Robert Axelrod has carved a career in show business that runs the gamut. Born and raised in New York City, he did commercials and theater as a child and teen, eventually ending up in the Soho Avant-garde Theater scene in a show called “Little Trips”, then Off-Broadway in a play called “The Destroyers”. Axelrod left acting for the world of music. He spent eight years as a working rock musician playing electric bass and singing in folk, rock, and soul bands. Music brought him to Los Angeles where he decided to return to acting, a decision he never regrets.
Since then, Mr. Axelrod has appeared in over thirty feature films including four with Charles Bronson, the Sci-Fi hit remake “The Blob” with Kevin Dillon and many others. Television appearances include guest star roles on “Amazing Stories”, “Star Trek Voyager”, and “The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He also starred in the Michael Jackson music video “Stranger in Moscow”.
Mr. Axelrod is also a busy voice over artist. He is the voice of Lord Zedd and Finster on the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”. The Lord Zedd voice is one of the most recognizable character voices around. He voiced Armadillomon and Wizardmon on “Digimon”, Microchip, The Punisher’s sidekick, on “Spiderman”, Rico on “Robotech”, and has voiced countless Anime features including “Akira”, “The Big O”, “Cowboy Bebop”, “Brain Scratch”, et al. As Lord Zedd, he starred in both the first Power Rangers feature film and the wildly popular live show that toured the country. He was a regular character on Saban Entertainment’s “Wowser” series (as Ratso Catso), “Journey To The Heart of the World” (as Scarface), “Hallo Spencer” (as Elmer), and more. He just finished narrating the mockumentary “Safety First: The Rise of Women and voicing four Anime series, “Gaiking”, “Danguard Ace”, “Captain Harlock”, “The Adventures of Nadja”, and “Fist of the North Star”.
Doug Smith is an accomplished freelance
artist and voice actor who has performed many roles for ADV and Funimation,
including the lead, Kintaro Oe, in "Goldenboy". One of his lesser known but
more powerful roles that of Squeebo, the poor blind orphan in the OVA series
"Splendid Eyeball Gremulak", which, unfortunately for fans everywhere, doesn't
actually exist.
Doug is a man of adventure, traveling the country and globe, working to
hone his artistic skills and always in search of the elusive American Dream.
There’s no place he won’t go, the jungle, desert, the highest mountain peaks,
the depths of the ocean and the silent void of outer space to reach that
elusive dream. His artwork has been used for CD
album covers, magazines, comics, posters, anime con program guides and
badges, exorcisms, DVDs and TV. Doug is also the Art Director for non-profit
Voices For, an organization which works with talented people in the anime/manga
industry to create products, the profits of which are donated to charity.
Be sure to stop by Doug's table, view his
art and say hi and buy some art lest the CURSE OF THE PHAROA--- wait,… sorry.
There's no curse. But please buy some art anyway. It will make you happy.
David Stanworth has been interested in video games and animation for his entire life. When he realised he's FAR too worthless to do either, he stuck with comics. Snafu-Comics started in the summer of 2002 and has quickly grown to incorporate over a dozen seperate comics, Snafu, PowerPuff Girl Doujinshi, Grim Tales, Sugar Bits, Tin: The Incompetent Ninja, Ever After, Sticky Floors, and many more. With more to be added soon!
Snafu has constantly been an evolving comic often drastically changing art styles and directions comic to comic. The subject matter could range from anime, videogames, politics, social commentary or fart jokes (mostly fart jokes.) But what Snafu really excells at is a strong forum community of active participants. Snafu wouldn't exist without the the fantastic support from the online community. We're excited to meet everyone at Metrocon so come by our table and say hi! Plus we have some pretty cool T-shirts and prints ;)
PikaBelleChu is most well known in the anime world for her continuing passion for Pokemon. She has appeared in many magazines and newspapers such as Nintendo Power, Animerica, Anime Insider, Pokemon Fan, Beckett Pokemon Collector, VW Trends, EGM, Star Banner, Riverland News, St. Augustine Record. Her highest achievement is having being featured in the Gamers Edition of Guinness Book of World Records for having the Worlds Largest Pokemon Collection in the World, with over 8,000 items from American to Japanese collectables and including the official Pikachu Volkswagen you can see displayed at many conventions she attends.
She does numerous Pokemon events, Children's events, Car Shows, Parades and appears at conventions world wide for her dedication to Pokemon. Also a cosplayer, she has created more then 80 costumes mostly consisting of Pokemon and her own special creations called Pokewomon Princesses where she takes a Pokemon and creates a royal version of that Pokemon. Some of the costumes have taken more then 3 months to create. When not promoting Pokemon and cosplaying for events for children, she also teaches kids cartooning at local craft stores and paints murals in businesses and private homes in the area she lives.
ASHLEY CLARK (Anna May Belle) is a multi-media artist and writer, and has been working in the anime style for nearly a decade. Her first webcomic, 'Shades of Red', debuted in 2003. She has since turned her attention to her newest literary project, 'Tales of Asajima'. You can enter the world of Asajima through the webnovel 'Nowaki', and continue your journey with the first of her print novels, 'The Yukari'.
Ashley has won numerous awards as not only an artist, but also as an AMV creator, cosplayer, and film editor. Within the anime community, Ashley is widely known as Anna May Belle, webmistress of AnimeBelle.com, one of the most highly regarded and popular anime websites in the south. AnimeBelle hosts a gallery containing over 24,000 photos with hundreds more added after every convention she attends. The website also hosts forums, guest interviews, event reporting, and a convention schedule of southern anime conventions. If it's of interest to southern anime fans, it interests AnimeBelle, y'all!
