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Guest Profile: Stillvisions

Kevin is a longtime attendee at various cons since 2002, primarily as a photographer, but also as a panelist, staffer, masquerade MC, judge and occasional costumer.

Focusing mostly on photoshoots, Kevin’s work can be found at www.stillvisions.net

Stillvisions will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
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Holiday Inn Sold Out!

With just over a week to go until Con-G Season 4, we’ve just received word that the Holiday Inn is now SOLD OUT for Saturday night. Wowzers! Every room in the place is booked for Con-G!!

If you haven’t booked your hotel room yet, you can still get the special Con-G rate at the Best Western Royal Brock Hotel & Conference Centre, a 15-20 minute walk or a 10 minute bus ride from Con-G using the new Route 6.

$93/night
single/double occupancy
Hot breakfast included
Mention Con-G for the special rate.
716 Gordon Street
Guelph, Ontario N1G 1Y6
(519) 836-1240

If you are planning on walking from the Best Western, bring along a plastic bag and wear your boots instead of your cosplay shoes! Put your boots (in the plastic bag) in our coat check for the day ($2 per item) so you don’t have to worry about them.

Of course, you can always try to bribe convince a friend with a room in the Holiday Inn to let you share. ;)

Guest Profile: Christian Potenza


Christian Potenza moved to the big city with a pair of ripped jeans, skateboard, a second hand bass guitar, and hopes of making a name for himself in the Entertainment Industry.

He was then plucked early from theatre school and started his voyage into the Land of TV. His first role was a rookie cop on a soap opera. To follow were roles such as crooks, criminals, and strung out surfers.

Then someone thought that it would be a good idea to put this talented, and versatile actor in commercials,… BOOM! Now this guy was everywhere, and soon earned the title of “THAT GUY”.

After earning many awards and “BUCKETS” full of cash from the advertising industry, he decided to try something different. Cartoons and voice work seemed like the next logical step. Christian now voices characters on many of North America’s most popular shows.

He has also started up his own production company with many projects, ranging from animation to feature films, in development. Christian also enjoys, go-carts, fireworks, ice cream, and his daughter – the reason why he is here!

You can follow him on his YouTube channel and as @C_Potenza on Twitter.

Christian will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
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Guest Profile: Lar deSouza

A professional illustrator for over 20 years, Lar deSouza is the cartoonist for the 2008 Shuster Award winning online comics, “Least I Could Do”, and “Looking For Group”.

Lar has also been the recipient of the Prix Aurora Award for Artistic Achievement in Canadian Science Fiction (2008, 2006) and numerous other awards for caricature and cartooning.

Lar works from his home in Acton Ontario. He continues to receive commissions for digital and paper illustrations, caricatures and cartoons. Lar has a lovely wife, two beautiful children and three tolerant cats. The wife and kids are tolerant too.

Lar will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
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Guest Profile: Mike Dodd

Michael Dodd began his career in the broadcasting, journalism and public relations fields in 2006 when he joined Niagara College’s Broadcasting – Radio, Television and Film course. Later that year Mike became one of the founding members of This Week in Geek, a radio show extra-credit assignment for Niagara College’s radio station, 90.1 FM: The Heat CRNC. The show covered geek-related news and topics each week and ran for the next three years on CRNC before migrating to thisweekingeek.net as an internet-only podcast where it has now thrived for over four years as one of Canada’s leading providers of news, reviews, interviews and more from the wide world of geekdom.

Mike chose not to stop there however. Mike has been involved with screwattack.com as their official G1 correspondent for “Hard News” on several different occasions and that opened more opportunities within the video game industry. Mike works with “Handsome” Tom Hanley’s thegameheroes.com where Mike co-hosts the Prototype podcast. He is also a contributor for blisteredthumbs.net and Channel Awesome as well as appearing as a video game expert for several radio chains in Canada and the United States.

Most recently Mike is known as the creator and main contributor of reviewaday.ca where he has made it his personal mission to review video games on an almost daily basis for his fans. He also works as an internet publicist and voice actor and has several very awesome tattoos on both of his shoulders. Mike continues doing what he loves every day, making him a pioneer in taking Canadian new-media journalism into the 21st century and beyond!

Mike will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
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The Doctor Responds

Doctor Holocaust responds to the challenge thrown down by JewWario and Marzgurl.

Oh my! I hope things don’t get too out of hand at Con-G!

You’d better come to Con-G to see what is sure to be a confrontation of epic proportions!

(Direct link to video if you cannot view it here)

Guest Profile: Stephen B. Pearl

Stephen B. Pearl is, like the lead character in his novel Tinker’s Plague, (now wasn’t that subtle?) a generalist: an EMT, husband, mystic, science enthusiast, handyman, backyard mechanic, and environmentalist, among other things.

He has three, soon to be four with the release of Nukekubi in e-book and paperback in March 2012, published novels. Currently available these are Tinker’s Plague, in paperback and e-book, Slaves of Love and The Hollow Curse, in e-book.

He is also a contributor to the Samhain anthology of the Pagan Writers Press. He has travelled extensively and enjoys weaving real places and events into his fiction.

Check out www.stephenpearl.com

Stephen will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
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A Wild Challenger Appears

JewWario and Marzgurl team up in this epic Con-G promo video.

We will be sure to have you try the poutine, J-Dub! :D

But wait, what’s this?

Uh oh! Looks like Doctor Holocaust might have a bit of a challenge on his hands at Con-G!

Guest Profile: Doctor Holocaust

Known to many as Toronto’s greatest villain and to some as a genius visionary, Dr. Holocaust is a gentleman who is, above all else, trying to take over the world.

It has been some years now since the Doctor had made his first appearance at Fan Ex 2008. Since then he has attained multiple weapons of questionable lethality, minions whom loyally follow his orders to their best efforts, exo-suits of mechanical and megalomaniacal feats, a broadcast on the internet in both comic as well as vlog format and lastly… rivals.

But this journey has not been all unfolding plots of sinister natures. After getting started by notifying the city of his presence onstage he began to tell his story proper in the form of a web comic “The Misadventures of Dr. Holocaust” later adding a web show “The War Front” to keep people informed. But many ask why. Why go through it all to rule this world? Ostensibly his is a journey to better humanity. For, as he believes, it is only through his vision that we are able to live in peace and comfort.

Though that should not stop you from trembling in fear, no SIR, for in the coming years none will be spared his scrutinizing gaze and thirst for destruction…

Doctor Holocaust will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
See all our guests on the Guest Info Page.
He is also the brains behind the awesome Con-G Video.

Guest Profile: Amanda “Elemental” Irwin

Amanda Irwin (Often known as Elemental) has been attending conventions since 2002, and shows no signs of stopping.

Starting out as a cosplayer and eventually progressing to photographer so she could document all the awesome costumes that were happening around her, she’s now an established cosplay photographer in Ontario and the Midwest con circuit.

You can follow her tumblr at http://elementalphotos.tumblr.com/

Elemental will be making a guest appearance at Con-G Season 4, February 25-26, 2012.
See all our guests on the Guest Info Page.