November 26-28, 2010
Guests of Honor
As of August 9, 2010
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Guest of Honor - Writer
Steve Englehart
Steve was born in Indianapolis, and went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles. Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry. He was finally hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).
After that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man™), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote™, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose™, The Djinn™) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern [with Joe Staton], Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.
And once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. He went on to add a run of mid-grade books to his bibliography, including the DNAgers™ adventure series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school curriculum on the invention of the airplane.
In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. One of his contributions, The Night Man, became not only a successful comics series, but also a television show. That led to more Hollywood work, including animated series such as Street Fighter, GI Joe, and Team Atlantis for Disney.
Guest of Honor - Artist
Arlin Robins
A Graduate of the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arlin has won numerous awards for her work, including the Chesley Award for fantasy in three dimensions. Her table-size, free standing sculptures, in editions of 5 - 75, are cast in bronze, while her smaller works are done primarily in silver, gold, pewter. Themes include horses in motion, wildlife and people, as well as mythical and fantasy subjects. Arlin Robins is also an experienced computer artist. Having worked in the computer games industry for the last nine years, Arlin has skills with Photoshop, Deluxe Animate, DeBabelizer, Quark Xpress, PageMaker, MS Word, Excel, 3DHome and is learning HTML and some 3D rendering.
She has created animations, backgrounds and textures for a number of different game platforms, as well as online chat and game environments. Her computer expertise also encompasses photograph re-touching, advertising and publication graphics.
Special Media Guest of Honor
Tad Atkinson
Tad Atkinson made his acting debut at the age of 6, and hasn't stopped since! He initially studied under renowned Hollywood and Broadway director Joshua Logan (South Pacific, Mr. Roberts). He has performed the whole spectrum theatrically, from romantic leads to comic characters to villains. The material he's performed is equally broad, ranging from Shakespeare to premiering original works. By the time he moved to Hollywood to pursue a film career, this stage actor had amassed over 90 performance and technical credits.
Among his film performances are the horror film Dead Men Walking (2005, with Brandon Stacy), the horror film 'Costa Chica: Confession of an Exorcist' (2006), the short film 'My Cousin's Keeper' (2007), and Walter Koenig’s science fiction film 'InAlienable' (2008). He also has executive producer credits for the short film 'Second Chance' (2006) and the horror thriller 'Foursome' (2008). He currently has 41 feature films in development, with budgets ranging from $500,000 to $100 million.
