John Picacio Frank Hayes Equally at home with a pencil, a Armed with a guitar and an ironic, paintbrush, or sitting in front of a wry sense of humor, Frank Hayes computer, John Picacio’s artwork has been filking at often combines traditional conventions since 1979. Some of mediums, such as drawing or his best known pieces are “Never painting, with digital flourishes. Set the Cat on Fire”, “Little Fuzzy He is noted for the diversity and Animals”, and “Like a Lamb to the range in his artistic endeavors. Slaughter”, a talking blues version of the traditional folksong His art has illustrated the covers “Mattie Groves”. of books by Robert Silverberg, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Michael Moorcock, and Frederik Pohl to He has been nominated sixteen times for The Pegasus Award name just a few. His art has adorned magazines including for Excellence in Filking and has won five: Best Parody, Best Asimov's Science Fiction, and Interzone. He illustrated the Risque Song, Best Filk Song, Best Classic Filk Song, and Best 2012 George R.R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar. His Alien Song. art has graced the covers for works in both the StarTrek™ and the X-Men universes. His song “Cosmos”was used to wake up the astronauts on the Space Shuttle. Mercedes Lackey said of him, "funny enough to He has been awarded two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy make people fall down on the ground and gasp for breath at Award, two Locus Awards, eight Chesley Awards, and two first hearing.” International HorrorGuildAwards.

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Bob Wilkins Chelsea Quinn Pierre & Sandy Spider Robinson (gHost of Honor) Yarbro Pettinger (Ghost of Honor)

“Watch Horror Films, Two life-changing things Attending conventions In writing, Spider Robinson An American writer of Keep America Strong!” happened to Chelsea since 1981, and active found a way to escape mystery, historical, and was Bob Wilkin’s slogan Quinn Yarbro in 1968: in costuming since from his job guarding a science fiction, Edgar as TV host of several she attended her first 1983, Pierre and Sandy sewer. Almost Pangborn was the son immediately he created decades of horror and WorldCon and she sold Pettinger won their first one of the best known and of a supernatural fiction science fiction films her first story. Since costuming award at the loved places in Science writer and a dictionary programs in Northern then, she has attended World Science Fiction Fiction and Fantasy; editor. Leaving his California. From many more conventions Convention in 1986. Callahan’s Place. Writing Harvard musical studies Sacramento to the Bay and published 81 works Their expertise and love with humor, a singular incomplete, he shifted Area, Bob’s dry wit and of short fiction in of the form drove them imagination, and a to a career in fiction. cheap cigars multiple genres and is to win more awards grounded sense of what Initially he wrote pulp punctuated the presently working on than can be listed here, people are really all about, detective and mystery commercial breaks in her 95th sold book. but notably includes 4 his rise to fame was stories under a immediate and front of some of the Worldcon Best in Show accelerated. His reputation pseudonym as he flimsiest sets and As well as science awards. They are also today is supported by developed his craft, craziest props on TV. fiction, Yarbro writes active in costume dozens of books, several then shifted in the Whether he was acting mysteries, horror, non­ judging, and series, an impressive array 1950’s to science fiction out an episodic skit, or fiction, westerns, young masquerade of short stories and a and mystery writing in a hosting as who’s who of adult, and fantasy, most management, as well as wealth of essay's and humanist style that fantastic actors, Wilkins under her own name, serving in executive reviews. would inspire the next was the lynchpin of but some under positions in the St. generation of writers local television movie pseudonyms. By the Louis Costumers Guild Married for over 30 years such as Peter S. Beagle to dancer, teacher and night tradition. time the 2018 WorldCon (a.k.a. The St. Louis occasional co-writer, the and Ursula K. Le Guin. rolls around, she plans Ubiquitous Tailoring late , to be at work on her Society, or SLUTS), a Spider Robinson provides More than 25 years 100th sold book. chapter of the us with stories displaying after his death, International signature thoughtfulness, Pangborn’s sister left Costumers’ Guild. (True wit, irreverence, and his papers and literary Fact: They were unique insights into the works, including many Worldcon76 Crew committee members for human condition. not previously San Jose’s last published, to Beagle worldcon, ConJose in who worked to bring the in Helsinki 2002, and ran our best of them into print. masquerade there.) The World is Coming Bock to the Boy!

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