Guest Information

Confirmed guests Aaron Pabon, Big City Burlesque & Vaudeville, and Raqs Otaku!

Aaron Pabon

Aaron Pabon is a rare breed of stand up comedians. Unlike most comedians performing at comedy clubs and venues of that manner, he has a personal flavor of performing at Anime, Comic Book, Gaming, and Sci-Fi conventions. Raised in Miami, FL, he was a geek growing up. When other kids went out to play foot ball and other sports, he would go home and watch Anime, play video games, read comics, and go to conventions. In high school he developed a taste for comedy and drama, and would do stand up at school talent shows, making fun of his school and social life. After graduating he did small time work on the amateur circuit, while being an active student studying journalism. Aaron's shows are geared towards the geek, and otaku audience. He has never been booed at any of his shows. He uses hecklers as live ammo. And never disappoints. If asked to do a show a second time around he will never use the same material twice.

Big City Burlesque & Vaudeville

(Photo by SoulOfView Photography)

Big City Burlesque & Vaudeville is Atlanta’s original, all retro troupe since 2002. This unique concept is the brainchild of creator and artistic director Kenton McGhee, aka ‘King Rouge’ and has been painstakingly developed in both style and content. This dream-to-reality has been to recapture the sultry glamour and smoky magic of by-gone eras. From a seductive fan dancer of the late 30’s to film noir femme fatales of the 40’s, a bewitching belly dancer as well as comic heroines of all yesteryear, we claim excellence and take great pride in bringing something unique and original to the entertainment world and intend to continue to excel and achieve greatness in performance. BCB&V was the first to bring this concept of Old World Vaudeville to the stage in Atlanta and today remains the Southeast's premier Burlesque and Vaudeville troupe.

Raqs Otaku: The Otaku Dancers (Dance Troupe)

Led by Rose, a professional oriental dancer, director/choreographer, this dance troupe brings their love of anime, Asian culture and belly dancing together. Rose has brought the ever-popular Otaku-Dance fusion back home to the United States from Japan. Raqs Otaku are a group of dancers, all representing different styles of belly dance, who dance to cutting-edge techno/hip-hop/anime ect.- fusion belly dance music, the most kicking tunes in the world of anime, and incorporate cos plays of choice into our costuming, joined together by their love of anime/manga, Japanese culture and/or gaming. Not only that, but they also perform comedy skits along with our performance at times, we are artists, and do belly dance workshop panels and Japanese-language panels at conventions....In conclusion - making belly dance costumes in which incorporates elements of cos play, dancing to cutting-edge music, and kicking 'ketsu' in general.

MizuCon is excited to have Raqs Otaku at our inaugural show!

Yamila Abraham

Yamila Abraham is a prolific writer of yaoi graphic novels whose body of work includes the Dark Prince and Winter Demon series. Her work has been published world-wide in English, Italian, and German. In 2004 Abraham founded Yaoi Press LLC, the largest publisher of original English language yaoi graphic novels in North America. Abraham will be debuting the forth and final volume of Winter Demon at Mizu Con.

Vic Mignogna

Vic Mignogna is a professional music composer/producer and veteran actor who received great acclaim for his portrayal of Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist. Most recently, Mignogna has been cast as Hikaru in Macross. He is known for such roles as Dark in D.N. Angel, Tatsu in Peacemaker, Kurz in Full Metal Panic, Broly in Dragon Ball Z, Kougaiji in Saiyuki, Mamoru in RahXephon, Hiroki in Princess Nine, Goemon in Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Shougo in Megazone 23 and as Gawl in Generator Gawl. He has also done characters in Sin: The Movie, Spriggan, Gasaraki, Noir, Steel Angel Kurumi, Orphen, Excel Saga, Neon Genesis Evangelion (director's cut), A.D. Police, Aura Battler Dunbine, Rune Soldier, Neo Ranga, Yu Yu Hakusho, Gamera, Those Who Hunt Elves, Dirty Pair, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku DASH!, Nuku Nuku TV, Saint Seiya, Kino's Journey, Angelic Layer, Gravion, Kaliedo Star, Case Closed, Kiddy Grade and many others.

Doug Smith

Doug Smith is a Texas-based actor and artist who has been voicing titles at ADV Films for several years, most recently at their Austin-based Monster Island studios. In addition to his well-known portrayal of Kintaro Oe in Golden Boy, Smith can be heard as Doria and Pasta in Steam Detectives, the title character in Dragon Knight, Roger in Plastic Little, Kijima in Blue Seed, and as various characters in series such as Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Sorcerer Hunters, Those Who Hunt Elves and more.

Brina Palencia

Brina Palencia is a voice actress for Funimation in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Noted as the voice of Eve from Black Cat, Brina has also starred in Full Metal Alchemist, Speed Grapher, Gunslinger Girl and Negima! Georgie in Crayon Shin Chan, Honoka Sakurai in Suzuka , Maho Minami in BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad and Elisa Wasmeyer in Trinity Blood. As well as voiced characters in Solty Rei, Spiral, The Galaxy Railways and Samurai 7.

Among her many talents she has appeared as the ADR director for Moon Phase, School Rumble and xxxHOLiC as well as singing the ending credits for Shin Chan.

David Williams

David Williams is currently an ADR Director for ADV Films as well as the DVD Producer, voice on the Internet and keeper of the Suck Bunny (in name only because the Bunny has a will of his own). Shows he has directed include, Angelic Layer, Pretear, Najica, the original Nuku Nuku OVAs, Dirty Pair and many others. He's produced more DVDs than he can remember and had more skin grafts due to online flamewars than he wants to remember. Being the evil company rep that he is, he's often invited to anime conventions where he can be seen wandering the con with his "What would you do for a DVD badge" giving out DVDs to clever and amusing otaku. And those evil roots go deep, having been an anime fan since before there was an anime industry in the US and with ADV from the beginning when his living room was used as a production facility for their first show, Devil Hunter Yohko. You can follow his antics in the studio on his journal.

We are still in the process of confirming guests, so please check back for future updates!