Don't
Miss Seeing these Guests at the Forest City Comicon:
Included with your
admission!
Mitch
Markowitz
Markowitz
was the co-producer of the iconic Hilarious House of
Frightenstein TV show as well as appearing in all
of the 130 episodes as a character named Super Hippy.
The show was originally taped at CHCH TV in Hamilton,
Ontario in 1971. The program starred Vincent Price and went on to
be 'The longest running kids'
TV show in Canadian History', syndicated throughout
Canada ,the US and abroad. Although
aimed at children, the program aired
opposite Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in some US
markets drawing higher
ratings among the college crowd in
California and various other regions. Canadian
born, Hollywood heavyweight Mike Myers attributes Frightenstein
as an inspiration for his Austin Powers Maxi Me, Mini Me
characters and Rock & Roll icon Alice Cooper claims, "The
Hilarious House of Frightenstein is his favourite TV show". Mitch
most recently appeared in Rue
Morgue Cinema's horror /supernatural film
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind
Leigh co-starring with Academy Award
winner Vanessa Redgrave. The film premiered at
the 2012 Cannes Film Festival going on to win
numerous awards at 30+ film festival world-wide.

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Twinfools and
Nova - Featured Cosplay Guests
(Presented by Forest
City Anime, Culture & Cosplay Club)
Twinfools and Nova are members of
the Canadian cosplay group Fighting Dreamers Production (FDP for
short). Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, they have been
cosplaying from a range of different genres: anime, manga, video
games, comics, film, and cartoons for the past 6 years since the
group’s inception.
Twinfools and Nova are well known for their
cosplay work on deviantART and for their group’s YouTube channel
which has over 100,000 subscribers and provides viewers with
series shows, cosplay skits, CMV’s, convention happenings, and
tutorials.

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Shantel Knight
aka Zombie Bit Me - Featured Cosplay Guest
Shantel Knight is a Canadian Model / cosplayer /
artist / gamer. Also known as Zombie Bit Me she has
been featured In Geek Fantasy Magazine, Inner Space, and has
worked with some many geeky companies. Samples of some of
her costume work can be seen on her website.

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Adam
Buckley - Youtube Star
Adam
Buckley started "A Dose of Buckley" in 2009, and in its 5th
year he's acquired an audience of nearly half a million
subscribers; not too bad for some guy from London writing and
performing rants on the Internet. His most popular series, "The Ten Worst Songs of 20xx" have been seen by
millions, and he's fast becoming one of the most polarizing
personalities on YouTube. His weekly rants discuss pop culture
and music as well as trends in society.

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David
Collier
From
David: "As a teenage cartoonist in the 1980's, R. Crumb told me
that he'd publish my work in Weirdo, the anthology magazine he
was editing, once my words were mostly spelled right and my
inking was tightened up. After my break in America, the
bigger challenge of capturing Canada in cartoons was taken on,
first by contributing to Canadian Armed Forces newspapers and
then with The Globe and Mail, Saskatoon Star Phoenix
&National Post. My books are currently published by
Nova Scotia's Conundrum Press."

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Jay
Stephens
Best
known for his Emmy-winning animated series' TUTENSTEIN and THE
SECRET SATURDAYS, Jay Stephens is a 25-year veteran of the
Canadian comics scene, having written and drawn several
creator-owned works such as, WELCOME TO… ODDVILLE!, JETCAT
CLUBHOUSE, THE LAND OF NOD, and ATOMIC CITY TALES. Jay has also
freelanced for several mainstream comics like iZOMBIE, THE
INVISIBLES, TEEN TITANS LOST ANNUAL, STRANGE TALES, and BIZARRO
COMICS, and is the creator of the beloved CHICK & DEE comic
for chickaDEE Magazine. Jay is
also one of the founding contributors to the All-Canadian TRUE
PATRIOT project.

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Tony
Gray
Canadian
born comic book writer and illustrator. He has worked on comic
books, syndicated comic strips and character designs for companies
which include, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, GlassMonkey Studios,
Hasbro and Chrysler. Gray has illustrated works featuring
characters as widely diverse as Batman, Spider-man, Red Sonja and
Princess Lollipop! Gray is currently working on the comic book
features,' Tales of the Incredible Conduit' along with it's
syndicated strip which began in 2009. The international daily
comic strip, 'Saturday Afternoon', which began it's run in the
year 2000, is also created, written and drawn by Tony Gray. In
2011, Tony partnered with colleague David Finch to incorporate
GlassMonkey Studios, which has provided illustration work for
companies such as Hasbro and Chrysler. In 2012, Gray took over
sole ownership of GlassMonkey and assumed the publishing mantle
for the monthly comic book titles ‘Tales of the Incredible
Conduit’, ‘Apes in the Woods’, and ‘Improbabilia.' |
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J.R.
Faulkner
Although
she may have started the webcomic Promises
Promises in a vain attempt to write off a gym membership as a
business expense, she continues to keep it updated. When not
cartooning, she divides her time between reading about health and
fitness, and actually going to the gym (occasionally).

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Sen-Foong
Lim
One half
of the table top design team, the Bamboozle Brothers.
Since 2011, they have released 7 games, covering a diverse range
from the Euro-styled strategy game "Belfort" to "But Wait,
There's More!", the party game about pitching wacky
products. Find out more about this dynamic duo and their
games on www.bamboozlebrothers.com
and check out www.meeplesyrupshow.com where you
can find archives of the show about boardgame design that they
co-host.

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The NES
Club
Behind
the scenes of NINTENDO QUEST: a collecting and community
documentary 10,000 miles in the making!" Join video game rock
star, fanatic collector and star of Nintendo Quest, Jay Bartlett
as he and film producer, Jordan Morris, and GamerCast producer,
Glenn Stanway discuss the behind the scenes process of making the
film, interacting with the retro and collecting community and
what's in store for this blockbuster documentary that all
started in London, Ontario.

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SillWill Studios:
Alison & A. Jaye Williams
SillWill Studios was founded by
Alison Williams when she decided to self-publish her
fantasy-adventure comic “The Sorcerer's Children.†Trained in
illustration at Sheridan College, Alison worked on a variety of
freelance projects before signing on with a small, Toronto-based
comic company to produce the original graphic novel “Magicians'
Village.†Since then, Alison has received much acclaim from many
of the people--professionals, fans, retailers, and the like--who
have seen her work. Including being nominated for the Best New
Artist of 1999 by the Friends of Lulu organization. We've also
transitioned from "Press" to "Studios."
A. Jaye Williams. A. Jaye is a scriptwriter,
comic book writer, author, and a successful freelance writer. He
has worked on features for Veluvana Pictures, Matchbox Pictures,
and Long Shot Pictures, and written several articles for such
publications (Realms of Fantasy, MuscleMag International, American
Health and Fitness, among others) and continues to develop new
projects for SillWill Studios and other companies.
SillWill stuides has produced several titles,
including "The Sorcerer's Children," an epic fantasy tale that
spans three graphic novels. "The Adventures of Astrodog," a
full-colour graphic novel and webcomic series for kids but enjoyed
by all ages. "The Ruby Warrior: Pawn of Tenson," a pulp fantasy
illustrated novel in the vain of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert
E. Howard.

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Josh
Tierney – Spera Studios
Josh
Tierney resides in Ontario, Canada with his wife, daughter, son
and cat. In addition to writing and editing the Eisner, Shuster
and Harvey-nominated Spera series for Archaia, Josh runs
Spera-Comic.com with the help of Olivier Pichard.

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Darryl
Andrews
Daryl
Andrews is a big fan of board games. He is a Game Expert
responsible for running events and curating the game collection
at Games On Tap Board Game Cafe in Waterloo, ON. Additionally he
is the director of the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz (12+
events across Canada), Founder of the Board Game Bash
(Kitchener-Waterloo region's biggest board game convention),
Founder of Tri-Cities Tabletop Events (bi-monthly board game
charity events) and member of the Game Artisans of Canada (board
game designer). Also, Daryl is a co-host of the Meeple Syrup
Show, where board game designers discuss design. This fall
Daryl's first co-designed game, "The Walled City" hits the street
(pre-order before Oct. 5th to get bonus mini expansion). Also
stay tuned for his second co-designed game, "Caffeine Rush"
scheduled to release later this fall.

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DS
Barrick
D. S.
Barrick is a London-based cartoonist and the author or co-author
of over 20 mini-comics, including Skulsi Thatcher and
The Day I Wrote Watermelon. He has designed t-shirts for
L. A. Mood Comics & Games. His fascination with monsters has
led to hundreds of drawings, many of which can be seen on his web
site, Cartoon Graveyard, at
www.dsbarrick.com. Barrick is currently drawing Lucky
Unlucky, a comic book series written and created by Scott
MacDougall. The first issue is planned for a May 2015 release.
Visit
www.luckyunluckycomic.com for more details!

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Scott
MacDougall Scott
MacDougall is a London-based editor and writer. He has been a
copywriter for over a decade and has recently transitioned to a
number of creative projects. He was the lead editor on the
graphic novel Jinn Warriors 2: The Fourth Horseman, from
author Marwan el Nashar and Marz Publishing. MacDougall is
promoting Lucky Unlucky, his first original comic book
series. The series is currently being drawn by his co-creator,
local cartoonist D. S. Barrick. The first issue is planned for a
May 2015 release. Visit
www.luckyunluckycomic.com for more
details!

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Marwan El Nashar,
Marwan
El Nashar aka Marz, is an Egyptian comic creator and formally the
Managing Director of AK Comics, Creators of the first Middle
Eastern Superheroes and original comics books. Currently Marwan
is running Marz Publishing and working on his graphic novel
series Jinn Warriors. He's 3rd Degree Master Free Mason and has
traveled to over 100 cities in over 35 countries and was a
contestant on the game show Wipe Out Canada. He resides in London
and can be reached via www.facebook.com/jinnwarriors

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Dan
Hammond
Dan is an
independent original creator of cartoon and comic book style art.
After a two decade long hiatus from picking up a pencil or
pen, Dan took up his art once again in the spring of 2013. Since
then, Dan's art has been published in Jailbird and Zelpha comics.
Dan is currently pencilling a comic titled Bea Love aimed towards
a young female readership. Dan also attends comic conventions in
Ontario and the USA, the most recent shows being the Baltimore
Comic-con and Wizard World Virginia.

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Mike
Slabon
Mike
Slabon, author of Undead Reckoning, is a big nerd! He spends his
time writing, reading, playing board and role playing games,
painting miniatures and dressing up as his favorite sci-fi/super
hero characters. He is a fan of really, really bad movies
(particularly those of the zombie and exploitation genre), but has
been known to enjoy the occasional good film as well. His writing
credits include poetry, sci-fi and historical fiction, as well as
editing the odd role playing game. Slabon's next book is
scheduled to be released before the zombie apocalypse.

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Emily
Carroll
"Emily
Carroll was born in London, Ontario, in June of 1983. In addition
to the many short online comics found at her website, her work
has been featured in numerous print anthologies, including Creepy
#9 (Dark Horse), Fairy Tale Comics (First Second) The Witching
Hour (Vertigo). Her first book, Through the Woods, a
collection of short horror comics, was released by Margaret K
McElderry books in July of 2014. She currently lives with her
wife Kate and their large orange cat in Stratford, Ontario."

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