Gothtober Bios 2018

The 2018 Gothtober Countdown Calendar is pleased as pumpkin pie to show you the people behind this year’s curated creepy collection. They are from all walks of life, doing all kinds of projects! Take a look and enjoy reading the bio of each Gothtober Artist!
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1 – Horror Movie Survival Guide
2 – Mat Katz
3 – Francis and Clyde
4 – Yuki Okada
5 – Marquis Howell
6 – Del Norte
7 – Dragon Girl
8 – David LeBarron
9 – Rod Serling, Jr.
10 – Ian MacKinnon
11 – Camaron Fantasma
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12 – Ash
13 – Michael Gump
14 – Danny Torrance
15 – Lori Meeker and Heavy Sweater Productions
16 – Chris Baughman
17 – Empress
18 – Rick Orner
19 – Mellocreme Fairchild III
20 – Family Fisher
21 – Pandora and Pandemonia
22 – Federico Tobon
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23 – Jenny Walsh
24 – Family Chambers
25 – Jenn Paige Gordon
26 – Family Waller
27 – Molly Allis
28 – Kimberly Kim
29 – Bona Bones
30 – Barry Morse
31 – Kristen Erickson
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DAY 1 – Horror Movie Survival Guide

Horror Movie Survival Guide is a weekly podcast where two unlikely gorehounds delve into their Horror Movie Notebook from college, in which they meticulously kept track of every film they watched in the horror movie section of their old local video store, in their quest to learn how to survive, and to ensure they end up as “the final girl”. Join Julia and Marion as they revisit the classic and obscure horror VHS they viewed and logged in their notebook, breaking each movie down one by one, geeking out over all the ghastly minutia, and ultimately illuminating the path to survival.

DAY 2 – Matt Katz

DAY 3 – Francis and Clyde

DAY 4 – Yuki Okada

Is probably going to move to Maui, but for now, she’s in LA, doing graphic design and experimenting with her bubbling potions to create recipes you’ll just die for, and then ask for seconds.

DAY 5 – Marquis Howell III

DAY 6 – Del Norte Presents
After last year’s DIY don’ts, the Del Norte Presents presenters focused on some Gothtober dos for 2018.This year, we find our presenting presenters in the test kitchen of our headquarters on Del Norte, serving up some spooky nutrition for your next haunted gathering. With options aplenty, the Del Norte presenters hope you enjoy this year’s departure from the fear and unease of our usual presentations.

DAY 7 – Dragon Girl
Dragon Girl is a 12-year old artist, residing in a small (well, not really that small) tourist town in California. She’s be drawing seriously for two years, has filled over 13 sketchbooks (assorted sizes), and does other types of art as well – some of these include sewing, sculpting, and animating! She hopes to make a sustainable business on her trade when she gets older.

DAY 8 – David LeBarron
Chris Baughman and David LeBarron, the comedy duo better known as David LeBarron and Chris Baughman, have been seen in many variations together. Onstage they dazzled in It All Makes Sense, and you may have oo’d and awwe’d at many a Holiday show! On video they have been paired in Wicca Please and the hugely successful: David and Chris review! Their alter egos Sunday Morning and Auntie Luscious could not be here, Gothtober is far too edgy for such esteemed mainstreamed performers! Chris and David are pleased as spiked punch to play with JP again! (Insert a heart emoji or something cute like a unicorn dying here.)

They are available for parties.

DAY 9 – Rod Serling, Jr.
This year, I decided not to make an original film for Gothtober. I was going through my father’s attic and came across a lost episode of The Twilight Zone, from 1962. I am proud to present it as my entry for Day 9 of this year’s Gothtober. Hope you all enjoy it, but be warned . . . it is TERRIFYING!!!!

DAY 10 – The Witchy Witches
The Witchy Witches are deee-lited to bring you another fantastical Halloween video spell in honor of Gothtober’s 15th birthday! Since 2012 the Witchy Witches have haunted the Gothtober video advent calendar with truly outrageous outrageousness and magical magicness. Guy-a Magique LaMarr, Frizzy Fawcett, and Lady Ass Majick shall enact our annual incantational direct to video ceremonial ceremony to save the world!

DAY 11 – Comaron Fantasma

DAY 12 – Asher Slasher

DAY 13 – Michael Gump
Is also known as Bob Bugs. He makes art the likes of which you’ve never seen, and twice that you’ll never forget. Visit him on Instagram in all of his many forms. 

DAY 14 – Danny Torrance, aka Julianna Parr 
Julianna (JP) Parr that’s me, the incognito Head Candycorn of Gothtober. I do a piece every year on Gothtober so that, in addition to running the calendar and curating 30 wacky artists, I get a chance to make art myself, and also put myself in the position of having to MAKE A THING for the calendar, and be empathetic to each contributor’s experience. In addition to making a Gothtober piece, I gather, curate and bug Gothtober artists, chasing them and collecting their artworks, all while creating/designing/illustrating the Gothtober calendar!

DAY 15 – Lori Meeker and Heavy Sweater Productions

DAY 16 – Chris Baughman

Chris Baughman and David LeBarron, the comedy duo better known as David LeBarron and Chris Baughman, have been seen in many variations together. Onstage they dazzled in It All Makes Sense, and you may have oo’d and awwe’d at many a Holiday show! On video they have been paired in Wicca Please and the hugely successful: David and Chris review! Their alter egos Sunday Morning and Auntie Luscious could not be here, Gothtober is far too edgy for such esteemed mainstreamed performers! Chris and David are pleased as spiked punch to play with JP again! (Insert a heart emoji or something cute like a unicorn dying here.)

They are available for parties.

DAY 17 – Empress

Empress is an empress who’s older than most dirt. Having drunk her way through most of recorded history she’s taking a keen interest in the behavior of all the lemon drops that surround her and the Girl Scout cookies and the Yeager bombs and the kamikazes (read as  regular people just like you).  Especially how they were doing it wrong just like you’re doing it wrong and she’s here to point out to you.

DAY 18 – Rick Orner 

Rick Orner apparently can’t make up his mind about what kind of artist he is. He has worked in traditional special-effects as an animatronics and prop fabricator, been the production designer on an Oscar nominated animated short, is a graphic designer for netflix/marvel DVD releases, is a 3D animator, ran the lighting for a club in 1990’s Seattle, repaired rides at Universal Studios, was in a Cheerios commercial singing bad karaoke, a shopping center Easter Bunny….. You get the idea.
If anyone reading this has a degree in psychology, please stop by rickorner.com to peruse the evidence and offer a diagnosis.

DAY 19 – Mellocreme Fairchild III 
Mellowcreme is an LA-based multimedia artist who enjoys wearing socks, voiding warranties, puppeting, conducting delicious kitchen chemistry experiments, and confusing hardware store clerks who ask her “What will you be using this for?”

DAY 20 – Family Fisher

The youngest of the Fisher Family is Master Kai Xavier, a warrior of the axe who spends his nights hunting prey. Siri Genevieve is his vicious older sibling, an aural sorcerer with command of a thousand spell and song. Their elders are Professor K.M.F. the Witch Doctor and Lord of The Dirt Hole El Mago Cañonero.

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DAY 22 – Federico Tobon
He wanted to be a writer when he was in high school, but the drawings on the margins and the back of his notebooks kept on getting bigger and stronger. More alive. They ate the words, chewing them with little noises of ink and paper (they had a hard time swallowing the poems but genuinely enjoyed some of the short stories).Federico’s hands sided with the drawings and said they’d much rather spend time making things and pictures than writing words. “What makes us happy will make you happy” they said with satisfied hand gestures. An agreement was forged and Federico makes and draws every day. The hands have kept their promise. Their creations can be seen here: http://wolfcatworkshop.com or on Instagram @wolfcatworkshop.

DAY 23 – Jenny Walsh
Jenny Walsh is sharpening sticks, licking frogs and playing tricks. Later she’ll be boiling meats, spitting bees and baking treats. Halloween is ne’r a bore, for those who darken Jenny’s door.

DAY 24 – Family Chambers

Christy Chambers lives with her favorite red bearded Ogre and their smelly 14 year old giant in a small village in Germany. She spends her days making art with teenagers and entertaining the locals. For fun she wanders the deep dark fairy tale forests to photograph moss and poisonous fungus. She is also working on a degree in stinky cheese and regional wines.

Brian Chambers lives with the lady above, He failed at being a nihilist and spends his days making video games. He routinely hunts for treasure in the local German forest and prefers beer from Bavaria.

Nigel Chambers lives with the family above and after consulting with his comrades, does not approve the public distribution of his bio as it might compromise the mission.

DAY 25 – Jenn Paige Gordon
Jenn Paige Gordon is a cartoonist scribbling around Los Angeles. Her work often discusses mental health and Queer existence in this madcap world.

You can find her online at jennpaigegordon.com or on instagram as @evening_creatures

Website: www.jennpaigegordon.com

Insta:www.instagram.com/evening_creatures

DAY 26 – Family Waller

All hail Katie, Zola, Henry, Hazel, and Rob! Tra la la there go the Wallers innocently walking along. When all of a sudden the witches show up to tempt them by talking about the awesome power that is going to be theirs upon the heath.

DAY 27 – Molly Allis

Molly Allis is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Los Angeles. She designs and constructs immersive environments that encourage audience participation and improvisation within a narrative. Working primarily with recycled materials, she re-imagines everyday objects that serve as props for participants to play with. Her work raises questions around the boundaries of material reality through activating a world of make believe and play. The hidden potential within discarded objects extends into her work with children, where she teaches kids how to use tools to build large-scale structures out of recycled materials. Her award-winning animations have screened in festivals internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Madrid Experimental Film Festival, and the Linoleum Festival in Moscow. She has worked with the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont, and Great Small Works Toy Theater Company in Brooklyn. She spent several years performing with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, in a 30-piece radical activist marching band in New York that supports communities working for social justice. Molly received her BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Theater Directing/Design, and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Integrated Media and Experimental Sound Practices.

DAY 28 – Kimberly Kim

Pumpkin Guts!

DAY 29 – Bona Bones
Bona Bones is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts holding a B.F.A. in Experimental Animation and obtained an MFA in Animation at the University of Edinburgh- Edinburgh College of Art. During her time at CalArts she primarily focused on stop motion animation. While typically found in the animation department, she has also has experience as a seamstress, puppet/set fabricator and production designer.

DAY 30 – Barry Morse
Los Angeles native Barry Morse is an artist working in video, painting, sculpture and performance.

DAY 31 HALLOWEEN! – Kristen Erickson