Guests
This year, we've got the best line-up of guests ever! Keep an eye out on the events page for activities they'll be taking part in!
Spike Spencer
Spike has voiced hundreds of episodes of Anime including notable titles Evangelion (Shinji Ikari), Buso Renkin (Papillion), Code Geass (Rolo Lamperouge), and Bleach (Hanatar. Yamada), Battle Angel, Suikoden, Orphen, Spriggan, Nadesico, Mar, PreTear.His video game credits include World of Warcraft -The Burning Crusade, Tales of Vesperia, Steambot Chronicles, Star Ocean: Second Evolution, and many others. Spike has also lent his voice to many radio and TV commercials.
His personal website can also be seen at http://www.spikespencer.com and you can view his fan-site at http://www.almostevilminions.com
Akemi Solloway
Akemi Solloway is a lecturer and consultant of Japanese culture, the daughter of an old samurai family and learned in the traditional arts and culture of Japan. She will present two panels on Japanese Culture - On Tea Ceremony and Kimonos.The following is taken from her website: "Through a desire to help people understand the traditional culture behind many of the modern aspects of Japanese art and lifestyle, Akemi has worked closely with the Anime and Manga community, speaking at many conventions and founding AJAMCA, the Anglo-Japanese Anime and Manga Cultural Association. She also has a lot of time and appreciation for people involved in Cosplay. Indeed, she has described her own use of western clothing in her free time as a form of reverse Cosplay, as she spends most of her life dressed in kimonos."
Click here to visit her website, or here to watch some of her talks.
Martin Billany aka LittleKuriboh
Martin Billany, aka LittleKuriboh, is the creator of the very popular Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series, a parody of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and is also part of DBZ Abridged. Each episode is made from clips of the original series, and then voiced over. Originally taking place on youtube, the series now has it's own website which can be found at www.yugiohabridged.comDarkSideIncorporated
As part of our efforts to bring the UK Abridging community together at Alcon, we're pleased to announce that DarkSideIncorporated will be attending Alcon. DarkSideIncorporated are the makers of Yu-Gi-Oh GX Abridged. The team consist of xthedarkone and ShadyVox. ShadyVox is also the maker of Sonic X Abridged. You can view their material at http://www.youtube.com/DarkSideIncorporatedHelen McCarthy
Helen is an author, best known for writing books including the Anime Encyclopedia, 500 Manga Heroes and Villians, the Erotic Anime Movie Guide, The Anime Movie Guide, Anime! A beginneer's Guide to Japanese Animation, Manga Cross-Stitch and the Art of Osamu Tezuka amongst many others. She will be attending to give talks about anime in general, including the history of anime/manga amongst several others.You can check out her website at http://www.helenmccarthy.org and her blog at http://helenmccarthy.wordpress.com
Lawrence Simpson aka MasakoX
We're pleased to announce that Lawrence Simpson (aka MasakoX) of the internet hit-series DBZ Abridged shall be attending Alcon! He shall be doing panels for MasaVox and on DBZ Abridged.
Expect one more guest-announcement within the next week as we complete our guest line-up for 2010!