Eagle-Con 2014 at CSULA! Confirmed Guests...... Women in Comics Candy Briones - was born in Los Angeles in 1987 and has always been interested in cartoons. She decided at a young age to become a cartoonist and started her first comic strip at the age of 12, called “Dumb People,” many of the strips starred herself. She is now a caricature artist by day and a freelance cartoonist by night, working on the Taco El Gato series and the Hare and the Kingdom of Anemone. She has worked on storyboard art, storybook illustrations, comic books and character designs for well-known artists in Hollywood. Brown & Chocolate Cosplay Tomoyo-chan Cosplay- is an LA based cosplayer, performer, dancer, movie fanatic, music geek, book worm and writer. She has been a fan of comics, sci-fi, fantasy, and Japanese animation ever since she can remember. She used to watch anime, other popular series and cartoons in Guatemala where she lived for 10+ years. She attended her first convention in 2008 and has been attending conventions all over SoCal ever since. She slowly began to fall in love with cosplay and decided to give it a shot in 2011. Little did she know that she would discover a hobby that she would love so much and that would help her connect with so many people. Tomoyo-chan hosts cosplay gatherings and events in the LA area that celebrate Japanese culture, among other things, alongside her group Infotakus. Brown & Chocolate Cosplay Chocolate Covered CosPlay - are a group of African American cosplayers that reside in Southern California and Our group is composed of 5 women: Ginger Burton, Danielle McRae, Brittney Angel, Deanna McRae, and Ashphord Ashi-chan Jacoway. Animation: The Real Deal Brandon Easton – Graduate of Boston Universitys prestigious Film & TV Screenwriting program, with comic book work on Transformers: Armada and Arkanium for Dreamwave productions. Writer of Thundercats (2011). Animation: The Real Deal Charlotte Fullerton: Charlotte Fullerton graduated with a BA in Cinema-Television/Production from the University of Southern California, and started her career in children’s entertainment as an Assistant at Fox Kids Network. There, she worked her way up first to Junior Producer, then to full Writer/Producer in the On-Air Promotions department. Her Fox Kids Bartcasting campaign, featuring Bart Simpson taking over the network, garnered Fox Kids’ On-Air Promotions department its first Promax International Gold Medallion Award nomination and win. Women in Comics The Gibbs Sisters - The Gibbs Sisters are an award-winning writing and producing team from Oakland, California. The pair are currently writing the African-American steampunk adventure, The Invention of E.J. Whitaker and will be featured in Graham Cracker Comics upcoming Ladies Anthology Volume 2: Death and Prom. Color Inside the Lines Dr. De Witt Douglas Kilgore - De Witt Douglas Kilgore is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003) and the co-editor of a special issue on Octavia E. Butler in Science Fiction Studies. Writing for Comics Elliot S! Maggin - was a main writer for DC Comics during the Bronze and early Modern ages of comics in the 1970s and 1980s. He is particularly associated with the character of Superman and author of Miracle Monday,Kingdom Come and Last Son of Krypton. Women in Comics Shawna Mills - New York City native, Lazymills is an artist, designer, comic artist, and animator. Throughout her young career she has designed logos, graphic designed; concept designed, and has been a solo producer/one woman production studio on animated music videos developed for a number of musicians. She has worked for Titmouse Inc. Her works are featured ... nationwide. Her works can be found in BlackComix and the StreetFighter Tribute book -- both in stores and in her own book of art published in 2012, titled N.A.P. Shawnas published books also include her own title, Violator Union. Live painting, writing, and developing properties, Shawna has recently come to California with aim to expand. Women in Comics Arie Monroe - Arie Monroe, is originally from Kansas City Missouri. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of Missouri Kansas City, giving her a strong foundation in fine art and computer illustration. She also attended school in New Jersey at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Graphics where she studied Character Animation and Comic Book Illustration. Steamfunk 101 Balogun Ojetade - is one of the leading authorities on Steamfunk – a philosophy or style of writing that combines the African and / or African American culture and approach to life with that of the steampunk philosophy and / or steampunk fiction. He is author of six novels – the Steamfunk bestseller, MOSES: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2); the Urban Science Fiction saga, Redeemer; the Sword & Soul epic,Once Upon A Time In Afrika, two Fight Fiction, New Pulp novellas – A Single Link and Fist of Afrika and the two-fisted Dieselfunk tale, The Scythe. Balogun is also contributing co-editor of two anthologies: Ki: Khanga: The Anthology and Steamfunk. He is also the Director and Fight Choreographer of the Steamfunk feature film, Rite of Passage, which he wrote based on the short story, Rite of Passage, by author Milton Davis. Art & the Industry Jason Reeves - Freelance illustrator and comic book artist, working in the industry for seven years. Among his clients are Hasbro, USA Network, Devil’s Due Publishing, USAToday, Marvel/Upperdeck, & Esquire Magazine. Color Inside the Lines Hannibal Tabu- Former editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, author of novels, THE CROWN: ASCENSION. Winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt. Hannibal has also written for Image Comics, Legends Press, OSSM Comics and New Paradigm Studios. He is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good Men Project and writes The Buy Pile, a weekly comics reviews column for Comic Book Resources.
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