Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation

Emmy Award Winning Show Attends the Nation’s Largest Anime/Manga Convention

Anaheim, California (April 18, 2008) —The Emmy Award winning and popular stop-motion animation sketch comedy show, Robot Chicken, which airs on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim is slated to appear at this year’s Anime Expo® 2008 held from July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org.

Attending Anime Expo® 2008 via an official Robot Chicken panel will be cast and crew members:

Cameron Baity
Cameron was born during a heat wave in Richardson, Texas. He has been drawing and writing ever since he figured out how his hands work. At eight years old he wrote and illustrated his first story about a confused wombat. Cameron attended the Arts Magnet High School in Dallas where he co-produced a half-witted cable access show called Fabrication Avenue. He won accolades for his early art including First Place in Painting at the 1996 Visual Arts Guild Exhibit in Dallas.

His obsessions with art and story collided when he discovered animation at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He finished his animation degree at CalArts and with a couple films under his belt, he has screened at festivals around the world and won several awards including Best in Animation at the Angelciti Film Festival and Vuze Audience Favorites at Cinequest. Cameron has worked creatively in film and animation for the past nine years on a wide array of projects such as Spongebob Squarepants, Willard, Team America, and Robot Chicken. Cameron will sleep when he is dead.

Mike Fasolo
Mike Fasolo is a Writer, Voice Actor and Co-Creative Director on Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken where he’s been since its inception in 2004. He began his illustrious writing career as a staff writer at Wizard Magazine back in 1994. He enjoys dog sledding, curling and Revolutionary War reenactments where he always plays Benedict Arnold.

Chris McKay
Picking up a Super-8 camera at age 10, Chris McKay has been making movies with toys for most of his life. In addition to his co-producing, directing and editing duties on Adult Swim’s Emmy Award-winning Robot Chicken, he is also a writer, director and co-executive producer on Adult Swim’s Moral Orel.  Robot Chicken is currently in production on its fourth season.

McKay studied Film at the "Harvard of the Midwest": Columbia College. He was once beaten up for wearing Luke Skywalker’s Tatooine outfit to school.

Jeanette Moffat
Jeanette Moffat has contributed to Robot Chicken from the first season as a Puppet Fabricator, creating many memorable characters including "The Nerd & Unicorn," "Composite Santa" and "Twinkie the Kid & Celery," to name few.  More recently she has been working as the Costume Designer and Supervisor for Robot Chicken and Moral Orel.  Her talents in the visual arts became apparent at an early age when she began designing clothes for her Barbie dolls, which makes her current position a childhood dream come true. A CalArts alumni, she combines her fine art background with her love of puppets to create costumes for stop-motion and live-action puppets.  Besides shows featured on Adult Swim, her puppet costumes have been seen on the My Name Is Earl episode, "Robbed A Stoner Blind" and in Norwegian band Maika’s music video for their song, "Desert Gold."  She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two rabbits that eat their furniture.

Tom Root
Tom Root is co-head writer and co-producer of Adult Swim’s Emmy Award-winning Robot Chicken, as well as a frequent director and recurring voice talent. Robot Chicken is currently in production on its fourth season.

Root was also writer and associate producer on Robot Chicken‘s predecessor, Sweet J Presents, a series of 12 animated episodes which ran from 2001-2002 on Sony Entertainment’s Screenblast.com.

From 1997-2001, Root was a staff writer at Wizard Entertainment Group, where he wrote for publications including Wizard: The Comics Magazine, ToyFare: The Toy Magazine, InQuest Gamer, Anime Insider and Toy Wishes. ToyFare’s “Twisted ToyFare Theatre” comic strip, which Root co-wrote for 90 issues, has been collected into several trade paperbacks available worldwide.

As a freelance writer, Root has also authored PPV: Pay-Per-View, a three-issue comic book mini-series for Antarctic Press. His first book, Writers on Comics Scriptwriting 2, a collection of interviews with comic creators he co-wrote with Andrew Kardon, was published by Titan Books in 2004.

Root holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Central Michigan University

In addition, exclusive anime/manga related Robot Chicken skits will be played along side other original Anime Expo® programming during the I-Show at the convention and at official Anime Expo® 2008 convention hotels on the official AX Dark Channels.

Attendees that have pre-registered can also update their information and add on orders for main event tickets via the Anime Expo® 2008 Online Registration Area at www.anime-expo.org.

Free shuttle services for all hotel attendees will be provided. Regular non-hotel attendees will have access to utilize the free shuttle services during designated hours as well. All schedules and routes will be posted in the lobby of each shuttle hotel. Frequency of service is pending local traffic, road conditions and can change without notice. Also, no shuttle service provided to the Holiday Inn City Center and the Figueroa Hotel (both are within walking distance of the Los Angeles Convention Center).

Attendees, Press and Industry Members are also encouraged to view the video coverage site of the 2007 convention at www.AXBackstage.org.

This year’s Red & Black Sponsors are FUNimation and ImaginAsian Television. Gold Sponsor is Digital Manga Publishing. Silver Sponsor is Gaia Online. Patron Sponsors are Central Park Media and COPIC Markers.

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