Andrea Libman
Andrea Libman has worked as a voice over actor for more than twenty years. She has had roles on numerous animated TV series, including Madeline in Madeline and The New Adventures of Madeline, Emmy in DragonTales, young AndrAIa in Reboot, and Cathy in Monster Buster Club. Recently, she’s voiced the characters of Lemon Meringue, Pupcake and Princess Berrykin in Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures and Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Andrea teaches and plays the piano and enjoys running, skiing and snowboarding, yoga and volunteer work. She holds her Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Kyle Hebert
Kyle Hebert is a Los Angeles-based anime and video game voice actor whose credits include Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Ryu), Naruto (Kiba), Bleach (Aizen, Ganju), X Men Arcade (all male voices) and Gurren Lagann (Kamina). He is best known as the Narrator and Teen Gohan from the Funimation dub of Dragonball Z. Other notable roles include Soul Eater (Masamune), Ouran High School Host Club (Kazukiyo Soga), Fullmetal Alchemist (Vato Falman), Tales of Symphonia (Richter Abend) and Star Ocean (Dias, Arumat, Crow). Kyle also provides voices in numerous video games including Final Fantasy XIII, World of Warcraft, Devil May Cry 4, Dynasty Warriors, and Resident Evil 5 . He writes and voices all the promos for filmmaker, Kevin Smith’s Smodcast Internet Radio. He also provides private online voice acting critique sessions for beginners. For more info, visit www.kylehebert.com.
Justin “JewWario” Carmical
Celebrating his third year doing online videos, Justin “JewWario” Carmical is an active producer for That Guy With The Glasses and Blistered Thumbs. His original series ‘You Can Play This‘ deals with import video games that people can play in North America and the EU without the knowledge of the Japanese language. His positive outlook on games is a welcome change from the ‘angry reviewer’ cliché.
Kaylyn “MarzGurl” Dicksion
Kaylyn “MarzGurl” Dicksion has been producing videos for ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com since becoming a runner-up in the Nostalgia Chick contest in 2008. Previously a videographer for anime conventions in Texas since 2004, MarzGurl considers herself a “fan of fandom itself”, and loves a large mix of nerdy mediums including anime, western animation, video games, tabletop gaming, and much more. Rather than approaching her reviews snidely, MarzGurl chooses to give honest, opinionated critiques that, while under a screen name, are actually no different from her honest personal opinions. Visit www.marzgurlproductions.com to catch up on her current activities.
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. The show covered geek-related news and topics each week and ran for three years on CRNC before migrating to thisweekingeek.net 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. 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!
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
The 404s
The 404s Improv Comedy returns to Con-G, showcasing their renowned variety of bizarre geek humour while armed only with hilarity and absolute insanity! The 404s will be performing their much beloved All-Ages fully improvised shows, along with the infamous, dubious and as one fan put it, “educational” Late Night Show. As always, attendance is mandatory and audience participation is expected, so bring your best or worst ideas! Remember: follow us at the404s.com and look us up on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and everywhere else on teh internets.
Lar deSouza
A professional illustrator for over 20 years, Lar 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.
Dawn McKechnie
Dawn McKechnie, also known as “Kaijugal” has been involved in the Canadian costuming community and costuming fandom for over 20+ years. Although she has won numerous awards throughout the years for her unique costume creations, in the past ten years Dawn has been more involved with organizing, administration, and education at costume events. She currently not only coordinates the Cosplay Events Department for Anime North, but is also the director of several masquerades including Hobbystar’s FanExpo.
Recently she spearheaded the winning bid to have Costume-Con 32 come to Toronto in 2014 and hopes that the Canadian costuming community will take advantage of this rare opportunity to attend on their home turf.
Ricky Dick
Ricky Dick started attending cons in 1979 and immediately hooked up with the fannish costuming community. His costumes have always relied on interesting presentations, elaborate makeups, and an attention to detail. He founded the NJ/NY chapter of the Costumers Guild and was awarded the International Costumers Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. The past twp years he’s been the Master of Ceremonies at Anime North, as well as helping at FanExpo 2009. In his professional career, Ricky has been involved in innumerable successful creative projects including the creation of the long running Castle Blood haunted attraction.
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!
Community Guests
Kevin “Stillvisions” Brewer
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
Kevin Chan
Kevin Chan aka Solar Tempest has been shooting a wide range of styles, locations, and subjects across the world. His award-winning work has been published in newspapers and featured in several photography exhibits. Kevin has spent the past 6 years specializing in Cosplay photography and is among the top Cosplay Photographers in North America.
Devin “Featherweight” Harrigan
A wizard from the distant galaxy of boxtron-7, Featherweight fell though an interspace tunel while saving a space orphanage form the deadly zark-beast. Now trapped on earth he must make his way though the world the only way he knows how, WITH THE POWER OF CARDBOARD! (he also makes puppets but that’s a whole other story) Check out http://www.featherweightcreations.com
Dr. 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. With a wide array of technological gadgets and mischievous ideas he storms the city streets, causes mayhem, exacts revenge, saves allies and reports it all from his YouTube broadcast “The War Front“.
Amanda 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
DJ Janos
DJ Janos, the resident DJ of ConBravo’s DanceBravo Saturday night dance party has been DJ’ing for the better part of a decade, helping to craft dancefloors all over the GTA, and more recently, at Montreal’s Otakuthon. Although not a newcomer to DJ’ing, he is a newcomer on the Convention DJ scene, but has managed to turn every con-dance into a dance-frenzy. His style of blending current dance music and staples of the con-dance scene have led to perfect dance parties each time. His only goal is that of ensuring everyone has the best time possible. Every year he hopes to out-do himself, so we’ll see what he has in store for Con-G’s Dance Party this year!
Krystal “Kudrel” Messier
Kudrel is a Master level cosplayer and costume accessory designer from Ottawa, Ontario. She got into cosplaying back in 2004; attending the first AC-Cubed, and has been hooked ever since. She’s won over 10 awards for her costumes including Best in Class in several divisions and Best in Show. She has also had the pleasure of starting her own line of costume accessories called Steampixie.
She strongly wants to inspire other cosplayers to push their limits and not be afraid of being different. Cosplay is about having fun and empowering yourself. It’s about being an artist and being free to accomplish anything and everything.
Oh, and one last thing: Caffeine and anything purple are her most favourite things!
Linkwise Productions
The Linkwise Productions gang is coming to Con-G with a new set of shorts that is sure to entertain. Fresh off the heels of their feature film, “Cosplayers”, Linkwise comes to you with a never before seen short in a series that picks up where the movie left off. Check out their YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/mforcemaniac) to see their current shorts and music videos!
Tom “Savage Bandito” Savage
Little is known about the Savage Bandito’s origin… because if anyone asks they are treated to a long, boring story that truly doesn’t make any sense. The facts: he appears like a rotund puff of smoke and leaves comedic videos and photos in his wake. Somehow he’s made over 150 episodes of The Savage Bandito Show and will likely shoot like 5 more at Con-G.
Mai Sheri
Mai Sheri is a “Master” level costumer based in Toronto who has been active in the cosplay community since 2005. She recreates costumes from many different sources, be it animated/live action movies and television, video games, or graphic novels. Besides her own projects, she involves herself in the fandom shenanigans of others by acting in their music video and small film projects, posing for their photo shoots, and helping to organize community gatherings around the city. Her one single wish would be to have more time to dedicate to the more “crazy” costume designs on her ever expanding “MUST MAKE” list.