Here is this page's first look at Elin Winkler of Radio Comix since she appeared at Anime Weekend Atlanta III in 1997. The independent company with ties to Antarctic Press has a big booth in the A-Kon dealer room. |
Anime fandom in the San Francisco Bay area was represented by the Bay Area Anime Society, and Robert Miles Jr. represents the league as one of its founders. A big group from the Bay traveled to A-Kon - and they have plans for a similar appearance at Anime Weekend Atlanta IV. |
Still one of the few people to wear a business suit at an anime convention, Carl Horn of Viz Communications spent the first day of A-Kon appearing on panels and putting up posters for his late-night party. |
Atlanta anime fandom was split between the E3 computer gaming show in Atlanta and A-Kon. Dave Merrill of AWA IV decided to head west to drum up more attendees for his convention in October. |
Of the five anime conventions covered at this page, artist Fred Perry has attended four. When we spotted Perry, he was looking for a table. Quickly finding a space, he started drawing - and it took no time for Perry's fans to find him and start commissioning artwork on the spot. |
TaviCat Comics was founded to create books for comics readers of all ages. The small company's leading title is the virtual-reality, computer-assisted Reality Check. Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons is half of the husband-and-wife team... |
...and Rosearik Rikki Simons makes up the other half. He looked tired because he had just finished two months of work on issue #10 of Reality Check. |
Green hair and a Lum costume this time for Ippongi Bang (the hair was red at Katsucon 4). Bang was accompanied by Mio Odagi, who found a group of fans who enjoyed her newest comics. |
Previous anime conventions featured on this page have seen fish, but A-Kon was the first with a snake. The rat snake in this enclosure was being gently petted by its loving owner. |
This wins the title of "strangest sign" at A-Kon, although the people to put it up didn't see the joke. It's on a door near the bank of (only four) elevators on the ground floor of the Harvey Hotel. Although the title refers to fire fighting equipment, "fire control room" usually means an area on a Navy ship that aims the guns at the enemy. Maybe the hotel knows something about A-Kon that we should know? |
