GUESTS

Nauticon is proud to present our distinguished Guests of Awesome for Nauticon 2012!

Tom Wayland

Tom Wayland is proud to have made a long and successful career out of his most favorite things - acting, directing, and making raucous, loud rock and roll music. Tom has produced and/or directed hundreds of anime programs such as "Now & Then, Here & There", "Revolutionary Girl Utena", "Alien Nine", "The World of Narue", "Ichi the Killer", "Mew Mew Power", "Magical Do Re Mi", "GI Joe", and currently serves as the voice director on the hit series "Pokemon". Tom is also a very busy voice actor having appeared in hundreds of titles currently airing on Cartoon Network, Fox, WB, Nickelodeon or available on DVD including "Yugi-oh 5Ds" as Crow, Lester, and Nervin, "GI Joe" as Stormshadow, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as Jammerhead, "Pokemon" as Flint, Reggie, Cress, Arceus, and numerous freaky little creatures, "Tai Chi Chasers" as Finn, "Ikki Tousen", "Three Delivery", "Yugi-oh GX", "Chaotic", "One Piece", "Mew Mew Power", "Knight Hunters", "Genshiken", "Gokusen", and so on. Tom's work can also be seen or heard on various commercials, feature films, and audiobook projects including narrating Heavy Metal legend Dave Mustaine's autobiography – "Mustaine: a Heavy Metal Memoir", Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow's autobiography "Through My Eyes", and most recently lending his voice to the "Deadtime Stories" series from Macmillan Publishing. Most recently Tom is proud to say that he's cornered the Indian animation market as the go-to slacker/stoner character and is also conquering the world of ESL teaching the masses how to be talking some good English.

Events & Panels: Dick & Buster's Hentai Dubbing Extravaganza!, Outtakes and Anecdotes, The Business of getting into the Business...

Jan Scott-Frazier

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.

Events & Panels: Jan Scott-Frazier Live, Translating Manga/Anime, How to Run A Party That Doesn't Suck...

Jamie McGonnigal

Jamie McGonnigal is a voice actor, director, producer, photographer and activist living in Washington D.C. with his fiancé Sean, and dog Eli. He can currently be heard most Saturday mornings on Pokémon as Ash's main rival, Trip. He also appeared as Ash's most recent rival Barry on Pokémon. Jamie's other voice work includes Magic User's Club (Takeo), Weiss Kreus (Omi), World of Narue (Kazuto), El Cazador de la Bruja (LA), Viva Pinata (Teddington), Chaotic (Vlar), F-Zero (Zoda), Gokusen (Uchiyama), and the Yaoi classic Kizuna (Ranmaru) among many others. Jamie is also an award-winning producer and director, having presented more than 200 concerts and events in the Broadway community, benefiting The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Broadway Cares, The LGBT Community Center of NY and dozens of other LGBT and AIDS-related charities. Jamie is the founder of TalkAboutEquality.com and a contributing writer for Huffington Post and LGBTQNation.com. He currently lives in DC where he works as the Community Engagement Manager for the New Organizing Institute.

Events & Panels: Change the World, Being Gay and working in Anime, Girls and Boys gone Wilde!...

Bettina M. Kurkoski

The creator/writer/artist of My Cat Loki, was born March 26, 1973 in Montague, Massachusetts. Now residing in Plymouth, Mass, where she works as a freelance illustrator through her business, Dreamworld Studio. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 1996 with a BFA in Illustration, she entered TOKYOPOP's Rising Stars of Manga vol. 2 competition in 2003, placing as a runner-up, her work Axis Lumen published in the winners' compilation. My Cat Loki, volumes 1 &2 available from TOKYOPOP, was Bettina's first professionally published series. She has also contributed the Star Trek 40th Anniversary Convention exclusive cover for Star Trek: TOS manga vol. 1, cover and story art for Star Trek: TOS manga vol. 2, story art for Star Trek: The Next Generation vol. 1, story and art for the Princess Ai/My Cat Loki crossover story in Princess Ai: Encounters, cover and story art for Warriors: Rise of Scourge one-shot and Seekers manga series based on the best selling Seekers novel series, all available from TOKYOPOP and Harper Collins. You can see more of her artwork at http://www.dreamworldstudio.net.

Events & Panels: Bettina will be selling her work in the Artists Colony, Girls and Boys gone Wilde!, SKETCH FIGHT! (host!), Wow! I Remember That!...

Ginger Anne London

GingerAnne is a Director in Film and Animation. As an award winning cosplayer throughout her years, she has been featured in many magazines, films, articles and even USA Today. She is also an illustrator, animator, and fantasy/scifi writer. She has worked hard to bring her greatest work "Phoenix" (A Post Apocalyptic Scifi/fantasy adventure) to the big screen through animation as well as a highly illustrated comic. Phoenix was premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this past year. View the featured animation "Phoenix" here: "Phoenix"

On her down time, She entertains anime fans and cosplayers around the world through her popular British sketch comedy web series "Hellsing HQ," Based off the Japanese Anime "Hellsing." She is the Writer, Director, Producer, and also stars as the commanding female knight of the Hellsing Organization (Sir Integra Hellsing.) The show also features her beautiful fiancee Michela Dee who is a producer, co-writer and co-stars as the lovely young vampire (Seras Victoria.) Hellsing HQ also guest stars Germany's Vegi, (The Major) Finland's Milla Katajisto, (Rip Van Winkle) Rick Terrasi, (Walter) Shake9, (Pip) Redustrial, (Clone Seras) and Maxieyi, (Alucard.) You can view the entire series here: "Hellsing HQ"

Since 2006, GingerAnne has helped thousands of kids and young adults cope with personal psychological struggles dealing with bullying, uidance in the cosplay and outside world. She continues to be a role model and inspires the new generation, helping to guide them to their success.

Events & Panels: BDSM Behind the Imagery, Ginger Anne's Animated Shorts, Make Your Own Animation...

Baron Von Lahey ~ Wandering Legion

Baron Von Lahey is an esteemed member of New England's Premiere Steampunk performance troupe, The Wandering Legion of The Thomas Tew! The Wandering Legion is a Steampunk performance troupe that specializes in web-based media and event-oriented entertainment. Spread the brass sickness known as Steampunk by watching their webseries (Produced by Dogtoon media) as well as many of their other antics on their website: http://www.TheWanderingLegion.com or their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/thewanderinglegion

Events & Panels: Join the Baron for Tales from the Thomas Tew, The Baron's Ballsy Body Paint Off...

Nerdfit Network

The year was 200X (where X = 7). Conventions all over the world were in a peaceful time where all panels were generic, the only music they played was on the radio, and there was little to no entertainment value brought to those looking for a little more excitement in their convention experience. Suddenly, the Nerdfit Network was born.

The Nerdfit Network joined forces to bring you entertainment with only one mantra in mind: Get Awesome.

Between talented personalities, musicians, DJs, artists, writers and other great talents, Nerdfit has provided countless hours of programming to conventions through the majority of the country.

This year, Erik, Glenn, and Javier have brought the Booze Review crew! Their mission: To rate spirits with an iron fist, and possibly, change those who cross their path for the rest of their lives. Where will you be when Nerdfit gets awesome on you?

Find out more about them at www.nerdfit.com.

Events & Panels: Nerdfit Booze Reviews LIVE, Through the Drinking Glass: Tales of Stupidity and Debauchery...