Guest Announcement Tru Valentino

Tru is known for playing Aaron Thorsen in The Rookie, Cuphead in The Cuphead Show!, Adam in Psychonauts 2, and Jack in the 2022 Crunchyroll anime series FreakAngels. He is a member of the Sunday Company at the Groundlings Theatre and School of Los Angeles, and as been featured as a guest in many of their spectacles including the improvisation one Cookin’ With Gas and the sketch live-show Sunday Night Fever. Most recently, he played Cyborg in Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen: Part One.

Guest Announcement Chuck Patton

Chuck Patton on DC Comics’ Justice League of America in the 1980s, specifically for the period in which the team relocated to Detroit and was staffed with new, multicultural super-heroes. With writer Gerry Conway, Patton created Gypsy and Vibe, as well as redesigning Vixen and Steel, The Indestructible Man.

In 1988, after half a decade in the comics industry, Patton became disillusioned with comics and moved into children’s television animation. He was living in Los Angeles by this time, which is where most animated series were produced. Patton’s credits include Dinosaucers, G.I. Joe, Captain N: The Game Master, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, and Teen Titans. Patton has become a successful animation director, helming such projects as Dead Space: Downfall, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, for which Patton garnered an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Animated Program”.

http://www.artofchuckpatton.com/

Guest Announcement Scott Shaw!

For fifty years, Scott Shaw! has created underground comix (Fear and Laughter), mainstream
comics (Captain Carrot, Sonic the Hedgehog, Simpsons Comics), children’s books (Marooned
Lagoon) syndicated comic strips (Bugs Bunny), graphic novels (Annoying Orange), TV cartoons
(Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies), advertising (Post Pebbles cereal), toys, trading cards, video
games, packaging art and more. Scott is currently producing a cartoon, finishing a new story for
Aces Weekly, and writing his Retrofan column. Scott’s work has garnered him four Emmy
Awards, an Eisner Award, and a Humanitas Award. He’s known for his Oddball Comics Live!
Show (the book is coming soon) and playing Quick Draw! with Mark Evanier and Sergio

Aragonés. Scott was one of those who created San Diego Comic-Con.

https://www.shaw-cartoons.com/

Guest Announcement Katie Leigh

Katie Leigh is a popular and talented voiceover veteran. She is beloved as Connie Kendall in the world’s longest running international radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey. Other roles she’s played include Baby Rowlf in the Emmy Award-Winning Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies cartoon series, Honker Muddlefoot in Darkwing Duck, Sheila the Thief in Dungeons and Dragons, Richie in Richie Rich, Sunni Gummi of Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Alex in Totally Spies and young Han Solo for Lego Star Wars: Padawan Menace, and many others.