2025

Opening Ceremonies—It’s Now Officially Dragon Con!

Opening Ceremonies—It’s Now Officially Dragon Con!

Thursday at 5:30PM in the Marriott Imperial Ballroom was the official opening for Dragon Con 2025. The room was filled to capacity with excited Con goers. Everything that happened before didn’t count, so all Con attendees had special permission to start over again, announced Brian Richardson, host and Dragon Con TV co-founder. David Cody, co-chairman and one of the original… Read more →

Looking Back to the Future

Looking Back to the Future

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first Back to the Future movie. Although plutonium still isn’t available at the corner drugstore, Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmet Brown), James Tolkan (Mr. Strickland), and Claudia Wells (Jennifer Parker) emerged from the time-space continuum at the “Back to the Future 40th Anniversary!” panel on Friday at 2:30PM in Hyatt Centennial II-IV. Moderator… Read more →

From Barbie to Heroes, Villains, and Horror with Tini and Blake Howard

From Barbie to Heroes, Villains, and Horror with Tini and Blake Howard

Tini Howard broke into comics as a writer in 2014 with The Magdalena: Seventh Sacrament from the Top Cow imprint of Image Comics. Since then, she has written for Dark Horse, DC, Marvel, Black Crown/IDW, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and others. Her work includes a wide variety of characters ranging from Barbie (yes, that Barbie) to superheroes, mutants and vampires,… Read more →

Author Jack Cullen’s Path to Writing: Military, Law, and Jackals

Author Jack Cullen’s Path to Writing: Military, Law, and Jackals

Jack Cullen has served in the military, practiced law, and been a police officer. After some unusual experiences along the way, including an encounter with jackals, he now writes science fiction and fantasy.  Daily Dragon (DD): Your website says you’ve been chased by a pack of jackals. What led to that, and how did you escape from them?  Jack Cullen… Read more →

Cosplaying Masquerade Hosts

Dragon Con is known as a premiere convention for cosplayers. It is one of the cons that cosplayers work towards all year long, creating brand new costumes for the event as well as bringing several cosplay options to display over the weekend. The capstone event of the con for this community is the Masquerade. There are entire traditions around gathering… Read more →

From Their Experience To Newbies Ears: A Conversation With Con Elders

From Their Experience To Newbies Ears: A Conversation With Con Elders

Any seasoned Dragon Con-goer will tell you it takes at least a few years to fully get the grasp of the monstrosity (dragon-osity?) of all that is Con weekend. Con elders gathered in the first panel of the Alternate and Historical Fiction track to help alleviate the pressure often felt by first-timers of doing ALL THE THINGS ALL THE TIME… Read more →

Artist Colleen Doran Chats About Superheroes, Space Travelers, and Rock Stars

Artist Colleen Doran Chats About Superheroes, Space Travelers, and Rock Stars

Colleen Doran is a New York Times bestselling artist and a member of the Women Cartoonist’s Hall of Fame. Her published works number in the hundreds, and her clients have included the Walt Disney Company, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Lucasfilm, Image Comics, and many others. She has won numerous awards, including the Eisner and the Stoker, and has received multiple… Read more →

Exploring Outer Space with Les Johnson

Author Les Johnson has published more than two dozen works that include novels, short stories, edited anthologies, and nonfiction books and articles, as well as a host of technical articles. A physicist with decades at NASA and a host of awards to his credit, he is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a fellow of the British… Read more →