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Cherami Leigh (Voice Actress) PDF Print E-mail

PortConMaine is proud to welcome Cherami Leigh as a guest of honor in her first trip to Maine and New England!

 

Cherami Leigh is an on camera and voice actor. Cherami began her work in the "Anime World" voicing Sae in "Peach Girl", and has since played Aisa, Pepper, and Miss Golden Week in "One Piece," Yaz in "Shin Chan," Primula in "Shuffle," Setsuna and Akira in "Negima," Naomi in "Witchblade," Himawari in "xxxHolic," Makoto in "Sasami: Magical Girls Club," Mai in "Ghost Hunt," Ayano in "Stigma," Road in "D. Grayman," Shijima in "Nabari," Shinooka in "Big Windup," Honoka in "Kenichi," Kirimi in "Ouran Host Club," and recently released "Bamboo Blade" as Tamaki, "Sergeant Frog" as Natsumi, and "Soul Eater" as Patty. She has voiced many video games including Lux Pain as Nami.

Cherami began acting at 6 and has worked with LeAnn Rimes, Bernadette Peters, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Wilmer Valderamma, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Avril Lavigne and many others. She has worked on "Fast Food Nation" (directed by: Richard Linklater), "The Hottest State"(directed by: Ethan Hawke), and "The Mist" (directed by: Frank Darabont), she recently appeared as the overachieving "Ginnie Warwick" on NBC's "Friday Night Lights" , you can also recognize Cherami working alongside Claire Danes in HBO's film "Temple Grandin". She has also appeared on NBC's "CHASE" & ABC's "The Deep End".

Cherami is currently working on several projects, on and off camera, that she is anxious to share with her fans.

 
 
Keith R.A. DeCandido (Author: Comics, Books, TV, Movies, Games, and More!) PDF Print E-mail

PortConMaine is proud to announce Keith R.A. DeCandido as a guest for 2013!

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Keith R.A. DeCandido left home at a very young age to pursue a career in fisheries, but came right back home when he realized he'd forgotten to pack a lunch. He left home again years later to pursue a career in publishing, at which he's had slightly more success. He's written tons and tons of novels, comic books, short stories, novellas, eBooks, and nonfiction, much of it in a variety of media universes ranging from TV shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, Leverage, Star Trek, Supernatural) to games (BattleTech, Dungeons & Dragons, StarCraft, World of Warcraft) to comic books (the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Silver Surfer, the X-Men) to films (Cars, Kung Fu Panda, Resident Evil, Serenity). He is the author of the acclaimed "Precinct" series of high fantasy/mystery novels, including Dragon Precinct, Unicorn Precinct, and Goblin Precinct, with Tales from Dragon Precinct and Gryphon Precinct due in 2013. Other recent and upcoming work includes the Leverage novel The Zoo Job; the superhero/police procedural SCPD: The Case of the Claw; a story in the Kung Fu Panda: Tales of the Dragon Warrior comic book; the urban fantasy short story collection Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet; and contributions to several shared worlds, including Jonathan Maberry's horror anthology V-Wars (the short story "The Ballad of Big Charlie"), Steven Savile's thriller series Viral (the novella -30-), and Aaron Rosnberg & David Niall Wilson's science fiction concept, "Tales from the Scattered Earth" (the novel Guilt in Innocence). His recent short fiction has appeared in Apolcaypse 13, Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental, Defending the Future: Best Laid Plans, Liar Liar, More Tales of Zorro, Tales from the House Band Volumes 1 & 2, and the Star Trek anthologies Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows and Seven Deadly Sins.

Keith is also a longtime editor, having supervised several major book lines (the Marvel novels of the 1990s, the monthly Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBooks from 2000-2008) and edited many novels and anthologies—among the latter, Doctor Who: The Quality of Leadership, the Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table. He's also the co-editor of the 2013 Yankees Annual for Lindy's Magazines.

He was inexplicably honored by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, which means he never needs to achieve anything ever again. Despite this, that same year he also achieved his black belt in karate.

In addition to his authorial and editorial hats, Keith is also a musician, currently the percussionist for the Boogie Knights. He joined the band in 2006, after backing up acts such as the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Randy Bandits, David Honigsberg, and Steve Rosenhaus, and appears on the Knights' CDs Many a Sleepless Knight and Wasted Days, Wasted Knights.

Besides all that, Keith is a regular contributor to The Chronic Rift pop-culture podcast, does voices for the audiodramas HG World, The Dome, and Gypsy Cove, and has his own podcast, Dead Kitchen Radio. Find out less at Keith's cheerfully retro web site at DeCandido.net, which is the gateway to his blog, his Facebook page, his Twitter feed, the aforementioned podcasts, and a whole lot more.
 
PortConMaine Seals of Approval PDF Print E-mail

Archimer from Art Staff has helped PortConMaine with three seals of approval you'll see throughout the convention this year. These three images best represent the PortConMaine attitude towards bootlegs and behavior that negatively impacts the hobbies we all know, love, and share.

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PortConMaine is Anti-Bootleg! From our vendor's contract to the vendor's we have since banned from the convention, we are trying our best to make sure what you shop for and end up buying will be legitimate products straight from distributors in the industry helping the industry. We have a vendor's chair dedicated to rooting out the issues and several guests and vendors themselves who help us year after year work towards this goal.  

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You can help! If you see something- SAY something! If you're in the vendor's room and catch something you feel is an illegitimate product, tell the vendor! If you're not comfortable telling the vendor directly, or if nothing is done once the vendor knows, tell the vendor's room chair or any of the staff in the vendor's room that work for PortConMaine. Sometimes vendor's sell things they're unsure of: and usually all it takes is telling them for them to put it away. If they don't respond by dealing with the issue, tell our staff so that we can do something about it. If we miss it, as sometimes happens, it takes the help of the community during the convention to make sure we end up catching it. Please tell us before the con ends so that we can make sure to nip it in the bud for the current and future years. It's from help of the staff, vendors, guests, and attendees that we've progressed as far as we have while still managing to bring you multiple vendors from all fandoms. We want to give you the biggest selection with the most variety of vendors: and sometimes that means inviting new vendors in that don't recognize how serious we are about illegitimate products not being sold. Help us make sure our room stays bootleg free!

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And finally: say no to bootlegs. If you see one, don't buy it. Not only should you tell someone, but simply not giving that vendor your money sends a clear message: bootlegs aren't welcome. Instead support the vendors who do bring licensed goods, and make sure to help the industry by purchasing copies of your favorite things. Buying anime, manga, games, and legitimate goods only helps to support whatever fandom you enjoy: so think twice the next time you see a bootleg or consider downloading/scanlations. You have most of the power in this situation: and we hope these seals help remind you of that.

So thanks again Archimer for these awesome seals filled with bootleg nightmare fuel-- and see you all at the next PortConMaine!
 
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June 20-23, 2013
DoubleTree by Hilton
South Portland, Maine

Join us for a celebration of geek culture interests including anime, gaming, science fiction, costuming, fantasy, video gaming, boffer combat, comics, pop culture, steampunk, and more! Come to enjoy your current favorite fandom and learn something new about another! PortConMaine is Maine's first, longest running, and largest convention celebrating the hobbies that enrich our lives. Meet old and new friends and join the community-- let's celebrate the interests we enjoy together!

As a special incentive and thank you for those of you who pre-register to PortCon, PortCon offers a FREE fourth day to attendees who pre-register! Thursday is a day full of events for only those people who register ahead of time. So to get the most of your PortConMaine experience- don't forget to register in time!