tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38594385951246633512024-03-12T21:10:13.516-07:00Witterstaetter WritesPersonal blog for writer/editor/publisher Renee Witterstaetter-- film and publishing professional as well as agent to actors, media guests, writers and artists via Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking AND Eva Ink Artist Group. Owner of the virtual experience site: happyspacePOPcon.com. In this blog, Renee will post missives and observances for entertainment, as well as keep followers updated on the creative endeavors of both herself and her associates at Pros & Cons and Eva Ink.Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.comBlogger401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-87493217267924897652022-03-14T19:20:00.001-07:002022-03-14T19:20:07.361-07:00Ted Lewis Available for Booking! Pokemon, TMNT and More! Ted Lewis is a stage and voice-over actor. He has performed off-Broadway in New York City with the Bedlam theatre company and at various regional theaters across the country. As a voice-actor, Ted is best known for YUGIOH! (Bakura, Jack Atlas, Bandit Keith), POKEMON (Giovanni, Tracy Sketchit, Various), KIRBY: RIGHT BACK ATCHA! (King Dedede, Escargoon), TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (Ultimate Ninja) and many others. Most recently, Ted can be heard in the role of William in the English language dub of EMMA: A VICTORIAN ROMANCE.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtUSGCex-tbyi9kDcXuSk4mHa40cUQbeHEF_fdrY7iDOK0Mk1WKLL1Gk9HwMz1crmWqsmztIw4yAU1GlPwBe23YnG9t9A8Y98xcW1YoXjoxGLoeiiJkrHZ7UK8doxHtGuNd-urQVetuuHjbx3l5_7rV1wstdOPEdXp3AeSx6wfL4-2Vttc0rh835rB9Q=s866" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtUSGCex-tbyi9kDcXuSk4mHa40cUQbeHEF_fdrY7iDOK0Mk1WKLL1Gk9HwMz1crmWqsmztIw4yAU1GlPwBe23YnG9t9A8Y98xcW1YoXjoxGLoeiiJkrHZ7UK8doxHtGuNd-urQVetuuHjbx3l5_7rV1wstdOPEdXp3AeSx6wfL4-2Vttc0rh835rB9Q=s320"/></a></div>Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-2774465547919334672021-11-16T07:54:00.001-08:002021-11-16T07:54:17.058-08:00Eva Ink Artist Group Clients for 2022! Convention Bookings Open: 2022-- Shooter, Golden, Suydam, Cook, Ishwerwood, Morales, Nolan! Take a look at all of our Amazing talent!
Hi Everyone-- Some of our artists are still on hiatus, so if there is an artist you are interested in booking, please get with me right away. 2022 bookings are fully underway. Michael Golden, Rags Morales, Jim Shooter, Georges Jeanty, Graham Nolan Arthur Suydam! Read our full list and book ASAP!
My email is: evaink@aol.com Best, Renee
Check the bios of some of our great creators below:
Michael Golden--(Artist/Writer/Consultant/Designer) One of THE storytellers in the industry, influencing generations of comics fans and professionals, Michael Golden boasts creations that are some of the most licensed and enduring in the industry. Co-Creator of Rogue, Bucky O'Hare, Micronauts and "The 'Nam," among much more, Golden is known as one of THE artists on such characters as Batman, Doctor Strange, G.I. Joe and the Punisher. Golden's recent covers can be seen on everything from "Spawn" to the "Walking Dead," to World Wrestling work. Recent covers include works on "The Walking Dead," "Deadpool," and "DareDevil," to name a few. In short, no history of comics is complete without touching on the influence that this legendary artist has had on this industry. Recent books on the colorful life and vibrant art of Golden include "Michael Golden: Alchemy" "Modern Masters: Michael Golden" and "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," and "Michael Golden: Dangerous Curves." In addition, having served as both Senior Art Director at Marvel Comics and Senior Editor at DC Comics, Golden's lectures and classes in storytelling are sought after world wide, with recent venues including places as diverse as Spain, France, Russia, Norway, Brazil, Chile and China. With recent gallery shows mounted in New York City, Maryland, Spain and Russia. Programing Notes: Various panels on the art of comic books can be scheduled with Michael, to highlight this special event at your show. (Note: Michael has specific table and listing requirements. )
Mike Zeck--(Artist, Creator) Note: Mike is Currently on Hiatus. But do send us your interest for future bookings. When discussing comics heavy hitter, Mike Zeck, you'd have to argue which is his most influential work, or which is most deeply embossed on our pop culture. His series "Kraven's Last Hunt," took Spider-man to a whole new level and has been voted by readers as the "Greatest Spider-Man story ever told." His subsequent work on the Punisher with "Cricle of Blood," cemented him as one of the THE artists for the character, while the series "Secret Wars," set comic book readership on their ears, and heralded Zeck's creation of the black and white Spider-Man costume, still around as the attire of the super-villain, Venom. His work on Captain American also stands out as some of the most influential in the industry, and iconic images of this and other characters such as Superman and Batman, are etched in comic history. In fact, Zeck images are featured on Marvel merchandising ad nauseam year after year, evidence of his enduring popularity. It's hard not to notice all those "Secret Wars" t-shirts! Recent books on Mike include "Raw Fury: The Art of Mike Zeck," while Zeck's series with writer Steven Grant (creator of the hit movie "Two Guns"), "Damned," was released in a recent volume by IDW Publishing, which has also just released a deluxe volume of Mike's classic Marvel covers. Programming Notes: Mike prefers not to do panels. But is at his table for fans all hours of any show he attends. (Note that Mike will be doing very limited appearances, and certain conditions apply. Please contact me for details. )
Arthur Suydam-- (Artist/ Creator) The Zombie King," as he is known, rose to stardom for his work on the smash hit series "Marvel Zombies," the lines at his booth at any given show are a testament to the enduring "zombie craze," with Suydam as a forerunner. He is also renowned as the Deadpool cover artist on "Merc with a Mouth." As well as "The Walking Dead." And he is credited as being one of the first artists to bring fine art painting techniques to the world of comics in such books as "Cholly and Flytrap" and "Mudwogs." Recent awards for Arthur include "The Spike TV Scream Award (Best Artist)," "Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional Art," "The San Sebastian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award,"as well as the "University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award," among others. His work can also be seen on works for "DCeased," "The Walking Dead," "Deadpool, "Batman," "Wolverine," "Fantastic Four," "X-Men," "Ghost Rider," "Army of Darkness" "Vampirella," and too many to name here. His "Cholly and Flytrap" series has recently been compiled into a collected volumne, marking that great achievement and it's place in comic history. Programing Notes: Arthur is also offering to do a special promo for shows that includes free sketches for kids on Sundays. Ask for details. (Note: Arthur has certain table and listing requirements.)
Jim Shooter-- (Writer/ Marvel Editor-in-Chief) Jim Shooter started writing Superman and other titles for DC Comics at the age of 13 in 1965. He worked his way through high school writing stories, laying out pages and designing covers. He was hired by Marvel Comics in 1976 as associate editor and in 1978 became Editor in Chief. He introduced benefits, royalties and other incentives for creators that attracted a legion of phenomenal talents who., under his oversight, authored a decade of brilliant creativity and unparalleled success. Jim wrote several notable series including the Avengers and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. He also headed up the creative teams that developed G.I. Joe and Transformers. Jim went on to found Voyager Communications in 1989, where he was the CEO and President. He also served as Editor in Chief, principal creator, head writer and occasional artist for the highly acclaimed comics published under the VALIANT imprint, which included Magnus Robot Fighter, Solar Man of the Atom, Harbinger, X-O Manowar, UNITY and more. Programming Notes: Jim has certain booking conditions and is open to doing numerous panels, including two that he always brings to the table.
Geof Isherwood--(Artist/Designer/Storyboards) Renowned artist for Marvel, DC, Broadway, and Heroes Of The North, in fact, creator of Psylocke's Katana! Some of Geof's major title runs include "Dr. Strange," "Suicide Squad," "Conan the Barbarian," "Conan The King," "Namor" and "The 'Nam". Geof is also the inker of the graphic novel, "Revenge of the Living Monolith," over Marc Silvestri. But he says the comic brought to him most often to sign is probably "Dr. Strange" #50. Geof has also worked on over 60 film and TV productions, including X-Men: DOFP and X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Being Human (US), Hot Wheels, Helix, Wings of the Dragon, The Phantom, The Last Templar, Race to Mars, The Covenant, Dead of Night, Battlefield Earth, Gothika, Rollerball,The Fountain and much, much more. In addition to film work, as an expert in figure drawing, Geof teaches in the Concept Art and Illustration program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as having a sketch list that is in demand at every show he attends. Geof is now also working for Renegade Media drawing the final issue of the soon-to-be-released "Necromatics". Programming Notes: Geof is available for programming encompassing subjects ranging from comics to TV/film!
Graham Nolan-- (Writer/Artist) Graham is an Inkpot Award winning cartoonist and writer, best known for his long run on BATMAN in Detective Comics and as the designer and co-creator of the iconic Batman Villain: BANE. He is also the creator of the graphic novel: MONSTER ISLAND, web-comic: SUNSHINE STATE and the co-creator of the IDW horror adventure series: JOE FRANKENSTEIN. When he is not chained to the drawing board you will find him in his Jeep, down at the lake fishing... And we hope at a show near you!Georges Jeanty-- (Artist)
Georges Jeanty-- (Artist) Georges is a New York Times bestselling comic book illustrator, his first major work was Marvel Comics’ BISHOP: THE LAST X-MAN, and it just got better from there. Currently, Jeanty's work can be seen in AGE OF X-MAN: THE X-TREMISTS, part of Marvel’s “Enter the Age of X-Man” story arc. Along with his work on many Marvel and DC Comics titles, Georges is known for the critically acclaimed, sixties-era graphic novel THE AMERICAN WAY, written by screenwriter John Ridley and published by DC Comics, its sequel THE AMERICAN WAY: THOSE ABOVE AND THOSE BELOW , and being a regular artist for Dark Horse Comics’ official continuation of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and SERENITY (2007-2018). If you want a legit media tie-in for your next convention-- we're talking Buffyverse, Whedonverse, Firefly, Serenity, Godzilla, Gamera, vampires, Gambit, Wolverine, Deadpool, Weapon X-- this pop culture phenom of an artist will add some sparkle to any event.
Rags Morales-- (Artist, Illustrator) A veteran of the comic industry, Rags began his career with DC Comics in 1989 with the TSR licensed book Forgotten Realms. His first super hero series was "Black Condor." He has since worked on countless titles for DC, most notably "Identity Crisis". Other notable projects include: long runs on "JSA," "Hawkman," not to forget "Batman/Superman," "Nightwing," The New 52 and "First Wave." Rags has also worked with Valiant, Dark Horse, and Marvel Comics. From September to May, Rags also teaches at the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art. He lives in eastern Pennsylvania. Programming Notes: Rags is available for programming regarding his career in comics and creating comic books.
SAM DE LA ROSA-- Venom Artist Sam's work on VENOM LETHAL PROTECTOR #'s 1-6 is the basis of the worldwide successful billion-dollar grossing VENOM MOVIE! Sam de la Rosa has provided finished art and inks for Marvel, DC Comics, Image, Disney and Dark Horse among others. Credits include Spider-man, Venom, Carnage, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, The Avengers, Star Wars, X-Men, Power Rangers and more! He worked on Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Star Trek, Firestorm and others from DC Comics. For Dark Horse Comics he worked on the very first Predator comic book. Sam's favorite work in his own words has always been Venom, Carnage, and the Symbiotes! What a great well rounded celebrity artist to add to your event. Sam truly has it ALL!
Phil Ortiz -- (Artist--Simpsons, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., Muppet Babies!) Come and be sketchanized by Phil and see what you would look like if you were to appear as a character on the Simpsons! It costs $70 per person to be sketched inked and colored. This is a work of art that you will cherish for the rest of your life. Phil Ortiz grew up in East LA of Mexican and Spanish/Norwegian parents in 1953. He currently lives and works in the beautiful Lake Arrowhead area. Over his more than 30 years as a professional artist, Phil has worked on everything from daily newspaper comic strips (Bugs Bunny) to layouts and character design for animated cartoons including The Simpsons where Phil had a hand in the look of about 200 characters on the longest running comedy series in TV history. Some of the notable characters Phil designed for the Simpsons include: Flanders, Otto, Herman, Lou and Eddie, Ralph, and Apu. Phil has won five CERTIFICATES of ACHIEVEMENT for his work in TV animation and has been drawing for The Simpsons comic books for many years. Programming Notes: Phil will sketchanize your convention attendees to turn your whole world into a Simpsons landscape!
Tom Cook-- (Artist- Scooby Do, He-Man, Smurfs) Tom began his career as an animator and artistic director in 1978 at Hanna-Barbera Studios where he was hired to work as an assistant animator on Challenge of the SuperFriends, Godzilla, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Pacman and the Flintstones. A short stop at Ruby-Spears had him working on Thundarr the Barbarian (had the privilege to meet and work with Jack Kirby), Heathcliff, Fang Face and Plastic Man. Freelancing at Film Roman he worked on the Garfield Special Babes and Bullets and for Bill Melendez on the Peanuts Special This is America Charlie Brown. He then moved over to Filmation Studios in 1980, which at this point had become the only animation studio doing animation in the United States, and worked on Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Blackstar, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Brown Hornet, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra Princess of Power, Ghostbusters, Lone Ranger, Zorro, The Kids Super Power Hour with Shazam (Captain Marvel), Hero High and the futuristic Western Bravestarr. He was also involved with many TV commercials such as The Jolly Green Giant, Chevrolet, and the 7 Up Spot campaign. He then became the timing director on Road Rovers, Disney's Mighty Ducks, PB & J Otter, Duckman, King of the Hill, Savage Dragon, HBO's Happily Ever After Fairy Tales, Extreme Ghostbusters, Extreme Dinosaurs and many more. He also animated on a number of motion pictures such as Walt Disney's Prince and the Pauper starring Mickey Mouse, Roger Rabbit in Tummy Trouble, The Jetson's Movie, Rover Dangerfield, Stay Tuned, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, Steven Spielberg's Were Back, and Don Bluth's Thumbelina.
Mike DeCarlo-- (Archie and Marvel Artist) Mike DeCarlo is a 4 decade veteran of the Comic Industry. Trained by the legendary Dick Giordano. He has worked as a penciler, artist and inker for Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Disney, BOOM Studios, Warner Communications and Archie. His best attribute is the ability to draw ANY property in any style, period or genre. After graduating Notre Dame High School and studying art for 2 years at Southern CT ST College, he began his professional career as sports cartoonist for The New Haven Register. He left that position to begin that apprenticeship with Giordano and after 18 months branched off to begin a solo career in the comic book industry. Over the next dozen years, he worked primarily as an ink artist on such titles as Batman, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, Thor, Iron Man and Conan the Barbarian. In the mid-nineties, his focus changed to the cartoon/animation genre and worked as an artist on Looney Tunes, Powerpuff Girls, Ben-10, Scooby-Doo and Pinky the Brain among others. In the last decade, in addition to the work he now does for The Simpsons comic company Bongo Entertainment, he works for Disney Worldwide Publishing on Phineas & Ferb, Marvel Superheroes Magazine and Spider-Man Magazine. Mike also has extended his repertoire into the digital field, becoming accomplished at digital inking in Illustrator and coloring in Photoshop.
Jeremy Clark-- (Artist) Jeremy Clark is know for his stellar work on various comic projects for multiple publishers including IDW (TMNT), Image Comics (Prodigy) (Undiscovered Country), Zenescope Entertainment (Grimm Fairy Tales) (Hellchild) (Day of the Dead) (Escape From Monster Island), Coffin Comics (Lady Death) (La Muerta) (Hellwitch), Source Point Press (Ogre) (Franklin & Ghost) (Salvagers) (Dead End Kids) (Samurai Grandpa) (Broken Gargoyles) (Warcorns: Combat Unicorns For Hire), Professional artist will at a bit of excitement to any show! Show Notes: Jeremy is always up for doing a panel on his career or comic art creation.
Steve Leialoha-- (Artist) Steve Leialoha has been an artist for Marvel, DC and others since the 70’s, with runs on: Vertigo’s Fables, Petrefax, Warlock, Howard the Duck, Spider-Woman, the New Mutants, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the original Star Wars adaptation. He has also drawn issues of Dr Strange, the Justice League, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, and Star Trek! And also as an inker on: Daredevil, GI Joe (Silent issue), Superman, Batman, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, the Avengers, Power Man/ Iron-Fist, Secret Wars II, and the Fantastic Four!
Trina Robbins--(Writer/Historian) Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years. Her 2009 book, The Brinkley Girls: the Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940 (Fantagraphics), and her 2011 book, "Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury," were nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. Her all-ages graphic novel, Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper, first in a 6-book series, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her graphic novel, "Lily Renee: Escape Artist," was awarded a gold medal from Moonbeam Chidren’s Books and a silver medal from Sydney Taylor Jewish Library Awards. Trina’s most recent book is Pretty in Ink, her final and definitive history of women cartoonists. In 2013, Trina was voted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Programming Notes: Trina is available for panels highlighting her career as well as panels on women in comics and the history of comics.
D. Michael Watkins-- (Artist) D. Michael Watkins is the founder and owner of Highburn Studios. He's also the guy underneath that shiny cowboy hat you see at most cons. Michael received his lucky break on FEMME-NOIR with Joe Staton and has since went on to work for Marvel, DC, Image, Dynamite, Dark Horse , Upper Deck, as well as his creator owned project GUARDIANS. You've seen his work on titles such as SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, TRANSFORMERS, IRON MAN, AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, PANTHA, VILLAINS SUPREME, and you can see him on film in the blockbuster movie THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. Outside of comics, Michael is a Voice Actor with roles for Marvel and Disney voicing the characters of: Venom, Scorpion, Mole Man, and Magneto. Michael is also an avid Martial Artist, studying Hak Dari Shon Hap Ki Do, Kenpo. and several other styles for over 30 years. Programming Notes: Michael is available for programming regarding his career in comics, martial arts and creating comics..
Konstantin Komardin--(Artist/Animator/Writer) After several successful signing and screening tours in the United States, Konstantin is busy at work on his current lengthy animation project focused on human rights, now in development. Komardin is an award-winning sequential artist, graphic artist and animator. His work includes the BD magazines “Veles,” “Hacker,” “Max Cooler,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Timof” which published his story “Siberian Dreams,” and the renowned comics “Agent Z,” “Sit-o-city,” “Gate of Alice,” and “Mechanics of Senses.” Konstantin was awarded the Grand Prize for “The Site of Polis” at the Moscow Comics Festival. His animation works include the concept designs on “Elka,” “Man with the Wind in his Head,” which was featured at the Suzdal Film Festival, “Tram,” “Spindel” which was honored at the Moscow Short Film Festival, and “The Man in Penze Nez,” which screened at both the Suzdal Film Festival and the Moscow International Film Festival. Programing Notes: Konstantin can do panels on animation as well as sequential art for your show, and talk about the cross-cultural world of comics.
Ric Meyers-- (Writer/Film Consultant/Director/Actor) Novelist Richard S. Meyers is responsible for the Marvel prose novel featuring the Hulk among others, but around 100 other books as well! Creator of the Destroyer series, Ric is also the writer of "Santa Confidential," illustrated beautifully by artist Chris Browne of "Hagar the Horrible" fame, "The Kung Fu Movie Book," featuring everything you want to know about the martial arts world, and is the director of "The Kung Fu Movie Movie." His commentary is sought after on director cuts of movies and television compilations worldwide. As well as acting (most recently as a villain in a Scotland filmed production), Ric has been called on as an expert consultant for such projects as "Twilight Zone," and "Kung Fu Panda." He yearly runs the Marital Arts movie segments at the San Diego Comic Con. Programing Notes: Ric is available for a plethora of programming, Kung Fu, comics, film and otherwise! Screening of his movie works are also possible.
Rodney Ramos-- (Artist) Artist Rodney Ramos has worked on just about every major character for Marvel Comics and DC Comics with a flourish that makes him a master at his craft. He began his storied journey in comics as a Romita Raider at Marvel Comics, learning his craft under the legendary John Romita, Sr. Regular work on titles like "Psi-Force," "What The!?" "Thundercats" "Punisher War Journal," "Amazing Spider-Man," and "Iron Man" followed, as well as work on Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, and much more. His works include masterful craftsmanship for clients ranging from Valiant, Malibu, Acclaim, Marvel UK, and Neal Adams Continuity Studios, in addition to Marvel and DC. He reached cult status with his work on DC's "Transmetropolitan," a huge fan favorite, and most recently over Simon Bisley's pencils at Legendary. Programming Notes: Rodney is available for panels on his career and comics in general.
Jim Salicrup--(Writer/Artist/Editor) Jim Salicrup is the Editor-in-Chief of Papercutz, the graphic novel publishing company he co-founded with Terry Nantier. Papercutz is devoted to publishing great graphic novels for all ages: Annoying Orange, Ariol, Classics Illustrated, Dance Class, Disney Fairies, Geronimo Stilton, LEGO® Ninjago, LEGO Chima,Lunch Witch, Nancy Drew Diaries, The Smurfs Anthology, and many more. Recently, Papercutz launched a new imprint, modestly called Super Genius, which publishes titles such as WWE Superstars, Neil Gaiman’s Lady Justice, and more. After being published as a writer and artist in Kids Magazine at age 14, Jim moved on to working at Marvel Comics for twenty years, editing most of their top titles, such as Spider-Man (with Todd McFarlane), The Uncanny X-Man (with Claremont & Byrne), The Fantastic Four (with John Byrne), Iron Man, and many more. Jim was the writer, and then editor of Spidey Super Stories, , a comic created to help children learn how to read. Spidey Super Stories was produced in co-operation with the Children’s Television Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Editing and writing Spidey Super Stories was important in getting Jim to think about comics created for kids. Jim was also the writer of such comics as Transformers, Visionaries, The Spider-Man Child Abuse Prevention comic, The A-Team, The Inhumanoids, Kool-Aid Man, and more. He also wrote and edited Marvel calendars, toilet paper, coloring books, posters and drinking cups. He also was the editor on Marvel Age Magazine for eight years. After Marvel, Jim developed a line of comics for the Topps Company, Inc., where he was Editor-in-Chief. At Topps Comics Jim worked with such writers and artists such as Charlie Adlard, Ray Bradbury, Steve Ditko, Keith Giffen, Michael Golden, Don Heck, Gil Kane, Miran Kim, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, Mike Mignola, George Perez, Stefan Petrucha, P. Craig Russell, Scott Shaw!, Roy Thomas, Craig Yoe, and many others. Jim was also Senior Writer/Editor for Stan Lee Media, and a Trustee for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Programming Notes: Jim is available for panels on his career and comics in general.
Renee Witterstaetter--(Writer/Editor/Color Artist) Writer, editor, colorist and publisher Renee Witterstaetter has acted as editor on such books as "Thanos Quest," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Hercules," "Xena," "X-Files," "Conan," "She-Hulk," "The Marvel Holiday Special," "Impossible Man Summer Special," "Jurassic Park," and too many books to mention here. As a film professional, she has worked on such movies as "Red Dragon" and "Rush Hour 2," while also behind the scenes, racking up credits on dozens of music videos and commercials for artists as diverse as Madonna, Seal and Usher. Her books as a writer include: "Jackie Chan: Dying for Action," "Nick Cardy: The Artist at War," "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," "Nick Cardy: Wit-Lash," "Art of the Barbarian," "Michael Golden: Excess," "The Art of Mark Texeira," and her children's book "Kerry and the Scary Things." In addition, combining her film work with comics, she is a producer of DVD's on various comic book creators and talents in other fields through her partnership with Amdale Media, and has spearheaded mounting art shows and retrospectives in the United States, Spain, China, Russia and other venues worldwide. She has lectured on the industry in China, Spain, Norway, and numerous other countries, not to mention the United States! She is also the owner of Eva Ink Artist Group, Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking and Happyspacepop.com
Christopher Rokku Coates-- (Artist) Christopher Rokku Coates: At young age Christopher was fascinated by Disney animations like Pete’s Dragon, and mickey mouse. Watching the characters come to life on the screen and on the page, he found himself inspired. Over the years Chris grew as an artist; he entered local contests and showcases. Funding each project himself through odd jobs , selling candy to his friends, and eventually selling small pieces of artwork at local skateboard shops. Chris developed a keen eye for design and trends, landing his first job at Design Werks. Specializing in events, Chris created many beautiful pieces for the state of utah. This threw him forward into the art world. He then began working with Activision in the late 2000s , working on major titles such as Guitar Hero and Spider-man. From there he spent the next decade sharpening his skill as a freelance artist in the comic book convention industry. Claiming infamy with the only game accurate prop inspired foam Master Sword, and Link hats, form the Legend of Zelda video game series. As well as, creating countless pieces of commission work, comic book art, and original paintings.
Reply Reply All ForwardEva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-443675907906144482021-11-16T07:52:00.001-08:002021-11-16T07:52:28.552-08:00Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking Clients for 2022! Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking Announces 2022 line up-- Rolston, Rothrock, Patrick, Ross, Taylor, Hollingshead, Ruff! See all of our talent available for your event!
Read below for info on:
Anime:
Veronica Taylor (Pokemon)
Michelle Ruff (Bleach and so much more)
Megan Hollingshead. (Bleach, YuGiOh, TMNT, Pokemon)
Rikki Simons (Invader Zim)
Wayne Grayson. (YuGiOh)
Darren Dunstan. ((YuGiOh)
Quinton Flynn. (Bleach, Kingdom Hearts)
Eric Trueheart (Invader Zim)
Alex Alexovich (Invader Zim)
Aliens and more:
Mark Rolston
Michael Biehn
William Hope
Jenette Goldstein
Ricco Ross
TV :
Butch Patrick. (Munsters)
Robert Trebor (Hercules, Xena)
Mark Rolston (Supernatural, Turn, Star Trek and much more)
Movies :
Cynthia Rothrock (Action star)
Tim Colceri (Full Metal Jacket)
Chris Parsons (Star Wars)
Hamid Thompson (Jurassic World, Black Panther and much more)
Kim Dawson (TMNT)
Bobby Herbeck (TMNT)
Writer :
Jesse Blaze Snider (Musician as well!)
Ric Meyers (Hullk, Inside Kung Fu, TV Detectives)
Stage:
Karen Whitfiled- (Bronze Age Batgirl with West and Ward)
Hi Everyone--
We are continuing with our 2022 bookings. If you are interested in having any of our great media guests, please get with us right away.
Regards,
Renee
evaink@aol.com
Check the bios of some of our great creators below:
Mark Rolston-- Supernatural, Aliens, Star Trek
Mark Rolston has created such iconic roles as : Pvt. Drake in ‘Aliens’, Bogs Diamond in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the original Alistar in the mega hit series ‘Supernatural’, and recently as Clive Davis in the Lifetime Feature ‘Whitney’ directed by the incomparable Angela Bassett, and as Admiral Ernest King in the feature ‘Midway’ directed by Roland Emmerich.
You will also know him as Walter Pierce in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' . He later appeared as Kuroda and later Magh in 'Star Trek: Enterprise.'
Marks’ recent work creating characters for motion capture video games includes titles such as: Halo 4 – Capt. Del Rio, ‘Spiderman’ – Norman Osborn, and will be starring in a follow up game later this year.
Mark also has numerous credits in the Voice Over arena, performing as Lex Luthor on the ‘Young Justice’ series, and as Commander Kolivan on the hit series ‘Voltron’.
Michael Biehn : Terminator, Mandalorian
Michael Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two years later to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. His first big role was as a psychotic fan stalking Lauren Bacall in The Fan (1981) and later appeared in The Lords of Discipline (1983). He hit the big-time when he was cast as Kyle Reese, the man sent back through time to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984). This established a good working relationship with Cameron, a relationship that should have catapulted Biehn to international stardom. He starred in Cameron’s subsequent films, Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), the latter a standout performance as unstable Navy SEAL officer Lt. Hiram Coffey. In the 1990s he starred in films like Navy Seals (1990), K2 (1991) and was particularly memorable as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993). Biehn is married to Jennifer Blanc Biehn and the father of five sons. He made his directorial debut with The Victim starting himself and Jennifer. They started their company Blanc Biehn productions once The Victim was released by Starz. Anchor bay and the Weinstein company. They continue to make movie and give lots of new talent a creative say in film making.
Jenette Goldstein-- Aliens
Jenette Goldstein is an American actress, best known for her Saturn Award-winning role as Private Vasquez in the 1986 science fiction horror action film Aliens, as the foster mother in Terminator 2, as Diamondback in Near Dark and Detective Megan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2, and as the Irish Mother in Titanic. She also appeared in 2 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Short Treks (2019) as the USS Enterprise Computer.
Ricco Ross-- Aliens
Ricco Ross is a 6’3″ award winning actor / producer, best known for roles in Aliens, Mission Impossible and A Husband For Christmas. He has a Master degree from UCLA and is a classical trained Shakespearian actor / graduated from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).He has about 100 credits on IMDB and has made over 70 commercials. Most recently he was cast in Lee Daniels next movie “The United States vs Billie Holiday”. He has a recurring role on the new Starz tv series “P-Valley” coming out soon. He also has the film A Brother’s Honor coming out this year on PassionFlix, which is the 1st of a 3 picture deal.
William Hope: Aliens, Resident Evil, Planet of the Apes
William Hope His career to date includes over 120 art and indie films, mainstream international TV shows and numerous major Hollywood movies. He is proud to have acted opposite and alongside many major artists in a huge range of projects (Michael Douglas, Sam Jackson, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Johnny Depp, Wesley Snipes, James Cromwell, Matt LeBlanc, Idris Elba, Rachel Weisz…even Steven Seagal…another story!). For American audiences he is best known in Aliens, Hellraiser II, Sherlock Holmes, Deep State (FoxTV) MI5 (BBC), and as many character voices in Thomas and Friends the global hit spin off of Thomas The Tank Engine. More recently he’s been trying his hand at Performance Capture in Video games. He has just appeared in the newest Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Capcom), created a new lead role in Overkill’s Walking Dead (Grant), lead roles in Planet of the Apes: The Last Frontier and the seriously scary ALIEN: Isolation.
Cynthia Rothrock-- Queen of Martial Arts Movies!
Actress and Martial Arts Legend Cynthia Rothrock has agreed to make a few key convention appearances in 2020.
A Black Belt in numerous disciplines, Rothrock has made over 43 action films, including "China O'Brien (1 and 2)," "Yes, Madam," "Righting Wrongs," "No Retreat, No Surrender," "Martial Law (1 and 2)," "The Blonde Fury," "Millionaire's Express," "Rage and Honor," "Sworn to Justice," "Rapid Fire," "Lady Dragon," and "Guardian Angel."
Her fight against Michelle Yeoh in "Yes Madame" is considered one of the best on screen fights of all time. And in fact, she ranked as the world-wide, #2 leading marital arts movie draw for over a period of ten years-- one of the few performers to achieve genuine Stardom in seven films.
In addition, Cynthia's TV appearances include "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys," opposite Kevin Sorbo, and "The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion." She is also the inspiration behind the video game character Sonya Blade in the game "Mortal Kombat" and is part of the creative team on the video game "The Untouchable 2." In addition, she is a voiceover actress, lending her vocals to the animated series "Eek the Cat."
Cynthia Rothrock is the real deal. The "Queen of Martial Arts Films."
At only 5'3" she holds five Black Belts in various Far Eastern disciplines, including Northern Shaolin (classical Chinese), Eagle Claw (Chinese), and Tang Soo Do (Korean), Tae Kwon Do (Korean) and Wu Shu (Contemporary Chinese.) She has been inducted into the Kung-Fu Hall of Fame.
And there are so many ways to tap into on her rabid fan base.
(In addition to her signing at her table at the show, and photo ops, we can also negotiate "meet and greets, " panels and seminars (additional fees), and can arrange screenings of her movies, to make this a multi-faceted part of your convention.)
Rikki Simons-- (Voice Actor- Invader Zim, Writer, Artist)
Rikki Simons
Rikki Simons--Voice Actor, writer, and artist, is now available for booking via Eva Ink Artist Group/ Pros & Cons Celebrity Bookings.
You know Rikki as the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR from Invader ZIM! And the pop culture scene does too, as fans embrace the chance to meet Rikki in person at his appearances worldwide.
As a writer he is known for the science fiction and fantasy novel Hitherto a Lion.
Original illustrated books and comics that he created with Tavisha-Wolfgarth-Simons include Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!, Ranklechick and His Three Legged Cat, ShutterBox, and now The Trinkkits.
He is also a background painter in animation, most noted for his color design on Invader ZIM.
Programming Notes: Rikki is available for panels designed for your show, focusing on the art of voice acting, as well as his various writing projects.
Tim Colceri--Babylon 5, Full Metal Jacket
This amazing actor and comedian, is well known for his fan favorite portrayal of Captain Jenkowsky in “Babylon 5: In the Beginning.”
What a perfect guest for your shows sci-fi programming, as Tim can talk about his part in this iconic series. Maybe a “Behind the Scenes” panel? Yes!
In addition, Tim is is well known for his role in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket," where he played the door gunner-- such a memorable part of that movie that it was inspiration for parody follows ups in "Tropic Thunder" and "Ain't War Hell?"
Just a few of Tim’s other notable contributions include "Leprechaun 4: In Space," "Devils Inside," "The Rag Man," Sergeant Lewis on the television series “Weeds,” and much more to list when promoting Tim Colceri for your event.
Veronica Taylor--(Actress/Voiceover Actress--Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, TMNT)
Veronica Taylor
Veronica Taylor is a classically trained actor who has performed in NYC and around the U.S. in contemporary and classical theatre.
Her voice has been a part of Saturday morning cartoons for some time now. She is probably best known for playing the roles of Ash and May on “Pokemon”, April on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and roles in “Cubix”, “Dinosaur King”, “Yu-Gi-Oh!”, “Huntik”, “Tai Chi Chasers”, and more. She can be heard on PBS kids’ “Word World” (Sheep), “Lunch Lab” (Mixiebot), and “Chuck Vanderchuck’s ‘something something’ Explosion!” (Ramona).
Current projects include Sailor Pluto on “Sailor Moon”, “Mofy” (Mofy, Mogu, Sora), “Astroblast” (Sputnik), and “Welcome to the Wayne (Spy from 8-i). Some anime favorites include Amelia on “Slayers”, Yukino on “His and Hers Circumstances”, all 7 Nana’s on “Nana Seven of Seven”, and Narue on “World of Narue”, as well as many others.
She has done numerous voices for animation, video games, audiobooks, commercials, and documentaries.
Programming Notes: Veronica loves to be at her booth to sign autographs for fans. Inquire as well for various programming opportunities.
Megan Hollingshead-- (Voice Actor)
Megan has voiced 100’s of characters in animation and games. Her first role was Nurse Joy in the original English dub of Pokémon, followed quickly by Yu-Gi-Oh!’s original Mai Valentine.
She is also well known as Rangiku in Bleach, Shizune (and Ton Ton) in Naruto, Re-L in Ergo Proxy, Lenneth in Valkyrie Profile, and Viletta Nu in Code Geass. Other memorable characters include Adiane in Gurren Lagann, Hilda in Eureka 7, Sala in Mars Daybreak, Gloria in Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Dr. Abigail Finn in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, twins Mion (evil) and Shion (sweet) in When They Cry, Nemu in Bleach, Rose Marinade in Fighting Foodons, Kano in His and Hers Circumstances (watch the previews!) (oh wait -- no! I mean don’t watch the previews!), Maharu and Ebi in Girls Bravo, Neneko in DearS, Captain Iruma in Ultraman Tiga, and Trixie in Ultimate Muscle. Other Pokémon roles include Cassidy, Whitney, and James’ mother as well as Annie in Pokémon 5: Heroes and Diane in Pokémon 6: Jirachi Wish Maker. In addition to Lenneth and Guild Wars’ smarty pants Glenna, Megan’s game roles include Ylgr and Yune in the newly released Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Shion Kasugai in Akiba’s Space Trip: Undead and Undressed, Viola in Eternal Sonata, Edy Nelson in Valkyria Chronicles, Autarch Kayleth in Warhammer 40,000, The Third Kiki DeWynter in Saints Row, Five in Drakengard 3, and Battle Nun in Brutal Legend.
She currently has projects in the works for Cup of Tea, Bang Zoom!, and Funimation.
Michelle Ruff
Michelle, originally a midwestern girl from The Motor City Madhouse now hails from Sunny Los Angeles. You can hear Michelle as some of your favorite and iconic anime and video game characters including Sinon form Sword Art Online 2 and 3, Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach, Yoko Littner from Gurren Laggan, Fujiko Mine from Lupin the Third, Luna from Sailor Moon Classic and Sailor Moon Crystal, Yukari Takeba from the Persona 3 & 4 Series, and Sadayo Kawakami from Persona 5, Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, Katherine from Catherine and Catherine Fully Body, Young Satoru in Erased, Sakuya Tachibana from God Eater, Kirari from Kakegurui, Sarah from Ingress the Animation, Yuki Nagato from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Anri Sonohara from Durarara, Princess Euphemia and Young Lalouche from Code Geass, Eliza from Skullgirls, Jill Valentine in Resident Evil Revelations, C-Viper from Street Fighter, Robin, Soleil and Noire from The Fire Emblem Franchise, Tokki in Lawbreakers, Chi from Chobitz, Cream the Rabbit from Sonic the Hedgehog and many others.
Wayne Grayson
Wayne Grayson Wayne Grayson is an American voice actor and director primarily known for his work at 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, Media Blasters, NYAV Post, and DuArt Film and Video. Grayson is probably most famous for his role of Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the English manga and Japanese versions) in the English-language version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and Michelangelo from the 2003 TV series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Darren Dunstan
Darren Dunstan can be heard on numerous animated series including Yu-Gi-Oh! as Maximillion Pegasus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Master Splinter, P. King Ducking as Arma Dillo, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V as Jean Michel Roget and Chaotic as Kaz. His voice has been featured on Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, The CW, Cartoon Network, Jetix, Fox, KidsWB and Teletoon Canada. He has played an exhausted dad on Regal Academy (Dave), a robot and a butler on Sonic X (Bocoe, Mr. Tanaka), a fish on Kirby (Kine), a wrestling promoter and wrinkly green guy on Ultimate Muscle (Vance McMadd, Minch), a British penguin and DJ on Viva Pinata and a club owner and CSI on Funky Cops (Jerry, Jeff). Darren has had the pleasure of voicing countless creatures on Pokémon, Chaotic, Dinosaur King and Fighting Foodons, including Munchlax, Blaziken, Loudred, Swellow, Grovyle, Feebas, Wamma, Dractyl, Terry, Spiny and a quartet of Barbershop-singing Dim-sum Dragons. Currently, Darren is voice directing Bubble Guppies on Nick Jr. and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. Recent directing credits include Welcome to the Wayne on Nickelodeon, Sunny Day on Nick Jr. and Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V on Nicktoons. He has been voice director and casting director for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Chaotic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dinosaur King, Pokémon, Pat and Stan, Cubix, Fighting Foodons and Rick and Steve on LOGO. Darren has also directed shorts for Nickelodeon and videogames for Sunny Day, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Chaotic.Feature film directing projects include Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (winner: Best Director at BTVA L.A. Anime Film Festival), Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time and numerous Pokémon films. Other animation-related projects include Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (Pegasus), Yu-Gi-Oh! Music To Duel By, (singing as Pegasus), Pokémon Nintendo commericals and Pokémon Live! Giovanni) at Radio City Music Hall.
Jesse Blaze Snider-- (Actor, Singer, Voice Actor, Host)
Actor, singer, TV host, comic book writer, voiceover talent— with Jesse you get it ALL— and then some— rolled into ONE guest!
Jesse’s plethora of voiceover work and TV appearances span the worlds of animation, television, gaming, promos (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and commercials!
As a skilled vocalist & voice actor, Jesse developed early on the ability to dramatically change vocal texture and convincingly portray many regional & international accents. Maybe inheriting some of that talent from his father, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame. (Fun Fact: Jesse did EIGHT characters for the Final Fantasy game!)
Pretty much everyone knows Jesse’s narrator voice from his long stints with “Food Paradise” (Travel Channel) and let’s throw in a little history to boot, “Trashopolis” and the wildly popular “Museum Secrets” both on Smithsonian Channel, as well as his in person stints on "Haunted Live, for the Travel Channel, "MTV2 Rock," "MTV2 Rock Countdown," and as the host for the Spike TV Video Game Awards. His reality TV appearances-- some alongside his famous family-- include “Growing up Twisted,” “Celebrity Wife Swap,” “MTV’s Ultra Sound,” “Meet the Sniders,” and performing live for millions on the reality singing competition, “Rock the Cradle,” where he stole the show.
In the world of animation his voiceover work includes the part of Judge Sydney on “Judge Dredd: Super Fiend,” Dane and Eric in “Burma Rising,” among others. And in the world of video games he’s portrayed multiple characters in “Final Fantasy XIV,” and “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.”
But you want someone with Comic Book credits too? You go it!
Jesse has written for almost every major and indy publisher, Marvel, DC, Disney/Pixar, The Muppets, Image Comics, Heavy Metal, Chaos Comics, the list goes on. Some of Jesse’s writing can be found in an forthcoming “Batman: April Fool’s Special,” “Dead Romeo GN,” “Disney*Pixar’s Toy Story,” “Muppet Snow White,” “Hulk: Let the Battle Begin,” “Deadpool: Fun with Ninjas,” “Black Light District: 6issues ONE-SHOT,” “CBGB: OMFUG,” “Dee Snider’s Strangeland: Seven Sins,” “Evil Ernie: Origin of Evil,” “Food Fight” with Steve Kurth in “Soft Wood #1” and his creator owned “King of Kings.”
Chris Parsons-- (Actor, 4-LOM from "Star Wars")
Chris Parsons
Born in London in 1960, Chris Parsons would soon find himself in the "galaxy far, far, away" via his involvement in the Star Wars saga of the late 1970's and early 1980's!
His various work in the trilogy includes:
Star Wars: Episode V - Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) in which he portrayed: C-3PO (double), K-3PO, E-3PO, R-3PO, a Death Star Droid, a Stormtrooper, Snowtrooper, a Hoth Rebel soldier and a Hoth Snow Speeder pilot.
All making his stories from the set varied and insightful.
Chris has also been in various other Television and film productions including: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Quadrophenia, Superman ll, Yentl, The Shining and James Bond.
But of all his various work, the one most resonating with Star Wars fans is his portrayal of 4-LOM, the Bounty Hunter. 4-LOM is remembered as the cold, calculating and ambitious LOM-series protocol droid, resembling the insectoid species he was designed to serve, who overrode his programming and became an intergalactic thief and later a bounty hunter, often working with Grand Findsman Zuckuss.
Following the Battle of Hoth, 4-LOM was hired by Darth Vader to capture Han Solo, Captain of the Millennium Falcon and hero of the Rebel Alliance. For this, the mechanical teamed up fellow Bounty Hunters Boba Fett, Dengar, Bossk, and IG-88.
Chris Parson's unique part in the Star Wars trilogy allowed him to give life to this unique creature, spawning Legos, trading cards, toys and more!
Programming Notes: Chris is happy to take part in panels talking about his behind the scenes experiences on the Star Wars set, alone or with other cast members. For Booking information, contact Renee at Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking: evaink@aol.com
Karen Whitfield-- Batgirl!
Batgirl, KAREN WHITFIELD, is now being offered by Eva Ink Artist Group/Pros & Cons Celebity Booking for 2021/2022 dates. Traveling the world with Adam West and Burt Ward, Karen portrayed the Bronze Age Batgirl from 1978-1984, bringing a bit of fun and mischief to the stage events of the Dynamic Duo-- in fact, it was a pretty amazing Dynamic TRIO. "You wouldn't believe how during the stage shows, the little girl's eyes would light up when a girl came on stage," related Karen. "It was important to them. And it was important to me." Now Karen is telling her never before told story in her new book, "Batdriven West"-- The fascinating tale of Karen Whitfield when she met Burt Ward in 1977 and traveled as the Detective Comics Batgirl with Burt, Adam West, and the Caped Crusaders, working with DC Comics on her persona and more.
Butch Patrick-- Actor/ Munster Car Display
Butch Patrick
Butch Patrick is synonymous with pop-culture and cars. After all, he is best known for his character role as Eddie Munster on The Munsters. Butch continues the Munster’s legacy touring with the Munster Koach and Dragula Tribute Cars.
Remember that The Munsters is a unique and multi-generational American classic show. Butch’s presence enhances any gathering. Promoters gain media attention by his visits; and fans get to see the awesome display and create a cherished memory.
Butch has a huge following of fans worldwide and his fan base alone is a great promotional source.
Butch tours with his Munster Koach and Dracula Tribute Cars, original 1964 Barris/Von Dutch Chain Link Schwinn Stingray Bike, and other Munster props to include Munster Go-Cart, Baseball Bat, Wolf Wolf, Miniature Spot, and Street Signs All Inclusive Display.
(Butch is available with or without the Munster cars, but what a great display! Contact me for more info! )
HAMID THOMPSON-- (BLUE from "Jurassic World")
Hamid Thompson
“Jurassic World” is one of the top grossing movies of all time. The reason why is simple: DINOSAURS. Meet Hamid Thompson, actor, dancer, stunt person. Also known as the Rator BLUE from the blockbuster film!
Originally from Ann Arbor Michigan, Hamid Thompson IS Blue in the movie, all the interactions with the main actors, and the creature that drove much of the story, was motion captured with Hamid acting the part!
In case you haven't seen Golem in "Lord of the Rings," or Hamid's performance in "Jurassic World," Motion-Capture Acting (or MoCap), is a type of acting in which an actor wears markers or sensors on a skintight bodysuit or directly on the skin. Several cameras from different angles record the actor's movements.
Hamid Thompson's other credits include "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" (2016), "Kenau" (2016) and "Chi-Rag" (2015), among others.
Now is a great opportunity to book Hamid Thompson into your convention or event and hear about his world.
Programming Notes: New to any conventions, anywhere, not only will Hamid be available for signings and photo ops, but he can also do workshops and even panels about working on one of the biggest movies of recent times, "Jurassic World!"
Robert Trebor -- (Actor, Writer--Hercules, Xena)
Renowned and versatile Actor, Robert Trebor is known worldwide for his pivotal role as Salmoneus on the “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and “Xena: Warrior Princess” television series.
He is equally as well know for his parts in feature films such as “Purple Rose of Cairo,” “52 Pick Up,” "Universal Soldier," “Making Mr. Right,” “The Shadow,” “My Demon Lover,” “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood,” (among MUCH more) and no doubt for his upcoming role in the much anticipated Coen Brother’s movie “Hail, Caesar!”
One of his most mesmerizing roles was the role of David Berkowitz in “Out of the Darkness,” a haunting portrayal that still resonates today.
On television, in addition to “Herucles” and “Xena,” Mr. Trebor has appeared on the small screen in “Miami Vice,” “Murphy Brown,” “Empty Nest,” “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” “Baywatch,” “Wedding Daze,” “Missing Persons,” and Boomtown.”
A writer, some of Mr. Trebor's credits include stories for the "Xena" comic book for Topps Coomics, as well as "Dear Salmoneus: A Guide to Love and Money," from Eva Ink Publishing / Image Publishing, in addition to an upcoming autobiography.
Program Notes: A versatile actor and comedian, Robert Trebor is available for shows in 2016 to fit around his various filming schedules. He is open to group panels or solo panels. We can also discuss acting classes or critiques available to a limited number of shows.
Quinton Flynn
Quinton Flynn Quinton’s voice has been burning up film and television since he first arrived in Los Angeles from his native Cleveland. He is an A-list voice actor, having played such famous animated characters as Jonny Quest, Spiderman, Speed Racer, The Human Torch, Timon, Snowbell in Stuart Little, just to name a few. His television and film appearances include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King of Queens, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Robot Chicken, and many more. His best known roles in video game franchises have been his work providing the english voices of Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid series, Axel in Kingdom Hearts II, and Reno in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children the motion picture. If you’re hip to the anime scene you’ll know him as Iruka-sensei and Deidara in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, Marcus Damon in Digimon Data Squad, and Carl in Blood+, to name a few.
Kim Dawson
Cameron "Kim" Dawson Cameron “Kim” Dawson is a 40+year veteran of the film and television industry based in Orlando, Florida. Along with his production credits (below), he has also served as a Production Executive & Line Producer for Showtime Networks, sports TV leader Trans World International (IMG), The new Mickey Mouse Club MMC for Disney Channel, and “Making the Band” in a joint venture with ABC and MTV. Kim produced “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II, and III” for New Line Cinema (WB), “Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius” for Sony Pictures, among many other productions. He continues to seek new, exciting intellectual property that can become engaging, impactful content.
Bobby Herbeck
Bobby Herbeck Writer of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film. Which turned out be a huge success in spite of three months of being turned down as he wall papered Hollywood trying to get the film made. The critic’s panned it … “It’s one a trick pony.” they all agreed. And now the franchise will be celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary this coming March 30. Which will involve appearances and screenings at the San Diego Comic Con and several others, including autograph show appearances around the world and a two night screening in 1200 theaters around the country. While the seventh TMNT film is being shot at Paramount.
Ric Meyers
Ric Meyers Ric Meyers has written Incredible Hulk, Dirty Harry, Ninja Master, and Destroyer novels; edited and contributed to magazines like Famous Monsters and Starlog; scripted comics like Targitt; Manstalker, Batman, and Jackie Chan’s Spartan X; authored award-winning non-fiction books about TV Detectives, sci-fi/fantasy flicks, and martial arts movies; and consulted for film studios and TV networks on such shows as The Twilight Zone and Columbo as well as films like Kung Fu Panda, Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. Today you can see or hear him on more than three hundred international DVDs, watch his documentary Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie on Amazon Prime, see him on Netflix in Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, listen to his long-running Action Film Autopsy podcast, and read his latest works: Santa Confidential (which is beautifully illustrated by artist Chris Browne of Hagar the Horrible fame) and Atlas Originals Presents Targitt, a new novel based on the first comic book he wrote in 1974! So whatever program you’re planning — whether it’s about comics, movies, TV, streaming, or anything else, Ric can contribute or moderate, having interviewed hundreds of people all over the world on virtually every entertainment subject.
Eric Trueheart:
Eric Trueheart ERIC TRUEHEART is an animation writer for Emmy and BAFTA-nominated shows, in addition to being a graduate of both Harvard and USC. During the last 20 years, he’s made animated creatures talk for every major ‘toon slinger in town including Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Toon Box, Hub Network, Klasky-Csupo, Spike TV, SyFy, Discovery, YouTube, PBS, Dreamworks, Disney and Netflix. Trueheart cut his teeth working on The Wild Thornberrys for two seasons before making the leap to writing two seasons of Nickelodeon’s original cult hit, and Annie Award-winning, Invader Zim. Following which, he wrote for two seasons across 19 episodes of the BAFTA-nominated Yin Yang Yo for Disney, as well as developing and writing the Emmy-nominated series adaptation of the feature film Turbo Fast for Dreamworks and Netflix. Trueheart’s work also includes scripts across global ratings juggernauts such as Pound Puppies, Mech-X4, Zo-Zo-Zombie, Rekkit Rabbit, SheZow as well as dozens of other series, video games and other animated projects, including work with Shrek producer John Williams, in addition to a live show for the international electronic dance music sensation Deadmau5. Eric lives in Pasadena, CA with his punk rock wife and his kung-fu cat.
Aaron Alexovich
Aaron Alexovich AARON ALEXOVICH’S first professional art job was drawing monstrous children for Nickelodeon’s Invader ZIM. Since then he’s been building monstrous children for various animation and comic projects, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, DC’s Fables, Oni’s Invader ZIM comic series, ELDRITCH! (with art by Drew Rausch), STITCHED (written by Mariah McCourt), Kimmie66, IT’S NOT SCARY!, and three volumes of his beloved(?) webcomic Serenity Rose. Aaron was born and raised under seventeen beautiful miles of ice in Chicago, IL, but currently lives in Southern California, where the bright light makes him sneeze for mysterious reasons.”Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-5062193663968115692021-06-29T11:20:00.008-07:002021-06-29T11:31:09.076-07:00BATGIRL Batusis her way into your heart! KAREN WHITFIELD Available for 2021 Bookings! <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4kLrkuFO6oFRKQdG3mHKO8i9uqGpwwU7Lm2HywXERx5KPf4_dCBW2adxkMh0klLgfy6ZuoYCWm_4GZ84cs5lyUR68-KCUL9uiAKEG4C3VP9nfIlMRg0ik72OiMMrTfMGTVvxJlM2pgdi/s1024/thumbnail-13.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4kLrkuFO6oFRKQdG3mHKO8i9uqGpwwU7Lm2HywXERx5KPf4_dCBW2adxkMh0klLgfy6ZuoYCWm_4GZ84cs5lyUR68-KCUL9uiAKEG4C3VP9nfIlMRg0ik72OiMMrTfMGTVvxJlM2pgdi/s400/thumbnail-13.jpg"/></a></div>
Batgirl, <b>KAREN WHITFIELD</b>, is now being offered by Eva Ink Artist Group/Pros & Cons Celebity Booking for 2021/2022 dates.
Traveling the world with Adam West and Burt Ward, Karen portrayed the Bronze Age Batgirl from 1978-1984, bringing a bit of fun and mischief to the stage events of the Dynamic Duo-- in fact, it was a pretty amazing Dynamic TRIO.
"You wouldn't believe how during the stage shows, the little girl's eyes would light up when a girl came on stage," related Karen. "It was important to them. And it was important to me."
Now Karen is telling her never before told story in her new book, "Batdriven West"-- The fascinating tale of Karen Whitfield when she met Burt Ward in 1977 and traveled as the Detective Comics Batgirl with Burt, Adam West, and the Caped Crusaders, working with DC Comics on her persona and more.
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In her book, at her table, and on stage for special behind the scenes panels, she tells her story of what it was like to get to know Batman and Robin in and out of their Superhero identities, and about the fairy tale life of being Batgirl.
So, add a little Girl Power--Straight out of the pages of Detective Comics--right onto your show floor!
<b>For more information on booking Karen Whitfield for your show, contact Renee at: evaink@aol.com</b>
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Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-64133328401617384072021-05-24T17:40:00.006-07:002021-05-25T05:27:43.900-07:00Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bookings for your show! Dawson, Taylor, Hollinghead and more! With the 30th Anniversary of the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movies still fresh on our minds, we are offering some amazing talent to put togehter a Turtles panel for your convention.
Book one or all of our talented crew.
Contact Pros & cons Celebrity Booking at evaink@aol.com for details.
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<b>Veronica Taylor</b>
Veronica Taylor is a classically trained actor who found her way into voice acting while performing in the Batman Stunt Show at Six Flags Great Adventure. She became a mainstay of Saturday morning cartoons, best known for playing the original Ash and May on the first 8 seasons of “Pokemon”, April on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003-2007) and roles in “Yu-Gi-Oh!”, “Cubix”, “Dinosaur King”, “Winx Club”, “One Piece”,and more. Shows for PBS include “Word World” (Sheep), “Lunch Lab” (Mixiebot), and
“Chuck Vanderchuck’s ‘something something’ Explosion!” (Ramona). Current projects include Nickelodeon’s “Welcome to the Wayne” (Spy from 8-i), “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” (BerryBlue), “Dragon Ball Super” (Brianne/Ribrianne), “Sailor Moon” (Sailor Pluto), Sprout’s “Ollie and Moon” (flight attendant/ensemble) and “Astroblast” (Sputnik), “Aria” (Akari), “Mofy” (Mofy, Mogu, Sora), “Fire Emblem Heroes” (Macaiah) and “Valkyria Chronicles 4” (Crymaria). Anime favorites include “Slayers” (Amelia), “His and Hers Circumstances” (Yukino), “Nana Seven of Seven” (all 7 Nanas),
among others. She has done numerous voices for animation, video games, audiobooks, commercials, and documentaries.
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<b>Wayne Grayson</b>
Wayne Grayson is an American voice actor and director primarily known for his work at 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, Media Blasters, NYAV Post, and DuArt Film and Video. Grayson is probably most famous for his role of Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the English manga and Japanese versions) in the English-language version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and Michelangelo from the 2003 TV series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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<b>Quinton Flynn</b>
Quinton’s voice has been burning up film and television since he first arrived in Los Angeles from his native Cleveland. He is an A-list voice actor, having played such famous animated characters as Jonny Quest, Spiderman, Speed Racer, The Human Torch, Timon, Snowbell in Stuart Little, just to name a few. His television and film appearances include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King of Queens, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Robot Chicken, and many more.
His best known roles in video game franchises have been his work providing the english voices of Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid series, Axel in Kingdom Hearts II, and Reno in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children the motion picture. If you’re hip to the anime scene you’ll know him as Iruka-sensei and Deidara in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, Marcus Damon in Digimon Data Squad, and Carl in Blood+, to name a few.
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<b>Darren Dunstan</b>
Darren Dunstan can be heard on numerous animated series including Yu-Gi-Oh! as Maximillion Pegasus, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles as Master Splinter, P. King Ducking as Arma Dillo, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V as Jean Michel Roget and Chaotic as Kaz. His voice has
been featured on Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, The CW, Cartoon Network, Jetix, Fox, KidsWB and Teletoon Canada.
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Cameron "Kim" Dawson</b>
Cameron “Kim” Dawson is a 40+year veteran of the film and television industry based in Orlando, Florida. Along with his production credits (below), he has also served as a Production Executive & Line Producer for Showtime Networks, sports TV leader Trans World International (IMG), The new Mickey Mouse Club MMC for Disney Channel, and “Making the Band” in a joint venture with ABC and MTV. Kim produced “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II, and III” for New Line Cinema (WB), “Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius” for Sony Pictures, among many other productions. He continues to seek new, exciting intellectual property that can become engaging, impactful content.
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Bobby Herbeck</b>
Writer of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film. Which turned out be a huge success in spite of three months of being turned down as he wall papered Hollywood trying to get the film made. The critic’s panned it … “It’s one a trick pony.” they all agreed. And now the franchise will be celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary this coming March 30. Which will involve appearances and screenings at the San Diego Comic Con and several others, including autograph show appearances around the world and a two night screening in 1200 theaters around the country. While the seventh TMNT film is being shot at Paramount.
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<b>Ric Meyers</b>
Ric Meyers has written Incredible Hulk, Dirty Harry, Ninja Master, and Destroyer novels; edited and contributed to magazines like Famous Monsters and Starlog; scripted comics like Targitt; Manstalker, Batman, and Jackie Chan’s Spartan X; authored award-winning non-fiction books about TV Detectives, sci-fi/fantasy flicks, and martial arts movies; and consulted for film studios and TV networks on such shows as The Twilight Zone and Columbo as well as films like Kung Fu Panda, Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
Today you can see or hear him on more than three hundred international DVDs, watch his documentary Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie on Amazon Prime, see him on Netflix in Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, listen to his long-running Action Film Autopsy podcast, and read his latest works: Santa Confidential (which is beautifully illustrated by artist Chris Browne of Hagar the Horrible fame) and Atlas Originals Presents Targitt, a new novel based on the first comic book he wrote in 1974!
So whatever program you’re planning — whether it’s about comics, movies, TV, streaming, or anything else, Ric can contribute or moderate, having interviewed hundreds of people all over the world on virtually every entertainment subject.
Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-13544033524681596392021-05-24T17:34:00.005-07:002021-05-25T05:26:28.937-07:00Iconic Actress Joycelyne Lew Available for Booking--"Blade Runner," "Kung Fu," "Big Trouble in Little China" and Much More!There are so many ways to have Joyclynn Lew on panels at your shows. Just read her amazing story below and image how she'd fit in and add her grace and wit to any podium.
For booking information contact Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking at: evaink@aol.com
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Joycelyne Lew</b>
It is not often that a convention gets to book someone for whom memorable roles in the all-time legendary film”The King and I” with Yul Brunner and the martial arts classic “The Big Brawl” with Jackie Chan are just two highlights if an extraordinary, diverse resume.
But that’s what you’ll be getting with Joycelyne Lew.
Under contract with 20th Century Fox at the age of 8, Joycelyne will be able to regal attendees with tales of Hollywood’s true Golden Age. There is her role as Princess Ying Yaawolak in the aforementioned “King”.
She can also talk about being carried off into the sunset by Rock Hudson in “Battle Hymn of the Republic”; singing while Humphrey Bogart played the piano in “Left Hand of God”; her role as a reporter in “Wrong Is Right” with Sean Connery and starring with George Hamilton in “The Happy Hooker Goes To Washington”.
Oh, and her first film was with a guy named Ronald Reagan.
An inductee of the USA Hall of Fame, Joycelyne’s mist famous roles are arguably in martial arts projects.
She played a bombshell in one of Jackie Chan’s biggest films, “The Big Brawl”. She also had the largest role ever written for a woman in the iconic “Kung Fu” series starring David Carradine.
Additionally, she played a geisha in “Blade Runner”, a ninja fighter in “Big Trouble in Little China” and the mistress in “Samurai Cop 2”.
She is a member of the television academy, further making her name in some if the biggest shows of the past few decades: classics like “Golden Girls”, “The Jeffersons”, “The Fall Guy” and “Married..With Children” as well as soaps like “Days of Our Lives”, “The Young and the Restless” and “General Hospital”.
She currently spearheads an entertaining cooking show called “Cooking In With Joycelyne”, during which she makes inexpensive, nutritious dishes with guest celebrities.
Speaking of guests, Joycelyne was a guest on mire than one occasion at the famed Playboy mansion – and to this day puts out a pinup calendar annually.
Her sex appeal and penchant for comedy combine when she assumes the role of Mae East, a quirky version of Mae West in which Joycelyne writes her own jokes ” with an Asian slant”.
A skilled voice actor and impressionist, she has pulled off everything from a convincing 50 year-old on Cartoon Network to baby voices in Japanese cartoons.
As a hand model, she has poked the Pillsbury Doughboy.
As a leg model, she doubled for Kim Basinger’s limbs on a huge billboard that was placed on the Sunset Strip.
Having filmed 3 movies in the past year, Joycelyne shows no signs of slowing down.Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-40264689819388660632021-05-24T17:26:00.004-07:002021-05-25T05:25:44.570-07:00Book your own INVADER ZIM Reunion! Simons, Trueheart and Alexovich in the House! "Invader Zim" has a very loyal fan following. Book this talented group together, or book each talent alone.
Contact Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking at: evaink@aol.com for details.
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Rikki Simons</b>
AKA Rosearik Rikki Simons) is a voice actor, writer, and artist. He is most famous for being the voice GIR and Bloaty on Invader ZIM. He also plays many characters on Mighty Magiswords. As a writer he is known for the science fiction and fantasy novel Hitherto a Lion. Original illustrated books and comics that he created with Tavisha-Wolfgarth-Simons include Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!, Ranklechick and His Three Legged Cat, ShutterBox, and The Trinkkits. He was also once a background painter in animation, on Invader ZIM and the Jackie Chan Adventures.
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<b>Eric Trueheart</b>
ERIC TRUEHEART is an animation writer for Emmy and BAFTA-nominated shows, in addition to being a graduate of both Harvard and USC.
During the last 20 years, he’s made animated creatures talk for every major ‘toon slinger in town including Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Toon Box, Hub Network, Klasky-Csupo, Spike TV, SyFy, Discovery, YouTube, PBS, Dreamworks, Disney and Netflix.
Trueheart cut his teeth working on The Wild Thornberrys for two seasons before making the leap to writing two seasons of Nickelodeon’s original cult hit, and Annie Award-winning, Invader Zim. Following which, he wrote for two seasons across 19 episodes of the BAFTA-nominated Yin Yang Yo for Disney, as well as developing and writing the Emmy-nominated series adaptation of the feature film Turbo Fast for Dreamworks and Netflix.
Trueheart’s work also includes scripts across global ratings juggernauts such as Pound Puppies, Mech-X4, Zo-Zo-Zombie, Rekkit Rabbit, SheZow as well as dozens of other series, video games and other animated projects, including work with Shrek producer John Williams, in addition to a live show for the international electronic dance music sensation Deadmau5.
Eric lives in Pasadena, CA with his punk rock wife and his kung-fu cat.
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Aaron Alexovich</b>
AARON ALEXOVICH’S first professional art job was drawing monstrous children for Nickelodeon’s Invader ZIM. Since then he’s been building monstrous children for various animation and comic projects, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, DC’s Fables, Oni’s Invader ZIM comic series, ELDRITCH! (with art by Drew Rausch), STITCHED (written by Mariah McCourt), Kimmie66, IT’S NOT SCARY!, and three volumes of his beloved(?) webcomic Serenity Rose.
Aaron was born and raised under seventeen beautiful miles of ice in Chicago, IL, but currently lives in Southern California, where the bright light makes him sneeze for mysterious reasons.”
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Now we can offer amazing voice talents Megan Hollingshead, Wayne Grayson and Darren Dunstan either alone or together for your event!
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<b>Megan Hollingshead</b>
Born in the wilds of LA’s San Fernando Valley and hone in the 99-seat theatres of New YOrk City, Mega is best known in the voiceover world as the original Nurse Joy in Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!’s original Mai Valentine. She has voiced hundreds of characters in animation and games as well as hundreds of radion and telelvision commercials. Stand out roles include Rangiku in Bleach, Shizune (and Ton Ton) in Naruto, Caster in Fate/stay night, Lenneth in Valkyrie Profile, Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Re-L Mayer in Ergo Proxy, Viletta Nu in Code: Geass, Glenna in Guild Wars, the twisted twin sisters Mion and Shion in When They Cry, Sigrun in Fire Emblem: Heroes and Yigr and Yune in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. She can be heard on the recently released Final Fantasy VII Remake, and has projects in the wroks for Cup of Teta, Bang Zoom!, and Funimation.
Commercial highlights include American Express, Armed FOrces Radio/Television, AT&T (campaign), Fred Meyer, Hometown Buffet, JC Penney, Malibu Pilates, Mercedes, Publix, Serta, Taco Bell, and World of Coca-Cola.
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<b>Wayne Grayson</b>
Wayne Grayson is an American voice actor and director primarily known for his work at 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, Media Blasters, NYAV Post, and DuArt Film and Video. Grayson is probably most famous for his role of Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the English manga and Japanese versions) in the English-language version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and Michelangelo from the 2003 TV series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Darren Dunstan</b>
Darren Dunstan can be heard on numerous animated series including Yu-Gi-Oh! as Maximillion Pegasus, Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles as Master Splinter, P. King Ducking as Arma Dillo, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V as Jean Michel Roget and Chaotic as Kaz. His voice has
been featured on Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Nicktoons, The CW, Cartoon Network, Jetix, Fox, KidsWB and Teletoon Canada.
He has played an exhausted dad on Regal Academy (Dave), a robot and a butler on Sonic X (Bocoe, Mr. Tanaka), a fish on Kirby
(Kine), a wrestling promoter and wrinkly green guy on Ultimate Muscle (Vance McMadd, Minch), a British penguin and DJ on Viva Pinata and a club owner and CSI on Funky Cops (Jerry, Jeff).
Darren has had the pleasure of voicing countless creatures on Pokémon, Chaotic, Dinosaur King and Fighting Foodons, including Munchlax, Blaziken, Loudred, Swellow, Grovyle, Feebas, Wamma, Dractyl, Terry, Spiny and a quartet of Barbershop-singing Dim-sum
Dragons.
Currently, Darren is voice directing Bubble Guppies on Nick Jr. and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. Recent directing credits include Welcome to the Wayne on Nickelodeon, Sunny Day on Nick Jr.
and Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V on Nicktoons. He has been voice director and casting director for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Chaotic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dinosaur King, Pokémon, Pat and Stan, Cubix,
Fighting Foodons and Rick and Steve on LOGO. Darren has also directed shorts for Nickelodeon and videogames for Sunny Day, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Chaotic.Feature film directing projects include Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (winner: Best Director at BTVA L.A. Anime Film Festival), Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time and numerous Pokémon films. Other animation-related projects include Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (Pegasus), Yu-Gi-Oh! Music To Duel By, (singing
as Pegasus), Pokémon Nintendo commericals and Pokémon Live! Giovanni) at Radio City Music Hall.
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<b>Michelle Ruff</b>
Michelle, originally a midwestern girl from The Motor City Madhouse now hails from Sunny Los Angeles. You can hear Michelle as some of your favorite and iconic anime and video game characters including Sinon form Sword Art Online 2 and 3, Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach, Yoko Littner from Gurren Laggan, Fujiko Mine from Lupin the Third, Luna from Sailor Moon Classic and Sailor Moon Crystal, Yukari Takeba from the Persona 3 & 4 Series, and Sadayo Kawakami from Persona 5, Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, Katherine from Catherine and Catherine Fully Body, Young Satoru in Erased, Sakuya Tachibana from God Eater, Kirari from Kakegurui, Sarah from Ingress the Animation, Yuki Nagato from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Anri Sonohara from Durarara, Princess Euphemia and Young Lalouche from Code Geass, Eliza from Skullgirls, Jill Valentine in Resident Evil Revelations, C-Viper from Street Fighter, Robin, Soleil and Noire from The Fire Emblem Franchise, Tokki in Lawbreakers, Chi from Chobitz, Cream the Rabbit from Sonic the Hedgehog and many others.
Michelle also lends her voice to TV shows and feature films including popular animated features ike, The Addams Family, Hotel Transylvania 3, Cars 3, The Star, The Angry Birds 1 and 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, Home, Madagascar, The Wind Rises & Your Name.
Michelle is also the Creator/Producer and Voices 2 characters (Vanilla Bean Dream and Lil Thuggie) in a new Puppet show for You Tube called My Thuggie Pony!
If you listen close you can hear her voice in popular films like, Rampage, Jurassic Park: Ancient Futures, Batman v Superman, Fast and Furious 7 and TV shows like Arrow and Batwoman.
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<b>Megan Hollingshead</b>
Born in the wilds of LA’s San Fernando Valley and hone in the 99-seat theatres of New YOrk City, Mega is best known in the voiceover world as the original Nurse Joy in Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!’s original Mai Valentine. She has voiced hundreds of characters in animation and games as well as hundreds of radion and telelvision commercials. Stand out roles include Rangiku in Bleach, Shizune (and Ton Ton) in Naruto, Caster in Fate/stay night, Lenneth in Valkyrie Profile, Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Re-L Mayer in Ergo Proxy, Viletta Nu in Code: Geass, Glenna in Guild Wars, the twisted twin sisters Mion and Shion in When They Cry, Sigrun in Fire Emblem: Heroes and Yigr and Yune in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. She can be heard on the recently released Final Fantasy VII Remake, and has projects in the wroks for Cup of Teta, Bang Zoom!, and Funimation.
Commercial highlights include American Express, Armed FOrces Radio/Television, AT&T (campaign), Fred Meyer, Hometown Buffet, JC Penney, Malibu Pilates, Mercedes, Publix, Serta, Taco Bell, and World of Coca-Cola.
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<b>Quinton Flynn</b>
Quinton’s voice has been burning up film and television since he first arrived in Los Angeles from his native Cleveland. He is an A-list voice actor, having played such famous animated characters as Jonny Quest, Spiderman, Speed Racer, The Human Torch, Timon, Snowbell in Stuart Little, just to name a few. His television and film appearances include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King of Queens, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Robot Chicken, and many more.
His best known roles in video game franchises have been his work providing the english voices of Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid series, Axel in Kingdom Hearts II, and Reno in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children the motion picture. If you’re hip to the anime scene you’ll know him as Iruka-sensei and Deidara in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, Marcus Damon in Digimon Data Squad, and Carl in Blood+, to name a few.
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<b>Mark Rolston</b>
Mark Rolston has created such iconic roles as : Pvt. Drake in ‘Aliens’, Bogs Diamond in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the original Alistar in the mega hit series ‘Supernatural’, and recently as Clive Davis in the Lifetime Feature ‘Whitney’ directed by the incomparable Angela Bassett, and as Admiral Ernest King in the feature ‘Midway’ directed by Roland Emmerich.
You will also know him as Walter Pierce in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' . He later appeared as Kuroda and later Magh in 'Star Trek: Enterprise.'
Marks’ recent work creating characters for motion capture video games includes titles such as: Halo 4 – Capt. Del Rio, ‘Spiderman’ – Norman Osborn, and will be starring in a follow up game later this year.
Mark also has numerous credits in the Voice Over arena, performing as Lex Luthor on the ‘Young Justice’ series, and as Commander Kolivan on the hit series ‘Voltron’.
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<b>Michael Biehn</b>
Michael Connell Biehn was born on July 31, 1956 in Anniston, Alabama, to Marcia (Connell) and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and at age 14 moved with his family to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he won a drama scholarship to the University of Arizona. He left prematurely two years later to pursue an acting career in Hollywood. His first big role was as a psychotic fan stalking Lauren Bacall in The Fan (1981) and later appeared in The Lords of Discipline (1983). He hit the big-time when he was cast as Kyle Reese, the man sent back through time to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984). This established a good working relationship with Cameron, a relationship that should have catapulted Biehn to international stardom. He starred in Cameron’s subsequent films, Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), the latter a standout performance as unstable Navy SEAL officer Lt. Hiram Coffey. In the 1990s he starred in films like Navy Seals (1990), K2 (1991) and was particularly memorable as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993). Biehn is married to Jennifer Blanc Biehn and the father of five sons. He made his directorial debut with The Victim starting himself and Jennifer. They started their company Blanc Biehn productions once The Victim was released by Starz. Anchor bay and the Weinstein company. They continue to make movie and give lots of new talent a creative say in film making.
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<b>Jenette Goldstein</b>
Jenette Elise Goldstein is an American actress, best known for her Saturn Award-winning role as Private Vasquez in the 1986 science fiction horror action film Aliens, as the foster mother in Terminator 2, as Diamondback in Near Dark and Detective Megan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2, and as the Irish Mother in Titanic. She also appeared in 2 episode of the TV series Star Trek: Short Treks (2019) as the USS Enterprise Computer.
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<b>Ricco Ross</b>
Ricco Ross is a 6’3″ award winning actor / producer, best known for roles in Aliens, Mission Impossible and A Husband For Christmas. He has a Master degree from UCLA and is a classical trained Shakespearian actor / graduated from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).He has about 100 credits on IMDB and has made over 70 commercials.
Most recently he was cast in Lee Daniels next movie “The United States vs Billie Holiday”. He has a recurring role on the new Starz tv series “P-Valley” coming out soon. He also has the film A Brother’s Honor coming out this year on PassionFlix, which is the 1st of a 3 picture deal.
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His career to date includes over 120 art and indie films, mainstream international TV shows and numerous major Hollywood movies. He is proud to have acted opposite and alongside many major artists in a huge range of projects (Michael Douglas, Sam Jackson, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Johnny Depp, Wesley Snipes, James Cromwell, Matt LeBlanc, Idris Elba, Rachel Weisz…even Steven Seagal…another story!).
For American audiences he is best known in Aliens, Hellraiser II, Sherlock Holmes, Deep State (FoxTV) MI5 (BBC), and as many character voices in Thomas and Friends the global hit spin off of Thomas The Tank Engine. More recently he’s been trying his hand at Performance Capture in Video games. He has just appeared in the newest Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Capcom), created a new lead role in Overkill’s Walking Dead (Grant), lead roles in Planet of the Apes: The Last Frontier and the seriously scary ALIEN: Isolation.Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-39478741032178337762021-05-24T16:26:00.009-07:002021-05-28T10:27:06.671-07:00Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking Announces 2021/22 line up-- Rolston, Rothrock, Patrick, Ross, Taylor, Hollingshead, Ruff! See all of our talent available for your event! <div style="color: #323333; font-family: arial;">
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";">We
are continuing with our 2021 bookings. If you are interested in having
any of our great media guests, please get with us right away. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";">New to the group is veteran actor <span style="font-size: small;">MARK ROLSTON</span> from Aliens, Supernatural, Star Trek, Voltron. And actor TIM COLCERI from Babylon 5 and Full Metal Jacket </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";">The
Queen of Martial Arts, </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">CYNTHIA ROTHROCK</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"> is joining us in 2020! Star of
over 43 action films, Cynthia is the real deal, and has a very devoted
fan base! </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Megan Hollingshead</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> is also new to our </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">group-- She is one</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> talented voice actor! Read about Megan and some of our other folks below, including </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"> Veronica Taylor, Chris Parsons, Butch Patrick, Hamid Thompson, Robert Trebor</span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">and </span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Rikki Simons</span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"> (just in time with the new "Invader Zim" movie!)</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition we are now offering personality</span><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Jesse Blaze Snider</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
who can be booked to host the panels and other special events at your
show, bringing his years of TV hosting experience for The Travel
Channel, The Food Network, and MTV to your venue!</span></span></span></b> </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you in 2021 and beyond. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";">Regards,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #323333; font-family: "arial";">Renee</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Mark Rolston-- Supernatural, Aliens, Star Trek</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mark Rolston has created such iconic roles as : Pvt. Drake in ‘Aliens’, Bogs Diamond in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, the original Alistar in the mega hit series ‘Supernatural’, and recently as Clive Davis in the Lifetime Feature ‘Whitney’ directed by the incomparable Angela Bassett,
and as Admiral Ernest King in the feature ‘Midway’ directed by Roland
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You will also know him as Walter Pierce in '</span><span style="color: #222222;">Star Trek</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">: The Next Generation' . He later appeared as Kuroda and later Magh in '</span><span style="color: #222222;">Star Trek</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">: Enterprise.'</span></span></span><br />
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Marks’ recent work creating characters for motion capture video games
includes titles such as: Halo 4 – Capt. Del Rio, ‘Spiderman’ – Norman
Osborn, and will be starring in a follow up game later this year.<br />
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Mark also has numerous credits in the Voice Over arena, performing as
Lex Luthor on the ‘Young Justice’ series, and as Commander Kolivan on
the hit series ‘Voltron’.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cynthia Rothrock-- Queen of Martial Arts Movies!</b></span><br />
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<i><br /></i>Actress and Martial Arts Legend Cynthia Rothrock has agreed to make a
few key convention appearances in 2020.</div>
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A Black Belt in numerous disciplines, Rothrock has made over 43 action
films, including "China O'Brien (1 and 2)," "Yes, Madam," "Righting
Wrongs," "No Retreat, No Surrender," "Martial Law (1 and 2)," "The
Blonde Fury," "Millionaire's Express," "Rage and Honor," "Sworn to
Justice," "Rapid Fire," "Lady Dragon," and "Guardian Angel." <br />
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Her fight against Michelle Yeoh in "Yes Madame" is considered one of the
best on screen fights of all time. And in fact, she ranked as the
world-wide, #2 leading marital arts movie draw for over a period of ten
years-- one of the few performers to achieve genuine Stardom in seven
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In addition, Cynthia's TV appearances include "Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys," opposite Kevin Sorbo, and "The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion." She
is also the inspiration behind the video game character Sonya Blade in
the game "Mortal Kombat" and is part of the creative team on the video
game "The Untouchable 2." In addition, she is a voiceover actress,
lending her vocals to the animated series "Eek the Cat." <br />
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Cynthia Rothrock is the real deal. <i>The "Queen of Martial Arts Films." </i><br />
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At only 5'3" she holds five Black Belts in various Far Eastern
disciplines, including Northern Shaolin (classical Chinese), Eagle Claw
(Chinese), and Tang Soo Do (Korean), Tae Kwon Do (Korean) and Wu Shu
(Contemporary Chinese.) She has been inducted into the Kung-Fu Hall of Fame. <br />
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And there are so many ways to tap into on her rabid fan base. <br />
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<i>(In addition to her signing at her table at the show, and photo ops, we
can also negotiate "meet and greets, " panels and seminars (additional
fees), and can arrange screenings of her movies, to make this a
multi-faceted part of your convention.)</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rikki Simons--<span style="font-size: medium;"> (Voice Actor- Invader Zim, Writer, Artist)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Rikki
Simons--Voice Actor, writer, and artist, is now available for booking
via Eva Ink Artist Group/ Pros & Cons Celebrity Bookings.<br /><br />You
know Rikki as the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR from Invader
ZIM! And the pop culture scene does too, as fans embrace the chance to
meet Rikki in person at his appearances worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />As a writer he is known for the science fiction and fantasy novel <i>Hitherto a Lion.</i><br /><br />Original illustrated books and comics that he created with Tavisha-Wolfgarth-Simons include <i>Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!</i>, <i>Ranklechick and His Three Legged Cat,</i> <i>ShutterBox,</i> and now <i>The Trinkkits</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><br />He is also a background painter in animation, most noted for his color design on<i> Invader ZIM</i>.<br /><br /><i>Programming
Notes: Rikki is available for panels designed for your show, focusing
on the art of voice acting, as well as his various writing projects.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tim Colceri--Babylon 5, Full Metal Jacket</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This amazing actor and comedian, is well known for his fan favorite
portrayal of Captain Jenkowsky in “Babylon 5: In the Beginning.”<br />
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What a perfect guest for your shows sci-fi programming, as Tim can talk
about his part in this iconic series. Maybe a “Behind the Scenes” panel?
Yes!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, Tim is is well known for his role in the 1987 Stanley
Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket," where he played the door gunner-- such
a memorable part of that movie that it was inspiration for parody
follows ups in "Tropic Thunder" and "Ain't War Hell?" </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just a few of Tim’s other notable contributions include "Leprechaun 4:
In Space," "Devils Inside," "The Rag Man," Sergeant Lewis on the
television series “Weeds,” and much more to list when promoting Tim
Colceri for your event.</span></span> <br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Veronica Taylor</span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">--(Actress/Voiceover Actress--Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, TMNT)</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Veronica
Taylor is a classically trained actor who has performed in NYC and
around the U.S. in contemporary and classical theatre. </span></span></div>
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voice has been a part of Saturday morning cartoons for some time now.
She is probably best known for playing the roles of Ash and May on
“Pokemon”, April on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and roles in “Cubix”,
“Dinosaur King”, “Yu-Gi-Oh!”, “Huntik”, “Tai Chi Chasers”, and more.
She can be heard on PBS kids’ “Word World” (Sheep), “Lunch Lab”
(Mixiebot), and “Chuck Vanderchuck’s ‘something something’ Explosion!”
(Ramona). </span></span></div>
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projects include Sailor Pluto on “Sailor Moon”, “Mofy” (Mofy, Mogu,
Sora), “Astroblast” (Sputnik), and “Welcome to the Wayne (Spy from
8-i). Some anime favorites include Amelia on “Slayers”, Yukino on “His
and Hers Circumstances”, all 7 Nana’s on “Nana Seven of Seven”, and
Narue on “World of Narue”, as well as many others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Megan has voiced 100’s of characters in animation and games. Her
first role was Nurse Joy in the original English dub of Pokémon,
followed quickly by Yu-Gi-Oh!’s original Mai Valentine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She
is also well known as Rangiku in Bleach, Shizune (and Ton Ton) in
Naruto, Re-L in Ergo Proxy, Lenneth in Valkyrie Profile, and Viletta Nu
in Code Geass. Other memorable characters include Adiane in Gurren
Lagann, Hilda in Eureka 7, Sala in Mars Daybreak, Gloria in Daphne in
the Brilliant Blue, Dr. Abigail Finn in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
twins Mion (evil) and Shion (sweet) in When They Cry, Nemu in Bleach,
Rose Marinade in Fighting Foodons, Kano in His and Hers Circumstances
(watch the previews!) (oh wait -- no! I mean don’t watch the previews!),
Maharu and Ebi in Girls Bravo, Neneko in DearS, Captain Iruma in
Ultraman Tiga, and Trixie in Ultimate Muscle. Other Pokémon roles
include Cassidy, Whitney, and James’ mother as well as Annie in Pokémon
5: Heroes and Diane in Pokémon 6: Jirachi Wish Maker. In addition to
Lenneth and Guild Wars’ smarty pants Glenna, Megan’s game roles include
Ylgr and Yune in the newly released Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ada Wong
in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Shion Kasugai in Akiba’s Space
Trip: Undead and Undressed, Viola in Eternal Sonata, Edy Nelson in
Valkyria Chronicles, Autarch Kayleth in Warhammer 40,000, The Third Kiki
DeWynter in Saints Row, Five in Drakengard 3, and Battle Nun in Brutal
Legend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She currently has projects in the works for Cup of Tea, Bang Zoom!, and Funimation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Jesse Blaze Snider-- <span style="font-size: large;">(Actor, Singer, Voice Actor, Host)</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="font-family: "helvetica";">Actor, singer, TV host, comic book writer, voiceover talent— with Jesse you get it ALL— and then some— rolled into ONE guest!</span> </div>
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jesse’s
plethora of voiceover work and TV appearances span the worlds of
animation, television, gaming, promos (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles),
and commercials! </span></div>
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As
a skilled vocalist & voice actor, Jesse developed early on the
ability to dramatically change vocal texture and convincingly portray
many regional & international accents. Maybe inheriting some of that
talent from his father, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame. <span class="yiv7056574817" style="font-style: italic;">(Fun Fact: Jesse did EIGHT characters for the Final Fantasy game!)</span></span></div>
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much everyone knows Jesse’s
narrator voice from his long stints with “Food Paradise” (Travel
Channel) and let’s throw in a little history to boot, “Trashopolis” and
the wildly popular “Museum Secrets” both on Smithsonian Channel, as well
as his in person stints on "Haunted Live, for the Travel Channel,
"MTV2 Rock," "MTV2 Rock Countdown," and as the host for the Spike TV
Video Game Awards. His reality TV appearances-- some alongside his
famous family-- include “Growing up Twisted,” “Celebrity Wife
Swap,” “MTV’s Ultra Sound,” “Meet the Sniders,” and performing live for
millions on the reality singing competition, “Rock the Cradle,” where he
stole the show. </div>
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In
the world of animation his voiceover work includes the part of Judge
Sydney on “Judge Dredd: Super Fiend,” Dane and Eric in “Burma Rising,”
among others. And in the world of video games he’s portrayed multiple
characters in “Final Fantasy XIV,” and “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.”
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But you want someone with Comic Book credits too? You go it!</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jesse has written for almost every major and indy publisher, Marvel, DC, Disney/Pixar, The Muppets, </span>Image Comics, Heavy Metal, <span class="yiv7056574817" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Chaos Comics, the list goes on. </span>Some
of Jesse’s writing can be found in an forthcoming “Batman: April Fool’s
Special,” “Dead Romeo GN,” “Disney*Pixar’s Toy Story,” “Muppet Snow
White,” “Hulk: Let the Battle Begin,” “Deadpool: Fun with Ninjas,”
“Black Light District: 6issues ONE-SHOT,” “CBGB: OMFUG,” “Dee Snider’s
Strangeland: Seven Sins,” “Evil Ernie: Origin of Evil,” “Food Fight”
with Steve Kurth in “Soft Wood #1” and his creator owned “King of
Kings.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Born
in London in 1960, Chris Parsons would soon find himself in the
"galaxy far, far, away" via his involvement in the Star Wars saga of
the late 1970's and early 1980's!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His various work in the trilogy includes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456326171866_2472">Star Wars: Episode V - Empire Strikes Back (1980)</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456326171866_2472"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Star
Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) in which he portrayed:
C-3PO (double), K-3PO, E-3PO, R-3PO, a Death Star Droid, a
Stormtrooper, Snowtrooper, a Hoth Rebel soldier and a Hoth Snow Speeder
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All making his stories from the set varied and insightful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chris
has also been in various other Television and film productions
including: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Quadrophenia, Superman ll, Yentl,
The Shining and James Bond.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But of all his various work, the one most resonating with Star Wars fans is his portrayal of 4-LOM, the Bounty Hunter. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4-LOM
is remembered as the cold, calculating and ambitious LOM-series
protocol droid, resembling the insectoid species he was designed to
serve, who overrode his programming and became an intergalactic thief
and later a bounty hunter, often working with Grand Findsman Zuckuss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following
the Battle of Hoth, 4-LOM was hired by Darth Vader to capture Han Solo,
Captain of the Millennium Falcon and hero of the Rebel Alliance. For
this, the mechanical teamed up fellow Bounty Hunters Boba Fett, Dengar,
Bossk, and IG-88.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chris Parson's unique part in the Star Wars trilogy allowed him to give life to this unique creature, spawning <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L</span>egos, trading cards, toys and more!</span><br />
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is happy to take part in panels talking about his behind the scenes
experiences on the Star Wars set, alone or with other cast members. For
Booking information, contact Renee at Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking:
evaink@aol.com</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456326171866_2515"> </span></span><br />
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<b>Butch Patrick </b>is synonymous with pop-culture and cars. After
all, he is best known for his character role as Eddie Munster on The
Munsters. Butch continues the Munster’s legacy touring with the Munster
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Remember that The Munsters is a unique and multi-generational American
classic show. Butch’s presence enhances any gathering. Promoters gain
media attention by his visits; and fans get to see the awesome display
and create a cherished memory.</div>
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Butch has a huge following of fans worldwide and his fan base alone is a great promotional source.</div>
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Butch tours with his Munster Koach and Dracula Tribute Cars, original
1964 Barris/Von Dutch Chain Link Schwinn Stingray Bike, and other
Munster props to include Munster Go-Cart, Baseball Bat, Wolf Wolf,
Miniature Spot, and Street Signs All Inclusive Display.</div>
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(Butch is available with or without the Munster cars, but what a great display! Contact me for more info! )</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456326171866_2515"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HAMID THOMPSON--</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">(BLUE from "Jurassic World<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">")</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456326171866_2515"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Jurassic
World” is one of the top grossing movies of all time. The reason why is
simple: DINOSAURS. Meet Hamid Thompson, actor, dancer, stunt person.
Also known as the Rator BLUE from the blockbuster film!<br /><br />Originally
from Ann Arbor Michigan, Hamid Thompson IS Blue in the movie, all the
interactions with the main actors, and the creature that drove much of
the story, was motion captured with Hamid acting the part!<br /><br />In
case you haven't seen Golem in "Lord of the Rings," or Hamid's
performance in "Jurassic World," Motion-Capture Acting (or MoCap), is a
type of acting in which an actor wears markers or sensors on a skintight
bodysuit or directly on the skin. Several cameras from different angles
record the actor's movements.<br /><br />Hamid Thompson's other credits include "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" (2016), "Kenau" (2016) and "Chi-Rag" (2015), among others.<br /><br />Now is a great opportunity to book Hamid Thompson into your convention or event and hear about his world.<br /><br /><i><u>Programming Notes: </u>New
to any conventions, anywhere, not only will Hamid be available for
signings and photo ops, but he can also do workshops and even panels
about working on one of the biggest movies of recent times, "Jurassic
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Robert Trebor<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">-- (Actor, Writer--Her<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cules, Xena</span>)</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b><br />Renowned
and versatile Actor, Robert Trebor is known worldwide for his pivotal
role as Salmoneus on the “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and “Xena:
Warrior Princess” television series. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H</span>e
is equally as well know for his parts in feature films such as “Purple
Rose of Cairo,” “52 Pick Up,” "Universal Soldier," “Making Mr. Right,”
“The Shadow,” “My Demon Lover,” “Jim<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in</span>y Glick in Lalawood,” (among MUCH more) and no doubt for his upcoming role in the m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uch anticipated </span> Coen Brother’s movie “Hail, Caesar!”<br /><br />One of his most mesmerizing roles was the role of David Berkowitz in “Out of the Darkness<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span>” a haunting portrayal that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">still resonates today. </span><br /><br />On
television, in addition to “Herucles” and “Xena,” Mr. Trebor has
appeared on the small screen in “Miami Vice,” “Murphy Brown,” “Empty
Nest,” “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” “Baywatch,” “Wedding Daze,”
“Missing Persons,” and Boomtown.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A writer, some of Mr. Trebor's credits incl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ude stories <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the "X<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ena" comic book for Topps Coomics, as well as "Dear Salmoneus: A <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guide to Love and Money," from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eva Ink Publishing / Image Publishing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, in add<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ition to an upcoming autobiography.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<u>Program Notes: </u>A versatile actor and comedian, Robert Trebor is
available for shows in 2016 to fit around his various filming
schedules. He is open to group panels or solo panels. We can also
discuss acting classes or critiques available to a limited number of
shows.
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<b>Michelle Ruff</b>
Michelle, originally a midwestern girl from The Motor City Madhouse now hails from Sunny Los Angeles. You can hear Michelle as some of your favorite and iconic anime and video game characters including Sinon form Sword Art Online 2 and 3, Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach, Yoko Littner from Gurren Laggan, Fujiko Mine from Lupin the Third, Luna from Sailor Moon Classic and Sailor Moon Crystal, Yukari Takeba from the Persona 3 & 4 Series, and Sadayo Kawakami from Persona 5, Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, Katherine from Catherine and Catherine Fully Body, Young Satoru in Erased, Sakuya Tachibana from God Eater, Kirari from Kakegurui, Sarah from Ingress the Animation, Yuki Nagato from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Anri Sonohara from Durarara, Princess Euphemia and Young Lalouche from Code Geass, Eliza from Skullgirls, Jill Valentine in Resident Evil Revelations, C-Viper from Street Fighter, Robin, Soleil and Noire from The Fire Emblem Franchise, Tokki in Lawbreakers, Chi from Chobitz, Cream the Rabbit from Sonic the Hedgehog and many others.Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-7896198452524414152021-05-24T15:49:00.009-07:002021-05-25T05:22:55.700-07:00Convention Bookings Open: 21/22-- Shooter, Golden, Suydam, Cook, Ishwerwood, Morales, Nolan! Take a look at all of our Amazing talent! Hi Everyone--
2021/2022 bookings are fully underway. Michael Golden, Rags Morales, Jim Shooter, Georges Jeanty, Graham Nolan Arthur Suydam! Read our full list and book ASAP!
My email is: evaink@aol.com
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Check the bios of some of our great creators below:
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<b>Michael Golden--(Artist/Writer/Consultant/Designer)</b>
One of THE storytellers in the industry, influencing generations of comics fans and professionals, Michael Golden boasts creations that are some of the most licensed and enduring in the industry.
Co-Creator of Rogue, Bucky O'Hare, Micronauts and "The 'Nam," among much more, Golden is known as one of THE artists on such characters as Batman, Doctor Strange, G.I. Joe and the Punisher. Golden's recent covers can be seen on everything from "Spawn" to the "Walking Dead," to World Wrestling work. Recent covers include works on "The Walking Dead," "Deadpool," and "DareDevil," to name a few.
In short, no history of comics is complete without touching on the influence that this legendary artist has had on this industry. Recent books on the colorful life and vibrant art of Golden include "Michael Golden: Alchemy" "Modern Masters: Michael Golden" and "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," and "Michael Golden: Dangerous Curves."
In addition, having served as both Senior Art Director at Marvel Comics and Senior Editor at DC Comics, Golden's lectures and classes in storytelling are sought after world wide, with recent venues including places as diverse as Spain, France, Russia, Norway, Brazil, Chile and China. With recent gallery shows mounted in New York City, Maryland, Spain and Russia.
Programing Notes: Various panels on the art of comic books can be scheduled with Michael, to highlight this special event at your show. (Note: Michael has specific table and listing requirements. )
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Mike Zeck--(Artist, Creator)</b>
Note: Mike is Currently on Hiatus. But do send us your interest for future bookings. When discussing comics heavy hitter, Mike Zeck, you'd have to argue which is his most influential work, or which is most deeply embossed on our pop culture.
His series "Kraven's Last Hunt," took Spider-man to a whole new level and has been voted by readers as the "Greatest Spider-Man story ever told." His subsequent work on the Punisher with "Cricle of Blood," cemented him as one of the THE artists for the character, while the series "Secret Wars," set comic book readership on their ears, and heralded Zeck's creation of the black and white Spider-Man costume, still around as the attire of the super-villain, Venom. His work on Captain American also stands out as some of the most influential in the industry, and iconic images of this and other characters such as Superman and Batman, are etched in comic history.
In fact, Zeck images are featured on Marvel merchandising ad nauseam year after year, evidence of his enduring popularity. It's hard not to notice all those "Secret Wars" t-shirts!
Recent books on Mike include "Raw Fury: The Art of Mike Zeck," while Zeck's series with writer Steven Grant (creator of the hit movie "Two Guns"), "Damned," was released in a recent volume by IDW Publishing, which has also just released a deluxe volume of Mike's classic Marvel covers.
Programming Notes: Mike prefers not to do panels. But is at his table for fans all hours of any show he attends. (Note that Mike will be doing very limited appearances, and certain conditions apply. Please contact me for details. )
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Arthur Suydam-- (Artist/ Creator)</b>
The Zombie King," as he is known, rose to stardom for his work on the smash hit series "Marvel Zombies," the lines at his booth at any given show are a testament to the enduring "zombie craze," with Suydam as a forerunner.
He is also renowned as the Deadpool cover artist on "Merc with a Mouth." As well as "The Walking Dead." And he is credited as being one of the first artists to bring fine art painting techniques to the world of comics in such books as "Cholly and Flytrap" and "Mudwogs."
Recent awards for Arthur include "The Spike TV Scream Award (Best Artist)," "Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional Art," "The San Sebastian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award,"as well as the "University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award," among others.
His work can also be seen on works for "DCeased," "The Walking Dead," "Deadpool, "Batman," "Wolverine," "Fantastic Four," "X-Men," "Ghost Rider," "Army of Darkness" "Vampirella," and too many to name here. His "Cholly and Flytrap" series has recently been compiled into a collected volumne, marking that great achievement and it's place in comic history.
Programing Notes: Arthur is also offering to do a special promo for shows that includes free sketches for kids on Sundays. Ask for details. (Note: Arthur has certain table and listing requirements.)
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Jim Shooter-- (Writer/ Marvel Editor-in-Chief)</b>
Jim Shooter started writing Superman and other titles for DC Comics at the age of 13 in 1965. He worked his way through high school writing stories, laying out pages and designing covers.
He was hired by Marvel Comics in 1976 as associate editor and in 1978 became Editor in Chief. He introduced benefits, royalties and other incentives for creators that attracted a legion of phenomenal talents who., under his oversight, authored a decade of brilliant creativity and unparalleled success. Jim wrote several notable series including the Avengers and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. He also headed up the creative teams that developed G.I. Joe and Transformers.
Jim went on to found Voyager Communications in 1989, where he was the CEO and President. He also served as Editor in Chief, principal creator, head writer and occasional artist for the highly acclaimed comics published under the VALIANT imprint, which included Magnus Robot Fighter, Solar Man of the Atom, Harbinger, X-O Manowar, UNITY and more.
Programming Notes: Jim has certain booking conditions and is open to doing numerous panels, including two that he always brings to the table.
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Geof Isherwood--(Artist/Designer/Storyboards)</b>
Renowned artist for Marvel, DC, Broadway, and Heroes Of The North, in fact, creator of Psylocke's Katana! Some of Geof's major title runs include "Dr. Strange," "Suicide Squad," "Conan the Barbarian," "Conan The King," "Namor" and "The 'Nam". Geof is also the inker of the graphic novel, "Revenge of the Living Monolith," over Marc Silvestri. But he says the comic brought to him most often to sign is probably "Dr. Strange" #50.
Geof has also worked on over 60 film and TV productions, including X-Men: DOFP and X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Being Human (US), Hot Wheels, Helix, Wings of the Dragon, The Phantom, The Last Templar, Race to Mars, The Covenant, Dead of Night, Battlefield Earth, Gothika, Rollerball,The Fountain and much, much more.
In addition to film work, as an expert in figure drawing, Geof teaches in the Concept Art and Illustration program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as having a sketch list that is in demand at every show he attends.
Geof is now also working for Renegade Media drawing the final issue of the soon-to-be-released "Necromatics".
Programming Notes: Geof is available for programming encompassing subjects ranging from comics to TV/film!
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Graham Nolan-- (Writer/Artist)</b>
Graham is an Inkpot Award winning cartoonist and writer, best known for his long run on BATMAN in Detective Comics and as the designer and co-creator of the iconic Batman Villain: BANE.
He is also the creator of the graphic novel: MONSTER ISLAND, web-comic: SUNSHINE STATE and the co-creator of the IDW horror adventure series: JOE FRANKENSTEIN.
When he is not chained to the drawing board you will find him in his Jeep, down at the lake fishing...
And we hope at a show near you!
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Georges Jeanty-- (Artist)
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Georges Jeanty-- (Artist)
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Georges is a New York Times bestselling comic book illustrator, his first major work was Marvel Comics’ BISHOP: THE LAST X-MAN, and it just got better from there.
Currently, Jeanty's work can be seen in AGE OF X-MAN: THE X-TREMISTS, part of Marvel’s “Enter the Age of X-Man” story arc. Along with his work on many Marvel and DC Comics titles, Georges is known for the critically acclaimed, sixties-era graphic novel THE AMERICAN WAY, written by screenwriter John Ridley and published by DC Comics, its sequel THE AMERICAN WAY: THOSE ABOVE AND THOSE BELOW , and being a regular artist for Dark Horse Comics’ official continuation of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and SERENITY (2007-2018).
If you want a legit media tie-in for your next convention-- we're talking Buffyverse, Whedonverse, Firefly, Serenity, Godzilla, Gamera, vampires, Gambit, Wolverine, Deadpool, Weapon X-- this pop culture phenom of an artist will add some sparkle to any event.
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John Beatty-- (Artist)</b>
John Beatty ( Inker – Marvel Super Heroes “Secret Wars”, Captain America, The Punisher, Thanos Quest, Batman )
John Beatty is a veteran comic book artist, best know for his inking work for both Marvel and DC Comics.
Developing into one of the industries top inkers over his career, Beatty has worked with top pencil artists, such as Mike Zeck, Kelley Jones and Michael Golden.
Working on almost every major comic character in the industry at one time or another.
Titles best known for include many fan favorites such as: Marvel Super Heroes “Secret Wars”, Captain America, The Punisher, Thanos Quest and many Batman projects, including a highly regarded fan favorite 3 year run on the monthly “Batman” book.
Being picked or picking titles and peers to work with carefully and with cause, many of these series still remain highly regarded and collectable in today's current comic culture.
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Rags Morales-- (Artist, Illustrator)</b>
A veteran of the comic industry, Rags began his career with DC Comics in 1989 with the TSR licensed book Forgotten Realms. His first super hero series was "Black Condor."
He has since worked on countless titles for DC, most notably "Identity Crisis". Other notable projects include: long runs on "JSA," "Hawkman," not to forget "Batman/Superman," "Nightwing," The New 52 and "First Wave."
Rags has also worked with Valiant, Dark Horse, and Marvel Comics.
From September to May, Rags also teaches at the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art. He lives in eastern Pennsylvania.
Programming Notes: Rags is available for programming regarding his career in comics and creating comic books.
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SAM DE LA ROSA-- Venom Artist</b>
Sam's work on VENOM LETHAL PROTECTOR #'s 1-6 is the basis of the worldwide successful billion-dollar grossing VENOM MOVIE!
Sam de la Rosa has provided finished art and inks for Marvel, DC Comics, Image, Disney and Dark Horse among others. Credits include Spider-man, Venom, Carnage, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, The Avengers, Star Wars, X-Men, Power Rangers and more!
He worked on Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Star Trek, Firestorm and others from DC Comics.
For Dark Horse Comics he worked on the very first Predator comic book.
Sam's favorite work in his own words has always been Venom, Carnage, and the Symbiotes!
What a great well rounded celebrity artist to add to your event. Sam truly has it ALL!
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Phil Ortiz -- (Artist--Simpsons, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., Muppet Babies!)</b>
Come and be sketchanized by Phil and see what you would look like if you were to appear as a character on the Simpsons! It costs $70 per person to be sketched inked and colored. This is a work of art that you will cherish for the rest of your life.
Phil Ortiz grew up in East LA of Mexican and Spanish/Norwegian parents in 1953. He currently lives and works in the beautiful Lake Arrowhead area. Over his more than 30 years as a professional artist, Phil has worked on everything from daily newspaper comic strips (Bugs Bunny) to layouts and character design for animated cartoons including The Simpsons where Phil had a hand in the look of about 200 characters on the longest running comedy series in TV history.
Some of the notable characters Phil designed for the Simpsons include: Flanders, Otto, Herman, Lou and Eddie, Ralph, and Apu.
Phil has won five CERTIFICATES of ACHIEVEMENT for his work in TV animation and has been drawing for The Simpsons comic books for many years.
Programming Notes: Phil will sketchanize your convention attendees to turn your whole world into a Simpsons landscape!
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Tom Cook-- (Artist- Scooby Do, He-Man, Smurfs) </b>
Tom began his career as an animator and artistic director in 1978 at Hanna-Barbera Studios where he was hired to work as an assistant animator on Challenge of the SuperFriends, Godzilla, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Pacman and the Flintstones.
A short stop at Ruby-Spears had him working on Thundarr the Barbarian (had the privilege to meet and work with Jack Kirby), Heathcliff, Fang Face and Plastic Man. Freelancing at Film Roman he worked on the Garfield Special Babes and Bullets and for Bill Melendez on the Peanuts Special This is America Charlie Brown.
He then moved over to Filmation Studios in 1980, which at this point had become the only animation studio doing animation in the United States, and worked on Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Blackstar, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Brown Hornet, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra Princess of Power, Ghostbusters, Lone Ranger, Zorro, The Kids Super Power Hour with Shazam (Captain Marvel), Hero High and the futuristic Western Bravestarr. He was also involved with many TV commercials such as The Jolly Green Giant, Chevrolet, and the 7 Up Spot campaign.
He then became the timing director on Road Rovers, Disney's Mighty Ducks, PB & J Otter, Duckman, King of the Hill, Savage Dragon, HBO's Happily Ever After Fairy Tales, Extreme Ghostbusters, Extreme Dinosaurs and many more.
He also animated on a number of motion pictures such as Walt Disney's Prince and the Pauper starring Mickey Mouse, Roger Rabbit in Tummy Trouble, The Jetson's Movie, Rover Dangerfield, Stay Tuned, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, Steven Spielberg's Were Back, and Don Bluth's Thumbelina.
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Mike DeCarlo-- (Archie and Marvel Artist)</b>
Mike DeCarlo is a 4 decade veteran of the Comic Industry. Trained by the legendary Dick Giordano. He has worked as a penciler, artist and inker for Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Disney, BOOM Studios, Warner Communications and Archie. His best attribute is the ability to draw ANY property in any style, period or genre.
After graduating Notre Dame High School and studying art for 2 years at Southern CT ST College, he began his professional career as sports cartoonist for The New Haven Register. He left that position to begin that apprenticeship with Giordano and after 18 months branched off to begin a solo career in the comic book industry. Over the next dozen years, he worked primarily as an ink artist on such titles as Batman, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, Thor, Iron Man and Conan the Barbarian.
In the mid-nineties, his focus changed to the cartoon/animation genre and worked as an artist on Looney Tunes, Powerpuff Girls, Ben-10, Scooby-Doo and Pinky the Brain among others.
In the last decade, in addition to the work he now does for The Simpsons comic company Bongo Entertainment, he works for Disney Worldwide Publishing on Phineas & Ferb, Marvel Superheroes Magazine and Spider-Man Magazine.
Mike also has extended his repertoire into the digital field, becoming accomplished at digital inking in Illustrator and coloring in Photoshop.
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Jeremy Clark-- (Artist) </b>
Jeremy Clark is know for his stellar work on various comic projects for multiple publishers including IDW (TMNT), Image Comics (Prodigy) (Undiscovered Country), Zenescope Entertainment (Grimm Fairy Tales) (Hellchild) (Day of the Dead) (Escape From Monster Island), Coffin Comics (Lady Death) (La Muerta) (Hellwitch), Source Point Press (Ogre) (Franklin & Ghost) (Salvagers) (Dead End Kids) (Samurai Grandpa) (Broken Gargoyles) (Warcorns: Combat Unicorns For Hire), Professional artist will at a bit of excitement to any show!
Show Notes: Jeremy is always up for doing a panel on his career or comic art creation.
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Steve Leialoha-- (Artist)</b>
Steve Leialoha has been an artist for Marvel, DC and others since the 70’s, with runs on: Vertigo’s Fables, Petrefax, Warlock, Howard the Duck, Spider-Woman, the New Mutants, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the original Star Wars adaptation. He has also drawn issues of Dr Strange, the Justice League, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, and Star Trek! And also as an inker on: Daredevil, GI Joe (Silent issue), Superman, Batman, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, the Avengers, Power Man/ Iron-Fist, Secret Wars II, and the Fantastic Four!
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Trina Robbins--(Writer/Historian)</b>
Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books,
comics, and graphic novels for over forty years. Her 2009 book, The
Brinkley Girls: the Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940
(Fantagraphics), and her 2011 book, "Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury," were
nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. Her all-ages graphic
novel, Chicagoland Detective Agency: The Drained Brains Caper, first in a
6-book series, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her graphic novel,
"Lily Renee: Escape Artist," was awarded a gold medal from Moonbeam
Chidren’s Books and a silver medal from Sydney Taylor Jewish Library
Awards.
Trina’s most recent book is Pretty in Ink, her final and
definitive history of women cartoonists. In 2013, Trina was voted into
the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Programming Notes: Trina is available
for panels highlighting her career as well as panels on women in comics and
the history of comics.
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D. Michael Watkins-- (Artist)</b>
D. Michael Watkins is the founder and owner of Highburn Studios. He's also the guy underneath that shiny cowboy hat you see at most cons.
Michael received his lucky break on FEMME-NOIR with Joe Staton and has since went on to work for Marvel, DC, Image, Dynamite, Dark Horse , Upper Deck, as well as his creator owned project GUARDIANS. You've seen his work on titles such as SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, TRANSFORMERS, IRON MAN, AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, PANTHA, VILLAINS SUPREME, and you can see him on film in the blockbuster movie THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.
Outside of comics, Michael is a Voice Actor with roles for Marvel and Disney voicing the characters of: Venom, Scorpion, Mole Man, and Magneto.
Michael is also an avid Martial Artist, studying Hak Dari Shon Hap Ki Do, Kenpo. and several other styles for over 30 years.
Programming Notes: Michael is available for programming regarding his career in comics, martial arts and creating comics..
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Konstantin Komardin--(Artist/Animator/Writer)</b>
After several successful signing and screening tours in the United States, Konstantin is busy at work on his current lengthy animation project focused on human rights, now in development.
Komardin is an award-winning sequential artist, graphic artist and animator. His work includes the BD magazines “Veles,” “Hacker,” “Max Cooler,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Timof” which published his story “Siberian Dreams,” and the renowned comics “Agent Z,” “Sit-o-city,” “Gate of Alice,” and “Mechanics of Senses.” Konstantin was awarded the Grand Prize for “The Site of Polis” at the Moscow Comics Festival.
His animation works include the concept designs on “Elka,” “Man with the Wind in his Head,” which was featured at the Suzdal Film Festival, “Tram,” “Spindel” which was honored at the Moscow Short Film Festival, and “The Man in Penze Nez,” which screened at both the Suzdal Film Festival and the Moscow International Film Festival.
Programing Notes: Konstantin can do panels on animation as well as sequential art for your show, and talk about the cross-cultural world of comics.
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Ric Meyers-- (Writer/Film Consultant/Director/Actor)</b>
Novelist Richard S. Meyers is responsible for the Marvel prose novel featuring the Hulk among others, but around 100 other books as well! Creator of the Destroyer series, Ric is also the writer of "Santa Confidential," illustrated beautifully by artist Chris Browne of "Hagar the Horrible" fame, "The Kung Fu Movie Book," featuring everything you want to know about the martial arts world, and is the director of "The Kung Fu Movie Movie."
His commentary is sought after on director cuts of movies and television compilations worldwide. As well as acting (most recently as a villain in a Scotland filmed production), Ric has been called on as an expert consultant for such projects as "Twilight Zone," and "Kung Fu Panda." He yearly runs the Marital Arts movie segments at the San Diego Comic Con.
Programing Notes: Ric is available for a plethora of programming, Kung Fu, comics, film and otherwise! Screening of his movie works are also possible.
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Rodney Ramos-- (Artist)</b>
Artist Rodney Ramos has worked on just about every major character for Marvel Comics and DC Comics with a flourish that makes him a master at his craft. He began his storied journey in comics as a Romita Raider at Marvel Comics, learning his craft under the legendary John Romita, Sr. Regular work on titles like "Psi-Force," "What The!?" "Thundercats" "Punisher War Journal," "Amazing Spider-Man," and "Iron Man" followed, as well as work on Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, and much more.
His works include masterful craftsmanship for clients ranging from Valiant, Malibu, Acclaim, Marvel UK, and Neal Adams Continuity Studios, in addition to Marvel and DC. He reached cult status with his work on DC's "Transmetropolitan," a huge fan favorite, and most recently over Simon Bisley's pencils at Legendary.
Programming Notes: Rodney is available for panels on his career and comics in general.
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Jim Salicrup--(Writer/Artist/Editor)</b>
Jim Salicrup is the Editor-in-Chief of Papercutz, the graphic novel publishing company he co-founded with Terry Nantier. Papercutz is devoted to publishing great graphic novels for all ages: Annoying Orange, Ariol, Classics Illustrated, Dance Class, Disney Fairies, Geronimo Stilton, LEGO® Ninjago, LEGO Chima,Lunch Witch, Nancy Drew Diaries, The Smurfs Anthology, and many more. Recently, Papercutz launched a new imprint, modestly called Super Genius, which publishes titles such as WWE Superstars, Neil Gaiman’s Lady Justice, and more.
After being published as a writer and artist in Kids Magazine at age 14, Jim moved on to working at Marvel Comics for twenty years, editing most of their top titles, such as Spider-Man (with Todd McFarlane), The Uncanny X-Man (with Claremont & Byrne), The Fantastic Four (with John Byrne), Iron Man, and many more. Jim was the writer, and then editor of Spidey Super Stories, , a comic created to help children learn how to read. Spidey Super Stories was produced in co-operation with the Children’s Television Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Editing and writing Spidey Super Stories was important in getting Jim to think about comics created for kids.
Jim was also the writer of such comics as Transformers, Visionaries, The Spider-Man Child Abuse Prevention comic, The A-Team, The Inhumanoids, Kool-Aid Man, and more. He also wrote and edited Marvel calendars, toilet paper, coloring books, posters and drinking cups. He also was the editor on Marvel Age Magazine for eight years.
After Marvel, Jim developed a line of comics for the Topps Company, Inc., where he was Editor-in-Chief. At Topps Comics Jim worked with such writers and artists such as Charlie Adlard, Ray Bradbury, Steve Ditko, Keith Giffen, Michael Golden, Don Heck, Gil Kane, Miran Kim, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, Mike Mignola, George Perez, Stefan Petrucha, P. Craig Russell, Scott Shaw!, Roy Thomas, Craig Yoe, and many others. Jim was also Senior Writer/Editor for Stan Lee Media, and a Trustee for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
Programming Notes: Jim is available for panels on his career and comics in general.
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Renee Witterstaetter--(Writer/Editor/Color Artist)</b>
Writer, editor, colorist and publisher Renee Witterstaetter has acted as editor on such books as "Thanos Quest," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Hercules," "Xena," "X-Files," "Conan," "She-Hulk," "The Marvel Holiday Special," "Impossible Man Summer Special," "Jurassic Park," and too many books to mention here.
As a film professional, she has worked on such movies as "Red Dragon" and "Rush Hour 2," while also behind the scenes, racking up credits on dozens of music videos and commercials for artists as diverse as Madonna, Seal and Usher.
Her books as a writer include: "Jackie Chan: Dying for Action," "Nick Cardy: The Artist at War," "Excess: The Art of Michael Golden," "Nick Cardy: Wit-Lash," "Art of the Barbarian," "Michael Golden: Excess," "The Art of Mark Texeira," and her children's book "Kerry and the Scary Things."
In addition, combining her film work with comics, she is a producer of DVD's on various comic book creators and talents in other fields through her partnership with Amdale Media, and has spearheaded mounting art shows and retrospectives in the United States, Spain, China, Russia and other venues worldwide. She has lectured on the industry in China, Spain, Norway, and numerous other countries, not to mention the United States!
She is also the owner of Eva Ink Artist Group, Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking and Happyspacepop.com
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Christopher Rokku Coates-- (Artist)</b>
Christopher Rokku Coates: At young age Christopher was fascinated by Disney animations like Pete’s Dragon, and mickey mouse. Watching the characters come to life on the screen and on the page, he found himself inspired. Over the years Chris grew as an artist; he entered local contests and showcases. Funding each project himself through odd jobs , selling candy to his friends, and eventually selling small pieces of artwork at local skateboard shops. Chris developed a keen eye for design and trends, landing his first job at Design Werks. Specializing in events, Chris created many beautiful pieces for the state of utah. This threw him forward into the art world. He then began working with Activision in the late 2000s , working on major titles such as Guitar Hero and Spider-man. From there he spent the next decade sharpening his skill as a freelance artist in the comic book convention industry. Claiming infamy with the only game accurate prop inspired foam Master Sword, and Link hats, form the Legend of Zelda video game series. As well as, creating countless pieces of commission work, comic book art, and original paintings.
Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-69910271241896121962020-12-24T08:38:00.003-08:002020-12-24T08:39:57.220-08:00Happy Holidays from Eva Ink Artist Group/Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking and HappySpacePOP.com Hello Out there.....
Everyone at <b>Eva Ink Artist Group</b>, <b>Pros & Cons Celebrity Booking</b> and <b>HappySpacePop.com</b> wants to wish you a very happy holiday season as we all look forward to 2021!
Can't wait to see you in person!
Until then, join us for some virtual fun and our <b>FREE</b> Happy Space POP Holiday Special at:
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All of our best to you and yours!!
(Art by Rags Morales)Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-75574171590963879632020-11-03T13:03:00.003-08:002020-12-24T08:46:24.953-08:00Jefferson and the Election of 2020
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Visiting Monticello the day before election day was a tad surreal. It hasn't really opened up much, and tours are self guided. You can walk the grounds virtually alone, except for whispers from the past...
I've been there before, so I know the rooms and the artifacts by heart, so the lack of guide was no trouble to me. In truth, it was nice without the crowd in some ways. Taking my time in the Great Hall.: Remembering the stories of those who had come through the doors; The tales of the busts lining his walls-- those he admired-- Washington, Franklin, Jones, Lafayette, and yes even Hamilton; The adventurous tales to go with his artifacts from Lewis and Clark! He was so fascinated by the Dinosaur bones most of all.
It's such an amazing time capsule, this place.
To me it speaks of dreams.
And today was the most singular of days, being able to linger alone in the rooms most intimate to Jefferson. His sanctuary.
The room beyond is where he did many scientific writings and experiments, the one in which his pet Mockingbird sat on his shoulder and sang as he played the violin, his library of many books not far to the left. The room in the foreground, his private parlor and dressing room with the big window that let in the sun each dawn, his actual boots and other clothing belonging to him still there, at the ready, waiting to start off on his daily ride. And in between, his alcove bed. The one in which he died.
I couldn't help but think of July 4, `1826. The scene that was here: Mr. Jefferson, generally robust, had been declining in health for 2 weeks. He knew he did not have long. He kept asking the date. Asking the time "Is it July 4th yet?" When at last he was told it was "It is July 4th." , he said "Ah... good." He refused any further medication from the doctor administering to his pain, and passed shortly thereafter...
He wanted to live long enough to see the 50th Anniversary of our nation. The one he helped form from spit and polish. And through shear force of will, he did just that.
I think sometimes of the oddness of dying... how all those little things that make up any of us, any individual, just... leaves... like a whisper escaping from the bone bag that contained them. Just like that. The voice, the smile, the talent for language perhaps, the talent for words, the little things they'd say, the way they'd cross their leg when they knew someone was looking at them...just gone. Anyone there knows the moment it happens, when the spark moves somewhere else. But nobody knows if that same alchemy of ingredients will ever be in one person, one place again.
All that is left are those we loved and who loved us, and the good or the bad that we left behind.
In short:
I don't want to know who you vote for. I don't care. If you type it on my page, I'll delete it.
But I hope you will vote . Because it's a glorious thing. People fought for it. People died for it. People dreamed a dream and made it so.
Wednesday, the curtains will open. It will be a new day. And we each will continue to make the differences we can, until we too fade into whisper.
But until then, we'll take our own unique magic mix of assets and see what we can create from what we are given. And if not from what we are given,then from what we can dream.
And no matter what. No matter the outcome, you know what...we'll be okay.
Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-58003494604468120532020-09-07T07:23:00.003-07:002020-12-24T08:46:54.615-08:00Christpher Rokku Coates--Anime Artist Available for Commissions! Have you ever wanted to have a piece of art of your favorite anime character? Or, have you ever wanted to be portrayed AS your favorite anime character? Now is the time folks, the amazing artist, Christ Coates is now taking commissions.
We recently had him on happyspacepopcon.com doing a live commission of voice actors Megan Hollingshead and Quinton Flynn AS their characters Nurs Joy and Kon. It was so great! You can still view the panel on happyspacepopcon.com along with many of our other great pre-recorded panels.
BUT, back to biz-- about those sketches.
Chris can do an 11x17 piece pencils and inks for $200, add color and it's only $250 total. If you want an 8x11 portrait, those are only $90 or $140 with color.
Shipping is an extra $20 within the US.
<b>If you have another idea in mind, just contact Renee at: evaink@aol.com </b>
We'll be happy to give you a quote.
Oh and for voice actors out there, why not have Chris do some pieces for your table!? Contact me for details.
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_LeCcCyLnX1DUbF7gmg4VlUHU-9Fr5wMMUl8tF82VLZHblyJnd_On99Olc6ZhuRcsph2QrwrP59NQF08h-Kk6UdDWwCw5irLkvxQWMnwPs6mMrfUoElR6nAP7NV_8bJTqgNQrt8HoB-O/s640/Screen+Shot+2020-08-20+at+3.21.53+PM.png" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> My Mother had <i>many</i> shoes<br /><br />Over the past few months of looking through her closets… sorting… what to keep… what to throw away… it’s hard when each item reminds you of a <i>time</i>. “Oh, she wore that in <i>that </i>photo with Dad” “Here’s the dress she made for the Bicentennial.” “Oh gosh, this one was so 80’s” ... So many pockets had tissues tucked inside, or a movie stub, or in one case... a nickel and two pennies…<br /><br />Every <i>thing</i> is a time capsule. Every<i> room</i> a time machine. But one that let’s me only observe and not participate, like a movie overlay flickering…. transparently…over what remains… Actors walking in and out in spirit only, since they have exited the stage, in some cases...a <i>long</i> time ago. <br /><br />Maw Maw is sitting on the couch, her throaty laugh. I hear it. Still. She asks me in my mind again, why I bought a red angel for the top of the Christmas tree? I happily say “Well, Maw Maw,” maybe she’s a <i>fallen </i>angel." She liked that one. Or I’ve fallen asleep on the sofa again watching the late late movie and Daddy is waking me up and sending me to bed as he heads off to deliver mail. Sometimes I'd sit with him first and he'd make this mash up of peanut butter, honey, butter and jelly and we would spread it on toast, in our kitchen that was always dimly lit, although I never realized it at the time...Or Mom is on the couch watching “Happy Days,” in the few hours she was home from work at her job at Sears, before going to sleep to wake up and do it all over again. She'd laugh and say "That's so silly"... but only when something <i>silly</i> happened. <br /><br />I get lost in the moments. In the memories. And I pull myself back to the present. <br /><br />For two weekends now I’ve had an “estate sale.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I don’t even know what that <i>means</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As far as I can tell, it’s the dismantling of a life accumulated. A life transferred on to <i>things</i>. Infused cumulatively with the essence of the person who owned them. As a whole they show you a picture of who that person was. And then people come. They look at the "things." You tell them the price is $20. and they offer you fifty cents. You say no. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Because to you, it’s not just a brooch. It was the one they wore when you went to see the “Jungle Book” when you were 5. Remember when you had to come in from playing in the sandbox and she combed the tangles from your hair, and you cried so hard? But then you saw Baloo and Mowgli for the first time, and you smiled, and you forgot the tears. <br /><br />The Bear Necessities. The bare necessities... So after they leave thinking you <i>so</i> unreasonable, you take the brooch from the box, and you put it into the ever growing pile of things you will <i>not</i> sell. <br /><br />My Mother wore many shoes. <br /><br />She grew up in a family that like many during World War II was struggling. She remembered the fireside chats from the President. She remembered her mother canning food to save for these hard times. She remembered the time the jar exploded in the pressure cooker and the glass cut my grandmother’s arm… <i>So</i> much blood... My Mom, roughly 8, I suppose, so scared, ran to a neighbors to get help. She remembered the sound of her shoes on the pavement as she ran. The neighbors, they put my grandmother into their new car to rush her to the hospital. So <i>much</i> blood. The aqua blue interior. Maw Maw always felt bad about that. Mom would never let me buy a pressure cooker. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My Mother filled many shoes. <br /><br />She always had to be older than her years, even as a child. She often took care of her two younger sisters. As a young adult she went to secretarial school to improve her future. She excelled at that. She got a job at East Texas Motor Freight where she met my Dad. They married. I see the picture of Mom and Dad in their wedding clothes in Maw Maw's front yard. Happy. Unaware of what the future would bring. You want to say to them, "Don't worry. SO much of it will be good. " The mid-calf blue satin dress she wore is still folded neatly in the closet. I wonder where the little high heel pumps are? But like so much they were absorbed by time... <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After trying for so long, she finally had her first child, and then two more. She always wanted to be a mother. I was the third, and her last attempt to have a daughter,. <br /><br />If you were to ask her what her greatest accomplishment was, she’d always say “My kids.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope I was what she hoped I would be?<br /><br />She took a job at Sears, and worked her way up from secretary to Personnel Manager— a high position for a women in her day. And she had such delight in giving people their first jobs. In helping when she could. <br /><br />A gentleman stopped by the sale yesterday. He asked “Are you Erma’s daughter.” Yes, I said. "I worked with her at Sears. I was in automotive," he continued. "We loved your Mom. We knew that if there was a problem to just go to her, and if there was a way to solve it, she would.” <br /><br />I thanked him for his kind words. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wonder if life was what she hoped it would be?<br /><br />I never judge my Mother. Her life was a result of her own unique recipe of circumstances. But I never was hungry. I always had clothes. I was given an education. I knew I was loved. I inherited a strong will— probably <i>too</i> strong to her chagrin. If she made mistakes, I don’t dwell on them... it's only fair...as she hardly ever dwelt on mine.... In fact I don’t think I could name her's as true mistakes. Yes, she was nosy, and opinionated, and tried to tell me what to do ALL the time. But I miss those things now... <br /><br />She was the one they all came to when they needed a loan co-signed, a car bought, a problem addressed, money borrowed… sometimes folks would pay her back <i>even</i>. But she’d never ask. She was the one that would worry herself sick. Called at inopportune times. She was also the one who would get dressed, put on her shoes and come to you at any time of day or night. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She was my Mom. <br /><br />So I watch… as people pick up a coffee cup here, a jacket there. And the whole becomes parts, and the picture starts to separate. Like a kaleidoscope turning.... It was one image. Now the picture breaks up. To become something entirely new. <br /><br />Someone else’s picture now. <br /><br />Once when I was a teen I was selected to go on a trip called “Paint the West.” Myself and other girls my age from all over the country went to Montana to paint landscapes and learn more about art. I drew alot in those days. My Mom was very supportive of course, and sent me off on this <i>great</i> adventure. <br /><br />I don’t think she knew we’d be killing the rattlesnake under my tent and cooking it for dinner, but well, that’s our secret. <br /><br />I remember that on the trip we visited a western museum and our assignment was to draw something we saw there. It wasn’t a hard decision for me. I gravitated towards a pair of old cowboy boots. They were cracked and sun-baked, shriveled. creased, slumping to one side. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They were <i>beautiful.</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And I imagined that they were perhaps just as they were when that cowboy took them off for the last time after -- The last ride--The last roundup--The last pony broken. After how many years? And so they sat, and they dried, and they remained. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just as they were. <br /><br />Like forgotten pennies in a pocket. <br /><br />A whole history was there— in their cracked visage if you looked hard enough. To me they were not just boots. They were <i>that </i>story. Of a man. His life. His hardships. An artifact as sure as a fossil I dug from the ground. <br /><br />I suppose that’s why I picked<i> this</i> pair of my Mother’s shoes to show... The ones you see. <br /><br />They are not the prettiest. Those she kept in a box and wrapped in tissue paper in case she wore them for some special occasion again. Maybe a wedding. Maybe a dinner if someone took her (but be warned that even if you did, she'd only order a bowl of soup because she didn't want you to spend the money). They were not the newest. They were not even the most expensive even when <i>new</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But they were the shoes she wore the most. <br /><br />Her joint on one side of a big toe jutted out and after awhile the leather started to stretch. The seam to burst. The sole is worn a little more in places she favored when she walked. The creases formed from constant use tell of the many hours she worked standing, walking, going to church. <br /><br />They tell a story of a long life. Of a beautiful, hopeful girl, who grew up to be a wife, a mother and an executive and tried to balance it <i>all.</i> They tell the story of a woman who worked hard, and loved strong, and who even after she retired, and her husband died, decided to go back to work as a salesperson at the very company she had once helped run... Because she was lonely, and it “kept her mind sharp.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It tells the story of a woman who stayed at her church for over 65 years, a woman of faith, who propelled those shoes-- and others like them-- to go every Sunday, every Wednesday. They tell the story of a woman who worked until she was 84. By choice. Retiring only when she just could not do it any longer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She died at 85. <br /><br />When my Grandmother, Maw Maw, was a teenager, she was thrown from a carriage and broke her back. She was told she’d never walk again. Instead, for a year, while her family worked on the farm, she would drag herself around the house and she taught herself to <i>walk again</i>. There was no <i>"can't"</i> in her.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />My Mother came from strong stock. <br /><br />Those are my Mother’s shoes. <br /><br />Today a lady came to our sale. My Mother’s sale. She walked slow. She’d pause from time to time and reach for something to steady herself. I asked if she needed a chair. She said “No, I’m okay. I just need to take it slow. I'll get there.” <br /><br />Among the newer things in the offing, a pair of silver shoes . The kind my Mom liked-- leather, comfortable-- most important to her in later years. I had bought her numerous pairs of these shoes and she’d <i>worn</i> them out! She loved them so much. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These I had given her for what would be her last Christmas. She never got to wear them. Not even once. <br /><br />“What size are these?” the lady asked <br /><br />“9 W ,” I replied. <br /><br />“My size... ” she said. <br /><br />After my father passed in 1993, I kept a few things. A red flannel shirt he always wore that still smelled like him, a handkerchief with his initials that he kept in his pocket, some items from the Post Office-- his hat... pair of black leather work shoes, he’d ordered but never got to wear, still in the box. I had looked at those shoes that morning, but I could not find <i>him</i> there… and I was surprised.<br /><br />“The silver shoes are so pretty,” she said. “But. I’d be pampering myself <i>too</i> much.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"And you should!" I replied. But she never asked the price. Just looked, and touched the seam of a loafer and held one up to the sun to watch it shine. <br /><br />She picked out a few things, some dresses with a floral print, a red lacy top, and paid for them “That’s about what I can afford today,” she smiled. I thanked her and she slowly walked away with measured, planted, steps. <br /><br />And I realized why I did not see my Father in his leather work shoes. The ones wrapped in a box. It's because of course, unlike the picture above, unlike the boots of the unknown cowpoke, they had never <i>walked </i>with him. They<i> never </i>propelled him through this life. They were a blank piece of paper. An unopened book. A match never struck. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Mom would never walk in the silver shoes either. The ones that shined in the sun. She would never crease them or cause the seams to pop out or wear the edges of the sole on the side she favored. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But <i>someone</i> could…<br /><br />And…I guess so that new stories can be told… because it’s always the <i>stories</i> I love…<br /><br />I went after the lady and I gave her... </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My Mother’s shoes. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-28945678682756628202020-07-29T21:16:00.003-07:002020-07-29T21:17:32.610-07:00Michael Golden "Sketch Masks" Available! <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The "Sketch Masks" have been pretty popular and it's been fun to see what people come up with for ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some examples of the current round Michael just finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">All masks are $35 or $70 for a double mask and that includes the domestic shipping. Mainstream characters are all fair game. </span><br />
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<br />Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-15546801786551214512020-07-12T23:15:00.000-07:002020-07-12T23:19:37.007-07:00Cover Recreations: Venom Lethal Protector #1 by Sam de la Rosa!<br />
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Artist Sam de la Rosa is offering a special recreation Venom Lethal Protector #1 on a blank (blank included) OR you can upgrade to a 12x18 piece of Original Art. <br />
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$400 in pencil</div>
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$600 in ink (color is additional $100)</div>
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$1000. On 12"×18" (logo/ trade dress is printed)</div>
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Postage is $20 for domestic shipping. <br />
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Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-1758296863852130752020-07-12T21:16:00.001-07:002020-07-12T21:16:28.942-07:00New Round of Michael Golden "Sketch Masks" Available! <span style="font-size: large;">The "Sketch Masks" have been pretty popular and it's been fun to see what people come up with for ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some examples of the current round Michael just finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All masks are $35 or $70 for a double mask and that includes the domestic shipping. Mainstream characters are all fair game. </span><br />
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<br />Eva Ink Artist Group / Pros and Cons Celebrity Booking / HappySpacePOPCon.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00860821012687688229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859438595124663351.post-52862725907844791702020-07-09T21:14:00.000-07:002020-07-09T21:18:00.332-07:00Custom "Sketch Masks" by Michael GoldenHi Folks--<br />
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Since it's the new necessary item we all need to have, why not have a little fun with it too?!<br />
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Announcing washable/reuseable "Sketch Masks" by artist Michael Golden!<br />
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Artist on Dr. Strange, Micronauts, Baman, "The 'Nam," Star Wars and so much more, as well as the co-creator of Rogue, you have alot of material to choose from.<br />
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That's right, this is an original piece of art on a MASK, and you get to pick the character you want to sport. Any comic book character is game. And if it's some other character you have in mind, just contact us for details. You never know!<br />
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4, Beauty & Brains with Joycelyne Lew and Ric Myers on July 5, Jim
Shooter on the history of Marvel on July 11, zombie king Arthur Suydam on July 12, <i>Invader Zim </i>reunion with Rikki Simons, Eric Trueheart, and Aaron Alexovich on July 18, <i>Bleach </i>reunion
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Graham Nolan and Chuck Dixon The Bane of Their Existence on August 22,
Cynthia Rothrock: the Queen of Martial Arts with Ric Meyers on August
23, Talkin’ Spidey and Beyond with Todd McFarlane and Jim Salicrup on
August 29, Happy Space Pop Con Jamboree with Renee Witterstaetter and
surprise guests on August 30, and Robert Trebor and the Wisdom of
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mash-ups provide very entertaining stories as seemingly disparate
genres come together and artist Arthur Suydam’s art is a great example</em> of how that can work. His </em>Marvel Zombies <em>and
homage covers have become highly collectible Modern books, featuring
the decaying forms of Marvel’s biggest heroes. Suydam recently talked to
</em>Scoop<em> about those covers, his work on </em>Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth<em>, and how he became a fan of comics.</em><br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>Were you a fan of comics before you got into the industry?<strong><br />Arthur Suydam (AS):</strong>
When I was 5 years old, I was caught in a fire and as a consequence
laid up for a year in the hospital. Having been burned over 50% of my
body, no one expected me to make it and the team of four doctors in
charge of my case lobbied my parents, that perhaps it might be more
merciful to just let me go. My father would hear none of that, and told
them that if they didn't try everything to save his son that he would
kill them.<br />
<img height="259" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402200_2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" />On weekends my parents would come to visit me, and they would bring me comic books to read. DC’s <em>Star Spangled War Stories</em> with dinosaurs, <em>Legion of Super Heroes</em>, <em>World’s Finest</em> and <em>Superman</em>.
At that time those were my favorites. I was wrapped from head to toe in
bandages, wrapped up like a mummy. When I finally was released from the
hospital a year later, I had to relearn how to walk. Soon as they began
to take some of the bandages off my hands I began to draw. I taught
myself to hold a pencil between fingers that were less burned. At that
time, I drew mostly dinosaurs with my older brother who also liked to
draw, later animals, and then superheroes.<br />
In my early teens I stumbled on the Marvel pre-hero sci-fi books from
the “title cut off” comic book returns, because they were cheap and
that’s what I could afford. Three in a pack for 20¢ at the little corner
dime store. The ‘60s sci-fi short stories with the great [Steve] Ditko
and [Jack] Kirby art really caught my attention and called to me and I
became a big Marvel comics fan. I spent all my money on comics. One day,
years later while trading comics with a local neighbor I discovered
these incredible large size black and white horror magazine size comics
with the best comic art I had ever seen. Turns out those were the Warren
books featuring many of the EC comics faculty – Reed Crandall, Al
Williamson, Angelo Torres, Frank Frazetta along with my own personal
hero, Steve Ditko, doing the best work of his career. In fact, they were
all doing the best work of their careers. That work still holds up for
me as the best comic art I’ve ever seen.<br />
<strong><img height="270" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402201_3.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /></strong>I
made a promise to myself that someday I would work for Warren
publishing doing their horror books. Years later, when I was in my
senior year of high school, I went up to visit their editor, Jim Warren
in New York to show him my work. Warren hired me on the spot. However,
when I mentioned that I was still in high school, he informed me that I
had the job if I wanted it, but to come back after I graduated. Upon
graduation, the following year, I returned to New York to begin work at
Warren publishing on their <em>Creepy</em> and <em>Eerie</em> magazines
and on the way, I stopped off at DC Comics to see editor Joe Orlando who
was managing a series of EC/Warren style horror comics for DC. During
the interview, Joe informed me that he was the art director for Warren
who had brought over all the great EC artists to work at Warren. After
reviewing my portfolio Joe asked me to work for DC Comics instead and to
forget about working for Warren. Joe opened up a drawer and told me
that there were 250 scripts in that drawer and that I could have as many
of them as I wanted and he handed me my first script and the pro career
began. My first story was entitled: “Carnival of Dwarfs.”<br />
<strong><img height="259" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402202_4.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>What’s your artistic process like – do you do a lot of preliminary sketches and planning?<strong><br />AS:</strong>
I had an uncle who reportedly studied with Albert Dorne and Norman
Rockwell and I inherited his lesson books from my aunt when I was about 8
years old. That began my formal art studies. Later on, I studied at a
classical atelier recreation of the school of Raphael, Michelangelo, and
Da Vinci in New York City modeled after their old study notes. These
studies inform my drawing process. The Rockwell system, I’d say, is the
system which most resembles my process when painting illustrations. Much
the same for sepia illustrations. I do lots of pre-sketches and
typically a pretty exact ink drawing for most of the covers and then an
exact underpainting.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>How about the environment when you work – do you listen to music, do you like having a view, etc.?<strong><br />AS:</strong> I
like to either listen to a mix of classical solo instrumental
performances – or to silence while working depending on which stage I’m
at in the job. Silence when writing and in the planning stage – and then
solo music in the grunt work stages. I need to be next to a window with
lots of natural light when illustrating. When so many hours are going
into the work, one needs to stretch the eyes to prevent eye strain and
fatigue from setting in and hopefully keep the progress moving.<br />
<strong><img height="276" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402203_5.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>You are well known for attention grabbing cover art. What do you find challenging about crafting covers?<br /><strong>AS: </strong>Typically,
things run pretty smoothly. My MO is always to try to deliver my best
work to publishers. It’s good for everyone. At Marvel I worked directly
with the artist liaison at the time, Chris Allo, who very smartly always
endeavored to place the right artist with the right job and then did
follow through to make it all happen. Chris was one of the instrumental
forces behind the incredible zombie explosion prompted by the <em>Marvel Zombie</em> project.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>Did you like zombie movies as a kid? If so, what’s your favorite?<strong><br />AS: </strong>Actually,
I’ve always had a hard time watching them, mostly because they were low
quality – and then the good ones actually gave me nightmares for
decades. That said, my favorite Z-list goes something like this: <em>Return of the Living Dead</em> – great in large part because the creative team was comprised of talented comic book talent like Dan Obandon and Bill Stout. <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>, <em>Shaun of the Dead</em>, had a nice first half and then fell flat once the comedy fell out in the second act. <em>Marvel Zombies</em> is what prompted the big recent zombie craze and was instrumented in establishing the signing of <em>The Walking Dead</em> AMC TV series. I thought the series was incredible and I like it better than the movies.<br />
<img height="270" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402204_6.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /><strong>Scoop: </strong>Are there any Marvel characters that you wanted to turn into zombies but didn’t get the opportunity?<strong><br />AS:</strong> In the opinion of many fans, there is an untapped gold mine for Marvel in the <em>Marvel Zombies </em>universe, both in publishing and more so on the big screen. The <em>Marvel Zombies</em>
movie is the film all the fans have been calling for for years. I have
IP designs for a comprehensive collection of cutting edge progressive
new <em>Marvel Zombies</em> scripts and series titles here in the office
on ice. Maybe we can all get something to happen there someday. I’d
like to write and do covers for a DC “Batman Zombie” series. I’ve been
pretty busy lately with the <em>KISS Zombies</em> series.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>For <em>Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth</em> you created a series of homage covers for movie posters and other covers. Which was your favorite and why?<strong><br /></strong><strong>AS: </strong>Yea, the whole mash-up homage cover thing I do began with <em>Marvel Zombies</em> and the Dynamite series, <em>Raise the Dead</em>, and <em>Army of D</em><em>arkness vs Marvel Zombies</em><strong><img height="125" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402208_10.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="200" /></strong>.
I was told that fans were collecting the books for the covers,
purchasing five copies of the same book just to get the new covers.
Because these series were big hits, editors kept calling me to work on
their other series. I recall one particular meeting when one editor, who
had been soliciting me for a year to work on his line of books, blew up
because I couldn’t work on his books because all my time was already
contracted with the <em>Marvel Zombie</em> series, which kept selling
out every couple of days mandating new covers for the second, third, and
fourth printings and so on. There were a lot of months where I had very
little sleep during those days. Finally, one day he called me when
there was an opening and I was able to say yes to the <em>Deadpool Merc with a Mouth</em> series, where I continued the homage to the classics direction.<br />
<strong><img height="278" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402206_8.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /></strong>Regarding
favorites, I don’t think I have any favorites. I try to do my best work
on whatever series I’m working on at the time. I believe some of the
fans favorite from that series might be the Nirvana water baby homage I
did for issue 12. That one was based on a cover I did for the Dynamite, <em>Raise the Dead</em>
series. I told Marvel’s editor that I didn’t want to repeat anything I
had already done on another series, however the editor insisted, so here
we are.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>What do you like about working on horror and sci-fi titles like <em>House of Secrets</em> and <em>Heavy Metal</em>?<strong><br /></strong><strong>AS: </strong>I
grew up on horror movies, TV and novels and came into the business
doing horror and have been doing horror my entire life. I guess over the
decades one is informed by what one eats. What I like are writing and
illustration opportunities to do some good work – unrestricted –
uncensored. That’s the opportunity <em>Heavy Metal</em> provided. They
told me I could write and draw anything I wanted and that’s what we all
did. That magazine revolutionized the comics industry.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>You’ve worked on many big name characters
from Black Panther to Wolverine to Ghost Rider and several others. Do
you have a favorite character or title that you like working on and if
so, why that one?<br /><strong><img height="110" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402207_9.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="200" /></strong><strong>AS: </strong>My
favorite gigs are the ones that provide opportunity to try out new
things and that give me a challenge. I like inserting little
ironies into the storytelling of a cover illustration and find that it
can help prevent a theme from going flat.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>In addition to comics, you’ve provided art for the game <em>Touch the Dead</em>, for the novel <em>Dead Street</em>, and worked with the Misfits a few times. How do those projects differ from working in comics?<strong><br /></strong><strong><img height="209" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402205_7.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" /></strong><strong>AS: </strong>There’s
no difference really. Perhaps a bit more of input in the planning stage
from the client working on band album covers, depending on the group.
Bands tend to come to you with an idea of what they want – comic
publishers tend to want me to provide the full concept from start to
finish for a piece.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>Are you a collector? If so, what do you collect?<strong><br />AS:</strong>
These days I collect sculpture and original art. I like to have a piece
by some of the artists whose work I’ve admired growing up. I have a few
in mind from the Warren days I’d love to get ahold of someday – maybe
some splash pages. When traveling I look for little pieces of art that
speaks to me to add to my collection. Could be any genre by anyone. I
like to support other artists.<br />
<strong><img height="280" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/243121_1402209_11.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" />Scoop: </strong>What are you working on now and how can fans support your work?<strong><br />AS: </strong>Well I just finished working on the big <em>Kiss Zombies</em> series for Dynamite and currently I’m working on the <em>Mars Attacks vs Red Sonja</em>
series – the final cover for that series took so long. I had a friend
pose for the main character and spent days painting scores of tiny
Martians running around, driving little space cars and the like. I am
just starting another new series, and as always, teaching Muay Thai.<br />
Fans can come by to see me at any show when shows start up again. I’d
be happy to meet you all. My agents contact is also included in this
article for those who are interested in convention bookings. A big thank
you to all of those who have supported my work over the years.<br />
<em>For more information on booking Arthur Suydam or inquiring about artwork, contact his agent at Eva Ink Artist Group: <a href="mailto:evaink@aol.com" target="_blank">evaink@aol.com</a></em><em>.</em><br />
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onto the big screen. The live-action film took the No. 1 spot on its
opening weekend and since then has become a beloved modern classic among
comic fans and the now-grown kids who saw it in theaters in ’90 and are
showing their children. As the cast and crew celebrate the 30th
anniversary of </i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<i>, Herbeck and Dawson talked to </i>Scoop <i>about the movie, recounting behind the scenes events that brought the</i> Ninja Turtles<i> to life.</i><br />
<i></i><b>Scoop: </b>Let’s start with how each of you got involved in this movie.<b><br />Kim Dawson (KD):</b>
In the summer of 1986, I got a call from my partner [producer] Gary
Propper that he was in Detroit and had found a comic book that was the
first issue of the <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i>, the black and
white. He was a talent manager, managing a comedian named Gallagher
playing at the Fox Theatre. He got so excited when he found this comic
because he felt it could be the first movie that we made. We did a lot
of television projects together, but the first movie we made that could
be a live-action picture. He sent me the comic and then the next day I
called Mirage Studios, who had just signed a deal with Surge Licensing
for treatment and then with the two of them it took us a couple of
months to negotiate the deal and we finally put it together. Actually, I
misspoke, it was the summer of ’87, so by the fall of ’87 we had a deal
in place and that’s when I introduced the project to Bobby.<br />
<b><img height="267" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399054_2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="180" />Bobby Herbeck (BH):</b>
I was working for Golden Harvest, I was writing a movie for them,
they’re out of Hong Kong, they did the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies.
Kim told them “Bobby’s over there working with Golden Harvest, that’s a
perfect fit to make the <i>Ninja Turtles</i>.” Which took some time
to get my boss to put the dots together. He kept telling me, “Write the
movie I’m paying you for and quit bugging me with the pinjin, ninjin
turtles.” He gave it a different title, which someday maybe we’ll do the
<i>Pinjin Ninjin Turtles</i>. A couple of months maybe, it was going around Hollywood.<br />
<b>KD: </b>It was longer than that because by December that
year we had prototype toys from Playmates, and there was a graphic
novel by that point, and there was now going to be a cartoon series
promoting the toy line. The toy line launched at Toy Fair in February of
’88. Bobby and I and Gary Propper went out to Hollywood and talked to
everybody we knew and basically pitched our hearts out. We had the toys,
we had the press kit, we had what we thought was a viable package and
people weren’t buying at that point. Nobody was interested.<br />
<b>BH: </b>I was literally laughed out of some pitch
meetings and after one of the pitch meetings, they called my agent and
said, “Who’s the guy smoking pot that came in with this turtles thing?”
They thought this was just some stoner trying to sell a movie. It didn’t
happen easy, but I kept going back to Tom Gray, my boss at Golden
Harvest. Finally, one night we had a drink and it donned on me, he had a
12 year-old kid at home and I said, “Hey Tom…” and he said “Don’t go
there.” I said, “Just one more time, you go home tonight and ask your
kid about the <i>Turtles</i> because now they’re on TV, building an
audience.” By the time I got back to Long Beach that night he’d left me a
message to call him and get Kim and meet him for breakfast in the
morning. We had a meeting and he was leaving the booth, he calls it he
had one butt cheek off the booth when Kim reeled him back in with “You
have the best martial arts guys in the world. You just put them in the
costumes and dub the voices.” Then he slid back in and the ball started
rolling. It took, maybe three months.<br />
<b><img height="174" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399055_3.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />Scoop: </b>You said it was a tough sell and I was wondering if you saw any reluctance because of <i>Howard the Duck</i> since that was around the same time.<b><br />BH: </b>You are so right my dear. This was Tom Gray’s biggest fear: that it was <i>Howard the Duck</i>. [both laugh]<b> </b><br />
<b>KD: </b>And there was another comic book that had been a live-action picture called <i>Garbage Pail Kids </i>that had also tanked badly. <i>Howard the Duck </i>was obviously George Lucas, and Lucas was…I think everyone at Universal was stunned that the movie didn’t do better.<br />
<b>BH: </b>And again, this wasn’t what Golden Harvest did.
They did these action kick butt martial arts movies; they didn’t do kids
movies. They didn’t have a clue at the beginning and I’m sure Raymond
Chow, the man that owned the company was like “What are you talking
about?” I don’t think he had a clue how you make that movie. As time
evolved with the help of Kim and Gary Propper, rest his soul, the other
producer we lost last year, really the force behind finding the book and
then coming to me, and then working with Tom and putting it in his
brain, really – this is how you do this movie. It just started evolving.
Everything I tell people, Kim and I – it was all timing. It’s like
catching a wave, our timing was perfect. Kids had only had TVs then,
they didn’t have iPads and Xboxes and stuff, they got their
entertainment on TV. <i>Pong </i>was the game.<br />
<b><img height="146" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399057_5.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" /></b><b>Scoop: </b>You
mentioned that part of the pitch was getting martial arts actors and
putting them in the suits, then dubbing the voices. Did you have any
voice or suit actors in mind when you started?<b><br /></b><b>KD: </b>No,
here’s how it went down when Golden Harvest made the deal for the
rights, they sent Bobby to Massachusetts to work with Kevin [Eastman]
and Peter [Laird], they were looking for the right director to do it. We
focused in on Steve Barron who had been doing a lot of Michael Jackson
videos, he did “Billie Jean” and a few others. I think he was the
production designer/art director on <i>Dark Crystal</i>. He just had a
real look that they liked, and I felt that would probably be to our
advantage. So, when Steve came on board, he was good friends with Brian
Henson and together, they convinced Jim [Henson] that the Creature Shop
should be the ones to make the costumes. Brian felt that in order to do
the movie properly, that the actor inside the costume had to be enough
of a stuntman to do a backflip and drop through a simulated manhole
cover. So, they had trampolines in the Creature Shop, so they were
building suits to make those work, so it was really focused around the
puppeteers and the actors that he brought together. The voice actors
were an after thought later on. We didn’t replace those voices until
well after the movie had been finished.<br />
<b><img height="141" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399056_4.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" /></b><b>Scoop: </b>I
wanted to ask about the costumes. We’re at the 30-year mark and the
costumes still look great. I was curious about the process of getting
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop involved. It sounds like they put a lot of
thought into mobility as well as the look.<b><br />BH: </b>A lot.<b> </b><br />
<b>KD: </b>It had to be. There were actually two sets of
turtle costumes: you had the stunt turtles, the guys who did all the
fighting and running, that sort of stuff, then you had the talking
turtles, that were the acting turtles. The acting turtles had, under
their shells, extensive electronics that were the servo motors that were
used to move the facial features. I think what you’re driving at, a key
point of the success of the film, is between the puppeteers who used
joysticks and also remote control gloves called waldos and the actor
inside the suit. There had to be a rapport. Brian was very careful in
casting those parts so that those guys could behave the way the
characters are written, because Bobby wrote these deep characters that
were all differentiated in their words and that had to manifest itself
in how they behaved inside the costume with their facial features and
everything. So, it was a complex dance, if you will.<br />
Steve Barron was at the heart of it because even as they cast all
these characters, he had to be thinking about how they would interact. I
think it was that chemistry between the puppeteers, the actors inside
the costumes, Steve Barron, and Brian, even the script supervisor,
because they were all wired up – could hear one another, talk to one
another. So, aside from the fact that the costumes were operating at 110
degrees of non-air conditioned studios, the sweat that built up in the
costumes kind of shut them down. It kind of fried those electronics on a
regular basis. It took longer to make it than it should have, probably.<br />
<b><img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399058_6.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />Scoop: </b>What story points or background from the comics did you want to include in the movie?<b><br />BH: </b>That
was all by design. Once Tom Gray said he was in, we were going to go
for it. We flew to Northampton to meet Peter and Kevin, to convince
them. My job was to convince them that Golden Harvest was the company to
make the movie – which we did. I got back, not home two days and was
told, “Pack up, you need to go back and sit with Peter and Kevin. They
need to sign off on the story for the movie.” That was not a short and
easy process, it took some time for them both. I’d do a treatment and
give it to them, we’d meet a few days later and I could tell by their
body language that one liked it and one didn’t. That went on for a
while. I finally said one morning, “How did you guys ever get a comic
book done? You can’t agree on anything.” So, they finally agreed and I
came back. I’m getting to answer your question, a lot of it came from
the graphic comic book, obviously, the characters and then to just
delineate them a bit more on screen and some of the story points, plot
points were from the comic book. I added Tatsu to the mix.<br />
<b>KD: </b>You added comedy to it and rapport. The original
comics are pretty anxious. It’s much darker. I think that we knew we
had to make a movie that was PG-13 or PG. We couldn’t make a movie that
was dark and an R. We knew that there was an audience of comic fans out
there, but Tom Gray was interested in the more youthful audience, which
is where New Line felt that they could bring it to the theaters and
attract an audience that was kind of bifurcated. We had a youth audience
in the afternoon and in the evenings and then later at night we had the
cult comic book collectors.<br />
<b><img height="110" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399059_7.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />BH: </b>Two
things here, first of all, Kim’s the one that brought this up a while
ago, Tom didn’t really give two beans about the story as much as the
action, because they were an action company. So, it was not always easy
with him and writing it, as to what they wanted and didn’t want. Once I
was assigned to it, Steve took me to London to write this – which was
great to be away from Hollywood with Steve and do this. I looked at <i>Star Wars</i>,
the first one, I wanted to count the number of battles and I wanted to
see the motivation from Lucas as a writer. I realized each battle had a
reason, a theme. It wasn’t just “Hey we need a battle scene here.” But
that is part of a template.<br />
So, every time in that movie when the Turtles go up against the Foot,
there’s a reason for it. It’s very important in the writing that
Splinter says, I’m paraphrasing this “You never start the fight, you
only defend.” That was the message. I’m a message guy. I love the scene
where he talks to the boys and tells them he loves them and will always
be there. My friends, adults who took the kids to the movie back then,
one big rugby player guy starts crying and says “Oh, man I took my son
to see the movie.” And I asked “What are you crying about?” and he said
“My son looked up and said, ‘Are you my friend daddy?’ and I said ‘Yes’
and he said ‘I love you daddy.’ I started crying and said, ‘I love
you.’” He’s telling me “You piece of s---, you made me cry in front of
my son at the movie theater.” [both laugh]<br />
<img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399060_8.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />For
Kim and I, this has all been wonderful for us because we’ve been kind
of in this bubble. I know when I’m out in the world and someone says,
“This guy wrote the <i>Ninja Turtles</i> movie” the reaction I get. We
are just blown away by the love and devotion of the fans and how many
there are. We had no idea, after all these years. And the second
generation. It’s a blessing.<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>What are each of your favorite parts of the movie?<br />
<b>BH: </b>I
have several, I like the whole thing because it was a success. I love
the opening because kids are at the edge of their seats to see the
Turtles like this. Seeing Raphael lifting the manhole cover and knocking
the light out and you finally see his face from the cop’s bubble light
and the next shot is in the sewer and you see them in silhouette. I get
goosebumps every time. I think that was a brilliant thing. The beginning
for me.<br />
<b>KD: </b>One of my favorite parts of the movie is the
farmhouse. When they go to the farmhouse and the things that happen
there. The dialogue between Donny and Casey and certainly the repertoire
between Casey and April, I love. The Kodak moment when Raphael wakes up
and Leonardo is there is my favorite moment in the movie because it’s
like what brothers would do. “Get a grip. What’s the matter with you?”<br />
<b><img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399062_10.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" /></b><b>BH: </b>Two
of my favorites scenes are that Kodak moment and the one when they
bring April down to the den and she’s passed out and they look at
Splinter and say, “Can we keep her?” that had all kinds of connotations
to me. I just love that.<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>Did you have any pushback from the studio or censors regarding the fighting in the movie?<br />
<b>KD: </b>It’s
interesting. Particularly in certain territories around the world,
there was a fair bit of pushback. Norway, I think they changed the name
to <i>Hero Turtles</i>. I don’t think it got nearly the traction it
could have or should have in Japan or Korea where martial arts are a big
thing because they felt it was –<br />
<b>BH: </b>A mockery.<br />
<b>KD: </b>Right. Whereas the guys who played the characters, the stunt Turtles, Pat Johnson was the choreographer and he did all the <i>Three Ninja </i>movies,
he was brilliant. He was an amazing fight choreographer. You just can’t
say enough. Oddly enough, the second and third film don’t have quite as
much violence in them. This was back in a time when violence wasn’t
tolerated as much as in today’s world, when you compare movies where
they’re blowing the crap out of stuff. There was pushback. We did get
some from whatever organization in Washington, DC pushes back on kids’
violence. The truth is, when you look at it, these fights do have a
message and all that. The movie’s an allegory for things that are going
on in life that are much deeper and richer than a 7 or 8-year-old can
understand, I think. There’s a lot of double entendre in the film and
that’s all due to Bobby and [co-screenplay writer Todd Langen] and the
words that they wrote and built the characters and certainly the
direction. But, there was some pushback.<br />
<b><img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399061_9.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" /></b><b>Scoop: </b>The
movie has built a legacy. It was No. 1 on its opening weekend, a lot of
people consider it among their favorite movies, and the kids who saw it
in 1990 are showing <i>their </i>kids now. As the movie is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, what are you feeling as you reflect back on it?<b><br />KD: </b>Oh,
how blessed we were to be involved. I swear. In life you have those
moments where you can go left or right, it’s that Robert Frost poem “The
Road Less Traveled” it feels like we arrived in that moment at the
right time in our lives. It’s been that sort of thing. It kind of
launched a whole new career for me, because I was a television producer
up until that time and I’ve been able to produce films since then and
I’ve made amazing relationships with people.<br />
So, as I start to build from 30 years ago the things I’ve been able
to do as a result of that particular picture, it’s a blessing. When the
movie was first released, I’d moved to Orlando to produce <i>The Mickey Mouse Club </i>for
Disney Channel. I was out of the Hollywood mix and I’ve been able to
stay in Florida as a result of the film because we did three in a row.
Two up in North Carolina where it was easy to get to and the third film
was made out in Oregon. For me, it was just that seminal moment that
broke open a new pathway in what was now a long career. I started in the
mid-‘70s in the film and television business. For me, it was just that
opportunity where you got to take a path that you never even
anticipated. I owe that to GP, Gary Propper was my partner, like I said,
he was the manager of Gallagher at the time. We made a dozen specials
for Showtime and I’d done a lot of work in entertainment and sports
prior to that. Once we started down the path of Turtles, it kind of gave
me a new perspective of what the world was about because it was
frivolous and it was lightning in a bottle. No doubt about it.<br />
<img height="175" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399063_11.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />[<i>Editor’s Note: Kim Dawson had to end his portion of the interview at this point for another engagement.</i>]<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>Bobby, do you want to comment on getting pushback from the studio or censors regarding the fighting in the movie?<b><br />BH: </b>Like
Kim said, we did get that, you always get it, but to go a step further
on what Kim was saying about the Asian market, according to Tom Gray who
was running the company at the time, he told me a couple of year ago – I
was shocked – this movie didn’t really play in Asia at all. They didn’t
want it. It played everywhere else in the world. I think he told me
there was no Asian market, therefore the foreign numbers weren’t very
good, box office-wise. Now, once it was a hit, they started buying into
it because it became a phenomena around the world. It just brought
awareness to it – this little graphic book that was in a store in
Detroit. It just put it on the map and Peter and Kevin.<br />
The other thing, when I was writing the delicate balance I always
felt was not to write down to the kids on this movie and to write
straight across and keep the parents in mind because you had the
teenagers and then you had the younger kids. Like Kim said, there were
two groups that went to the movie. I always say that part of the success
of the movie is that it was written such that the parents – and I know
for a fact because I’ve had parents tell me – they took the kid to see
it, kind of begrudgingly, and come home and call their sister or brother
or friend and say, “It was really a cute movie. It’s really good, go
see it, you’ll enjoy it too.” So that helped.<br />
<img height="134" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399064_12.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />In
the business, they’re making big money on these movies, these tentpole
movies, because people are going back to see them again. I’m not a math
person, but someday I’m going to ask somebody what they think the box
office would’ve been today at today’s price of a ticket, because you
remember, tickets were a heck of a lot cheaper in 1990. I’d be curious
what that number would’ve been today.<br />
Tom Gray and I had made a bet. We were going to lunch the week before
it opened, and he was nervous as hell. He said, “Herbs, I think we’ve
got <i>Howard the Duck </i>on our hands.” I said, “No, we have an audience. <i>Howard the Duck </i>fell
out of the sky. We have an audience already waiting to see this.” He
said, “What do you think it’s going to do opening weekend?” I said, “My
money is on $20 million-plus.” And he goes, “From your mouth to God’s
ears. If that movie opens to $20 million the first weekend, Golden
Harvest will buy you anything you want.” I didn’t go for the house. So,
we’re in his car going to lunch in Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevard
where they cross and this beautiful black convertible two-seater
Mercedes pulls up and I said, “I want one of those.” And I was about to
get married to boot. And he said, “You got it Herbs. If the movie does
$23, $25 million the first weekend.” To this day, 30 years later, no I
never got the car.<br />
<img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399065_13.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />And
I say, that is typical Hollywood. They love you at the time and
then…next… They didn’t let me write the sequel. I didn’t have a sequel
to write. They didn’t let Judith [Hoag] come back for the sequel either
to play April. That’s all Raymond Chow because he’s very tight. When you
write a movie, if you write the sequel, it’s called your quote – what
you got paid to write the first one, they have to up the ante on the
second one. He didn’t want to do that. He didn’t let me have the sequel.
I was not happy at all. I said to Tom, how can you let this happen, I’m
the one that brought you the movie? He said, “Well, my hands are tied.”
I did not leave with very good feelings there. Tom was very upset when
we won the People’s Choice Award on national TV and Kim and I are on
stage thanking everybody and Tom, to this day, has not gotten over that
we didn’t thank him.<br />
There’s just so many things to the story. We’re doing a documentary
series on this whole history from the beginning of Peter and Kevin to
how this movie got made and subsequently what happened during and what’s
happened over the years after and the lawsuits and the this and that.
The latest chapter after this is the coronavirus. We were all set, 30th
anniversary. The virus couldn’t have hit on the 29th or the 31st
anniversary – on the 30th the virus hits. We were supposed to do
WonderCon and Comic-Con, we were supposed to do a series of autograph
shows and other cons. But everything’s shut down.<br />
<img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399066_14.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />But,
we found a workaround with social media. We’re doing a pizza party on
the 23rd of May on our YouTube channel at 8 at night Eastern, 5 Pacific.
Judith, bless her, has rounded up not only the cast, but she got Steve
Barron, Brian Henson, Kim and I are going to be on it. It’s just a thank
you to the fans. No money involved here. This is just a thank you to
everybody and our way of showing some appreciation. It’s the first time
we will have all been together in all these years.<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>You have the documentary and the pizza party. Are you working on anything else for the anniversary?<br />
<b>BH: </b>We’re
going to do a book. We just talked to Neca who had some ideas, because
they think it should be a coffee table book with pictures and stuff.
They’re going to join forces with us. This guy Randy [Falk] is amazing,
the guy that runs that company and his partner, the guy who designs
stuff, Trevor [Zammit]. I thought, “this will be a half-hour
conversation [referencing a call from earlier in the day], we’ll get to
Amanda in no problem.” This thing went on and on. They’re doing a whole
line of 30th anniversary toys that are going to be in Walmart and Target
in June. When it comes to the Turtles, they do a lot of other action
figure stuff, but when it comes to the Turtles, all they are interested
in are the early Turtles. Not today’s, they just want ones from our
time. They think they’re the original, and I agree.<br />
<img height="124" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399068_16.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />I’m
not a big Michael Bay fan and what he did to the Turtles. I get asked
that in a lot of interviews. Frank’s TV interviewed me last year and
asked, “What do you think of the Michael Bay Turtles?” and I said, “Not
much.” They didn’t change Superman and Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and
how Batman looked. Maybe a subtle change, but not a change like that, to
a point where there… My grandson jumped in my lap, he was 6 when he
first saw the first Michael Bay one and he said “Pop-Pop, why’d you make
them so scary?” I said, “I had nothing to do with it.” They are!
They’re just not the sweet, fun looking little Turtles.<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>One of the things I like about this movie is
that April O’Neil isn’t just a damsel. Raphael does save her, but she
has gumption and attitude. Was it important to you to write her that
way?<br />
<b>BH: </b>Absolutely. I asked [Judith] what was the
hardest scene in the movie, I knew what it was, it was waking up and
discovering Splinter and the Turtles and she has to scream and jump up
on the couch. She said that was the scene and I said I thought that was
the hardest to do. That scene I didn’t like that much, not her fault. I
didn’t want her to look like some screeching little… I had a thing in my
comedy act that when you look at older movies, the woman when she
always fell down. How come the men don’t fall down? I fall down all the
time. You see a woman running and she falls, you go “C’mon, with the
falling. Stop falling.”<br />
<img height="125" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399069_17.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="220" />I
wanted her to have just a little edge to her because that’s what the
‘90s was, you know. Women were raising a little hell about the glass
ceiling and I thought she should not be the atypical woman that they put
on the screen. She could carry her own and in real life, she is that
way. She’s a tough broad. I love her. I mean it, she’s been a godsend
for us, putting this thing together. I said, “You’re our superstar,
you’re going to get the Oscar for this – I’m not sure what we’ll call
it. Best supporting, that’s for sure.”<br />
<b>Scoop: </b>Before Kim got off the phone, I asked how
he’s feeling as he reflects on how popular the movie is and the fact
that people who saw it in 1990 are showing <i>their </i>kids now. With the 30th anniversary this year, how are you feeling?<br />
<b>BH: </b>I’m
a weepy guy. I’m very sensitive and I cannot tell you…I’m touched. I’m
almost going to cry. I’m touched by it all, I’m overwhelmed. When my
wife and I go to a public function… I’ll give you a couple quick
examples. I go to a wedding last year and there’s people in their 30s,
mainly, at this wedding. Someone mentioned, “See the guy over there, he
wrote <i>Ninja Turtles</i>, the movie.” So, when I’m leaving, I was
stormed by about eight guys going out the door, saying, “Dude, you can’t
go” and when they say “dude,” I know they know. “Dude, can we get a
picture with you?”<br />
<img height="297" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242751_1399070_18.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="200" />It’s
happened again and again to almost the point of embarrassment. I’ve
been invited to celebrity events and I used to be a judge at the
Pepperdine Songfest that the students put on every year. The first year I
went, I was sitting next to Ben Stein and some other faces. Ben was
introduced and he got a nice ovation and they go “Bobby Herbeck” and I’m
standing up and they say, “The man who wrote the first <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i>
movie” and as I’m standing up – my wife will tell you – the kids jumped
up and were screaming like I was Elvis. I shot back down in the seat.
This was an auditorium full of kids.<br />
At the intermission, someone came in the green room and asked, “Are
you here for the second part of the show?” and I said, “Yes, I’m
judging.” They said, “Oh man, you aren’t going to believe this.” There
were all kinds of students putting on productions, song and dance. The
second number, these four guys come out – they didn’t know I was going
to be there – they come out on stage dressed as Ninja Turtles. They’re
singing a number and pointing out at me. I look at Tami [his wife] and I
got tears, and said, “Can you believe this?” That’s why the kids wanted
to know if I was going to stay. And I was mobbed afterwards when the
show was over.<br />
I’m just saying, it’s there, it’s been there and now I’m realizing
it’s bigger. When we talked to TMNT Minute podcast, I said, “So what do
you think, we have several thousand fans?” And they said, “No dude, it’s
in the millions.” I said, “You’re kidding me.” And that’s what the Neca
guys are saying. That’s what Randy was saying today. I’m just blown
away, you know? In my business… First of all, to get a hit like this and
it <i>lasts</i> this long, and still has a gravity pull? You just
can’t be more blessed than that. I’m serious. We got so lucky. I’ve
tried to get another one all along the way, but lightning only strikes
once. Now, George Lucas is a different cat, but we’ll take this. The
second one did okay, but everybody loves the first movie. I’m blessed.
And people like you, I can’t thank you enough for wanting to take your
time and hear what we have to say, but beyond that being a fan. That’s
why we’re doing this.<br />
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In particular, Nolan made his mark on the Dark Knight by co-creating
Bane, one of Batman’s most formidable foes. Nolan recently spoke to </em>Scoop<em> about his work on these titles, the significance of Bane, and what he’s working on now. </em><br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>Were you a fan of comics when you were growing up?<br /><strong>Graham Nola</strong><strong>n (GN):</strong>
Oh, yeah. I started with monster magazines which always had articles or
ads about comics. I really got into them when my 6th grade teacher
brought a stack for the class to read at recess.<br />
<strong><img height="257" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397546_2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="175" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>What’s your artistic process like – do you do a lot of preliminary sketches and drafts?<br /><strong>GN: </strong>At
this point in my career, no. I layout the story and nail it about 90%
of the time. If I get stuck on something or I don’t like my attempt, I
keep it as a placeholder and move on to return to it later when I have a
clearer head.<br />
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<strong>Scoop: </strong>In Bane, you co-created a
villain who quickly became one of Batman’s most formidable foes. What
went into creating that iconic character?<br /><strong>GN: </strong>Bane was a necessary story element needed for the <em>Knightfall</em>
story arc that Denny O’Neil wanted to tell. We needed a villain to take
out Batman so we could replace him with a meaner, more ruthless Batman.
Fans were going nuts over the Punisher and Wolverine who killed their
opponents and thought Batman should do the same. We wanted to show them
why that was wrong and give them a Batman that did kill. There was
nobody in Batman’s rogues gallery at the time to do it, so Bane had to
be created. Chuck Dixon came up with his background and I designed the
character based on where he was being raised and certain story needs.</div>
<strong><img height="259" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397547_3.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="175" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>Which of the stories you worked on in <em>Detective Comics </em>and other Batman books was the most challenging? Why?<strong><br />GN: </strong>Every
story presents its own challenges, whether it be the staging, the
locations, reference needed, etc. I did them so long ago, I can’t think
of any off hand that were harder than another.<br />
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<strong>Scoop: </strong>What does it take to set and maintain the tone in Batman comics?<strong><br />GN: </strong>Batman
was my favorite hero as a young boy growing up watching the Adam West
TV show and reading the comics of the ’70s. Every artist has their
approach to the character, mine is based on that he is a hero first.
Everything he does is a self-sacrifice. It’s not revenge, nor is he a
psychopath. That is the first thing that goes into his “look.” The rest
is steeping this hero, clad in dark colors (that really represents
“light”) into a shadowy world filled with bad people. He is the Dark
KNIGHT. That errant knight on a holy crusade seems to have gotten lost
and everyone seems to concentrate on the DARK aspect which tends to make
the character a selfish narcissistic nutjob.</div>
<strong><img height="277" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397548_4.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="175" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>What did you like about working on <em>The Phantom </em>Sunday strip?<strong><br />GN: </strong>The Phantom is a great character and I had a lot of fun working on him. He was my Mom’s favorite character growing up.<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>How is working on a Sunday strip different from working on a monthly comic? Does one present more of a challenge than the other?<strong><br />GN: </strong>The
biggest difference is the format. A comic book page is a blank canvas
that you can layout the story any which way that works. Comic strips
have panel breaks and tiers that have to be adhered to because
newspapers cut them up to fit the formats of their Sunday comics pages.
Much more freedom on a comic book page.<br />
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<strong><img height="271" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397549_5.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="175" />Scoop: </strong>What was your favorite part about the more futuristic look and gritty feel in <em>Hawkworld</em>?<strong><br />GN: </strong>The
futuristic look and grit of Hawkworld was all established in Tim
Truman’s prestige series. Hawkworld was my first big job where I got to
start a series with #1 and help guide it forward.</div>
<strong>Scoop: </strong>How did you come up with the concept for <em>Monster Island</em>?<strong><br />GN: </strong>I
was getting fed up with the direction of comics in the late ’90s. The
superhero comics were too violent and overly sexualized for me to give
comp copies to my young daughters. I decided to write and illustrate an
“all ages” comic filled with high adventure that someone of any age
could read and enjoy on different levels.<br />
<strong><img height="154" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397550_6.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 3px 6px;" width="200" /></strong><strong>Scoop: </strong>You’re working on a sequel, right? What’s the premise for that one?<strong><br />GN: </strong>The sequel, <em>Return To Monster Island</em> is done and published. It and the original can be purchase here: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/graham-nolan-s-return-to-monster-island#/" target="_blank">www.indiegogo.com</a>.<br />
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<strong>Scoop: </strong>Outside of comics, you provided art for <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em>. What were those experiences like?<br /><strong>GN: </strong>The <em>D&D</em> gigs were some of my first freelance jobs. I was never into that gaming, but it was fun and a challenge to work on that stuff.</div>
<strong><img height="253" src="https://scoop.previewsworld.com/news_images/4/242371_1397551_7.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 3px 6px;" width="175" />Scoop: </strong>Switching gears, are you a collector? If so, what do you collect?<strong><br />GN: </strong>I’m trying to collect all the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby <em>Fantastic Four</em> comics. The only big one (as in expensive) that I’m missing is #5, so if anyone wants to make a deal…<br />
<strong>Scoop: </strong>What are you working on now and how can fans support your work?<strong><br />GN: </strong>I’m currently finishing up <em>The Expendables Go To Hell</em> graphic novel with Chuck Dixon which is available here: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-expendables-go-to-hell-graphic-novel#/" target="_blank">www.indiegogo.com</a>.<br />
<em>For more information on convention appearances or commissions for
Graham Nolan, contact his booking agent at Eva Ink Artist Group at: </em><a href="mailto:evaink@aol.com"><em>evaink@aol.com</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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