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[fashionboots]

Euge Schlatter

Argentina

[ericlvargas]

Norwescon wrapped up last week, was a bit of a blur to be honest. Was surprised to get a best in art show for science fiction award, my first time winning an award at this event. Did a lot of live drawing panels this year as a panelist, Friday especially was back to back, here's some of the sketches I did for the panel attendees as well.

[rachaelmayo]

This set is titled, Stuff I Do At Conventions. The Archon convention was held over the Sept 29 - Oct 01 weekend, and I have attended this con as an artist for the last 25 years. I participate in programming, mostly in the art track. These are the artworks I made while I was there.

The first piece is a collaboration with fellow-artist Hollie Linn. The panel was an "Art Relay", which devolved into a general art jam. Hollie was my partner, and we didn't want to share with anyone else! Our first assignment, prompted by the audience, was "a goth lion and a hippie dragon at a dinner party". She drew the lion and I drew the dragon, and we both colored the picture.

The second piece was also a collaboration with Hollie. I asked her to draw her favorite animal - with wings. She drew a quick pegasus, and I tackled it with markers. Then she tackled it with more markers.

The third piece was done in an art demo by fellow-artist Rodney Eaton. He was demonstrating his own colored pencil techniques, and invited us to try out some of the mediums he likes to use. I worked on black multimedia board with Prismacolors to make a quick dragon drawing. I might or might not finish this one later.

The final piece is just my table tent. Each person who does work as a panelist receives a nametag that can be seen across the room. I almost always decorate mine, both out of the need to keep my hands moving, and the desire to advertise, without any doubt, I AM AN ARTIST! The green dragon is my work. The spaceship is the default illustration from the artist guest, Timothy Chiasson.

[whimseysthrone]

Arisia 2025, 1/17-1/20/2025

Today’s quick update brought to you by medical appointments. You can see me on panels at Arisia this year, where I’ll be moderating four and participating in two more. Those will be: Um, Actually, Dropout is a Game Changer, So Make Some Noise – Friday, January 17, 2025, 9:15 PM EST Safety Systems in TTRPG spaces – Saturday, January 18, 2025, 6:45 PM EST (mod) Writing With The Rainbow – Sunday,…

[hiriajuu-suffering]

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[paintingdragonfeathers]

Fiancé and I had a BLAST at my final con of the year—GalaxyCon Columbus! It was my first time in ANY Galaxycon, not just the one in Columbus, and the crowd and overall vibe were awesome! Had very sweet booth neighbors, there was a lot of public art around Columbus itself, and the food was overall excellent. Sales-wise, even though it’s been an overall weird/slow year, it was my second best show of 2024 after Anthrocon.

My world-building panel was pretty full, but my creature-design panel was standing room only AND people got turned away at the door. I’m glad so many people asked questions and approached me to talk creative writing shop during and after the panel at my booth, and that they were educated and entertained. XD

I’ve already put my application in for next year.

#convention #dealer #artistalley #paintingdragonfeathers #artist #fanart #vendor #artistlife #con #writer #diorama #pokemon #pokeball #pokeballterrarium #art #craft #terrarium #cryptid #galaxycon #galaxyconcolumbus #galaxycon2024

[travsd]

Booking Bennett Cerf

Among show biz buffs, Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) has become the poster child for How American Pop Culture Has Changed And Not for the Better. Cerf was the co-founder of the Random House publishing company; he was also a panelist on television game shows. We exaggerate perhaps when we claim that such things could never happen any more, but you must admit, it would be remarkable. Cerf was born with…

[the-river-people]

Evansville Horror Con Panel on The River People!

We're so happy to announce that tomorrow, Saturday March 2 at 11am, me and my scary artist partner in crime Elliot Cantu will be presenting a panel on The River People in Room C!!! Throughout the con we are Booth 32 Sandpaperdaisy ART.

Screenshot from https://www.evansvillehorror.com/panels We’re so happy to announce that tomorrow, Saturday March 2 at 11am, me and my scary artist partner in crime Elliot Cantu will be presenting a panel on The River People in Room C!!! In this panel we’ll go into the details of the project, tell you a little about ourselves and what prompted us to love scary art and stories, and offer art,…

[espaceurbainmontreal-blog]

Thank you to our GM @istilldkh for gracefully catering our event tonight! It was beyond delicious 🥳🎊❤️🔥🥰🎊💃🏿🥳😎. . . . . . . . . #foodporn #foodstagram #foodphotography #foodblogger #deliciousfood #deliciousness #deliciousfood😋 #panelist #multitalented #multitalent #greateful #gratefuleveryday #tasteofhome #foodforthought #cheflife #chefmode #chefstyle #cheflifestyle (at Boutique Espace Urbain) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8smqJAlHK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fashionboots]

Euge Schlatter

Argentina

[battle-and-faith-comics]

The presentation went very well yesterday, I got talk to a few people about my comic books and some of them were very interested in them.

[xiane]

Flights of Foundry 2023 Schedule Announced!

Earlier this year, I blogged a list of things I’d like to achieve in my writing career [which is a little different than goals as a writer, though there’s some overlap] – from small to outrageous. One of those was to start being a panelist at prominent SFF conventions. And here’s the first on the list! I’ll be taking part of Flights of Foundry, which is a virtual-only con happening on April…

[violent138]

I just know the Gotham Gazette once had a bunch of experts on a roundtable to discuss the Batman and the panel quickly dissolved into chaos and violence because there was a vampireology expert that nobody could definitively argue against but for obvious reasons also seemed insane.

Someone's arguinging about Batman's camouflage and the vampire expert goes, "Yes well consider that he turns into a bat. It's easier then."

"The reason the cowl is open at the mouth despite the loss of protection is because the Batman needs to consume blood."

"Have you ever seen him out in the daylight? Of course not, he can't withstand it."

"He sleeps in our cemeteries. That's why he doesn't have an address."

"Has anyone tried staking him through the heart? Exactly. The body armour aside, you'd never get close enough."

"Why the car? For style."

[podcast-bookclub]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday, everyone! Some updates this week regarding our plans for the audio fiction convention, so hang tight with me here:

Firstly - it's official, it's happening, time to get excited! The event will be held from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2nd 2025, so be sure to mark your calendars! It'll be virtually through our Discord server, with panels streamed through Twitch.

Applications for those interested in being involved are live now and will be open until September 30th. If you have any questions regarding involvement, feel free to open a ticket in the server, or email finch@podcast-bookclub.com.

Application links:

Panelists

Event Volunteers/Panel Hosts

Artists

That's all, have a great week! We're looking forward to sharing more information both for attendees & generally about the event in the coming months and hope y'all are as excited as we are for this adventure ✨

[travsd]

The Peggy Cass Centennial

Peggy Cass (Mary Margaret Cass, 1924-1999) would be 100 years old today. Cass was one of the thousand or so older celebrities you’d see on game shows and talk shows as a kid in the ’70s without having any conception about who they were or why they were there. I knew her almost entirely as one of the panelists on the game show To Tell The Truth, on which she seemed fun-loving and a little daffy…