With six weeks left to go before the convention and one month since the last guest announcement, AnimeKon has revealed that the fifth guest for this year’s edition of the event, AnimeKon IX: World of Wonder, is comic book artist and U.K. Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard. Adlard joins fellow guests Manu Bennett, Olivia Olson, Kay Bear and Britt Bliss at the convention from August 16th to 19th. Adlard’s appearance is brought to the convention by local book shop Chattel House Books.
His most famous work is the comic book The Walking Dead. As stated on AnimeKon’s website:
“[Adlard] has been a veteran of the comic industry for over 20 years…In his time as a cartoonist he has worked on many other projects as far reaching as Mars Attacks, the X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage, Batman, X-Men, Superman etc. and creator-owned projects closer to his heart like Astronauts In Trouble, Codeflesh, Rock Bottom, and White Death.”
To learn more about Charlie Adlard, visit AnimeKon’s “Guests” page.
Tickets for Animekon IX: World of Wonder are now on sale and are available from Ticketpal Caribbean. For information on the different types of tickets and ticket outlets that they can be purchased from, go to Animekon’s website here.
Watch the AnimeKon IX: World of Wonder trailer, AnimeKon VIII: LIM8TLESS After Movie, Cosplay Music Video and Dare to Bare Catamaran Cruise highlight video below.
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