welcome to saluki con! Welcome to the second annual Saluki Con and the SIU Carbondale Campus! We’d like to take the opportunity to welcome back returning attendees and greet first-time ticket holders. You’ll find that there are a lot of passionate people who have worked hard to put on this con and we hope that you find lots of activities, panels, vendors and guests that appeal to your inner geek! Tag us in your social media for a #Salukicon chance to win a Saluki Con T-shirt! Cosplay Rules Saluki Con is a family friendly event. We want to emphasize that Cosplay is not consent, so please be respectful to persons in costume and DO NOT TOUCH! Please read through our costume and weapons regulations below. Costume REGULATIONS WEAPON REGULATIONS • Saluki Con is a family friendly event. No functional weapons are allowed Please use common sense, be at the Student Center. considerate of other attendees and be aware of your surroundings. Some simulated or costume weapons are allowed as a part of your costume, • Cover your body parts. “No costume” is subject to prior approval by convention not a costume. “Paint” and/or “pasties” staff and compliance with the following: are not a costume, either. No intentional or unintentional “wardrobe malfunctions” • No costume weapons resembling a allowed. Please make sure your costume firearm will be allowed. This includes is sturdily constructed; this includes Blasters, Nerf guns or any items that fit a proper undergarments. If your costume is rifle or pistol profile. deemed to be too revealing or offensive, you will be asked to cover up • All costume weapons must be inspected or change. at the entrance. • All military, law enforcement, and other • Functional (real) arrows must have their emergency service costumes should be tips removed and be bundled and zip tied easily distinguishable from official to a quiver. uniforms. • Any Cosplay item that has a metal or • Roller blades, roller skates, and skate plastic blade are prohibited. Wooden boards will not be allowed in the Student swords and lightsabers are allowed. Center. • If you do not want to have your costume • Please, no signs offering services or weapons inspected, or if you are not making requests to be hugged or willing to comply with these policies, touched. please do not bring your costume We want everyone to feel comfortable. weapons to the Saluki Con. • Service Animals are allowed, assuming Thank you for your understanding and they are wearing the proper identification cooperation to make the Saluki Con a safe and you pick up after them. and fun environment for everyone. Pets are NOT allowed inside the Student Center. Cosplay is not consent Adrian Paul Adrian Paul - With over 30 films and 200 hours of television experience, versatility, discipline and a solid work ethic have been the underpinnings of Adrian’s very successful 30 year acting career. Born and raised in London, England, he is internationally recognized for his role as Duncan Macleod, in “Highlander: The Series.” Since his arrival in the United States in 1984, Adrian has been consistently busy with acting projects (on both the big and small screens) in a variety of genres. He has also produced and directed both film and television projects and launched two production companies. In addition to his many entertainment projects, Adrian has spearheaded The Peace Fund, the charity that he founded in 1997. Peace stands for Protect. Educate. Aid. Children. Everywhere. Over the years, Adrian has overseen the work of the fund in countries such as Romania, Bellarus, Niger, Hungary, Haiti, Cambodia, Thailand and the United States. In 2012, Adrian launched Peace Fund Radio that he co-hosts with Ethan Dettanmaeir, with an estimated audience of between 1.8 and 2 million listeners a month. Adrian has also launched “The Sword Experience,” which features half-day seminars of sword training that include stage and real life combat and safety tips aimed at individuals, corporations, film, stage, re-enactment societies, martial artists and role playing groups. Tracee Lee Cocco Tracee Lee Cocco is an actress, model and stuntwoman who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. She was most visibly seen as Lieutenant Jae, a regular background character on The Next Generation, between the fourth and seventh season. She was one of the background performers who also appeared in the three Next Generation feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, and Star Trek: Insurrection. Cocco also worked as stand-in for Alice Krige (“Borg Queen”) in Star Trek: First Contact. In “Descent” she played one of the Borg drones mentally damaged by Lore’s experimentation. On Deep Space 9, she could sometimes be seen in alien make-up in Quark’s and played several aliens such as an Antican. Cocco was one of several regular background performers from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager who participated in the filming of the interactive movie Star Trek: Borg; she is most notably seen as a Starfleet science officer visible in the corridor aboard the USS Cheyenne at the start of the movie. She also appeared as an alien bar character in the 1996 video game Star Trek: Klingon. David Peterson David Peterson has worked as a language creator on numerous television shows and films, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Syfy’s Defiance, MTV’s Shannara Chronicles, the CW’s The 100, NBC’s Emerald City, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, and Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World. In 2014 he published Living Language Dothraki, the best-selling guide to the Dothraki language from HBO’s Game of Thrones. In the fall of 2015 David published his nonfiction work The Art of Language Invention with Penguin Books. Josiah Bancroft Before settling down to write fantasy novels, Josiah Bancroft was a poet, college instructor, rock musician, and aspiring comic book artist. When he is not writing, he enjoys recording the Crit Faced podcast with his authorial friends, drawing the world of the Tower, and cooking dinner without a recipe. Camron Johnson Camron Johnson is an illustrator whose work can be seen in comics, novels and children’s books. Credits include creator-owned titles like Thy Neighbor and Bonecheck, as well as cover design for the acclaimed horror series- Rabbit in Red by Joe Chianakas. Titles for young readers include Light the Night by author Zach Williams and I’ve Lost My Special Power! by author Molly Whalen. Lucy A. Snyder Lucy A. Snyder is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of over 100 published short stories. Her most recent books are the collection Garden of Eldritch Delights and the forthcoming novel The Girl With the Star- Stained Soul. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Cullen Bunn Cullen Bunn is a writer of short fiction and novels, but is probably known best for his work in the comic book industry. He began his comic writing career with Damned for Oni Press in 2007 and has produced work for Archie (Blossoms 666), Dark Horse (Harrow County, Manor Black), DC (Lobo, Sinestro), and Marvel (Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Blue, Venom, Deadpool) in the years following. Brent Chumley - Special Art Guest of the Con is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and has produced art for a multitude of media including cover paintings, interior illustrations, collectible card art, cartography (maps), graphic design, page layout, t-shirt designs, miniatures paintings, concept art and commercial photography for a plethora of clients. Some of the gaming brands Brent has produced work for include: Dungeons & Dragons, D&D Dragonfire, Shadowrun, Legend of the Five Rings (CCG and RPG), Doomtown: Reloaded CCG, Metal Magic & Lore, The Vampire’s Codex, Bruce Heard’s Calidar fantasy campaign setting as well as his own Dragonverses® line of art. Brent lives in southern mid-Illinois and is available for commissions. Zac Atkinson Zac Atkinson is a comic creator, cartoonist and designer. He has worked as a colorist on Bruce Lee the Dragon Rises, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, Justice Society, Young Justice (cartoon adaption), Justice League Unlimited, Teen Titans Go, Legion of Superheroes 31st Century, Transformers, Star Trek, GI Joe, We Will Bury You, Ben 10, Amory Wars, Irredeemable, Farscape...and many others. He’s also designed popular t-shirts that’s been featured on sites like Ript, Teefury and Once upon a Tee. Zac is currently working on his creator owned comic out of his studio in Decatur, IL. sean dulaney Sean Dulaney is an writer/artist/editor and broadcaster from Southern Illinois. In the comics field, his work includes 51 Delta (Arcana Studios), the “IT” Girl Murders (Markosia), F. Stein, Consulting Detective, Dreah, Queen Of Thieves And The Recent Kickstarter Funded Miss Vicky & Her Cutie Commandos. As an editor, he has overseen the revived Fantastic Adventures title which mixes reprint material from the Ace Comics archives with new material related to the issues’ themes. In recent years, Sean has spearheaded the annual radio show recreation during Metropolis, IL’s Superman Celebration. cathy jackson Cathy Jackson is a Midwestern Christian mother of three teenagers and a precocious eleven- year-old. Reading is a passion of hers, but she adores writing. It is Cathy’s goal as an author to write scenes that uplift and encourage along with making one feel the experience.