Cheyenne Wright, colorist for Westercon 64 Guests of Honor Phil and Kaja Foglio’s Girl Genius series, was recently released from what Kaja described as “an alarming stay in the hospital.” As he was uninsured, the Foglios are running a fundraiser to help pay the medical bills. If you are interested in helping, you can donate money in return for one of a number of wonderful Girl Genius desktop wallpapers on the Girl Genius web site.
Our thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk with us at ConDor and Gallifrey. Our next scheduled convention appearance is Norwescon 33 in Seattle over Easter weekend, April 1-4. Besides our fan table, we’re also one of the sponsors of Match Game SF, the fannish game show where you fill in the ____, on Friday evening of Norwescon.
Westercon 64 Chairman Glenn Glazer, sitting behind our table at ConDor in in San Diego, sends his greetings and invites anyone with questions or comments about Westercon to drop by our table this afternoon and say Hi.
Glenn Glazer at ConDor
It’s a busy convention weekend (February 26-28) coming up in Southern California, and Westercon 64 will be there! Come meet the Chair of Westercon 64 at Condor XVII in San Diego or the Treasurer at Gallifrey 21 in Los Angeles. We will be staffing fan tables at both conventions and will be available to sell memberships and answer questions.
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.
