The winners of the 2017 Dragon Con Art Show were announced Saturday night. Awards were given in three categories—attendee awards, voted on by convention attendees, “Fantastic Beasts!!”, and juried awards, as well as best in show. Attendee Awards Best Alien: Stan Morrison, The Magician Best Amazon: Bernard Lee, Coronation Best Dragon: Naomi Vandoren, The Albino Fox Dragon Best Horror: Paul… Read more →
Alex Kingston has a new convention game, and she kicked off her Q&A panel with it on Saturday. It’s called “How well do you know River?” and involves having people in the audience imitate her famous Doctor Who greeting, “Hello, Sweetie.” This also required a “sweetie-off,” which involved the two ultimate co-winners imitating her catch-phrase “Spoilers!” The winner? Got a… Read more →
The fan panel “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy: The Man in the High Castle” was interactive from the beginning. Convened in Sheraton Augusta at 4PM on Saturday afternoon, the panel was moderated by Lindsey Boyer and included Roxanne Henkle, Andrea La-Rosa, Gary Mitchel, and Mark Staubitz. Right out of the gate, someone asked how similar the TV show is to the… Read more →
Matt Smith is a lanky, lean man with deep eyes full of excitement, joy, and kindness, which is no surprise to his fans and Doctor Who loyalists, who felt no fear taking his hand for five insanely fun years aboard the TARDIS. His incarnation, the 11th, of the eternal Time Lord may have been in the body of a young… Read more →
Fans raced from the parade at a lightning crawl to see some of their favorite characters on the “Flash: Which Way to Which Earth” panel Saturday morning in the Hilton Grand Salon. Danielle Panabaker, John Wesley Shipp, Katie Cassidy, Michelle Harrison, and Rick Cosnett spent a delightful hour answering questions from the speedy members of the audience who had somehow… Read more →
Sean Gunn sat down with the press Saturday morning and reflected not just on Gilmore Girls and the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, which is a part of the larger Marvel Universe driven by The Avengers series of films, but also on how Dragon Con helped initiate him into the world of fandom and convention culture. “You know what’s interesting… Read more →
The winner of the 2017 Eugie Award was presented Saturday night during the Dragon Con Guest of Honor banquet. The winning story was “The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin.
Saturday’s John Cusack session, 2:30PM in the Hyatt, covered nearly the entire Cusack filmography, reaching way back to the early ’80s. Alongside longtime friend and co-star Ned Bellamy and moderator Rob Levy, Cusack charmed the crowd with stories of his wide-ranging characters and films. “I got spoiled early,” he said, responding to Levy’s first question about his early films with… Read more →
