Christopher Ayres

(Voice Actor)

Chris started as a performer working professionally on stage and television at the age of 6. As an actor he has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, with both National and Regional Touring companies as well as many professional regional theaters. In 1991 he made a semi career shift and started working professionally as a Director, Choreographer and Fight Director in Houston Texas. Only performing occasionally, Chris was delighted to get picked up with A.D.V. Films just under two years ago.

He has had an amazing time tapping into his "Inner Jerk" as Kei Kurono in GANTZ, which is one of his favorite roles to date. Other Roles include Yamanami in PEACEMAKER, Nakamaru in MABURAHO, Class president Hayashimizu in FULL METAL PANIC? FUMOFFU, Yousef Ali Mesa in YUGO: THE NEGOTIATOR, Dr. Pluto in BASToF SYNDROME, Sawadust in A TREE OF PALME, Murato in MOBY DICK, and a few others that he's not allowed to talk about at the moment. Some of the other shows he's provided voice work for include: KINO'S JOURNEY, MEGAZONE 23, MEZZO, E'S OTHERWISE, CHROMARTIE HIGH, HELLO KITTY ANIMATION THEATER, ELFIN LIED, MADLAX. As well as providing voices for the live action dubs including DARK WATER, MARRYING THE MAFIA, PUBLIC ENEMY, JUNGLE JUICE, GUNS AND TALKS as well as this SHINOBI series.

Chris is really excited to be here and hopes everyone has a great time at the convention.

Greg Ayres

(Voice Actor)

Greg Ayres is not your average voice actor. The once "Fanboy" turned VA started working for ADV Films just a few years ago, and in that short time managed to snag two of his favorite roles in anime. He was thrilled to voice the role of his favorite character Son Goku in Saiyuki, then just one year later Kaworu Nagisa in the Director's Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Negi Springfield in Negima, Heihachi in Samurai 7, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Pope Alessandro XVIII in Trinity Blood, Tsuyoshi in Kodocha, Leo in Ghost Stories, Tsujido in Speed Grapher, and Gau Ban in Shadow Skill. He can also be heard in other anime titles such as Super Gals, Spiral, Macross, Mythical Detective Loki, Burst Angel, Gravion, Godanner, Pretear, Full Metal Panic, E's Otherwise and a whole lot more.

When he's not in a booth with headphones on, you can usually find him sporting headphones of another variety behind "the decks". A veteran nightclub DJ of many years, Greg has really enjoyed the opportunity of doing something else that he truly loves. From packed rooms at anime conventions, to the legendary stage of The Knitting Factory (NYC), Greg never misses an opportunity to share his love of music with anyone who will listen. To find out even more information visit Greg's web site at www.gregayres.com.

Dan Hess

(Comic Artist)

Dan was born in New York and raised in Ohio. He earned a BFA in Computer Graphics at Syracuse University in 1998, and relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio where he worked in a series of education-oriented software companies until 2004, when he went freelance.

While Dan has been comicking most all his life, he only really got serious about it in 2002, when he started Angel Moxie. He's self-published three Angel Moxie books, with plans to publish a Realms of Ishikaze book but his goal now is to get something published and distributed nationwide.

In the meantime, Dan's kept himself clothed and fed by doing freelance artwork, which he would not recommend, lest you have a good chunk of change saved up first. You can visit Mr. Hess at www.venisproductions.com.
(Current Realms of Ishikaze strip)

Brittney Karbowski

(Voice Actor)

Brittney is a newcomer to the world of anime, having made her debut last year with Gantz, but she was already an experienced stage performer and singer at the age of 19. She developed her love of the theater while still in high school, and made her professional debut at the age of 17 with Houston's Playhouse 90. While performing there, under the direction of Chris Ayres, Brittney caught the attention of ADV's Matt Greenfield, who cast her for bit parts in Gantz. She immediately followed up with a much more substantial role, that of Momoko Momozono in Godannar. She also played Reiya Ohshima in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, as well as parts in Gilgamesh, Chrono Crusade and Diamond Daydreams. Brittney is featured as Aoba Tsuzaki in the new release Jinki: Extend, and she plays the role of Himeko Katagiri in Pani Poni Dash!.

You can hear Brittney's vocals on the Voices for Peace benefit CD.

Carli Mosier

(Voice Actor)

Carli Mosier is thrilled to be making her first official convention appearance here at SugoiCon. Carli began working for ADV films three years ago, and has appeared in such shows as Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, as Tsubasa Maijima, and Godannar, as Kei. More recently, Carli has been cast in such ADV titles as UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, where she played Princess Pharm; Best Student Council, as Kenran Vice President; Moeyo Ken TV, as Sayoko Yamazaki, and as Febronia and various voices in Xenosaga: The Animation. Carli is probably best known for her performance as the sexy Detective Yukika in Nerima Daikon Brothers. Anime fans will soon get to see Carli as the proper—and quite often chaotic—Student Council President Yuri Kurosu in Magikano, coming out in December from ADV Films. Carli has also lent her impressive vocal talents as a singer to the upcoming Voices for Tolerance album.

Bob and Emily DeJesus

(Amazing Manga-Style Artist Duo!)

Robert is an Indiana born, self-taught artist. February, 1990 he got his first art career break when he sent an eight page short story to Antarctic Press' anthology, Mangazine. From that he was asked to work on other assorted AP comics, such as Ninja High School, Mangazine, Not Ninja High School, Again and SB Ninja High School. After working for Antarctic Press for about four years, Robert went on to do freelance work. He teamed with other artists such as Adam Warren on Bubblegum Crisis and Dirty Pair, Phil Foglio's Xxxenophile card game and co-produced a portfolio 'zine with Steve Bennett. His art has also attracted invitation from overseas by a couple of grand Japanese artists, Kenichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats, Riding Bean), and KoKoMai (character designer for Japan's Playstation, Crime Crackers) to do work for their own personal dojinishi circles. But it doesn't end there, Rob has done much work for many comic companies, major magazines, an animated TV show, a major toy manufacturer and a very well known video game developer.

Robert's biggest claim to fame has to be designing a certain teenage, spiky red hair, high school uniform wearing, video game otaku named Banzai Chibi Chan. For two years Robert designed and drew the magazines' easily excitable, video game addicted mascot for Playstation Magazine, 100% Independent. His work includes a collaboration with Studio Udon and Marvel comics. Released during the weekend of it's opening movie debut, he worked on two childrens books based on Spiderman. His most recent project was a pin-ups for past issues of Anime Invasion.

Now, with the help of his wife/partner in crime, Emily, have started thier own company, Studio Capsule. Capsule will be involve in creating a line of underground doujinshis, animations, portfolios and other sorts of Studio Capsule memorabilia. Find out everything that's new with either Studio Capsule or Robert DeJesus www.robertdejesus.com.

Jan Scott-Frazier

(Anime Industry Veteran)

Jan worked in the animation (anime) industry in Japan for almost 14 years. She attended animation school and later went on to work at a number of studios in including Artland, Production IG and Atelier BWCA on shows including RikiOh 2, Locke the Superman (OVA), Shurato (OVA), Bubblegum Crash (OVA) and Tottoi (feature). She become an expert in many different aspects of animation production, such as cel painting, animating, backgrounds, camera and directing. In 1991 she founded an animation studio - TAO Corp. Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand. TAO did work on Moldiver, Diary of Mikan, Genocyber and SWAT Kats amongst others. In 1994, Jan moved into consulting work, freelancing for Cambridge Animation Systems, the developers of Animo (a computer assisted (2D) animation production system). Also in 1994, Jan co-founded GENESIS Digital Publishing Company with Izumi Matsumoto(Kimagure Orange Road) where they created the best-selling Comic ON, a CD-ROM manga compendium in which Jan debuted as a manga artist. In 1999 Jan directed episodes of Susie-chan & Marvy (TV) and spent most of the year working on the development of original TV series projects. In 2000, she moved back to the USA to work at Celsys USA on the development of the next generation of the RETAS digital production system.

Jan has traveled extensively throughout Asia and the US teaching animation techniques and speaking at tradeshows and conventions. She has also translated videos and manga, written and co-written magazine articles and created extensive training materials for cel painting, animation and computer animation.

In 2006 she produced the album Voices for Peace as a charity benefit. She currently produces albums for Voices For, a non-profit corporation and is writing her memoirs.

Doug Smith

(Manga Style Artist and Voice Actor)

Douglas Smith is a Voice Actor/Artist personality in the Anime industry. He's voiced in several of ADV's shows like, BubbleGum 2040, Those Who Hunt Elves, Sorcerer Hunters, Dragon Knight, and Steam Detectives to name a few. Doug is most recognized for his role as Kintaro Oe in GoldenBoy. Be sure to swing by his table and check out his art.

Jennie Breeden

(Webcomic Author)

Jennie Breeden is the creator of the daily webcomic Devil's Panties, an autobiographical strip about working at a comic shop, going to conventions, and pirates. Jennie lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her boyfriend and his cat.

James Hatton

(Webcomic Author)

James Hatton is a webcomic artist that has been working online for four years. After a few attempts at working on webcomics with artists fell through, he decided to venture out on his own. A few weeks later he had begun In His Likeness, a minimalist art driven comic about God, the Devil, and a whole pantheon of characters in the form of dots. He's since created two full traditional comics and is working on a two more.

James himself is a pop culture sponge. He takes anything and everything he can about the world and syphons it into his characters. A lover of obscure video games, horror movies, and all facets of comicdom, he won't be running out of material to crack smart on for years to come.

James and In His Likeness have been featured on the Comic Geek Speak, and Big Kev's Geek Stuff podcasts. He currently lives in New Jersey with his fiancee Danielle, and their two chinchillas, Zuul and Gozer.

Hannah Alcorn

(Voice Actor)

Hannah Alcorn is a veteran stage actress from Houston, Texas, making her first convention appearance here at SugoiCon. She has appeared in such stage productions as You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Side Show, and Sondheim’s Side by Side. She played the role of Princess Alexandra for the Houston Children’s Theatre Festival in The Princess Who Could Not be Heard, and sung in La Cenerentola for the Houston Grand Opera. Hannah has recently ventured into the anime industry as a voice actress, and can be heard in various roles in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok. Soon anime fans will get to hear her in her first two principal roles for ADV Films, the sweet-but-bumbling witch hunter Marin Nijihara in Magikano, and as the lead female character Sunako in the new Shinichi Watanabe comedy The Wallflower. She looks forward to bringing her perspective as an industry newcomer to everyone here at SugoiCon.