AYABIE comes to A-Kon 23! Dec 12, 2011, 3:05pm
AYABIE will be one of our two acts for the Friday Night Concert.

OZ comes to A-Kon 23 Dec 5, 2011, 2:20pm
OZ, a visual rock band, will be one of two acts to perform on Friday at A-Kon 23.

A-Kon 23 welcomes Tak Sakaguchi Feb 21, 2012, 2:01pm
Tak Sakaguchi is a Japanese actor, director, fight choreorapher, and stuntman. He is best known for his lead role in Ryuhei Kitamura’s cult film,Versus. Sakaguchi is a talented martial artist, and as such, stars in films featuring copious fight scenes and performs all of his own stunts. He is known to be skilled in Bājíquán, Shaolin Kenpo,boxing, kick boxing, and mixed martial arts.

A-Kon 23 welcomes DJ MaRia Feb 29, 2012, 11:06pm
DJ MaRia is one of the resident DJs of HOUSE NATION, the most famous house music party in Japan presented by Avex Entertainment (Japan’s largest music label).

Lisle Wilkerson Apr 2, 2012, 8:04pm
Lisle is best known as the powerhouse behind such kick-ass female video game as Nina Williams and Christie Monteiro from the Tekken franchise, Sarah Bryant from Virtual Fighter, all female voice in CRAZY TAXI 1, just to name a few.

Sheldon Drzka is back for A-Kon 23 Mar 13, 2012, 4:09pm
The former exclusively manga translator is now mainly an anime translator…

CJ Cherryh comes to A-Kon 23 Mar 10, 2012, 7:42pm
Has written sf and fantasy for publication since 1975…but also a lot longer than that. Has a background in Mediterranean archaeology, Latin, Greek, that sort of thing and much more. Ask her about figure skating.

Meet Jane Fancher at A-Kon 23 Mar 10, 2012, 7:37pm
Creator of the graphic novel adaptation of C. J. Cherryh’s Gate of Ivrel, the first novel in Cherryh’s Morgaine series.

Melanie Fletcher at A-Kon 23 Mar 10, 2012, 7:32pm

Nathan Robert Brown Feb 17, 2012, 1:18pm

Bev Hale Feb 17, 2012, 1:15pm

Yaya Han returns to A-Kon 23 Feb 17, 2012, 1:12pm
Yaya Han is an USA-based costume designer, model and cosplay entertainer with over 12 years of experience.

Jana Oliver comes to A-Kon 23 Jan 31, 2012, 12:04am

Esther Friesner at A-Kon 23 Jan 31, 2012, 12:00am

Lee Martindale at A-Kon 23 Jan 30, 2012, 11:55pm

Elizabeth Moon returns to A-Kon 23 Jan 30, 2012, 11:44pm
Her most recent novel is Echoes of Betrayal  (Del Rey, February 2012.)

Harry Turtledove Jan 24, 2012, 3:25pm
World renowned writer and historian.

Chris Layfield Jan 24, 2012, 3:19pm
Chris Layfield writer of ZAP!

Pascalle Lepas Jan 24, 2012, 3:18pm
Illustrator of ZAP!

Elizabeth Sloan aka ZirconMermaid Jan 20, 2012, 2:14am
Elizabeth is a Professional Costumer, Seamstress and Doll Prototyper.

Catherin Hajek aka kiki-chan78 Jan 20, 2012, 2:11am
Webcomic creator of Acrylic Eyes

Jesse Sosa Jan 20, 2012, 2:03am
3D Character artist for Video Games and movies.

Meredith Placko aka Ana Aesthetic Jan 9, 2012, 5:30pm
CosPlayer and journalist comes to A-Kon 23.

Dirk Tiede will be at A-Kon 23 Jan 9, 2012, 5:21pm
Webcomics pioneer Dirk Tiede will be making his first appearance at A-Kon this year.

Brent Black aka brentalfloss returns to A-Kon 23 Jan 9, 2012, 5:15pm

Team Four Star comes to A-Kon 23 Jan 9, 2012, 4:48pm
It’s Team Four Star! Creators of Dragon Ball Z: Abridged.

Sarah Elkins will be at A-Kon 23 Jan 3, 2012, 4:35pm
Comic Artist and Colorist.