05/10/13

              Friday: All About Webcomics: What in the world is a webcomic? Still trying to figure that out? So are we! A Webcomics 101 Extravaganza! Emerald Room – Tower 1st Floor, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Drawing Manga:  Have you ever wanted to create your own original manga or comic book? Learn tips and tricks to making...

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....

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...

02/11/13

The Artist Alley (AA) is a place for artists to showcase their talents and promote their own work at the longest running Anime convention in North America. This is the place to meet artists and artisans who will be promoting and selling their own work and services.

Thorpe, Patrick, and Everett Patterson, eds.  The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.  Fwd. Shigeru Miyamoto.  Afwd. Eiji Aonuma.  Trans. Michael Gombos, Takahiro Moriki, Heidi Plechl, Kumar Sivasubramanian, Aria Tanner, and John Thomas.  Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013.  $34.99.  277 pp.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-1-616-55941-7.  (Original publication: Aonuma,...

01/10/13

Meet the Publishers of Famous Monsters Philip Kim and Ed Blair.

01/05/13

Bob Eggleton is a successful science fiction, fantasy, horror, and landscape artist, encompassing twenty years of putting brush to canvas or board. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards-he has been nominated an amazing 28 times over 24 years, 12 Chesley Awards, as well as various magazine awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines, books, posters and prints, and...

01/05/13

Steve first honed his artistic chops when he was just a teenager living in Tokyo.  He landed a part-time gig with Noburu Furusei (New Dominion Tank Police, Lupin III, etc.) at Studio Aoehyma and was lucky enough to work on series like Only You and Yamamoto. Later he was able to turn this experience into an actual job in the States—from 1997 until 2004 Steve was...

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.

11/03/12

Matt Frank is best known for his kaiju-riffic work with IDW on the Godzilla comic series, starting with covers for Kingdom of Monsters and providing interiors for Godzilla: Legends issue 1.