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LepreCon 36 May 14-16, 2010 Phoenix Marriott Mesa, Mesa, AZ Artist GoH Charles Vess Author GoH George R. R. Martin Local Artist/Author James A. Owen Music Guest Emma Bull Chair’s Welcome Table of Contents I’d like to welcome you to LepreCon 36. If this is Chair’s Welcome 1 your first time at a Leprecon, Inc. event, we LepreCon 36 Committee 2 hope you enjoy the convention and will join us Artist Guest of Honor 3 next year. If you’re a LepreCon regular, Author Guest of Honor 5 welcome back! I wanted to make sure this Local Artist/Author Guest 7 year’s LepreCon convention had a great lineup Music Guest 8 of guests and with Charles Vess, George R. R. LepreCon 36 Policies 9 Martin, James A. Owen, and Emma Bull joining Con Ops/Security 10 us, I don’t think you will be disappointed. Dealers Room 10 Hospitality Suite 10 Our committee and staff have been working to Volunteers 10 put together this year’s convention and I would Art Show 10 like to thank them all for giving their time and Masquerade 11 effort to make it happen. Charity Auction 13 Programming 15 As always, we’ve got a lot of great stuff in the art Program Participants 19 show, so make some artists happy by taking Gaming 22 some of it home with you. Make sure to visit our Leprecon, Inc. Bylaws 25 dealers room, and take in as much programming Leprecon, Inc. History 29 as you can. That’s enough from me for now. Go out and LepreCon 36 Committtee enjoy the con! Chairman - Lee Whiteside Lee Whiteside Treasurer- Mike Willmoth LepreCon 36 Chair Chair's Assistant - Nadine Armstrong Art Show - David Gish Charity Auction - Catherine Book In Memoriam Kage Baker 1952-2010 Dealers Room- Margaret Mannatt Filk - Gary Swaty Kage Baker was a science fiction Gaming - Jason Youngdale and fantasy writer best known for The Hospitality Suite- Theresa Contos Company series. She died of cancer in Hotel Liaison - Mike Willmoth January of this year. Freebies - Len Berger Masquerade - Randall Whitlock She was extraordinarily smart, as Modern Dance - Ethan Moe well as warm and funny. She was a Hugo Programming - Nadine Armstrong and World fantasy shortlisted writer, and Publications, Publicity - Lee Whiteside her novella "The Women of Nell Gwynne's Registration - Glenna Lawrimore is on this year's Hugo ballot. A portion of Security/Ops - Mark Boniece the Leprecon charity auction proceeds will Staff Lounge - Wendy Philpott be donated in her memory to fight the Volunteers – Sue Utke disease that killed her. The program book was put together using Microsoft Word 2003. All art by Charles Vess except Page 7 by James A. Owen. Photos provided by guests except for LepreCon 36 James A. Owen by Lee Whiteside1 Artist Guest of Honor Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Charles Vess (New Britain Museum of American Art, 1980) and "Dreamweavers" (William King Regional Arts Center, 1994-95). In 1991, Charles shared the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story with Neil Gaiman for their collaboration on Sandman #19 (DC Comics) --- the first and only time a comic book has held this honor. In the summer of 1997, Charles won the Charles Vess was born in 1951 in Lynchburg, Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Virginia and has been drawing since he could Penciler/Inker for his work on The Book of hold a crayon. He drew his first full-length comic Ballads and Sagas (which he self-publishes when he was 10 and called it "Atomic Man." through his own Green Man Press) as well as Minimalist in nature, it required no drawing of Sandman #75. hands, feet or heads ("they just glowed"). Since then, he has painstakingly drawn thousands of Soon after Charles finished the last of 175 hands, feet, and heads in great detail. Charles paintings for graduated with a BFA from Virginia Stardust, a Commonwealth University, and worked in novel written commercial animation for Candy Apple by Neil Productions in Richmond, Va., before moving to Gaiman, for New York City in 1976. It was there that he which he was became a freelance illustrator, working for many given the publications 1999 World including Heavy Fantasy Metal, Klutz Press, Award as Best and National Artist. Lampoon. His award-winning work In 2002 has graced the Charles won a pages of numerous second Will comic book, Eisner award, publishers such as this time as Marvel, DC, Best Painter Darkhorse and Epic. He has been featured in for his work several gallery and museum exhibitions across on Rose, a 130-page epic fantasy saga written the nation, including the first major exhibition of by Cartoon Books' Jeff Smith. The year 2 LepreCon 36 continued to be busy for Charles with the Lint as well as illustrated a 25 th anniversary publication of Seven Wild Sisters (Subterranean edition of de Lint’s Moonheart . He also did over Press) and The Green Man, Tales from the 70 pieces for a limited edition of George R. R. Mythic Forest (Viking), both utilizing cover art Martin’s A Storm of Swords (originally planned and interior b/w for Meisha Merlin but released by Subterranean illustrations by the Press). To coincide with the release of the artist, and both movie based on Stardust , a new edition of the making the 2003 American Library Association's list for Best Books for Young Adults! By the end of the year he had completed 28 paintings for his first children's picture book, A Circle of Cats, done in collaboration with writer Charles de Lint (Viking). This cover art won the Gold Award for Best Book Art in the 10th annual "Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" even before it was officially published. A illustrated version with Neil Gaiman was new edition of Peter Pan (Tor/Starscape) released and he has recently illustrated Gaiman featuring a cover as poems for children’s picture books for Blueberry well as over 30 b/w Girl and interior illustrations by Instructions . A Vess was released in collection of his 2003. Charles has illustrated continued doing ballads, The illustrations for the Book of Ballads , series of YA was released by anthologies edited by Tor and a Ellen Datlow and Terri career spanning Windling for Viking retrospective, including The Faery Drawing Down Reel: Tales From the the Moon: The Twilight Realm , The Art of Charles Coyote Road: Trickster Vess , was Tales , and The Beastly Bride: Tales of the released by Animal People . Dark Horse Comics last For Subterranean Press he has collaborated year. and illustrated Medicine Road with Charles de LepreCon 36 3 Author Guest of Honor As a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance George R. R. Martin Foundation. He also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973-1976, and was a Journalism instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, from 1976- 1978. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher. In 1975 he married Gale Burnick. They divorced in 1979, with no children. Martin became a full- time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College from 1978-79. In the 1980’s, George hooked up with Parris McBride, lured George R.R. Martin was born September 20, her to New Mexico and got her addicted to 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was green chili and sopapillas and she is still with Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and him. his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a Martin Patten. story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986. In 1987 Martin became an Executive Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at Marist High School. He began writing very CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty young, selling monster stories to other and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co- neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic Supervising Producer. He was Executive readings included. Later he became a comic Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote book fan and collector in high school, and began for Columbia Pictures Television, which was to write fiction for comic filmed during 1992- fanzines (amateur fan 93. magazines). Martin's first professional sale was During the 1980’s made in 1970 at age 21: George started the "The Hero," sold to shared universe Galaxy, published in series Wild Cards, February, 1971 issue. inspired by superhero Other sales followed. comics and the Superworld role- In 1970 Martin received a playing game that B.S. in Journalism from George played with Northwestern University, friends. There have Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. been 20 volumes He went on to complete a M.S. in Journalism in released so far, the latest is Suicide Kings , with 1971, also from Northwestern. the next volume, Fort Freak , currently in the works. 4 LepreCon 36 In the 1990’s he returned Dream , In The House of the Worm , and The to writing novels and Skin Trade , all from Avatar, and a forthcoming released A Game of adaptation of Doorways based on the television Thrones in 1996, the first pilot episode from IDW. volume in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire He has been nominated and awarded many series. Subsequent times for his works. His 4 Hugo Awards (out of volumes have been A 17 nominations) have been for the novella “A Clash of Kings (1998), A Song For Lya” in 1975, the novelette Storm of Swords (2000), A “Sandkings” and short story “The Way of Feast for Crows (2005) Dragons” in 1980, and novella “Blood of the with A Dance of Dragons Dragon” in 1997.