All posts by Scott Zillner

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Guest Announcement Brianna Knickerbocker

Brianna Knickerbocker is an actor and singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles. She’s known for her voice acting work in popular videogames like Genshin Impact, Fire Emblem Heroes, Catherine Full Body and anime like Demon Slayer, Re:ZERO and Seven Deadly Sins. Her music is an ecovative blend of dark pop with electronic undercurrents. You can find her music on all major platforms under the alias Starless.

Guest Announcement Laura Faye Smith

Laura Faye Smith is an LA-based voice actor, best known for voicing Princess Rosalina for Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers games (starting with Super Mario 3D World in 2013) and Noelle in Genshin Impact. She has also voiced Kana (male) for Nintendo’s English cast of Fire Emblem Fates, Tamara “Meds” Melari in the ongoing sci-fi audiodrama The Sojourn, as well as numerous characters for Mad Head Games. She has done an extensive amount of commercials, dubbing, theatre, and audiobooks. She appeared as DeEtta Calvert on NBC’s Grimm, and has also appeared in TNT’s Leverage, Brat TV’s Chicken Girls, and Investigation Discovery’s Betrayed and Stranger Among Us.

You can find her on Twitter or Instagram at @laurafayesmith.

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Guest Announcement Frank Forte

Frank Forte is an accomplished designer, storyboard artist and comic book artist. Frank’s film and TV credits include:Lovecraft Country, Fantasy Island, Solar Opposites, Dreamwork’s 3Below, Bob’s Burgers, Insidious 4, Lego: Guardians of the Galaxy, Despicable Me 2, Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, The Super Hero Squad Show, Marvel Heroes 4D, and Lego Hero Factory. Frank’s comic book credits include: Heavy Metal Magazine, Bob’s Burgers, Warlash, DTOX, Zombie Terrors and Chicken Soup For Satan among others.

In Frank’s spare time he paints.  Influenced by classic cartoons and comic books, Frank’s paintings are an assemblage of inspiration from what he grew up watching on TV and reading in comic books. Trying to capture the feeling and emotion of a moving cartoon on a flat canvas, Frank’s work incorporates horrific and twisted subjects in disturbingly bizarre situations.  His work has been exhibited at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Copro Gallery, Corey Helford Gallery, CASS Contemporary, Dark Art Emporium, Arch Enemy Arts, Phone Booth Gallery, Night Gallery Fine Arts, Cannibal Flower, LTD. Gallery and Hyaena Gallery.

Frank is also the publisher at Asylum Press (www.asylumpress.com), an indy graphic novel and comic book publisher. Asylum Press is a publishing company that produces premium comic books and graphic novels within the horror, science fiction, and action genres.

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Guest Announcement Ed Begley Jr.

Edward James Begley Jr. is an American actor and environmental activist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He played Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere . The role earned him six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. He also co-hosted, along with wife Rachelle Carson, the green living reality show titled Living with Ed . Equally prolific in cinema, Begley’s films include Blue Collar, An Officer and a Gentleman , This Is Spinal Tap , The Accidental Tourist and She-Devil . He is a recurring cast member in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, including Best in Show , A Mighty Wind , For Your Consideration, and Mascots . In 2020 he was cast along his wife Rachelle in the award-winning mockumentary Reboot Camp.

Some of our favorite roles

Battlestar Galactica Flight Sergeant Greenbean

Streets of Fire – Ben Gunn

This Is Spinal Tap – John “Stumpy” Pepys

Transylvania 6-5000 – Gil Turner

Amazon Women on the Moon Griffin – James Begley

The Pagemaster – Alan Tyler

Batman Forever – Fred Stickley

Addams Family Reunion – Philip Adams

Ghostbusters – Ed Mulgrave

Star Trek: Voyager Henry Starling

Batman: The Animated Series – Germs / Charlie Collins / Stagehand

Guest Announcement Tim Clarke

Tim Clarke  Master Toy Designer  “King of Gross”

For over 30 years Tim has been Inventing, Designing and Sculpting some of the most unusual toys to ever be marketed in the US and abroad. Once known as the “King of Gross” after co-creating in the 80’s Sectaurs (Coleco) and Boglins (Mattel). Tim now launches his new line of horribleness  the “TOTIMS”  

I love creating my own mythology. The world is filled with modern day mythological creatures you can find them in every nook and cranny of your bedroom closet. 

Tim Started his career designing and building puppets for the Muppets. Most notable were the Mystics and the Slaves that he sculpted and designed for the movie the Dark Crystal guided by the incredible drawings of Brian Froud. He also worked on puppets for Sesame Street , Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock for which he created Traveling Matt. After Dark Crystal was launched he garnered his first toy sculpting gig with Hasbro creating the Garthim, Mystics and Lanstrider toys. 

He has also created toys for Melissa and Doug toys, EK Success, Hasbro, Mattel, Coleco, Kenner, Ideal Lossirs, to mention just a few.