Guests
Every MOBICON, we strive to bring in great guests for the convention members to see and meet. If you would like to be a guest at MOBICON, contact Cathy Chandler.
Confirmed Guests:
| Colin Cunningham Mark Poole Patrick Burns Sharon Green Jim Butcher Debbora Wiles Zuri Middle Eastern Dance Troupe |
Those Damned Pixies Davey Beauchamp Nightmare Theatre Aruda Hanna-Wilson Bryan King The Cast Aways Open Theatre Troupe Meredith Placko |
Colin Cunningham - Actor
Colin Cunningham (born 20 August 1967 in California, U.S.) is an American television and film actor, now living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He is best known for his recurring role on Stargate SG-1 as USAF Major Paul Davis. Another major role was his portrayal of Brian Curtis, a crooked cop in the popular award winning Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. He reprised the Brian Curtis role in the 2006 sequel series, Da Vinci's City Hall. He also played the character McCabe in the 2005 film Elektra.
He recently wrote, directed and starred in a short film titled 'Centigrade' which is a contemporary thriller. It was the winner of the 2007 KICK START AWARD. [more]
Mark Poole - Artist
Mark Poole is an artist with a BA degree (fine arts and design) from the University of South Carolina. He has worked full time in the commercial illustration field doing album covers, catalogs, automotive renderings and too many other normal things to list, but now concentrates in the Science Fiction and Fantasy realms.
He has worked in the industry for 6 years and has illustrated over 800 cards, including more than 200 cards for Wizards of the Coast's Magic the Gathering and Jyhad card games alone). TSR, Daedulas Games (Shadowfist), Companion Games (Galactic Empires), Realism Entertainment, QQP, Mayfair Games, Thundercastle Games (Towers in Time), Shadis Magazine, Alderac Entertainment (Legends of the 5 Rings), I.C.E. (Middle Earth), New Millennium (Battle Lords of the 21st Century), Cactus Games (Redemption), Computer Gaming World, Black Dragon Press (Tempest of the Gods), Conjure Magazine, The Duelist, Quintessential Mercy Studio and Last Unicorn Games are some of the more recent companies for whom he has worked. [more]
Patrick Burns - Paranormal Investigator
Patrick Burns is an American paranormal investigator, best known as star of the Court TV series Haunting Evidence. He is the founder of the popular website Ghost Hounds, which in 2001 was featured in an Emmy award-winning Turner documentary "Interact Atlanta - 'Ghost Hounds'". Burns is also the organizer and director of Ghostock, a paranormal investigators convention held twice annually in Savannah, Georgia and is a professional photographer through his venture Patrick Burns Photography [more]
Sharon Green - Author
Writer and fan favorite, Sharon Green has written more than 50 fiction books including; The Terrillian series, The Blending series and many more. In addition a film company is currently considering one of her books for film production.
Sharon has also broken new ground and offers ten books and some reprint books exclusively online at her web site and enjoys a large following of online fans. [more]
Jim Butcher - Author
Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also writes the Codex Alera series.
Jim goes by the moniker Longshot in a number of online locales. He came by this name in the early 1990's when he decided he would become a published author. Usually only 3 in 1000 who make such an attempt actually manage to become published; of those, only 1 in 10 make enough money to call it a living. The sale of a second series was the breakthrough that let him beat the long odds against attaining a career as a novelist.
All the same, he refuses to change his nickname. [more]
Debbora Wiles - Author & Artist
Debbora was born in Meridian, Mississippi, April 17, 1953. She has been married for 25 years and has two teenage children. She currently lives in Florida.
Debbora has been massively creative all her life. She took art and writing all her school years and has taken hundreds of art courses both at college (under artist/writer Homer Casteel) and in the open market (Art Instruction Schools) and she studied under Watercolor master artist Don Crossly a student of John Pike . After receiving a number of certifications she opened a commercial art business in 1983 where she did everything logos to commissioned fine art pieces. But in a small town there wasn't enough to keep her busy. She began doing art shows and over the last few years her art has been shown in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Biloxi, Pensacola, Chattanooga, Atlanta and many more cities. Currently she shows her fantasy art at Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions all across the USA. [more]
Those D@#% Pixies
Fan Guests of Honor
Lynn & Bill Lars-Ruffin
Davey Beauchamp - Author
Davey Beauchamp is an author who has no idea what he is doing at any given moment, as he is being pulled in numerous directions at once. He graduated college with a B.A. in English with emphasis in Creative and Professional writing.
After college, he did write a book that was published, but he considers it his college horror film because it was that bad. Next he published the first book in his Agency 32 series, Agency 32: The Chelten Affair.
The next book in the Agency 32 series is currently being shopped. In addition, he has been writing original audio dramas based on Amazing Pulp Adventures, Starring Mister Adventure, a young adult novel which is being shopped. The audio dramas are being produced and podcasted by Outcast Media. APA, Starring Mister Adventure was nominated for a Parsec Award in Best Audio Drama – Long Form. [more]
Nightmare Theatre
Nightmare Theatre is an old school horror host show, featuring minor demon The Baron Mondo Von Doren (Mike Ensley), faithful luchadore manservant El Sapo De Tempesto (Chip Chism) and pet werewolf Mittens (Lemmie Crews). The Nightmare Theatre crew hosts very BAD horror flicks and gives them all the respect they deserve – none!
Guests on the show have included everyone from major horror celebs such as Alice Cooper, Elvira, & Tom Savini to B-Movie legends like Tura Satana, Fred Olen Ray and Bill Moseley. [more]
Aruda Hanna-Wilson - Author
Aruda Hanna Wilson comes from a culture strong in the oral tradition of story telling and brings that experience to her writing and tells ripping good stories.
Mrs. Hanna Wilson was born aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in international waters to Bahamian parents. She was raised on a small island in the Bahamas and married an American sailor. Forty years and three children later, she has decided there is no such thing as normal. Because of her life experiences, she brings a unique view of the worlds she creates into her stories.
"Normal," she states, "Is a word used to describe a non-existent status." [more]
Meredith Placko - Broadcast Specialist/Model/Cosplay Entertainer
Meredith Placko (aka "Ana Aethestic") was picked up by Concept Galaxy after she blew convention attendees away with her performance for Stephanie Chateau's "Time Warped Wonderland" production. Although it is what is jettisoning Merideth into more guest appearances at conventions, remarkably, acting for stage and film is something Meredith had never thought to try until recently.
Before she was discovered on stage Meredith started out using her strong voice talent in various forms of Broadcasting after she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Broadcast Communications. Back in early 2000 Meredith began gaining noteriety as a host of one of the most ground breaking syndicated pioneer sub-culture radio stations on the scene, "Radio Sci-Fi". After 4 years of paying her dues she moved on to book various gigs doing voice over work for commercial radio and television as well. She's also known for her time working as a co-host for geek culture pod cast "Just Push Play". [more]