Westercon 64’s co-Artist Guest of Honor Phil Foglio is the subject of an interview posted today in which he talks about the MythAdventures comics (now being re-released online and in new collections), and how he and Kaja Foglio work together on Girl Genius.
We’ve added a Meet Us page listing those conventions where representatives of Westercon 64 plan to staff informational “fan tables.” You can buy memberships and also talk to us about our plans for Westercon. Our current plans for 2010 include Norwescon, BayCon, Westercon 63, and Loscon. We will update our Meet Us page as we add more appearances.
Representatives of Westercon 64 will be at Loscon 36, November 27-29, 2009 at the LAX Marriott, hosting a party on Friday night and staffing a convention information table. Stop by and see us, ask questions, and buy your membership at the low, low price of only $45.
We’ve posted pictures of our party at SiliCon 2009 on the SJ2011 LiveJournal. We’d like to thank everyone who came by and said hello, and to welcome all of our new members and those people who upgraded their pre-supporting memberships to attending memberships.
Westercon 64 Guest of Honor, Patricia A. McKillip won the first ever World Fantasy Award for Best Novel with her book, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. Today that book is reviewed in The Guardian as part of a series looking at award winning fantasy novels. We are pleased to see that the reviewer was impressed.
Our congratulations to Westercon 64 Guests of Honor, Phil and Kaja Foglio, whose Girl Genius, Vol 8 won the first ever Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in Montreal at the weekend. The only previous work of sequential art to win a Hugo was Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary Watchmen, which won in a one-off category of “Other Forms” in 1988. This year’s Best Graphic Story category was a special creation of the Montreal Worldcon, but a vote of the Business Meeting of the World Science Fiction Society at that convention has confirmed the category as a permanent part of the Hugo Awards until at least 2012. Girl Genius topped the nominating ballots and emerged the winner in the Final Ballot after a hard-fought battle with Joss Whedon’s Serenity: Better Days.
Update: Although Phil & Kaja were unable to attend Anticipation, they posted their acceptance speech on the Girl Genius web site.
We now have a Page on Facebook. If you are a regular Facebook user, please come along and say hello.
We are now taking membership bookings online. See here for details. If you are unsure of your current membership status you can check our membership list.
San Jose has won the right to host Westercon 64, having received 79 of the 93 ballots cast in the election held at Westercon 62 in Tempe, Arizona.
Westercon 64’s Guests of Honor will be:
Writer: Patricia A. McKillip
Artists: Phil & Kaja Foglio
Fan: Mike Willmoth
Attending memberships will be $45 with discounts to people who voted in Site Selection or pre-supported the bid.
If you pre-supported (or pre-opposed) the SJ 2011 bid and voted in 2011 Site Selection (or were a Friend of the SJ 2011 bid), you are automatically an attending member.
A new Westercon 64 web site at http://www.westercon64.org/ will be online soon. Online registration for Westercon 64 will be also be available soon.
The Site Selection Ballot for the 2011 Westercon has been released by this year’s Westercon in Arizona. You can download this ballot and use it to vote on the site of the 2011 Westercon.
You need to be a member of FiestaCon (Westercon 62) in order to vote. You also must pay a separate $25 voting fee (payable to Westercon 64), which counts as at least as supporting membership in the 2011 Westercon.
If you are not going to FiestaCon in Tempe this July and still want to vote, you can either mail your ballot or send it with someone who is going to FiestaCon to deliver for you. We can also carry your ballot with us if you would like us to do so. contact us for details if you would like us to carry your ballot for you.
