Archon loses its parties

July 3rd, 2009

Archon has regretfully announced that it cannot come to terms with any hotels around the Collinsville Gateway Center that would allow it to have room parties. This doesn’t affect Anime St. Louis or Kawa-Kon, which are located elsewhere.

File 770 has more background.

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CONvergence twitter feed.

July 1st, 2009

We are leaving first thing in the morning for CONvergence and we will be updating our twitter feed from the convention floor. We have added the below widget so you can have just a little taste of CONvergence out here in internet land. If your going don’t forget our Letterpress printing demo with Heroes & Criminals Press Friday & Saturday nights at 10 pm.


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Sogen-con guests.

July 1st, 2009

Sogen Con has announced Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Samantha R. Sangster, Fredd Gorham, Josh Grelle, Carli Mosier, Studio ONY’s Shannon and Richard Townsend, and members of the Tiger Rock Tae Kwon Do Dojo as guests of honor at this years convention taking place August 7-9 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Sogencon website has all the details.

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Creation keeps adding Twilight

July 1st, 2009

Twilight is taking Creation back to the towns they used to hit all the time. Let’s hope they manage to bring us something other than Twilight to a few of these cities, Like a Firefly con in Charlotte, perhaps?
Upcoming Creation shows after the break,
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Harvey Award Nominees announced.

June 30th, 2009

The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced. The Harvey Awards are presented at the Baltimore Comic-Con. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They will be presented October 10, 2009 in Baltimore, MD, in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.
For the full list of the nominees hit the link below.
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Convention tips.

June 30th, 2009

CONvergence has posted some tips for attending their convention this weekend. But this could apply to any convention you go to. Are you new to conventions? give it a read You might be surprised, there may be something you didn’t think of.

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Convention Lookin: Ubercon

June 29th, 2009

Ubercon
What: Multi-Gaming Convention
When: Oct 23rd-25th, 2009
Where: Piscataway, NJ
Guests :Chris O’Neill of 9th Level Games, CJ Henderson, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Green Light Anti-Zombie Squad, Keith Herber, Michael McPhail - Engineer, Author, Gamer
MJ Young, Neal Levin, Patrick Thomas, Pete Abrams, Phil Kahn, Tom Lynch
Website: Ubercon
Promo video from 2006:

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Hayao Miyazaki Confirmed for San Diego.

June 29th, 2009

The La Times have confirmed Legendary Film Director Miyazaki for SDCC. With him and David Tennant, this would have been the year to go. Rats.

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