Anime Stars appear at New England Fan Expo Nov. 21-23 Johnny Young Bosch, Don Frye, Vic Mignogna, The Slants and other stars of the Anime world will be appearing in person at the New England Fan Experience Nov. 21-23 at the Hyatt in Cambridge MA.
upcoming release Public Enemies which stars Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.
Steve Horton is the author of the Manga Studio how-to book PROFESSIONAL MANGA with artist Jeong Mo Yang. Steve also co-created the manga STRONGARM with Dave Ahn for Image Comics. He also co-created the long-running webmanga GROUNDED ANGEL with Vivi Erlanita at the invitation-only webcomics collective graphicsmash.com. Steve is also the author of how-to book WEBCOMICS 2.0 with Sam Romero. He lives in the Indianapolis suburbs with his wife, son and beagle.
Ikeda Katsu - Ever wish you could hear your favorite anime or video game theme song live? Forged together by six friends determined to bring the rock back into the anime convention! This group double dips in both the anime and video game genres.... bringing you live performances from some of your favorite series including FLCL, Final Fantasy, Naruto and many more surprises ( ^_~ ).
Vic Mignogna's career is without a doubt one of a very active performer. Vic’s been a voice actor in Kaiju film of the fantastic Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. In addition to his famous work as the voice of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist, he’s had the duty of bringing to life one of the anime screens biggest heart throbs, Tamaki Suou from Ouran High School Host Club. The Ouran HSHC English adaptation of the anime will premiere at the Anime Kaiju Experience. In addition to these performances Vic is a professional music composer/producer and veteran actor currently playing roles that include Fai D. Flourite in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Ikkaku in Bleach, and Yukito in Air. Vic has voiced characters in more than 100 shows and video games.
Sid Narged Author of "Anything I ever really needed to know I learned from Anime". A born observer, Sid Narged believes that everything has a lesson to teach if you are only open-minded enough to grasp it. This approach of learning a lesson from everything has allowed him to become something of a renaissance man; who has become well respected as a teacher, musician, animator, artist, author, and speaker. Sid has been an otaku for more than 25 years, and likes nothing more than giving back to the fans and industry he has enjoyed for so much of his life. Who said you never learned anything from anime?
Sam Romero is from New Brunswick, NJ, and is the artist of webcomics how-to book Webcomics 2.0. He is the creator of the popular webcomic Edge the Devilhunter and featured at Graphic Flash. His stylistic and narrative flair has been best described by webcomics author T Campbell as "tripped-out east-west fusion". Sam dabbled in political cartooning and illustration briefly in college before dedicating himself full-time to writing and drawing action comics on the Internet.
THE SLANTS IN CONCERT Hailing all the way from Portland Oregon, The Slants join us in our Anime Kaiju Experience Celebration! "The Slants is powerful and brilliant band with a bold sound that will melt your face clean off... They plugged