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.

01/25/13

With the great help of Amberlee and a lot of work, we have put together an Interactive map of the Hilton Anatole. This will help you locate rooms and has special comments with pictures. You can download a copy of it here. (Be warned it is over 65mg big and will require Adobe Acrobat to read.) As with everything in the universe, locations and descriptions may...

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...

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.

07/08/12

A-Kon wants your artwork! Whether you’re a seasoned convention vet, or this is your first show, we welcome you to show off your talent and perhaps even make some money.

07/08/12

A-Kon® has a bootleg policy. Simply stated, don’t even try to sell bootleg items at our con.

07/08/12

Rules that apply to all of the vendor areas: dealers’ room, the exhibit hall, and the artist alley.