Comic Fest Guest List is Amazzzizazing
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The Comic Fest San Diego weekend is growing by leaps and bounds, and with it, the guest list. This fun filled interactive family friendly weekend that takes place Oct 17-19 is not only offering an intimate experience of getting to truly socialize with pop culture icons, but also create and share talents. Here is the amazing list of confirmed guests thus far:
Guest of Honor: Neal Adams
Special Jerry Siegel Centennial Guest: Laura Siegel Larson
Science Fiction Guest of Honor: Greg Bear
Fan Guest of Honor: Comic-Con International President John Rogers
Eisner Award winner and winner of the National Cartoonists Society 2014 Reuben Award: Andrew Robinson
Special U.K. Comics Creator and CCO of ground-breaking digital storytelling company Madefire: Liam Sharp
Creators of steampunk favorites Boilerplate; History’s Mechanical Marvel and Frank Reade; Adventures in the Age of Invention, Heartbreakers comics, and much more: Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan
Writer, artist, director: Jon Schnepp
Hosts of The Arkham Sessions: Dr. Andrea Letamendi and Brian Ward
Showrunner, Producer, Writer, one of Comic Con’s “Most Dangerous Women,” advocate for independent entertainment and art, and founder of The Geekie Awards: Kristen Nedopak
International Comics Guests:
From Mexico City, comic artist and writer (Star Wars Tag & Blink series, Dethklok, Hellcyon): Lucas Marangon
From Mexico City, comic artist, writer,editor and popularizer of manga style in Mexico: Gaby Maya
Special Twilight Zone Tribute Guests:
Rod Serling’s daughter and author of the recently published memoir, AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad, Rod Serling: Anne Serling
Twilight Zone author and screenwriter (“Kick the Can,” “A Game of Pool,” and more): George Clayton Johnson
Science-Fiction Guests:
Award-winning author of fact-based science-fiction (and some great fantasy too): David Brin
Author of Star Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles,” time-travel classic The Man Who Folded Himself: David Gerrold
Hugo-winning publishers of XERO, author of some seventy genre books, writer of pioneering steampunk graphic novel: Pat and Richard Lupoff
Leaders of successful campaign to save Star Trek, longtime fans and convention producers: John and Bjo Trimble
Hugo Award-winning author and explorer of the “technological singularity”:Vernor Vinge
It’s a Weird Tales of the Ramones reunion! So far our guests who contributed to the Ramones anthology include:
Underground comix writer and artist, political cartoonist: Mary Fleener
Creator, writer, and cartoonist founder of legendary PUNK Magazine:John Holmstrom
Underground cartoonist, creator of Dirty Duck and Cody, who has also worked on the Popeye daily comic strip, animated shows Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Bobby London
Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Disney poster artist, and art director for Bongo Comics and Futurama: Bill Morrison
Painter of art prints, book covers, comic covers, posters, skateboards, trading cards, and hundreds of Topps Garbage Pail Kids stickers: John Pound
Cartoonist, animator and creator of the ever-popular Oddball Comics show: Scott Shaw!
Special Film-Anniversary Guests for Dune (30th Anniversary), Ghostbusters (30th Anniversary), and Ghostbusters II (25th Anniversary):
Effects creator (Avatar, Ghostbusters, Terminator II, X-Men: The Last Stand), Academy Award winner (The Abyss), director (James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D), and longtime collaborator of James Cameron: John Bruno
Dune stillsuit designer, Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man creator and actor, and multi-talented effects creator: Bill Bryan
Four-time Academy Award winner for visual effects in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, his Boss Films did effects for Ghostbusters and many other top films: Richard Edlund
Academy Award winner for Innerspace and ILM visual-effects creator for Ghostbusters II, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and many more: Bill George
Film producer (Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Heavy Metal, and many more) and art director (National Lampoon legend): Michael C. Gross
Concept artist, concept designer, and storyboard artist whose extensive film work includes Dune and Ghostbusters II: Henry Mayo
Producer of Original Dune Promo Film “Destination Dune,” award-winning author (including Film Noir: The Making of Blade Runner), filmmaker, commentator and photographer:Paul M. Sammon
Ghostbusters II “Slimer” actor: Robin Shelby
Spotlight on Couples Who Create Together:
Emmy-winning writers in youth-oriented and animated television: Dennis Haley and Marcy Brown
Writers, producers, and showrunners in youth-oriented and animated television: Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald
Manga-influenced artists, writers, and cartoonists, and (Rikki) the voice of Gir on Invader ZIM: Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons and Rikki Simons
Steampunk:
Our Steampunk Programming Coordinator, the “Weird Val” of Dark Cabaret herself: Veronique Chevalier
Steampunk film presenters: Hal and Dee Astell
San Diego Comic Fest “Spirit of Steampunk Spotlight” Presents: Dr. Brassy
TV, feature film and comic book writer, creator of steampunk comics Boston Metaphysical Society and Steampunk Rat: Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Acclaimed author of the Gothic steampunk series The Dark Victorian, The Elle Black Penny Dreads, and the creator/artist of the indie comics series Charm School: Elizabeth Watasin
Animator and VFX pixel monkey turned independent filmmaker: Steve Ziolkowski
Analog and Digital Effects:
Effects artist, filmmaker, co-author of forthcoming book Planet of the Apes: The Evolution of the Legend, and staff writer for Cinefex magazine since 2001: Joe Fordham
Effects creator for Life of Pi (Effects Lead), The Golden Compass (Digital Effects Supervisor), X-Men 2 (Lead Effects Animator), and many more: Mike O’Neal
VP of Creative Development at Tippett Studio and formerly effects creator at Industrial Light and Magic and The Orphanage: Corey Rosen
Founder and publisher of Cinefex, recipient of Visual Effects Society’s Board of Directors Award: Don Shay
Animation:
Character designer for Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender, creator of Serenity Rose comic: Aaron Alexovich
Animation historian and cartoon producer who will be paying tribute to the great Tex Avery: Jerry Beck
Disney Legend: Floyd Norman
The Science of Science Fiction:
Leader of the supernova group at the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and science-fiction movie reviewer for Ain’t It Cool News: Andy Howell
JPL Lead Project Element Manager on projects spanning from missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, to Earth Orbit on both Space Shuttle and free-flying spacecraft: David Rosing
More Special Guests:
Aaron Alexovich
Ricardo Delgado
Jackie Estrada
Chris Gore
Batton Lash
Jim MacQuarrie
Eric Shanower
Phil Yeh
Special Program Participants from the San Diego State University Faculty:
Ajani Brown, SDSU Africana Studies Lecturer, will moderate panels on Ethno-Gothic Horror and Afrofuturism.
Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan, who teaches graduate classes in the teacher education programs at San Diego State University, University of San Diego, and the University of Pittsburgh, will moderate a panel on Graphic Novels in the K-12 Classroom.
Linda Salem, librarian for the Edward Gorey Personal Library at SDSU, will speak on Edward Gorey and his influences.
Live Art Performances and Demonstrations
Jason Hite will conduct a teaching demo on sculpting.
Billy Martinez will be painting live during the Fest.
Dave Stephens: On Friday at the Fest, San Diego’s master caricaturist Dave Stephens will draw attendees as part of our tribute to the centennial of Jerry Siegels birth. Last year’s attendees who were drawn as aliens from Larry Niven’s Draco Tavern stories know this really is something to look forward to.
Musical Performers
Digital Lizards of Doom
– More at: http://www.sdcomicfest.org/special-guests/#sthash.ZIOkOjSA.dpuf
As we rejoice in our 100th Anniversary Tribute to The Twilight Zone, this weekend is going to be filled with so much artistic revelry for the senses to enjoy that visitors are going to need a vacation from the vacation that is made up of this one of a kind Festival.