Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Convention (STGCC) is like Southeast Asia's Comic-con. It is also where Western and Eastern pop cultures meet. Expect lots of cosplays, toy exhibitions, comics and more. This year it will be on the 6-7 September at Marina Bay Convention Center.
The guest line-up here are exactly what is on the STGCC's website minus the clicking on each of their profiles.
Alex
Solis
Alex Solis is an artist currently residing in
Chicago, IL, working at Threadless, married to an awesome wife Cathy, has two
kids: Alexis and Levi, and a huge pit-bull named Chato. Whenever he's not
working on his illustration work and spending time with the family, he still
finds time to participate in shows and competitions around the world as a
b-boy.
Andy
Price
Since issue 1, Andy Price has been the lead
pencil/ink artist for the incredibly successful and record breaking MY LITTLE
PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC comic book from IDW Publishing. MLP broke the 100,000
presale mark, the first independent book to beat out DC or Marvel in 9 years!
The book has reached an all age audience, and bought new readers to comic
shops!
Andy is a graduate of the Joe Kubert School,
and has also done work for BOOM!Studios, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Rittenhouse
Archives, Breygent, Innovation, and Slave Labor Graphics, among others. He
lives in Georgia, USA where he is completely swamped with Batman collectibles
and makes steak & guiness pie for his wife Alice. He also celebrates
Batman's and James T. Kirk's birthdays.
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Cameron
Stewart
Cameron Stewart is an award-winning
writer/artist best known for his original webcomic-turned-graphic novel Sin
Titulo, which won Eisner and Shuster Awards and was nominated for Harvey, Eagle
and Stoker Awards. He has written and/or drawn Batman and Robin, Seaguy,
Assassin's Creed, BPRD, Catwoman, and many more. Originally from Canada, he now
lives in Berlin, Germany.
D.watt
D.watt
Born and bred in Hokkaido, and a member of
Sapporo's music production circle IOSYS, is composer, producer and DJ D.watt.
He is most submerged in the Akihabara subculture, producing Game, Anime, Doujin
music and handling announcements on NicoNico Douga.
At a tender age, D.watt was attracted to
Techno and House music, and was later influenced by Electronic music which he
expresses through his DJ style of heavy “club music”. D.watt is similarly
active as a lyricist under the moniker, Shichijou Lettuce.
Recent activities include expanding his musical spectrum, spinning club music, JPOP, Anisong and mixing Akihabara style with Touhou music on the dance floors in both Sapporo and Tokyo. Also produced by D.watt, is “IOSYS TRAX”, a label focusing on Denpa songs arranged for use in clubs. Check out I/O/P, a flagship event exhibiting said works.
IOSYS
Impressive music production circle from
Sapporo, IOSYS, was founded on 10 October 1998. They have released more than
250 CDs, and are known for their Doujin releases for Touhou Project music and
the Denpa genre. Some of their brilliant works include “Marisa Stole a Precious
Thing” and “Cirno’s Perfect Match Class”.
Apart from working on Doujin projects, IOSYS
participates in writing opening and closing themes for animations, “Acchi
Kocchi”, “Yumekui Merry” and character image song for “Yuruyuri”. IOSYS is also
involved in high profile projects like Ryohouji, Kaitou Angel Twin Angels 3 and
ANIME HOUSE PROJECT. In addition to their busy schedule, IOSYS regularly
contributes tunes for popular arcade games beatmaniaIIDX (KONAMI), SOUND VOLTEX
BOOTH (KONAMI) maimai (SEGA) and GROOVE COASTER (TAITO).
IOSYS’s works are available on web stores,
Doujin-oriented shops, Dwango, mobile download sites, iTunes and IOSYS SHOP.
You could also belt out your favourite IOSYS tunes as they have 199 songs
registered in the JOYSOUND machine – living up to their “household name” status
in the Japanese Doujin music scene.
IOSYS has done shows internationally and locally, scoring the prestigious ANIMELO SUMMERLIVE in 2008. In 2010 and 2012, they organized IOFEST (IOSYS FESTIVAL), a platform showcasing their works.
Recent projects include IOSYS ANISONG
PROJECT, a cover band of Anisongs and an 8 year-long web radio portal
HAITENAI.COM which has featured more than 2500 programs to date. Don’t forget
to check out their popular NicoNico channel too!
IOSYS Website | IOSYS Facebook | IOSYS Twitter | Nico Nico | Youtube | Soundcloud | D.Watt Twitter
David
Mack
David Mack is the New York Times Best Selling
author and artist of the KABUKI Graphic Novels, the writer and artist of
Daredevil from Marvel Comics, and the author and artist of his children’s book
THE SHY CREATURES from MacMillan.
Mack's work has garnered nominations for seven Eisner Awards, four International Eagle Awards, and both the Harvey and Kirby Awards in the category of Best New Talent, as well as many other national and international awards and nominations.
David Mack is one of the only creators to be listed in both the Top Ten Writers List, and the Top Ten Artists List in Wizard Magazine. Mack’s writing and art work on KABUKI, have earned him international acclaim for his innovative storytelling, sophisticated content, mixed media painting techniques, and page design. He was the first American to be nominated for Germany's most prestigious Max-Und-Moritz award in the category of Best Imported Comic.
Mack has illustrated and designed jazz and rock albums for both American and Japanese Labels (including work for Paul McCartney), Amanda Palmer, painted Tori Amos for her RAINN benefit calendars, acted as storyboard artist & asst. Director for Dead Can Dance music video, designed toys and packaging for companies in Hong Kong, animation art for MTV, ad campaigns for SAKURA art materials, written and designed video games for film director John Woo and Electronic Arts, wrote the interactive animated viral promo for Mission Impossible four, and contributed the artwork for Dr. Arun Ghandi’s essay on the “Culture of Non-Violence”.
Besides working for Twentieth Century Fox as a writer of the treatment to the Kabuki motion picture, Mack’s film credits also include, Visual Designer, Creative Consultant, and Co-Producer.
Mack has illustrated poetry collaborations with Neil Gaiman and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, wrote the adaptation of Science Fiction Master Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant as a graphic novel at Marvel Comics, and is currently Co-writing the critically acclaimed Daredevil: End of Days story with Brian Michael Bendis, and writing his new children's books.
Mack's work has garnered nominations for seven Eisner Awards, four International Eagle Awards, and both the Harvey and Kirby Awards in the category of Best New Talent, as well as many other national and international awards and nominations.
David Mack is one of the only creators to be listed in both the Top Ten Writers List, and the Top Ten Artists List in Wizard Magazine. Mack’s writing and art work on KABUKI, have earned him international acclaim for his innovative storytelling, sophisticated content, mixed media painting techniques, and page design. He was the first American to be nominated for Germany's most prestigious Max-Und-Moritz award in the category of Best Imported Comic.
Mack has illustrated and designed jazz and rock albums for both American and Japanese Labels (including work for Paul McCartney), Amanda Palmer, painted Tori Amos for her RAINN benefit calendars, acted as storyboard artist & asst. Director for Dead Can Dance music video, designed toys and packaging for companies in Hong Kong, animation art for MTV, ad campaigns for SAKURA art materials, written and designed video games for film director John Woo and Electronic Arts, wrote the interactive animated viral promo for Mission Impossible four, and contributed the artwork for Dr. Arun Ghandi’s essay on the “Culture of Non-Violence”.
Besides working for Twentieth Century Fox as a writer of the treatment to the Kabuki motion picture, Mack’s film credits also include, Visual Designer, Creative Consultant, and Co-Producer.
Mack has illustrated poetry collaborations with Neil Gaiman and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, wrote the adaptation of Science Fiction Master Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant as a graphic novel at Marvel Comics, and is currently Co-writing the critically acclaimed Daredevil: End of Days story with Brian Michael Bendis, and writing his new children's books.
Estha
estha | Takashi NOHARA
estha is a weekend musician from Nagoya,
Japan. He started the “XL Project” music label during his university days in
Tokyo. Soon after, estha relocated to Nagoya, and is now based in China. His music style majorly encompasses house
music, while also releasing numerous Touhou and Game music (ex. Key Sounds
Label). estha’s latest contribution to the scene is “Music for Globetrotters.”
GEOGRAPHIC
With the theme of “Entertainment for the
Curious”, GEOGRAPHIC chooses not to set limitations to their works. Consisting of experienced talents from Music,
Design, Programming and Storytelling, GEOGRAPHIC's aim is to release works that
would be able to reach people who live apart each other both culturally and
geographically.
Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik was born in 1962 in Madrid, Spain.
His
father was an American serviceman and his mother a young Spanish woman. He
spent his childhood in Spain. This experience of growing up under the fascist
dictator Franco would later serve as a major influence throughout his work.When he was 15 he moved to Sacramento, CA to live with his father. At the
age of 18 he joined the Air Force and was stationed in Austin, Texas where he
remained after his honorable discharge.
Often credited with single handedly reviving the lost art of the concert
poster, his creative career rose largely out of his enthusiasm for Austin’s
growing underground punk rock scene in the early eighties. In 1981, he began
designing and posting black and white flyers for friends’ bands on telephone
poles. His reputation quickly grew as an artist whose work was graphically
compelling and culturally gripping. An entirely self-taught artist, Kozik eventually transitioned into producing
large, colorful silkscreen concert posters, which found international success.
He has created artwork for a wide range of musicians such as Pearl Jam, The
White Stripes, The Beastie Boys, Green Day, Neil Young and Nirvana. In the
mid-nineties he directed several music videos, including Soundgarden’s “Pretty
Noose”.
In 1993, he moved to San Francisco, California. Two years later, he started
his own record label, Man’s Ruin Records. The majority of his posters and album
art during this era were hand silkscreened and numbered at his studio. During
this time he designed and released over 200 singles and full-length albums
including a record by the Sex Pistols and the first Queens of the Stone Age
single.
In 2001, Kozik closed Man’s Ruin to devote himself full time to fine art,
design and the newly emerging art toy movement. Presently he works closely with
Kidrobot and many other boutique toy companies to produce his toys including
many versions of his iconic Labbit character. To date he has designed over 500
different limited edition figures. He also creates hand painted toy editions
and still designs posters.
Kozik also designs products and campaigns for a spectrum of major media and
lifestyle brands including a pair of NikeSB Dunk Quickstrike sneakers, a
special edition Swatch watch, the 2007 Spike TV Video Games Award trophy, and
an “Absolut Kozik” print ad. In addition to his outside clients, 2007 saw him launch his own brand,
Ultraviolence. Under this imprint, Kozik produces limited edition art objects
in vinyl, fiberglass, bronze and Limoges porcelain that are often more complex
in content and larger in scale than his other vinyl toys. Kozik’s work has been
exhibited in over 40 group shows and 35 one-man gallery exhibits worldwide.
He currently lives and works in San Francisco with his wife, Sharon, and
their four cats.
haLRu(MONOMIND)
haLRu juggles online content services,
exploring New Age surround sound & DSD and dropping daily beats on the
dance floor in his busy schedule. A prominent independent engineer for SOUND
VOLTEX BOOTH in the Doujin and Indies scene, haLRu is the sound engineer for
the recording of “Himawari Remix”, “RayRain” and handles the mastering for
albums like “Anime House Project” and “enigmatic L1A4”.
Gripping tightly to the motto of “Bringing
Japan Pop Culture outside Akiba”, haLRu made appearances at Taiwan in 2009 and
2010, and STGCC in 2012. He is known for his self-organised popular music event
“Onban Yakoh” which ended in the Spring of 2013, marking its 4th year.
haLRu is currently producing Idols in Japan,
working together with the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Harvey Tolibao
Harvey Montecillo Tolibao was born in June
25, 1981 and raised in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Philippines. Prior to breaking
into comics, Harvey Montecillo Tolibao was a furniture designer, cartoonist,
graphic artist, illustrator, web designer, tattoo artist and messenger. During
these careers, Harvey dreamed of being a comic book artist. Initially inspired
by the art of both Jim Lee and local Filipino comics, Harvey finally received
his big break in 2007 from Marvel comics with an Iron Man Annual.
Since then Harvey has worked on Psylocke,
Heroes for Hire, Silver Surfer, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Avengers
The Initiative, War of Kings, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time and many others.
Harvey has been involved in DC’s New 52 relaunch, working initially on Green
Lantern New Guardians and more recently on Green Arrow.
He started dreaming to be a Comic Book Illustrator in 1991 and start collecting local comics and inspired by foreign comic artist Jim Lee. He studied Information Technology and held down with various job including furniture designer, cartoonist, graphic artist, illustrator, web designer, tattoo artist and messenger, but he was determine to pursue his dream of becoming a comic book artist.
In 2007, Marvel gave him his big break on an Iron Man Annual. Since then he has been working as a freelance artist for Marvel Comics. He has worked on What If?: Civil War; Young Avengers: Hulking; Ultimate X-Men with Robert Kirkman; Secret Invasion Avengers: The Initiative Tie Up; Darkhawk; Snowbird; Nation X; he was popularly known for his mini-series, Psylocke (written by Chris Yost); X-Men: Hellbound (written by Christopher Yost); Uncanny X-Men and Variant Covers for Heroes For Hire.
As the year 2011 begins, Harvey is working with Greg Pak and Stephen Segovia on the Silver Surfer Series. By the end of the year, DC gave him a shot for “Green Project,” it starts with “Sinestro Corps war,” then collaboration of the writer Tony Bedard on “New Guardians” Green Lantern series. Year 2012, DC had a deck shuffling and creates a new team Harvey and (written by Ann Nocenti) for Green Arrow series.
In the same year, Harvey Tolibao co-founded along with his team started to run HMT Studios and works on various Game Design for Japanese Game Companies. He was working on Zenescope and Valiant Covers and the new adventure along with homages Bond Girls known as Danger Girl of IDW. By the end of the year 2013, Harvey repossess in Marvel Company doing Uncanny X-force. At the same year, he then released his New Sketchbook 1888 where a collective of ballpoint artworks was published and launched in PopCon Asia 2013, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Later another amazing stuff happened when he
do the most anticipated book X-Men V4 run beginning issue 18 and coming back to
Darkhorse to draw “The Ghost” Comic Book Series.
Humberto Ramos
Humberto Ramos has been drawing comics
professionally since 1993, when he began at Milestone Media, before working on
Impulse for DC Comic’s.
In 1996 worked for Marvel Comics, and Wildstorm Productions, where in 1998, co-founded the imprint Cliffhanger with artists Joe Madureira and J. Scott Campbell, and released creator owned Crimson & Out There. In 2003, Humberto worked on both, Peter Parker and Spectacular Spiderman for Marvel. In 2005, released creator owned Revelations through Dark Horse. In 2006, worked on Wolverine, New X-Men & X-Men, and Runaways v3.
In 2011, Humberto released creator owned Fairy Quest Book 1, and since then, has been drawing everyone’s favorite web-head, Amazing Spiderman. Working on great stories “BIG TIME”, Spider-Island, Ends of the Earth, Alpha, Dying Wish, and worked on the Superior Spider-Man series contributing 11 issues of work to that series.
Currently Humberto is working on the Newly re-launched Amazing Spider-Man series, drawing some of the best characters to date featuring Electro, Black Cat and Silk.
Inu
With roots planted in classical guitar,
Hokkaido native DJ inu’s dwell into the music industry eventually threw him
into the DJ scene in the mid 80s, resulting in the formation of popular remix
unit THE JG’s alongside TRF DJ KOO/DJ Honda. DJ inu has also joined forces with
famous acts including Kubota Toshinomu, Hayami Yuu, Wink, Iwasaki Yoshimi,
Yamase Mami and The Peanuts for collaborative pieces.
In 1991, DJ inu formed nonSectRadicals with
Tamura Masaaki from M.I.D and got introduced to the Anisong dimension while
chancing upon TV program, Sailor Moon. He has since been heavily involved in
producing soundtracks for TV animation, as well as worked on music composition
for orchestras and musicals.
Incorporating Japanese music elements and
nuance music to original melodies, DJ inu gave life to “crabMixx”, which has
been widely played and favored in clubs.
2002: Started mixing for “dametunes”, a net radio dedicated to the moe genre
2009: Steadily gain recognition in the Japanese club scene with “dameMixx”
2012: Won the Nirgilis remix competition as nonSectRadicals
2012: Revised Sengoku Collection’s main theme song
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Makoto Kedouin
Also known as KEDWIN, he is best known as the
writer for popular horror series “CORPSE PARTY”. The popularity of CORPSE PARTY
has spawned the titles in many games, manga and OVA.
Makoto is also the director of Team GrisGris and is currently writing for 2
serialized works, the “DOLLS FALL” and “Limit Holy Shorts MAGICAL PANZER”.
Current works:
CORPSE PARTY Series （コープスパーティーシリーズ）
(http://corpse.jp/ )
(C) Team GrisGris / MAGES. / 5pb.
DOLLS FALL ドールズ・フォール）
(http://www.fujimishobo.co.jp/sp/201401dragoncomic/#dollsfall)
(C) 2014 SANSHOKUAMIDO / MAKOTO KEDOUIN
Limit Holy Shorts MAGICAL PANZER （限界聖布★マジカルパンツァー！）
(http://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_EB00000003010000_68/)
(C) 2014 Coral / MAKOTO KEDOUIN
Oliver
Coipel
Olivier Coipel is a French comic artist, who
started on Legion of Super Heroes at DC comics. He then moved on to
Marvel and has been producing work for Marvel comics since then. He has
worked on books such as the Avengers, with Geoff Johns, a New Avengers/X-Men
crossover limited series. House of M, teaming up with writer J. Michael
Straczynski on the the critically acclaimed book Thor, where Coipel created and
designed the the new look of the God of Thunder. He then left the
series to work with Bendis on the Marvel Comics event series Siege and even
came back to relaunch The Mighty Thor with Matt Fraction. Coipel keeps on
getting more and more popular, especially after completing his 3 issues on the
mega popular AvX (Avengers vs X-Men) book ! He finished his last
project working with Brian Wood on the new series :X-MEN. His next
project is the much anticipated released of The Amazing Spider-Man - Spider-Verse.
Where EVERY Spider-Man in history make an appearance. Yes,
Spider-Ham is there :)
Sasakure. UK
Despite being raised under extremely cruel
conditions like, "don't play video games for more than an hour a
day!" sasakure. UK was greatly inspired by the sounds of 8 bit and 16 bit
consoles.
In school, he was a member of the boys choir and grew familiar with the works of composers Makiko Kinoshita and Akira Miyoshi, as well as poets and authors Shinpei Kusano and Nankichi Niimi. Being in the choir sparked a swelling interest for composition, leading sasakure. UK to produce music without prior training.
sasakure. UK's musical outlook features timelessness and heavy accents of Fables of Yore and children's picture books, giving his works a distinctive pop but deep atmosphere. This amalgamation of diverse styles gave birth to music unique to sasakure. UK.
Sasakure.UK's specialties are the blip-bloppy chiptune sounds and a style of changing key and rhythm that most closely resembles elements of fusion and progressive rock. His songs have become a minor phenomenon on video sharing sites like NICO NICO Douga sporting very impressive view counts, becoming the talk of town. A true multi-talent, sasakure.UK does not merely focus on the musical side of things, he also creates pixel animations and hand-drawn artwork for his music videos.
March 2010 welcomed sasakure. UK's major debut with "Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Bird?" It received positive critique for minutely constructed songs completed with hot favourite VOCALOID synthesized voice software, featuring among others, the voice of current worldwide musical phenomenon - Hatsune Miku.
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Shirahane
Nao
Shirahane Nao (dmyo) is an illustrator from Korea
who is currently residing in Japan. She is known for drawing for the online game
Trickster, and illustrations for the game DJMAX. Shirahana Nao is famous for
her character design and contributions to various works namely: –
- Nintendo 3DS game “Onna no ko no misshitsu ni itara maru maru shicau kamo shirenai” by D3PUBLISHER INC
- PSP Game “Sucre” by GIGA
- Mascot design for Culture Japan
- Insert illustration in light novels and magazines also serialized manga published by Kadokawa and Koudansha.
Shirahane is active in her Doujin Circle
“Snow Ring” and “Sleepless child”, her project as an illustrator with Taiwanese
cosplayer “Stayxxxx”.
Simone Legno
Simone Legno is a classically trained illustrator and the inventor of
the popular tokidoki brand. Legno is from Rome, Italy where he worked on design
projects for clients such as Volkswagen, MTD, and Microsoft. He also cofounded
a new media company called Vianet (www.vianet.com).
His love for Japanese culture inspired him to create the world of tokidoki (www.tokidoki.it). In 2004, Legno moved to Los
Angeles to develop tokidoki as an apparel, art, and lifestyle brand. Tokidoki,
which means "sometimes" in Japanese, has become a marketing
phenomenon that includes vinyl toys, art-skateboards, iSkins, jewelry, watches,
sportswear, accessories, shoes, and stationery.
Stayxxxx squeezes in time to be a cosplayer
amidst her fanatic schedule of Anime, Manga and Gaming. She appreciates cosplay
with a sense of realness, and hand makes all her costumes. Cosplaying at her
own pace and a hopeless Otaku, Stayxxxx hopes to live life to the fullest with
her 5 cats.
Tomokazu Sugita
Born on October 11, Tomokazu Sugita is a
Japanese voice actor who has lent his voice to popular video games and numerous
well-loved lead roles in Anime like “Gintama”, “Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu” and
“Chobits”. Sugita is a regular figure at radio talk
shows and is also heavily involved with the PSVITA game “Getsuei Gakuen –kou-“,
an original work.
Additional Guests
Aaron E. Kim Jacinto
Born
Aug 4, 1988 in San Juan City, Manila, is a Filipino comic book artist
and considered as one of the youngest artists at Marvel Comics. Jacinto, at a very young age, already showed creativity and
enthusiasm for drawing. Needless to say, he was determined to take up
(BFA) Bachelor of Fine Arts in college. He needed to juggle studies and
work, as a Service Crew at a famous fast food chain. Barely a year away
from finishing the course, He had to stop due to financial instability
his family was experiencing.
He persevered in honing his craft despite all discouragements from
people who were close to him. He pursued his passion and landed a job as
Graphic Designer in an advertising company.
Jacinto was discovered by C. B. Cebulski. He was commisioned to do
Wolverine Max (6). Jacinto continued to work on other Marvel titles such
as Venom (37, 38, 39), Indestructible Hulk (13, 14, 15), Carnage
(Annual Superior 1), Thunderbolts (23). Jacinto is currently working on
some Marvel projects.
Aliga
Aliga
is well known for her kawaii cosplays and natural cuteness. She has
been the VIP guest cosplayer and judge for many cosplay events across
Asia. There will always be a powerful moe moe aura surrounding Aliga whenever she’s in her cosplay costumes.
Angry Woebots
Aaron “Woes” Martin was born on Oʼahu, but spent most of his
childhood between Southern California and Nevada, returning to Hawaii
for high school. In 1998 a devastating, near death, car accident
inspired him to leave the islands once again, this time to Seattle,
Washington. Invigorated by the change and the new environment, the city,
and being indoors, he started experimenting with various art media and
discovered a new and flourishing art movement in the U.S. mainland art
world. Refueled and inspired, he returned to Hawaii.
“Being close to death, being trapped in metal changed everything in
my life. It has been 15 years since the accident, but itʼs like it
happened yesterday. Life has been unbelievable. I have been blessed with
the best family and friends. On top of that I have been working full
time doing what I love: just painting and meeting other artist, it went
from an Island to having the planet as my neighborhood.”
In 2011, Aaron started Army of Snipers, an international collective
of artist, styles range from Street artist, videographers,
photographers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and graphic designers.
AOS uses its network to connect on an international level helping each
other to expand its fan base, connect with other artists and foremost to
experience art life on a broader spectrum.
The end of 2012 into 2013. Aaron and two other members took their
famed experience by going to Maesot, Thailand on a humanitarian project,
helping "The Little Lotus Project" who aid Burmese refugee children who
were survivors of human trafficking. It was Aaron's best experience in
his career to date.
Aaron had his first exhibitions in Hawaii from 2002-2003 with Hesham
Photo, Kicks Hawaii, and In4mation. It has been a continued success
since then, showing his work in galleries along the West and East Coasts
as well as many traveling exhibits in the United States, London,
Berlin, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand,
Australia and New Zealand.
Aaron is also well known in the designer toy world for his iconic
characters done in 3D form, from resin collectible figures to vinyl
toys, a regular posted up at comic conventions, San Diego and New York
he continues to produce works for fans across the globe. His work
collaborations include Fitted Hawaii/ New Era, Kicks Hawaii, Converse
Red, Bic Plastics, Kidrobot, Mindstyle, Disney, Silent Stage Gallery to
name a few.
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Evacomics
Evangeline Neo is a lucky Singaporean, who has attained scholarships
to pursue her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in San Francisco in
2004 and her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Tokyo in 2010.
Apart from having studied overseas, she has worked for five years as a
full-time staff in a local education institute, working on 3D game
prototypes and teaching life drawing. She has been drawing webcomics
actively for seven years and started drawing cultural differences
between US, Japan and Singapore in 2012. The series became popular and
grew to 52,000 likes on Facebook without paying for any FB advertising.
She is now working full-time in her own company, Evaworks Pte Ltd (http://www.eva.sg),
that does custom comics and illustration. Her first book, “Eva, Kopi
and Matcha” became #1 Weekly Bestseller (non-fiction) at Books
Kinokuniya on 14th July.
Who would have thought that Eva’s crossover from one red dot to
another could be peppered with so many good laughs? Eva, Kopi and Matcha
is a light-hearted and witty narration of cultural differences in
Singapore and Japan, matter-of-factly spewed out by Eva, a typical
Singaporean with an “auntie” mindset.
In this humorous trajectory of everyday musings, Eva takes a funny,
and often self-deprecating look at random and awkward mismatches between
the two red dots, revealing much exasperation and delight along the
way. Together with Kopi and Matcha, her imaginary pets, Eva tries to
suss out a life in Japan and find a place in her home away from home.
Lenneth XVII
Lenneth XVII, a local cosplayer from Singapore, is a self-paced cosplayer whose only drive is her passion
for the characters she cosplays. She’s not picky about who she cosplays,
but rather why she cosplays them. The learning process in cosplay is
endless so despite being in the circle for close to 14years now, meeting
new people and handling new projects always teaches her new things
every time!
Philip Tan
Philip
started his career with Wildstorm's Taleweaver and Marvel's Uncanny
Xmen. He went on to draw a wide variety of books across publishers.
Among the few better known works are Todd McFarlane's Spawn and his DC
projects like Green Lantern, Barman and Robin, and Savage Hawkman. In recent times, Philip spends most of his days working on his
creator owned book, while occasionally contributing to misc covers and
stories for major publishers."
Scott Tolleson
Scott
has been interested in toys and art since he was a child growing up in
Atlanta, GA. At 16, he moved to Southern California, where he eventually
attended Cal State Fullerton and earned a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in
Illustration. Since 1998, Scott has worked for the Walt Disney Company
in Entertainment Productions where he has designed pieces for various
parades, venues and merchandise.
Scott has also been busy outside of Disney. He is happiest when he is
working on multiple projects. Past productions include the Tricycle
Terror, Big Rollin' Rascal, Deadbeet, Kookie No Good, Otis & Otto
and his recent line of original characters featuring Malicus &
Trayjus. Scott also created the Nosellots plush line in 2011 which
features 5 original characters. He has collaborated with a variety of
companies including: Kidrobot, Google, Skybound, October Toys, Freak
Store, Toy2R, 3dRetro, Topps, Clutter, Mighty Jaxx & Pobber.
Currently, Scott is designing Walking Dead & Invincible blind box
series for Skybound.
Matt “Sekure D” Fabris is an Australian based artist dedicated to
creating distinctive artwork over a number of mediums as well as
uniquely handcrafting customized sneakers and vinyl toys. Since its
inception in 2006 Sekure D has been meticulously creating one of a kind
sneakers that have been sold and exhibited all over the world including
the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia and the Victoria and
Albert Museum in London. Each item is created with the utmost attention
to detail and pride ensuring an excellence in execution in each and
every product.
In conjunction with this Sekure D has built up a great relationship
with a number of brands including collaborative projects with Kidrobot,
Nike, Jordan Brand and Globe. Matt’s ever evolving aesthetic is based in
his love for all things Graffiti, Comic and Cinematic.
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That is all for the guest to look forward to.
Last year they had Iron Man all over the place including a life size armour gallery. I wonder what will they have this time round. Looking forward to it.
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