| AggieCon 39: day one |
[Mar. 28th, 2008|05:40 am] |
Got down to the MSC - Memorial Student Center - tonight on the TAMU campus where the main action is to get Dan and I registered for the weekend. For a whopping $35, we both have full con passes ($10 for Dan, $25 for me), and the badge art is fun, of course. Carl Lundgren did the cover art for the program book (I will have to scan that at some point), touching up a painting he first produced in 1991 by photoshopping Chilly Willy into it and adding the con name to it. Very nice, indeed. The colophon information has a glaring error, listing the con's dates as March 22 - 25, 2007, prompting me to comment to one of the con occifers that we are all now a year younger. A few jokes flew about AggieCon being a Time-Traveling Con, so this may evolve into the unofficial con slogan, Officially, the con slogan is "Penguins are stealing my con!"
Mainly a registration day as people straggle in, the dealer's room was open - the temporary con suite was too, where I chatted with some more concom members - it was pretty laid back and quiet, so I wandered a bit, sat in a chair where I could over-look the Flag Room while perusing the program book and keep an idea on people's comings and goings. It looks like the weekend could be fun.
Guests of Honor are these: Ellen Muth, Media GoH; Carl Lundgren, Artist GoH; Todd McCaffrey, Writer GoH; Tiffany Grant, Anime GoH. Other writers, artists, and such listed as guests are Jeff Turner, Bill Bean, C. Dean Andersson, Darlene Bolesny, Mark Worrell (know him from last year), Andrea Von Scoyoc, J. M. McDermott, John Rnger, Roxanne Conrad, Cat Conrad, Mel Hynes, J. Grant, R. K. Milholland, Preston DuBose, Bill Crider, Gloria Oliver, Kerry Tolan, Mel White, Scott Cupp, Tom Knowles, and Steven Brust. Joe Lansdale is not listed in the program book, leading me to suspect that he may be up in Salt Lake City, Utah this weekend for the World Horror Convention. We shall see. People tend to drop in for a day at AggieCon, so eventually I'll find out. If anything, I have Lansdale's e-mail address (thanks to James Bacon) and I can always contact him that way to see what gives.
All in all, the prospects look good for AggieCon. |
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