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Guest Announcement: Samurai Dan and Jillian!

The husband and wife team of Daniel and Jillian Coglan are full-time martial art instructors, specializing in 16th century Samurai Arts. When not teaching at their dojo, the Kojokan, they travel the United States performing and teaching the ancient ways of the most famous warriors in history.

With a combined 35 years of experience, their show is a unique blend of history, combative skill, and humor, designed to educate and entertain audiences both large and small.

Beyond their martial skills, the dynamic duo collaborated to write, direct, host, and star in a 12 episode TV series entitled, “The Way of The Samurai.”

Daniel is also an author, with several martial art articles published, and is currently working on his second full-length novel.

Guest Announcement: Matthew Taranto (Brawl in the Family)

Best known as the doodler of Kirby and friends in the 600-strip gaming parody webcomic “Brawl in the Family”, Matthew Taranto is excited to be visiting NoBrandCon once again! Since his comic concluded last October, Matthew’s shifted focus to game development in his upcoming music/action game, Tadpole Treble (due in April for PC, Mac, and Wii U). He’s also compiling all the strips in a trio of books, and works for print mag NF Magazine as well. In his off time, he plays piano and eats beef jerky, and is expecting a son in June.

Guest Announcement: Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert is a Los Angeles-based anime and video game voice actor whose credits include Wreck-It Ralph/Street Fighter (Ryu), Naruto (Kiba), Bleach (Aizen, Ganju), League of Legends (Ezreal, Jarvan, and Graves) and Gurren Lagann (Kamina). He is best known as the Narrator and Teen Gohan from the Funimation dub of Dragonball Z. Other fan faves include Blue Exorcist (Bon Suguro), Fire Emblem Awakening (Frederick, Validar), Fullmetal Alchemist (Vato Falman), Tales of Symphonia (Richter Abend) and Star Ocean (Dias, Arumat, Crow). Kyle can also be heard in numerous franchises such as Pokemon, Sonic, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Skylanders, Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors, Soul Calibur and Resident Evil. He is also the voice of filmmaker, Kevin Smith’s Smodco Internet Radio and a cohost for “The Big Bald Broadcast” geek news podcast. For more info, visit www.kylehebert.com.

Guest Announcement: Brichibi Cosplay

13 years ago Briana Lawrence (Brichibi Cosplays) and Jessica Walsh (Snow Tigra) were two fanfiction writing ladies who geeked out over Gundam Wing boys and Resident Evil. Now? They’re a cosplaying couple who write books, make crafts, and are generally nerdy women. Snow is the costume, hat, and plushie maker of the couple. Meanwhile, Brichibi tends to talk about issues in the cosplay community and how the most important thing about cosplay is to have fun and love yourself. Together, they also have a book series started — “Seeking the Storyteller.” They bring their urban fantasy series to conventions along with their solo works and art. Always promoting positivity and always supporting one another, Brichibi and Snow are smiling their way through the geek scene.