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Patrick Warburton Announced for Emerald City 2015

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

PatrickWarburtonThat’s right fans, The embodiment of The Tick will be making his appearance at Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon in 2015.

As The Tick he was the perfect casting choice in Ben Edlund’s live action series of the same name, but as Patrick Warburton he is the perfect casting for any animated series. Like voice artists Len Carlson and Bill Reiter before him, Warburton has a distinctive voice that adds to his existing comic flair.

Warburton’s lengthy animated credits span both TV, film and video game. In the TV world he is known for the characters Joe Swanson (Family Guy), Buzz Lightyear (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.) and Sheriff Bronson Stone (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated). On the silver screen he has created the roles of Kronk (The Emporer’s New Groove), Pulaski (Planes: Fire & Rescue) and Agamemnon (Mr. Peabody & Sherman). Warburton has also become loved by gamers for his roles as Mozer (Metal Arms: Glitch In the System), Damone (Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust) and Hugo Vasquez (Tales from the Borderlands).

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Norwescon 38 Dates and Guests Announced!

Norwescon38With Norwescon 37 only just a recent memory, it didn’t take long for the organizers to announce not only the dates to the upcoming Norwescon 38 but the guests as well. And for those of you who are big readers of high fantasy, you may jump for joy when you read further.

Norwescon 38 will take place next year on April 2nd to the 5th and it will still be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel near the Seattle Airport.

The theme for the convention will be Distant Horizons, Epic Adventures.

The guests of Honour will be:

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The Vintage Tempest’s Emerald City Comic Con Journal 2014

I am not fast enough to run around like Speedy Gonzales and absorb the fun Emerald City Comic Con offers all in one go. Comics, cinema and ‘toons are my life — to spend a good part of the con getting to meet my favourite artists, creators and television/movie stars spanning decades meant doing a lot of prioritizing.

Emerald City Comic ConBy Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

To get my nerd on depends on when I have time to drain my thoughts out and process them like Dumbledore in front of his Pensieve. With Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, Washington, the experience is mind-blowing. I started going to this show in 2012 and I knew I had to make attending an annual pilgrimage — or rather a tradition! When this event has grown to have its events and exhibits housed in three buildings and multiple floors, just what can one guy do?

I am not fast enough to run around like Speedy Gonzales and absorb all the fun this convention offers in one go. Comics, cinema and ‘toons are my life — to spend a good part of the con getting to meet my favourite artists, creators and television/movie stars spanning decades meant doing a lot of prioritizing. Looking for back-issues of Marvels, DC’s and Independents were the furthest things from my mind. In fact, two-thirds of my time was spent in the main Exhibit Hall gleaming little tidbits of information about what’s coming in comic or cartoon land. Yes, a Fall of Cthulhu Omnibus collection is coming (hopefully by the end of the year), and the next Transformers cartoon will focus on the antics of Bumblebee.

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ECCC Announces Jim Lee as Guest!

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

ecccLogoSeattle’s Emerald City Comicon have announced their guest of DC co-publisher, award winning illustrator, writer, editor and publisher Jim Lee.

Jim Lee’s creative work spans many titles including Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men, Wildstorm Productions’ WildC.A.T.s, DC’s Justice League and All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder.

Emerald City Comicon will be hosted at the Washington State Convention Center, March 28-30, 2014.

Mr. Lee will be doing a signing Friday only in the ECCC Signing Area on from 2:00PM – 4:00PM. This signing will be ticketed, with tickets available at the DC Entertainment booth (#1802)

Limit 2 items per person.

To purchase tickets to the Emerald City Comicon, visit their official website.

Sakura Con Guest: Range Murata

Range Murata ©2008 George SeguinRange Murata ©2008 George SeguinPhoto by George Seguin[/caption]Japanese artist and designer Range Murata will be a guest at Seattle’s Sakura-Con April 18-20, 2014.

Murata is best known for his beautiful conceptual and/or character design work on such anime series as Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6, Shangri-La and SoltyRei.

Winner of the “Best Artist of the Year” at the 2006 Seuin Awards, he has published numerous doujinshi and artbooks including Racten, robot and futurhythm.

Murata has also been involved in console games. His work has appeared in Sega Saturn’s Wachenröder and Playstation 2’s Spy Fiction for Sammy Studios.

Previously announced guests at Sakura-Con include Shigehiko Sato at Fuji Creative Corp, Mami Koyama (Sailor Moon & Urusei Yatsura), Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan), Christopher Smith (Digimon Fusion and Crossfire: B-Daman), Matthew Mercer (Tygra from Thundercats reboot) and performance artist ELISA (Hayate the Combat Butler and Project Railgun S).

To buy your tickets to Sakura-Con, visit their official website.

Hiroshi Nagahama Announced For Sakura-Con 2014!

By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

SakuraThe Pacific Northwest’s largest anime convention, Sakura-Con, will have as their guest, director and designer Hiroshi Nagahama.

Nagahama is making a return to Sakura-Con’s beautiful host city of Seattle. Nagahama was a guest for three years in a row from 2002 – 2004 and he was more recently seen at Sakura-Con 2008.

NagahamaNagahama’s design work spans such titles as the TV series Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997), Samurai Deeper Kyo (2002) and on Ryousuke Takahashi’s 1993 OVA series The Cockpit.

Nagahama’s directing credits include chief director on the TV series Jubei-Chan: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu (2004), director of Mushi-Shi (2005), Flowers of Evil (2013) and the Kiss rock band inspired OVA series Detroit Metal City (2008).

For tickets or information, you can visit the official Sakura-Con 2014 website here.