JUNE 18, 2017 GUESTS:

ANDY POON

Andy Poon is an art director and concept designer living in Vancouver BC, involved in both the animation and live action world. Currently freelancing as a character concept illustrator for Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow making sure the Heroes are fighting in style on screen while making sure comic fans like himself are satisfied.

Andy has also been focusing on art direction and visual development in animation/toy properties such as Stormhawks, Hotwheels, Slugterra, Monster High, Maxsteel, Blaze and the Monster Machines for the last decade. Never a moment goes by in which Andy is not imagining,drawing and creating.

andypoondesign.blogspot.ca
twitter.com/andypoondesign
andypoondesign.deviantart.com

AZIM VENKSTA

Azim Venksta is a local born and raised independent Transformers specialty artist and designer. He is best known for his brand of Renderform Customs - hand made accessories and parts to augment your favorite modern Transformers action figures. Azim has also been working with various toy companies over the past 10 years, creating and designing action figures, animation, and comics. Being an artist at heart, Azim creates various artworks using 3D CGI as his main medium and sculptures of his favourite robotic heroes. You can find prints, samples of his current Renderform Customs, and sculptures on display at this upcoming show.

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www.twitter.com/azimvenksta
www.venksta.deviantart.com
www.instagram.com/venksta

~OUR IN-HOUSE GUEST~
DIANA GREENHALGH

Diana Greenhalgh is a professional illustrator, graphic artist and designer in comics, trading cards, film and television.

You can find her work in many places, from props in DC's Legends Of Tomorrow season 1, to movie posters for Twentieth Century Fox's Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse, illustrations in more than 30 licensed trading card sets including DC, Marvel, and Dynamite properties, and inks on numerous independent and mainstream comic titles, including Taran Killam's The Illegitimates, X-Men Legacy, and Nova.

Diana has recently completed work for Upper Deck on their Marvel Premier and Spider-Man: Homecoming trading card sets, and is currently working as editor and inker for a new production company.

As an illustrator, she also specializes in pinup art, illustrating sexy femme fatales and other fun characters. She produces her own original illustrations, prints, trading cards, and other collectibles.

www.facebook.com/DianaGreenhalghArt
www.twitter.com/DianaGreenhalgh
www.mechangel2002.deviantart.com
www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=15337

VERNE ANDRU

Verne grew up during the dawn of the television era with its wacky worlds of Beatlemania and Bugs Bunny. While he dabbled in music and drawing, it wasn't until he met the crew from Captain Canuck Comics at a high school "career day" that he found his calling. He quickly became the studio pest, dropping by weekly to show off his latest. During this period he created the "Captain Cannabis" character and comic book, the first of many to come.

His career took off with his first paid job - cel painting on "Blowhard," a National Film Board animated short, followed by animation assignments for Hanna Barbera's Saturday morning line-up. He continued in comics illustrating stories for Phantacea, doing ink and colour on Captain Canuck, cover art for Charleton and inking for Marvel.

Working on Nelvana's "Rock & Rule" animated feature Verne bridged old with new - on the one hand he was privileged to work alongside masters Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson, two of Walt Disney's 9 wise men, while at the same time he was designing leading-edge computer-controlled visual effects with Industrial Light and Magic.

Verne then turned his focus to advertising and marketing in Toronto and Vancouver. He provided the creative behind a number of high-tech success stories including 'Simply Accounting,' one of the best selling small business accounting brands, and the successful Pigtronix musical instrument effects. As CEO of Virtual Access he produced a range of content for web and broadcast, including the highly successful "Kid's Club" TV spots for Swedish furniture retailer, IKEA.

Today Verne is using his advanced skills on the release of his Captain Cannabis comic book and film series. Combined with current relaxation of cannabis attitudes, it is destined to become Verne's Ultimate Hit!

www.verneandru.com

MICHAEL KLUCKNER

Michael Kluckner was a cartoonist and illustrator for the Vancouver and Victoria dailies in the late 1970s, then spent 30 years creating illustrated books such as Vanishing Vancouver before returning to the medium of the graphic novel with "Toshiko," a Romeo-and-Juliet story set in BC during the Second World War. His murder mystery "2050," set in the ruins of a future Vancouver, is a "cli-fi" speculation on life under a dictatorship determined to heal the planet after an environmental disaster and pandemic. He is currently working on a graphic biography of a novelist-feminist from the early years of British Columbia.

www.michaelkluckner.com

JIM MCPHERSON

Jim McPherson has been writing stories featuring the PHANTACEA Mythos for most of his teenage and adult life. Usually as Phantacea Publications (James H McPherson, Publisher), he has been publishing a PHANTACEA imprint since 1977. These include comic books, three graphic novels, a number of web-only serials, three mini-novels, e-books and five full-length novels.

Jim's latest novel in the PHANTCEA series, "Decimation Damnation" was published in 2016.

Details regarding PHANTACEA Mythos print publications are linked from here: www.phantacea.com/DotComMenu.htm#publications.
www.phantacea.com/one2six1.htm#pH4
www.phantacea.com/#comingSoon

TOY TRADERS TO MATCH GIFT CARDS $ FOR $

Vancouver Comic & Toy Show will be handing out the following gift cards during the show: Three $20 gift cards for use anywhere at the show to be randomly handed out at the door! There will also be two $50.00 Gift Cards given out during the day. An additional two $100 gift cards will be given out at 3:00 & 4:00!

In addition to the multiple Vancouver Comic & Toy Show Gift Cards - Matthew Purdy, owner of Toy Traders has graciously matched Toy Trader Bucks $ for $ on the $50 & $100 cards, to be used on any merchandise at his tables!