Interview with Kenzer and Company Part
An Interview with Kenzer and Company in Jolly Blackburn’s lair – Part 1
An Interview with Kenzer and Company in Jolly Blackburn’s lair – Part 1
Local lass takes trophy for creative cosplay at Wizard World costume contest
- The winners of the Best Team Up and the Judges with MC Jarret Crippen photo bombing in the back
Saturday night Grand Rapids resident and Sparta native, Kala Smith took the “Best Team Up” trophy at the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con (one of the biggest and best costume contests in the Midwest!) costume contest. Kala teamed up with Ryan Green and James T. Wulfgar of the Cosplay Chicago (cosplay is short for costume play.)
While cosplaying at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo the three had joked about cosplaying the gargoyles from the cartoon, “Gargoyles.” Though the suggestion started as a joke they all decided it was too good of an idea to pass up and it wowed the audience and took them to the top honors in the team category.
Kala is not new to cosplay and has played some of her favorite comic characters at other conventions such as the Detroit Fanfare and Motor City Comic Con. Kala also modeled with a dragon sculpture in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan for an article by John N. Collins during the Grand Rapids Art Prize. Mr. Collins occasionally meets up with cosplayers for photo shoots at the White Cap Comics in Grand Rapids.
After winning they had the judges sign their trophies. The judges included L.A.s top cosplayer, Ivy Doomkitty, and Jason David Frank, the Green Power Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
For those wishing to congratulate Kala and her teammates on their win, they will be at the Chicago Cosplay booth for the rest of the weekend.
Bruce Boxleitner & Trevor Crafts: a new ‘Lantern City’ cast member is announced
Bruce Boxleitner and Trevor Crafts are the Executive Producers of the upcoming television series, “Lantern City.”
“Lantern City” is a ground breaking, steampunk show with top stars in the industry in a snazzy, steampunk setting.
“Lantern City” is in a world parallel to our earth and it is despotic, totalitarian city-state ruled by the Grey family. The first of the Grey family to rule Lantern City was Isaac Foster Grey who led the city in building walls around the city and setting up military forces to withstand an onslaught that was coming from the north. After saving the city and the refugees who had sought its safety Mr. Grey accepted continued rule over the city and passed it on to his son.
They will be bringing Mira Furlan, Mr. Boxleitner’s former Babylon 5 co-star, to play the descendant of the original emperor, Martha Grey.
John Rhys-Davies will be playing Desmond Wilhorn and Raphael Sbarge will be playing Kendal Kornick.
A bit of news not yet on IMDB is that Gigi Edgley from Farscape, will be playing a role, likely that of Rachel Kierson (Correction: She will be playing the role of Naomi Jones, a rival to Rachel Kierson at Virginie Durand’s finishing school.)
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Free Comic Day! May the Fourth be with you!
If you are in the Grand Rapids area drop by:
White Cap Comics
430 Cummings Avenue NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49534
(616) 785-8518
and
The Outer Limits
1120 Burton SW
Wyoming, MI 49509
(616) 452-1348
Special Free Comics Day editions of your favorite comics from Superman to Star Wars to Sesame Street, Sponge Bob, and the Smurfs! Many more titles (that was just some of the “S” category! X-)
Also check out the Dragons Maze Launch Party at White Cap Comics!
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Wizard World St Louis costume contest – the kiddos!
Many conventions have costume contests for the adults and some will have a children’s portion in their costume contest, Wizard World Comic Cons have a special contest set aside just for the kids on Sunday afternoon.
Even though this was the first year for Wizard World in St Louis, there were more kids in the costume contest than they have at the adult costume competitions at some events.
This young Dr. Who basked in the adulation of the crowd but when the contest was over and he was taken to claim his prize he was crying. His mother said, “He wants to be back on the stage!” as the camera flashed. The fellow is a natural going from tears to “Cheers!” in a flash.
The judges at the Wizard World costume contests tend to be a bit indecisive as the contests consistently result in a tie for first place with no losers.
Fortunately they had a Super stock boy keeping the table filled as the winners selected their prizes.
For more photos from Wizard World Comic Con 2013 check out the Weird Review Photo Albums.
Coming up next on the schedule of weird:
International Tabletop Game Day at White Cap Comics on 3/30/2013 in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Shuto Con 2013 April 5-7 in Lansing, Michigan
The Steampunk Empire Symposium April 26-28 at the Crowne Plaza Cincinnati North – 11320 Chester Road, Cincinnati, Ohio
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An interview with screen writer and crypto-historian Jimmy Diggs
While at Her Royal Majesty’s Steampunk Symposium I had the pleasure of interviewing actor and screen writer Jimmy Diggs.
Mr. Diggs was a screen writer for the Star Trek Series Deep Space Nine and Voyager and is now coming out with a Steampunk TV/Web series called Crypto-Historians.
The premise of Crypto-Historians is that the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and others were true. The crypto-historians use the time travelling technology of Mr. Verne and Mr. Tesla to trouble shoot time space anomalies and other problematic issues such as the “War of the Worlds” Martian invasion.
Check out the interview through to the end and you will see why I told him that he had one of the most interesting and unusual answers to my last interview question!
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