Archive guests 2016

Find out which guests came to Comic Con Brussels at the 2016 edition.

Actors

Natalia Tena

Natalia Tena is an actress and musician from London. She made her acting debut as Ellie in ‘About a Boy’ in 2002, and shortly after appeared in ‘Mrs Henderson Presents’ alongside Judi Dench. In 2007 she joined the cast of Harry Potter playing Nymphadora Tonks, Lupin’s partner and friend of Harry in ‘Order of the Phoenix’. Following Harry Potter she appeared in two theatre tours ‘The Clean House’ in 2008, and in 2009 ‘Othello’ playing Desdemona with the Royal Shakespeare Company, along side Miltos Yerelmou (Syrio Forel in Game of Thrones).Natalia reprised the role of Tonks in the Harry Potter films ‘The Half Blood Prince’ and ‘Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2’. In 2011 she appeared in ‘Game of Thrones’ the HBO adaptation of George R R Martin’s ‘A Game of Thrones’ as the wildling Osha. She portrayed Osha from series 1-3. Natalia’s upcoming projects include Spanish film ‘10.000 Km’, comedy ‘SuperBob’ and TV series ‘Residue’ alongside Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones). Natalia is the leading singer and accordion player in the six-piece band Molotov Jukebox.

Robert Knepper

Robert Lyle Knepper (born July 8, 1959) is an American actor best known for his role as Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell in the FOX drama series Prison Break from 2005 to 2009 and has also appeared in films such as Good Night, and Good Luck, Hitman and Transporter 3. Knepper joined the cast of Heroes for its fourth and final season as Samuel Sullivan from 2009 to 2010, and he played Sid Rothman in the neo-noir television series Mob City in 2013. He appeared as Antonius in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2. He will also feature in the 2017 revival of the hit cult series Twin Peaks.

Finn Jones

Finn Jones is an English actor, best known for his role as the skilled warrior and popular tournament champion Ser Loras Tyrell, The Knight of Flowers, in all seasons of HBO’s Game of Thrones to date. Finn has had television roles as drug dealer Jamie in Hollyoaks (2009), Doctors (2010) and The Bill (2010), online drama The Curfew (2010). He appeared alongside eleventh doctor Matt Smith as Santiago Jones in the Dr. Who spin off The Sarah Jane Adventures (2010). More recently he has featured as the Bloomsbury Group poet/artist Julian Bell in BBC2’s Life in Squares (2015). Finn has also had a number of film roles including The Last Showing alongside horror legend Robert Englund (2014) and has just completed Leatherface, the 2016 reboot of the Texas Chainsaw franchise.

Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken is a Dutch film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for playing the Giant in Twin Peaks, Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Lurch in the films The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, and Addams Family Reunion. Because he is 2.13 m tall, he often plays character and comedic roles in which height is a major part.

Jeremy bulloch – “boba fett” star wars

Jeremy Bulloch (born February 16, 1945) is a British actor best known for playing Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Later on Bulloch joined David Prowse, Michael Sheard and Orli Shoshan in the UK fanfilms Order of the Sith: Vengeance, and its sequel Downfall. He also appeared twice in Doctor Who in the stories The Space Museum (1965) and The Time Warrior (1974). “Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold.” – Boba Fett
He’s one of the guests for the CCBX Bounty Hunters Reunion!

Bill Hargreaves

We’re proud to announce Bill Hargreaves at Comic Con Brussels 2016. Bobba Fett’s just got some company from his good Bounty Hunter colleague IG-88 which was built by Bill Hargreaves. He’s a Galactic Prop Builder who literally shaped the Star Wars universe and built props for Alien and 2001 : A Space Oddysey. He was the creator of the now infamous Star Wars robots.
“And when someone said, “I don’t think you would find a robot like that on a spaceship,” my reply was, “You would on mine.” The rest is history.” – Bill Hargreaves
http://www.starwars.com/news/interview-bill-hargreaves-former-jawa-scavenger-and-galactic-prop-man
He’s one of the guests for the CCBX Bounty Hunters Reunion!

Alan Harris

Alan Harris is a British actor who has played several different roles in the Star Wars movies. In addition to portraying Bossk and Merril in The Empire Strikes Back and Bossk again in Return of the Jedi, he also played a Rebel officer in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, doubled for Anthony Daniels inside the C-3PO costume and had the Boba Fett costume made around him and body molded for the carbonite block of Han Solo. He also body doubled for Terence Stamp in The Phantom Menace. He’s one of the guests for the CCBX Bounty Hunters Reunion!

Chris Parsons

Chris Parsons is an actor who portrayed K-3PO and 4-LOM in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back when he was 18 years old. In addition, Parsons acted as C-3PO’s double and stand-in in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi; however, he was uncredited. He was also considered to fill in as Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand, but says his “habit of nail-biting precluded my taking the role […] I attended Empire’s official premiere as C-3PO, then did two or three appearances at events for underprivileged children.”. He’s one of the guests for the CCBX Bounty Hunters Reunion!

Cathy Munroe

Cathy Munroe is an actress who trained at the Italia Conti stage school in London she has appeared in Star Wars Empire Strikes Back playing the bounty hunter Zuckuss and also Woikettle Snaggletooth, Munroe has also appeared in three Dr Who in the stories with Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy Horns of Nemon (1979) Full Circle (1980) Ghost Light (1989).
Munroe also worked with the director Stanley Kubrick in the film The Shining and has a chapter in the the new book The Shining (studies in the horror film) centipede press.

Stephen Calcutt

Stephen Calcutt was born on May 6, 1952 in England. He is most known for his role as the body double for David Prowse as Darth Vader and the body stand-in for Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca in Star Wars. He is also known for his work on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Flash Gordon (1980) and Hardcore (1977).

KIRAN SHAH

At 4’1.7” tall, Kiran Shah is the shortest stuntsman currently performing in the world.
After taking on the role of scale and stunt double for the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he returned to Middle Earth as the scale double for Bilbo (Martin
Freeman) in The Hobbit trilogy. His stunt credits include Superman I &II, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Braveheart, and Titanic. Kenyan-born Kiran has also
made a career as an actor, playing parts such as Blunder in Ridley Scott’s Legend and Ginarrbrik, the White Witch’s sleigh driver, in The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe. A Star Wars veteran, he is appearing in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens as Teedo, a scavenger on Jakku. He is a prolific supporter of those with disabilities, acting as an official spokesman for The Disability Network and helping to launch the Kenyan Association of People with Dwarfism.

Artists

LEE TOWNSEND

Lee Townsend started working in the comic industry in the mid 90’s as an artist for Marvel
UK on titles such as Deaths Head, Action Man,Transformers. He then went to work in animation for several years for Disney & Dreamworks, returning to comics which was always his first love working on his favourite character Spider-Man! Hulk, Avengers, X-Men. This lead onto to work for 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Sinister Dexter, Synammon, Breathing Space and more recently Flesh. Work for DC followed on Hellblazer, World of Warcraft. Top Cow on Kin with Gary Frank and work for Avatar Press. Currently Lee is in discussions with Marvel and DC regarding his latest projects. And more recently finished a DeMarco P.I story for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and Ben 10 for Cartoon Network on there 8 page comic strips.

GARY ERSKINE

Gary Erskine is a Scottish comic book artist born in Paisley, near Glasgow in 1968. Erskine started drawing work for fanzines while at art college and aspired to be a comic book artist. After sending samples of his work to Marvel UK he was eventually given Knights of Pendragon to draw on a regular basis in 1988. Erskine’s work proved to be popular and he also drew Warheads for Marvel UK. A selection of his works : 2000 AD, Terminator : Nuclear Twilight, City Of Silence, … Gary Erskine will be giving a workshop about drawing ideas and creating characters.

SOZYONE GONZALEZ AND D.JABA MATHIEU

D.Jaba Mathieu and Sozyone Gonzalez joined forces for this awesome new comic book : ‘ENEMIES’ is a 200 page hardcover intergalactic graphic novel by D.Jaba Mathieu and Sozyone Gonzalez produced by Vince Argentine.
D.Jaba Mathieu(Liege) did most of the artwork for the legendary hip hop band Starflam. Also as a streetartist he has graffiti pieces worldwide.
Sozyone Gonzales is a Brussels graffiti legend also known for his groundbreaking hip hop band De Puta Madre. Later on, he put his mark on the artscene worldwide with his giant murals, paintings, sculptures,…
They’ll be signing their new book and will have some silkscreens of their work available as well!
110% Belge quoi!

Concerts

Bernard Minet

He started his career in the Pas-de-Calais in 1969 and arrived in Paris in 1970, where he was part of several bands during his studies: “Pop”, the “Baloches” and the “Golf Drouot.” In 1974 he won first prize in percussion at the Conservatoire national de Paris. In 1983 he started a collaboration with Dorothée in Club Dorothée and joined the band les Musclés as drummer and pursued a career as a solo artist. He played in 482 episodes of the Salut les Musclés and la Croisière Foll’Amour sitcoms. In ’80s and ’90s early, he recorded French songs for the Bioman, Les Chevaliers du Zodiac, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Goldorak, Turboranger and Winspector series and literally wrote the soundtrack of a lot of people’s youth!

SATSUKI

砂月Satsuki is the singer of the famous japanese Visual Kei band « Rentrer en Soi ».
He performed as a band or with his solo project across Japan, Europe and the US.
Active also as vocalist of KISAKI PROJECT feat. Satsuki and MOON STREAM.
Film, theater, variety show host, pianist, columnist, poet, painter and other productions, 砂月 Satsuki is a talented and polyvalent artist.

Kid Noize

We are proud to announce our next musical guest. it’s none other than the one and only KID NOIZE. He will open this Comic Con to get the party started!
Kid Noize is a Belgian DJ and Electro-Pop producer from Brussels. He qualifies his style as synth pop. Kid Noize has done first parts for Stromae, Faithless, Die Antwoord, Prodigy,… Never revealing his true face, he’s the man with the monkey face!
Maybe he will bring his Mustang and no kids we ain’t talking about no horse.

Cosplay

Enji Night

Enji Night is an internationally known cosplayer, costume designer and model from Budapest, Hungary. She’s cosplaying since 2009, and has created over 60 costumes in the past 7 years. She known for her Supergirl, Chun Li and Jill Valentine cosplays. Most of the time she cosplaying from animes, games and comics, but she likes to create unusual cosplays, such as her gijinka version of the Firefox mascot! She won several cosplay awards in her country and since 2013 she attending conventions and judging cosplays contests all over the world. Her costumes have been featured in online and print publications including Kotaku, FHM, ELLE and Marie Claire. She also had the honor of being the spokesmodel for Nokia Hungary.
When she is not cosplaying, she spares most of her free time playing video games and watching animes.