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 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
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...
