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September 10-12, 2010 • Rockville, MD
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Table of Contents
Words From the Con Chair.............................................................................. 1
Con Staff.......................................................................................................... 1
Rules and Regulations..................................................................................... 2
Guest Biographies........................................................................................... 4
Panel Listings................................................................................................18
Autographs....................................................................................................22
Artists’Alley...................................................................................................33
Area Guide.....................................................................................................40
Our Sponsors.................................................................................................42
Thank You!.....................................................................................................44
Words from the Con Chair
People have been saying that I’m insane
ever since first grade Show ‘n’ Tell. That was
when I came in with a K9 from “Doctor Who”
made from shoe boxes, construction paper,
and a golf tee. As I have gotten older, it has
changed from “insane” to, “Are you f-ing
CRAZY!?!?” In fact, that was most people’s
response when I told them that I was starting a convention. I can’t disagree with any of
them. When I believe in something, I do it. I
don’t care how big the project might be.
Conventions and fandom have always been
huge things in my life. I began attending
conventions when I was nine years old. I
wanted to be a comic book artist more than
anything in the world, but knew that the fact
that I came from a poor family severely limited or eliminated most of my opportunities
I had to be involved in comics. When I was
14, I gave up on my art and my dream for the
most part. Lucky for me that I continued going to conventions, because the encouragement I received from some of the working
artists there convinced me to keep trying.
nothing short of breathtaking. We have an
amazing guest list and stellar programming
created by both our guests and the fans.
After all, fans are creators and creators are
fans. This con is about you. It is about all of
us. Intervention is your party.
The response has been phenomenal. 2010
is just the beginning of many more events.
This year is our little man on the moon waving his flag. I cannot wait to show you how
we are going to expand on it for 2011.
Now let’s party!
<3 Oni!
Twitter: @Onezumi
Facebook: Onezumi Hartstein
CON STAFF
Oni Hartstein James Harknell Founder/Con-Chair
Founder/Con-Chair
Then something great happened: the Internet became affordable. Now I had an opportunity to show my work to people. All
of a sudden, there was a door that wasn’t
open before. I had a reason to keep making art, to keep pushing myself to become a
better artist, and to keep trying to become a
better person. I managed to pull myself out
of a tough situation, pay my way through
college, get a great job, and finally do this.
Creativity transcended every part of my life.
When I say I believe art and fandom save
lives, I mean it. Fandom has always been
there for me; it is only natural that I give
back to it the best way that I can.
Isaiah Beard Digital Coordinator
Rodger Burns Volunteer Coordinator
Gloria Chapa Guest Relations
Paul DiGennaro Operations
Barb Fischer Program Book Editor
Chuck Fozard Treasurer
Colette H. Fozard Hotel Liaison
Chris Impink Print Design
Brian Lynch PR Writing/General
Wesley Mason Photographer
Tom Sales Security
Robert Thomas Programming/Artists’ Alley
Ben Walker Press Ops
Tiffanny Walsh Registration
Andrew Zorowitz Game Room
This past year and a half has been a lot of
work, but it has also been the best year of
my life. The people I have met, the stories I
have heard, and the fun things we dreamed
up this year for Intervention have been
Volunteers:
Stephen Baker, Christina D'Airo,
Eric Hardenbrook, Craig Matthews,
Amber Plaisance, Jesse Stringer
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. Please do not damage the convention
space. We like the hotel and the hotel
likes us; we want to keep it that way. This
includes painting or sketching on walls
(except for the function rooms that have
dry-erase walls), slamming doors, etc.
Please do not hang any flyers on any
wall or other surface of the hotel or convention space; we will have a specialized
area for hanging/placing flyers.
2. Please wear your attendee badges at
all times. There will be badge checkers
throughout the convention space and
you will be asked to return with your
badge if you do not have it on you in order to access convention areas.
3. Intervention and the hotel are not responsible for missing items. Any bag(s)
or other items left unattended around
the convention space will likely be
picked up by either an Intervention
staffer or another attendee and be taken
to Lost and Found in Intervention Security (the Twinbrook room) or to the hotel;
please check with both places to locate
your item. The item may be turned over
to the police if deemed necessary.
4. Please step off the main path to take
photos. If someone asks you for a photo,
please make sure you step out of the
way of traffic, entrances, stairs, and escalators so that everyone else can still
get by and no one gets trampled.
5. Please remember that, in your hotel
room, there are other rooms next to
you. If you and several of your friends
are talking, your neighbor can likely
hear you. If your neighbor, an Intervention staffer, or someone from Hotel staff
comes to your room to ask you to quiet
down, please be considerate and reduce the noise to a dull roar or perhaps
find someplace else to talk.
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6. The legal drinking age in Maryland is 21.
Do not drink alcohol at Intervention if
you are younger than 21. If you are of
legal age to drink, do not carry open alcohol throughout the convention space.
Keep it to the bar, other appropriate areas where alcohol is being sold by the
hotel, or your hotel room.
7. Please don't run, play tag, or throw things
inside the convention space. Please also
don't carry a radio, iPod or other device
that is playing music at a loud volume
(only you should be able to hear it).
Please use basic common sense.
Over 18 Events: Some events at Intervention are intended for an adult audience;
you will need to present your legal ID at the
door, showing that you are 18 or older, in
order to attend these events. The following
IDs will be accepted: US passport, permanent resident card, drivers license, government-issued ID card with date of birth (federal, state, or local), military ID.
Costume Prop Guidelines
To ensure the general safety of Intervention’s
attendees, we can’t allow people to carry the
following types of weapons or props:
Live steel of any kind including knives,
swords, axes, martial arts equipment, or
any other type of bladed weapon.
Any weapon/prop that could currently
or in the past shoot a projectile (includes water, aerosols/sprays, Airsoft
guns, toy bows, etc.).
Anything generally awkward to carry,
or that can't be controlled by the
person carrying (i.e., it is so heavy that
you are consistently dropping it in the
hallway, or cannot keep it from swinging into other attendees). Intervention
staff will be the final determinant as
“I MUST get some sleep in the next 2 weeks. Not negotiable. Holy shit there’s a pancakes house here..." – Oni
The System – http://www.systemcomic.com
and Found as well as the hotel’s version. If
neither location has your badge, you may
purchase a new badge at Registration for a
reduced price with proof of registration. If
you pre-registered, please show your photo
ID to the Registration staff and they will locate your registration in our pre-registration
list. If you registered at the convention,
please bring your receipt as well as your
photo ID as proof of registration.
Replacement for single day badge: $10
Replacement for full weekend badge: $20
Refund Policy
to whether something is too awkward
or too dangerous to be carried around
the convention.
Any item that is deemed to be too
awkward or dangerous to carry must
either be taken to the attendee's hotel
room, car, or checked with the hotel
bag check, or otherwise removed from
the active areas of the convention.
Convention Badges
Convention badges ensure your access to
all convention events and must be worn
where visible at all times while in convention space. Your legal name will be written
on the back of your badge; you can put
whatever you want on the front. You must
have your badge with you to get into any
convention event. If you find a convention
badge, please turn it into Security; you likely will make a fellow con-goer very happy.
The Chairs or any Vice Chair of Intervention
reserve the right to revoke the badge of any
attendee not following or ignoring these
rules and guidelines and to request that person leave the convention without a refund.
Badge Replacement Policy
In the event you lose your badge, please
check with both with Intervention’s Lost
Generally, no refunds will be issued for atdoor registrations purchased at the convention. Exceptions may be made on the sole
discretion of either the Convention Chairs
or Treasurer. Refund requests must be
made during the convention. These personnel may be located by going to the Information Booth and asking that one of them be
contacted via the convention radio.
Lost and Found
We know that sometimes, no matter how
hard we try, things get left behind; at Intervention, we’re lucky enough to have
wonderful people (you!) that routinely find
these things and want to do everything possible to reunite these lost items with their
rightful owners. The lost and found department will be available at Intervention Security for people to drop off and pick up lost
items so if you’re missing something, come
check with us. Please don’t forget to check
with the hotel, too, just in case.
Please bear in mind that Intervention and
the hotel are not responsible for missing
items. Any item that is deemed potentially
unsafe may be turned over to the police. If
you lose an item at Intervention or have a
found item you’d like to help return to its
owner and you don’t find it/have a chance
to drop it off before the convention ends,
please contact Security with the subject
line “Lost and Found.” If we have your lost
item, we will happily make arrangements to
return it to you.
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GUEST BIOGRAPHIES
Pete Abrams
http://www.sluggy.com
Pete Abrams is the creator of the highly addictive niftiness that is Sluggy Freelance, a
remarkably twisted daily online comic strip
that has been appearing since August 25,
1997. Starting the comic strip as a creative
outlet, his world with the switchblade-wielding rabbit quickly expanded into uncharted
territory and grew into over a decade of
alien vampire missile-launching fun. Since
its Satan-spamming beginnings, Sluggy Freelance has attracted a devoted global following and is one of the most popular and wellknown comics on the web.
Pete holds the honor of being twice-invited
as a speaker at Harvard conventions as well
as at a Vassar convention, making him all
ivy-league-ish. Pete
has gained recognition not only online,
but through such
high profile appearances as the original
comics included in
NY Times-bestselling
author John Ringo’s
Hell’s Faire, and as
part of the New
York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
webcomics exhibition in Fall, 2007, as well
as appearances on NPR’s Weekend Edition
with Liane Hansen. Pete is reputed to be the
first person to ever make a living by drawing
a webcomic. Currently, Pete lives in New Jersey (and doesn’t even mind it) with his wife,
Rachel, and two daughters, Leah and Sarah.
Chezhnian Angelus and
Erin “eren” Fitzgerald
http://www.tamurancomic.com
Chezhnian Angelus and Erin “eren” Fitzgerald are the respective creator/writer and
artist/co-writer of Tamuran, a manga-style
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epic fantasy webcomic. Tamuran is a story
about a young royal heir suddenly turned
king-in-exile, and his quest to save his kingdom from the country of powerful, grudgebearing sorcerers that have taken it over.
The young king must travel far across the
wilds of his dying land, accompanied only
by a few unlikely and unexpected protectors – who include a wild elf whose entire clan has mysteriously disappeared, a
shape-shifting girl from a magical ascended
race who knows little of the mortal world,
and a huge man-eating forest beast with an
academic bent.
Chezhnian has been world-building the setting in which Tamuran takes place for over
12 years. The world of Tamuran has been
under the pen for five years and counting, two of which have been spent in good
company co-writing the comic script and
contributing to design work. Writing music
is also one of Chezhnian’s passions, and an
original score soundtrack inspired by and
for the comic is currently in progress.
Eren has been drawing webcomics since
2005, when he started working on Shades
of Veil as homage to his college roommates’
Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Now he
is focusing his comicking mainly on co-writing and illustrating Tamuran. Eren recently
spent a year and a half teaching English in
elementary and junior high schools in Japan, where his drawing skills and love of
manga ended up being just as useful as his
Japanese language degree.
" Pete Abrams got me drunk and then there was an oompa band there then I ate a pretzel the end." – Oni
Rob Balder
http://www.erfworld.com
Rob Balder is a webcomics author and comedy musician. In 2002, his clip-art comic
strip PartiallyClips (http://www.PartiallyClips.com) began running in alt-weekly
newspapers and magazines. Since 2010 the
strip has continued under the authorship of
Tim Crist. Rob co-founded the Funny Music
Project (http://www.thefump.com). His
songs are often heard on the Dr. Demento
Show, including the
#3 most requested
song of 2009, “Gamer Funk.” Most of his
time is currently consumed writing Erfworld, an epic fantasy/comedy
comic
about an obsessive
strategy gamer who is summoned to fight a
real war. Time magazine named Erfworld one
of its top ten graphic novels of 2007, and
Wired.com called it “Geekiest Comic Ever.”
Ben Bova
http://duelinthesomme.com
Dr. Ben Bova has written more than 120
futuristic novels and nonfiction books, and
has been involved in science and high
technology since the very beginnings of the
space age. President Emeritus of the National
Space Society and a past president of Science
Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received
the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur
C. Clarke Foundation
in 2005, “for fueling
m a n k i n d ’ s
imagination regarding
the wonders of outer
space.” His 2006
novel Titan received
the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award for
best novel of the year. In 2008, he won the
Robert A. Heinlein Award “for his outstanding
body of work in the field of literature.”
Dr. Bova will be appearing at Intervention
in conjunction with Rob Balder and Bill Holbrook for their new collaborative webcomic
project, A Duel in the Somme.
Blue
http://www.hello-the-future.net
Blue creates and performs a new song
every week at her
website. She did a
whole series about
webcomics
which
turned into Webcomics Webcon-cert and
then into Webcomics Webconcert LIVE! Her first album, Infinity Right Now, drops on November 4, 2010,
which is also her birthday.
T. Campbell and Phil Kahn
http://guildedage.net
An ex-stage actor and failed Internet shut-in,
T. Campbell has written eighteen gazintillion
pages of comics, including Guilded Age, Penny and Aggie, Fans,
Cool Cat Studio, Divalicious, Search Engine
Funnies, Rip and Teri
and just a little Avengers. He spends his
“spare time” designing crosswords, drafting health care bills
and seeking the Anti-Life Equation.
A longtime Professional Neckbeard, Phil
Kahn has spent a few years writing for various webcomics, webcomic criticism, and
webcomic enthusiast sites, and is now trying
to take his accumulated knowledge and put
it all to good use on Guilded Age. While
building a daytime career as an A/V Technician and an IT Support Specialist, he
also spends a great
deal of time practicing silly voices/faces
in front of a mirror for
the inevitable day
where the only thing
that can save the
whole of humanity from certain doom is his
impression of Henchman #24. Out of the
three creators, he has spent the most time
playing MMORPGs and is totally that Gnome
Warlock who just won’t DIE ALREADY.
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Christiann
http://www.stickycomics.com
Christiann is the cartoonist behind the webcomic Sticky Comics, which mostly features
humorous one-panel cartoons. Sticky Comics are packed with dirty jokes and dark humor in a cute, lighthearted package. Christiann’s background as a comics creator dates
back to her high school days when she cofounded an alternative grrl zine called Bastard Children of Bob.
Since then, she has
dabbled in many
other creative forms,
such as short fiction,
technology writing,
web design, screenprinting and other
nerdy stuff. Her favorite humor cartoonists include Dan Piraro,
Nick Gurewitch and Matt Groening.
Elaine Corvidae
http://www.rivensol.com
Elaine Corvidae’s mom taught her how to
read using Uncle Scrooge comic books,
which is no doubt why she always dreamed
of doing her own comic. When she read her
first webcomic in 1998, Elaine fell in love
with the medium.
She began serializing
her first science fiction novel online in
2004, and finally
launched her first
webcomic this year.
Riven Sol combines
her love of digital art,
H.P. Lovecraft, and science fiction. In addition to her online work, Elaine is the author
of eleven fantasy novels and numerous
short stories and novellas. She lives near
Charlotte, NC, with her husband and their
adorable cats, and enjoys brewing her own
beer and eating vegetarian food.
Molly Crabapple
http://www.drsketchy.com
Molly Crabapple is an artist, author, and the
founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. A
former artist’s model, Molly founded Dr.
Sketchy’s when she was 22, and is as
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shocked as anyone at its astronomical
growth. When not running Sketchy’s, Molly
pays the bills as a fine artist and illustrator
for places like the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal and Marvel Comics. She has a
saucy, smart-ass Victorian style that gets her
written about, but
blocked by NSFW filters. In her free time,
Molly enjoys books,
making webcomics,
and coffee. Someday,
she hopes to visit all
the Dr. Sketchy’s
branches.
Dr. Sketchy’s is the world’s premier alternative drawing movement. Every month, over
3,500 artists gather in nearly a hundred cities
(including New York, Hollywood, São Paulo,
London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo and Melbourne)
to sketch glamorous, subcultural models and
compete in drawing contests in an atmosphere of artistic mayhem. Started by Molly
Crabapple, an artist and former model, as an
alternative to the dull drawing classes she
had posed for, Dr. Sketchy’s has exploded
into an international phenomenon.
Kara Dennison
http://www.conscrew.com
Kara Dennison (AKA The Heaven-Breaking
Pen, etc.) is a deadly force of nature whose
introduction into your universe comes in
the form of broken arms and shattered
spirits. It’s not
surprising given her
feats of fancy: Aside
from making the sun
go supernova in the
year 7689 due to a
time paradox, she’s
drawn and written
several webcomics,
including the recently-wrapped ConScrew
and Fanbreeding for Nth Degree Magazine
Her acting talents can be seen in various
productions (both on stage and in voice)
and regular appearances with the elite
Luna-C comedy troupe. Her costuming
talents have been proven deadly enough
to render a certain Japanese cosplay idol
“I am wearing 5in heels today bc they were the only office friendly boots I own and it’s raining. Argh. Womens shoes SUCK." – Oni
giddy with joy (before she broke her heart).
Currently, she wanders the pop culture
wasteland, searching for the truth that
eludes us all. Pray that she’s still out there….
DJ Subvert
DJ Subvert will be coming all the way from
NYC (where he is the resident DJ for Contempt! and Labyrinth) to blast the Intervention dance floor with some industrial beats.
He’s well known for
his huge catalog of
songs, and integrates
attendee requests as
much as possible. He
will also be trying out
something new at Intervention–making
music mixes live with
attendee participation. So if you want to
dance, or be a part of the show itself, make
sure you come down to his dance parties on
Friday and Saturday nights.
Chris Flick
http://www.capesnbabes.com
Having graduated from Radford University
in 1991 with a graphic design and commercial illustration degree, Chris has worked in
a wide range of graphic design fields – from
silk-screen illustrator
to an advertising
agency graphic designer. In between,
he has done freelance commercial illustration and caricature work.
In 1999, he taught himself HTML and eventually went on to co-author two books about
web design – both of which were published
by New Riders Press. It was this association
with New Riders Press that led him to start
a promotional webcomic strip for the website, Community MX (http://www. communitymx.com) which he has been doing
weekly since May 2004. That webcomic
is called CMX Suite and can be read every
Wednesday at Community MX.
After a few years of working on CMX Suite,
and after talking to a wide variety of other
webcomic creators such as Brad Guigar and
Danielle Corsetto at various comic book conventions he attended, Chris decided to create an entirely new comic strip comprised of
his own characters and dealing with his love
of comic book and super heroes. In November of 2007, Capes & Babes was born. Capes
& Babes is a webcomic about a strip mall, a
comic book shop and one crazy werewolf
and can be read three times a week.
Frumph
http://frumph.net
Frumph is the lead programming developer
for ComicPress for WordPress. He will be hosting workshops and panels at Intervention on
ComicPress/WordPress as well as general
topics in web development and design.
Fred Gallagher
http://www.megatokyo.com
Fred Gallagher is the author and artist behind
the popular and successful American manga
title, Megatokyo. While strongly influenced
by Japanese manga
and anime, Fred also
mixes in elements of
American fan culture
and other inspirations
that only a nonJapanese
creator
could bring to the
medium. The first
comic was posted in August 2000, making
this year Megatokyo’s 10-year anniversary.
Megatokyo is released directly to the web as
an online webcomic that is free to read by
all visitors. Megatokyo collections are published by CMX/DC comics. The latest collection, volume 6, is now available. Noted as
being “the best-selling manga series ever
by an American artist” by ICV2.com and
as one of “the 30 Most Important Comics
of the Decade” by Comic Book Resources,
Megatokyo holds its own against many
popular Japanese created titles. In 2009
a Japanese edition of Megatokyo Volume
1 was released in Japan, the first original
English language manga title licensed by
Kodansha for the Japanese market.
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Fred works closely with his wife and business partner Sarah, who maintains and
runs MegaGear, the official online store for
Megatokyo-related merchandise.
Darren Gendron
and Bryan Prindiville
http://www.dernwerks.com/HWC/
Bryan Prindiville is not a well man. Stricken
with many an affliction to the psyche, he
did not consult a physician of the humors.
Instead, he sought out Darren J. Gendron.
Together, they make the humor created at
Hello With Cheese. It does not make sense.
Updating five days a week, Admiral Ackbar
has been used as a punchline no fewer
than three times. They have made Smurfs
do awful things, and the sanest character is
Business Squirrel, who will do your 401(k).
Gendron once wrote
a week’s worth of
scripts, all consisting of words that
make him giggle –
duy, member, poot,
haberdasher,
and
platypus. Prindiville
rejected every one
of them.
A professional graphic designer and illustrator Bryan got into webcomics as a way to
create something not dictated by client sensibilities. Along with his work at Hello With
Cheese he keeps a less-regularly updated
sketch blog at the creatively named http://
www.bryanprindiville.com. Gendron is a
professional story-teller and writer by trade.
His other webcomics can be seen at http://
www.dernwerks.com.
Garth Graham
http://www.finderskeepers.gcgstudios.com
“Hey you sass that hoopy Garth Graham?
Now there’s a frood who really knows where
his towel is,” would be the words on the
lips of internet trawlers the world ‘round
if we didn’t happen to live in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy.
Instead, Garth lurks in moderate obscurity
churning out captivating comics since 2004
in an artistic style that mystically abducts the
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“we also need shoes with fake fish in them" – Oni
essences of both western comics and eastern
manga; blending them together through patent pending methods into an addictive drug
that tantalizes the optic nerves in ways science has yet to be able to explain.
His latest artistic creation is Finder’s Keepers,
the dark urban fantasy of a young lady
who
accidentally
claims the soul of a
man who is not entirely human, thus
entangling her in a
mystery that spans
the breadth of human imagination. It is a mystery whose solution will most likely get her killed, but is
the only thing that can return her to a normal life and break the bond between herself and her otherworldly companion.
Garth is also becoming well known for his
steampunk art, though his heart will always
belong to cyberpunk.
Rob Granito
http://robgranito.com
Rob Granito, internationally known artist
and illustrator, has worked for over 15 years
in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic art, and webcomics (PartiallyClips).
His name has been
attached to major
projects for companies such as Warner
Brothers, DC and
Marvel Comics, Disney, MTV, and VH1,
where he has worked
on comics, graphic
novels, trading cards, animation, as well as
book, CD, magazine, and novel covers.
Rob’s recent work has been on Iron Man 2
for Marvel, Spider-man Archives and X-Men
for Upper Deck, Marvel Masterpieces for Ritten House, and the playbill for the Broadway musical and posters for the 25th Anniversary celebration of A Christmas Story.
Never being one to ride on past successes
Rob is currently hard at work on projects
for Noel “Lois Lane” Neill, and Olympic
snowboarding sensation Ross Powers,
a CD project for music innovators Midnight
Syndicate, the soon to be released USPS
Comic Strip stamps, and a project for the
classic comic strip/cartoon Peanuts.
Rob is also in negotiations for a project involving comic/television icon “The Incredible
Hulk”, and a truly exciting charity project for
the NHL’s N.Y. Rangers: Garden of Dreams.
Brad Guigar
http://www.evil-inc.com
Brad Guigar is celebrating ten years of doing a
daily comic strip this year. His first strip, Greystone Inn, ran from 2000-2005. His current
daily comic, Evil, Inc. appears in front of an estimated 1.5 million
newspaper readers.
He has been nominated for an Eisner
award for Phables, a
year-and-a-half-long
weekly series of
comics about life in
Philadelphia, and he
does a weekly single-panel comic, Courting
Disaster, about sex, love and relationships.
He is the author of The Everything Cartooning Book, and the co-author of How To Make
Webcomics. He is the editor-in-chief of the
daily tutorial-and-advice site, Webcomics.
com, and one quarter of the popular Webcomics Weekly podcast.
Mohammad “Hawk” Haque
http://www.applegeeks.com
Hawk leads a double life as a techie and a
creative person and is on a continuous mission to discover and understand the latest
technology and future trends. He is also
the co-creator and
artist of Applegeeks, a
web comic that is
visited by many, and
a concept designer/
illustrator for Quantum Mechanix.
He will be at Intervention to sell his art as
well as conduct a Photoshop panel. His
Photoshop panels are well known to overflow their room capacity, so make sure you
get there early to get a seat.
Mike Hall and Ryan Thompson
http://www.darkstar-studios.com
Darkstar Studios was founded in 2007 by
Mike Hall, which currently features three
webcomics: Across the Multiverse, [sic] Productions, and the most recent addition, Fajita, which was created by Ryan Thompson
who joined the Darkstar ranks in 2009. Between all three comics, the site updates five
days a week.
Mike Hall has been drawing since his hand
could hold a pencil, but until 2004 it was always in a sketchpad
and most of those
sketchpads would
end up in a box hidden deep within
his closet. In 2004
an opportunity presented itself to allow Mike to bring his
work to light in the form of a webcomic. His
first attempts were, to his own admission,
“very uninspired” and he quickly sought
out the help of the international playboy,
Brian Godwin, to get the comic on track.
Mike soon found himself with a writer and
drawing full color comics on a weekly basis. In 2007 Mike decided to go out on his
own and launched Darkstar Studios which
housed his new comic Across the Multiverse
and took over hosting of [sic] Productions
which resumed updates in early 2010.
Ryan Thompson is the latest addition to Darkstar Studios lineup.
Born and raised in
Germany for ten years
on a steady diet of
Ninja Turtles and
Pokémon, Ryan discovered webcomics
at age 13. Inspired, he
intensified his already
passionate work in comics, hoping to someday run his own projects. He is now the artist
and writer for his webcomic, Fajita. A lifelong
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fan of comics, and die-hard cartoon enthusiast, Ryan hopes to bring his personal eclecticism, beliefs, and experimental styling’s to
the world through his work.
Shawn Handyside
http://www.halolz.com
Artist, graphic designer and internet addict,
Shawn Handyside is the creator and editor of
HALOLZ.com, the internet’s premiere source
for humorous video
game screen captions,
photoshops,
motivationals
and
other media. You may
also know him from
his past work in webcomics, including the
comic strips Staccato
and Fork You, and his online store, Ninja-Bot.
In his free time he enjoys playing video
games, designing humorous t-shirts, and
writing about himself in the third person.
Oh sure, he may have settled down and
had a family… but you can tell he’s still cool
because ninety percent of his iPod is video
game remixes and MST3K episodes. Also it is
well known that he is the greatest Team Fortress 2 player of all time! [citation needed]
James Harknell
http://www.awsom.org
Harknell has been working with Onezumi
for over 11 years. After noticing that there
was very little online to help artists, he de
cided to do something about it.
Harknell customized
his first art-centric
Content
Management System in 2003.
Today he releases
Wordpress plugins
at AWSOM.org and
serves as a webmaster and guide for the online comic and blogging industry. His most
recent accomplishments include custom
website installs for Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos and Erfworld. Harknell
co-founded Intervention and develops free
iPhone apps for webcomics.
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“Ya busy CEO ing :)" – Oni
Harknell is best known for his easy-to-understand way of helping artists get their
websites up and running. He has been a recurring guest speaker at places like XM Satellite Radio, Katsucon (http://www.katsucon.org), Ubercon (http://www.Ubercon.
com), Balticon (http://www.balticon.org),
and Otakon (http://www.Otakon.com).
Today he lives in New Jersey with Onezumi
and way too many computers.
Onezumi Hartstein
http://www.onezumi.com
Fans say that Onezumi is what would happen if Dirty Harry and Weird Al Yankovic had
a daughter that loved to draw. Oni is one of
the most active contributors and supporter
of the webcomics scene. She writes and
draws Stupid and Insane Defenders Against
Chaos: A Lovecraftian Horror Comedy. Her
dev team made the
Webcomics Central
App Service; they
give free custom
iPhone apps to other
webcomics.
She
founded an entire
webcomics and New
Media convention.
Intervention is a convention for webcomics,
fans, and creators who want to learn, have
fun, or just geek out. (Note to the people
reading this – it’s where you’re at right now.
It’s a very meta moment) If that wasn’t
enough, she also posts random art, more tutorials, and awesomeness in her personal
blog Onezumiverse. You can find her on
Twitter, on Facebook, or on the Stupid and
Insane Defenders Facebook page.
James Hatton
http://www.inhislikeness.com
James Hatton is the creative force behind
the minimalist webcomic, In His Likeness.
Originally the writer of the long-gone Nowhere Fast, Hatton struck out on his own
with no appreciable art skill to create a
comic that he had complete control over.
What started as four black circles has turned
into the mythology bending, fourth wall destroying, and pop culture savvy comic that
he has been working on for seven years. It
has spawned three original comics, two collective graphic novels, and will be reaching
Strip 1000 next year.
James is also the codirector of the award
winning documentary on the 24 Hour
Comic, 24 Hours Later,
and the host of Cosplay Burlesque.
Bill Holbrook
http://www.kevinandkell.com/
Bill Holbrook grew up in the Space Age
atmosphere of Huntsville, Alabama in the
1960s. Upon graduating from Auburn
University in 1980, he was hired by The
Atlanta Constitution as an editorial staff
artist. After several attempts at syndication,
his office strip On the Fastrack was picked
up by King Features and debuted in 150
papers on March 19, 1984.
Eleven days before that, he’d met Teri Peitso on a blind date. They were married on
Pearl Harbor Day, 1985, and now have two
daughters. They also gave birth to a second
strip about kids called Safe Havens.
In September 1995 he began a new strip
called Kevin & Kell and sold it exclusively to
online clients, which
collectively get over
3 million page views
a month. It has been
featured in fifteen
book collections, the
latest being Kevin &
Kell: On Strike which
will be published by
Moonbase Press in 2010. He was named Cartoonist of the Year at the 1998 Pogofest, an
annual gathering in Waycross honoring the
great Walt Kelly and Pogo. Kevin & Kell was
given the Ursa Major Award in 2003 for Best
Anthropomorphic Comic Strip. In 2004 it entered the newspaper domain by appearing
daily in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Insane Ian
http://www.insaneian.com
Insane Ian is a comedian/writer from
Baltimore MD who has been in several
bands and enjoys writing third-person bios
about himself. He
specializes in music
about video games
and nerdy culture,
but also finds time to
work in songs about
TV shows, the Moon,
and actress Christina
Ricci. After various
comedy “bands” throughout high school
and college, Ian found success after
parodying the Foreigner hit “Juke Box Hero”
as “Guitar Hero” went on to become the
#11 Most Requested Song on the Dr.
Demento show for 2008 (to Ian, 11 is just
Number 1… twice). Since then, II has been
hard at work, releasing two EPs, and two full
length CDs: 2009’s “n3rds0ngs” and the
recently released “The Last Arcade”. When
not writing songs about video games,
playing games, or reviewing games, Ian is…
wait, IS there anything else?
Ben Kahan
http://www.ansemretort.org
Ben Kahan is the writer and creator of the
webcomic Ansem Retort. Originally from
Connecticut, Ben spends most of the year in
Philadelphia, where
he is an English major at the University
of Pennsylvania. He
has yet to turn in an
assignment with less
than five F-bombs.
Ben has been making Ansem Retort, a
Kingdom Hearts sprite comic that has nothing to do with Kingdom Hearts, since 2005.
Holding to the commandment that nothing’s sacred, nothing and nobody is off limits, morals are gleefully thrown out the window. Ben could most recently be seen
getting coffee and answering phones at the
Howard Stern Show.
Eric Kimball
http://www.exiern.com
Eric Kimball (Drowemos) is the writer for the
webcomics Exiern and Blade Bunny (http://
www.bladebunny.com). Exiern is a fantasy
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parody exploring about a barbarian warrior
that gets turned into a barbarian maiden by
an errant wizard’s spell. The comic explores
gender roles and self perceptions in a humorous light-hearted
way. Blade Bunny follows the adventures
of a ninja assassin in
a Playboy bunny outfit. As for Eric, he’s
just a guy who still
finds the word “titmouse” funny.
Chris “Kilika” Malone
http://www.blueandblond.com
“Chris “Kilika” Malone is a humble surfer hailing from the east coast. He is best known for
his surfing webcomic, Blue and Blond, as well
as being the mediator
for the truce between
sharks and surfers,
which didn’t end too
well. He’s been surfing and cartooning
ever since he was a
wee little grommit,
but only started to
combine the two around 2002. One of the
few comics about surfing, Kilika wants to
share the surfing lifestyle and experience
with everyone, especially those who couldn’t
tell a surfboard from a kickboard. He prefers
long boards to short ones and hates jellyfish.
Steve Napierski
http://www.duelinganalogs.com
Steve Napierski first got into webcomics in
1999 with the ill-fated Life with Fishnets about
his local Rocky Horror cast. In 2004, he began
work laying out and
coloring Bored and
Evil, a task he performed for the first
two years of that comic’s run. The following
year he launched the
daily webcomic The
Outer Circle and later
that year he debuted the twice-weekly Dueling Analogs. He is also the founder of the webcomic group Gamers Pair of Dice.
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NERD Comics:
http://www.nerdcomics.com
Bree Rubin
Bree Rubin is the co-founder of NERD comics. She is the creator of two regular webcomics, the autobiographical Sex, Drugs, &
June Cleaver and the
irreverent
story
about the business
of God, Mysterious
Ways, Inc. She is also
responsible for several self-published
comic titles, such as
Silly Rabbit: Revenge
of the Trix Rabbit. Known for drinking to excess and general rowdy behavior, be wary if
she offers you baked goods.
Ami “Auilix” Bogin
Ami “Auilix” Bogin is the co-founder of NERD
comics. Her very unique autobiographical
comic, The Glass Urchin, explores the true lives
of family and friends
finding love and being
lost. She’s done comic
and illustration work
for Jersey City’s NEW
Magazine and Brooklyn Lyceum’s Mutt
Show event, in addition to a variety of illustrations for toy production. An unapologetic
lover of good times and good bourbon, her
stories are more than worth telling!
Ross Nover
http://www.systemcomic.com
Rosscott is kinda famous on the Internet. Between podcasting, blogging, and writing bios
about himself in the
third person, he finds
time to write the always amazing webcomic The System, a
daily
comic-strip
style mess starring
iconography
and
graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage.
Having been written about in Fleen, Comic
Book Resources, and onward through the
blogosphere (which surprisingly does not
set off spell check), The System and its growing fans (known as Systemics) are sneaking
up behind you and hoping that you join their
ranks, for which you may receive a cookie.*
While he often travels, he maintains his
humble apartment in Washington, DC (which
is in need of a fair amount of tidying).
*Cookie currently unavailable.
David Reddick
http://www.legendofbill.com
David Reddick is a professional cartoonist and the creator/writer/artist of the gloriously *cough* savage Legend of Bill, as
well as The Trek Life (previously) at CBS/
STARTREK.COM, Gene’s Journal and Rod &
Barry at Roddenberry.com, and he is a fulltime cartoonist at Paws, Inc., where he works
on the Garfield worldwide property.
David also worked as an award-winning staff
cartoonist at a daily newspaper for 6 years
where his editorial cartoons and single-panel
cartoons were distributed to newspapers nationwide through Artizans Syndicate, Scripps
Howard News Service and CNHI News Service. David also produces comics and cartoons for magazines like Star Trek Magazine,
Knights of the Dinner Table, Renaissance
Magazine, Nickelodeon and Scholastic’s The
New York Times Upfront, to name a few,
and has created comic book work for IDW
Publishing and Tokyopop, has created
product designs for
various companies
like Paramount Pictures, CBS Studios, Roddenberry Productions,
Canson, Inc. and the NCAA, has created mobile content for providers like CBSMobile and
ROK Media in the UK, and his abstract and
pop art paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Indianapolis, Florida,
Michigan, England and France, and he has
painted wall murals in Japan. One of David’s
original paintings and three original cartoons
are also included in the permanent collection
of the Muskegon Museum of Art.
Tom “Devo Spice” Rockwell
http://www.devospice.com
Devo Spice is a nerdcore/comedy/hip hop
artist from New Jersey who has become one
of the most popular artists on the nationally
syndicated Dr. Demento Show. Devo
Spice performs regularly across the country at music clubs,
comedy clubs, and
science fiction conventions. He has
shared the stage with
Dr. Demento, MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and many
others. The live show features videos and
animations synchronized with the music resulting in a hilarious show that goes over
very well with a variety of audiences.
Krishna Sadasivam
http://www.pcweenies.com
Born in Winnipeg, Krishna M. Sadasivam is
the cartoonist behind The PC Weenies,
a thrice-a-week technology humor strip
published
online
since 1998. He is
also the cartoonist
behind UNcubed, a
weekly online autobio comic, focusing on life as an Indian guy
in the United States. When he’s not creating
comics or working as a freelance illustrator,
Krishna teaches full-time in the Media Arts
and Animation department of the Art Institute of Tampa in Florida.
Allison Sarnoff
http://www.knitprincess.com
Allison Sarnoff is the writer of Knit Princess,
the world’s first web
comic for knitters.
When the concept
was first proposed to
her, Allison’s reaction
was, “no one is going
to read that.” When
the idea was pre-
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sented to artist Melody Moore, she gave it
three weeks before Allison ran out of ways
to make knitting funny. Both are thrilled to
have been proven wrong. Knit Princess updates three days a week and is inspired by
Allison’s life a little more closely than she is
willing to admit. Her cats were unavailable
for comment on their comic counterpart.
Apparently they were too busy re-arranging
her yarn and hiding her knitting needles.
Anthony Stevens
http:/.MasterAnthonyStevens.com
Anthony Stevens is a multi-published author
of alternate history, urban fantasy and paranormal romances stories. A self-professed
“technogeek
olde
pharte”, he is currently employed as
an electronic security
analyst. Previous professional
incarnations include stints
teaching computer
history at the Florida
Institute of Technology and English in a business college in Mexico City. He’s also worked
as a technical writer and graphic designer
for several high-technology firms.
But when the moon is full – or even when it’s
not – he assumes a different identity: Free
and Open Source Software Man. FOSS Man
hates the idea of artists, photographers, writers, historians or any creative soul spending
money to realize their web dreams when
comparable free, safe and legal programs
are available.
Studio Unseen
http://www.sledgebunny.com
Studio Unseen is made up of two carbonbased creatures: Chris Impink and Barb Fischer. In January 2010, they premiered their
new project, Sledgebunny: a sports-animeinspired comic that takes place in the fastpaced world of flat track roller derby. On
December 30, 2009, they closed the book
on Fragile Gravity, a seven-year crazy ride
of a strip that featured independent comics, conventions, and (in an earlier arc) an
invasionary force of penguins. Oh, and an
extra-bitter stoat.
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Chris Impink does the artwork and web design; he has been featured in Antarctic Press
and did much of
the graphic work
for The Babylon
Project role-playing game. Additionally, his work
has been featured at various
conventions
such as Katsucon, Technicon, and Rising Star.
He is also mildly notorious for co-founding
Katsucon, though his team of spin doctors
has kept that under wraps for many years. In
his rare moments of free time, Chris works
with the crew from Super Art Fight (http://
www.superartfight.com), running the
Wheel of Death and notching up wins on
the championship belt.
Barb Fischer does the writing as well as merchandise assembly and convention spotting.
When not plotting out the nuts and bolts
of Sledgebunny; she takes care of her nineyear-old son which gives her just enough
time in the day to take one or two breaths
before plunging back into the fray. At some
point, she’s hoping to find the time to use up
the boxes and boxes of fabric she owns.
Donnie Sturges
and Danny Valentini
http://www.2wconline.net
Forming two-thirds of 2wcOnline, Donnie
Sturges and Danny Valentini are the writer
and artist, respectively, behind The Draconia
Chronicles, a weekly webcomic that combines elements of manga, anthropomorphics, action, fantasy,
and drama. Danny is
an
award-winning
cartoonist who created the series in 1999.
Donnie has handled
the writing since
2002, and in his
spare time, blogs for
webzines like Spwug,
and most recently, CHUD. Ask your doctor if
Donnie and Danny are right for you.
Super Art Fight
http://www.superartfight.com
Born out of Charm City, this troupe of amazing artists paired in creative combat made
their formal debut in June 2008 and haven’t
let up since. Leaving audiences with their
jaw agape with stunning shows up and
down the East Coast, the self described
“Greatest Live Art Competition in the Known
Universe” presents a unique show that
combines
graffiti
style art, Iron Chefesque judging and
pro-wrestling style
bravado – making for
an artistic omelet of
awesome served up
fresh. If you’ve never
seen their unique
brand of live entertainment, sit down, strap
in and get ready to be blown away.
Travis Surber
http://www.haintedholler.com
Travis Surber is a writer and cartoonist from
Martinsville, Virginia. He launched Hainted
Holler on the hosting
site Drunk Duck on
July 7, 2009. Despite
art that according to
one person “looks
like you have a severe
case of palsy” the
strip attracted a small
following. Switching
from three updates a week to five in September of 2009, Travis continued to try and improve his art and carve out his own unique
style. In recent weeks, his art has been compared to “early Phil Foglio after too many
beers”. Mr. Surber would like to apologize to
Phil Foglio for the unfair comparison.
Travis currently lives in Bassett, Virginia with
his wife and two cats.
H. Caldwell Tanner
http://loldwell.com
During the day, Caldwell works full time for
CollegeHumor.com as an editorial illustrator,
at night he staves off sleep by working on his
personal webcomic, Loldwell.com. He was
born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee and
then spent four years in North Carolina perfecting the art of
blowing off class to
draw comics. During
college, he began
pursuing his dream to
be a cartoonist by
drawing for the school
paper and starting his
first webcomic. Above
all else, Caldwell wants to make as many people smile at one time as possible.
Michael “Mookie” Terracciano
http://www.dominic-deegan.com
Michael “Mookie” Terracciano is the author
and artist of the fantasy manga webcomic,
Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. Since its
humble beginnings eight years ago it has received acclaim for its unique characters, addictive storylines, painful puns, awful alliteration and (gasp!) reliable update schedule.
Want to know what’s
so interesting about a
grumpy seer, his deformed girlfriend, his
angelic little brother,
his talking cat, his
archmage
mother,
and rock-star father?
Tovias
http://www.racomics.com
Tovias (a.k.a. Ben McCormick) began Reality
Amuck in August of 2003 and made every
rookie mistake possible. After six years of
attempted starts, he
left his job as a systems engineer and
now works full-time
on the comic.
He currently lives in
Southeastern Virginia with his wife, five
kids, two cats, a studio full of comic books and action figures
(“THEY’RE NOT DOLLS!”) where he writes
and draws Reality Amuck into the wee hours
of the night.
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http://ivcaffeine.com
Greg Uchrin is the creator of Intravenous Caffeine, a weekly jolt of high octane cartoon
commentary on politics, culture and the new
millennium American
Way. Launched in
2009,
Intravenous
Caffeine is his second
original web comic.
His first, Hail Dubyus,
begun at the start of
the 2003 war in Iraq
and running through
the remainder of George W. Bush’s administration, had the “dubyus” distinction of being
rated “Adults Only” in both the Google and
(temporarily) Yahoo image search engines,
although it contained no X-rated material.
A New Jersey transplant, Greg graduated
from the Catholic University of America
(CUA) with a BA in Dramatic Arts. While an
undergraduate at CUA, he received a staged
reading of his play Can’t Forget About Air
Bubbles at the New Playwrights Theater in
DC. He later received an MA in Medieval
Studies at CUA and has completed all the
course work for his doctorate. His resume
includes stints as a bartender, a videographer and several years at the Student Loan
Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), where
he worked in internal publications as an
editor and graphics artist.
Jean Marie Ward
http://JeanMarieWard.com
Jean Marie Ward’s first novel (written with
the late Teri Smith) finaled in both the SF/
Fantasy and Humor categories of the 2008
Indie Book Awards.
Her short stories
have been published
in numerous anthologies, including Here
Be Dragons: Tales of
Dragoncon (which
featured Robert Asprin’s last short story).
She’s also a multi-published author of nonfiction with an emphasis on genre-related
interviews and fantasy art. Her latest nonfic-
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Sluggy Freelance – http://www.sluggy.com
Greg Uchrin
tion book, Fantasy Art Templates, published
by Barron’s in March, provides scan-ready
templates for one hundred fifty fantasy
characters, monsters and gods.
David Willis
http://www.shortpacked.com
David Willis is no stranger to the world of
webcomics, having started his first series,
Roomies!, in 1997. Including Roomies!, he
has four webcomics
series under his belt,
such as the sci-fi drama It’s Walky!, its
more domestic sequel
Joyce and
Walky!, and Shortpacked!, a look at action figures and pop
culture. In 2005, he and other leading cartoonists formed the webcomics collective
Blank Label Comics.
Raised in La Porte, Indiana, David Willis
graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art in
Schaumburg, Illinois with a Bachelor in Fine
Arts. After college, he escaped the frighteningly-empty cornfields and hicks of Indiana to
the frighteningly-empty cornfields and hicks
of Ohio. David Willis currently resides with
his wife Maggie in Columbus, Ohio, where he
surrounds himself with more Transformers
toys than he can bother to count.
“did I ever tell you the story about the cows and the firetruck?" – Oni
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PANEL LISTINGS
Act Locally, Promote Globally:
A Conversation with Molly
Crabapple
Molly Crabapple and her Dr. Sketchy’s brand
of art events are a worldwide phenomenon,
with branches in North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and beyond. In this
panel, hosted by Onezumi, Molly will answer
questions about her use of the Internet to
promote and expand her Dr. Sketchy’s Brand
as well as her other online properties.
Adobe Illustrator
Demo for Comics
When thinking about making comics, your
average fan will automatically assume a
creator uses Photoshop; however, there’s
more than one Adobe package out there for
comic creation. Join our panelists as they
walk you through the steps and explain the
benefits of using Adobe Illustrator.
Adobe Photoshop
Demo for Comics
Want to know more about what Photoshop
can help you do? Then this panel sounds
like what the doctor ordered. From scanning
to flats to rendering, our panelists will help
you navigate the vagaries of the Photoshop
jungle. Various methods and styles will be
discussed as well as some basic lighting
and color theory.
Animation 101
Ever had the idea to animate your web
comic but not know where to start? Attend a workshop to find out the basics of
animation with a focus on core techniques
that translate to any medium. From paper
cutouts to 3D-CG-OMG studio graphics to
Claymation to Flash for the web, the key is
to make it look like it’s moving! Topics covered range from story boarding/film techniques and arcing mechanics to timing and
pose to pose animation.
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The Art Studio
Intervention presents the Art Studio, a room
open 24 hours a day that encourages attendees, guests, and staff to contribute artwork or statements on the dry erase walls of
the room. At the end of the con, the results
will be imaged and placed online.
Auto-Biographical Web Comics:
Bios and Boundaries
Check out how our panelists feel about
writing comics about yourself, how your
own life takes shape, and the definition of
boundaries between the “real” world and
the “dramatized” recreation. How does
one include or bar aspects of private feelings and the people around into a public
medium? What place do fiction and even
fantasy have?
Back In My Day:
The Webcomic Veterans Panel
This panel is comprised of webcomic artists
and creators who’ve been doing their work
(of some sort, not necessarily just one comic) for at least seven years or more. They will
grouse about the “good old days” and tell
you youngsters to get off their yard. They
might also tell you something that might
“learn you” something.
Ben Bova:
The Intervention Interview
Ben Bova documented America’s first space
program, witnessed the early days of lasers
and fluid dynamics, consulted on television
series and movies, edited some of the best
SF magazines ever, and still found time to
write over 120 books – not to mention the
new webcomic, A Duel in the Somme. Join us
as we explore the many facets of Dr. Bova’s
career and maybe peer into the future he’s
helped create.
Beyond the Veil:
A Finder’s Keepers Q&A
Comedy Vs. Drama:
Who’s Getting The Last Laugh?
Here is your opportunity to ask all the questions
you’ve been dying to ask the creator about
the bizarre and rich world of Finder’s Keepers.
Warning: this panel may contain spoilers.
Does a webcomic have to be funny to succeed, i.e. not necessarily joke-a-day, but at
the very least comedic in tone? Do serious
drama webcomics have a disadvantage in
gaining audience share?
Do you enjoy flow comics? Can you be an
attentive and productive member of an
audience? Then this is the panel for you!
“Bravest Audience Flowing Comic UltraTime!” is a panel dedicated to two things
and two things only – audience participation and flow comics... and nice red uniforms. Oh, damn...
Cel Shading and Other Advanced
Photoshop Techniques
Hawk, the artist for the comic Applegeeks,
will be demonstrating some of the techniques he uses in Photoshop to create his
comic and other digital output. Cel shading
and comic composition are two of the major
areas covered in this panel.
Charity Auction: Electronic
Frontier Foundation Benefit
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
is the leading organization defending civil
liberties in the digital world. They defend
free speech on the Internet, fight illegal surveillance, promote the rights of innovators
to develop digital technologies, and work
to ensure that the rights and freedoms we
enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded,
as our use of technology grows. Intervention is happy to donate the proceeds from
this charity auction, which will feature items
and artwork from many of our guests, to this
worthy group and cause.
The Computer is Willing, but the
Spirit is Weak: How to Build the
Motivation to Keep Going
Everyone hits that point in their career –
where it seems like a wall has popped up
in front of your creativity or output. How do
you find the motivation to keep on working?
Our panelists will talk about the techniques
they’ve used to move forward and keep
their motivation and creative juice flowing.
ConScrew.com and Others
ConScrew just recently completed its nineyear run, but the site is still holding up multiple comics, including Yuusha Hime Kalibourne and Blacklight. Find out more about
the comics in general, give feedback, and
check out a sneak peek at Seraph Shell, a
new comic starting Intervention weekend.
Copyrights for Artists
It is amazing how many people fail to understand basic copyright law when it is a
technical but critical element to their work
Erfworld – http://www.erfworld.com
Bravest Audience Flowing
Comic Ultra Time!
Club 242: Autopilot
Club 242 will be playing a wide mix of
songs and genres during the day for you to
relax or dance to. Check out our con music
twitter at http://twitter.com/interventmusic
to see the currently running song – or look it
up in the Intervention iPhone app.
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Creative Marketing 101
You may have a great idea, but if no one
sees it, it’s about as useful as a lead balloon.
Let our panelists show you how to figure
out who your target market is, plan your
method of attack, and generate measurable
results with your promotional campaign for
your creative work.
Dating Advice from
Hot Geeky Chicks (18+)
We have assembled a panel of fierce geeky
girls to share their dating and sex stories and
answer any dating questions you may have.
Bring a sense of humor, because we have no
idea how bizarre and crazy this is going to get.
Digital Vs. Traditional:
The Pros And Cons Of Each
Some artists love digital. Some artists love
pen and ink. Digital art gives you more flexibility, but traditional gives you the ability to
sell originals at conventions. Come and listen to a FRIENDLY discussion about the pros
and cons of each.
and livelihood. Here, our panelists will lay
down the basics as they are written in US
law, and clear up some common misconceptions: being registered to be protected,
protecting ideas vs. works, the poor-man’s
copyrights, the difference between plagiarism and parody, and much, much more.
Cosplay Burlesque
Cosplay Burlesque is a group of burlesque
performers and cosplayers dedicated to
combining the two for your entertainment.
Their show will be the epitome of live-action “fan service”.
Creating ThreeDimensional Characters
When writing an adventure or a story, having characters that the readers can get into
is half the battle. If the readers or players
become intrigued by the characters, then
the rest of the story will fall into place. Join
our panelists as they discuss creating characters that are non-flat and can intrigue.
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Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School
Molly Crabapple, illustrator and creator of
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, will be hosting a Dr. Sketchy’s drawing session at Intervention Con. Featuring the gorgeous NYC
pin-up model, Katelan Foisy, this promises
to be hours of sexy fun for amateur and
professional artists alike. Please bring your
own art supplies.
Dominic Deegan:
Oracle for Hire Q&A
Care for a peek into the future? Pick Michael “Mookie” Terracciano’s brain for any
questions and/or comments you may have
about his webcomic, Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. You may even get a spoiler or
two if you’re lucky.
The Draconia Chronicles
Come and take a look at the sleeper-hit webcomic that combines manga, anthropomorphics, fantasy, magic, and drama, pumped
out weekly and completely hand-drawn.
“I went with an Ikebana bird of paradise :D LOL they look like badass birds” – Oni
DrawCast Live!
Join us for an all-request drawing session broadcasted live across the internet!
Viewers in the audience and at home
can participate by asking questions and
tweeting suggestions.
A Duel in the Somme:
Official Launch
A Duel in the Somme is a 24-page standalone
comic book co-written by Rob Balder (Erfworld, PartiallyClips) and Ben Bova (six-time
Hugo winning SF author and editor), and illustrated by Bill Holbrook (Kevin & Kell, Safe
Havens, On the Fastrack). The worldwide debut of the printed book happens here! All
three creators will be present to talk about
the story behind the project, sign copies
and answer questions.
The Economies of Small Scale
Just because your dreams are big doesn’t
mean that you’ll be forced to break the bank.
This panel deals with posting a comic on the
cheap, a word about copyright, and the real
costs of self-publishing in ink and paper.
Everyone Needs Help Sometimes:
Webcomic Portfolio Reviews
Do you have an idea for a comic or want
to get some feedback on your work? Then
this is the panel for you. Our panelists will
gladly chime in and give feedback on your
work or ideas and give you tips to get going
to the next level.
Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About Publishing, But
Didn’t Know You Had to Ask
Writers at all points in the publishing food
chain share their experiences, good and
bad. Panelists will discuss the various advantages of NY publishers, small press and
self-publishing. Along the way you’ll learn
what publishers really look for in a book,
how to get your project noticed in a good
way, and how to spot potential warning
signs of trouble.
Expect the Unexpected:
Strange Tales from the
Webcomic Universe
Once you place your work online, and get
a certain level of success and traffic, you
can expect that you’re going to have a few
“interesting” situations or encounters along
the way. Our panelists will recite events or
situations that they’ve encountered that are
funny, horrifying, soul touching, or purely
WTF in scope.
Finding Your Niche: Targeting
Your Comic To An Audience
If you want to make your comic into a real
business, you need to think like one. Who’s
the target audience for your comic? What do
those people want and how are you fulfilling
their expectations? What if you can’t figure
this out? This panel will talk about how you
can analyze your comic property from a business perspective and determine how to proceed to get more traffic/sales for your work.
Free Is a Good Place to Start
Do you have big dreams, but a miniscule budget? Never fear; our panelists can show you
the path to Freedonia. This panel is a short
seminar with hand-outs highlighting free
word processing, graphics, audio and video
programs, and free web site templates.
The FuMP Concert
The FuMP Concert is a comedy music
show featuring songs and videos by FuMP
members Devo Spice, Rob Balder, and Insane Ian, plus surprise guests, maybe! The Funny Music Project (thefump.com) is a
collective of top comedy musicians, putting
out two free songs a week. With nerdcore
hiphop and parody songs about technology, fandom, and classic gaming, these guys
bring the geek humor like nobody else.
The Future: What Do We Most
Want To See In 10 Years?
Websites and web technology are not that old
in relative terms, but we’ve already seen a large
change in the style and capability between
Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. What is in store for Web
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AUTOGRAPHS
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GAMING PANELS
Chez Cthulhu
Interfection
You’ve earned slack with roommates,
goths, college buddies, and revolutionaries! Now, time to become a cultist and
earn Slack that Man Was Not Meant To
Earn (or something like that). Yes, it’s Chez
Cthulhu, bringing the horror of Lovecraft’s
Mythos right into your apartment... as if
the leftovers from the Pizza with Absolutely Everything weren’t bad enough.
Work your job – will you be a Morgue
Janitor, a Sanitarium Guard, or a Gravedigger? Buy things to give you Slack, like a
comforting Straitjacket... or some Friendly
Tentacles to make your day a little brighter. Invite people over to your room... and
sacrifice them! And Nookie... don’t forget
the Nookie. Preferably without the Ectoplasmic Slime.! Join your host Grayhawk
for a rousing game of earning slack from
beyond space and time!
From the great minds of GOtaku comes
the new action game, Interfection. Can
you survive the zombie apocalypse for
three days? Join the GOtaku crew at Intervention and find out!
Echoes of Empires
Munchkins & Munchkin!
Echoes of Empires.org
Help Define the New Kindred Nation –
Echoes of Empires focuses on the Vampiric struggle to maintain control over the
city whilst maintaining secrecy from the
mortal world. Within the Elysia, individual
characters struggle to improve their respective positions without drawing the
kind of attention that brings trouble.”
3.0 and beyond, and what new ideas look good,
or not so good, as we move forward?
The Future of ComicPress
Nothing stays the same, especially programs.
ComicPress has changed a lot since its initial
release – so where is it going? Come to this
panel to get the inside scoop directly from its
lead programming developer Frumph on the
current state, and future development, of the
main theme used for comics with WordPress.
Get Off My Lawn!
“How do I make a webcomic?” That’s easy
and covered by the other panel, but what
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The Last Sane One Wins...
Ia Ia F’Tang Cthulhu! A Cthulhu Dice battle
for as many cultists we can stuff in a small
room. New players are welcome. Bring your
Cthulhu Dice or we can hook you up with
a set. A prize will be awarded to the last
sane cultist in the room. If Cthulhu wins, we
will all be consumed... or we will award the
prize randomly. A $5 deposit (refunded at
the end of the game) will be required for
folks who want to borrow a Dice set.
What better way to start off your Saturday
morning than by having some sweets and
your sanity blasted away while playing
Munchkin Cthulhu! Join your host Grayhawk for a rousing game of killing things
from beyond space and time, taking their
(slime-covered) stuff, and leveling up!
about “How Not to Make a Webcomic?”
Everyday someone decides to make a webcomic and then makes the same mistakes
every other failed comic has made before.
This will be an in-your-face session where
panelists will describe the most common
mistakes they’ve made or seen others make
that delayed progress on their webcomics
career and the pitfalls to avoid.
Guests Uncensored (18+)
This is an open panel where our guests can
come and talk or answer any questions the
fans want to throw at them. Expect wacky
hi-jinks to ensue.
“How much work did I get done today? Balls like a Tanooki breakdancing like a BOSS.
Don’t let a day pass without making someone smile!" – Oni
How I Lost A Billion Dollars
in My Spare Time
Make sure to save time in your schedule to
make it to this panel. If you do, you’ll be
treated to a talk by Ben Bova on virtual reality, its invention, and why he isn’t a billion
dollars richer today as a result.
How to Make a Webcomic
Evil Inc. – http://www.evil-inc.com
How do I make a webcomic? Our panelists
will tell you how they did it, what challenges they faced, and answer your questions to
get you started.
How to Use Social Media without
Inadvertently Seeming like a Jerk
HALOLZ: Video Game Humor
on the Internets!
Do you like video games and internet
memes? Prepare to be entertained as the
editors of HALOLZ.com take you on a multimedia tour of some of the funniest user submitted content that the wildly popular site
has accumulated over the past three years!
Humorously captioned screenshots, original
photoshops and viral videos will all be on
display... along with a ridiculous number of
Star Wolf and Captain Falcon references!
“No way, I don’t believe it! I can’t lose!”
This panel also features a Q&A session
where we ask the audience strange, often
inappropriate questions about the world
of internet memes, video game humor and
running a large scale community site; and
they try their best to answer them! No wait...
strike that. Reverse it!
Bonus! Every panel attendee will receive a
free gift courtesy of HALOLZ’ online store,
Ninja-Bot!
Hear It Here First:
Who Should You Be Reading Now
So You Can Brag About It Later?
Who are the up-and-coming comics out
there? Who will be the next break out star?
Come discuss with our panelists the comics
that will be everyone’s favorites this time
next year – or who should be.
Social Media has changed the industry
dramatically. Gone are the days when
creators had little to no contact with their
fans. Which services are worth using? How
do we use them? What are some common
mistakes? What are some creative promotional techniques?
I Can’t Draw A Stick Figure
But I Want To Play...
Not everyone is an artist, but that doesn’t
mean you can’t get involved. A panel discussion on being the geek running the web
servers, the staff that keeps the convention
going and the enablers who... enable. This
is intended as a loose Q&A panel of folks
who have run conventions, provided support and cheerleading for artists and done
other things to “make things better”.
Is It A Boys’ Club? Can Women Be
Successful In Webcomics?
If commonly-used site tracking numbers
are to be believed, the top tiers of webcomic rankings are dominated by male creators;
however, there are numerous female webcomic authors and artists out there, many of
whom have won awards and accolades. Is it
possible there is a glass ceiling in the world
of webcomics? This panel will take a look at
what’s out there, poke around at some statistics, and try to determine first causes and
possible solutions to this issue.
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It’s a Long Way Down:
Taking the First Step to Success
Movie Showing: Toys Are Us:
A Revolution in Plastic
While the internet has made it much easier
and cheaper to produce artistic output, it’s
still not a cakewalk to get your work online
and in front of an audience. What are the
most important first steps to consider when
you decide to become a professional?
Our panelists will discuss what you need to
know and do first to get to success later.
Toys Are Us: A Revolution In Plastic is the
first ever documentary on the creative, sophisticated, and often challenging world
of designer vinyl toys, where artists create
their own weird and wonderful figures for a
booming, adult collector’s market. The film
is a high-energy, fast-paced celebration of
new forms of artistic expression, DIY culture, and of course, toys!
Joke-a-Day Vs. Storyline: Fight!
What style of comic wins online: joke-a-day
or storyline? With examples like: Megatokyo,
Penny Arcade, xkcd, Sluggy Freelance, PVPonline, Order of the Stick and others, it’s not so
clear which type of comic is “winning”. Our
panelists will talk about why they chose
their style of comic, and what they see as
the positives and negatives of both major
types of comic formats.
The Lightbox:
Illuminating Webcomics Podcast
This panel is about all things related to “The
Lightbox: Illuminating Webcomics” podcast... how it got started, why it got started,
how Matt Stout and Chris Flick record the
podcast and how they decide what topics
they’re going to discuss each week.
Net Neutrality: Is This an Issue
for the Independent Creator?
Net neutrality, or the idea that all sites
should have equal access and speed to all
users regardless of internet connection, is a
topic of contention for some of the major
internet service providers. Does net neutrality (or lack thereof) affect the independent
online creator? Will the lack of net neutrality kill the idea of the independent creator
or their ability to be seen/heard? What’s
your take on the issue?
Okay, I Finished My Story.
What Happens Next?
How does your story get from your keyboard
to into a reader’s hands? What’s the editorial process? Why does it take so long?
The Major Leagues: Is It Worth
It To Sign With A Major Label?
On The Internet
They Can Hear You Scream... LIVE!
While the internet lets you “be your own
boss” with your creative output, there are
definitely some benefits for being published
by a large company like DC, Marvel, Dark
Horse, or any number of others. At what point
does it make sense to consider licensing your
work, or soliciting the major publishers for a
job? Our panelists will talk about their experiences working for/with these companies – or
why they haven’t if they could have.
Internet Radio provides an opportunity for
anyone to become a live Disk Jockey, Talk
Show Host or Storyteller. Unlike the podcast, Internet Radio is real time and allows
you to interact with your fan base while the
show goes on. In this session we will talk
about what technology you need to get involved, building a station, interacting with
fans, misuse (?) of social media and how to
develop a successful show.
Movie Showing: Harvey Putter
and the Ridiculous Premise
The Outside Perspective:
Webcomic Review/News Sites
Intervention is pleased to offer its attendees a showing of the new feature-length
Harry Potter parody film, Harvey Putter and
the Ridiculous Premise.
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“I am jealous of ur lobsters. :( :)" – Oni
As the webcomics phenomenon has grown
it’s natural that a news/review sphere has
developed around this art form. This panel
will talk about the sites that are out there,
Sex Farm: A D00DZ Guide to
Getting Chicks Through Nerdy
Enterprise (18+)
Darkstar Studios – http://www.darkstar-studios.com
It’s obvious that webcomics and online art
are the new sexy frontier. Much like hair
metal in the 80s, everyone in the online
art field can look forward to being overwhelmed by groupies and falling into other
misadventures of the romping variety. Our
panelists will talk about how they’ve parlayed their online success into adventures
that make Motley CrÜe envious.
Sex Sells
the challenges of tracking a “scene” that is
as infinite as the Internet itself, and what
motivates the people who take up the challenge of talking about webcomics.
Join our panelists as they mull over the pros
and cons of using R-rated and up subject
matter in comics. Other topics include how
you can use sex to increase your sales and
the pitfalls of depending on it.
The Parent Trap: How to Keep
a Comic Going as a Parent
Sluggy Freelance and the
Dimension of Nuts
Life-changing events can be a major makeor-break moment for webcomics. Losing a
day job can be great motivation to focus on
the business side of the comic full time, but
what are the effects of dealing with children
to the creative process?
After over thirteen years of daily content,
people must wonder just how crazy Pete
Abrams actually is. You can ask Pete questions, and watch him skillfully (?) dodge
the point. Pete is notorious for drawing and
sketching his way through panels, but at this
one, he’ll have to actually say something!
Radio Free Intervention
Join us for a live broadcast of Bomb Shelter
Radio. Look over the console while the show
is going, ask the DJ technical and style questions, request a song, sit down at a microphone, suggest a news story. Bring your laptop and see what is going on in our chat room
and Twitter. This session is part performance,
part Q&A and massively unstructured.
Revenue Streams: How to
Make Ten-Tenths of a Living
Books, merchandise, subscriptions, donations, advertising, spinoff comics, mobile
apps, paid downloads, character licensing,
games, animated series, movie options,
speaking fees, selling original art, springboarding your other projects and services!
It might be that none of these can make
you a living on your webcomic, but combining many or most into one business
model could.
So, How’d We Do?
This panel is the last panel of the con. Come
give Harknell, Onezumi, and the rest of the
Intervention team your feedback on the
event. We encourage you to make suggestions for next year as well.
Steampunk to Cyberpunk:
A History
Join our panelists for an in-depth look at
two of the most engaging and popular subgenres of science fiction. The genres’ origins,
central thematic elements, major works that
define the genres will be discussed, as well
as how the two relate to each other. In addition to discussing the history of these two
genres, discussion of the subcultures that
have evolved from these genres will also be
discussed: what it means to be steampunk/
cyberpunk and what the genres and subcultures say about us as a society.
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Super Art Fight
The self-described “Greatest Live Art Competition in the KNOWN UNIVERSE” makes
their Intervention debut. Equal parts Pictionary and pro-wrestling, Super Art Fight is
an exhausting spectacle sure to blow your
mind! Shield your eyes as artists clash on
the creative canvas, and have their bouts
fates chosen by the WHEEL OF DEATH, a
random topic generator filled to the brim
with suggestions from YOU, the fans!
Super Art Fight Unleashed
You’ve seen the show. You know what
they’re capable of. Now what happens
when we give them a live microphone and
zero plans? Join the gang behind Super
Art Fight as they discuss the history of SAF,
where it’s heading, and honestly, probably
whatever else comes to mind. No filter,
no set topics. Shield your eyes, children;
it’s gonna get ugly.
Targeted Comics:
Going For a Specific Group
There are many examples of successful comics that specifically target a particular group
or niche versus trying to appeal to “everyone”. Our panelists will speak about why they
chose their comic topics and what challenges
and rewards they see in this decision.
Telling the Microserialized Story
Webcomics and flash fiction/microfiction
often involve stringing out one long story
over dozens or hundreds of updates, with
gaps of days in between. Not every page of
a graphic novel can pack a punch to tide the
reader over. Or can it? Should it? And what
happens to surprise when fans have days
to speculate about the upcoming plot? How
does it affect a writer’s approach when the
story must be told in such tiny increments?
Ten Years of Megatokyo
Fred Gallagher answers your questions
about his comic, Megatokyo.
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There Is a Line: Handling Potentially
Offensive Topics in Webcomics
Since webcomic creators only answer to
themselves and their audience, how do they
decide how far to go with humor, language,
violence, and other situations? Does a creator have a greater responsibility to police
themselves or does literally anything go?
Toon Boom Animate Demo
for Web Animation
This panel is a software demonstration of
Toon Boom Animate, claimed to be “a better
way to make Flash animation than Flash.“
Video Room: Viral/Funny/WTF
Our Video Room will be showing some of
the greatest online videos of all time. It will
be open most of the time the con is running.
Check out our con video twitter at http://
twitter.com/interventvideo to see the currently running video – or look it up in the
Intervention iPhone app.
War at Innsmouth:
A Goth/Industrial/Geeky Dark
Dance Party hosted by DJ Subvert
from Contempt and Labyrinth NYC
DJ Subvert came all the way from NYC to
spin Goth, Industrial, and Darkwave just for
you. There is no dress code, but costumes
and goth/fetish wear is encouraged.
We Are the Intervention
Why did Intervention happen? What motivated Harknell and Onezumi to create and
get this con going? Come talk to the Co-Con
Chairs of Intervention and find out directly
from the founders the whats and whys of
the con, and where it’s going in the future.
Webcomic by Committee
The panelists build an idea for a webcomic
(genre, characters, setting, basic plot, etc.)
through audience participation. People
throw out ideas and the panel picks the
best three. The audience votes for the one
they want to see created.
“I am confucious if confucious punched douchebags in the nutz" – Oni
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Webcomic Improv Comedy
Premier Performance
Come see your favorite webcomic creators
flex their creative muscles in this comedy
game show styled after the popular TV show
Whose Line Is It Anyway? The group will take
suggestions from the audience to create
wacky scenes and funny improv games.
Who’s Afraid of Traditional Media?
How to Art Dangerously Without
the “Undo” Button
Ask Brad Guigar, editor-in-chief of Webcomics.com, your webcomics questions,
and he’ll give you the answer in 30-second
bites. No creators making gratuitous plugs
for their sites every five minutes. No long,
rambling, monotonous stories. No series
of panelists repeating what the guy before
them just said. It’s questions. And answers.
The way a panel should be.
It seems that everybody likes those cool effects that make digital art LOOK like traditional media, but a lot of people are scared
to try actual traditional media themselves.
This panel will give a brief overview of a
few easily-accessible traditional mediums
and how to approach them without fear.
(It’s not REALLY impossible to correct your
mistakes! Well, ok, sometimes...) It will also
cover how to digitize your pictures for the
internet via Photoshop – scanning regular
and oversized images, and adjusting those
images to get what’s on the screen to look
like what’s on the paper – and show methods for taking your traditional drawings and
turning them into a webcomic.
Webcomics Webconcert LIVE!
WordPress/ComicPress: FAQ
Webcomics.com Lightning Round
Webcomics Webconcert LIVE! has gone from
URL to IRL and is premiering its live show at
Intervention! Come rock out with a full hour’s
worth of webcomic songs! Learn why T-Rex
has feelings, examine the mysteries surrounding Beartato, and have your smartphone
ready to pull up the lyrics for Xkcd Loves The
Discovery Channel. Music and webcomics go
together like rockstars and models, and this
show will ROCK YOUR CON!
WordPress and ComicPress are designed to
be user friendly, but you probably still have
some questions about setup, CSS, plugins,
themes, or other things for site development. Our panel of developers will try to answer some of these questions.
Web Design for Creatives:
What to Use and How to Use It
We’re Asking the Questions Here!
This panel is the inverse of most panels –
the panelists will be asking the questions.
It’s very hard to get feedback from readers,
and many creators have questions they’d
love to ask their fans, but rarely have the
opportunity to do so. Make this happen for
them! Show up and give the panelists feedback or answers to the random questions
they might have for you guys “out there”.
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“What time is it? COFFEE TIME BRING OUT THE HAMMERCAFFEINE PANTS" – Oni
Draconia Chronicles – http://www.2wconline.net
“I have some art and words. I want them on
the interbutt. Now what?” We’ll talk about
the business aspects of getting your website
up and running as well as how to make smart
choices so that you can spend more time
making content instead of playing with code.
World Building 101
This panel gives you a place to talk about
how to create a fictitious universe that
seems like it could actually be real somewhere and how to convey all the necessary
information to your readers without going
into drawn-out history lessons.
Writer-Artist Teamwork
for Webcomics
So you love to draw and your friend has
this really cool story idea. You want to get
together and combine your skills to make
an awesome webcomic, but where do you
start? This panel will cover tips on working
together as a webcomic team – scripting
and design work, effective communication
of ideas, do’s and don’ts, some helpful tools
to use, and management of workflow so
that you can make your collective ideas into
a comic that reflects the best of both your
abilities – without driving each other crazy.
Writing Unique Heroes
and Memorable Villains
Tired of square-jawed do-gooders, angstridden “anti-heroes,” weak heroines in little
outfits, and villains who are antagonists for
trivial reasons? Come get some tips, pointers and advice on how to make your heroes
and villains stand out and live forever in
someone’s memory.
Young Punks Kicking It:
The New Kids on the Block
This panel is comprised of webcomic artists
and creators who’ve been doing their work
online for less than 2 years. They’ll kick and
scream about how things are harder now,
and they’re misunderstood and being repressed by “the man”. They’ll also provide
the real deal and give their take on what
you need to do now to get going in the Web
2.0 and social networking age.
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“start a cafe IN MAH MOUF. Wait that sounds wrong T_T you know what i mean! CUPCAKES" – Oni
ARTISTS’ ALLEY
Afterimages of Ghostfire
http://ghostfire.net
Julia spent the first eighteen years of her life
in an isolated farming community of just over
600 people. While that might have led some
to sit and stare at the
cows all day, she
started drawing as
soon as she could
wield a crayon. By the
time first grade rolled
around, barely a sheet
of paper would pass
by without being covered with fantasy and fairytale drawings.
Twenty-two years later, she still finds herself firmly rooted in dark, “realistic” fantasy;
with sci-fi, steampunk, sequential comic,
and manga-styled work also making appearances. Most of her work is a combination
of traditional and digital methods, with a
heavy emphasis on digital painting. She has
attended artist alleys at conventions since
2002 – from Chicago to Boston to Atlanta
– and her art has won numerous awards online and through various art shows.
Selling: Pin-backed buttons, stickers,
bookmarks, laminated signs/badges,
prints, grab bags.
Alex’s Guide to a Life Well-Lived
http://www.alexsguide.net
Alex Heberling hails from Columbus, Ohio,
and has been making comics for the web
since 2005. She currently produces Alex’s
Guide to a Life.
Well-Lived, a slice-oflife journal-ish comic
that updates twice
a week. Her previous work, a fantasy
epic titled Garanos,
was recently completed after 3.5 years and
487 pages. When not chained to her desk
making art, she also enjoys “The Office”,
caricaturing, and is the convention artist
for Glass City Con in Perrysburg, Ohio. She
earned her BFA from Ohio State’s Art &
Technology department, where she learned
how to make robots, holograms, and 3D
models of nanomachines. (This means she’s
pretty much ready for whatever the future
tosses her way. Bring it on, Science!)
Selling: Comics, prints, buttons, keychains,
coasters, bookmarks, and on-site art commissions.
Alice in Underwear
http://www.aliceinunderwear.net
Hi there! I’m Amy Tiller, aka Alice in Underwear, the creator of the website www.aliceinunderwear.net! I’ve been a long time
fan of shoujo manga
so I decided to draw
one myself. If you’re
interested in manga,
underwear, magic or
romance check out
my webcomic Not So
Magical Girl.
A Little about me: I’ve
been drawing since I can remember but I
never really knew what I wanted to do with
art until I started watching Sailor Moon in
high school. By the end of my first year of
Art college I decided to transfer to a school
in Japan and spent five years learning the
language, teaching English and doing what
I love most, drawing manga. I’m currently
teaching ESL and Japanese and earning my
Master’s degree in Education. I also love to
create nerdy jewelry with legos, roleplaying
references, bottlecaps, and deco sweets. I’ll
be selling these wares along with promoting
my webcomic at my table. I’ll see you there!
Selling: Resin jewelry and accessories.
Deco sweets jewelry and accessories. Lego
jewelry and accessories.
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Also, Bagels
http://alsobagels.com
Brookes Eggleston is the creator of the online comic Also, Bagels . He’ll be at Intervention Con with the first
volume of collected
comics and other
cool stuff.
Selling: Volume 1 of
Also, Bagels, stickers,
and other merchandise related to Also,
Bagels.
Around My Hat/
Winged Wolf Studio
http://aroundmyhat.etsy.com
http://warofwinds.com/
Selling: Around My Hat – Custom decorated
one-of-a-kind
top
hats in Steam Punk
and Fantasy styles.
Also gemstone beaded necklaces in complimentary colors, to
match the hats.
Winged Wolf Studio
– Issues of original
comics, Posters, Prints, T-shirts, Original art
(inks, colored pencil) and mini sculptures.
Athena’s Wink
Find Athena’s Wink on Facebook.
Athena’s Wink is the brain child of cosplayers Athena-chan and Neo Angel Wink with a
combined twenty of experience in costuming. They specialize in fleece hats, origami
headbands and other cute accessories.
Please stop by and check out their adorable
selection of products.
Selling: Fleece hats, Origami headbands,
hair bows, hand made earrings, key-chains
and necklaces.
Bardsworth, Fairy Magik
http://www.bardsworth.com/
http://www.fairymagik.com/
Peter Tarkulich does not believe in sleep.
During the day he masquerades as a web
administrator for a local theatre company.
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By night, he writes and draws Bardsworth, a
family-friendly fantasy webcomic. He is also
one-half of the art
studio Fairy Magik,
the other half being
his lovely and talented wife, Katharine.
He is also a writer, a
reader, and a brewer
of beer. With a new
kitten in addition to
his four-legged son of several years, sleep
would be impossible even if he did believe
in it.
Selling: Books (collection of the webcomic),
t-shirts, art prints, original artwork, plushies/
dolls, and buttons.
Binary Souls/Other Dimensions
http://www.bsodcomic.net
BS/OD is fronted by William ‘Shaggy’ Chrapcynski who is an audio engineer, musician
and 3D graphic artist. He lives in the DC
Metro area with his
lovely wife, Kate,
who gave him the
ability to lurk in his
basement
studio.
This is where his adventure as a webcomic artist began.
William has been involved working with music in one way or another since he was a child. He’s played bass
guitar in a number of different bands over
the years and eventually found a love for
recording new material. While he does play
a number of different instruments, his love
for the sound of synthesizers became the
foundation of BS/OD’s music and actually
came before the webcomic itself. In 2007,
William decided to give BS/OD a face but he
didn’t have the patience or ability to draw.
So, he looked to 3D software to see if could
find a way to make it happen and starting a
webcomic gave him a platform where he
could practice working with this medium.
Selling: Comic books, buttons, book marks,
original music CDs and prints.
“I just attempted to breakdance to super mario bros and i think i sprained my buttcheek" – Oni
Caf-Fiends.net
(Spiked Bat Studios, LLC)
http://www.caf-fiends.net
Realizing that they were getting too much
sleep, Connecticut natives Kevin Roy and
Blondie created Caf-Fiends, a lovely tale of a
bot and his dog.
Well… not really. Our
story takes place in
the city of Hades. A
place where pool
boys become superheros, mad scientists
wear business casual,
Elder Gods fall in love
with robot girls and giant monster fights are
a spectator sport. At least it’s not boring.
Selling: Prints, mugs, shirts, comics, buttons, and totes.
Lisa Cavalear
http://projectpoppet.com
Lisa Cavalear is a Connecticut based artist.
She has been knitting writing and photographing her weekly webcomic, Project
Poppet since October
of 2009 as well as a
fantasy chibi comic
called Goober Glade
as of August of this
year. When not working at her day job as
a library assistant or
cartooning, she enjoys knitting, drawing, and questing for
dragons both in tabletop games and the occasional convention or renaissance faire!
clerk by necessity. His comic, The Cow, was
created because there is a distinct lack of fun
comic books. Taking the grim and gritty standby of “returning for
vengeance from beyond the grave,” Mike
has created a goofy
world of (almost) invulnerable superheroes, evil farmersturned-crime-bosses,
and giant talking bats
that can be found three times a week on his
website, www.thecowcomic.com.
Selling: Copies of my comic (The Cow),
Prints, T-shirts, Commissions
Friday Knights
http://www.friday-knights.net
While wandering in Tokyo, Wilfred and Laura
Robinson conceived of an idea to start a web
comic to chronicle their exploits. The idea
was tragically lost in a
kaiju attack. Months
later safely back in
America, the stubborn
idea found its way
back to them, and interrupted one of their
weekly D&D sessions.
The comic and the
game merged into one entity, and to make it
hilariously funny Michael Gans joined them
as a writer. Thus was born Friday Knights,
where humor meets critical failure.
Sledgebunny – http://www.sledgebunny.com
Selling: Project Poppet Related items: Hand
knitted poppet dolls, Sewn plush cats (kitteh characters), Travel neck pillows kitteh
style (handmade), Photo print. As well as
Goober Glade (comic to be launched in
August) related items: Character prints (original artwork), Keychains (original artwork),
Character buttons (original artwork)
Mike Donohue
http://www.thecowcomic.com/
Hailing from Rochester, New York, Mike
Donohue is an artist by night and a produce
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Selling: T-Shirts related to the Friday Knights
web comic. Hand made items including:
earrings, necklaces, cell phone charms, key
chains, small sculptures, drawings, prints,
amigurumi. All items centered on web comic, or geek/Japanese culture.
Geeks Next Door
http://www.geeksnextcomic.com
When two geeks love each other very much,
that is when the miracle known as “a webcomic” happens. Resident nerdy couple Jessi
and Matt Pascal live in an apartment with
otaku roommate Barry, and are occasionally
visited by closet-geek/glamazon Maggie. Together, they combine their powers to mock
the absurdities and celebrate the awesomeness of the geek life. Surviving a frat zombie
invasion, playing various RPGs, snack attacks, and fighting girl
scouts in a kaiju-style
monster battle are
just a few examples
of their adventures
online. Get to know
the folks that could
be the geeks living next door to you!
Matt and Jessi are both alumni of James
Madison University, and live together in
Northern Virginia. They have been doing
comics together since 2005, and started
Geeks Next Door in 2007. They frequent
many conventions and live with their many
game consoles, books, and dice in a messy
apartment. Read Geeks Next Door online at
www.geeksnextcomic.com
Selling: Comics, posters, t-shirts, and cards –
all original designs. Free buttons and other
giveaways, and also commissioned sketches.
ivcaffeine
http://ivcaffeine.com
Greg Uchrin is a transplant from New Jersey
into the Washington DC area. He graduated
from the Catholic University of America
(CUA) with a BA in Dramatic Arts. While an
undergraduate at CUA, he received a staged
reading of his play “Can’t Forget About Air
Bubbles” at the New Playwrights Theater in
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DC. He later received an MA in Medieval Studies at CUA and has completed all the course
work for his doctorate. His resume includes
stints as a bartender, a videographer and
several years at the Student Loan Marketing
Association (Sallie Mae), where he worked in
internal publications as an editor and graphics artist.
With the start of the Iraq War in 2003, he
began an original political
cartoon website, HAIL DUBYUS!. Although
HAIL DUBYUS! contained no X-rated material,
it had the dubious distinction of having been
rated “Adults Only” both in the Google and
(temporarily) in the Yahoo image search engines. Since the beginning of 2009, Greg has
been producing a new cartoon blog called
Intravenous Caffeine where he continues to
skewer politicians and other celebrities.
Selling: Book of collected cartoons from
my old website HAIL DUBYUS! T-shirt for
new Intravenous Caffeine website Larger
artwork reproductions cartoons and other
Commissions.
Megami Jadeheart
http://www.emeraldixia.com
Megami Jadeheart has been drawing as
long as she’s been able to hold a crayon,
and writing since middle school. She grew
up on Science Fiction
and Fantasy books,
and Saturday morning cartoons. An interest in American
comics segued into
an interest in manga
and anime, and an
inspired art teacher
in high school as well as a degree in fine arts
directed her style away from imitation of
either genera and into a hybrid of realism,
Japanese, and American comic styles. She is
still constantly playing with mediums and
finding new ways to express the worlds inside her head. Her favorite fall-backs are
graphite, marker, and digital painting. She is
also a seamstress and designer, and all
around crafty person.
“Moral: Remember, no matter what you do, have CONFIDENT BOOBS. #Themoreyouknow." – Oni
Annie: a Space Western, started with a bang
in December of 2008, adapted from a roleplaying game. Since then it has had a rocky
update schedule as the artist struggles with
life and her own tendency to overload herself with projects. But Megami promised
she would finish what she started this time,
and with 25 chapters of the story written,
she’s in it for the long haul.
Selling: Teeshirts, silkscreened and painted by hand; prints of art both original and
fanart; hand-made cat ears on hair clips;
buttons of original characters; commissions
drawn at the convention to order.
Jelly Bean Sniper Studios
http://www.jellybeansniper.net
Raised by his aunt and uncle on the desert
planet of Tatooine, Shane McCarthy yearned
for more, wishing to be an ace pilot in the…
wait, hold on that’s not right. A webcomic veteran while also very much a newbie, Shane
started his first webcomic, Middle Man, way
back in December of 2003. Lasting only three
pages, it was dropped and in April 2004 he
started Jelly Bean
Sniper, which wasn’t
very successful but
lasted longer than
three comics.
After a two-year absence, he currently
works on The Space
Between, which has more gratuitous nudity
than story progression, but his fans have
said that it’s quite alright. Started in November of 2009, Space is much more successful than both of its predecessors, having
far surpassed the fanbase of both previous
comics combined! Sure, the combined fanbase was three, but a victory is a victory!
Selling: Comics, T-shirts, Original art
Morlock Enterprises
http://www.morlockenterprises.com
Paperelle
http://www.etsy.com/shop/paperelle
Selling: Jewelry from paper using origami
and decoupage techniques.
Phantom Blush
http://www.phantomblush.com
http://blackaswhite.com/
http://thatssocutebuttons.com/
Priss – aka that pink-haired girl – graduated
from UArts in Philadelphia in 2001 with a
BFA in Animation. In 2003 started writing/
drawing Fast Fashion a quirky character driven manga style comic. April 2010 I started a
new webcomic – Suffocated by Cats, which
is about cosplaying
cats. I have been attending anime conventions since 1999
and have been in Artist Alley since 2003.
Other skills include: I
can perform about 50 yo-yo tricks, and if
bathing cats was an Olympic sport I would
bring home the gold.
Selling: Buttons, shirts, tote bags,and
prints based on my two webcomics- Suffocated by Cats and Fast Fashion. Also pet
commissions, in which I draw people’s pets
(sometimes in cosplay) in the style of Suffocated by Cats.
Psitta Lux Studio
http://www.psittalux.com
Arthi Aravind is a second-year student at
the College of William & Mary, studying
Marketing and Environmental Policy.
She operates Psitta
Lux Studio as a way
to share her
illustration and
jewelry design, and
indulge her hobbies.
Even though she
doesn’t plan to
pursue art as a
career, it will always be her passion.
Psitta Lux Studio is relatively new and is inspired by Arthi’s love of nature and bird life.
Most of her illustrations focus on these subjects and are made in her favorite mediums:
colored pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor.
The bright colors and neat lines produced
by these mediums are hallmarks of her
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Selling: Artwork prints and photography,
handmade jewelry, t-shirts.
Marisa Rand
http://www.marisarand.com
Selling: Cast plastic animal skulls, cast
bones, real bones/feathers/bugs in
shadowboxes.
Registered Weapon
http://registered-weapon.com
Selling: Registered Weapon Case 001: Joseph
Alphonse, or Footless
& Fancy-Free – The
first print collection
of the webcomic,
Registered Weapon,
Pinback buttons of
the main characters
Frank and FELIX, A
con-exclusive print,
sketches and original art from the comic.
Retail Gods
Huge fans of the game: CyberGeneration by
R. Talsorian, they decided to see if they
could produce a webcomic for the game. To
their delight, R. Talsorian agreed, and CyberGen 2027 was born.
CyberGen 2027 is set
in a future where between global warming, war, and plague,
mankind has devastated the planet and
been devastated by
her in return. Heroes
emerged to save the people of the United
States, and these heroes were the MegaCorporations. The Mega-Corps provided security, economic prosperity, and major advances in technology. But everything comes
with a price.
CyberGen 2027 is the story of Comet: a
boardpunk with a hoverboard and an attitude. This is the story of how she discovers
exactly what that price is and whether or
not she’s willing to pay.
Selling: T-shirts for tabletop roleplayers as
well as t-shirts for fans of CyberGen 2027
http://www.retailgods.net
Kevin Ward is a digital artist and occasional
bookstore worker currently residing in Charlottesville, VA. He started his webcomic,
Retail Gods, in December of 2009 to
get back in touch
with his analog side
and start toying with
sequential art. Also,
the penguins demanded it. He also
reviews books and
graphic novels on the site to justify his literary dependancy issues.
Selling: Merchandise related to the webcomic: buttons, plushie penguins, hats
(possibly), and hand silk screened t-shirts.
Shapeshifter Studios LLC
http://www.cybergen2027.com
Kate and Heather Graham of Shapeshifter
Studios are avid tabletop roleplayers.
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“Already drew 5. Any I made up a character calked Count Dookie Fart the Vampire who want u to eat his cereal.
I am a dignified lady." – Oni
Finder’s Keepers – http://www.finderskeepers.gcgstudios.com
style. Her handmade jewelry also features
bright colors and simple designs, often with
sparkling crystals.
Jennifer Smith
http://lasalleslegacy.com
Jennifer Zyren Smith is an author and artist
residing in Maryland. Ever since she discovered ElfQuest at the age of twelve, she has
been telling stories
through comics and
has an entire file cabinet filled with character designs and comics from the last
twenty years. Her current graphic novel,
LaSalle’s Legacy is a
fantasy story about a young ship captain trying to follow in his father’s footsteps. When
she isn’t making art, she is playing video
games and failing in her duties as cat slave.
Selling: Printed version of the online comic,
LaSalle’s Legacy, Chapter One; and “The Ballad of Sir Percival”, buttons and postcards of
fairies and dragons.
Sky-Dog Comics
http://www.skydogcomics.com
Selling: Comics, T-shirts, Original art
Dirk Tiede
http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com
Webcomics pioneer Dirk I. Tiede is the creator, writer, and artist of the indy werewolf
detective graphic novel series, Paradigm
Shift, and has been
drawing comics for
as long as he can remember. In addition
to printed collections, he continues
to serialize his comics online and was a
founding contributor
to premiere comics portal Modern Tales. His
artwork is showcased in the books Toon Art:
The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning and
Webcomics, appears the documentary Adventures In Digital Comics, and was featured
in Season 3 of NBC’s “Heroes.”
Twins Lin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twoo-bytwins/
Selling: Jewelry such as bracelets, necklaces, and anklets made from a unique thread
from Asia.
Kelsey Wailes
http://eattoast.
deviantart.com
Kelsey Wailes makes
things to make you
smile!! From handmade toys like robots and monsters,
to small games, and
original prints.
Selling: Robots and lot of kinds of handmade toys, original prints, and comics
Steven Younkins
http://www.circjockeys.com
Steven Younkins is the writer and artist of
Circ Jockeys,**** [*surk jok*-ees], a webcomic about education and being educated.
Circ Jockeys follows
Steve, Richard, and
Edi, circulation desk
workers in a college
library, as they attempt to cope with
the boredom of daily
drudgery and the
malaise afforded to
students of higher education.
Steven is a senior at Hood College in Frederick, MD studying English and Writing. He
has been drawing Circ Jockeys for assorted
college publications since 2007, and it has
been online since 2009.
Selling: Sketches, Prints, and 1” buttons.
Selling: Graphic novels, prints and
original artwork
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AREA GUIDE
Rockville, one of the largest cities in Maryland, will host Intervention. Considered by
many to be the technological center of the
region, Rockville also has a rich cultural history dating back to the 1700s. The city itself is celebrating its 150th anniversary in
2010, but Intervention is sure to be the biggest party in town all year! If this is your first
time to the area, here’s a handy guide to
area restaurants, shopping, and attractions
to help you feel a little more at home.
Phillip’s Seafood Restaurant
DINING
Rolls ‘n Rice
You can’t throw a stone without hitting a restaurant in Rockville, but we’ve taken the liberty
of picking out some of the better food options
within walking distance of Intervention.
Twinbrook Grille
1750 Rockville Pike
The Hilton Rockville’s own restaurant. From
their website: From sumptuous entrees
to delectable desserts, The Twinbrook
Grille serves delightful Maryland regional
cuisine. Enjoy Hilton’s Bountiful Breakfast
Buffet which boasts over 100 items or a-la
carte menu. Daily lunch specials feature a
seasonal flair. Black Angus Steaks are our
specialty each evening for dinner at our
fabulous Twinbrook Grille.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0 feet
Riff’s Lounge
1750 Rockville Pike
Relax with a glass of wine or a tasty
martini under our glass roofed atrium
with colleagues or friends. Riff’s in Hilton
Washington DC/Rockville is the perfect spot
for a casual cocktail, a cup of coffee, a light
bite, and some peaceful down time while
you enjoy delightful background sounds of
light jazz music.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0 feet
1775 Rockville Pike
A little pricey, but don’t miss the $4 happy
hour specials 4-7pm on weekdays.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 328 feet
India Grill
1761 Rockville Pike
A local favorite. Lunch and dinner buffet
options from $7 to $11.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 449 feet
1701 Rockville Pike
Sushi and rice bowls.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.1 miles
Maria’s Bakery & Cafe
1701 Rockville Pike
A Hong Kong-style cafe that also has a
bakery with a wide selection of sweets.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Kenny’s Sub Shop
130 Rollins Avenue
Some of the best Chinese food in the area at
good prices. Apparently they also have subs,
but we couldn’t tell you much about those.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Ruby Tuesday’s
12266 Rockville Pike
Your typical family restaurant. Often runs
specials for multiple courses and people.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Whole Foods Market
1649 Rockville Pike
Not a restaurant. It’s a grocery store with
natural and organic foods.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Mosaic Cuisine and Cafe
186 Halpine Road
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“Holy crap my boobs" – Oni
Waffles and sandwiches by day, steaks and
seafood dishes by night.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Fuddruckers
1592 Rockville Pike
Very good burgers, made to order.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.2 miles
Lebanese Taverna Cafe
1605 Rockville Pike
Perfect for those times when you wake up
in the morning and say “I need Lebanese
food today or I’m gonna be pissed.”
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.3 miles
Armand’s Chicago Pizzeria
190 Halpine Road
Nice assortment of pizzas and Italian food.
Lunch and dinner buffets under $10.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.3 miles
Baja Fresh Mexican Grill
1607 Rockville Pike
A slightly tastier and healthier option than
most of those other buritto joints.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.3 miles
Noodles & Co.
1609 Rockville Pike
Noodle dishes from around the globe.
You know a place must be hardcore about
noodles when its URL is noodles.com.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.3 miles
Baskin-Robbins
1617 Rockville Pike
Now you can eat ice cream for every meal!
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.3 miles
Hinode Restaurant
134 Congressional Lane
Japanese food with extensive menu. Lots of
sushi options.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 0.4 miles
If you’re coming in your own vehicle, or
you’re willing to hop on board Ride On
Bus #46 which travels up and down Rockville Pike, there are hundreds more restaurants and dining options available to you.
You’ve probably already found them on
your iPad before even reading this far, but
if you want to try things the old-fashioned
way, check out some of these resources:
CULTURE AND HISTORY
If you have some extra time to check out the
surrounding area, you’ll find that Rockville
is full of historic and modern attractions
worth seeing. Here are some you won’t
want to miss if you decide to play tourist.
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery
603 Edmonston Drive
Local and region art exhibits are regularly
hosted in this enormous mansion seated at
the Rockville Civic Center Park.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 2.1 miles
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
603 Edmonston Drive
Over 150 performances are held at the
theatre each year, including concerts,
dances, operas, plays, and more.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 2.1 miles
Redgate Golf Course
14500 Avery Road
Rockville’s own public 18-hole, par 71 with
full service clubhouse and pro shop.
Distance from Convention Hotel: 3.1 miles
SUPPLIES AND SERVICES
Just in case you need them, Rockville has
several stores offering supplies and services you may need on your trip. And even if
you don’t need to hit the stores while you’re
here, you may still want to consider a short
pilgrimage to the nearby Micro Center electronics superstore if you’re not fortunate
enough to have one near you.
Micro Center
1776 E. Jefferson #203
FedEx Office
1750 Rockville Pike
US Post Office
143 Rollins Ave
CVS/pharmacy
1580 Rockville Pike
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THANK YOU!
Oni and Harknell
would like to thank:
Our volunteers for being the heart of the
convention.
Colette and Chuck Fozard – Without you
two, this con would have never gotten off
the ground.
All of our Enablers of every level – you
guys really made a difference and helped
when we needed it the most.
Pete Abrams, Gloria Chapa, Paul DiGennaro, DJ Subvert, Chris Impink, Barb
Fischer, Tom Sales, Ben Walker, Robert
Thomas, Rodger Burns, Tiffanny Walsh,
Isaiah Beard, Andrew Zorowitz, Ilya Kurakin, Grayhawk – You guys believed
in us and stepped up when it counted.
We will remember this.
Our fans and friends who came out for our
first year.
Bryan and Sarah Prindiville for letting us
crash at their place and generally being the
nicest people on the planet.
Oni would like to thank:
Sarah Showalter for reminding Oni to
play New Super Mario Brothers, to have
DONUTS AND CRABS PARTY, and being
her best friend for 17 years and counting.
DEEZ NUTZ, SON!
Our first year guests – You guys jumped
in early and really went the extra mile to
spread the word. We are so very grateful.
Brunetto T-shirts for enabling our t-shirts
for this year.
Coffee.
Chris AKA Doktor242 – You believed in us
before anyone else did, but you were taken
from this earth too soon. Club 242 will live
on in your memory.
Harknell for preventing her from punching
more people than necessary in the last several years.
Harknell would like to thank:
Oni for punching him all the time in the last
several years. (it’s toughened him up)
Publications would like to thank:
All the contributors for writing in actual,
legible English.
Marielle Messing, for another round of
excellent editing.
We would like to thank the following people for their generous
donations to Intervention. Your help Enabled us to have this event.
Maz
Chris Sarnowski
Frank “Grayhawk” Huminski
Sarah Showalter and Toygar Ayla:
“We would like to thank all of those
involved in making Intervention a success.
Thanks for creating an event to celebrate
internet culture.”
Illya Kuryakin:
“Join us for Disturbing Chat, Odd Games
and the best in Awful Music and IncoheRANT Talk! – WWW.BOMB-SHELTER-RADIO.
COM/intrvmmx – @bombshelter”
Patrick Perry
Tango
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Workshops
ComicPress/WordPress Set Up Workshop
in this workshop you will have assistance in initial set up of your WordPress site
as well as initial set up of your ComicPress theme. The basic usage of ComicPress
and WordPress will be explained, as well as the workflow for updating and maintaining your comic or blog. By the end of this workshop your site will be ready for
basic usage.
This workshop is scheduled to be 2 hours in length.
ComicPress/WordPress Intermediate Workshop
In this workshop you will have assistance in altering your ComicPress/WordPress
setup with CSS tweaks, theme edits, and other coding changes to add more distinctiveness to your comic or blog site. If you are still using the basic ComicPress
or WordPress themes you will get advice on how to make your site look different
from the rest of the crowd.
This workshop is scheduled to be 2 hours in length.
ComicPress/WordPress Advanced Workshop
In this workshop you will have assistance in upgrading your ComicPress/WordPress setup, adding advanced features, or getting info on special setups (multisite, caching, upgrade to ComicPress 3.0, etc.) Information on how to convert your
legacy ComicPress site to the new 3.0 system (without breaking things) will be
an especially prioritized subject for this workshop. Additionally the new “child
theme” system for ComicPress will be explained and assistance for setup of
these options will be provided.
This workshop is scheduled to be 2 hours in length.