U.S. Guests

Guests from the United States of America.

Catherine Jones

Posted Tue, 05/07/2013 - 21:32 by El Ken

Catherine Jones is an award winning seamstress and the owner of God Save the Queen Fashions. She studied theatrical costuming at Emory University, and has a professional background in a variety of disciplines including but not limited to drag costuming, bridal wear, and car upholstery. Catherine has translated those skills into making literally hundreds of beautiful cosplay pieces for her customers, both nationally and internationally since 2008. Her work has been seen on College Humor, Cosmode Magazine, Geeks are Sexy, My Disguises, and Kotaku.Read more

Christopher Ayres

Posted Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:38 by El Ken

Christopher Ayres has been working professionally in theatre, television and film since the age of 6. His work has been seen regionally, nationally and on Broadway. He currently works as an ADR Director at Sentai Film Works, and as a voice actor has worked for ADV films, Amusement Park Media, New Gen Pictures, Okratron 5000 and FUNimation Entertainment.

As an ADR Director his credits include: Majikoi: Oh!Read more

Taliesin Jaffe

Posted Mon, 04/22/2013 - 11:27 by El Ken

Taliesin Jaffe started his career as a child actor appearing in films such as Mr. Mom, 2010 and Explorers, and television shows such as She’s the Sheriff, Amazing Stories and The Facts of Life. After a brief adventure living in Japan, he went on to work as an ADR director and script adaptor for animation and video games, and has been involved with the production of shows such as Hellsing, ROD the TV, NieA_7, BECK, Hellgirl, Romeo X Juliet, 3×3 Eyes, The End of Evangelion, Texhnolyze, Haibane Renmei, and Monster.Read more

Brad Swaile

Posted Tue, 04/16/2013 - 22:06 by El Ken

Vancouver-born and raised, Brad began acting at a relatively young age and, once in high school, had his first audition for an animated series. This first voice acting gig took the form of a pony named “Ace” in My Little Pony Tales and soon afterwards, he landed his first anime role as “Mousse” in Ranma 1/2.Read more

Sonny Strait

Posted Sun, 04/14/2013 - 04:08 by El Ken

As a voice actor, Sonny Strait is considered one of the most recognized in the business. Besides Dragonball Z’s Krillin he has played Full Metal Alchemist’s Maes Hughes, One Piece’s Usopp, Lupin III’s Lupin III, Cartoon Network’s Toonami Tom, Kenechi’s Apachai, Moon Phase’s Seiji, Black Butler’s Drocell and Samurai Seven’s Kyuzo.Read more

Sarah Alys Lindholm

Posted Sun, 04/14/2013 - 04:04 by El Ken

Sarah Alys Lindholm has translated professionally since 2003, working with anime and other fun things like video games, films, chemical safety data sheets… No, really, she loves it all. Currently the Quality Assurance Translator at FUNimation Entertainment, she spends her days making your anime translations both more accurate and more fun across the industry. Shows she’s translated for US release include Eden of the East, Black Butler, Princess Jellyfish, .hack//Quantum, Madlax, and Get Backers.

Samurai Dan & Jillian

Posted Sun, 04/14/2013 - 03:42 by El Ken

Dan Coglan, a.k.a. “Samurai Dan,” and Jillian Coglan are a dynamic duo of stage performers and masters of martial mayhem that entertain audiences from one end of the country to the other. They specialize in showing the comedic side of shared Samurai training!

In addition to their captivating stage shows, this happily (mostly!) married couple teach historical and hysterical panels on the way of the warrior, along with interactive classes for con-goers to learn and experience for themselves the amazing skills of the samurai (and ninja).Read more

American Comic/Educational Guests

Posted Sun, 04/14/2013 - 03:38 by El Ken

Anime Central welcomes back our veritable bevy of local comic artists: John Bivens, Steve Horton, Russell Lissau, and Trevor Mueller.

Reading With Pictures: http://www.readingwithpictures.org/

John Bivens:

John Bivens graduated from and now teaches at Northern Illinois University. He has done work for Sam Costello’s SPLIT LIP horror anthologies, COMIC BOOK TATTOO, POPGUN volume 4, the READING WITH PICTURES benefit anthology, OMEGA COMICS PRESENTS, and a variety of digital comics.Read more

Clarine Harp

Posted Sat, 04/06/2013 - 01:17 by El Ken

Anime Central is pleased announce Industry Guest (and voice talent) Clarine Harp!

Clarine Harp was first cast by FUNimation Entertainment in 2003 to give life to the character of Tweedledee in Kiddy Grade. Since then, Clarine’s talents have been featured in a broad range of roles: Hetalia Axis Powers (China), Burst Angel (Sei), Samurai 7 (Sanae), Speed Grapher (Ginza), Negima (Kaede), Shin chan (Miss Katz), Witchblade (Asagi), Chaos; HEAd (Sena) and RIN _{Daughters of Mnemosyne} (Laura).Read more