Artist Guest of Honor: Jeffrey Veregge | ||
Artist GoH, Jeffrey Veregge is an award winning Native American Artist and Writer from the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe near Kingston, Washington. He has created over 100 comic book covers working for Marvel, Darkhorse Comics and many others. He has been featured across different media including the Huffington Post and Wired Magazine. His work has not been limited to comic books as he has had his work exhibited in many galleries, most notably The National Museum of the American Indian George Gustva Heye Center, a member of the Smithsonian Institution. His Exhibit: Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes ran from October 6, 2018 - February 17, 2020. www.si.edu/exhibitions/jeffrey-veregge-working-title-event-exhib-6364 This exhibit featured what the Exhibit Label called “a blend of Northwest Coast formline and pop-culture figures”, in which he showcased his favorite Marvel characters. Veregge’s work can also be seen across the State of Washington, including at the Burke Museum of National History and Culture on the University of Washington (UW) Campus, in Seattle and on the Kingston High School Campus in Kingston, WA. The Burke Museum wall mural was entitled the “Forces of Nature”, and is located in the Field Camp Play Space. His 5 ft x 90 ft wall mural spans the back wall of the Kingston HS Library, according to the Kitsap Sun (a daily newspaper in Bremerton, WA. He is currently preparing for projects that include a large-scale mural inside the new Climate Pledge Arena (the new home of Seattle's NHL Team, The Kraken). Veregge has also been commissioned to create artwork honoring Coast Salish culture at the Salmon Bay Pump Station in Seattle, according to Art Beat Blog, [Seattle] Office of Arts & Culture. |
Program Participants: Filk Artist Alexander James Adams | ||
AlexanderJamesAdams1.bandcamp.com | ||
A professional musician for over forty years, Alexander James Adams is the Alexander James Adams is the Chosen Heir of fantasy folklore performer Heather Alexander. Alec performs her music, and his own with a style that goes beyond reality and into the imagined. With a fiery fiddle, compelling voice and the same enchanting magic, Alexander inspires his audiences to make their dreams come true and look for the wonders within | |||
From tender love songs to rowdy brawls, gentle Irish airs to rockin’ reels, the Faerie Tale Minstrel brings ancient legends and magical mythology to the mortal world in true bardic style, proving that the magic never dies! | |||
With nine of his own albums, two with Canticles Productions and a few short story readings, Alec is kept busy writing and engineering music for himself or others, performing with SJ Tucker and Betsy Tinney in Tricky Pixie, or with Fox Amoore and other Furry friends in Bandthro. Two pit bulls, three black cats, and a beloved, beautiful lady fill the rest of his day and his nights are dreams of tomorrow’s adventures. |
Author Catherine Asaro, Ph.D. | ||
www.Patreon.com/CatherineAsaro | ||
Catherine Asaro has authored about thirty books, including science fiction, thrillers, and fantasy. Her novel The Quantum Rose and novella “The Spacetime Pool” both won the Nebula® Award. She is a multiple Hugo nominee and a multiple winner of the AnLab from Analog magazine. Her most recent books are The Vanished Seas and Lightning Strike Book II, both of which came out in July 2020. Catherine has a doctorate in chemical physics from Harvard and a BS in chemistry from UCLA. Her paper “Complex Speeds and Special Relativity” (The American Journal of Physics, April 1996) forms the basis for some of the science in her fiction. She directed the Chesapeake Math Program for many years. Her students distinguished themselves in many national programs, including the USA Mathematical Olympiad, the USA Physics Olympiad, and the Harvard-MIT Math Contest. Catherine has appeared as a speaker at many institutions and as a Guest of Honor at cons across the US and abroad. She served two terms as president for SFWA and is a member of SIGMA, a think tank that advises the government as to future trends affecting national security. She also appears as a vocalist at clubs and conventions. Her most recent single, the Celtic-themed song Ancient Ages (written by Arlan Andrews) placed on the Blast-FM top 100 in 2020. Catherine can be reached at catherineasaro.net, and she has a Patreon page at patreon.com/CatherineAsaro. |
Author Darcie Little Badger, Ph. D. | ||
Award winning author Darcie Little Badger (DLB) is a Lipan Apache writer with a Ph. D. in Oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time, and her second novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, is coming in 2021. Darcie’s short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. DLB is an Earth scientist, writer, and fan of the weird, beautiful, and haunted.
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Dr. John Barentine, Ph.D. | ||
Dr. John Barentine, Ph.D. Astronomy, Director of Public Policy for the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA). He has recently served as a member of several Working Groups for the U.S. National Science Foundation “SATCON1” workshop | |||
Also, as a member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs’ "Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society” conference | |||
https://unoosa.org/oosa/events/data/2020/dark_and_quiet_skies_for_science_and_society.html | |||
Both meetings focused strongly on the impact of mega constellations on astronomy and the night sky, and I am a co-author on the final reports from both efforts. | |||
John is the author of two books on the history of astronomy, The Lost Constellations and Uncharted Constellations. The asteroid (14505) Barentine is named in his honor. His interests outside of astronomy and light pollution research include history, art and architecture, politics, law and current events. | |||
The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extince or Forgotten Star Lore | Uncharted Constellations: Asterisms, Single-Source and Rebrands | ||
The Killer B’s join LepreCon 47 Programming! In an online blog: https://kaedrin.com/weblog/2016/09/sf_book_review_22/, the author, Mark Ciocco, noted that Greg Bear, Gregory Benford and David Brin were dubbed the “Killer B’s”. According to Mark, this was due to their contribution to the “revival of epic, large-scale Hard SF, in the 1980s”. |
Greg Bear F&SF Author and Artist | Gregory Benford Science Fiction Author | David Brin Science Fiction Author http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AUTHORDAVIDBRIN/ | ||||||
Greg Bear has won multiple awards, including the Nebula & Hugo. Bear has also won the Inkpot Award, presented by Comic-Con Intrn’l SD. Bear sold his first story at the age of 15. Since then, he has published over 4dz novels and collections. His novels and short stories have been translated into 19 languages. His latest novel, “Unfinished Land”, was pub’d in 2021. Bear’s credits include story input on Jurassic Park Comics, scripted for IDW and a graphic novel entitled; Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games. He has won over a dozen and a half awards, As a F&SF Artist, Bear has had his illustrations appear on the cover of Galaxy, F&SF, & Vertex Magazines. His artwork has also appeared on the cover of hardcover and paperback books, including his own novel Psychlone. He is a founding member of ASFA and is also a founding member of Comic-Con Int’l, SD. Bear has consulted for MS, including their Xbox div, Google, and other Sfw companies. He has served on the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy. This Group was a private group organized by Jerry Pournelle, James Ransom, and Larry Niven. It consisted of F&SF writers, scientists, astronauts, military specialists, space scientists and engineers. They contributed sub- stantially to the end of the Cold War and advised NASA on the future of commercial space. | International award winning author Gregory Benford has published over 35 books, mostly novels, of which nearly all remain in print. His latest published work, Glorious, was published over the Summer of 2020. Glorious, 3rd in the “Bowl of Heaven” Trilogy, is a collaborative work with fellow author & Lep47 Participant, Larry Niven. Benford’s various Awards include, among others, both the hugo & Nebula, as well as the UN Medal for Literature, British SF Award, Lord Prize, for contributions to science, & the Australian Ditmar Award. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he co founded Genescient Corporation and Methuselah Flies LLC and won the Asimov Prize for scientific writing. Benford has served on the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy. This Group was a private group organized by Jerry Pournelle, James Ransom, and Larry Niven. It consisted of F&SF writers, scientists, astronauts, military specialists, space scientists and engineers. They contributed substantially to the end of the Cold War and advised NASA on the future of commercial space | Multiple Award Winning Author, David Brin sold his first piece of fiction, a novel entitled Sundiver, at the age of 30. Since then he has published over a dozen novels, including three graphic novels. His awards include the Hugo, Nebula and the Inkpot Award (presented by Comic-Con Intern'l SD). His newest nonfiction book, entitled Vivid Tomorrows: On SF and Hollywood, is due to be released March 2021. His newest novel, The Ancient Ones was published in 2020. Brin’s novel The Postman was made into a feature film, of the same name, by Kevin Kostner. He’s also published several nonfiction books and articles. His nonfiction works have included professional articles and papers published in professional journals and magazines, including The Astro- physical Journal and Information Technology and Libraries as well as popular magazines such as Omni, Nature, and Popular Science. He consults for NASA, corps., and nonprofits about the onrushing future. Brin's first nonfiction book, The Transparent Society, won the Obeler Freedom of Speech Award from the American Library Association Brin has served on the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy. This Group was a private group organized by Jerry Pournelle, James Ransom, and Larry Niven. It consisted of F&SF writers, scientists, astronauts, military specialists, space scientists and engineers. | ||||||
Author Evan Currie | ||
Evan Currie is a largely Independent author who has been writing both original and fan fiction works for more than a decade, and finally decided to make the jump to self-publishing with his techno-thriller "Thermals." | |||
Since then Evan has turned out novels in the Silver Wings series, the Odyssey One series, and the first book in an alternate history series set during the height of the Roman Era. From ancient Rome to the far flung future, Evan enjoys exploring the possibilities inherent when you change technology or culture. | |||
Currie’s works include several epic series, such as his “Odyssey One” and “On Silver Wings” series each of which surpasses 5 volumes. He even has at least one Duology and one Trilogy. His most current book, “On Holy Ground” is currently a stand alone novel. | |||
For a short novella set in the Silver Wings universe, and sneak peaks at everything else he's working on, join Evan's mailing list : http://bit.ly/2lVUFJW |
On Silver Wings 8 Bk Series (soon to be 9 Bks) | Odyssey One 7 Bk Series | Superhuman Trilogy | Scourwind Legacy Duology |
Artist David Dace | ||
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David Dace was born in the South and raised on a farm. At an early age, he realized that milking the cows and tending to the chickens was not his thing. He discovered his passion for drawing and he was good at it. Dace won his first art contest in the second grade by drawing Batman, at the time he couldn’t know that he would be given the opportunity to draw Batman professionally. In Junior High he entered his next contest with his anti drug poster, which took first place. Later he entered competitions in High School and ALWAYS placed in the top three. | |||
Dace went on to attend Jackson State University on a full music scholarship and he spent a lot of time in band practice and majored in engineering. Dace’s love for art, however, kept tugging at his heart. His major changed to Art in his Junior year when he realized that one must follow one’s passion. Dace has worked for a number of companies as an illustrator, including Marvel, DC and Heavy Metal, to name a few, ever since. These days he spends time teaching graphic design and working on Demon Blade. Demon Blade is one of Dace’s creations, which he designs, writes AND draws himself, and there will be more to come, according to Dace. | |||
Johnathan Soul does “Black Comics and Science Fiction” Reviews on his Youtube Channel at www.JohnathanSoul.com. On May 27, 2018, he reviewed David Dace’s “Demon Blade” #1. | |||
You can check out the Review at Demon Blade - Demon slayer with a killer shape!. |
Author Zack Davisson | ||
Zack Davisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He wrote Yurei: the Japanese Ghost, “Yokai Stories”, “Narrow Road”, and Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan and translated the multiple Eisner Award-winning Showa: a History of Japan as well as Devilman and Queen Emeraldas. Davisson lectured on comics and translation at Duke, UCLA, UW, and contributed to exhibitions at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and Sydney Art Gallery. As a professional translator, he is the author of “Confessions of a Manga Translator”, a column in The Comics Journal. He was nominated for the 2014 Japanese-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize. For Drawn and Quarterly, Davisson translates and curates the famous folklore comic Kitaro, for Dark Horse. He translated Satoshi Kon’s work, including Opus, Seraphim: 266613336 Wings, and The Art of Satoshi Kon. He also translates Leiji Matsumoto’s acclaimed Queen Emeraldas and Captain Harlock, as well as Go Nagai’s Cutie Honey and Devilman. He was a researcher and on-screen talent for National Geographic’s TV special Okinawa: The Lost Ghosts of Japan. Davisson has appeared as a commentator on Chinese news network CCTV. He has maintained the popular Japanese folklore website https://hyakumonogatari.com/ since 2010. |
Author Maxwell Alexander Drake |
Maxwell Alexander Drake is an award-winning Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)author, Graphic Novelist, and Playwright. He was also the Lead Fiction Writer and game story consultant for Sony’s massive online game EverQuest Next as well as writing for the Shadowrun game. He is best known for his Young Adult fantasy series, entitled Genesis of Oblivion. He won the 2009 Moonbeam Award for Farmers & Mercenaries (book 1 of this Trilogy) in the Young Adult Fiction - F&SF Category. Drake also teaches creative writing at writers’ conferences and fan conventions all around the world, including Comic-Con International: San Diego and Gen Con. He is the author of the Drake’s Brutal Writing Advice series. He did his Writers’ Workshop as a Program Participant at LepreCon 44, in 2018. Check out his Free Reading Page, on his website, which includes a few Everquest Next stories as well as some other short stories he has written. |
He is currently developing an animated TVMA show called Fiend Folly. The show was an official selection for the 2020 GenCon Film Festival. Find out more about this show at www.FiendFolly.com. |
Filk Artist: Cecilia Eng | ||
Cecilia Eng has been a science fiction/fantasy (filk) singer/songwriter since 1984 and has performed in England, Canada and across the US. She was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2013 for her contributions to the filk community. Since her retirement in 2018 she has become active in the Portland Folk Music Society and has joined virtual song circles in both the filk and folk communities during the course of the pandemic. She writes original songs as well as parodies (funny and serious) of existing songs. Her 1985 song, “Helva’s Song” based on Anne McCaffery’s story, “The Ship Who Sang” is still a fan favorite today. One of her most recent parodies is an uncomfortably serious song (based on Eric Bogle’s “No Man’s Land”) about homelessness called “No Man’s Home”. You can pull up some of her music on YouTube, and can also download her 2015 Conflikt Guest of Honor concert online if you Google “Cecilia Eng Conflikt”. |
Filk Artist The Faithful Sidekicks Eric and Jen Distad | ||
/theFaithfulSidekicks.BandCamp.com | ||
The Faithful Sidekicks are an award-winning comedic geek/filk musical duo that write and perform original catchy songs about the nerdy things they love. They play (mostly) funny songs for all kinds of fandoms - everything from Star Wars pop songs to love songs written entirely in SQL Code and even IT Sea Shanties. Their mission is to celebrate all the nerdy goodness of fandom life with a ton of heart and side of snark. The Faithful Sidekicks have been entertaining and delighting audiences at conventions, clubs, coffeehouses, and internet venues since 2014 and they are excited to be bringing their geeky music fun to LepreCon! |
Filk Artist Leslie Fish | ||
Along with the DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial filk recording, Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain’t Even Been Yet. Her second recording, Solar Sailors (1977) included the song “Banned from Argo”, a comic song parodying Star Trek which has since spawned over 100 variants and parodies. These two albums (originally on vinyl) have recently been put back into print on a joint CD, entitled Folk Songs for Solar Sailors. She recorded the comic song “Carmen Miranda’s Ghost”, which was the source for the short story anthology Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, edited by Don Sakers (in which she has one story and the notes on the song). Her song “Hope Eyrie” is regarded by some as being as close to the anthem of American Science Fiction Fandom as is possible in such a disparate group. Fish often weaves Pagan and anarchist themes into her music. She has also set to music many poems by Rudyard Kipling. She is a popular guest at Science Fiction conventions, and she can often be seen at the large Filksings with her distinctive 12-string guitar, “Monster”, which Leslie plays best when it is given good Scotch Whisky. |
Art by Leslie Fish, in a Star Trek Fanzine from the 1980s |
Rob Gates | ||
Rob Gates is the founder and administrator of the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards recognizing outstanding LGBTQIA+ content in outstanding genre works. He's served as a judge for both the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards and the Lambda Literary Awards and his book reviews have appeared in the Lambda Book Report, Wavelengths, the Washington Blade, the Windy City Times and elsewhere. He's a long time member of Lambda Sci-Fi, a Washington DC based social group for queer genre fans, and has chaired multiple Gaylaxicons (a queer sf con). He's also served as a panelist at multiple World Science Fiction Conventions - primarily speaking on panels related to queer content in the genre. He has lived in DC with his husband Peter, who is thankfully also a geek, for over 26 years and their front door is painted and decorated to look similar to the door to the TARDIS. |
Artist Gilead | ||
Growing up in the magical fairyland of Prescott, AZ—located in the Bradshaw Mountain range just west of Cimmeria, east of Barsoom and near the mines of Moria—Gilead spent his youth sketching the dragons, goblins and fairies who always surrounded him but whom, sadly, most other people couldn't see. "Fantasy and science fiction are so strongly associated with the illustration of books that it confuses people to meet a fantasy artist who isn't an illustrator, but I got my fill of commercial art in the sign business. My style is realism with a heavy dose of whimsy. It's all in good fun. I don't take myself too seriously; I just like to make cool pictures." Now a retired sign painter and something of an environmentalist, Gilead likes to paint on recycled materials such as lumber, cabinet doors and old signs. "What I do take seriously is the environment and ways to make it better. My current focus is mostly on the social and environmental impact of making art with recycled materials." |
Filk Artist Lynn Gold | ||
Lynn has been active in west coast fandom for more years than she'd like to publicly admit. She's been Featured Filker at Leprecon, and she's involved in running Consonance, the SF Bay Area's filk con. She's also performed at many Westercons, Worldcons, and other regional cons. |
Dain Q. Gore | ||
Dain Q. Gore has been a college instructor for over a decade. He received his MFA from ASU in 2009 and has taught at Phoenix College since 2010. Dain has shown his art all over the world, including the 798 District in Beijing, China and Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also makes and performs with puppets, most often at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater with Tommy Cannon, and lately at Drive-In Puppet Slams. His puppetry is generally sassy. Both his paintings and puppetry are generally colorful, surreal and narrative in nature, which shows up in his hobbies, too: He's been painting fantasy/sci-fi gaming minis since 1988, and has recently won awards at GenCon and Everchosen. He also enjoys video and board gaming of all kinds, loves to sing New Wave songs in karaoke, and cooking deluxe ramen. |
Miles Greb | ||
https://twitter.com/Goldrushcomic | ||
Miles Greb is a comic writer, folk singer, and Science advocate. According to his website, he believes that the Sciences are the best means we have for both understanding the universe and progressing ourselves. However, he also states “the Humanities should have a hand in it as well.” Grebs states that he tries to focus his “stories on optimism, on what unites us as a people, and where we are headed.” He is the writer and creator of “After the Gold Rush, Clovis, The Artist and Espers, according to his website. |
Filk Artist Daniel “gundo” Gunderson | ||
gundo has played multiple instruments for over 40 years in many different venues, starting in Montana and working his way to Chicagoland. He plays all the instruments in both Toyboat and Random Fractions, and can be found in Talis Kimberley's North American Band. He is currently working on a solo album, which is planned for release in January 2021. |
Filk Artist Mark Horning | ||
Mark Horning is a physicist hailing from the Phoenix Metro area. Originally from Northern California, he moved to Arizona in 1996. An avid folk musician, he is known for his space and SF based songs, and is often found in the company of a 6 or 12 string guitar. His first professional CD, Space & Freedom, was officially released at the 62nd annual Westercon, in Tempe AZ. Mark has physics degrees from Cal Poly (BS), San Luis Obispo, and Arizona State (MS). While at ASU, he developed a hybrid lighting system to calibrate the sensors used in the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) located at the Mt. Graham Observatory. Mark works in the aerospace industry developing and testing Night Vision Image Intensifiers. |
Benjamin Jackendoff a.k.a. B. Earl | ||
Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas and Benjamin Jackendoff Introduce a new Werewolf by Night to the Marvel Universe. An Article, by Jay Cochran, 09/08/2020 on https://marvelousnews.com/268-27452 |
Cathy McManamon |
Cathy McManamon is a musician from Chicago who found the filk community in 2010. She performs as a solo guitarist/singer, or with her band, Random Fractions, and as the drummer for the rock-filk band Toyboat. Cathy is also a studio musician for Canticles Productions. Her original music covers themes of land and sea and space, of humans and other creatures, of in-between spaces, and occasionally book and media themes. She has numerous Pegasus nominations for songwriting and performance, and has worked and toured with other musicians from the US and Canada. |
Author Larry Niven |
Larry Niven’s first story, The Coldest Place, was published at the age of 26, in an issue of Worlds of If Magazine. His first novel, “World of Ptavvs”, was published at 28. Niven has written extensively since those early days. His writings have crossed many different media from television scripts, to speeches, to graphic novels and comics. Niven’s latest project is in collaboration with Gregory Benford.They have co-authored a new novel published in 2020, entitled “Glorious”, 3rd in the Bowl of Heaven Series. A multiple award winner, Niven has earned, among others, the Hugo, Nebula, even the Ditmar Awards. The Ditmar for Best International SF, Australian. Niven also won, in conjunction with coAuthor Jerry Pournelle, the Inkpot, awarded by Comic-Con International: San Diego. | |
Niven’s current work includes a short story, The Dead Guest of Honor Speech, published in a 2017 issue of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine. His third book with friends Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, “Starborn and Godsons'' was released in April 2020, a sequel to “The Legacy of Heorot”. Another of his books which was written with Steven Barnes was released in June of 2020. Niven also enjoys F&SF Cons, RPGs, comics and filk singing. | |
Niven was also a member of the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy. This Group was a private group organized by Jerry Pournelle, James Ransom, and Larry Niven. It consisted of F&SF writers, scientists, astronauts, military specialists, space scientists and engineers. They contributed substantially to the end of the Cold War and advised NASA on the future of commercial space. As a member of this group he was able to participate in writing The Space Defense Initiative (Star Wars). |
Gerald David Nordley | ||
“G. David Nordley” is a four-time winner of the AnLab, the Analog reader’s award for best story or article of the year, and has also been a Hugo and Nebula Award Nominee. His main interest is the future of human exploration and settlement of space, and his stories typically focus on the dramatic aspects of individual lives within the broad sweep of a plausible human future. Trying to keep up with just what is plausible is a challenge, but he recycles his research for occasional nonfiction articles. He continues to write a few pieces of short fiction each year, but is currently concentrating on novels, with two published, two complete novels looking for publishers and two more in production. Nordley has six novels published and scores of short stories, appearing in various F&SF Magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s and others. For several years, he contributed the “Science Question and Answer” column to Speculations Magazine. In addition to writing, Nordley has done some consulting work in astronautical engineering on tethers, advanced propulsion, and worldbuilding for other science fiction authors. He may have originated the idea that for spacecraft pushed by pellet streams, with advances in microtechnology, the pellets could steer themselves to the spacecraft. He also dabbles in real estate and other investment activity. “Off duty,” Nordley is the Treasurer of Contact, Cultures of the Imagination, an interdisciplinary educational group concerned with issues related to the development of intelligent life -- from raw planets to expansion into space. He serves on the Board of the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society and is its chairman for 2017-2019. He is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society; senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics., a signatory of the Invitation to ETI, and a life member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), the Air Force Association, and the USC Alumni Association. |
Karla Pacheco | |||
Karla Pacheco and Spider-Woman were born on the same day in 1977, and now Karla is writing Jessica Drew!; from Comics Cube | |||
From an Interview on Comics Beat https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-karla-pacheco-bettie-page-1/: Karla Pacheco (Spieder-Woman) takes on writing duties along with Vincenzo Federici (Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho-Tep) on art, Rebecca Nalty on colors, and Becca Carey on letters. The series centers on Bettie’s move to Hollywood in 1954 as she attempts to jump start her acting career. Just as she’s about to begin filming on a tropical island, a murder takes place. Pacheco chatted with The Beat about the upcoming book and why Bettie is still so popular decades later. |
Madison Metricula Roberts | |
Madison Metricula Roberts (she/her) is a singer-songwriter, clown, guitarist, and entertainer from Raleigh, NC, with sets of material for all-ages or 18+ audiences. Her music ranges from pop-folk, Americana, and Peter, Paul & Mary style campfire classics and she's also a collaborator with The Salacious Crumbles and the Social Justice Bards. | |
Blacky Shepherd | ||
Blacky Shepherd is a Pacific Northwest based comic book artist and writer. Best known for his horror work with Cullen Bunn such as Vampirella Vs ReAnimator, ReAnimator the Eternal Lie, and Pumpkinhead, he has also worked on Voltron, The Transformers and GI Joe. |
Robert Stadnik | |
Robert Stadnik is a prolific science fiction writer, author of the Exodus starship adventure series and Exodus Universe novels. His latest novel in the Exodus Universe, Infinite Retribution, is slated for release in April 2021. Originally from Southern California, Robert has lived in Phoenix, Arizona for over twenty years. He’s traveled extensively for work here in the U.S. and internationally, meeting people from all walks of life. Besides writing, Robert is a car enthusiast, avid hiker, and enjoys playing video games in his downtime. | |
Author Kathryn Sullivan |
Kathryn Sullivan is a writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy. She began writing when she was fourteen and hasn’t stopped. She has written several books and many collections including the fantasy novel The Crystal Throne and short story collection Agents, Adepts and Apprentices. Sullivan not only writes novels but also many articles in ezines and other media. A couple of her Dr. Who inspired essays was a part of the Hugo award winning “Chicks dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Dr,. Who by the Women who love it” and “Children of Time: The Companions of Doctor Who”. Her writings are not limited to science fiction and fantasy. Her article “The Fine Art of Tweezing” is included in Outside In Trusts No One: 156 New Perspectives on 156 X-Files and Kolchak Stories by 156 Writers by Robert Smith. |
Amateur Astronomer Michael Weasner |
Michael Weasner obtained a B.S. in Astrophysics from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. As an undergraduate student, Mike was able to use IU's Kirkwood ObservatoryWeasner fell in love with asteroids when he worked on the IU Asteroid Program. He was on the Program for four years and even worked there full-time during the summer after his graduation in 1970. He was one of several students who would measure star and asteroid positions on 8x10 inch photographic glass plates using the Gaertner Measuring Engine. He then did graduate work in Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. | |
Following college Weasner joined the United States Air Force (USAF) and served as a fighter pilot, instructor, and a manager in the Air Force's Space Shuttle Program Office. The photo on the left is my "Tiger Shot" during T-38 Pilot Training. After earning his "wings" Weasner was assigned to the A-7D fighter. While in the USAF as a fighter pilot in the A-7D, an instructor pilot in the T-38, and working on the USAF Space Shuttle Program, Mike's interest in astronomy continued, although he was not able to actively observe much during those years. | |
In 1996, while working at a southern California aerospace company, He purchased a Meade ETX-90 telescope and started "Weasner's Mighty ETX Site". The Site continues to be popular worldwide. Weasner added an ETX-70AT, ETX-105PE, and ETX-125AT to his collection over several years. In 2002, He received a Meade LXD55 8"SC telescope Using the ETX and LXD telescopes, Mike once again became an active amateur astronomer. | |
As a long-time amateur astronomer and a member of the "International Dark-Sky Association" (IDA), Weasner has always recognized the need to preserve the night sky. In April 2014 He formed the "Oracle Dark Skies Committee" to pursue the designation as an "International Dark Sky Park" for Oracle State Park, and continued as the Chair until the Committee held its final meeting in December 2018, having accomplished all that it set out to do. | |
In November 2014, the International Dark-Sky Association announced that Oracle State Park was designated as an "International Dark Sky Park", the 20th worldwide and the first in the Arizona State Parks system. Also in late 2014, the IDA awarded a "Dark Sky Defender" award for 2014 to the Oracle Dark Skies Committee for its work and accomplishments. In November 2015, Mike was awarded an IDA "Dark Sky Defender" award for 2015 |
Artist Jason Youngdale |
Jason Youngdale is a visual artist and game designer. He founded and manages MaricopaCon, which is Arizona's first Kickstarted board/card game convention. Youngdale currently paints, draws, writes, he does woodwork, perler beading, and dabbles in photography, and casting in pewter. Born in Michigan, Youngdale has lived in Arizona since 1994, thanks to the USAF. | |
According to Youngdale, he especially enjoys painting and drawing Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), Surrealism, and Impressionism. |