Guest Announcement Larry Houston

Larry Houston is an animator who worked as producer on “Pryde of the X-Men”, X-Men, and Fantastic Four; director on X-Men and Fantastic Four; writer on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; story editor on “Pryde of the X-Men”; storyboard director on The Incredible Hulk and “Pryde of the X-Men”; and storyboard artist on Spider-Man, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers: United They Stand, X-Men: Evolution, Ultimate Avengers II, and The Spectacular Spider-Man. Other notable works include Thundarr the BarbarianG.I. Joe: A Real American HeroMister TThe Super Powers Team: Galactic GuardiansDefenders of EarthJonny QuestJemRoboCopThe Real GhostbustersC.O.P.S.James Bond Jr.Swamp ThingTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesBucky O’Hare and the Toad Wars!Conan: The AdventurerCaptain Planet and the PlaneteersDouble DragonBatman: The Animated SeriesSpawnJackie Chan AdventuresOzzy & DrixBiker Mice from MarsLoonatics UnleashedRandy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, and Community.

https://www.larry-houston.com

Guest Announcement Melissa Flores

Melissa has developed and produced diverse and inclusive entertainment in all genres, including television (Power Rangers, Glitter Force, Julius Junior), feature films (Saban’s Power Rangers), narrative podcasts, digital films (including Power Rangers Legacy Wars: Streetfighter Showdown, Shattered Grid), publishing, live events (Power Rangers HyperForce) and gaming (including Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid and Power Rangers Legacy Wars)In 2020, she wrote and co-created the popular Twitch digital hybrid series The Unleashed, which was also featured as a backup comic series in the superhero Image title Radiant Black. Her Image comic book series The Dead Lucky, a Massive-Verse title, released this year. She co-writes the Massive-Verse comic book miniseries Radiant Pink, and writes Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Boom! Studios.  

Melissa also voices the characters Kat Ranger and Gia Moran in Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid

Guest Announcement Norm Rapmund

Norm Rapmund is an American comic book artist. He started working for Image Comics in 1992 on the title Brigadeand later moved on to other titles. He also worked for other publishers like Extreme Studios, Malibu Comics, Maximum Press and a few others. In 1997 he began working for Marvel Comics on the title Avengers. In 1998 he worked for DC Comics on the title Legion Secret Files and Origins and later he worked on other titles including Teen Titans, Superman, JLA, Aquaman and many others.

Most recently he has been working on titles like FlashSuperman/Wonder WomanThe Multiversity GuidebookConvergence: Detective Comics and a few others.

Guest Announcement Kirk Thatcher

Kirk R. Thatcher is an Emmy award winning writer/producer, an award winning television, commercial and viral video director, as well as a creature maker and character designer for both films and television. 

Kirk began at nineteen working at Industrial Light and Magic, designing, creating and puppeteering creatures for blockbusters such as, Return of the Jedi, Star Trek II, Star Trek III, E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins. He was also an associate producer on Star Trek IV, in which he had a memorable cameo as the Punk on the Bus, rocking out to the Punk anthem he both wrote and sang, called, “I HateYou!” 

Kirk has co-written several Muppet films including Muppet Treasure Island and directed four television movies: “The Muppets Wizard of Oz”, which premiered at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Festival, “It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie,”  “The Muppets Letters to Santa” as well as the Lifetime Network Thanksgiving movie, “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow” starring Mary Steenburgen. He was Supervising Producer on the Emmy Award winning ABC series, Muppets Tonight, and co-producer on the ABC series Dinosaurs, on which he designed most of the characters, working closely with one of his mentors, the Muppet’s creator Jim Henson. As well as his long form work, Kirk has directed over thirty Muppet commercials and web shorts including, Muppet’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been viewed over 72 Million times, and all of Neil Patrick Harris’ web comedy series, “Neil’s Puppet Dreams”. Kirk has also written episodes for the Cartoon Network series Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and directed episodes of Nickelodeon’s series Lazy Town, PBS’ Sid the Science Kid and Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers. Kirk was also one of the three recurring judges on the Syfy channel series, “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge” which had over 11 million viewers. 

More recently, Kirk created, wrote, and Executive Produced a series for Netflix entitled, “The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell” with Christine McConnell and the Jim Henson company. Kirk directed every episode and the series has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes! Kirk recently directed an episode of, “The Kids are Alright” entitled, “Mailbox” for ABC Network. He also directed 3hrs of episodes of the Muppets new series, “Muppets Now” on Disney +, which debuted in 2020. He also co-wrote and co-directed the hit Muppet Live Shows that played at the Hollywood bowl and in London’s O2 stadium.  He is currently developing shows for Netflix, Disney + and the Amazon. When he isn’t busy creating or directing shows, Kirk is also a voice talent and has done many of the memorable voices on the feature films, Spaced Invaders, Gremlins II and the animated series, “Klutter” as well as playing Dr Thatch in Medal of Honor, Above and Beyond, released in December of 2020.