SPECIAL GUESTS
Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson is best known for creating the Peabody award-winning movie riffing sci-fi series Mystery Science Theater 3000. He was also the host of the series for the first 100 episodes. Recently, MST3K has been included in several “top 100 TV shows of all time” lists, including Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, and Rolling Stone.
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Joel started out in show business as a stand-up comedian and appeared on HBO’s Young Comedians Special as well as The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS and NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Joel also had several appearances on the beloved Freaks and Geeks TV series on NBC and currently does the voice of “Mayor Dewey” on Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe.
Gui Agustini
Gui Agustini is Brazilian-born to an Argentinian/Italian mother and a Peruvian father, making him a true embodiment of Latin fusion with American roots and a Caucasian appearance. He is an LA/NY–based actor, voice actor, and filmmaker who natively speaks Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and English, and is also advanced in French.
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He is best known for voicing Sunspot in Marvel’s X-Men ’97, playing the professional tennis player Yoyo on the CBS series Elsbeth, and serving as Theo James’ acting double on the HBO show The Time Traveler’s Wife.
As a director and producer, Gui has created over 20 short films in the past 10 years, including Roses Are Blind with Daniel Davis and Boyd Gaines, which has won more than 220 awards.
Gui is also a tennis pro. He loves snowboarding and surfing, plays guitar, and sings. He is also a proud co-founder of the online apparel store impAKTo, which donates 10% of its profits to The Midnight Mission, an organization dedicated to caring for the homeless in Los Angeles.
Tom Cook
Tom began his career as an animator and director in 1978 at Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he worked as an assistant animator on Challenge of the "SuperFriends", "Godzilla", "Scooby Doo", "Smurfs", "Pacman", and the "Flintstones".
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A short stop at Ruby-Spears had him working on "Thundarr the Barbarian", "Heathcliff", "Fang Face", and "Plastic Man". Freelancing at Film Roman, he worked on the Emmy Award-winning Garfield Special "Babes and Bullets" and on the Peanuts Special "This is America Charlie Brown".
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Moving to Filmation Studios in 1980, which at this point had become the only animation studio doing animation in the United States, and worked on "Tarzan", "Flash Gordon", "Blackstar", "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids", "The Brown Hornet", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "She-Ra Princess of Power", "Ghostbusters", "Lone Ranger", "Zorro", "The Kids Super Power Hour with Shazam" (Captain Marvel), "Hero High" and the futuristic Western "Bravestarr".
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He then directed many episodes of these favorite TV cartoons: "Road Rovers", Disney's "Mighty Ducks", "PB & J Otter", "Duckman", "King of the Hill", "Savage Dragon", HBO's "Happily Ever After Fairy Tales", "Extreme Ghostbusters", "Extreme Dinosaurs", " The Simpsons" and many more.
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Theacalix
Theacalix is a masters level cosplayer with 13 years of experience. They specialize in sewing craftsmanship builds across a variety of media with a specialty in original design. Thea loves to chat about cosplay, craftsmanship, and fandom so come say hi!