Gina Biggs has been creating comics for over ten years and runs the all-female comic collective, Strawberry Comics. Her most well known work is Red String, a romance webcomic series focusing on destiny and self-discovery. The series was published by Dark Horse Comics and still runs five days a week online. Mrs. Biggs has also created and self-published other series including her auto-biographical Love of Sausage and the fairy tale series, Erstwhile. She has a love for shoujo manga and cute or frilly things.

Ms. Biggs will be presenting a number of featured panels at Animazement 2010! Be sure to stop by the Strawberry Comics table in our Dealer's Room.

Red String Official Website
Strawberry Comics Offical Website

Lisa Furukawa is a Japanese-American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Lisa’s performances and recordings are a fusion of Japanese and Celtic folk, alternative chamber pop, and soulful piano-ballad electronica. Her 4th album, Signal, has just been released on Ferocidi records. She has performed at many cultural festivals, anime and sci-fi conventions, and toured various venues around the world. Lisa has also worked as a translator for various anime projects and trailers for Studio Ghibli. Lisa is excited to be debuting "Japanese Children's songs", a CD to benefit UNC Children's Hospital, at Animazement this year. More information about Lisa can be found at her website.

Ms. Furukawa will be presenting and performing at Animazement 2010!  Don't miss her panel and concert on Sunday, from 12:00 noon until 1:30pm!

Official Lisa Furukawa Website

DJ Amaya has been DJing, producing his own original tracks, and remixes since 2002. With an expertise rarely seen in the sea of self-produced DJ's, His first two Original Music CD's "One of a kind", and "Hitsuzen" were met with critical acclaim and received many online downloads through sites such as mp3.com and download.com. Most known for his underground remixes of the Japanese Superstar Ayumi Hamasaki, and his podcast "Hitsuzen Radio" that features the best in Japanese remixes, and dance music from around the world. Remix work has landed him DJ sets at various Anime Conventions throughout the country such as Anime-Expo & Anime-LA in Los Angeles CA, Anime-Central in Rosemont IL, Sac-Anime in Sacramento CA, and Animazement in Raleigh NC. His third original CD titled "Angel at Dawn" is scheduled for release early 2010.

DJ Amaya will be the featured DJ at our Saturday night dance!

DJ Amaya Official Website
Hitsuzen Radio

Ana's Ikimaru is a Kimono-ya and Japanese Cultural Panelist team founded by Anna Rosato and RJ Schafer of Tampa, FL. Using technology of the modern era, and the history of Japanese textiles, Ana's Ikimaru strives to continue breathing fresh life into the kimono industry to prevent it from fading away.

Anna Rosato is currently a studying nagauta and jiuta shamisen, and has given lectures at events and festivals across the Southeast United States. She teaches a full schedule of subjects from kimono, geisha culture, and Japanese history, as well as workshops on tsumami kanzashi hairpins, and shibori tie-dye. She is also known for her kimono-san persona (stage name "Eiko-san"). She launched her kimono exhibit last fall, "San Maru" featuring highlights of her and her partner's antiquities collection- with some items dating over three hundred years in age.

RJ Schafer manages the Ana's Ikimaru website which includes numerous interactive elements for its visitors such as: an educational forum, press and articles, as well as the first English-speaking Kimono Podcast. In addition, he is responsible for all product displays and photography elements, digital editing, graphics, and the bi-weekly e-Newsletter. He brings modern items into the traditional world of kimono by pairing cyber and graphic elements into Ana's Ikimaru, using innovative items such as memory cards, records, and 8tracks for prints, kimono-inspired artwork and accessories.

Together the pair founded the Tampa Kimono Club, are active members of J-Club in Orlando, and manage the continent's first traveling Geisha & Samurai Henshin Makeover Studio. The latter opened at Metrocon 2009 as a direct result of overwhelming support received by Ana's Ikimaru since its debut in February of 2008.

Ana's Ikimaru will be presenting a number of featured panels at Animazement 2010, offering unique goods for sale in our Dealer's Room, plus they are offering a special Geisha/Samurai/Kimono Makeover package! Sign up now to reserve your spot.

Ana's Ikimaru Official Website
Geisha/Samurai Makeover Studio at Animazement

Zachary Edgerton accidentally wandered onto a low-budget movie set a few years ago and no one could get him to leave. The crew eventually gave up, instead opting to put him in a funny wig for everyone's amusement. After doing tricks for Nutter Butters for several years, he is currently attempting to branch out into other areas of the film industry, preferably ones where no one forces him to wear a funny wig. He is currently doing research for a script about doing research for a script.

Originally from Leicester, England, Christine Parker began her film career in Sanford, North Carolina in 2004. She wrote and produced a short film Second Death that led to her producing, writing, and directing the prequel. It became her first feature, Forever Dead. Forever Dead was picked up for distribution by Brain Damage Films/Maxim Media in March of 2006. Her next feature was a zombie western, Fistful of Brains. Set in the late 1800s it starred many of the cast and crew from her previous films as well as some notable cameos by Heidi Martinuzzi (Pretty Scary), her friend Pericles Lewnes (Redneck Zombies), and Chuck Williams (Bubba Ho-tep). Christine has begun production on her third feature A Few Brains More: Summer of Blood set in the summer of 1973.

Bill Mulligan hoped to use the Super 8 camera he received for his 15th birthday to make a horror movie in upstate New York but it took a move to North Carolina and an additional 30 years before he found the like-minded souls that made it happen. His job as a science teacher at Lee Senior High School allows him to draw on a steady source of willing zombie extras and the appropriate attitude to play a sociopathic killer. A misspent youth occupied by reading: Famous Monsters of Film land, Castle of Frankenstein, The Monster Times and Cine-magic, and an equally misspent adulthood cruising the Internet, has given him the info needed to make gore and blood effects. In addition to his work with Adrenalin films (Second Death, The Forever Dead, Getting a Head in the Movie Biz, Fistful of Brains, and the upcoming A Few Brains More), he has contributed makeup effects to Z-13, Evil Woods, and The Unwelcomed. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the upcoming sequel to Fistful of Brains, A Few Brains More: Summer of Blood.

The Adrenaline Group will be presenting a number of featured panels at Animazement 2010, as well as screening their film Fistful of Brains!

Fistful of Brains Official Site