FITcon - "Florida's Biggest Little Anime Convention" - Returns for a Third Year to the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL
This year's event will be headlined by voice actress Michele Knotz, “Misty”
& “Jesse” from the phenomenally popular anime Pokémon.
MELBOURNE, FL, MARCH 3, 2008: The Anime Club at Florida Tech is proud to
present FITcon – “Florida's biggest little anime convention” the weekend of
March 14-18, 2008 on the campus of the Florida Institute of Technology in
Melbourne, Florida. This will be the club's third convention at F.I.T. in
five years.
This year's guests include:
MICHELLE KNOTZ – Born in New Jersey, she studied acting at DeSales
University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania before transferring to study
television and radio production at Marywood University in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. Knotz was the winner of the 2003 Anime Idol voice acting
contest held at the now defunct Big Apple Anime Fest convention in New York
City and debuted in the role of Hajime Yagi in The World of Narue. As of
2007, she plays Team Rocket's Jessie as well as the voices of Misty, May,
Nurse Joy and Ash Ketchum's mother Delia in the Pokémon USA/Taj Productions
English dub of the Pokémon anime meta series. This is Michelle's first
appearance in Florida!
AARON PABON - (From Aaron's MySpace) "Unlike many comics doing there stand
up at comic venues and clubs, I do mine at comic book cons, anime cons, or
venues of that matter. I mostly did stand up in high school making fun of my
high school and doing smalltime stand up on the amateur circuit. The reason
for only doing conventions was that one day I said to my self “I've never
seen comedians at cons” and then a year later I was making fun of Narutards
and my experiences at conventions and I made a last minute debut at
Yasumicon. And that's the story."
JOEY SNACKPANTS - (From JoeySnackpants.com) "The pilot of the greatest
robot of our time - Snackforce Prime! Lead guitarist and front man for the
glam/emo/punk band Snackforce 5!!! Popular internet anime blogger! Extreme
sports star! Jungle Cruise Skipper! Polarizing opinionated popular culture
pundit! Joey Snackpants, Esq. is all this... and so much more. What began
as hobby in the 80's has gotten him thrown out of college “Jeopardy!” try
outs, lambasted in both print and digital media, called a raving lunatic as
well as a modern day Socrates Johnson and given him a soapbox at events from
Los Angeles to Atlanta. Now through the magical power of the tubes (known
to many as ‘the internet’) he brings his insight to you as only he can!
Agree or disagree; love or hate; Kirk or Picard; Batman or Superman; Macross
or Gundam; he's here, he's got a podcast, and he's not afraid to use it!"
FITcon also has plans for all the staple events of the larger anime
conventions, but on a smaller scale. This includes an anime music video
contest, cosplay contest, panels, and a dance party. A single day pass to
the event is $10, with weekend passes gong for $25. For more details,
please visit the conventions official website at www.fitcon.net.
& “Jesse” from the phenomenally popular anime Pokémon.
MELBOURNE, FL, MARCH 3, 2008: The Anime Club at Florida Tech is proud to
present FITcon – “Florida's biggest little anime convention” the weekend of
March 14-18, 2008 on the campus of the Florida Institute of Technology in
Melbourne, Florida. This will be the club's third convention at F.I.T. in
five years.
This year's guests include:
MICHELLE KNOTZ – Born in New Jersey, she studied acting at DeSales
University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania before transferring to study
television and radio production at Marywood University in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. Knotz was the winner of the 2003 Anime Idol voice acting
contest held at the now defunct Big Apple Anime Fest convention in New York
City and debuted in the role of Hajime Yagi in The World of Narue. As of
2007, she plays Team Rocket's Jessie as well as the voices of Misty, May,
Nurse Joy and Ash Ketchum's mother Delia in the Pokémon USA/Taj Productions
English dub of the Pokémon anime meta series. This is Michelle's first
appearance in Florida!
AARON PABON - (From Aaron's MySpace) "Unlike many comics doing there stand
up at comic venues and clubs, I do mine at comic book cons, anime cons, or
venues of that matter. I mostly did stand up in high school making fun of my
high school and doing smalltime stand up on the amateur circuit. The reason
for only doing conventions was that one day I said to my self “I've never
seen comedians at cons” and then a year later I was making fun of Narutards
and my experiences at conventions and I made a last minute debut at
Yasumicon. And that's the story."
JOEY SNACKPANTS - (From JoeySnackpants.com) "The pilot of the greatest
robot of our time - Snackforce Prime! Lead guitarist and front man for the
glam/emo/punk band Snackforce 5!!! Popular internet anime blogger! Extreme
sports star! Jungle Cruise Skipper! Polarizing opinionated popular culture
pundit! Joey Snackpants, Esq. is all this... and so much more. What began
as hobby in the 80's has gotten him thrown out of college “Jeopardy!” try
outs, lambasted in both print and digital media, called a raving lunatic as
well as a modern day Socrates Johnson and given him a soapbox at events from
Los Angeles to Atlanta. Now through the magical power of the tubes (known
to many as ‘the internet’) he brings his insight to you as only he can!
Agree or disagree; love or hate; Kirk or Picard; Batman or Superman; Macross
or Gundam; he's here, he's got a podcast, and he's not afraid to use it!"
FITcon also has plans for all the staple events of the larger anime
conventions, but on a smaller scale. This includes an anime music video
contest, cosplay contest, panels, and a dance party. A single day pass to
the event is $10, with weekend passes gong for $25. For more details,
please visit the conventions official website at www.fitcon.net.
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