I felt like Bill Murray in the beginning of Lost in Translation only instead of being the tallest person in the crowded hotel elevator, I was the only one not donning wings, latex or a Storm Trooper uniform. I had just checked in at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency where I’d come to attend Dragon*Con, America’s largest annual popular arts convention… Read more →
Winners of the Dragon*Con 2004 Art Show were selected Sunday. Guest Judges Ann Sudworth and Charles Vess selected Best in Show and judged artists in professional, amateur and student categories. Fans attending the Art Show voted for special awards. Dragon*Con artists voted for the Artist Choice award. Results in each category are listed below. Repeating the excitement of last year’s… Read more →
Captain Khetara sutai-Lorenssith (Christine Evans-Arriaga) was crowned 2004 Miss Klingon Empire Sunday evening at Dragon*Con. The pageant featured one assassination, multiple injuries, death threats, and territorial disputes among previous pageant winners. Docked to prevent hurricane damage, the I.K.A.V. Battle Fury lent its flag to the event. The flag was handmade by Lt. Col. j’rel vestai-Kar (Delton Wilson) in a time-honored… Read more →
The 2004 edition of the Dragon*Con Dawn Look-Alike Contest saw a variety of aspects of the character. Fifty-seven entries displayed elements of the Dawn character before a panel of judges including 2003 Dawn Contest winner Valerie Potter, film actor Ernie Hudson, comic inker Amy Hopkins, and Dawn creator, Joseph Michael Linsner. Hosts Sandra Taylor and Peter Jurasik kept the crowd… Read more →
At Tracy and Laura Hickman’s myth workshop Friday, Tracy began to describe the benefit of outlines to writers by analogy: “If you hold a handful of marbles too tightly, the marbles start popping out.” The immediate question from one witty fan: “So, the more you tighten your grip, the more marbles will slip through your fingers?” As if this wasn’t… Read more →
Dragon*Con is a haven for science fiction fans whose favorite genre is television media. According to Marc Berman, a TV analyst for www.mediaweek.com (as reported in Thursday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), “the end of the X-Files [in 2002] signaled the end of a golden era for sci-fi” on television. Even though Buffy may have “slain her last vampire” on first-run, primetime… Read more →
If you are a fellow fan of the show Firefly, you are already familiar with Nathan Fillion, Jewel Staite, and Adam Baldwin. If you’re not familiar with the show (in which case, go now, rent, borrow, or purchase the DVD set, and watch it), they play three members of the crew of the starship Serenity, plying the space-lanes, doing various… Read more →
“Dragon*Con’s digital art show is one of a kind for genre fandom,” said audre, the digital show’s director. Located in Artist Alley (Marriott Imperial Ballroom), “get art the way you want,” is the slogan for the program. The show within the art show offers digital art in a variety of media: glossy canvas, glossy Light Jet™, matte Light Jet™, and… Read more →
