May 31 – June 2, 2013 at The Hilton Anatole Dallas

Rob Balder creator of Erfworld at A-Kon

Rob Balder creator of Erfworld at A-Kon

02/26/13

Rob Balder is a professional webcomic creator who has also ventured into game design, comedy music, publishing and new media business development. Most of his time is consumed writing and producing Erfworld, an epic fantasy/comedy comic about an obsessive strategy gamer who is summoned to fight a real war. Erfworld was co-created in 2006 with illustrator Jamie...

Meet Erfworld illustrator Xin Ye

Meet Erfworld illustrator Xin Ye

02/26/13

              Xin Ye is a self taught illustrator focusing in comic making. She graduated from the college of Architecture at University of Houston in 2008, but decided that illustration was much more fulfilling. After bumbling around on her own for a year, she unexpectedly and ecstatically became the illustrator for Erfworld....

Meet R. Cat Conrad

Meet R. Cat Conrad

02/26/13

Cat hails from Fort Worth, after residing many years in Arlington – that’s Texas, not the national cemetery, even though his life reads like a cemetery plot  … one that might’ve been dreamed up by his renowned vampire author wife (Rachel Caine).  Alas, Cat’s puns have reportedly jeopardized his allotted nine lives so just pretend he’s a famous...

ScrewAttack.com returns to A-Kon

ScrewAttack.com returns to A-Kon

02/21/13

ScrewAttack.com has been rocking the internet’s face since 2006 with it’s original content and unique spin on everything gaming. We’ve been called “the punk rock of gaming” and truly embrace that.

A-Kon 2013: Helen McCarthy

A-Kon 2013: Helen McCarthy

02/21/13

Life is never dull for Helen McCarthy. Since A-Kon 23, she’s been asked to teach at an English university, review and endorse academic publications on anime, help to put together a costume exhibition, revise and update one of her earlier books  and write a history of manga in three months. She’s also got a publisher reading her novel. On a sadder...

Anthony Brownrigg at A-Kon 24

Anthony Brownrigg at A-Kon 24

02/21/13

Anthony is by trade a writer, actor, director, and visual effects artist, and voice actor who’s work has been seen in various films and television shows including One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Trinity Blood, Cyberstalker, Cheaters, Bicycle Bobby, Red Victoria, Red Squad 4, and a host of others. Known as a jack of all trades, Brownrigg has been heavily...

TeamFourStar, they’re back!

TeamFourStar, they’re back!

02/02/13

Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is a California-based (now in Lake Charles, LA) amateur voice actor, graphics designer, and project manager of “Dragon Ball Z: Abridged”. Director, co-writer, editor for the show, and the voice behind Zarbon, Burter, Trunks, King Kai, and Gregory, he helped found the group in May 2008. Nick...

NSDP performs Live at A-Kon 24

NSDP performs Live at A-Kon 24

01/29/13

NSDP was formed in 2011 with Bass Player KURO of the mega Japanese rock group SOPHIA, Guitarist YUI, who is also the lead guitarist for one of the leading all female metal movements in Japan CYNTIA, SHUE on Drums who has played for Western artist such as Brian Setzer (STRAY CATS), and KEIJI on Keyboards/Programming. Along with these established artists is the...

Rachel Caine comes to A-Kon

Rachel Caine comes to A-Kon

01/21/13

Rachel Caine is the #1 internationally bestselling author of 42 novels, including 13 to date in the young adult Morganville Vampires series, most recently the late 2012 release Bitter Blood.   Two more books, Fall of Night and Daylighters, will be released in May and November 2013. In February 2014, she will premiere a new young adult fantasy novel, Prince of...

Samurai Dan and Jillian return to A-Kon

Samurai Dan and Jillian return to A-Kon

01/15/13

The husband and wife team of Daniel and Jillian Coglan are full-time martial art instructors, specializing in 16th century Samurai Arts. When not teaching at their dojo, the Kojokan, they travel the United States performing and teaching the ancient ways of the most famous warriors in history. With a combined 35 years of experience, their show is a unique blend...

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