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Fiestacon ~ Westercon 62 July 2-5, 2009 ~ Tempe, Arizona FiestaCon ~ Westercon 62 July 2-5, 2009 ~ Tempe, Arizona FiestaConWestercon 62 July 2 - 5, 2009 Tempe Mission Palms Table of Contents Hotel and Conference 2 Con Staff Center 3 Message from the Chair 60 East Fifth Street 4 Todd Lockwood – Artist GoH Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA 10 Alan Dean Foster – Author GoH www.missionpalms.com 12 Stanley Schmidt – Editor GoH 480-894-1400 14 Jim & Doreen Webbert – Fan GoHs 18 Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden – Contact Information Toastmasters 20 Policies, Con-Ops, Newsletter E-mail: [email protected] 21 Consuite, Fan Tables, Volunteers Phone: 480-945-6890 23 Charity Auction Write: FiestaCon, c/o Leprecon, Inc., PO Box 26665, Tempe, AZ 85285 USA 25 Art Show 27 Exhibits, Fanzine Lounge, “Westercon” is a registered service mark of Films & Anime the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Inc. 28 Masquerade www.lasfs.info Used with permission. 29 Dealers & Autographs 30 Gaming Program Book 36 Programming & Panel Descriptions 59 Panel Participant Bios Cover art: “Barfight”, by Todd Lockwood © 78 Membership List WOTC (Wizards of the Coast) used with per- 84 Westercon Time Line mission. 86 Westercon Bylaws FiestaCon (Westercon 62) program book 92 Facilities Map and Key designed and laid out by Dawn Devine and 93 Schedule at a Glance Joe Engledow of Ibexa Press. www.ibexa.com ~ [email protected] Printed in the USA by AZ Publishing Services www.azpublishingservices.com [email protected] FiestaCon - Westercon 62 - Page 1 FiestaCon Staff Advertising Committee Stacey Helton Merchandiser Committee Jane Dennis Anime/Film Screening Committee Scott Dennis Committee Mark Boniece Newsletter Committee Kathryn Yeager Art Show Staff Jace Foss Committee David Gish Staff Judith Herman Staff Pam Allen Party Liaison Committee Shahn Cornell Staff R Merrill Bollerud Staff Nola Yergen-Jennings Staff Sylvana Anderson Gish Programming Staff Vickie Edwards (At-Con) Committee Richard Foss Art Show Auction (Children’s) Committee Alison Stern Staff Gus Talbott (Pre-Con) Committee Catherine Book Staff JB Talbott Staff Charlene Book Business Meeting Staff Charlie Harmon Chair Kevin Standlee Staff Ioanna Stern Secretary Christian McGuire Staff John Hertz Videographer Lisa Hayes Staff Maryeileen Flanagan Chair Committee Mike Willmoth Staff Michael Contos Charity Auction Staff Mike Montemayor Committee Catherine Book Staff Nyki Robertson Staff Bill Whitmore Staff Paul Tanton Staff Cathie Yankovich Staff Rob Palsma Staff Deb Paper Staff Rusty Neal Staff Gus Talbott Staff Sam Book Staff JB Talbott Staff Tadao Tomomatsu Consuite Committee Alice Massoglia Staff Tara Bryson ConOps(Office) Committee Mike Willmoth Publications Committee Dawn Devine Staff Tadao Tomomatsu Staff Joe Engledow Dance (Modern) Committee Ethan Moe Publicity Committee Lee Whiteside Dance (Regency) Committee John Hertz Registration Committee Lyn Jeppesen Dark Liaison Committee Jeff Jennings Staff David Jeppesen Staff David Rood Staff Lisa Marie Quillen Dealers Room Staff Jeff George Committee Liz Mortenson Staff David Glenn Anderson Staff David Hiatt Staff Kris Bauer Staff Kim Hiatt Staff Brian Esterson Exhibits Committee Marcia Minsky Research Committee Nadine Armstrong Staff Christian McGuire Restaurant/Area Guide Staff Tadao Tomomatsu Committee Kathryn Yeager Fan GoH Committee Doreen Webbert Staff Julie McGalliard Committee Jim Webbert Security Fan Tables Committee Bobbie DuFault Committee Captain Morgan Staff Gerald Gieseke Staff Dano R Fanzine Lounge Committee John Hertz Site Selection Filk Liaison Committee Gary Swaty Committee Edward Green Staff Marguerite Murray Staff Nora Rankin Staff Susan Uttke Special Needs Liaison Staff Melissa Trible Committee Sally Woehrle Freebies Committee Len Berger Staff Terri Rinaldi Gaming Committee Ivan Erickson Staff Lounge Green Room Committee Janet White Committee Jenny Brundage Staff Theresa Contos Staff Regina Reynante Staff Liz Hanson Staff at Large Guest Liaison Committee Sharan Hoyle Staff Cathy Beckstead Historian Committee Mike Cassidy Staff Dierdre Soierse Moen Hotel Liaison Committee Mike Willmoth Staff Susan Gleason Info Desk Committee Cathy Mullican Treasurer Committee Jeff Richards Logistics Committee Rick Kolvacik Staff Lia Olsborg Vice Chair Committee Lee Whiteside Masquerade Committee Sandra Manning Volunteers Committee Mike Griffin Staff Randall Whitlock Webmaster Committee Jean Goddin Staff Jim Manning Writers Workshop Staff Sarah Manning Committee Nadine Armstrong Staff Kevin McAlonan FiestaCon - Westercon 62 - Page 2 Message from the ConChair FiestaCon (Westercon 62) Chair’s Message by Mike Willmoth Welcome to the 62nd annual Westercon! We have a June 2005: Leprecon Inc Board of Directors hold a great lineup of Guests of Honor, superb program par- special meeting to discuss the possibility of sponsor- ticipants, and a full schedule of events to educate and ing a bid to host Westercon 61 (2008) or Westercon entertain you during your experience at our fiesta. 62 (2009) depending on the upcoming bylaws change vote in Calgary, AB (Westercon From our Film Screening Room to 58 in 2005). The board voted Exhibits, Fanzine Lounge to Filk unanimously to proceed with Mike Room, Dealers Room to Art Show, Willmoth as Bid Chair. Only other Children’s to Adult’s Programming, bidder for 2008 is Las Vegas. we have been working hard since winning the site selection vote for July 2005: Mike attends Westercon 2009 to bring you the best pos- 58 in Calgary to launch the bid with sible experience this year in Tempe, a bid table and party. Members Arizona. We hope you immerse voted to change the bylaws creating yourself in our flavor of the fannish three zones with the current anti- southwest. zone rotation. Both Phoenix and Las Vegas now ineligible to run for Please consider volunteering to 2008 due to being in the southern help make our convention even zone, same as San Diego where the better. Without the gracious help vote will occur. of Westercon attendees, our event will be only a fraction of what it January 2006: No bids are received could be. Our Volunteers table will from either the new northern or be located near Registration in the central zones, so Phoenix and Las hotel lobby. Vegas are now eligible for 2008. Both bids push forward. Don’t forget to plan on the fire- works show sponsored by the City April 2006: Both Phoenix and Las of Tempe. Tempe Town Lake, just north of the hotel, Vegas have filed by the 15th per the bylaws. will be the launch site for this Independence Day spec- June 2006: Both Phoenix and Las Vegas appear on the tacular on Saturday, July 4. The hotel’s pool deck on official ballot for 2008 after an error is discovered in the second floor will be a great vantage point to reflect the bylaws and the dispute is resolved to the satisfac- on our country’s founding many years ago. tion of all parties. If you have any questions, our Information Desk will July 2006: Las Vegas defeats Phoenix to host Westercon be located in the ballroom foyer. Problems can be re- 61 (2008). Phoenix immediately rolls over all pre- solved by any member of the Committee (blue ribbon), supporting memberships into a new bid for Westercon Staff (red ribbon), or via the Convention Office (aka 62 (2009). Con Ops) in room 2071. December 2006: Phoenix files paperwork for 2009, Thanks again for being a member of FiestaCon and I thus eliminating the new central zone from eligibil- look forward to meeting as many of you as I can over ity due to the upcoming vote in San Mateo, also in the the weekend! Mike Willmoth central zone. Chair, FiestaCon April 2007: No other eligible bids are filed by the 15th, so Phoenix is the only bid to appear on the ballot. PS: For those who like to follow the fine details of his- tory and prefer to question rumors, then here’s a quick July 2007: Phoenix wins the bid to host Westercon 62 guide to the history of our convention as witnessed by (2009). the Chair. If anyone has a different history from this one, then I wasn’t there so it doesn’t count. FiestaCon - Westercon 62 - Page 3 Todd Lockwood - Artist Guest of Honor Todd Lockwood - Short Bio Dungeons & Dragons. Over the next seven years, he built an impressive body of fantasy images, and Todd Lockwood was born and raised in Boulder, helped to redefine the look of the popular Dungeons Colorado, and was educated at the Colorado Institute and Dragons game for the Third Edition release. His of Art. Graduating in 1981, he spent the next fifteen work has been honored with multiple appearances in years toiling in relative obscurity in the world of adver- Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration tising, painting beer cans and satellite dishes and other Annual, twelve Chesleys -- including the 2003 award mind-numbingly boring things. In 1990, when an for Artistic Achievement, two World Fantasy Art Show agent in New York chewed him out for being hospital- awards, and numerous industry awards. Now he finds ized, he started to plot his escape. himself, his wife and three children in Washington state, freelancing again, but doing In 1994, he attended his first Sci- the kind of work he enjoys, with ence Fiction and Fantasy conven- fans all over the planet. His first tion, in Winnipeg, Ontario, just to art book, “Transitions”, from see if he could make some con- Chrysalis Books (U.K.), was tacts with the people that did the released in September of 2003. “interesting work”. A door was You can see more of his work at opened that would lead to a staff his website: position at TSR, the makers of the http://www.toddlockwood.com/ popular role-playing game Dun- geons & Dragons. Over the next Todd Lockwood - seven years, he built an impres- Silly Bio sive body of fantasy images, and helped to redefine the look of the Todd Lockwood creates his im- popular Dungeons and Dragons ages with a mystic combination game for the Third Edition re- of acrylics, oils, Corel Painter, lease.
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