Guests & Featured Panelists
Guests
Featured Panelists
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| Martin Billany (Little Kuriboh) |
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Creator of Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series, Martin “LittleKuriboh” Billany has been banned from YouTube on more occasions than Fred has subscribers. His series however, is alive and kicking and he has somehow convinced people that parodying a show about teenagers saving the universe with trading cards is a fine art. Suckers. |
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| Ian Boothy |
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Ian Boothby is an Eisner and Canadian Comedy Award winning writer and comedian who has written for the youth programs Switchback, Street Cents, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Animal Crackers, Weird-Ohs, Yvon of the Yukon and Ricky Sprocket Showbiz Boy. He is also the writer of the direct to DVD film Casper’s Haunted Christmas and the holiday special Scary Godmother 2: The Revenge of Jimmy.
Ian’s freelance work for comic books has included The Flash, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Lab and Scooby Doo.
Ian’s has created the CBC pilots Vancouver PM, Space Arm, I Dig BC and Canadian Content as well as the Global pilot Channel 92. He is currently developing an animated sketch comedy pilot with David Fine and Alison Snowden (Oscar winners for the animated short film Bob’s Birthday).
His CBC sketch comedy series The 11th Hour was called, “The funniest sketch show since SCTV” by the National Post and The Simpsons’ Matt Groening has called Ian a “One man writing crew.”
Ian currently writes for Bongo Comics’ The Simpsons and Futurama comic books |
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| Chloe Chan (Nuu) |
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Chloe Chan, who goes by the alias Nuu online, is the visual art aspect of a creative team that makes original comics and doujinshi. She is best known for her work on the shounen-ai webcomic Honeydew Syndrome (http://www.honeysyn.net), but she now also runs the webcomic Two Keys (http://www.two-keys.com). A graduate from the design program at Capilano University in Vancouver, she specializes in illustration and is now freelancing as an illustrator, painter, and comic artist. Her personal goal is to pop all of the popcorn in the world. And then eat it. |
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| Cloudscape Comics |
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You probably have heard about them already if you are into the art scene in Vancouver. Cloudscape is to be an organization where talented comic artists can meet and support one another while contributing to the already flourishing comics community in the Lower Mainland. Besides some of our artist guests, below are some other members that will be there at Anime Evolution 2010. You can also read more about them at http://www.cloudscapecomics.com.
Steve LeCouilliard is a relative newcomer to the Vancouver comix scene. A freelance storyboard artist, Steve makes his living in Vancouver’s animation industry. In 2007, his lifelong love affair with comics, and frustration with the business of television, led him to start his own webcomic, Much the Miller’s Son. The strip, a comedic re-telling of the legend of Robin Hood through the eyes of the least Merry Man, has drawn the attention of many influential cartoonists, and is currently in it’s second volume. Steve lives in Coquitlam with his wife and two young sons.
Wei Li is a Xeric Award winning Vancouver artist and writer. He is a graduate with his BBA from Simon Fraser University and is currently doing the commercial animation program at Capilano University. Wei was born in Shenzhen, China and immigrated to the United States at 9 years of age. He and his family arrived in Canada in 2001 and have remained here since.
Wei spends most of his time drawing, and when we say most, we mean about 95% of his waking hours. He has been drawing comics as long as he’s had a pencil on a piece of paper, with Anatta being his first serious attempt at a webcomic.
Wei lives and works in his Coquitlam apartment with his two cats, Eire and Charlie and his partner and often co-artist, Anise Shaw.
Anise Shaw is a Vancouver-born comic artist and a director of Cloudscape. With a BFA in Visual Arts, she spent most of her degree pretending she wasn’t a comic artist at all. Nonetheless, she continued to draw and paint, starting with her collaborative comic Anatta. Anise’s current project is The Liberation of Bailey Giordano, an online comic about the quirky sex lives of suburban inhabitants.
As a bread earning project, Anise is a cartooning, animation and visual arts instructors for several municipalities in the GreaterVancouver area. She loves teaching after school program to children as they tend to be great sources of laughs, unbridled aspirations and artistic inspiration. She lives with her partner, Wei Li and is often caught cooing at something cute her two cats are doing.
Jeff Ellis, born and raised in Vancouver, is the chief cat herder behind Cloudscape Comics. When he’s not waving around the cat nip he’s drawing Teach English in Japan, his webcomic inspired by his time spent as an English teacher abroad.
As a teacher and Cloudscape organiser, Jeff has carried a mandate to support and grow the Vancouver comics scene. As such, he has organised and edited four Cloudscape anthologies, numerous comic events and lent his time and support to such community building endeavours as Anime Evolution.
Reetta Linjama is an artist, animator and new member to Cloudscape comics. Hailing from Finland, Reetta arrived in Vancouver to complete the commercial animation program at Capilano University. She brings a passionate and quirky sensibility to the local comic community and has consistently contributed quality short comics for the weekly Cloudscape comic battles. Reetta is hoping to cut her teeth on the upcoming Cloudscape comic anthology based on Journeys.
By day Jonathon Dalton is an elementary school teacher in the town of Mission, just outside Vancouver. By night his main ambition seems to be drawing comics, a few of which have been published, and most of which are on his website. Some day he hopes to get paid for the comics he makes. Jonathon has also lived in Toronto, the United States, Taiwan, and Britain, though he swears he is staying put from now on. Quite frankly however, I don’t believe him. |
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| Richard Ian Cox |
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Richard Ian Cox has been acting in film and television since the late 1700′s. Understandably, work was hard to come by in the early days before the invention of either medium. It wasn’t until the release of the first talkies in 1927 that Richard’s career started to show signs of life. He first became known to the viewing public with the airing of “The Adventures of the Black Stallion” in 1990. Richard’s modern career has included regular stints on “Cold Squad”, “Beggars and Choosers”, “Breaker High”, as well as guest starring roles on “Stargate: SG1″, “Stargate: Atlantis”, “Eureka” and films including “Alive”, “R.V.”, “Battle in Seattle”, “Ghost Rider”.
Richard has also enjoyed a varied career in animation . . . well not the animation part, the talking part. Roles in “Ranma ½”, “Inuyasha”, “Botsmaster”, “Trouble Chocolate”, “First Gundam”, “Mega Man”, “Gundam Seed”, “Hamtaro”, “Gundam 00″, “Being Ian”, “X-Men Evolution”, “Will and Dewitt”, “Care Bears”… and a bunch of other stuff has earned Richard a reputation as a guy who knows which end of a mic to speak into. These days Richard is hard at work trying to solve the current economic crisis. He’s pretty sure it involves jelly beans. Check Richard out on Facebook, Twitter, and on his website at www.richardiancox.com.
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| Brian Dobson |
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From a young age Brian Dobson has been developing and honing his wide vocal range. His venture began in theatre staring in high school plays and eventually joining his first theatre group “The First Company”. Following that Brian worked as a DJ until he eventually discovered the wild world of animation, where he soon found a new comfortable home.
Brian has brought life to a wide range of characters over the years including Skeletor on the Emmy award winning series – He Man and the Masters of the Universe as well as Ben Grim/Thing on the all new Fantastic Four, Brutus in the new Barbie 9 Movie, Unagi and Paradoxter in Sushi Pack, Uncle Dumpling on Pucca, and Principal Kirkpatric and Mr. Spoerseclipe on YTV’s Galaxy High. Other highlights include – Bratz, Martha Speaks, Holly Hobbie and Friends, Dragons Fire & Ice, GI Joe – Venom vs. Valor and Spy Troops the Movie, Alien Racers, Go-Bots, Zoids Fuzors.
The world of Anime also keeps Brian busy with an array of credits to his name. You may recall his voice powering up the Super Evil Majin Boo and Dr Jero on Dragon Ball Z or as the autobots – Red Alert and Clocker on Transformers- (Armada & Cybertron). You’ve also heard his voice in Escaflowne, Ghost in the shell-SAC, Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Seed Destiny, Gundam00, Ramna 1/2, Inuyasha, Megaman NT Warrior, Star Ocean EX, Project Arms, Trouble Chocolate, Master Keaton, Hikaru no Go, Eon Kid, Black Lagoon, not to mention Hidekki Ede and Kiichiro Osoreda on the mega hit Death Note!
In addition to animation, Brian works frequently in the realm of video games, recently completing the newest installment of the Warhammer 40,000 series voicing the characters Gabriel Angelos and Ork Bosses. Other games include, Scarface, Frogger Beyond, Kessen, Barbie, Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare, World War II Sniper: Call to Victory, Western Outlaw: Wanted Dead or Alive, and Navy Seals.
Brian has also lent his voice to many live action television and feature films. His credits include – The Chronicles of Narnia, Narnia: Prince Caspian, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and, The Adams Family. |
| Omar Dogan |
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Omar Dogan is a Toronto Canada-based artist at UDON who has worked in animation, comics and video games.
His many credits include comics like Street Fighter Legends: Sakura & Chun-Li, Darkstalkers, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, Vampi and Xin and video game art design for Konami’s New International Track & Field and Capcom’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Tatsunoko VS Capcom. In addi tion to that, his artwork has graced sourcebooks for the Dragonlance and Exalted RPG series. |
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| Camilla d’Errico |
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Camilla d’Errico, is an Italo-Canadian visual artist based out of Vancouver, BC. She illustrates comic books and is also a painter in the Pop Surrealism genre. Her style is heavily influenced by manga and her use of bright colours and ability to convey intense emotions is a hallmark of her work. Her numerous projects have included co-creating a two issue graphic novel for Avril Lavigne titled Make 5 Wishes, published by both Del Ray Manga and Random House, as well as Tokyo Pop. Camilla抯 artwork can also be found in the videgame Sky Pirates of Neo Terra, as well as its spin-off five issue mini-series of the same name, published by Image Comics. She also creates and self-publishes her own extremely popular series, Tanpopo and creates or licenses merchandise based on the characters. Camilla’s cutting edge manga-inspired work can be found in comics, video games, toys, her own line of clothing, and in art galleries around the world. In her art she has created the perfect balance between sugary cute and surreal creepiness.
Visit her site at http://www.camilladerrico.com/ |
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| Matthew Erickson |
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Matthew Erickson, is happy to spend his 4th year at Anime Evolution. Most recently, he is the voice of Nobu in Nana. He is also the voice of Shinn in Gundam Seed Destiny, Waya in Hikaru No Go, Trunks in Dragonball GT, Ike in Shakugan no Shana, Van in Zoids: Chaotic Century, Jinto in Banner of the Stars, and Yuhi in Ceres. He can’t wait to see some of the crazy cosplay and join in the general bedlam of the convention. |
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| Pia Guerra |
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Pia Guerra is a Canadian comic book artist best known for her work as penciller and co-creator of DC/Vertigo’s Y – The Last Man with writer Brian K. Vaughan. She has won several awards including a Spike TV Scream Award, a Shuster, a Harvey and two of the comic industry’s top prize, the Eisner.
She has been nominated for numerous other awards including the Hugo Award and Prix Du Scenario from the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
She has also drawn stories for Doctor Who, Torchwood Magazine, Comic Book Tattoo, Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror Comics, Spider-Man Unlimited, illustrated for White Wolf gaming manuals, produced storyboards for commercials and worked as a production designer on a sci-fi television pilot.
Pia currently lives in Vancouver BC, and is married to the very talented writer Ian Boothby. They have two cats. |
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| Todd Haberkorn |
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Todd Haberkorn, is currently a proud member of the Anime community and continues to be its humble servant by way of english dubbing. Haberkorn received his BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and continues to work professionally primarily in Texas and surrounding states as an actor, director, producer, and writer. Unfortunately, the Funimation Podcast is no more, so you won’t see him as the host of that (unless everyone bans together and writes to Funimation!! -there might be a box set in it for ya!!). As far as shows go, catch Todd’s voice as lead roles in Sgt. Frog as Keroro, Suzuka as Yamato, Ghost Hunt as Naru, Claymore as Raki, Holic as Wataknuki, D. Gray Man as Allen Walker, Sands of Destruction as Kyrie, Soul Eater as Death the Kid, and some others he can’t say right now. A few supporting roles include Itsuki in Shuffle, Ichimoruken in Hell Girl, Firo in Baccano!, Kono in Darker Than Black, Hikaru in Ouran High School Host Club and Khoza in One Piece. Check out most of the shows listed above on Hulu.com and not illegally please  When not in the booth, Todd is a producer with his company, Out of the Office Productions. Also check out his weekly podcast with Leah Clark called Popcast Weekly (popcastweekly.com). Todd is represented by The Horne Agency. |
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| Marÿke Hendrikse |
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Marÿke Hendrikse has been a professional actor for just over two decades, performing in theatres across Canada and the US, and lending her voice to hundreds of episodes of animated series. Roles include Marigold and multiple magical others in ‘Moville Mysteries’, Lunamaria Hawke in ‘Gundam Seed Destiny’, Wang Liu Mei in ‘Gundam 00′, Thunderblast in ‘Transformers: Cybertron’, Anetta in ‘MegaMan NT Warrior’, Tabby in ‘.hack//Roots’, Bubbles in ‘Powerpuff Girls Z’ , and two of her personal faves: Revy in ‘Black Lagoon’, and Susan Test in ‘Johnny Test’. Marÿke also volunteers with youth in the Vancouver area; and fends off attacks (which she considers unwarranted) from her golden-eyed cat Grrr. |
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| Hypergate Studios |
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HGS Comics is a Northwest based company. We create our own comic books from storyboarding, main pencils, digital inking, and full coloring. We are a group of friends that love everything about comics and general nerdisms. HGS comics is our way to share all the things we create and love with everyone else out there like us! Our main comic title is Artemis. To learn more about her and visit their website at www.hgscomics.com.
Photo (bottom): Nate Campen, Kristyn Wilson, Eric Johnston, Brad Duncan (not pictured: Brad Thomas)
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| Carl Horn |
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Carl Gustav Horn, Dark Horse manga editor, has been a professional editor, writer, and publicist in the U.S. anime and manga industry for over ten years. His projects have included the English edition of Kaiji Kawaguchi’s Eagle, nominated for five Eisner Awards, and co-authoring Japan Edge, the first book on Japanese animation and comics to be recommended by Newsweek magazine.
Read more about Dark Horse Comics at www.darkhorse.com |
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| Eiko Ishiwata |
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Eiko Ishiwata is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She composes in a wide range of musical genres such as classical orchestral music, rock/pop music, contemporary experimental music, ambient, IDM, and many others. As well as her strengths in composition, she has fine-tuned her sound engineering skills by studying and teaching at the Art Institute of Vancouver after receiving the Professional Recording Arts diploma there in 2006. Apart from attending A.I, Eiko studied at Queen’s University and Simon Fraser University music schools in the past. What makes her unique from most composers is that she is capable of producing her own recorded orchestra by utilizing her engineering skills and recording herself performing a full spectrum of instruments. She can avoid using prerecorded MIDI sampled instrumentation and the results not only sound superior but also add human elements to her pieces.
Eiko has worked on many independent games and films since 2002 and her most recognizable professional work is the opening and ending theme song from the television show ‘Pretty Cure’ currently being broadcast on YTV. She has also been recognized in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight’s Magazine’s top 10 in the article “Ten young talents light up the silver screen” as the sole composer amongst young film talent in 2006. With her background in classical, electronic, pop, rock as well as having a western and eastern musical influence her music is very diverse and unique
Check out her site at www.eikoishiwata.com |
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| Anthony Kresky (Kroze) |
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When he isn’t busy petitioning for the renewal of Dollhouse,Anthony “Kroooze” Kresky can be found at random anime conventions across these United States giving out free Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged tee-shirts and begging for a ride home. Eternal second banana, he is like a celebrity without any of the fame. Don’t give him a Kirby plushie, if you know what’s good for you. |
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| LoadingReadyRun |
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LoadingReadyRun is the new 7-headed internet-comedy-hydra-sensation of today! Founded in 2003, when putting videos online was a new, innovative idea, LoadingReadyRun (or LRR, to their friends) have made at least one video a week for seven years running—a clear sign of endless comedic genius and not at all an indicator they have way too much free time.
With videos seen in places like CNN, NBC, PAX, and The Escapist Magazine (home of Zero Punctuation!) LRR are poised at the precipice of total internet success, which unfortunately, is only redeemable for a six-pack of chicken nuggets IRL.
In their spare time the LRR crew like to pet kitties, and/or raise money for Child’s Play through the Desert Bus for Hope Fundraiser, which has raised nearly $250,000 in 3 years.
Come and see them! They’re lonely!
Check out their website at http://loadingreadyrun.com/
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| Sam Logan |
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Sam Logan is the Canadian creator of Sam and Fuzzy, the webcomic epic that has been entertaining online readers with its massive tales of warring ninja mafiosos, adorable rodent gangsters and lovesick stalker vampires for over eight years.
When he isn’t busy making comics or designing shirts and posters for popular internet retailer Topatoco, Logan also designs and illustrates for YES Mag and KNOW — a pair of Canadian children’s science magazines.
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| Kristie Marsden |
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Kristie Marsden is excited to be experiencing her second Anime Evolution! Voiceover highlights include Fraw Bow in “Mobile Suit Gundam”, Yuri Hayakawa in “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”, Sayu Yagami in “DeathNote, The Animated Series”, and “DeathNote Live Action”, as well as the popular Marvel animated series, “Iron Man: Armored Adventures”, as Whitney Stane/Madame Masque. Kristie was a series regular on the The N/Global comedy series, “About A Girl”, as Erin. TV highlights includes roles on “The 4400″, “Psych”, “Saved”, “Masters of Horror”, “Supernatural”, “Dark Angel” & “Wolf Lake”. Feature films include roles in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the cult hit musical, “Reefer Madness”. Kristie toured the US for two years as “Sophie”, in the 2nd National tour of the hit Broadway show, “Mamma Mia!”, to rave reviews. Theatre highlights include “Les Miserables”, “White Christmas” (Arts Club), “Anne of Green Gables” (Diana Barry), “The Music Man” (Zaneeta), “Fiddler on the Roof” (Chava), “The Wizard of Oz” (Dorothy) & “Somewhere In The World”, as a member of the Charlottetown Festival’s Young Company. She’ll be seen next on the Stanley Theatre stage, in the remount of “White Christmas”, for the Arts Club. Kristie resides in Vancouver, with her husband, Jeffrey. When she’s not acting, Kristie’s busy working as a Realtor with Macdonald Realty. Kristie is represented by her amazing team at PLAY Management.
www.kristiemarsden.com
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| Nina Matsumoto (Space Coyote) |
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Nina Matsumoto (better known online by the alias of “space coyote”) is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist from the western coast of Canada. She writes and draws the OEL manga series Yokaiden published through Del Rey Manga, a division of Random House. Occasionally she pencils for Bongo Comics (Simpson Comics, Bart Simpson Comics). Currently she is working on the artwork for the official manga prequel of The Last Airbender, an upcoming film by M. Night Shyamalan based on the Nickelodeon series by the same name. This is the first time Nina Matsumoto will be attending Anime Evolution as a guest. You can follow her work on Twitter, LiveJournal and DeviantArt also. |
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| Angela Melick (Jam, Wasted Talent) |
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Angela Melick (Jam) is best known as the creator of the webcomic “Wasted Talent”, which has been published online for 5 years. She graduated from UBC Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and now works in the field, but she continues to cultivate her passion for drawing comics. To date she has been published in four anthologies, the latest being the Science Fiction anthology “Exploded View”. Jam lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Wasted Talent, a comedy autobio webcomic, updates weekly.
Visit Wasted talent at www.wastedtalent.ca/
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| Christopher Niosi (Kirbopher) |
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Chris “Kirbopher” Niosi is a self-proclaimed “dumbass college kid” currently attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC. His voice acting debut was on the world-renowned anime series “Pokemon” during its tremendous 12th Season, as the character “Khoury”. Chris is also known online for his animated shorts on the creative entertainment site Newgrounds.com such as “Go! Go! Parody Rangers”, “There Was This One Time” and the Super Mario RPG Music Video “Rawest Forest” as well as being the Animation Director and Head Writer of the hugely popular video game spoof “NiN10Doh!” and its sequel “$00pah NiN10Doh!”. Most recently, he’s been working alongside the likes of LittleKuriboh on his YouTube sensation, Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged, as the character of “Noah” in the upcoming Season 3. He’s incredibly excited to finally be visiting B.C.! |
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| Mark Oliver |
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Mark Oliver Born in Vancouver, educated in Great Britain and Switzerland. Began his career in show business as singer and front man for seminal Vancouver punk rock bands “the Obolenskys” and “Bang Bang”. Opened for the Clash on their “Combat Rock” tour (“83). Moved to New York City in 1983, where he lived for fifteen years. Came to the world of animation through the encouragement of friends. First significant role:”King Cryos” in Mainframe’s production “Shadow Raiders”.Has voiced numerous villains including “Word Paynn” on “Dragon Booster”, “Raw le Creuset” on ” Mobile Suit Gundam Seed”, “Freezeman” on “Megaman”, “Mr. Moss”,”The Colonel” and “Captain Scabulous” on Nerd Corp’s “StormHawks”. He is also the voice of “Dr. Scott” on “George of the Jungle”, “Mechanikat” on “Krypto, the Super Dog” and “Ivan Vanko” on “Iron Man”, just to name a few. |
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| Adrian Petriw |
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Adrian Petriw is a local actor and artist who is excited to be attending Anime Evolution for the second time. He received his start in theatre as a child, and has since appeared in numerous stage, film and television productions: Having Portrayed a troubled young man in George F. Walker’s Tough, he was also a regular on the CBC’s Edgemont, while most recently co-starring in Lifetime’s Haunting of Sorority Row. A member of the “Cucumber Satellite Theatre and Film Society”, Adrian is a lover of independent film, and is in the planning stages of his own debut as writer and filmmaker. All the while, he is currently pursuing a History Major at SFU.
Adrian caught the “Voice Bug” several years ago, and after rigorous training he has begun to realize his ambition to work behind the mic. His voice can be heard behind characters such as “Hawkeye” in The Next Avengers, “Woo the Wise” in the much anticipated Hero 108, “Naoki” in Nana, and currently “Tony Stark/Iron Man” in Nicktoons’ Iron Man: Armored Adventures. A self proclaimed Star Wars fanatic, it is a dream come true for Adrian to be able to indulge in the fantastical worlds brought to life by Animation, and he is thankful for the opportunity to further hone his craft by working alongside the best of the best. |
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| Adam Sheehan |
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Adam Sheehan, representing FUNimation as Marketing Manger, has made the leap from “anime fan” to a prominent position in the corporate side of the industry. He’s often been the face of the company at conventions and events across the country, and has managed many anime properties in the United States, most notably Tenchi Muyo!, Basilisk, and Beck. Adam will be at Anime Evolution to speak about various aspects of his role and company, including about marketing and sneak peeks of upcoming shows.
Read more about FUNimation at funimation.com
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| Spike Spencer |
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Spike Spencer has been a voice actor since the early nineties. He has voiced hundreds of episodes of Anime including such notable titles as Evangelion, Battle Angel, Suikoden, Orphen, Spriggan, Nadesico, Mar, PreTear, Buso Renkin, Code Geass 2 and Bleach. Spike has lent his voice to many radio and TV commercials. His video game credits include WOW-The Burning Crusades, Tales of Vesperia, Steambot Chronicles, Star Ocean 2, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, and many others. An accomplished actor, he has worked with such notable stars as Tommy Lee Jones, Sandra Bullock, Frank Langella, Tia Carrere, and Scott Glenn and has been on set with many other stars. Spike is also an author, including “How to Be A Frickin Genius Voice Actor, Step One,” “What Happens At The Con, Stays At The Con?,” And “Don’t Kill Your Date (And Other Cooking Tips)”-(Coming soon). Spike is also a screenwriter with several projects in various stages. Spike is soon to begin production on his first feature film that he scripted, “Dwindle Down.”
Visit his official websites:
Spike teaches Voice Acting around the globe in person and via email and Skype. If you are interested in learning the art of Voice Acting from Spike contact him at: spike@worldospike.com
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| Chris Smith |
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Who The Hell Is Christopher Smith, Anyway?
Chris Smith indulges his inner child every time he goes to work. Since the age of six, mesmerized by Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer, he dreamed of being the cartoon characters. Starting as background voices in Robotech and Captain Harlock (third guy from the left who screams when he blows up), Chris now voices main characters in Vampire Knight (Kaien Cross), Naruto (Ishidate, Shuura), Bleach (Kibune, Rose, Wonderweiss), Gurren Lagann (Kittan), Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (Puppetmaster), Honey & Clover (Hanamoto), Moribito (Mikado), Flag (Beloqui), Overman King Gainer (Kashmir Val), Tenjho Tenge (Kagurazaka), multiple characters in Code Geass, Monster, and many more. His game titles include Street Fighter 4 (Rufus), World of Warcraft (Selin Fireheart, Mal Ganis), Dead Space (Commander Cadigan), Command & Conquer (Scalpel, Firehawk), Mortal Kombat vs DC (Superman), Samurai Warriors (Nobunaga, Sun Wu Kong), Final Fantasy: Dissidia (Emperor), Tales of Symphonia 2 (Tenebrae), Starcraft 2 (Banshee) and numerous others.
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| Synaptic Chaos Theatre |
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Synaptic Chaos Theatre returns to Anime Evolution for the first time!
Yeah, read that again – I dare you!
SCT is a Canadian Comedy group who perform live improv shows as well as scripted and semi-scripted comedy including videos, podcasts, and the semi-live game show “The 99 Yen Challenge”!
Able to tailor their performance to any audience, SCT specializes in performing for large crowds at anime, gaming, and sci-fi conventions all across North America.
In the mood for something less physical? Come see The 99 Yen Challenge, a panel game where two opposing teams are given silly things to do by host Coriander Dickinson, all for the chance to win the grand prize of 99 yen! A co-production of tiltyhouse.com> and Synaptic Chaos Theatre.
SCT will be performing several shows this weekend, as well as hosting several panels, and just showing up wherever they feel like it! SCT loves you, Anime Evolution!
Check out their website at http://www.synaptic-chaos.com/
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| TeamFourStar |
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Curtis “takahata101″ Arnott is a Vancouver based voice actor/entertainer who dabbles in writing as well as cosplay. He is one of the co-creators, co-writers and voice actors of Team Four Star, as well as lent voices to many other parody series. He is most notable for voicing Nappa, Bardock in DBZA as well as Dartz and Krump in YGOTAS. He has recently received his first professional gig as the Sake Sake monster in the dub of ZETTAI MUTEKI RAJIN-OH. He aspires to move out into the Greater Vancouver area to pursue his voice acting career further but for now he puts his energy into honing his skills. All in all not bad for a guy who makes elevator handrails for a day job. |
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Ben “hbi2k” Creighton is an online satirist best known as the creator of Berserk, Gantz, and Escaflowne Abridged. As part of TeamFourStar, he is the voice of Farmer with Shotgun, Bubbles, Nail, and Dr. Briefs. In his civilian identity, he serves the people of Tucson, AZ, USA as a mild-mannered library worker.
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Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is a California-based amateur voice actor, graphics designer, and project manager of “Dragon Ball Z: Abridged”. Director, co-writer, and editor for the show, and the voice behind several of it’s characters, he helped found the group in May 2008.
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Nick Landis (Lanipator), is a parody artist / amature actor from Plymouth Minnesota. Co-founder, co-writer and co-star of TeamFourStar’s Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Nick loves to make people laugh. Nick is also creator of Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged and a segment called “Outside The Otaku” on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com. Nick Also loves his 2 baby rats, long walks on the beach and Pandas. |
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Lawrence Simpson (MasakoX) is a British-based voice actor, editor and fellow member of TeamFourStar. Over the last four years, Lawrence has lent his voice to over 100 amateur productions ranging from original flash animations to PC games. With this experience of voice-overs, he put together the show “MasaVox” (which can be viewed on the website www.thatguywiththeglasses.com) in which he teaches the art of online voice acting. He is currently working as a freelance editor in the UK. |
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Corinne “Megami33″ Sudberg is a New York-based amateur voice actor, parody artist and animator. She is the editor and one of the creators behind “Sailor Moon Abridged” (aka SMA). She also provides the voices of Bulma, Chiaotzu and Puar in Team Four Star’s, “Dragon Ball Z: Abridged.” Though she enjoys voice acting on her spare time, she has graduated from the School of Visual Arts to pursue a career in animation. |
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| Lee Tockar |
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Returning to Anime Evolution for the second year, Lee Tockar brings with him with years of experience drawing on his wealth of talents including writing, painting, illustrating and voice acting. Internationally recognized in the Animation world, Lee has lent his voice to over 100 well-loved animated characters on the big and small screens.
He has performed the title roles in the animated series “George of the Jungle,” “Yam Roll” and “Yakkity Yak;” as well as lead roles in the Gemini award winning series “Dragon Booster,” and such holiday classics as “Rudolph” and “Casper’s Haunted Christmas,” to name a few. For his portrayal of “George of the Jungle,” Lee was presented with the 2008 ELAN (Electronic Animation) Award for “Best Male Voice-over Artist of the Year” from the hands of none other than the creator and Emmy award winning star of “The Family Guy:” Seth McFarlane. A selection of the feature roles also credited to Lee are ‘Ravage’ in “Beast Wars,” Dr. Frogg’ in “League of Super Evil,” ‘Bling Bling Boy’ in “Johnny Test,” ‘Modoc’ in “Ironman,” ‘Bibble’ in “Fairytopia” and “Mermaidia,” ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Flux’ in “The Incredible Hulk” and Terminus in “Fantastic Four.”
Read more about Lee.
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| Vincent Tong |
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A self proclaimed rookie to the voice over world, Vincent Tong got his start voicing a part on Slam Dunk in Toronto. Filling his time with mostly theatre, he moved back to Vancouver three years ago to pursue the Biz in Hollywood North. Since then, Vincent has appeared on Story of Sainkoku, Power Puff Girls Z, Nana, Sushi Pack, Barbie, Planet X, My Little Pony as well as various radio commercials . His favorite roles have been Henry on Kid vs Kat , Matsuda in Death Note and Gene Kahn/ Mandarin in Iron Man Armored Adventures. Currently, he is performing the Arts Club Theatre’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and if you are lucky you can catch him flipping and free running through the city.
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| Sam Vincent |
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Sam Vincent has been voicing animation in Vancouver since 1990. Growing up he always enjoyed creating interesting characters and sounds with his voice. He began acting in high school, doing improv and stage plays.
At age 15 he landed his first agent and started working professionally on TV series such as 21 Jump Street, X-Files, and The Outer Limits. In the world of anime, Sam is best known for his work on Gundam (Seed, Destiny, 00), Nana, Card Captors, Oban racers, Hamtaro, Zoids, Monster Rancher, Hikaru No Go, Mega Man, Infinite Ryvius,, and Saber J Marionette. You also might have heard him on Roll Bots, Storm Hawks, Martin Mystery, Class of the Titans, Ed, Edd n’ Eddy, Krypto the SuperDog, Sushi Pack and Baby Looney Tunes. Sam is pleased to be participating again with the fine group of organizers and fans that make up Anime Evolution.
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| Joe Vriens |
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Joe Vriens has been a concept artist & illustrator with over a decade of professional experience in various industries including comic book, animation & video games. He has been involved in fan favorite comic projects like UDON’s Darkstalkers, Marvel’s Sentinel, DC’s Thundercats, and is also responsible for illustrations in video games such as Marvel VS Capcom 2, Street Fighter HD Remix, and Tatsunoko VS Capcom. |
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| Cathy Weseluck |
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Internationally known, award-winning voice-over actor Cathy Weseluck’s acting/production career extends over a wide range of areas. In addition to her continued success as a voice-over performer, Cathy’s noted accomplishments also include her work as a TV actor, instructor, consultant, guest speaker, free- lance casting director/director, associate producer, writer, composer, performer and photographer.
Well known for her starring roles as ‘Near’ in the hit TV series “Death Note”, ‘Cybersix’ (and ‘Adrian’) in the award-winning TMS/N.O.A. series, “Cybersix”, ‘Young Trunks’ in “Dragonball Z”, ‘Dorothy Catalonia’ in “Gundam Wing”, and as ‘Shampoo’ in “Ranma ½”, Cathy has performed thousands of voices in hundreds of productions. Recently, she enjoyed performing the naïve, quirky boy ‘Dennis’ in “Kid vs. Kat”, ‘Spike’ the dragon in “My Little Pony” and ‘Penny’ (“Rollbots”).
Other well-known credits include: ‘Janessa’ (Barbie’s “Fairytopia: Thumbelina”), ‘Ravess’ (“Storm Hawks”), ‘Kagome’s Mom’, ‘Ayumi’ (“Inuyasha”), ‘Garcia’ (“Black Lagoon”), ‘Chiaotzu’, ‘Puar’, ‘Maron’, ‘Android 19′, ‘Angela’ (“Dragonball Z”), ‘Misa’ (“Project Arms”), ‘Snoozer’, ‘Laura’s Mom’, ‘Omarr’ (“Hamtaro”), ‘Miraih’, ‘Kikka’, ‘Katz’, ‘Letz’ (“Mobile Suit Gundam”), ‘Midori’ (“Maison Ikkoku”…), (“Martha Speaks), (“Galaxy Angel”), (“Transformers”), (“Martin Mystery”), (“Sword of the Stranger”), (“Pucca”), and she has also appeared in several TV shows (“Cold Squad”, “Stargate…).
Cathy has also served as a Casting Director, Director and/or Music Director for several voice-over projects, as a guest speaker/performer at professional events and for over 20 years, has also been revered as an accomplished and highly respected voice-over instructor and consultant. She was also invited by Capilano University (College) in the mid-90′s to create and conduct a 10-week animation voice acting program entitled “Animation Voice Acting and Audio Production” which she taught for three years.
Ask Cathy about her upcoming voice-over workshops and private coaching sessions, and get in on what it takes to break into the exciting world of voice-over acting!
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| Alex Zahara |
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Armed with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre from the University of British Columbia, Alex Zahara has 75 television and film appearances to his credit, including seven different guest star roles on Stargate SG-1. Other notable guest star roles: Johanssen in James Cameron’s Dark Angel (Red, Rising),Gabriel the Angel in The Sentinel (Night Shift) and Nazi SS Lieutenant Karl Rademacher in the 100th episode of The Outer Limits (Tribunal), based on the true story of Auschwitz survivor, Leo Egan, father of Producer Sam Egan.
Alex has over 100 voice credits, 40 of which in the ongoing Japanese Anime series Gundam 00, in which he plays the voice of Lockon Stratos a Gundam Warrior as well as his own twin, Lyle Delandy, also a Gundam Warrior. As well Alex has a recurring role on the animated series, Iron Man,”as SHEILD scientist Dr. peter Corbeau. He also voices a character in the anime series Nana. Alex was also the lead voice of bounty hunter Nick Logan, in the series, “The Roswell Conspiracies,’ for 40 episodes
Read more about Alex at http://www.animeevolution.com/?p=987)
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| Mara Blair |
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Mara Blair is currently a PhD student in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia. She is currently researching gender roles in shōjo manga. Past research focused on Boys’ Love Manga. |
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| Fighting Dreamers Productions |
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Cosplayer and improv actor, twinfools has been involved in the anime community since he graduated from high school. You know, so that none of his “cool” buddies could call him a nerd for dressing up like a cartoon character. Or so that his mom wouldn’t ask him why he owned more wigs than baseball hats. Whichever makes more sense. A member of Fighting Dreamers Productions, he performs, writes and tailors costumes for skits which are featured on the group’s Youtube channel. A portfolio of his cosplays can be found on his Deviant Art account: http://twinfools.deviantart.com/
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Cosplaying since 2004, Nova Vandorwolf has learned much about what not to do when it comes to cosplays. She has learned many tips and tricks over the last few years from trial and error, as well as other cosplayers. Nova hopes to continue learning about sewing as well as wig styling so she can improve her skills and make better costumes in the future. While making her own costumes is fun, her favourite part of cosplaying is the acting portion. Nova has always had an interest in acting and film-work so cosplaying has been a fun way to explore those interests. Her passion for acting has now expanded to behind-the-camera work. She enjoys planning, directing and editing skits and cosplay music videos. |
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Valdrein has been part of the Vancouver cosplay seen since 2005. Being self taught, she has been slowly improving her sewing skills and is branching off into armor and large scale accessories. She loves to challenge herself and would rather fail miserably then never try. Although some of her favorite costumes are obscure characters from her childhood, such as Prince Derek (Swan Princess) and Jacquimo (Thumbelina). She is a firm believer that cosplay should be fun, and that if you can’t laugh at yourself then you’re doing it wrong. Valdrein joined the cosplay group Fighting Dreamers Pro in 2007, and though there have been many ups and downs it has, and still continues to be, a fantastic journey. Threw her group she has been able to work on tutorials, skits, and numerous cosplay events. They have been able to travel together to different conventions throughout the Pacific North West and have meet some truly amazing people. |
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Mavi has been cosplaying since she was in the 5th grade, back before she even knew what cosplay technically was. Ever since she made Hikaru Shidou out of old clothing for Halloween she has loved to create costumes. As she got more into anime, she eventually found Anime Evolution when it was just starting out with 200 people at SFU downtown. Her favourite part about cosplaying is that she gets to meet new people and challenge herself with creating the exciting costumes. A lot of the people she has met at Anime Evolution have become longtime friends and have taught her many things about sewing and cosplaying. Three years ago Mavi found another passion with her fellow cosplayers: acting. After joining the cosplay group Fighting Dreamers Productions, Mavi found herself being thrown into skits with her fellow teammates and having a good time doing it.
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Lazlo is a member of Fighting Dreamers Productions and usually takes the role of photographer, though has sometimes been seen on the other side of the camera in cosplay. Lazlo got into photography at an early age and still has his first camera, a Pentax K1000. He’s graduated from both the Art Institute and Vancouver Film School and continues to take as many pictures as he can. http:// weatherstone.deviantart.com/ |
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KENSHIRO
Position: Cosplayer
Specialty: Prop building. Cosplaying bitter old warriors.
Group Affiliation: FDP
Blood Type: A
Favorite Food: Rare steak.
Favorite Anime/Manga: Hokuto no Ken, Planetes, Naruto, Berserk
Likes: Weightlifting. Meat. Martial Arts.
Kenshiro lives his life in the spirit of his namesake, traveling the globe and making people’s heads explode while wearing ridiculous clothes. He funds this outrageous behavior by making his staff work like slaves to produce video games while taking all the credit for it himself. This behavior extends to cosplay where he forces other cosplayers to build props according to his random instructions while he is eating popcorn and claiming that they “do it all wrong”.
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| Jesse Inocalla |
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Jesse Inocalla was born and raised in Vancouver, BC to a Vietnam war resister and a discharged monk, which is only the beginning of a long, strange history that, at present, has him lending his voice and talents to companies like Koei Entertainment and Disney Studios. A veteran stage performer(including some work right here at Anime Evolution), Jesse’s gone on to great successes and more lies around the corner. Listen for him as the voice of the mischievous meerkat Pookee, and Lio, King of the Jungle, in the new series YooHoo and Friends, debuting in 2011! |
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| Keith Maillard |
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Keith Maillard is the author of thirteen novels and one book of poetry and has won numerous awards for his writing. He has recently written his first manga (working with artist Chloe Chan) and is seeking a publisher for it. He is currently the Chair of the Creative Writing Program at UBC. |
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| Tyler James Nicol |
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Tyler James Nicol was born in scenic New Westminster, raised in Coquitlam and pretty much never left there. Over the years he has worked as an x-ray dark room technician, a production assistant for mainframe entertainment, a polisher of fine sailboats, and retail monkey. He has currently clawed his way to the position of VP of Marketing for Arcana Studios and is finally getting paid BY comic books rather than paying FOR them all the time. (Though he still pays because they’re awesome.) |
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| Roman Onufrijchuk |
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Roman Onufrijchuk holds a PhD from the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he currently teaches. Formerly Director of Television for The Knowledge Network, he also served for over a decade as chairperson of the Board of Trustees at Pacific Cinematheque Pacifique, and was lead researcher of the Centre for Policy on Science and Technology (CPROST) research group at the New Media Innovation Centre (NewMIC). A media historian, he has special research interests in processes and means for animating the inanimate, as well as material culture and myth as a media of communication. |
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| Sharalyn Orbaugh |
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Sharalyn Orbaugh, Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia, is a specialist in modern Japanese literature and cultural studies. Her research addresses issues of race, gender, sexuality and visuality in Japanese fiction and film, as well as popular culture media such as manga and anime. |
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