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2 SNAFU Con 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents ..................................... 2 Advanced Art Contest Winners ............. 10 Map of Convention Floor ......................... 2 Video Game Tournaments ..................... 11 Letters from the Chairs ............................ 3 Tabletop Games ..................................... 12 Guests of Honor ....................................... 4 Panels & Events ..................................... 14 Vendors ..................................................... 6 Everybody DANCE! ................................ 15 Artist Alley ................................................. 8 SNAFU Con 2012 Staff ......................... 16 Beginner Art Contest Winners ................. 9 SierraSNNevada AAnime FFans UUnite Arcade Level, GSR 1 Registration 2 Vendor Room 3 Gaming 4 Artist Alley 10 5 Tabletop Gaming Map7 8 of9 Convention Floor 6 Main Stage 7 Panel Main 1 2 8 Panel / Video 3 9 Video Main 4 5 10 Dance Room 6 39 Port of Subs (775) 786-0108 50 Snowind Sports 56 Grand Styles & Design Salon 40 Round Table Pizza (775) 789-2452 51 Georgiou 57 The Candy Barrel 52 Casa di Moda 58 Hawaii Island 53 Supranee’s Shoes Trading Co. 54 Grand Gold Coin 59 Addi Galleries 41 The Beach 55 The Upper Deck for 60 Clown’s Closet Men 42 Business Center 46 43 Laketop Golf 47 The Bunker Driving Range Indoor Golf 44 Health Club 48 Weddings at and Spa Grand Sierra 45 Grand Sierra 49 Fun Quest Cinema Family Arcade SNAFU Con 2012 3 Letters from the Chairs Hello fellow con goers, Welcome to SNAFU 2012!! It’s that time again! It feels like it snuck up on me. I’d like to thank you, One day it was May, the next day it was August, and all the volunteers, and now con is here. This year promises to be bigger and my fellow staffers for better than the last – as I expect every year will. It’s continuing to make been another crazy ride and I am looking forward to seeing all of SNAFU Con bigger and you having fun at this labor of love called SNAFU Con! I know that better each and every year. I do this for you. You and your wild antics, craziness, and silliness. As con grows closer every year, I get You, the staff, the guests, the attendees, the artists, the vendors . excited for what feels like coming home: you are all such amazingly awesome people that I feel honored to do reuniting with, and meeting amazing this for you. people and fans. I hope all of you have fun at SNAFU Con! Enjoy the panels, events, I don’t mean to gush, but it’s true! The staff have worked hard this games, vendors, and chaos. With your year to make SNAFU awesome. We have some really cool guests support and involvement, SNAFU will and fun programming. And don’t forget to just hang out with some continue to grow and become more and of your fellow con-goers! Go out there and feel free to be yourself more spectacular each year. because you are among friends! Sincerely, Pass the pocky and I’ll see ya in the hentai room! =D Nathan Sindar SNAFU Con Chairman ~beta SNAFU Con Vice Chair Dear Con goers, The reason my heart is so close to this convention is that we are, like many groups, out there, actively making things cooler, It’s that time of year again, and more fun for the fans, the guests, the con-goers. I know when we all gather under one we pull good numbers, and I am proud of that. I am prouder, roof to be awesome freely. though, that people keep coming back. Guests keep asking to Why? Because we’re awesome. come back. Panelists love coming to Reno. I’m happy that you You guys are some of the best show up, but I’m validated in that you keep coming back for people I’ve met. My fandom more. I feel genuinely awesome that you guys enjoy this con has always been a great way to enough to keep coming back. meet tons of people, ranging from incredibly talented So, as I sit back, smile, chomp on a bubble-gum cigar from the actors and musicians to cool candy store down the hall (omnomnom) and grab a seat, I just cosplayers to guys like me— want to say thanks to everyone who shows and everyone who the so-called “plain” folks. attended. I want to thank every staffer, volunteer, department head, and anyone else I’m forgetting. I’m not a pro-level cosplayer. I’m not the best actor, or comedian, or even vocal talent. I’m not an expert in much of So, in the words of a great movie, Be Excellent to Each Other! what I do—I’m entirely self-taught, and have been winging it for the last few years. And you know what’s so amazing about Michael “Gopher” McCraven that? It works. It genuinely works. Lord Imperator, Vice-Chair and Programming Director. 4 SNAFU Con 2012 Guests Guests of Honor As a comic book artist he has 17 published works to Sonny Strait date including his debuted self-published series Mr. Most recognized as the Average, and Elfquest which was published by both voice of Krillin on WARP Graphics and DC Comics. Dragonball Z and as an illustrator for Elfquest, In 2007 Sonny wrote and illustrated a graphic novel Sonny Strait has over 20 about a reluctant punk rock faerie princess named years of experience in Goat. The book, called We Shadows, was published the arts. by Tokyopop and was nominated by The American Library Association for Best Graphic Novel in 2008. Besides Dragonball Z’s Krillin he has worked on Currently, Sonny is reprising his roles in both the new many popular animated characters Dragonball Z Kai and Full Metal Alchemist series including Maes Hughes from Full Metal Alchemist, and plays the title role in the Xbox game S’plosion Usopp from One Piece and Cartoon Network’s laid back, Man. Sonny also began illustrating Marvel Comic’s robot host Toonami Tom. He has also worked as a writer sketch cards recently for Rittenhouse and fetches and director on several TV series including Dragonball Z, ebay prices up to $800 per card for his depictions of Case Closed and Lupin the Third. Marvel’s superheroes. Warp Graphics. Her latest effort is “Elfquest: The Final Wendy Pini Quest,” the next epic story arc in the long-running Elfquest grew up in Gilroy, CA. Largely self saga. Wendy considers this her life’s work. taught, her artistic talents were influenced by turn-of-the-century But the current love of her creative life is MASQUE OF illustrators, film and TV animation, THE RED DEATH. In the Summer of 2010, after four Shakespeare, Japanese history, labor-intensive years, Wendy completed her graphic novel fairy tales, myths and modern based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story. Her fantasy. She began her professional ground-breaking animated web comic of the same name career as an illustrator for magazines has received over 15,000,000 views. It has been published such as “Galaxy” and “Worlds of If.” as a limited edition 400 page volume by Warp Graphics/Father Tree Press. Wendy has worked for various publishers such as Marvel, First Comics, Comico, Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated and DC Comics. She wrote and painted two critically acclaimed graphic novels based on the hit TV series “Beauty and the Beast” and supplied text and Brad illustrations for “Law and Chaos,” an art book inspired by the Beachell writings of Michael Moorcock. Born and raised in Utah. Originally cast as a minor In 1997, Wendy had the rare privilege of designing the elfin role, his vocal prowess mascot for the Enclosed Laminar Flames investigation (ELF) soon became evident and he an experiment performed in space by members of the crew of quickly rose to the challenge Space Shuttle Columbia. In June 2012, Wendy and husband/ in his new role as one of the main partner Richard are slated to be guest speakers at Spacefest IV. characters, Prince Alexandros in a new audio book. Since Though Elfquest has yet to make it to the big screen, Wendy then, he has had several roles in videos and movies, and has never stopped producing new comics-related material for looks forward to his next major role in Return of the Guitar Lord as Marko. SNAFU Con 2012 Guests 5 Christopher Escalante is an award-winning music composer and voice actor for video games, film, and media. As a composer, Christopher has learned from many prominent composers such as Hans Zimmer, Gerard Marino, Sam Cardon, and many others. First composing in 2009, he quickly gained popularity after being awarded the “2009 AME Best Audio - Body of Work” by the Academy of Modding Excellence for his contributions to the Neverwinter Nights 2 IGN modding vault. And has since then, gone on to score many video games, machinima series, audio books, short films, commercials, viral videos, and a television pilot. As a voice actor, Christopher broke into voice acting for video games in Nexon’s “Dungeon Fighter Online,” afterwards starring in many indie video games such as “Return of the Guitar Lord” and “Abandoned,” as well as many small-time media productions for machinima, animation, book trailers, and commercial work. http://escalantemusic.com/ Preston Cowley a Denver native, grew up fascinated with video games, animation, and voice acting. While studying for his animation degree at Brigham Young University, he also studied voice acting under Christopher Robin Miller (Professor Layton) to hone his skills. Preston’s latest work includes Return of the Guitar Lord, and Abandoned for speaking roles, and looks forward to many more roles in audio books as well. Preston now is living his dream of programming for video games at 3G studios in Reno, NV and can’t wait to see where his life will take him next! Steve Nunez, Yamila Abraham a.k.a.
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