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Mike McFarland has had to cancel his appearance to Lubbock-Con 2025 due to an emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor. We wish him nothing but the best rest and a speedy recovery.
If you would like to help Mike on his road to recovery, his friends and family have started a gofundme to assist with his medical bills. You can also stay updated on his progress. Show Mike some West Texas love and donate. Any amount can go a long way. Let him know that his Lubbock-Con fans are thinking of him and we cant wait for him to one day make it out to Lubbock-Con.
Click here —> Support Mike McFarland's Road to Recovery
From the gofundme: January 28th, 2025by Brina Wingo
Wanted to update everyone on Mike’s progress: he’s healing well from surgery and even got his staples out today! Mike has been overwhelmed with the amount of support he’s received from friends, family, and even complete strangers. Many of us in his friend group have been spending a lot of time with him in his home, and it has come to our attention that there are quite a few things that need to be addressed in order to accommodate the long term care Mike will need. All of it is a higher cost than anticipated. As such, we have increased the goal to try and help mitigate these expenses. We want to make sure Mike is in the safest and most comfortable place possible while he undergoes some very intense treatment. If you have already given, please continue to spread the word. Mike and his family are absolutely stunned at the amount of generosity you have all shown thus far. Every little bit is a so so appreciated!
Julian Richings & Dennis Culver brought to you in part by:
ONE PIECE guest crew brought to you in part by:
Julian Richings
is a veteran character best known for his portrayal of Death in Supernatural. He’s also had memorable recurring roles in dozens of tv shows including The Umbrella Academy, Orphan Black, Reginald the Vampire, Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital and Doom Patrol.
Julian’s appeared in over a hundred feature films from Hollywood blockbusters (Man of Steel, X-Men 3, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief) to Indie fan favorites (Wrong Turn, The Witch, Cube, Anything for Jackson).
A lot of people are very nervous around him but he’s really quite charming
Dennis Culver
is a writer living in Los Angeles. He's written comics for both DC and MARVEL as well as his original creations: BURNOUTS with artist and co-creator GEOFFO from Image, CRONE with artist and co-creator JUSTIN GREENWOOD from Dark Horse, ROMERO MUERTE with artist and co-creator RAMON VILLALOBOS from Dark Horse, and EDISON REX with co-writer CHRIS ROBERSON from Monkeybrain and IDW.
John Gremillion
is a stage, film and voice actor who has been working in anime for over 20 years, providing voices for dozens of popular anime titles for ADV, FUNimation, Okratron 5000, and Sentai Filmworks. John’s most popular roles include Gentle Criminal in My Hero Academia, Dracule Mihawk in One Piece, Roland Chapelle in Food Wars, Arthur Randall in Black Butler, and D in Sentai’s recent re-release of Vampire Hunter D (Nomination - Best Male Lead Vocal Performance in an Anime Feature Film, 2015). Other roles include Nakeshi Hirokawa in Parasyte: The Maxim, General Liver in Akame Ga Kill!, as well as roles in Attack on Titan, Black Clover, Fire Force, Log Horizon and many others.
A professional video editor for over 20 years, John worked on the supplemental materials ADV’s 2010 release of Halo Legends and for FUNimation’s release of Assassination Classroom Vol 2. He studied film at The University of Texas at Austin and Theatre Arts at The Juilliard School of Drama.
Daniel Baugh
is a voice and stage actor, as well as an artist. Daniel brings over 40 years of stage acting experience and directing skills to his new love of dubbing anime. Daniel has been doing voice over for several years now; the most notable role to date is that of the Helmsman of the Straw Hat Pirates, Jimbei(Jinbe) on One Piece. Daniel has also voiced Gemnemo on Blood Blockade Battlefront, Roger on Attack on Titan, Badger on Vinland Saga, as well as providing voices for shows such as Zombie Land Saga, Overlord III, The Ancient Magus Bride and others.
Daniel's favorite stage roles have included Jack the Ripper, Edward Hyde, Sweeney Todd, and the pirate, Peter Waxend in Captain Blood. Along with acting, Daniel also enjoys painting, gardening and meeting One Piece fans. Daniel lives with his wife and dog in Plano, Texas.
R Bruce Elliott
has been a professional actor for decades, working in theatre, film, TV, radio and commercials, not to mention the occasional tailgate party and bar mitzvah. He started dubbing voices for anime at Funimation in 2003 and has continued ever since, having performed nearly 220 roles in over 200 anime shows and movies. From his first role as the bumbling detective Richard Moore in Case Closed, he has become known for his range and versatility in shows such as Attack on Titan, One Piece, Space Dandy, Fairy Tail, Samurai Seven, Full Metal Alchemist, Dragonball Z Kai (and Super) and Black Butler, and more recently in shows like Star Blazers (originally Space Battleship Yamato), Angels of Death, Chio’s School Road, Kikuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits and Fairy Gone.
He can also be heard in movies like Empire of Corpses and Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest, plus numerous video games, including The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Aeon Flux, Orcs Must Die (1 & 2), Borderlands 2, and twelve or thirteen different games in the Dragon Ball Z series as his favorite fearless idiot, Captain Ginyu of the Ginyu Force.
Pam Dougherty
is a professional actress with many years of experience in anime, gaming, television, radio, and audiobooks. She is best known as the English voice of Big Mom in One Piece, and has voiced a variety of characters, including Madame Christmas in Full Metal Alchemist, Sakae Jinnouchi in Summer Wars, Shen-sin in Speed Grapher, Oleta in Borderlands 3, Grandeeny in Fairy Tale, Lady Ofuko in Basilisk, and many others, including Case Closed, Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, Origin and more.
Corinne “Megami33” Sudberg
is a professional voice actress, singer, Youtuber, and fellow nerd. From LI, New York, and now based around Dallas, Texas, Corinne has always been enthralled with the animated world, especially regarding Anime. Studying Animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she wanted to find her part in the Entertainment Industry somehow. She also loved singing and growing up with those awesome '90s theme songs, hoping she could someday write her jingles for shows. She was later given her first song gig, writing the ED theme song, “Lucky Holiday,” for the adorable show “Bananya.”
Some of her most notable roles include Kozuki Momonosuke from One Piece, Nataku Son in Fire Force, Yukimachi Tsukihiro in “Lucifer & The Biscuit Hammer, Tiana Olgren in “The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule The World,” Kotori in Buddy Daddies, Arche Eeb Rile Furt/Entoma in “Overlord III” and the recent Summer show "Too Many Losing Heroines!" as Konami Amanatsu from Crunchyroll. She can also be heard in various video games, such as Karen in Class 09, Zadie in Dragonheir: Silent Gods, Sharra the Dragonslayer in Roguebook, and Queen Damaris in Bee Simulator. In addition to animations and films, Corinne brings her unique, energetic voice to an ever-growing roster of the best new anime such as Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Dead Mount Death Play, SpyXFamily, Trigun Stampede, Attack On Titan, Dr. Stone: New World, Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage, Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts and many others.
On top of voice acting, Corinne is a YouTube personality named “Megami33”, based on her favorite Yugioh card, “Gyakutenno Megami.” Starting the YouTube game back in 2007, she’s voiced for a variety of web/parody series, including APHMAU/MyStreet, Something Witty Entertainment, TheLoadingCrew, The Schmuck Squad, Gamer Chad, Linkara, and more. She has gained over 30 million views shared worldwide through her parodies and adaption covers on her channel. If you would like to keep up with what’s going on with Corinne, give her a follow on her social media pages!
Twitter: @Megami33
FB: CorinneSudbergVA
YouTube: Youtube.com/Megami36
John Swasey
started down the road of anime in 1997, when he landed his first role in Golden Boy at ADV Films. Since then, John has gone on to voice hundreds shows and characters with Sentai Films, Funimation, Rooster Teeth, ADV Films, Switchblade Films, Okratron 5000, Gearbox, Seraphim Digital and Illumitoons. John’s wife once quipped that there are certain actors who might be the “Brad Pitt” of anime but John is the “Kevin Bacon” of anime.
Being a character actor has allowed John the freedom to voice bazillions of characters such as All for One in My Hero Academia, Kumatetsu, The Beast in The Boy and the Beast, Bols in Akame Ga Kill, Undertaker in Black Butler, Salvador in Borderlands II (VG), Gendo in Evangelion, Lord Death in Soul Eater, Hohenheim in Fullmetal Alchemist, Sir Crocodile in One Piece, Dodoria in DBZ Kai, Hades in Fairy Tale, Zachary in Attack on Titan, Aramaki in Ghost in the Shell, Jinnouchi in Summer Wars, and El Rey in Nomad of Nowhere, as well as roles in numerous live action films including the ever popular spoof Lake Texarkana Gamera.
In 2004, John jumped to the other side of the “mic” to direct tons of shows. Some he has recently directed include Domestic Girlfriend, BangDream, Revue Starlight, Senryu Girl, and Doreiku.
In addition to anime, John has acted in hundreds of radio and tv commercials and several films including the cult fav…Dazed and Confused.
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