy has three grown-up sons, and lives in London with his wife Maureen, and lucky black cat 'Percy'.
Autograph Fee: $20 w/ Photo
Comic Book Guests
Kurt Busiek
Kurt has worked on a number of different titles in his career, starting in 1982 with a Green Lantern #162 backup story. These include Arrowsmith, The Avengers, Icon, Iron Man, The Liberty Project, Ninjak, The Power Company, Red Tornado, Shockrockets, Superman: Secret Identity, Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, JLA, and (perhaps most notably) the Marvels mini-series followed by Homage Comics Kurt Busiek's Astro City. As a fan, he created the theory that Jean Grey had never died and became the Phoenix, which was later integrated into the comics.
In 1997, Busiek began a celebrated stint as writer of Avengers alongside artist George Perez. Perez departed from the series in 2000, but Busiek continued as writer for two more years, collaborating with artists Alan Davis, Kieron Dwyer and others. Busiek's tenure culminated with the Kang Dynasty storyline. In 2003, Busiek re-teamed with Perez to create the JLA/Avengers limited series.
In 2003, Kurt began a new Conan series for Dark Horse Comics but has since moved on. In December 2005 Busiek signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. During DC's Infinite Crisis event, Kurt teamed with Geoff Johns on a One Year Later 8-part story arc (called Up, Up and Away) that encompassed both Superman titles. As well, he began writing the DC title Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis and wrote from issues 40-49. Kurt is currently the writer of Superman.
Work on some of Kurt's more challenging, less mainstream projects, most notably Astro City, has been repeatedly delayed by a series of severe sinus problems brought about by mercury poisoning. [1] Kurt Busiek (2001-OCT-10). "OT Q for Kurt". rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe. (Web link). Retrieved on 2007-FEB-09.
Kurt's work has won him several awards in the comics industry, including the 1998 and 1999 Comics Buyer's Guide Awards for Favorite Writer, with additional nominations in 1997 and every year from 2000 to 2004. He has also received numerous Squiddy Awards, having been selected as favorite writer four years in a row from 1995 to 1998, and as a member of the favorite creative team for 1996, 1999, and 2003. In the Squiddy Awards, he was also named the favorite poster (among professional comics creators) to the rec.arts.comics.* newsgroups five years in a row from 2000 through 2004. [[]]
Joe Rubinstein
Joe emigrated to the U.S. from Israel when he was 5 years old. His American cousin had a bunch of comic books Joe was fascinated by. Since Joe didn't speak the language, he was attracted to the pictures and, like all kids, he drew his own comics. Eventually he wanted to be an artist. At age 11 he attended classes in New York (where he lived) at the Arts Students League. His art teacher was Arthur J. Foster, son of the great Hal Foster (creator/artist of "Prince Valiant," one of the most highly-regarded comic strips in history).
Josef's idol at the time was Neal Adams whom he met at a comic book convention when he was 13 years old. Josef asked if he could work at his and Dick Giordano 's new studio, Continuity Associates. About 1971 or 1972 Joe became their assistant.He met and assisted many legendary artists while working there, including Wally Wood, Russ Heath, Gray Morrow, Jim Starlin, Jeff Jones, Bernie Wrightson , and Klaus Janson , among others.Then when Josef was 17 years old, he became a freelance artist and that was 32 years ago. He has worked for every major comics company and has the Guinness record for having inked more pencillers than any other inker--because of his inking "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" on and off for 20 years.
Joe is also an award-winning portrait artist and illustrator.
Examples of Joe's re-creations and commissions can be seen at his gallery at http://www.Comicartfans.com
Alex Saviuk
Alex Saviuk has illustrated characters such as 'Superman', 'Green Lantern' and 'The Flash' for DC Comics Presents. But without a doubt his work for the series 'Steel Man' for Action Comics is one of his best known works of the mid-eighties. Later on, he did some cover work for Marvel, on titles such as 'New Universe'. In 1988, Saviuk began working on two Spider-man series: 'The Web of Spider-man' and The 'Adventures of Spider-man'. Alex Saviuk also drew a lot of 'X-Files' stories in the late 1990s for Topps comics.
Tyler Walpole
Tyler Walpole began working part time in the hobby gaming industry in 2000. He started out working for Palladium Books, drawing mainly on their fantasy line. From there he has been freelanching, mainly for games, but also for the 'Dungeons & Dragons: In the Shadow of Dragons' comic, which he pencilled for Kenzer & Co (inks by Andy Brase). called Dungeons & Dragons: In the Shadow of Dragons. Since then, he has been working a lot with Fantasy Flight Games and Sword & Sorcery Studios.
Andy Brase
Dark Fantasy/Horror/Sci- fi/Superhero artist---Andy has done work for Dark Horse, Marvel, DC, Top Cow, Penny Farthing Press, Aspen, Wizards of the Coast, White Wolf, Fantasy Flight, etc.
His work has been featured in "Spectrum", "Fantasy Art Magazine"(China), and on the website "Masters in Print". In comics Andy has done cover work for titles including: Kull the Conqueror(upcoming), Incredible Hulk, The Darkness, Identity Disc, Black Panther, GI Joe and many others. He has also done commission work on characters including: Hellboy, Nightmare, Wolverine, Warcraft, Batman, etc.
Bo Hampton
He graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. He drew, wrote and painted comics and graphic novels for 15 years, always with a bent toward realism that was fairly uncommon in the medium. Some art highlights from that period include Viking Glory a 96 page graphic novel for DC Comics, Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Tundra publishing and Verdilak a horror story co-written and painted for NBM publishing.
Hampton spent a year as a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, helping to develop the original incarnation of their Sequential Arts program before moving into the realms of storyboarding animated shows and TV commercials.
He has worked on Extreme Ghostbusters for SONY (TV and Full length video feature) as well as Superman (Warner Bros.) and Batman animation for Cartoon Network spot.
Lar deSouza
While he's been cartooning in a semi-professional fashion since 1990, Lar decided to begin the new millennium as a caricaturist. Since that decision he has had numerable opportunities arise. Party work, providing art for fund-raisers, corporate gigs, publication work and studio commissions are all projects in which he has enjoyed exercising his talents.
"I've always enjoyed portraiture and caricaturing,"says Lar from his home in Acton, Ontario (Canada). "I'm a little abashed at how long it took me to realize people would pay me to draw them though! Other people have delicate Grecian muses to whisper in their ears. Mine has to grab me by the scruff of the neck and shout in my face!"
Lar is hoping to find more print opportunities as well as more live venues once the warmer weather settles in. Lar has a lovely wife, two beautiful children and three tolerant cats. The wife and kids are tolerant too.
Lisha Lee
Lisha is an Anime Caricatures artist from Boston, MA. Be sure to check out her table to see what you'd look like as an anime character!
