Fantasia Comic Con brings together America’s three greatest mediums under one roof: Pop Culture, Entertainment and Fandom.
Fantasia Comic Con brings together America’s three greatest mediums under one roof: Pop Culture, Entertainment and Fandom.
Saturday, May 12, 2018 — 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, May 13, 2018 — 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Riverside County Fairgrounds
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Inside the Fullenwider Auditorium
46350 Arabia Street
Indio, CA 92201
Best Western has a special comic con rate.
Use code: COMIC CON
Best Western Date Tree Hotel
81909 Indio Blvd, Indio, CA 92201
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Welcome to City of Indio’s Fantasia Comic Con 2018! This is the 2nd event for our sponsors, exhibitors and attendees. City of Indio’s Fantasia Comic Con offers unprecedented opportunities for companies interested in sponsoring or exhibiting.
City of Indio’s Fantasia Comic Con meets the needs of the fan first
City of Indio’s Fantasia Comic Con brings together POP CULTUE, ENTERTAINMENT, and FANDOM
City of Indio’s Fantasia Comic Con is a place where pop culture, celebrities, independent artists, cosplay, video games, and most importantly of all, comics come together.
Ciera Foster is trained model, actress, athlete and activists. Ciera graduated from theatrical institution, Sanford Meisner Center highly regarded. She holds a BA Multidisciplinary Social Sciences degree in Psychology, Ethnic Studies, and Woman & Gender Studies. Working in the film and entertainment as a signed talent. Ciera engages in public speaking and activism. Additionally the actress is highly involved in hands on charity work specializing in non profit project development and communications. Ciera is a devoted advocate of Women’s Rights & Human Rights, Ethnic – Gender Diversity and Inclusion. Ciera is the director of the United Nations Women’s Los Angeles Speakers Bureau, leading the organization in the 2018 Women’s March. Ciera currently hosts her own show on YouTube titled ” Heroes and Humanity ” which discusses pop culture, feminism, society, diversity, politics, – and SUPER HEROES ! -Dedicated Clean Water Ambassador . Charities involved in include Artists for Peace & Justice (Haiti), Water Underground (Mozambique), and Children’s International. – Ciera Foster is also a former NCAA Championship athlete in women’s basketball with 11 years experience in competitive Basketball (6years as team captain). 15 years experience in martial arts. She holds a third degree black belt in Karate. Ciera Foster attended Film Fighting LA & The Theatrical Academy of Combat for duel weapons and stunt training. – Ciera has done notable work in both film and television. The exceptional model- actress – athlete (triple threat) is best known for current role as the one of the first female super heroine’s of color in the Lead role of Amanda McKee aka ” Livewire” for Valiant Entertainment (Valiant Comics) series Ninjak Versus The Valiant Universe. Livewire is the female leader of Unity (similar to Marvel’s Avengers) she is the first person who went head-to-head with Ninjak in the series debut episode on comic book.com on 4/21/18. Instantly Ciera has become a fan favorite. Between her incredible performance as Livewire and her insane infectious love all things comic’s Ciera has taken social media and the comic book world by Storm ( no pun intended as Ciera has a dedicated fanbase to her playing the beloved X-men character as well after original Bat in The Sun cameo three years ago.) Ciera Foster is also a producer. Ciera’s production company ,Foster Features is dedicated to cranking out the dynamic and diverse action and film content with exciting projects on the horizon in 2018 !
Bio: David Davis (hpkomics.com) is a writer and cartoonist who is currently engaged in graduate studies at CSUSM, working toward mastering literature in all forms and taking over the world. He lives in Southern California and is the one to blame for the webcomics Cosmic Dash, RGBots, and is one of the co-founders of the Comicadia webcomic collective. He has self-published a variety of work in addition to being published in several anthologies and contributing material to Nickelodeon Magazine. He is overly active on twitter and worth a follow.
Orlando Harding is a comic book creator most known for his ground breaking work on the critically acclaimed comic book Night Stalker (2013 & 2015), which won the coveted GLYPH award for best female character in 2014. In 2015 he released the game- changing book known as, R.R.H. He has been featured in The San Francisco Examiner and continues to be applauded by reviewers for his groundbreaking and thought provoking work.
This replica of the famous “Delorean Time Machine” made famous from the movie “Back to the Future” from Part #1. It is owned and driven by Lenny Hochteil under the name 1.21 GIGAWATT GUYS
Quote from the movie” Wait a minute, Doc… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean? The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”
The Time Machine features on the outside are the Plutonium Reactor, the Lightning Rod and the Rear Vents. The inside has the Time Circuits Control, the Time Displays Panel, the Plutonium Gauges and the Flux Capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.
Lenny has been seen at events such as Cruzing for a Cure, Hollywood Christmas Parade, Las Vegas Charity event, Pomona Christmas Parade, Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and charity car shows, TV spots and Comic Cons. Where ever the movie BTTF is showing.
1.21 GIGAWATT GUYS is for hire to be used at parties, events, corporate events, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, car shows and filming’s, photo shoots and more.
Janeshia Adams-Ginyard is an established and extremely talented stuntwoman and actress, making a name for herself through her unparalleled dedication and skills. Janeshia executes two separate roles in the highly anticipated feature film Marvel’s Black Panther, as the stunt double for lead actress, Danai Gurira’s character Okoye, and as one of the eight Dora Milaje, the women of Wakanda, who serve as Black Panther’s personal bodyguards. She reprises her role as stunt double for Danai in the 2019 feature film Avengers: Infinity War. She also performs utility stunts and as stunt double for Aisha Hinds in FOX’s 9-1-1 and in the Michael Dougherty directed film Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019).
An active member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, in additional to film, she can be seen performing stunts for television; The Mindy Project, FX’s American Horror Story: Roanoke & Cult, Disney’s K.C. Undercover, HBO’s True Blood, and in print ads for Nike. Performed live wrestling matches when casted by WOW Women of Wrestling co-owners, David McLane and Jeanie Buss as wrestling superhero character, “Frost:The Olympian”, a character based on her experience on the US National Bobsled team.
Born on Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles, California, Janeshia graduated from Gahr High School; where she holds the school’s record in the 300m hurdles. An alumna of the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics with a minor in African-American Studies with an emphasis on Caribbean Culture.
Janeshia is fluent in American Sign Language and trained in Taekwondo. After graduating from UC Berkeley, she expanded her natural athletic abilities and made history on the U.S. National Bobsled team as brakeman on the first All-Black Female United States Bobsled duo with her driver, Jamia Jackson in 2006-2007.
Established in 2012, Janeshia served as the on-air personality and host of the LA Talk Live Radio Show, Lady J’s Wild World of Sports, a rigorous curriculum designed to inspire a life-long love of learning about unique professional aspects of the sports and entertainment industry. Guests included but not limited to, actors, boxing trainers, comedians, singer/song writers and professional referees.
Very active in her faith and with her church congregation, she founded, Hyphy 4 Christ, an entertainment organization intending to inspire and empower within the entertainment industry through faith-based content.
Peter “Navy” Tuiasosopo is an American-Samoan actor perhaps best known for his roles as E. Honda in Universal Pictures Street Fighter and Manumana in the Paramount Pictures film Necessary Roughness.
Wonder Woman Cosplayer and Disability & civil rights attorney for those who need a voice.
Koi Turnbull is an American comic book artist, known for his work under the direction of Michael Turner, that followed Mike’s run on Fathom with his own run starting with Fathom Volume 2. Following his run on Fathom, he has since worked on DC Comics working on Flash, and Superman Confidential), Marvel Comics (working on Terror INC, New Warriors, Black Panther and One Month 2 Live storyline) and many other comic projects.
His work can be found at www.koiturnbull.com and Instagram: @koiturnbullart
Terry Mayo is a Comic Book & Screenwriter based out of San Diego, CA. He is the creator of the Alterna Comics Series – THE WICKED RIGHTEOUS, THE HELPLESS (IF Anthology) and the upcoming series from TPub Comics, DISPOSABLE LEGENDS.
Cecelia Cruz, aka Cece, is a born and raised self taught artist from the Coachella valley. She has, however, taken several different art classes over the years to help enhance her skills. She is a hardworking mother of four who, with the support of her husband, quit her full time County job of 17 years last year to pursue her passion of art. Since then, she has created multiple small art businesses which include; art instructor for her Paint Party business, custom canvas shoe artist, custom coffee cup artist, illustrator, muralist, and other commission work as requested. Through her Paint Party business, she instructs Paint parties as fundraisers for many nonprofit organizations throughout the Coachella Valley. She has also volunteered with the local organization Culturas Music and Arts, where she was an art teacher in a summer art program for children. Her artwork has been on display in many different local art shows throughout the years. Cecelia has been very blessed to be in demand of her art work, but she still finds time to pursue her dream of creating a comic book. She is currently working on creating a Chicana based comic book that touches on subjects such as; women empowerment, body image, cultural diversity, some politics, humanity, and the town she grew up in. Her characters are based on different women who have inspired her. Her ultimate goal is to spread love, inspiration, and empowerment through her art work.
Ken F. Levin makes the deals for a select handful of comics superstars (like Mike Mignola, Bill Willingham, Max Allan Collins, and Garth Ennis) and helps produce their projects (he’s Executive Producer on the coming series THE BOYS at AMAZON, and put together and is an Executive Producer on the hit AMC series PREACHER, currently filming its third season in New Orleans. (The first two seasons of PREACHER are currently available on HULU).
Ken also co-founded and is the President and Executive Editor of the iconic comics and graphic novel publisher 1First Comics. He also negotiated and/or set up, among other projects, the feature films ROAD TO PERDITION, WANTED, HELLBOY, THE SCRIBBLER (which he produced), and, on television, SABLE and PAINKILLER JANE.
Eric Borden lives under the bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife, Amy, their son and one aloof Chihuahua. His writing has been recognized by Amazon Studios and the Hollywood Reporter. He became hooked on the game after he published his first comic, DeadWest: Last Ride of The Carver. Since then he’s published the digital comic Blood Game: Dragon Head, Snake Tail. He’s currently the writer/creator on Scrimshaw distributed by Alterna Comics.
Michael Lent is a transmedia writer/producer. His credits include more than a dozen graphic novels and comics including i, Holmes and TMS: The Machine Stops published by Alterna, Prey published by Marvel Comics, Brimstone published by Zenescope Entertainment, graphic bios for Orbit including Stephen King, JRR Tolkien, Keith Richards, and Stephen Hawking, eight books including On Thin Ice, published by Disney/Hyperion and based on the top-rated reality series Ice Road Truckers. He was a writer on three video games. He adapted Stephen King’s “The Reaper’s Image.” He was a producer on five films including executive producer of IF YOU’RE SERIOUS, nominated for the Verna Fields Golden Reel Award for Sound Editing in 2014. He was an uncredited writer on THE HELLSEEKER for Dimension Films.
David Lucarelli is the writer of the period crime drama Tinseltown from Alterna Comics and The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade graphic novels from Creator’s Edge Press/Abacab Studios. As an ADR Recordist he has worked on hundreds of TV shows and movies from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to The Simpsons.
Aaron Nabus is a Co-Founder of the comic book and pop culture blog, HallH.com and the Co-host of the Hall H Show, a podcast dedicated to being a voice for independent creators. He is also a Brand Ambassador for the International Mobile Film Festival.
Nerd Mafia is a cosplay community, created by nerds for nerds.
Southern California Ghostbuster cosplayers who participate in activities such as comic cons, charities, movie screenings and many other events.
Larry F. Houston is the Emmy-nominated Producer/Director of THE X-MEN Animated show, the phenomenally successful 90s series that expanded the scope and laid the foundation for Marvel’s multi-billion dollar mutant franchise globally.
The very FIRST animated appearance of THE BLACK PANTHER was in the 90s X-MEN series as a cameo, followed by his FIRST fully animated episode, “Prey of the Black Panther”, in second season of THE FANTASTIC FOUR, both of which Larry was its Director.
Hired by Filmation Studios as the FIRST African-American Saturday Morning Storyboard Artist, Larry worked as a Storyboard Artist on some of the favorite 80s and 90s classic shows like: Thundarr, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends, ExoSquad, Transformers, Spawn, Mr. T, Batman, Real Ghostbusters, Conan, Swamp Thing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mighty Orbots, Bionic Six, Visionaries, Hulk, and Defenders of the Earth.
He was also the Director of Captain Planet, GI Joe, Fantastic Four 2nd season, The Karate Kid, Jonny Quest, RoboCop Alpha Commando, Kid N Play, The Care Bears on CBS Saturday Mornings and three (3) Care Bear Movies. “Swarm” from Spiderman and his Amazing Friends and “Hearts and Cannons” from the 80s GI JOE syndicated series were episodes written by him.
Additionally, the iconic X-Men TV Opening and inspiring GI Joe Movie Intro were both drawn by Larry, as well as The Karate Kid and the TV show Community’s GI Jeff Intro.
He expanded the world of He-Man Mini-Comics by adding and designing more multi-cultural diverse heroes and villains into the
He-Man mythology, penciled a Tank story for the DNAgents comic book, and Flare story from Heroic Publishing. He promises new stories for his super-heroines The Vanguards, his creator-owned title first published through Charlton Bullseye, as well as new creations he is developing for today’s marketplace.
Jed Thomas is a professional artist and designer from Southern California who has worked on multiple licensed properties, high profile projects, providing works such as conceptual designs and merchandise art in the ever growing pop culture industry.
John is an acclaimed Concept Artist, Art Director, and Illustrator. John has done work for Marvel Studios, Paramount, Disney, Lucasfilm, Legendary, Lego, ImagineFX, and Hasbro. Some of John’s film credits include: Age of Ultron, The Avengers, Pacific Rim, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers Dark of the Moon, Iron Man 1 and 2, Rango, and Star Trek just to name a few. John’s work is featured in many of the movie’s art of books and online: www.orbitalharvest.com and www.facebook.com/john.giang.fanpage
Penciler at Dynamite Entertainment, works as a comic book artist at Zenescope Entertainment, and is a cover artist at No Gravity Studios
The most famous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cosplay squad in the world! The OC TURTLES always bring the party to any convention they are in attendance of!
Jamie is an artist that’s been working the the comic book and movie poster field for quite some time. He’s done commission work for high profile signings like Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Stan Lee and William Shatner (just to name a few.)
He’s also done design work for companies like Disney, Marvel and IDW Publishing. Whether it’s comic book covers, widely popular blank sketch covers or one of his original limited edition convention prints…there’s always something new and creative coming from his imagination.
www.facebook.com/jamiesullivanillustration
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www.instagram.com/jamiesullivanillustration/
twitter.com/JSIandDESIGN
Stephen L. Stern is the creator/writer of the independent comic-book Zen Intergalactic Ninja, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2017. He has written over 100 comic-books and graphic novels, including Beowulf, A Christmas Carol and War of the Worlds, as well as the official comic-book adaptation of the animated classic, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.
Stern is also the author of Alien Hero, a collection of novellas and short stories about Zen. Among his other creations are Shygirl, Frickin’ Butt-Kickin’ Zombie Ants, and with the Yuan Twins, Serving Supes. In 2017, 1First Comics will publish his Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic Novel. He lives in Los Angeles.
The Yuan Twins, best known for their roles in “Observe and Report”, “Arrested Development”, and “Raising Hope”, are also lifelong comic book and movie fans. So in addition to acting, they also write screenplays and write, illustrate, and publish their own comic book series “Declan and Chang.” Their other accomplishments include running an RPG campaign that has gone on for the past twelve years, painting plastic and lead miniatures with some degree of not-sucking, and learning how to not shoot their mouths off on a daily basis. They are represented by Genesis Entertainment Partners.
Caanan White has been illustrating professionally since 2004 on projects for Avatar Press, Zenescope Entertainment, 1First Comics/Devils Due, Dabel Brothers Pro/Marvel Comics, Broadway Books and Image Comics. While with 1First Comics/Devils Due: He won the Red Ridding Hood Talent search, – a contest based on one of 1First’s titles). Which he is currently working on. He’s excited about the new opportunities that yet await.
Zoom CW Cosplay is a professional cosplayer and actor that sped onto the cosplay scene in 2016. His accuracy and dedication to portraying the Zoom and Black Flash characters on the convention circuit have even caught the eye of the CW Flash cast and crew. Zoom CW Cosplay can also currently be seen on the successful Nerdbot Youtube Series “Reverse Flash Origins” Episode 2 and 3. Despite his character’s frightening appearance he loves meeting and taking pictures with his fans.
Eddie deAngelini is a Los Angeles based cartoonist and a long time comic book fan and collector. His love of comics began at a young age and continues to this day and his webcomic Collectors is loosely based on his own life, marriage and comic collecting obsession. The comic can be found at CollectorsComic.com as well as in three collected print volumes.
Besides being a long time comic book fan and collector, Eddie isalso the co-owner and manager of the historic comic book shop Hi De Ho Comics in Santa Monica, California. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Kristen, where they plan together for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
Ambrose Quintanilla is a Southern California based writer/cartoonist and creator of comic strips and comic books published by Gopher-it Comics. His work can be found at Facebook.com/Gopherit and GopheritComics.com. His newest comic book, “The Complete Me & The Kid” is out now and available for purchase at his table along with some of his previous comic books.
In addition to creating comic strips and comic books, Ambrose has created album covers, DVD art, book covers, T-shirts and character designs for some of the country’s top Stand Up Comedians and is the Official cartoonist of the national stand up comedy competition, The World Series of Comedy. Make sure to like the Gopher-it Comics fan page on Facebook and receive a free Jumbo Sketch card at the show.
Jay Fotos, a multi award-winning comics veteran who is currently working professionally in comics industry for nearly two decades on hundreds of projects. To name a few, from Spawn, Sam and Twitch, Godzilla, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mars Attacks, 30 Days of Night to the #1 New York Times Best Seller series Locke & Key(soon to be a Hulu TV series).
Co-creating the ongoing zombie Vietnam series ’68, Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer and also spearheading the Frazetta Comics line through Image Comics. Fotos is currently working on Godzilla: Rage Across Time, Wynonna Earp(also a SYFY Channel TV series) and Diablo House with IDW publishing and also the much-anticipated RISING REBELS horror series to be released mid ‘18.
WWW.JAYFOTOS.COM
WWW.68ZOMBIE.COM
www.facebook.com/JAYFOTOSstudios
Fan favorite artist Tony Fleecs is currently hard at work writing and drawing MY LITTLE PONY comics for IDW Publishing. He’s a prolific cover artist on everything from Ponies to Turtles, Grumpy Cats to samurai, the world’s cutest dog, warrior princesses, vampires, Batmen, Wasps, Santa Clauses and almost everything in between. He lives and works in North Hollywood, CA. His mother says he is handsome.”
Born in Portland, Maine in 1962 Kevin Eastman began drawing at a very young age copying children’s books and reading comics. Inspired by master storyteller Jack Kirby, and later by self publishing creators Richard Corben, Vaughn Bode, and Dave Sim, all of his early work focused more on Science Fiction influences than traditional Superhero style comics.
In 1982, while trying to sell some of his illustrations to local fanzines, he met Peter Laird in Northampton, Massachusetts and the partnership studio; Mirage Studios was formed. Less than a year later in the middle of a late night drawing session, Eastman doodled a new character he dubbed a “Ninja Turtle” to make Laird laugh—several sillier sketches and a final drawing of four characters later “Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” had officially entered the universe!
Self published in May of 1984 the first issue sold out of its 3000 copies overnight and quickly became a fan favorite. Catching the eye of Merchandising Agents and Hollywood Producers, Eastman and Laird maintained full control of their creations while guiding them through Toy Licensing, TV Series adaptation, as well as Feature Film exploitation, and by 1989 the TMNT’s were number one in all three categories.
Thanks to “THE BEST FANS ON THE ENTIRE PLANET!” according to Eastman, after 32 amazing years the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles STILL continue to find their way into the hearts and imaginations of kids, large and small.
Currently under an exclusive creator contract with IDW Publishing and IDW Entertainment, when not having way to much fun drawing the TMNT’s, he also launched three new series in 2015/16; Fistful of Blood, Lost Angeles, and Underwhere.
Kevin Eastman resides in San Diego with wife, Courtney (aka First Lady of the Turtles), son Shane, as well as three insane Dachshunds, and two bad kitties.
Kevin Eastman’s Fantasia Comic Con Schedule Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday May 12th
9:30 am Press Roundtable All press can interview Kevin a this time
10-12 Signing in Fullenwider auditorium
2pm Panel discussion
3pm Selfie Photo Op with Kevin
4-6pm Signing
Sunday May13th
9-11 am Signing
1pm Panel discussion
2pm Selfie Photo Op with Kevin
3-5 Signing
