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So many special guests are lined up for The Gathering 2009 that it's nearly impossible to take in everything all at once.
For a quick overview, please visit the Guest Gallery. For full details, continue reading here!
Last updated on August 14, 2009.
From the voice cast of Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man:
From the production crew of Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man:
From Blue Mug Productions:
The Gathering of the Gargoyles is delighted to also welcome:
The following individuals, previously listed among our guests, are unable to attend the convention
due to scheduling conflicts and send their regrets:
- Brigitte Bako - Voice of Angela (G)
- Brynne Chandler - Writer / Story Editor (G)
- Dave Schwartz - Development Art Director (G), Storyboard Artist (G)
- Michael Vogel - Development Director, Voice of Waiter #1 (S)
Note: (G) = Gargoyles, (S) = The Spectacular Spider Man

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Thom Adcox |
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"Oh my God, that VOICE! You've GOT to do something with that VOICE!"
This sentence could have been taken two different ways. Thom Adcox chose to take it positively,
rather than negatively, which was how it was meant. Those words were said to him following an
audition for a casting director back in the late 1980s.
Well, Thom took her advice and started doing something with "that Voice," and he has been
working pretty much non-stop ever since...
Thom has appeared as a series regular on Falcon Crest. He has guest-starred on numerous
shows including Family Matters, The Tracey Ullman Show, Renegade, Homefront,
and more. His T.V. movie credits include: My Life As A Babysitter, I Saw What You Did,
Liberace, The Absent Minded Professor II, Under Fire, and It Came From Outer
Space, to name a few.
Thom's feature film credits include starring with Martin Sheen, Heather Graham and Moira Kelly in
Entertaining Angels; For the Boys, with Bette Midler; Under Seige II, Popcorn,
Ghoulies III, Interceptor, Final Voyage, and Lethal Pursuit.
One day while Thom spoke with his on-camera commercial agent, a voice-over agent walked by. Upon hearing
Thom's voice, he asked Thom to sign with them for voice-over. That voice-over agent happened to be Jamie
Thomason. And after a year of auditions, and not booking anything, Thom finally landed a part in The
Goof Troop animated film, cast by Jamie, who had since moved to casting for Disney. Unfortunately,
three months later they replaced Thom's voice with that of Paulie Shore, but the disappointment didn't
last long because shortly after Jamie brought Thom to Greg Weisman and producers for the role of Lexington
in the series Gargoyles. Closely following, Thom booked the role of Felix in the CBS remake
of Felix The Cat.
Since then, Thom has continued to work in voice-over, making hundreds of commercials for radio and T.V.,
as well as on animated series including Invasion America for Stephen Spielberg, Jakers, 101
Dalmatians, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, All Growed Up, and Jackie Chan (for
which there's talk of a spin-off including Thom's character and two others), and additionally some Japanese
animé. As of March 2008, Thom is on the new KidsWB series The Spectacular Spider-Man
voicing the part of Phineas Mason / Tinkerer.
Thom continues to plug away at his on-camera career while staying extremely busy catering to his three dogs
(Sparky, Gunner and Lili Taylor - the magical rat-faced dog), making sure they are spoiled rotten, living in
their home in the hills of Los Angeles.
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Dee Bradley Baker |
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Dee Bradley Baker has built a strong résumé with his wide vocal range and knack for dialect and creature
sound effects. He can be heard regularly on a wide variety of animated series including SpongeBob SquarePants,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Rex, Cody and the clones), Avatar: The Last Airbender, American Dad (Klaus),
The Mighty B, Ben 10: Alien Force, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Phineas and Ferb. He is
the voice of Dr. Curtis Conners / Lizard, Gulyadkin, and Homonculus on The Spectacular Spider-Man. Baker's
feature film credits include roles in Happy Feet, Space Jam, and Dawn of the Dead. He is also is
featured in the highly successful Halo and Gears of War video game series.
He lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family.
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Brigitte Bako |
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Brigitte Bako works as both a screen actress and voice actress. Gargoyles fans know her best as the
voice of Goliath and Demona's daughter, Angela. Fans of Japanese animation will also recognize her as the voice of
Pai/Sanjiyan/Pabo/Parvati/Howasho (the demon girl with multiple personalities) in the 2000 English dub of the animé
series 3x3 Eyes. She was also the voice of Monique Dupre in the Sony animated series Godzilla.
On the stage, she has performed in such distinguished productions as Othello at the Reflections Shakespeare Festival
and The Doll's House. On the big screen, she has appeared in numerous films, including Paranoia, Double
Take, Strange Days, and One Good Cop. Her television appearances include a recurring role on the ABC
series Equal Justice, the Showtime original movie The Escape, and the series The Red Shoe Diaries and
The Mind Of The Married Man. She currently stars as Gigi in G-Spot, a comedy series that she created, writes,
and produces for The Movie Network.
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Steve Blum |
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With literally hundreds of voice-over credits to his name, VO veteran Steve Blum is best known as the voice of Spike Spiegel
from Cowboy Bebop; Wolverine from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and
the X-Men TV series, and the upcoming Super Hero Squad); Tom (the robot) from Toonami; Green Goblin from
The Spectacular Spider-Man series; Heatblast, Vilgax and Ghostfreak from Ben 10; the voice of 7-11, Guilmon
and dozens of other characters from three seasons of Digimon; Zabuza and Orochimaru from Naruto; Roger Smith from
The Big O; Kazuma from S-cry-ed; Jamie from Megas XLR; Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII
(movie) and Dirge of Cerberus; Blunk from Disney's W.I.T.C.H.; Ares in God of War; Yakky Doodle from
Harvey Birdman; Leeron from Gurren Lagann; and multiple characters from Wolf's Rain, Blood +,
Billy and Mandy, Scooby Doo, Afro Samurai, Lilo and Stitch, Star Wars, and many, many others.
For more info, check out: steveblumvoices.com.
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Don Cameron |
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Don Cameron got his break when he met Mike Vosburg and started visiting the studio Mike shared with Howard Chaykin.
He helped them find a new studio right next door to his apartment and Studio X was born.
His first gig was penciling backgrounds for the Cloak And Dagger comic book as well as assisting on Mike's
work for HBO's Tales from the Crypt. From there he assisted on Doctor Fate, the Nick Fury/Wolverine
graphic novel and various other comic books. His first animation job was freelance prop designer on G.I. Joe.
His first staff position was on Batman The Animated Series. From there he went on to Gargoyles as a
background artist. He went on to create the character Cyberella for DC Comics/Helix line.
Among the other projects he has worked on are Men In Black: The Animated Series, Spawn, Futurama,
Nascar Racers, Inspector Gadget, What's With Andy, Xyber 9, and the Spawn DVD movie.
In recent years he has gotten into 3D modeling and provides models for various comic book artists and productions.
He is co-owner, with his wife Dana, of Studio NM8 in Burbank, CA. Recent projects included supervising director on
W.I.T.C.H., 3D artist on Todd McFarlane's music video for the band Disturbed, a Hellboy short story with
Tommy Lee Edwards, and background Supervisor on Dead Space Downfall. He is currently doing 3D props and backgrounds
for Marvel's Superhero Squad.
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Kristopher Carter |
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Kristopher Carter began his career as one of the youngest composers to work for Warner Bros. He received an Emmy Award for Batman
Beyond, as well as six other Emmy nominations and two Annie Award nominations. His fifteen independent feature films have won awards
at many prestigious international festivals, including a Gold Medal for the Best Use of Music in a Feature Film at the 2008 Park City Film
Music Festival. He made his Hollywood Bowl debut in 2001 with a commission from John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. In the
record world, he has collaborated with the Wallflower's Rami Jaffee and blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd. A prolific concert composer,
he has received commissions from cellist Carter Enyeart, saxophonist Robert Austin, flautist Gaspar Hoyos, and the University of North Texas
Men's Chorus. He was named Commissioning Composer of the Year by the Texas Music Teachers Association and also received a fellowship to
Robert Redford's Sundance Composers institute. He served as the first Composer-in-Residence of the Bel Canto Northwest Opera Festival and
has given clinics across the country on film composition.
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Karine Charlebois |
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Karine Charlebois got her start as a Gargoyles fan artist and quickly became well known in the fandom
for her amazing skill as well as her positive and kind personality. She has since gone on to become an
accomplished storyboard artist, dedicated wife and mother of two, and a hard-working member of convention
staff for several of the Gatherings, including taking the lead as Convention Chair for The Gathering 2004 in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Karine has now bridged the gap from Gargoyles fan to Gargoyles professional. She was the pencil
artist for Gargoyles #5: Bash and is the pencil artist and inker for the currently running Gargoyles:
Bad Guys comic book mini-series.
Karine lives in Montreal with her husband, Adam, and her two sons, Matthieu and Samuel. More information can
be found on her web site, Kanthara's Loft (www.kantharasloft.net).
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Victor Cook |
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Victor Cook was a storyboard artist on Gargoyles. Since then, he has gone on to work as a Director on such
Disney projects as Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command and Legend Of Tarzan, the series, as well as working
as Producer / Director on 101 Dalmatians, the series, and Lilo And Stitch, the series.
Vic's directing credits also include the DVD release of Tarzan and Jane and Atlantis 2: Milo's Return.
Vic worked as a director with Tad Stones on the Revolution Pictures/IDT Entertainment DVD feature Hellboy Animated:
Blood And Iron, which was released in 2007.
Victor Cook is the Supervising Producer and Supervising Director of The Spectacular Spider-Man, currently
airing on Disney XD.
Vic also just wrapped as Supervising Director of Starz Media's upcoming Dante's Inferno animated DVD, based on
the Electronic Arts video game, to be released in 2010.
Currently, Vic is a Director on a new series at Warner Brothers.
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Jennifer Coyle |
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Jennifer Coyle is a director and storyboard artist. Her credits include The Spectacular Spider-man, The Goode
Family, Hellboy Animated, Scooby-Doo, Slacker Cats, King of the Hill, and The Wild
Thornberries Movie. She also enjoyed writing and drawing Hello Kitty comics for The Strawberry News
in Tokyo, and was a product designer/character art designer for Hello Kitty, Emily the Strange, Sesame Street and
Disney licensed products.
She is currently working at Wildbrain and developing her own apparel line in her spare time!.
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Keith David |
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A Korean War veteran running a pool hall in Harlem... A guide to the underworld with an elegant walk and a
haunting laugh... A Moslem cleric stranded on an alien planet... No matter what role he's playing, the
combination of Keith David's full-bodied baritone, regal presence, and solid theatrical training is sure to
result in an impressive performance.
Very few actors working today possess Keith's extraordinary range of talent as evidenced by his body of work.
Recent films include Delta Farce, ATL, and Crash. Other credits include Barbershop,
Agent Cody Banks, and Requiem for a Dream. Prior to that, Keith was featured in There's
Something About Mary, Armageddon and Dead Presidents.
On television, Keith served as the narrator for the 14 hour Ken Burns documentary The War which aired
on PBS in 2007. Earlier, Keith had an arc of episodes on ER. He won an Emmy Award for his narration of
the documentary Unforgivable Blackness, and was nominated for his narration of Jazz. He received
a daytime Emmy nomination for his work in Showtime's The Tiger Woods Story.
Keith also narrated Horatio's Drive and Mark Twain. Keith was the lead character on the animated
series version of the comic book Spawn for HBO, as well as the lead in the Disney animated series Gargoyles,
for which he also received an Emmy nomination. He is currently the voice of the U.S. Navy and has narrated
the hit A&E series City Confidential. He is also the voice of The Big Man in The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Such a demanding schedule is nothing new to Keith. Immediately after his graduation from the Julliard School he
was hired as an understudy for the role of Tullus Aufidius in Shakespeare's Coriolanus at Joseph Papp's New
York Public Theater. Ironically, ten years later he co-starred in the same role opposite Christopher Walken and
was the recipient of the Actor's Equity St. Claire Bayfield Award. In 1992, Keith was recognized with a Tony
nomination for best supporting actor in a musical for co-starring with Gregory Hines in the Broadway production
of Jelly's Last Jam. Several years later he starred on Broadway in August Wilson's Seven Guitars.
He fulfilled a lifelong ambition by portraying Othello at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Keith was honored in 2007 with a Bistro Award, given by the entertainment newspaper "Backstage" for his
jazz/cabaret performance at New York's Metropolitan Room.
Keith David gained wide attention in 1986 for his role as King in the Oscar-winning film Platoon. Other of
his over 75 film credits include Men At Work, Clockers, and Pitch Black. Keith has also worked
with notable directors including Clint Eastwood (Bird), Steven Spielberg (Always) and John Carpenter
(The Thing and They Live).
Born in Harlem, New York and raised in East Elmhurst, Queens, Keith sang in the all borough choir as a boy. He knew
he wanted to act at the age of nine when he appeared as the cowardly lion in his school's production of The Wizard of Oz.
He later attended New York's famed High School of the Performing Arts and then graduated from Julliard. There he studied
under such voice and speech teachers as Robert Williams and Edith Skinner.
In addition to the wide variety of modern characters he has played, Keith says he still loves the classics. "Heightened,
elevated text always really interests me... the kind of stuff you don't get to say everyday," he explains. He says that
when he first started acting, he would bring his own personality to the characters he portrayed. Now, however, that
approach has changed. "I want to be a character actor. I want to discover the character and play him."
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Ben Isaac Diskin |
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Ben Isaac Diskin (BA CSULA) has been an actor for nearly as long as he's been alive. Put into the industry by his thespian
parents, he developed a love for the craft and has continued to work at it ever since.
Ben developed an affinity for voice-over at a young age when he realized it would give him a chance to play a wide variety of
roles and maintain anonymity amongst his school peers.
He is currently the voice of Eddie Brock / Venom in The Spectacular Spider-Man. He has portrayed a variety of
characters in all sorts of media, including other animated television programs (Problem Child, Hey Arnold!,
Codename: Kids Next Door), video games (Ratchet And Clank: GC, Rogue Galaxy, Full Spectrum Warrior,
four Tony Hawk games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2), and movies (Baby Boom, Kindergarten Cop,
Mr. Saturday Night, Just Like Dad).
Ben also has a small, but growing list of animé (Japanese cartoons dubbed into English) to add to his resume. He played
Kai, a main character in Blood+; Arashi, a short-lived villain in Naruto; and will be joining the Naruto cast as
Sai in Naruto: Shippunden.
In recent news, Ben was concerned that this bio wasn't as long or well thought out as the other guests' so he decided to
embellish a little. Some of the following information may lack credibility.
In his spare time, when he's not memorizing encyclopedias, Ben likes to flambé his enemies with the atomic fireballs he
can shoot out of his retinas, the result of a laser eye surgery gone wrong. At night, he spends most of his time doing battle
with Kirishnakvadlya (pronounced "Steve,") an ephemeral anti-deity, in the fourth level of the astral plane. As the titan Atlas'
cousin (6 times removed) it's his duty to carry the weight of the world for 39.1 seconds every leap year while wearing one of
those "arrow-through-the-head" things and singing Send Me An Angel by Zeromancer. On holiday, Ben can often be found
at the North Pole, squeezing glaciers together in a heartfelt but futile attempt to fight global warming.
In even more recent news, Diskin realized that it's probably a bad idea to let actors write their own bios.
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Nicole Dubuc |
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As a child actress for eleven years, Nicole Dubuc got her start in the entertainment industry on the other side of the camera.
After graduating from Yale University as a pre-med with a degree in English, she returned to California to become an apprentice
staff writer on the second season of Disney's Kim Possible.
Since then, Nicole has written for a wide variety of genres, from blowing things up in The Spectacular Spider-Man
to teaching kids not to in Dragon Tales. She has penned several direct-to-DVD features, including a full-length
musical that she still sings along to in the car, much to the chagrin of her passengers. Nicole was nominated for an Emmy award
in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Unfortunately, she still uses a rock as a paperweight.
Other writing and/or story editing credits include W.I.T.C.H., Marvel Superhero Squad, My Friends Tigger and Pooh,
Iron Kid, Ben 10: Alien Force, and Jackie Chan Adventures. But never fear. Despite her daily dealings with
cartoon supervillains, Nicole plans to use her powers for good, not evil.
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Bill Fagerbakke |
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Bill Fagerbakke made his first screen acting appearance in the film Perfect Strangers. He next played a small role in the major
motion picture The Secret of My Success, starring Michael J. Fox. In 1989, he became a regular on the hit TV sitcom Coach,
playing Michael "Dauber" Dybinski. The show ran until 1997 and during breaks from the series, he established himself as a voice actor.
Gargoyles fans know him as the voice of Broadway, but his distinctive voice is equally recognized as that of Patrick Star,
best friend of SpongeBob SquarePants. Along with voice work, he continues to act, and has appeared in the television miniseries of
Stephen King's The Stand and made guest appearances on shows such as Oz, A Minute with Stan Hooper, The District,
How I Met Your Mother, and Heroes. He has two children with his wife, actress Catherine McClenahan.
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Crispin Freeman |
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Crispin Freeman has been portraying characters in animation, anime and video games for over 10 years. He got his start in animé
playing Zelgadis Graywords in The Slayers. Since then he's played such famous roles as:
- Alucard in Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate
- Itachi in Naruto
- Rude in Final Fantasy: Advent Children
- Prince Turnip in Howl's Moving Castle
- Tsume in Wolf's Rain
- Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Alan Gabriel in The Big O
- Duskmon/Koichi in Digimon
- Holland in Eureka 7
- Haji and Van Argeno in Blood+
- Amon in Witch Hunter Robin
- Alex Rowe in Last Exile
- Togusa in Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Innocence and Solid State Society
He's currently portraying Jeremiah Gottwald in Code Geass, Reishin in Kurokami and the cross-dressing Shinto priest,
Genbatsu Edo in Ghost Slayers Ayashi. He's also directed and starred in Scrapped Princess, I, My, Me, Strawberry
Eggs and Space Travelers. He's worked as a script adapter on the shows he's directed as well as for Pokemon,
Witch Hunter Robin, Shamanic Princess, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Assemble Insert, Weather
Report Girl and Boogie Pop Phantom.
In American Animation, he stars as Electro in the new Spectacular Spider-Man series and he also played Sylla and
Mr. Riddle in the Disney show W.I.T.C.H.
In video games, he's played the voice of:
- Superman in Justice League: Heroes
- King Leonidas in 300
- Baldur in Too Human
- Winter Soldier and Dark Colossus in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Albedo in the Xenosaga trilogy
- Will Turner in Kingdom Hearts II and all of the Pirates of the Caribbean games.
Crispin has acted theatrically on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theater and Off-Broadway at the Blue Light Theater and Irish Repertory
Theater in New York. He has also performed at numerous regional theaters such as The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA,
the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Alley Theater in Houston, TX and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
He originally hails from Chicago, Illinois and Livingston, Montana. He got his undergraduate degree from Williams College where he
majored in Theater and minored in Computer Science. Afterwards, he went to Columbia University's Graduate Theater School where he got
his Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. He's watched animé since he was a child, growing up on Speed Racer, Star Blazers,
Battle Of The Planets, and Robotech, and is so happy to be working on animation as an adult. You can find out more about
him on his website (www.crispinfreeman.com).
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Jay Fukuto |
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Jay Fukuto is head of studio for Film Roman, the leading television animation studio, producing proprietary projects, as well as
those produced for other companies. Fukuto is based at Film Roman's Burbank, California, headquarters and reports to Kent Rice,
CEO of Starz Animation, a division of Starz Media and parent company of Film Roman.
Fukuto oversees all of Film Roman's animation production operations for television series, feature films, commercials, home
entertainment, and visual effects. Most recently, he was head of production for Film Roman.
Titles produced by Film Roman include Starz Media's animated feature Dead Space: Downfall, a prequel to the Electronic
Arts video game Dead Space; Fox's The Simpsons and King of the Hill, as well as The Simpsons Movie;
ABC's series The Goode Family; a trio of projects for Marvel Animation's Marvel Superhero Squad; Starz Media's hit
children's program Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! on Nick, Jr., and more.
Prior to joining Film Roman in 2006, Fukuto was vice president, entertainment, of MGA Entertainment in Los Angeles, where he
served as the executive in charge of the popular BRATZ and Alien Racers series. Before that, he worked at Walt
Disney Television Animation, playing a central role in such series as Kim Possible, Lilo & Stitch: The Animated
Series, and many others. During a previous stint at Walt Disney Television Animation, he was responsible for such series
as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Gargoyles and The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa.
Fukuto also had key creative and managerial roles at Netter Digital Entertainment and MGM Animation where he worked on All
Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, RoboCop: Alpha Commando, and The Lionhearts. He started his career in live-action
television working for Paramount Pictures Network Television and producer Gary David Goldberg's UBU Productions. Hit series he
worked on range from Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley to Family Ties, Day By Day and The Bronx Zoo.
A native of Riverside, California, Fukuto earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, and a
graduate degree from USC's School of Cinema/Television.
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Elisa Gabrielli |
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Elisa Gabrielli came to Los Angeles from New York, where she was a member of the highly acclaimed Mirror Repertory Company. While there,
she also worked closely and often with Inner-City Improv and New Dramatists. Her film and television credits include Seven Girlfriends,
The Brady Bunch Movie, E.R., and Brooklyn South, among others. She is attached to act in the upcoming film Ten Shots
of Tequila, currently in development.
Elisa also works extensively in the world of voice-over, narration and animation. She can be heard most recently reprising the voice of
the cranky old lady Nana in DreamWorks's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, as the voice of the sardonic Pepper Potts in The Invincible
Iron Man and as Dr. Ashley Kafka in the new series The Spectacular Spider-Man. (So many super heroes, so little time!)
On Gargoyles, she was the voice of Obsidiana in the episode "The Green" and Maria Chavez in the episode "Revelations".
She lives happily in Hollywood with her husband, fellow actor and musician Floyd VanBuskirk, and their unruly pup, Yogi.
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Sean "Cheeks" Galloway |
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As the series' lead character designer, Sean Galloway provides the defining look that serves as a jumping-off point for the stories of
the new half-hour Sony Pictures Television animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man for Kids' WB! on The CW.
Galloway is self-taught and reasonably new to the animation world, having worked in the business since 2004 with no art schooling background.
Before his work on The Spectacular Spider-Man, Galloway lent his artistic talents to several comic books as a penciller for Marvel
Comics' Venom and a cover artist for DC Comics' Teen Titans Go.
In film, he worked on storyboards for Sony's God of War video game and as a conceptual artist for both Disney and DreamWorks projects.
He was also a character designer for the films Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron.
Some of his game design work has been with Blizzard, EA, Sony Entertainment, and THQ. He has also brought his talents as a toy designer to
projects for both Hasbro toys and The Upper Deck sports trading card company's NFL vinyl line.
Sean Galloway is the creator and owner of Bastion's 7. You can check out some of his work at:
cheeks-74.deviantart.com.
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Greg Guler |
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Greg Guler is a Character Designer, currently working on Disney's hit TV series Phineas & Ferb, now in its second season. Over the past
17 years, Greg has designed hundreds of characters for TV, feature, and DVD animation, notably Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,
Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear II, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Tarzan, The Mighty Ducks, Gargoyles,
the Goofy Movie, and Darkwing Duck. Other credits include the The Spectacular Spider-Man, Hellboy Animated,
Turok: Son of Stone, Johnny Bravo, Clerks and Animaniacs. Greg's comics work includes most of the Gargoyles
and Bad Guys covers, and pencils for Gargoyles issue #10, the Hawk & Dove series for DC and various First Comics series.
Greg and his monster models now reside in a peaceful hamlet near Fort Collins, Colorado with his lovely and indulgent wife, Kathy, their young
daughter, Alicia Kay, and fun-loving beagle, Smudge. When emerging from his lair, Greg will, on occasion, hit the slopes or treat himself to a
hammock nap.
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David Hedgecock |
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David Hedgecock was an eyewitness to the first landing of the Space Shuttle, has swam – bare-skinned – with jellyfish in the
lakes of Palau, has hiked down and up the Grand Canyon in a single day and somehow convinced the world's most amazing woman to marry him.
How he finds time to make comics, only Kirby knows.
Somewhere amongst all the excitement, David found time to obtain a Studio Art degree from the University of California at San Diego. David
has had his work published by many reputable (and some not-so-reputable) comic companies; a few have even managed to stay in business.
Currently, David whiles away the afternoons as co-publisher and general partner of Ape Entertainment. You can see what David is up to by
visiting his company website at: www.ApeComics.com.
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Kevin Hopps |
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Although Kevin Hopps graduated in the fall of 2004 with a BA in journalism from CSUN (California State University: Northridge), his first
writing job was as a staff writer for Norman Lear's sitcom One Day at a Time. But, finally, after writing for at least a half dozen
more sitcoms, he succeeded in breaking into the ultra-glamorous world of television animation.
You may know him as one of the writers on The Spectacular Spider-Man, but he's also story edited such shows as Disney's
Hercules, Buzz Lightyear and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go, story edited on WB's the Zeta Project and
written episodes of Animaniacs (remember the parody of Beauty and the Beast?) and the Justice League (remember when Aquaman
sliced off his hand?).
Kevin says he likes to write comedy (as he did for Disney's Dave the Barbarian, WB's Loonatics and Johnny Test and
Cartoon Network's My Gym Partner's a Monkey). But he also likes to write action (as he did for the Hellboy animated movie
"Blood and Iron". Of course, there are times when he likes to write a little of both (as he did for Cartoon Network's Ben Ten
and Transformersand for ABC Family's W.I.T.C.H.). Guess some guys just can't make up their minds.
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Michael Inman |
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Michael Inman was born in Atlanta, Georgia where his artistic abilities and passion for painting were inherent due in a large part to his
father, well known Atlanta-based illustrator Dick Inman. Dick Inman illustrated covers for men's action magazines in the 1960s and enjoyed
a long successful career in advertising illustration with Atlanta-based agencies.
Throughout high school, Michael completed various advanced placement fine art and design courses at Atlanta College of Art as well as
spending countless hours observing the illustrators who worked for his father. Michael went on to pursue a formal Illustration education at
Ringling College of Art where he was introduced to the idea of working in the animation industry by visiting Disney recruiters who suggested
he consider a career as a background painter and visual development artist. After leaving Ringling in 1991, Michael enjoyed several years as
a successful freelance illustrator specializing in advertising, editorial, and publishing work. In 1997 he moved to Los Angeles, started a
family, and began work in film and television. Michael continued honing his craft with advanced painting studies at Art Center College.
Michael brings a passionate work ethic to producing quality family entertainment that utilizes his extensive professional experience and well
developed color sense on every project he is involved with.
Michael's experience and ability have led him to work in the leadership roles of art direction and talent selection. He is an experienced
background/matte painter and has worked with many diverse teams as a visual development/concept design artist in a myriad of genres and styles,
adapting quickly to any given look. He brings his years of painting experience and knowledge with him. Previous duties have included work at
international studios around the globe, daily art directing in tandem with overseas outsource studios which have become a routine part of today's
animated productions. Michael is well known for maintaining a clear style and vision thematically and visually along with his team.
In addition to working at the major animation studios, Michael started his own studio, Inman Art, over ten years ago that provides hundreds of
illustrations for children's books based on Disney and Pixar films. Michael has recently completed illustration work on The Princess & The
Frog storybook due out in October 2009 in conjunction with the release of the film. The Walt Disney Company has come to rely on Inman Art for
delivering quality, care, and insight that the sensitive nature of children's books demand. The styles of these books run from Mary Blair, graphic
type looks, to interpretations of Pixar's CG features such as Finding Nemo. The roster of artists that Michael has selected to work with
and art direct over the past decade on the Disney storybooks include some of the very best in the animation industry.
Michael is a visual development artist and background painter for The Spectacular Spider-Man. His other credits include Avatar: The
Last Airbender, The Simpsons Movie, The Very First Noel, Curious George, The Lion King 1 1/2, Spirit: Stallion
of the Cimarron, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, The Angry Beavers,
The King and I, Baby Blues, Alpha and Omega, Phineas and Ferb, and SpongeBob Squarepants.
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Carl Johnson |
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Carl Johnson is a two-time Emmy Award-winning film and television composer living and working in Southern California. He has written and
orchestrated numerous pieces of music for feature films, television, and stage. Carl has recorded his music with symphonies around the world,
conducting in London, Canada, Japan, Los Angeles, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic.
As a freelance Hollywood composer, he has written music for numerous feature films, including Piglet's Big Movie, Disney's Hunchback
of Notre Dame II, and Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure. Carl has also composed over 60 hours of music for numerous television projects,
including Animaniacs and Batman: the Animated Series for Warner Brothers, Gargoyles and The Mighty Ducks for Disney,
and Invasion America and Toonsylvania for DreamWorks. Among his accolades are Emmy Awards for his musical scores for Invasion
America and Aladdin: the Animated Series, as well as three other Emmy Award nominations.
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Josh Keaton |
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Josh Keaton is the voice of Peter Parker / Spider Man on the hit animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man. Josh is no
stranger to the Spider-Man franchise, having already provided the voice of Harry Osborn, best friend of Peter Parker, on two video games.
His video game voice credits include Metal Gear Solid, Spider-Man 3, Lost Planet, Marvel and X-Men.
Josh's on-camera television roles have included appearances on Will & Grace, E.R., Boston Public, The Young
and the Restless, and Boy Meets World.
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Bob Kline |
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Bob Kline is a thirty-three year veteran of the animation business. From 1973 to 1987 he worked at a variety of studios that produced
series television animation. They included Filmation, Ruby & Spears and Marvel. His job titles during those years included layout
artist, storyboard artist, storyboard supervisor, development artist, key background painter, and character designer.
In 1987, Disney Television Animation hired Bob. His initial involvement was on the first season of the original Winnie the Pooh
T.V. series doing storyboards and design development. Following that, he did storyboards for Gummi Bears, and development art for
Tail Spin and Darkwing Duck. After that, he became development art director contributing to such projects as Bonkers
and Gargoyles. As producer/director, Bob helmed Belle's Magical World. As director, he worked on several episodes
of Gargoyles and Hercules. Prior to taking on the art direction chores for Cinderella 3, Bob was an art
director on Mickey, Donald & Goofy - The Three Musketeers.
Bob spent four years in the Air Force as an illustrator and attended both the California State University at Long Beach and the Art
Center College of Design.
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Phil LaMarr |
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A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings. He was one of the original cast members of Fox's
Mad TV. Phil has also appeared frequently as a guest on TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Without A Trace,
Cold Case, and Reno 911.
Phil has been profiled in TV Guide and L.A. Weekly for his extensive voice-over work, which includes featured roles in
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Bolt; regular roles on the animated series Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends,
Futurama (Hermes), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Fancy Dan, Joe Robertson, and Rand Robertson), Samurai Jack,
and Justice League Unlimited as well as recurring roles on Family Guy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Wolverine
and the X-Men, and Afro-Samurai.
In feature films, LaMarr is best known as Marvin, the guy who gets his brains blown out in Pulp Fiction. He also appeared in
the comedies Step Brothers, Cherish and Cook-Off, enjoyed a supporting role in Quid Pro Quo, a 2008
Sundance Film Festival selection, and just completed filming the lead role in the independent feature A Night At The Silent Movie
Theater.
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Pamela Fawn Long |
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Pamela Fawn Long was the lead color stylist for Gargoyles and is currently the lead color stylist for The Spectacular
Spider-Man. Pamela has worked in the animation industry for over two decades in positions such as lead color stylist and supervisor,
production assistant, and assistant to the supervisor of the animation checking department. Her many credits include Fillmore,
Mouse Works, House Of Mouse, Pepper Ann, Mighty Ducks, and Hercules for Disney; Static Shock,
What's New Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, and Pinky and the Brain
for Warner Brothers; as well as work with other studios on Enchanted, Biker Mice, The Ultimate Avengers, and
Iron Man.
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Vanessa Marshall |
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Vanessa Marshall can be heard as Mary Jane Watson in the new half-hour Sony Pictures Television animated series The Spectacular
Spider-Man for Kids' WB on The CW.
A graduate of Princeton University with a master's in acting from the New York University Graduate Acting Program, Marshall began her
voice-over career performing commercial campaigns for Propel Fitness Water, Mervyn's, and BMW, among others. In the world of games, she
played Olga in Metal Gear Solid 2, H.Q. in Socom II and Jan Ors in Star Wars: Jedi Knights II. Today, she can be
heard as Irwin, an African American boy, in the cartoon The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and also on Ben 10,
W.I.T.C.H., and The Simpsons.
Additionally, Marshall narrates shows for E!, WE, and VH1, as well as promos for FOX, MTV and Lifetime. As a stand up comic and former
"plus-size" model, Marshall also created a one-woman show Got Phat? that ran successfully in both Los Angeles and New York City.
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Joey Mason |
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Joey Mason is the Color Supervisor and a Background Painter for The Spectacular Spider-Man. He has worked as an illustrator
in a variety of media, notably in comic books as a penciller (Gun Fu, The Mighty Offenders) and colorist (Futurama Comics,
Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade).
Joey is currently working in development, and is illustrating the graphic novel William Shatner Presents: Quest for Tomorrow.
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Michael McCuistion |
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Michael McCuistion is an Emmy Award-winning composer who has been working in film and television for over 15 years. Nominated for nine Emmy
Awards and two Annie Awards, he has also composed and conducted the music for the Oscar-winning short film My Mother Dreams The Satan's
Disciples in New York, Activision's Spider-Man: The Movie Game, and Spider-Man 2: The Game, which were released simultaneously
with both blockbuster motion pictures. Early in his career, McCuistion gained experience as an orchestrator on top Hollywood films, working
with many A-list film composers such as Carter Burwell, Danny Elfman, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Kamen, Howard Shore and Shirley Walker.
McCuistion is currently composing for Batman: The Brave And The Bold and Ben 10: Alien Force. He has recorded film, television
and concert works in the United States, Europe and Australia, and presently resides in Los Angeles.
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Doug Murphy |
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Doug Murphy is a storyboard artist, director, and football fanatic (Go Cards!), currently working as a storyboard artist on a new television
series for Warner Bros. Animation. Doug began his career in animation in 1991 as a storyboard artist for Warner Bros. Animation on Batman,
The Animated Series. After three and a half years at Warner Bros., he went to Disney to work on Gargoyles as a storyboard artist.
After Gargoyles, he continued at Disney as a director, storyboard supervisor, and story artist on various projects, including Mighty
Ducks, Jungle Book 2, Lady & The Tramp 2, and Kim Possible. He left Disney to direct on the series X-Men
Evolution. He was a sequence director on a Warner Bros. Superman video and a director for Wolverine and the X-Men and he
continues to direct and do storyboards for the various animation studios including Warner Bros., Disney, Starz!, Film Roman and Nickelodeon.
Doug currently lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, daughter and beloved dog and cat. He is anxiously awaiting the start of the
2009 NFL season.
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Daran Norris |
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Daran Norris provides the voice of J. Jonah Jameson on The Spectacular Spider-Man and is probably best known as Cosmo,
Dad, and Jorgen on Fairly Odd Parents. He is also the voice of Spottswoode, the leader of Team America in the film from
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. On camera, Daran was a series regular on Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified
as Gordy the janitor, recurred as public defender Cliff McCormack on Veronica Mars, and recently guest-starred in an episode of
the STARZ comedy Party Down. He's delighted to be attending this convention for the first time.
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Frank Paur |
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Frank Paur was supervising producer for Gargoyles. He has also worked on Invasion America and directed on
Batman: The Animated Series and Spawn, the series. Frank worked as a producer and director on Men in Black,
the series and as a director on X-Men: Evolution.
Frank's credits include director on Spawn for Todd McFarlane Productions and producer and director on the recent films The
Invincible Iron Man and Doctor Strange for Marvel. Currently, Frank is a director for Marvel on the new Hulk Vs. DVD.
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Wendy Pini |
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Born in San Francisco in 1951, Wendy Pini grew up in Gilroy, CA. Largely self taught, her artistic talents were influenced by
turn-of-the-century illustrators, film and TV animation, Shakespeare, Japanese history, fairy tales, myths and modern fantasy.
Wendy began exhibiting her artwork at sci-fi conventions in the mid '60s, garnering awards and recognition. In 1972 she married
Richard Pini and in 1974 she began her professional career as an illustrator for magazines such as Galaxy and Worlds of if.
in 1978, Wendy and Richard co-founded Warp Graphics and a deeply personal project, Elfquest, was born. As the first ongoing
graphic novel series with a high fantasy theme to be published in America, it became an international phenomenon attracting male and
female readers of all ages. As of 2008, which marks Elfquest's thirtieth anniversary, millions of related comics, graphic novels,
books, calendars and other merchandise have been sold worldwide.
With such critical praise as "powerful, deeply moving and pioneering" behind her long career, Wendy has worked for various publishers
such as Marvel, First Comics, Comico, Frazetta Fantasy illustrated and DC Comics. She wrote and painted two well-received graphic novels
based on the hit TV series Beauty and the Beast and supplied text and illustrations for Law and Chaos, an art book inspired
by the writings of Michael Moorcock.
in 1997, Wendy had the rare privilege of designing the elfin mascot for the Enclosed Laminar Flames investigation (ELF) an experiment
performed in space by members of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia. Elfquest is one of the very few comic creations that have
been so honored.
Recently, Warner Bros. announced its option of Elfquest as a major motion picture. Wendy looks forward to participating in the
production along with director and longtime Elfquest fan Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Meanwhile, in a distinct change of pace, her newest graphic novel, out since October '08, is Masque of the Red Death, Volume One,
a darkly adult sci-fi/horror adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story.
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Rubén Procopio |
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Rubén Procopio is a multi-talented artist with extensive animation industry experience. Fascinated with comic books and cartoons
since childhood and guided in his artistic development by his father Adolfo, an acclaimed Walt Disney Imagineering sculptor, Rubén
joined Walt Disney Feature Animation at age 18 and trained under Eric Larson, one of Disney's legendary "nine old men." Rubén's over
20-year span at the studio included positions as an animator, storyboard artist, character designer, artistic supervisor and department head,
and sculptor for animation maquettes. His film credits include many acclaimed Disney feature films such as The Little Mermaid,
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. His Ursula maquette from The Little Mermaid appears in the
Smithsonian Museum.
In 2003, Rubén founded Masked Avenger Studios (www.MaskedAvenger.com), which provides
sculpture, design, comics and animation services to the entertainment and collectibles industry. Clients include Walt Disney Studios, Warner
Brothers, Electric Tiki, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Laika, Enesco, and DC Comics. Ruben sculpted the Classic Heroes Line for Electric
Tiki, including legendary characters such as Lone Ranger, Zorro, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Hellboy, Lobster Johnson, The Phantom, The Green
Hornet & Kato, The Tick, Mandrake the Magician, Prince Valiant, Tarzan, The Shadow, Captain Action and Goliath from Gargoyles!
Electric Tiki's cartoon character mini-maquette line also features many of Rubén's sculptures, including Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Darkwing
Duck, Super Goof, Underdog, Rocky And Bullwinkle, Mr. Magoo and Woody Woodpecker.
Rubén resides in Burbank, California, where his interests include classic movies, travel and weekly visits to the comic book store.
Check out his blog at: www.maskedavengerstudios.blogspot.com.
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Brad Rader |
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Emmy-award-winning director and storyboard artist Brad Rader graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, as an
illustration major. From there he went on to work in the TV industry as a storyboard artist on various animated series including Rainbow
Brite, The Littles, The Real Ghostbusters, Alf, Alftails, The Simpsons, Batman, Biker Mice
from Mars, Gargoyles, Men in Black, Tarzan, Atlantis, Spider-Man, and Stripperella
among others.
His TV directing credits include Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, Godzilla, and The Roswell Conspiracies. In 1999, Brad
won an Emmy award for directing the animated TV series Spawn.
He has illustrated Batman Adventures, Gotham Adventures, and Catwoman comic books (DC Comics); The Mark (Dark Horse
Comics); Fused (Image Comics); and Tex (Atomic Basement).
Brad recently ended a three-year run creating storyboards for the long-running primetime animated series, King of the Hill.
Always on the cutting edge, he has recently finished work on Fogtown, a graphic novel for DC/Vertigo, as part of their recently
announced crime/noir imprint. Fogtown will see print in April 2010.
Brad Rader has been doing homoerotic artwork since 1984, appearing in Drummer, First Hand and Chiron Rising, among
others. In 2003 he started Flaming Artist Publications, so far producing 2 issues of the homoerotic magazine, True Adult Fantasy.
He has had one man shows of his erotic works in 1989 (The OneWay: Recycled Erotica), 1991/1992 (A Different Light Bookstore in
Silverlake and San Francisco: Free Art), 2005 (Mr. B's in Amsterdam and Berlin), and 2007 (Flazh! Alley in San Pedro, of the
original artwork to the graphic novel, Harry and Dickless Tom). Flaming Artist Press published his first graphic novel, Harry
and Dickless Tom, in July 2006. His work can be seen on his website (www.flamingartist.com).
His teaching experience includes Otis Parsons and Art Center College of Design, where he taught Storyboarding and Storyboarding for all media.
Raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Brad now lives and works in Los Angeles, California, with his domestic partner of 24 years, John Callahan.
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Lolita Ritmanis |
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Lolita Ritmanis is a nine time Emmy Award-nominated composer, having won this award in 2002 for her work on the animated series Batman Beyond.
She is currently working on Batman: The Brave And The Bold, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Ben 10: Alien Force. Lolita has
worked as an orchestrator for composers Michael Kamen, Basil Poledouris, Mark Snow and Shirley Walker (to name but a few). She has been an orchestrator
on over 100 films, mini-series and television programs, including Lethal Weapon 4, the X-Files movie, Swimfan, Robin Hood:
Prince of Thieves, Final Destination, and The West Wing. Lolita orchestrated a portion of the closing ceremonies of the Centennial
Olympic Games in Atlanta. Lolita's concert works as well as four original musicals have been performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Taiwan and
Australia. Her cantata A New Day was performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. She is married to music producer Mark Mattson. They have
three children.
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Andrew Robinson |
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A native Angeleno and graduate of UC Berkeley (go Bears!), Andrew Robinson has had several careers now, including film development executive,
bartender (go beers!), actors' manager, nudist colony manager (go bare!) and television development executive at MTP Productions, where he
was involved in the development and production of several series, the Emmy-nominated Tiger Woods Story, and Making the Band
(remember "O-Town?" yeah, me neither). He may be kidding about the nudist colony. And he was writing spec scripts for television and
movies the whole time.
But while at MTV, in a bizarre, wonderful turn of events involving three blind dates, a Peruvian guanaco (go ahead, look it up, I'll wait)
and lunch at the Ivy, he actually got hired to write an episode of Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles. Soon after, he
abandoned the relative safety of a regular paycheck for the exciting and occasionally moderately lucrative life of an animation writer.
Andrew has written for shows like: Dragon Tales, Jackie Chan Adventures, Walker, Texas Ranger (okay, technically not
animation, but let's face it, the next best thing), Baby Loony Toons, Max Steel, W.I.T.C.H., Duel Masters,
Iron Man: Armored Adventures, The Secret Saturdays, and others... including of course, The Spectacular Spider-Man.
In his spare time, he's currently working on a graphic novel and two feature film scripts while acting as taxi service and private chef to
his wife, kids, a schizoid cat and the fattest damn goldfish in the western hemisphere.
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Dave Schwartz |
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David Schwartz began his career in animation in 1988 as a storyboard artist for the animated series ALF at DIC Entertainment.
Since then he has worked as a supervising storyboard artist, character designer, background and prop designer, art director, writer,
director and show creator for the Walt Disney Company, DIC Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Sony and the Cartoon Network. He has worked
on such shows as The Simpsons, Rugrats, Gargoyles, Johnny Bravo, all the Disney and Warner Brothers
animated series of the 90s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-men. Before coming to the animation industry, David worked
as a broadcaster in both radio and television, a magazine illustrator and as a writer, penciller and cover artist for DC, Marvel, Dark
Horse and Disney comics. He has been a fill-in penciller for the Rugrats comic strip and has worked as a gag writer for Disney's
Bonkers theatrical short and TV series, Marsupillami series, and the Three Musketeers movie starring Mickey Mouse,
Goofy and Donald Duck.
David has taught storyboard classes at Santa Monica College. He storyboard supervised the animated feature film, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles for Imagi, and he did storyboards for the Stan Lee Project at Film Roman, Tutenstein at Porchlight Entertainment, and
Curious George for Universal Studios. In his spare time, he is working on writing/drawing a horror graphic novel and perfecting
BBQ ribs techniques.
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Marina Sirtis |
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Marina Sirtis gained worldwide acclaim as the sexy and cerebral Deanna Troi of the successful Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV series and Star Trek feature films. Over the life of the role, Marina skillfully transformed the popular character from
reserved beauty to delicious diva by inserting her own trademark wit and comedic timing.
Marina's dramatic and comedic range has since created opportunities on the stage, television, and feature films far beyond the
Star Trek franchise.
Her feature films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture Crash for which she received a SAG Award (Ensemble). On
the small screen, she starred as Queen Wealhteow in the Sci-Fi Channel's movie Grendel as well as numerous guest-starring
appearances on shows like Without a Trace, Girlfriends, The Closer and the UK's Hobie City.
Upcoming films include 31 North 62 East, The Grudge 3, Green Street Hooligans 2, Otis E., and
Shadows From The Sky.
Marina was born in London, England to Greek parents who initially did not want her to become an actress. After high school, she
secretly applied to the prestigious Guild Hall School of Music and Drama. After graduating, Marina earned her acting chops performing
on British television and stage. in 1986, Marina moved to Los Angeles hoping to make her mark in American film and television.
After six months, Marina was ready to call it quits and head back to the UK. Legendary Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
would change her mind. He was casting for Star Trek: The Next Generation. After what she thought was a terrible audition, and
just moments before boarding a plane for London, Marina got the call that would launch her career. Producers wanted her for the role
of Deanna Troi.
Gargoyles fans know her as the voice of Demona, the "bad gargoyle." She also provided the voice of Margot Yale in
early episodes and the voice of the Gorlois for the never-completed Disney's Team Atlantis episode, "The Last."
She lives in Los Angeles.
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Deborah Strang |
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Deborah Strang comes from a litany of live-action performances to bring her voice to the role of Aunt May in the half-hour animated
series The Spectacular Spider-Man on Disney XD.
Strang's guest-starring roles in dozens of series include parts in Numb3rs, The Ghost Whisperer, Carnivale,
The X-Files, Star Trek and Close to Home. Feature film roles include Kiss the Girls, The Craft,
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead and 2008's Eagle Eye with Shia LaBeouf.
A classically trained actor, Strang is frequently found on Los Angeles stages in productions by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller,
Chekhov, and Shakespeare, where she has amassed several Ovation Award Nominations, Drama Critic's Circle Awards, Drama-Logues and
a Garland Award for roles in The Glass Menagerie, Our Town, The Taming of the Shrew, The Threepenny Opera,
King Lear, A Touch of the Poet, The Little Foxes, and Mourning Becomes Electra, among many others. She
will soon be seen in an upcoming production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off.
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James Arnold Taylor |
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James Arnold Taylor's versatile vocal range has given him success in every facet of the voiceover industry. His voice is heard all over
the world daily, and you would never know it's him... or even the same person at all. His list of credits range from leading roles in
major summer blockbuster films, starring roles in the hottest animation on television, one of the promo voices of the Fox broadcasting
network, and national ad campaigns in commercials for TV and radio, including the voice of Fred Flintstone. You can literally play the
"Six Degrees of..." game with James and be only one degree from just about every name in Hollywood today.
James' most notable credits are:
- Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and #1 rated TV show
- Leonardo - TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) #1 box office hit
- Johnny Test - Cartoon Network hit Johnny Test
- Green Arrow - Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- Harry Osborn - The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Milo Thatch - Disney's Atlantis: Milo's Return
- Wooldoor Sockbat and the Producer - Drawn Together
- The Fallen - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game
- Tidus - Final Fantasy X, X-2, and Dissidia video games
- Ratchet - Ratchet & Clank video game series
- Gabe Logan - Syphon Filter video game series
- Ash - The Animatrix: Detective Story
James also "voice-doubles" for many of today's biggest names including: Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Shia LaBeouf, Christopher Walken,
Michael J. Fox, David Spade, Daniel Radcliffe, Clive Owen, Nicolas Cage, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Matthew McConaughey, Justin
Timberlake, James McAvoy, Alec Baldwin, Billy Bob Thornton, Sean William Scott, Denis Leary, Robin Williams, and Ron Howard.
With a wide range of characters and voices hidden within James' vocal chords, you may never know who he'll be next. Having voices in
some of the biggest franchises in movies, TV and video games he has had a successful career ultimately doing what he loves most...
entertaining.
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Eric Vesbit |
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Eric Vesbit voices the bestial Kraven the Hunter on The Spectacular Spider-Man. He also served as the Associate Producer on the
first season of the show.
Eric has worked in film and television since 1993, on both sides of the camera. After starring as the Toad in the 1995 Sundance feature
The Four Corners of Nowhere, he moved to Los Angeles from Michigan (via New York). He stumbled into animation production and found
that he loved it. His production credits include: The incredible Hulk, Extreme Ghostbusters, Woody Woodpecker, The Mummy,
The X's, Family Guy, Deadspace: Downfall, The Goode Family, and The Spectacular Spider-Man. When not
helping artists meet crazy deadlines or going frame by frame through the final film to figure out why the lines on Spider-Man's mask
suddenly multiplied, he's found the time for auditions. in addition to Kraven the Hunter, you can hear him on The incredible Hulk
and various animé dubs.
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Matt Wayne |
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Matt Wayne has written for dozens of cartoons and story-edited a handful. In addition to claiming several Spectacular Spider-Man
scripts as his, Matt has managed to sneak his name into the credits of such shows as Justice League Unlimited, Batman: Brave and the
Bold, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, Legion of Super-Heroes, Storm Hawks, Static Shock!, Danny Phantom, and
My Friends Tiger and Pooh. He currently writes and story edits The Marvel Super Hero Squad Show, to air on Cartoon Network in
Fall 2009. Matt studied English and Film at a Big Ten university and frankly, he looks it.
Matt lives in Los Angeles with his wife Rebecca, who is a good sport.
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Phil Weinstein |
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Phil Weinstein produced and directed Balto: Wolf Quest and Balto: Wings of Change for Universal, worked with Tad Stones
as the director of Hellboy: Sword of Storms for Starz, and was a sequence director on Scooby Doo: Where's My Mummy.
Phil's television directing credits include the Hercules series for Disney, Jackie Chan Adventures and DragonTales
for Sony, and BRATZ for Mike Young Productions.
Phil has storyboarded many musical sequences for animation including most of the musical numbers in the South Park feature Bigger,
Longer and Uncut and the main title sequence for The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Phil won an Emmy award for his storyboard work on Boo To You Too, Winnie The Pooh, was nominated for an Emmy for Hellboy:
Sword of Storms, and took home the Humanitas Prize for producing Balto: Wolf Quest.
Phil published a children's book titled Potato Soup and just completed his first live action music video Sayonara for
Japanese pop artist Yuka.
Phil is currently the post production director on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
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Greg Weisman |
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Greg Weisman (BA Stanford, MPW U.S.C.) has been a storyteller all his life. His first professional
work was as an Associate Editor and Freelance Writer for DC Comics, where he worked on the Captain
Atom title, among others.
Greg worked at Walt Disney Television Animation from 1989 until 1996. He rose through the ranks to
become the Director of Series Development for the division, working on such diverse properties as Darkwing
Duck, Gummi Bears, Tail Spin, Bonkers, Raw Toonage, Duck Tales, The Movie,
Aladdin, The Series and The Mighty Ducks, among others.
In 1991, Greg and his team created and developed a new series for Disney: Gargoyles. Greg left
his position as an executive to become the Supervising Producer and Supervising Story Editor of the first 66
episodes of that series. In 1996, Greg left Disney for DreamWorks Television Animation, where he also
developed numerous series.
In October of 1998, Greg left DreamWorks to become a full-time Freelance Writer, Story Editor, Producer and
Voice Director. He has written scripts for Men In Black, Disney's Hercules, Big Guy & Rusty
The Boy Robot, Max Steel, Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, Buzz Lightyear Of
Star Command, The Mummy, Kim Possible, The Batman, Alien Racers and Bionicle:
Mask Of Light, among other titles.
He has also voice directed the original DVD Movie, Atlantis: Milo's Return and the English dub of the
Japanese animé video series 3x3 Eyes. Recently, Greg has worked on projects such as W.I.T.C.H.
and Ben 10, as well as writing new content for the Gargoyles comic book.
Greg is currently the Supervising Producer of the hit animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man,
which premiered on KidsWB in March 2008. He is also the voice of Donald Menken.
Greg is blessed to have a wonderful wife, Beth, two great kids, Erin and Benny, and a cat, Emmy.
Greg regularly answers questions from his fans about Gargoyles in Ask Greg at Station 8
(http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/).
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Jennifer L. Anderson |
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Jennifer Lustspeed Anderson, International Woman of Mystery, was born and raised in Burbank, California, directly across
from the Walt Diskin Studios and its oversized statues of anatomically correct satyrs. Clearly traumatized, she went
through her school years as a shy and conservative band geek. Thankfully, on prom night, a chance meeting with Edmund
Tsabard in the men's room of the Johnny Rocket's on Melrose Blvd. in Los Angeles corrupted Jennifer sufficiently
to make her useful to us now as Last Tengu in Paris' letterer and Blue Mug Productions' Business Dominatrix.
A child bride, Jennifer was married twice (with some overlap), had four beautiful children (two sets of twins over three
pregnancies) and was divorced six times (to no one's financial benefit) all before her fifteenth birthday. Her many swinging
marriages succeeded in putting the final nails in the coffin of her conservative demeanor. "Men," she's been known to say,
"Are not just for breakfast anymore."
Though Jennifer has spent her entire life in Southern California (except for a brief stint in Florida during her college
years studying for her B.A. in white slavery and motherhood), she still has all her original parts with no upgrades. After
all, why mess with perfection? A true she-geek, her laugh – nay, cackle – has the supernatural ability to summon
her minions from miles away. Jennifer currently lives far, far, far off the beaten path with her lesbian roommate, her
rotating boy toys and the occasional offspring.
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Boswell Bosley |
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It is believed that Boswell Bosley must have been born in Hawaii, as he seems unaware that shirts come in styles other than
Hawaiian. After making his fortune developing patents for "Moan Recognition" software, the machine-washable one-handed keyboard
and the "Lazy Bosley" (a VHS jukebox controlled by moan recognition software), Bosley fell off the grid to do "field research"
that landed him in the Dalmatian Coast Penal System, where he shared a cell with Edmund Tsabard. Edmund quickly made Bosley his
bitch, and frankly not much has changed since.
Bosley, a renowned transvestite (he's won awards and has had awards named in his honor), is something of a pornographic renaissance
man. He's authored a book on exercises to increase ambidexterity – for those suffering from masturbation-related hand-cramps.
He's taught classes in photography and cinematography to maximize any project's Porn-per-Frame (PPF) Quotient. In fact, his website
offers PPF ratings for any and all films featuring human skin – with statistical graphs on each. It is updated once a year.
Maybe. More recently, he's kept busy adapting the Lazy Bosley to work with DVDs and – under some duress – building the
website for Blue Mug Productions.
Boswell Bosley is rumored to have the world's largest private library of ancient erotica literature, including several original
works by Ovid (both the classical Roman author and Brad/Janet Ovid, the transvestite's reigning poet laureate). Bosley currently
lives alone in an underground bunker – but hopes to upgrade to a solitary subterranean lair in the near future.
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Mara Cordova |
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Mara Cordova grew up in historic Park Slope, Brooklyn – spending her formative years in parochial school, wearing the kind
of girl's school uniform that still drives men wild. With applied dedication, she trained daily with a Buddhist monk in Astoria,
Queens, until (much to her own regret) she had mastered the art of unresolved sexual tension. She volunteered, washed behind her
ears and really was a good girl – until 1995, when her household was connected to the Internet, and she received a random
spam e-mail from a certain Dalmatian Coast parolee. Her mistake was responding.
She spent the next four years – right up until her eighteenth birthday – pretending to be nineteen-years-old, drawing
naked people, e-communicating for money with incarcerated pen pals, and reading The Sentinel slash fan-fiction while her
teachers (i.e. the nuns) weren't looking. (Admittedly, on occasion, she made sure the nuns were looking, so that she would
have the privilege of suffering whatever exquisite punishment Sister Immaculata might devise.)
Matriculating to the NYC Fashion Institute of Technology, Mara majored in fashion illustration and minored in numerous subsets of
BDSM culture – though after the incident with the sawhorse, she no longer practices. In 2000, after a semester and a half of
higher learning and lowered orgasmic expectations, Mara burned out on academia and left New York to pursue other things –
mostly men. Throughout this period, she was pursued – some would say stalked – by her former e-pimp, who eventually
convinced her to illustrate Last Tengu In Paris. Despite her misgivings at some of the perversions of the writer –
not to mention his insistence that she reclaim her role as the penal system's top e-tease, Mara has happily gone back to what she
loves doing most – namely, drawing naked people (and other species) in the midst of carnal acts.
Mara lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her beloved mate Aaron and many cats. Our fearless leader periodically monitors their
sex lives via webcam to make sure Aaron, Mara, the cats and two hundred thousand paying criminal offenders remain satisfied.
Her parochial school uniform is still much in demand.
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Kalia Sartre |
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Kalia Sartre was spawned in the pits of hell – or maybe in a brothel just west of Chicago. (Accounts vary.) All rumors
that she is the love child of a she-demon and a certain whorehouse-connoisseur familiar to Blue Mug Productions, are hopefully
unfounded – given what happened between the sheets in 2007. From a very young age, Ms. Sartre considered herself an artist
first and thus has never stopped drawing on walls and ceilings with her crayons. (She's particularly adept at working on her
back – despite the horns and tail.) Over the years, Kalia manifested briefly in California and Bali, before a summoning
spell (involving pentagrams, penguins and virgins) trapped her in Tennessee in 1997. Removed from civilization and the calming
influence of the Pacific Ocean, she gradually went mad, spending six years getting a BFA in Studio Art – with a focus on
human anatomy (i.e. how to draw and/or dismember naked people), while simultaneously earning her union card with Succubus/Incubus
Local 994. Her favorite tools include inks, markers, a Wacom tablet and Vicks Vapo-Rub. Her advanced oral fixation – useful
for soul-sucking – has resulted in many a satisfied, if somewhat blank-eyed, companion and has left no pen unchewed.
In the summer of 2007, in a collapsing Dollywood motel, Kalia made numerous failed attempts to separate Edmund Tsabard from a soul
he no longer possessed (as it had already been sold to sixteen separate demonic entities as part of a supernatural pyramid scheme).
Unable to suck him dry by conventional union-approved methods and too insane to give up on a clearly lost cause, Kalia began tattooing
Edmund's body with a multitude of colorful erotic mystic pictographs. Emerging from his inebriated stupor, Tsabard took note of her
abilities. Later, after a cadre of colorists refused to work with Edmund (either because they refused to sleep with him or already
had), our fearless leader turned to the slut in bed next to him – the one using yellow chalk to trace the outline of his body
on their sheets – and invited her to color Last Tengu in Paris. Temporarily shelving her murderous impulses
toward her fath– toward our boy, Kalia took up the challenge and has been providing her coloring (and other) services to the
staff of Blue Mug Productions ever since.
Kalia is still bound to the mortal plain in Tennessee but hopes to find a counter-spell any day now.
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Edmund Tsabard |
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Edmund Tsabard has been a storyteller all his life – well at any rate, he's been a liar all his life. Self-educated
in some of the world's best (a.k.a. cheapest) brothels, his first professional work was as one of those guys passing
out flyers advertising strip clubs to tourists. Often he wrote these flyers without editorial assistance or the use
of any spell-check device (including but not limited to a dictionary). In this capacity, he won the 1982 Back Away
Slowly Award for the flyer entitled "Gought Skank?"; Later, he spent a decade (with time off for good behavior)
as Editor-in-Chief of Don't-Drop-the-Soap! – the official comic book of the Dalmatian Coast penal system.
After gaining his freedom, Edmund emigrated to the United States and went to work for the Walt Diskin Company, where
he wrote numerous animated and live action features for the personal amusement of Mr. Diskin himself. Fortunately for
all concerned, none of these have seen the light of day. His stint at Diskin was followed by brief tours of duty at
DamnWorks and Verner Bros. in Algeria and Bavaria, respectively. Needless to say, many, many women were left
broken-hearted by each change of venue – though it remains unclear whether the hearts were broken upon his departure
or arrival.
In 1996, Edmund and his team of parasites (and we're not being metaphoric here) set off on a tour of the world with
long stops in both Japan and France to research what would become his personal magnum opus: Last Tengu In Paris.
For twelve years, Edmund sought partners fool enough to join forces and bring Tengu to the masses. Having found
a few charming, talented but thoroughly hapless and perverted females, he quickly set about alienating them from their
spouses in order to solidify his almost-Svengali-like hold upon them and thus finally build his long-dreamed of Empire
of Smut.
A devout trigamist, Edmund is blessed to have a wonderful wife or three in foreign countries without extradition or
alimony policies. He has many, many attack dogs with names like Killer and Horrorshow, so don't even think about
exacting retribution.
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