Guests of Honor for this first year of Japan Town Anime Faire included Carol Jacobanis, Stone Bridge Press, Studio Sokodei, and EigoManga.

Japan Town Anime Faire 2003
Guests of Honor

Carol Jacobanis has been in a wide variety of theater productions in London, Los Angeles and New York and has anime voice roles in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Pokemon, BoogiePop Phantom, Harlock Saga, Comic Party, Labyrinth of Flames, His and Her Circumstances and Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
Stone Bridge Press is headed by Gilles Poitras who maintains several anime-related web pages and is the author of Anime Essentials, Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know and The Anime Companion, What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?  Currently Stone Bridge Press has ten titles on anime and manga, expanding into Japanese yakuza films as well as Japanese TV drama with an encyclopedia.
Studio Sokodei has been making fan parody dubs for nearly 5 years with titles including Evangelion ReDeath, Fanboy Bebop and Nescaflowne, which have been screened at anime conventions across the country. They are currently working on a remaster of Evangelion ReDeath, and will begin production on their next new parody ECCH, based on the "X" TV series and movie.
EigoManga is an independent manga/comic book publishing company in San Francisco that produces Anime Mix, a local access program that features anime music videos and documents the anime party scene.
Ray Nagar (JTAF founder) with Guest of Honor Carol Jacobanis celebrate the first Japan Town Anime Faire.

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