Lloyd  Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman

Co-founder of Troma Entertainment Lloyd Kaufman

Malcolm  McDowell

Malcolm McDowell

Horror Guest of Honour Malcolm McDowell!

Meomi  - 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascot creators

Meomi - 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascot creators

Celebrate Canada's Gold with official Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascot designers Meomi!

Neil  Kaplan

Neil Kaplan

Voice actor Neil Kaplan, from Starcraft II, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Digimon, Power Rangers, and more!

Paul  McGillion

Paul McGillion

Actor Paul McGillion travels through the Stargate to Calgary!

Tahmoh  Penikett

Tahmoh Penikett

Battlestar Galactica's "Helo", Dollhouse's Lt. Paul Ballard, and upcoming Riverworld star Tahmoh Penikett

Leonard  Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Spock beams down to Calgary on April 24th & 25th!

Sid  Haig

Sid Haig

Sid Haig joins the Calgary line up this April.

Brent  Spiner

Brent Spiner

Lieutenant Commander Data will make an appearance at the 2010 Calgary Expo!

Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

Meet Star Wars' Lando Calrissian in person

Web comic guests Ryan Sohmer, Lar DeSouza, Ryan North and Alina Pete are coming to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo to share the wonders of the world-wide web.

 

Ryan Sohmer is the writer of Least I Could Do and Looking For Group, webcomics that he does with cartoonist Lars DeSouza. Ryan also runs the company Blind Ferret Entertainment, which has been responsible for the release of several print collections of popular web-comics, along with fully animated cartoon versions of PVP and Crtl+Alt+Del.

Lar DeSouza is the Shuster Award winning cartoonist behind the online comics Least I Could Do and Looking For Group which he creates with writer Ryan Sohmer.  Lar has also won the Prix Aurora Award for Artistic Achievement in Canadian Science Fiction on two separate occasions (2006 & 2008) and several other awards for caricature and cartooning.

 

Ryan North is the Canadian creator behind the popular daily web strip Dinosaur Comics. In addition to his comics, North has created three tools to aid webcomic authors: Oh No Robot, a webcomic transcription tool which creates searchable text databases for comics; RSSpect, a method of creating RSS feeds for websites; and Project Wonderful, a pay-per-day auction-based ad serving system.

Born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Alina Pete took classical animation courses and went to the University of Saskatchewan in pursuit of her BFA (which remains uncompleted). She followed this up with a 3-D animation certificate.

Over the years she has lived in Alberta, Fiji, Arizona and China. At various times Pete has applied her talents as a web-designer, costume artist, art gallery director, graphic artist, and digital effects artist on projects such as Wapos Bay (a Gemini-Award-winning children’s animation show for Canadian television), and in her online webcomic, Weregeek.

   

 

Wrestlers Vance Nevada and the Honky Tonk Man are coming to the Calgary Expo to take a shot at the title! And by title, I mean my Batman belt buckle!!!

Lloyd Kaufman's Profile Picture

Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including the The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.

As well, Kaufman also serves as chairman of the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

Comic guests Rich Buckler, Chris Claremont, Christina Strain and Marcus To are getting ready to feed you some sweet eye candy at the 2010 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.

     

Rich Buckler is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four in the mid-1970s and, with writer Doug Moench, co-creating the character Deathlok in Astonishing Tales #25. Buckler has drawn virtually every major character at Marvel and DC, often as a cover artist.

Chris Claremont is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year (1975–1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer. Claremont co-created numerous important X-Men characters, and scripted many classic stories, including "The Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past." The second X-Men film was loosely based on his X-Men graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills."

Christina Strain is a comic book colorist currently working with Marvel Comics, notable for being the colorist of the award-winning series, "Runaways." Strain got her start in comics working for Crossgen in 2003. She was a member of UDON from 2003 to 2005, which helped her get her start at Marvel with Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. Strain has colored several Jay Company exclusive covers to comics such as the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Marcus To is a comic book artist and  has illustrated issues of Fathom, Soulfire, and Black Panther. At one time, he was   William Aberhart's "Sexiest Man Alive."

 

   

Sci-Fi and Fantasy artists Gerald Brom, Iain McCaig, Christopher Shy and William Stout ready to take your eyes into a magical land of awesomeness.

At the age of twenty, Gerald Brom began working full-time as a commercial illustrator. He started off doing work for clients including Coca-Cola, IBM, Columbia Pictures and CNN. He was hired full-time by TSR, Inc. at the age of 24, and worked there for four years illustrating various Dungeons and Dragons projects before returning to freelance.

Iain McCaig is an internationally recognized and award winning artist and one of the motion picture industry’s leading conceptual designers. His exceptional command of human anatomy, character, emotional expression and visual narrative make him on of the most sought after artists working in the entertainment industry today.

Christopher Shy, who sometimes goes by the pen name "Ronin," is a freelance fantasy and science fiction artist. He has also worked in comics and as a conceptual artist for films. He is also the founder of Studio Ronin and the co-founder of Ronin Arts. His work includes character portraits for White Wolf's Mage: the Ascension revised edition and illustrations for numerous novels.

William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. He has also worked in comics and on dozens of feature films At seventeen Stout won a full scholarship to the Chouinard Art Institute (California Institute of the Arts) where he obtained his Bachelor's Degree. He began his professional career in 1968 with the cover for the first issue of Coven 13. In 1971 he began to assist Russ Manning on the Tarzan of the Apes Sunday & daily newspaper comic strips and Eisner Award-winning graphic novels. Stout joined Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder on Little Annie Fanny for Playboy in 1972. In 1973 Stout began his relationship with the Firesign Theatre and gained international notoriety for his 45 rock 'n' roll "bootleg" record album covers.

*Darth Maul image with permission of Lucasfilm Ltd. Copyright 2010 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.*

Malcolm McDowell

The Calgary Expo is proud to welcome Malcolm McDowell as the Horror Guest of Honor! From Clockwork Orange, Tank Girl, Heroes, Halloween, and the man who killed Captain Kirk! In celebration of the upcoming 30th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange, we'll also be presenting a special screening of the film with an intro from Malcolm himself! Details to follow!

Meomi mascot Olympic Designs

MEOMI is Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy. Creators of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascots (Quatchi, Miga and Sumi... and Mukmuk).  They are the creators behind the cute and sci-fi-esque Octonauts childrens book series that follow a team of eight animal adventurers that live in an Octopod under the sea. An animated television series based on the Octonauts books will be launching globally in Autumn 2010.

     

Comic and cover artists Kalman Andrasofsky, Ian Boothby, Leonard Kirk and Francesco "Matt" Mattina are shining their shoes and getting ready to come to Calgary!

Kalman Andrasofszky is currently the cover artist of REBELS from DC Comics and has recently done interiors for Marvel in NYX: No Way Home, Captain America #600 and Dazzler. Andrasofszky uses both traditional drawing and digital tools to bring his comic book art to life.

Ian Boothby is a comic book writer, comedian and improv artist. In the comics field he is best known for his work on Simpsons Comics and Futurama Comics for Matt Groening's Bongo Comics. Boothby has written more Simpsons Comics than any other writer. Boothby won an Eisner for best short story for ‘Murder He Wrote’ in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #14.

Leonard Kirk is an American born comic book artist who has lived most of his life in the Niagara Region of Ontario Canada. He began his career in the early 90’s illustrating black and white comics for independent publisher Malibu Graphics.  After working with Top Cow and DC, Leonard signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and has been drawing for the publisher ever since.

Francesco Mattina is a comic book cover artist from Turin, Italy. Mattina was introduced to the world of comics after he was discovered during an international talent search by MarVel Creator Liaison C.B. Cebulski. Cebulski brought Mattina to the attention of Bill Rosemann, the editor of The Thunderbolts. Included in Mattina’s portfolio pieces was a Thunderbolts image. Roseman promptly bought the image and used it for the cover of Thunderbolts #126. Mattina continues to create covers for  Thunderbolts  and has also created covers for War Machine, Fantastic Four, Nova ,and Azreal.

Starcraft II, Neil Kaplan

Neil Kaplan portrays Tychus Findley in the upcoming release of Starcraft II, as well as Optimus Prime in Transformers Robots in Disguise.

     

 Jeffrey Brown, Stefano Caselli, Dale Keown and Andy Runton are ready to give a gift to your eyes at this year's Calgary Expo. A gift in the form of awesome artwork!

Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the age of 25 Brown moved to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously. His first self-published book, Clumsy, was a hit both amongst comic fans and creators. His work is a mix between auto-biographical tales such as Clumsy, Little Things, and Funny Misshapen Body, and over-the-top, humorous fiction like The Incredible Changebots, and the ongoing Sulk series of comics.

Stefano Caselli is an Italian illustrator who broke into American Comics in 2002. His earliest work was on GI Joe, Thunderbolts and Playboy Comics. He followed this up with work on Vampirella, Micronauts, Hack/ Slash, Defex  and more GI Joe comics for Devil’s Due.

Dale Keown is a Canadian comic book artist best known for his work on the Hulk and creating Pitt. Keown started working in comics in 1986 drawing several series for Aircel Comics, including Samurai, Elflord, DragonRing  and Warlock 5. His first work for Marvel was in 1989 on Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja. He then went on to one of the most memorable runs of The Incredible Hulk, written by Peter David.

Andy Runton is the creator of the breakout all-ages series of graphic novels, Owly, featuring a kind-hearted owl who's always searching for new friends and adventure. Relying on a mixture of symbols and expressions to tell his silent stories, Andy's heartwarming style has made him a favorite of both fans and critics alike. He lives near Atlanta, Geogia, where he works full-time on Owly books, comics and graphic novels. Visit him online at http://AndyRunton.com.