MisCon
MisCon is a 4-day celebration of fantasy, science fiction, horror, gaming, cosplay, and anime.
Through discussion panels, hangouts, games, readings, craft demos, and workshops, we bring fans together with authors, artists, game designers, actors, costumers, and other professionals in the world of speculative fiction.
View and buy art from our Art Gallery, watch our film festival submissions, participate in our Costume Contest, play RPGs, board games, LARPs, Magic the Gathering, and check out what our Merchants are selling. Whatever your interests, MisCon has something to fascinate, educate and entertain you.
MisCon 39 Guests of Honor
- Jonathan Maberry, Author GoH
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Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer.
His works include the V-Wars vampire series (adapted for Netflix), the Rot & Ruin YA series, the Kagan the Damned series, the Joe Ledger thrillers, sf thriller Necrotek, and the Pine Deep horror trilogy among others. He's written for The X-Files and Star Wars, and edited anthologies for Aliens, Predator, The Walking Dead, and more.
- Doug Hemphill, Film GoH
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Academy Award winning sound engineer Doug Hemphill's film career has spanned 46 years and over 190 films including standouts like Batman Begins, the Dark Knight, Bladerunner ( and Bladerunner 2049), 7 X-Men films, Star Trek 4 & 5, TMNT, National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation, I Robot, Scent of a Woman, and a few Planet of the Apes films.
He won Academy Awards for Best Sound on "The Last of the Mohicans" and Dune Parts 1 and 2, and was nominated in 8 other films.
He began as a Mix Recordist on "Apocalypse Now (1979), and continued working for Francis Ford Coppola through the release of "Rumble Fish (1983), after which he moved to Southern California, where he did field recordings for
- Momma Sammu, Cosplay GoH
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A PNW native and local “Con-Mom”, Momma Sammu has been attending nerdy conventions their whole life thanks to their Con Staffer parents. After cosplaying for the first time at an anime convention in 2006, they were hooked on the hobby; loving the chance to embody their favorite characters and make friends while doing it. Over the years Sammu has combined cosplay with their love of theater to win over a dozen Master level Performance and Craftsmanship awards at cons across the country and abroad; specializing in corsetry, ballgowns, and being EXTRA.
Photo by Mahou Photo
- Patrick Swenson: Fairwood Press, Featured Publisher
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Patrick Swenson is the author of The Ultra Long Goodbye, the 3rd book in the Union of Worlds trilogy. He's the author of the dark fantasy Rain Music, the editor and publisher of Fairwood Press (www.fairwoodpress.com), and a graduate of Clarion West. He's sold short fiction to Unavowed, Unfettered III, Unbound II, Gunfight on Europa Station, Seasons Between Us, and others. He's the director of the Rainforest Writers Village, a retreat in the PNW (rainforestwriters.com). He taught high school for 39 years and now spends his work time on the press and writing.
Fairwood has published over 130 titles of science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, as well as occasional SF mysteries.
- Andy VanOverberghe, Artist GoH
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Andy VanOverberghe (an-dee van o-ver-berg) is a creator focusing in animation arts and fine art illustration on wood and stone. His work provokes imagination through the exploration of science fiction, philosophy, psychology, nature, spirituality, the cosmos, geometry, anatomy, and the world observed.
MisCon 39 Featured Professionals
- Steven K Smith
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Steven K. Smith, also known online as SKS Props, is an award-winning artist, fabricator, and owner of SKS Prop and Costume Supply. While he makes and sells professional-grade cosplay props and replica costumes, his goal is to teach people the techniques and fundamentals they need to create their own props and costumes.
Steve has uploaded over 200 instructional cosplay and prop videos to his Youtube channel, SKS Props, and is active in various Facebook cosplay communities.
- Jeff Sturgeon, Artist
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Jeff Sturgeon is a northwest artist known for his beautiful, award-winning metal paintings. His career spans over thirty years, coming up through the ranks as a young fan artist in the 80s to being hired in the first wave of computer game artists in the late 80s/early 90s. A long career in the 90s as an artist, animator, concept artist, lead artist, game designer, and art director followed most notably for Electronic Arts. He continued to paint and display his work at science fiction conventions around the country and created new cover and interior work for clients such as Harper Collins Publishing and NASA JPL.
- Todd Lockwood, Artist/Author
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Todd Lockwood is an illustrator and author, whose work has appeared on NY Times best-selling novels, magazines, video games, collectible card games, and fantasy role-playing games. It has been honored with multiple appearances in Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and with numerous industry awards. Always known for the narrative power of his paintings, Todd's debut novel, "The Summer Dragon" was released by DAW Books to rave reviews, named by B&N and Amazon both on their shortlist of "Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels of the Year." View his art at http://www.toddlockwood.com or get chummy at https://www.facebook.com/artoftoddlockwood
- Jim Wright, Artist/Author/Activist
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Jim Wright is a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and freelance writer. He lives in Florida where he watches American politics in a perpetual state of amused disgust. He's been called the Tool of Satan, but he prefers the title: Satan's Designated Driver. He is the mind behind Stonekettle Station. You can follow him on Twitter @stonekettle, or you can join the boisterous bunch he hosts on Facebook at Facebook/Stonekettle. Remember to bring brownies and mind the white cat, he bites. Hard.
- Diana Pharaoh Francis, Author
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Diana Pharaoh Francis is the USA Today and Amazon Bestselling writer of fantastical, adventurous, and often romantic fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature and literary theory. She’s owned by a corgi, a mini blue heeler, and a blue-eyed corgi mix. She spends much of her time gardening, airbrush painting, herding children, and avoiding housework. She likes rocks, geocaching, horses, knotting up yarn, and has a thing for 1800s England, especially the Victorians.
For more about her books and to sign up for her newsletter, visit her at www.dianapfrancis.com or on her other social media pages
See our other attending professionals and panelist volunteers.
MisCon Theme
Our theme changes every year. The yearly theme influences panel topics, invited guests, decoration, and sometimes convention-wide events. We encourage guests, members, and attendees to take each year's theme to heart, and let it influence your thoughts of, and preparation for, MisCon each year.
MisCon 39: Hive of Scum and Villainy
Trust is hard to come by these days, but at least MisCon 38’s dark forest is finally gone. That cybernetic raccoon’s diabolical plan seems to have worked: between the Empire’s orbital weapons, Howl’s banishment spells, and Van Hohenheim’s alchemy, the fairy portals closed and the trees dwindled into sparkly dust and withered leaves.
We should have learned our lesson about bargaining with strange powers, I suppose, but we had to get rid of the fairies somehow, didn't we? Our...
