User:Bryan Bloodsoaker

In November 1998, Bryan S. Braun (aka Bryan Bloodsoaker), became a member of Reggie Bannister’s production team, (Production Magic, Inc.), after submitting a small coffin filled with design layout samples for horror flick convention merchandise. Being both a fine arts graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a life-long horror flick fanatic, Bryan seemed to fit into the body bag nicely, as being a 'comedically-morbid' designer for the Reggie Bannister Team.

At that point, the main priority was to produce Phantasm and Reggie Bannister merchandise for an upcoming Los Angeles and Chicago convention that was called “Summer of Horrors” set for summer 1999. This convention was to represent all of the classic horror flicks that were released towards the tail end of the disco era, roughly 1978 to 1980--- Halloween, Amityville Horror, Friday the 13th, Phantasm and many, many others. To make a short story even shorter, just a few months into production, the convention was cancelled.

Despite the convention not happening, Bryan would stay on as a creative part of Team Bannister, eventually becoming assistant webmaster to Reggie’s wife, (President/CEO of Production Magic, Inc.), Gigi “Fast Elk,” for the internationally known horror flick site Nightmarez Café. In the mid 90’s, Nightmarez Café was a Los Angeles based television show that was tagged as the “Tonight Show of Horror.” Bryan was in charge of creating the majority of all Nightmarez Café site graphics, the overall page updates and is fully responsible for creating the NERD OF THE UNDEAD.

In 2014, the Bryan Bloodsoaker persona was retired.