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Sarah Natochenny

Sarah Natochenny is a Voice Arts® award winning voice actor best known for her work as Ash Ketchum on Pokémon, currently in Its 23rd season. She recently voiced 10 characters in The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon, a comedy from Funny or Die/Spotify. She is also the narrator of Marvel’s Black Widow: Bad Blood, a serial drama currently available on Serial Box. Her two videos for Vanity Fair garnered over 7M views. "Sarah Natochenny Improvises 10 New Characters" and "How Pokémon is Dubbed from Japanese to English."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_IedZUhSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B35E8QleVhg
Her other TV work can be heard now on 44 Cats as Lampo, Igor and Baby Pie (Nickelodeon), Camp Camp as Vera (Rooster Teeth), Moonzy as Skip (Amazon), Robocar Poli as Rody (Nick Jr.), Super 4 as Twinkle (Netflix), World of Winx as Silke (Netflix), Yoko as Vik (Netflix), and Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V as Aura (Netflix). Live action dubbing includes “Beat,” and “Reality Z.” Feature films currently available include Bunta (role: Boca) and Sheep & Wolves (role: Xavi). Notable video game work includes Grand Theft Auto V, Modern Combat, Thor, Batman, and Bullet Witch. You may also recognize her from her turn as Alanis Morrissette for College Humor.
Learn about temporarily opening your home to domestic animals at www.voicesforfosters.org.
She also runs AMAs with the cast of Pokémon at https://www.twitch.tv/sarah_natochenny_official.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Pricing:
$40 for autos on 8x10's and personal items
$30 for selfies
$60 for combo on 8x10 and personal items
$60 for autos on regular Funkos
Price for autos on cards will be available at the table.

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Bill Rogers

Since his debut in 2001, Bill has been providing voices to some of your favorite characters in some of your favorite shows. He is best known for his roles in “Pokémon” (Brock + over 50 creatures), “HunterXHunter” (Majitani, Meleoron and Monta), “Gravitation” (Touma Seguchi), “Genshiken” (Tanaka Souichiro) and “Cagaster of an Insect Cage” (Qasim). Other anime Bill has voiced include “Eureka Seven: Hi Evolution”, “One Punch Man”, “Mob Psycho 100”, “Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale”, “Cells At Work”, “Haikara”, “Little Witch Academia”, “Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans”, “Godzilla: Monster Planet”, “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure”, “Rising of the Shield Hero”, “Boogiepop Phantom”, “The Third”, “Shingu”, “His and Her Circumstances”, “KO Beast”, “Assemble Insert”, “Magical Witch Punie-Chan”, “Mai Mai Miracle”, “Ascendance of a Bookworm”, “Patema Inverted”, “Gundam: The Origin”, “Joe vs. Joe”, “Ikki Tousen”, “Queen’s Blade”, “Gokudo”, and “Comic Party”.
Video gamers will recognize Bill as the voice of Urien in “Street Fighter 5”, the King of Hyrule in “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”, Lucien in “Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice” and Lucario in the smash hit “Super Smash Bros. Brawl”. He’s voiced cartoon legend Heathcliff in “Heathcliff: Fast and the Furriest” as well as Red, Yellow and other fun characters in “m&m Adventure” and “m&m Kart Racing”. On PC and PS4 he can be heard in “SMITE” and “Paladins”. On mobile devices in “Monster Strike”, “Epic Seven” and “Dungeon Hunter 4 & 5”. He has also supplied voices for “Detective Pikachu” (3DS), “The Lost Child” (Switch/PS4), “Knee Deep” (Mac/PC/PS4), “Dark Rose Valkyrie” (PS4), “God Wars” (PS4/Switch/Vita), “Demon Gaze 1 & 2” (PS Vita), “Bullet Witch” (X-Box) and various Pokémon in both “Poképark” games (Wii).
Outside the field of anime & video games, Bill has worked with English dubbing groups for live action and animated programs from China, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Turkey. Notable titles include “Robot Trains”, “Suburra”, “Pororo”, “El Chapo”, “DragonPhoenix Chronicles” and “Super Wings”.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Pricing:
$30 autos on 8x10's and personal items
$20 for selfies
$50 for combo on 8x10 and personal items
$50 for autos on Funkos and Cards.

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Lisa Ortiz

Lisa Ortiz is a bicoastal LA/New York based veteran voice actor, director and producer. A NY native, her career as a voice over artist began under the shroud of an attempted auto larceny gone awry. She can currently be heard as Burnin in My Hero Academia, Mars Korrina/Talia in Pokémon Journeys, (as well as over 30 Pokémon including Oshawott, Latten, Vaporeon, Chewtle and Totodile), Tao Jun in Shaman King, Mion in Battle Game in 5 seconds, as well as as the Demon Lord Frey, in “That time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”, as well as Kimiko in the upcoming “Gunbusters” (amongst others): as a va, she is most well known for her role as Lina Inverse, Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog, Icy/Musa (Winx club), Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece and Serenity Wheeler in Yugi-oh as well as Maettel in Galaxy Express and Deedlit in Record of Lodoss Wars.. Her voice has been heard internationally on Disney XD, SciFi, Cartoon Network, WB, Funimation, Nickelodeon, Crunchyroll and Netflix amongst others. She was also a regular fixture in 4KidsTV and the Foxbox, and she is the current voice director of Pokemon Journeys on Netflix. She has appeared in the one woman show “I Couldn’t Possibly Love You” at 53 above at the Broadway Comedy club and Don’t tell Mama, as well as the Anime Cabaret Improv Jam.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Pricing:
$40 autos on 8x10's and personal items
$20 for selfies
$50 for combo on 8x10 and personal items
$50 for autos on Funkos and Cards.

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Bradley William Smith

Hi there. I'm Bradley. Bradley Smith. Bradley _William_ Smith. Yeah, I know. I'm a 3-name person. Sorry. If you're not a kid, you probably have no clue who I am! I'm the voice actor for the gaming panda bear of YouTube, Combo Panda. The channel is named after the character and after roughly 5 years, we've accrued over 2 million subscribers and 1.5 billion views. "Combo Panda" is a sister channel of "Ryan's World," which is one of the most massive children's brands right now with over 33 million subscribers and 53 billion views. Aside from Combo, I provide voices for the Ryan's World characters Packrat, Moe the Monster, Shelldon the Baby Dinosaur, and Robo Combo Panda. Sometimes, Combo Panda games against Robo Combo on the "VTubers" channel (over 2.3 million subscribers/1.8 billion views). You can also catch me in live-action as myself over on "The Studio Space" YouTube channel (over 3 million subscribers/1.8 billion views)
Under the Ryan's World brand, my silly voices can be heard in "Ryan's Mystery Playdate" (Nick Jr.), "Ryan's World Specials" (Hulu), the video games "Race with Ryan" and "Ryan's Rescue Squad" (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC), the mobile app games "Tag with Ryan," "Super Spy Ryan: Rumble Arena," and "Ryan's Dart Tag," and even a good chunk of toys including the Combo Panda Build-A-Bear. We're starting to produce anime specials now, too, such as "Super Spy Ryan" (Amazon) and "Ryan's Arctic Adventures" (YouTube).
When I'm not working on content to make kiddos laugh, I'm thinking of things to make adults laugh (hopefully). The dream is to be a professional standup comic, so I take any opportunity I can to tell jokes. Even at conventions! So, be sure to catch my "Unconvention Comedy" set, which are a bunch of jokes for those who love going to conventions.


Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: TBD

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Michele Knotz

It is said that Michele Knotz hails from a distant faraway planetoid called New Jersey. Fueled by coffee and DETERMINATION, Michele is a Voice Actress, Script Writer/Adapter, and Twitch Streamer.
For the past 17 years Michele has been the voice of Jessie on this series you may have heard of called Pokémon. She’s also been the voice of May, Misty, Nurse Joy, The Pokédex and roughly about 70 Pokémon. Other voice acting roles include Carina in One Piece Film: Gold, Alisa Bosconovitch and Roll in Street Fighter X Tekken, Ogiue Chika in Genshiken, The Sparrow Nike and Mummified Izanami in SMITE, Neo Alraune in Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Bazzi in KartRider Rush+, Lilliel Saotome in The Guided Fate Paradox, Athena and Akiko in Aria, Young Burndy Byojack in One Piece 3D2Y, Rol in The Last Dungeon Boonies, Koyuki Asagiri in Kujibiki Unbalance, The Pokémon Trainer, Squirtle and Various Pokémon in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Yumi in Kitsune Zero, The Caryatid Sisters and Persephone in Gods’ School: The Olympian Gods and a bunch of other anime, shows and video games!
But wait! There’s more! Michele’s the writer/script adapter for The Way of the Househusband, Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, Shaman King 2021 and much more awesome shows on Netflix!
When Michele’s not screaming her head off in her vocal booth, or quickly typing away at her writing desk, she’s streaming on Twitch playing a variety of video games either solo or with her lovely, wonderful community she’s dubbed, The Knotz Berry Farm! You can catch Michele on Twitch right here: https://www.twitch.tv/micheleknotz Here’s her website too that she really needs to update: http://micheleknotz.com


Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: $40 autos on 8x10's and personal items
$20 for selfies
$50 for combo on 8x10 and personal items
$50 for autos on Funkos and Cards.

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Boogie2988

You may know me as one of my characters; The raging and lisping "Francis", the southern redneck "Jessy" or maybe you just know me as me; Boogie2988. Gamer, vlogger, armchair philosopher and all around (and I do mean round) kinda guy.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Phoenix Resale

Caleb has been a fake gamer since 1999, and has been a YouTube poser since 2019. On weekends you may find him scalping, faking video game finds for views, and manipulating the market for retro video games. His greatest strengths include creating trashy clickbait, lowballing children at yard sales, and writing his own website bios.


Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: TBD

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The Game Chasers

Billy and Jay make up the dynamic game collecting duo known as The Game Chasers. Their mission: to scour the land far and wide to uncover gaming treasures of old. Whether it be gaming stores, flea markets, thrift stores, or even peoples attics, they seek out retro games and have a blast while doing it. In 2011 they decided to put their adventures on YouTube and became an instant hit.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: ONE HUG

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8-bit Eric

Eric "8-bit" Perez started playing video games at the age of four when his older brother bought a Sega Master System. From there he was instantly hooked on playing with anything he could get his hands on. Shortly after, his life was forever changed when he received his own NES for Christmas and the rest is history. In 2010, he created a video game review show called The 8-bit Eric Show on YouTube. Since then, he decided to start collecting video games again and became friends with many other gamers in the YouTube community.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Tales of Taylor

Hi, I’m ToT or Tales of Taylor for long! A passionate video game collector and streamer that loves collecting, reviewing and cataloging fun and obscure games! My other obsessions include cosplaying and hunting for full-odds shiny Pokémon in older Pokémon games and newer ones!

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Taffeta Darling

Taffeta Darling is a Twitch live-streamer Affiliate, a podcaster, a published model and cosplayer, and lends her Fangirl energy to various conventions across the country as a moderator and panelist. She's been a pop culture herald in the geek community for over a decade know as A Fangirl in Dallas.
By day she's a comic art researcher and cataloger, and by night reviews all things geeky and hosts artists and celebrity interviews via her Fangirl of Dallas channel. She enjoys indie console gaming, loves Batman, J.R.R. Tolkien, and her favorite movie is Big Trouble in Little China- and was even written into an issue of the "Big Trouble in Little China" comic. Most of her free time is spent playing indie games, and lounging around with her pets.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Dearest Abby

Known online as the "Queen of Kong", Dearest Abby is one of the top five female Donkey Kong players worldwide. She began livestreaming in 2019 and has since expanded her Twitch channel to include both retro and modern games. Recently, she has begun co-hosting The Anime & Chill Podcast and has made appearances on a variety of gaming related podcasts. In addition to video games, Dearest Abby has a passion for cosplaying, Star Wars, and all things nerdy.

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Tyler Esposito

Tyler Esposito is the creator of "My Retro Life", an episodic documentary series and YouTube channel about life as a '90s gamer. Using home movie footage straight from VHS, Tyler tells the blast-processed story of what life was like growing up in a family obsessed with video games. "My Retro Life" was recently featured in the Paramount Plus documentary film "Console Wars".

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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G to The Next Level

“G” Gracin, aka G to the Next Level, is a 20+ year gaming enthusiast. Though a Sega fan first, G has a passion for all retro gaming. In addition to their YouTube Channel, G hosts regular gaming hangout streams live on Twitch, is an official Capcom Creator, works along with Sega for various charity efforts, and assists with historical gaming websites

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: FREE

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Blake Wright

Blake Wright is a journalist and author of the Toys That Time Forgot book trilogy — a series focused solely on unproduced action figures from the ’80s, ‘90s and ‘00s. In 2019, he was inducted into the Pop Culture Hall of Fame — the same class that hosted names like Robert Downey, Jr., Haim Saban and Hayao Miyazaki, among others. In February 2022, Wright launched TOYCOLLECTR Magazine — the new print magazine in the vein of classic toy mags like ToyFare, Tomart’s and Lee’s, and dedicated to collecting of action figures both past and present. Issue 1 shipped to subscribers in September 2022. The magazine recently celebrated the delivery of its third issue.



Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: TBD

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Peachy and Fairy

PeachyandFairy is a collaboration of cosplay sisters, Hipeachypie_Cosplay and Fairy La Fey, who are both based in Houston, TX. They lovingly call each other “Cosplay Sisters” as they not only share their passion for cosplay but also share the same profession, birthdays, dress and shoe size!

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: TBD

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Creativerain

Creativerain is an up-and-coming cosplayer who's been on the scene for about 3 years but has had many accolades to their name. 3 Time Published cosplayer which showcases a wide range of cosplayers from Disney to DC Comics. They are a lover of many nerdy things from Singing, Gaming, Anime/Manga, Theater & musicals, and all Geeky Fandoms; His mission within the cosplay community is to showcase that Big & Tall POC Men have what it takes to be & do anything and everything in their own unique positive way!

Appearing: Saturday AND Sunday

Pic/Autograph Price: TBD

Retropalooza Houston

  • April 22-23, 2023
  • Pasadena Convention Center
  • Pasadena, TX 77054
 
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