12/30/12

*Update: Congratulations to Natalie Flowers on winning the Anime Military Association’s Challenge Coin Design Contest for A-Kon 24.
Design the A-Kon 24 Military Launch Coin. The Anime Military Association wants your help to design one side of our one-of-a-kind custom challenge coin for our Military Lunch at A-Kon 24.

12/27/12

Meredith Placko, known around the con circuit as Ana Aesthetic, is a journalist, cosplayer and self proclaimed crazy cat lady.

12/27/12

Jesse is a 3D character artist and creative director of his new studio, Dinosaur Games. He has been in the game industry for 12 years and has worked on a large amount of titles including; Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Wizard 101, BloodRayne 2, the infamous Star Wars: Kinect, the movie Grandma’s Boy, and many more.   His love affair with anime began...

12/27/12

Editor, translator, producer and teacher—Jonathan “Jake” Tarbox has done it all during his career in international media and content production. He’s worked for DC Comics, Time Warner, VIZ Media, Kadokawa Publications, JManga.com and Kodansha to produce print and video content for both the Japanese and American markets. He is also a regular fixture on the...

12/27/12

As the Rondo Award-winning author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters (Chronicle Books, 2007), August has commented on Japanese film and popular culture on radio, television, in print, online, and at conventions and film festivals (on both sides of the Pacific) for more than thirty years. He has been called a “Walking Encyclopedia” of tokusatsu and anime....

12/20/12

Come join A-Kon at the screening of the Madoka Magica movie at the Texas Theater on December 29!

12/17/12

A simple breakdown of what rooms panels and events will take place in during A-Kon 24.

12/07/12

              Sleeping Samurai is a company based around bringing Interactive Entertainment to conventions.  We supply hand made foam weapons, made to simulate actual weapons with as much historical accuracy as possible.  These weapons are created entirely by the staff of Sleeping Samurai.  Most all of the weapons that we...

12/07/12

              Each year at A-Kon we notice a large amount of people looking for love among legions of people just like them. This can certainly be daunting to even the most outspoken individual and we would like to help. Come find a possible soulmate in a flurry of 2-5 minute dates! Each round will last 2-5 minutes with a...