Guests

George Lowe

George Edward Lowe is an American voice actor and comedian whose voice roles include Space Ghost on the animated series Space Ghost Coast to Coast and its spin-off, Cartoon Planet. He continued to voice Space Ghost in several cameos in other programs for several years following the conclusion of the series.

Lowe has also made recurring voice appearances on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Robot Chicken.

Jim Ross

James William Ross is an American professional wrestling commentator and talent relations executive, who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling as a commentator and senior advisor. Ross is most known for a long and distinguished career as a wrestling commentator for WWE, National Wrestling Alliance and WCW. He is a member of the WWE, NWA, And National Wrestling Hall of Fames.

Maile Flanagan

Maile Flanagan has voiced the lead in the hit cartoon NARUTO & NARUTO SHIPPUDEN for more than 700 episodes, 42 video games and 6 movies. She also plays Principal Perry on Disney XD’s LAB RATS. In in 2006 she won an Emmy (also nominated 2007) for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for “Jakers!The Adventures of Piggley Winks". BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS. She also recurs on Nick's THE LOUD HOUSE and PIG GOAT BANANA CRICKET. She had recurring roles on SHAMELESS, BAD TEACHER, THE CLASS, and GREY’S ANATOMY and has guest starred on many tv shows including The Mindy Project, Mike and Molly, Modern Family, Reno 911!, ER, Last Man Standing, Angie Tribeca, etc. Movies include the Oscar-winning Rango as well as Yes Man, Ice Age 3, Transformers 3, 500 Days of Summer, The Station Agent, etc. Look for her this fall in the horror short “The Lift” and in the feature “My BabySitter the Superhero”.

Matt Silva

Matthew Silva, Co-owner of Blue Whale Studios, has been working as a makeup artist for over 12 years and has been part of makeup teams on such projects as “Avengers: Infinity War”, “Black Panther”, “Avengers: End Game”, “Guardians of the Galaxy: 2”, “The Walking Dead”, “The Accountant”, “Allegiant”, “The Vampire Diaries”, and countless others. His acute attention to detail makes Matthew an extremely strong and versatile artist, with a skill set ranging from beauty and prosthetics to extremely technical sculpture, armor making, and prop building. His ability to lead and manage a team is what drove his partnership with Blue Whale Studios Inc. This new partnership has helped Blue Whale Studios Inc to grow and expand quickly and they are all looking forward to what the future holds!

Moe Balinger

Moe Balinger is an illustrator and freelance character designer from Atlanta, GA. Primarily digital, his work is reminiscent of the Art Nouveau movement and inspired by a multitude of media. He received an Emmy certificate in 2016 for his work on FX's Archer Season 7 and was featured in the February 2017 issue of Imagine FX in the FXpose gallery for his work inspired by Arthurian Legend. He has also worked as an editorial illustrator and designer for CNN where he helped develop the Stories on AMP project. His personal projects include illustrating an original Tarot deck for Adventurers, coloring a web comic, and an illustrated short story.

Phil Lamarr

A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and perhaps is best known as one of the original cast members of “Mad TV” and as “Marvin” in PULP FICTION.

In addition to numerous appearances in films like Jason Reitman's MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN, STEP BROTHERS, FREE ENTERPRISE and REAL STEEL, and TV shows such as “NYPD Blue,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Veep”, and Epix's "Get Shorty,” Phil has been profiled for his extensive voice-over work, which includes regular roles on the animated series "Samurai Jack," "Futurama," and "Justice League," recurring roles on "Family Guy," "Young Justice" and "STAR WARS: REBELS" and video games including SHADOW OF MORDOR, (for which he won the NAVGTR award for best supporting actor) METAL GEAR SOLID 2 & 4, MERCENARIES, DARKSIDERS, INFAMOUS, DEAD ISLAND, INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US and MORTAL KOMBAT X.

His stage work includes productions with The Actor’s Gang, South Coast Repertory and Sacred Fools Theatre, and the award-winning production of “We Are Proud To Present...” at The Matrix Theatre. Phil also portrayed “Cowboy Curtis” in "The Pee-wee Herman Show" both on Broadway and in the Emmy-nominated HBO special.

Currently, In addition to writing, producing and starring in the web series "Inside The Legend" (http://www.youtube.com/user/InsideTheLegend)" and the animated series "GOBLINS,"(goblinsanimated.com) Phil is performing monthly with "THE BLACK VERSION" (www.theblackversion.com), appearing in Netflix's "Kulipari”, the record-setting INCREDIBLES 2 and starring in Tyler The Creator's animated series, "The Jellies" for Adult Swim.

Rodger Bumpass

Emmy-nominated for the voice of Squidward on SpongeBob Squarepants, Rodger has been in acting for 38 years, and he’s going to keep on til he gets it right. In addition to Squidward, he was the voice of Professor Membrane in Invader Zim, Dr. Light in Teen Titans, Hanover Fyst in the cult favorite Heavy Metal. He has also provided various voices in many Disney and Pixar featured animated movies like A Bugs Life, Monsters Inc., Cars, Finding Nemo, Treasure Planet, Emperors New Groove, and more recently, Monsters University.

Sonya Thompson

Sonya Thompson has been in the film and TV industry for nearly thirteen years. She is an actress, model, author and producer, often directing as well. She is mainly known for her zombie roles, but has tackled many other roles, such as detective, mother, and professor roles. Sonya was in two seasons of The Walking Dead TV series and was also a promotional model that has become one of the most seen zombies/walkers used in worldwide advertisements of the show. She has been featured on the magazine covers of Entertainment Weekly, SFX Magazine, SFX's Ultimate Zombie Guide, SFX's A-Z of Zombies, SFX's A-Z of Horror, Film Ink, Encyclopedia of Horror, and DVDReview. Her image has also been utilized on posters, tee shirts, bill boards, DVD/Blu Ray covers, trading cards and was also featured in the Walking Dead Comic book issue #75, along side the main cast.

Other roles include Sam on the webseries 'Lumber Baron of Jasper county', Catherine in the movie 'LWA:All Saints' Eve, Alice in the movie 'The Lost day' starring William Baldwin and Danny Trejo, Victoria Stubaker in the film 'Prosper', Flo in the film 'This Old Machine', Detective Chelsea in 'Ebony Knight', The Under the bed Patient in 'Sick People' starring C Thomas Howell and Jasmine Guy, Mrs Wilkes in 'The Runner', Victoria the librarian in All Hallows Evil: Lord of the Harvest, Jasmine in the film 'Sprout', The receptionist in the movie 'The System', A cancer Patient in the TV show Sid Roth's Its Supernatural, and a detective in the film 'Encuéntrate'. She has appeared in H2 as a dead nurse, Van Wilder Freshman year as a professor, and many more. Soon to be released are the movies "Bigfoot" and "Bottom Creek"

She was Segment Director on the Movie Cry For Revenge that has Christina Lindberg starring in(Note, this one has yet to be released). Producer and Co Director on the web series 'Akkadia'. Producer on the documentary "Storm: To Sandra, From Hayden with love". Also in the documentary "Write of Passage: An Authors Journey" She has written a zombie guide called 'I am zombie, hear me snarl'

AKIOBOY

"AKIOBOY produces entertaining video content (cosplay, parodies, animations, short films) influenced by anime, sci-fi, pop culture & video games. One such production is a webseries entitled Don't Be A Hero which pays homage to Nintendo Gameboy games from the 90s. The series also utilizes a stylistic filter as every episode takes the protagonist on strange (sometimes existential) adventures."

He'll be attending Fanaticon to capture all our amazing cosplayers for a memorable video you won't want to miss!