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No Brand Con 7 :: April 18th-20th 2008
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No Brand Con 2008 Guests
Johnny Yong Bosch - Actor/Voice Actor
Sonny Strait - Voice Actor
Kyle Hebert - Voice Actor
The Slants - Our Musical Guest
Randy Milholland - Web Comic Artist
Fan Guests - Our Good Friends from the Realm of Fandom!
Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch got his start fighting giant bugs as Adam, the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He is also known for his voice work as Vash in Trigun, Kaneda in Akira, Ichigo in Bleach, Renton in Eureka Seven, Claus in Last Exile, Clair in Heat Guy J, Sakaki in Witch Hunter Robin, Mike in Please Twins, Albert in The Count of Monte Cristo, Nero in Devil May Cry 4 and Kiba in Wolf's Rain.
Aside from acting Johnny's the front man for the edge rock band, Eyeshine.
Sonny Strait
As a voice actor, director, writer and illustrator there is not one geek genre that hasn't been warped by his taint. Most notably he was the voice of Dragonball Z's Krillin, Full Metal Alchemist's Maes Hughes and the original Toonami Tom for the Cartoon Network. He has also worked as a writer and director for many favored anime productions including Dragonball, Lupin III, Case Closed, Kodacha and Kiddy Grade. Currently he portrays Usopp on Funimation's One Piece.
His efforts have been witnessed as well in the illustration arts. As a comic book artist for DC's Elfquest series he received quite a grass roots following. Sonny has even illustrated PVP card games (most recently for the Champions of the Galaxy Pro Wrestler Card Game). Currently he is under contract to write and draw three manga-styled graphic novels for Tokyopop called We Shadows available now in all bookstores.
If you are geek country, unmarred by his campaign, know that you are so next!
Kyle Hebert
Kyle Hebert is an LA-based voice actor currently on "Bleach" as Sosuke Aizen and Ganju Shiba, as well as Kiba on "Naruto". He is best known as the Narrator and teen Gohan on "Dragonball Z" (also West Kai, Pikkon, and Ox King). Other credits include Megaman Star Force (Omega-Xis), "Digimon Data Squad (Belphemon), "Buso Renkin" (Hiwatari), "Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (Munei), "When They Cry" (Tomitake), "Fullmetal Alchemist" (Falman), "Fruits Basket" (Takei), "Eureka 7" (KenGoh), "Yu Yu Hakusho" (Karasu), and many more. Kyle's diverse range of voices can be heard as various characters on "Hellsing Ultimate", "One Piece", "Witchblade", "Mushi-shi", "Hell Girl", "Honey and Clover", "Ergo Proxy", "MAR", among others.
Kyle also has extensive video game voice credits, including "The Spiderwick Chronicles", "Devil May Cry 4", "Dynasty Warriors 6", "Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles", "Soldier of Fortune: Payback", "Bleach Wii/DS", ".hack GU Part 2-3", "Digimon Data Squad", "Dawn of Mana", "Valkyrie Profile 2", "Dungeon Siege", "Enchanted Arms", "Desperate Housewives PC", "Baten Kaitos: Origins", "Dragonball Z", and "Naruto". You can also download his internet radio show dedicated to news on everything geeky ("The Big Bald Broadcast") from his official website, www.kylehebert.com.
The Slants
The Slants are an Asian dance/rock band from Portland, Oregon. The Slants were formed in 2006 by members of The Stivs, Son of Rust, and Evening at the Black House. Their music is a cacophony of melodic rock intricacy tempered by darker, dance themes with anthemic choruses and shattering hooks reminiscent of groups such as The Faint, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, and Joy Division - except with an Asian spin. Perla Cadena of Sony BMG Music Entertainment claims "If you like danceable rock or anything Asian, you'll love The Slants!"
The Slants have just released their first album, "Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts" and have been receiving incredible international press. Within three months of playing live, the band has headlined numerous shows, and has been requested to play not only throughout the United States, but in Asia, Europe, and Australia as well.
Watch The Slants Promotional Video (WMV)
Randy Milholland
From SomethingPositive.net:
rkmilholland is probably napping right now. Sometimes, at night, he dons little shoes with curled toes and a little hat and secretly aids overworked cobblers. Then he uses their stores to launder money. He also grew up in a little patch of suburban sprawl between Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas. Under a full moon he sometimes transforms into a merkat. He Draws Something Positive. That makes him fairly cool we think.
Fan Guests
These are some of our good friends from the realm of fandom who have been historic supporters of No Brand Con.
Verssen Werks PresentsVanessa and Kaylene met in 2001 at MCAD's School Girls and Mobile Suits, a weekend long anime intensive lecture course. Besides being separated at birth, they discovered something else they had in common: The strong drive to parody the bejezus out of every anime we watched. From this primordial soup of desire, and a partner in crime's art site, Verssen Werks Presents was born.
To Slay Zombie NewtonOriginally from Eau Claire, but now spread out, To Slay Zombie Newton is a local Nerd Rock institution, and they yet again return to rock your brains out.
Ina Bel ShuhadakuDerek Castor has been building "fyne foam weaponry" for over a decade. This year he returns yet again to run the Foam Sword Fighting Tournaments that have become a No Brand Con tradition.
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