Intervention will be at Otakon this weekend. Both Onezumi and I will be around (we’re actually not sure if we will have our own table or be part of the T-Mode table in the Artist Alley) to answer questions, sign up pre-registrations (at our special at-con rate of $35), and be generally wacky as usual.

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To help you guys get a feeling for what you’re in for when you come to Intervention, we’ve asked some of our guests to provide some answers to a short interview. Kara Dennison, the artist and creator of the comics at ConScrew.com, has provided her answers in audio form.

These are the questions:

To keep things straight here, what is your name and what is the name of your comic?

What do you like people to actually call you when they meet you?

Besides slaving away and drawing/writing for our enjoyment, what do you like to do for fun? (you know when you’re not working at all on the comic?)

Do you read any other author’s comics online? In print? Which ones are regular reads for you? If not any, then what DO you waste time on online?

Do you do anything not online? You know, like…outside?

Who’s your daddy?

There are a lot of reasons why people start their own project, but what has kept you going?

What’s one of your favorite parts about being a webcomic author?

When are you putting me in your webcomic? No, kidding, kidding.

Do you listen to music or watch tv while you’re working? What sort and if it’s something else, what do you prefer? Or is there something you just can’t get around (say, if you have the soothing sounds of 6 rampaging children playing behind you in the same room)?

Tell us about the worst job you’ve had to do to get by in the past. (does it make you grateful for doing what you do now?)

When you’re in an interview or a panel, what makes you cringe? Is there any question that you dread hearing or is there something that you hope doesn’t come up?

What do you WISH someone would bring up or ask you on panels or an interview that just never comes up?

Actually, no really, when are you putting me in your webcomic?

For posterity, what’s your favorite beverage?

Will you buy ME a drink?

and here’s her answers:

Kara Dennison’s Interview

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We are happy to announce that we will be showing the new parody film “Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise” at Intervention this year. The film, which just made it’s world premiere on July 20th, was produced by award-winning filmmakers Tim Richardson and Michael Kouroubetes (Kill the Messenger, The Dork of the Rings). Harvey Putter brings together a highly talented group of actors, artists and filmmaking professionals from across the country, as well as England, Australia and Portugal to make light of the Harry Potter series of books and movies.

We’d like to thank Tim and Michael for giving Intervention the opportunity to showcase this new work of independent cinema. Dates and times for showings of the movie will be announced as we get closer to our event date.

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This Sunday (July 25th) on the TGT Podcast, Onezumi and Harknell will be talking about Intervention and the webcomics scene in general. The interview is scheduled to air live at 9pm EST, and be available later for download.

UPDATED: You can listen to the interview archived here: http://tgtwebcomics.com/podcast/ep115-interventioncon/

or download the podcast from here: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/tgt-webcomics/id296234690

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One of the benefits of being an Enabler or Sponsor for Intervention is recognition of your support. While we can easily post your information on our site and in publicity, we will be hitting a hard date soon for inclusion in our con book. If you’d like to have your name or company in our con book we’d need to have your payment in by August 5th. Of course if you were to be a very high ranking Sponsor or Enabler we could easily print up an addendum to the book as an insert, but generally you’d be best served by being in the book itself.

We also will be ordering the limited edition exclusive Enabler shirts soon, so while we may have some extras in generic sizes made, you might have to wait a bit if we don’t have your size available if you sign up later.

Anyway, we again want to thank all of our Enablers and Sponsors for this year. we really appreciate your support.

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Intervention is very happy to announce some new guests: David Reddick of Legend of Bill and Hawk of AppleGeeks and Hawk Studios.

In addition we’ve added new guests from the published authors sphere: Anthony Stevens and Jean Marie Ward, as well as political/cultural cartoonist Greg Uchrin (of the sites Intravenous Caffeine and Hail Dubyus )

This isn’t the end of the new guest announcements though, we have a few more to announce soon. The next issue is fitting all of these guys into the space at the hotel we have available–anyone have a crowbar we can borrow?

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We have some more promotional images of various sizes here!

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Intervention panels and events are now being developed and we want your help. We have a wiki set up that has a growing list of events and panels–but we want to know what you, attendees to the con, want in terms of meetups, gatherings, or other events. So we want you to stop by our wiki and add your ideas to the Attendee Panels/Events page. You don’t need a login, all you need to do is follow the format outlined on the main page of the wiki.

This is your opportunity to reserve some room space on our event schedule for your group. If you have a Live Journal group, a gaming guild, fans of a certain comic, or whatever, you can bring your members to Intervention and have a dedicated space to hold your event.

Not all suggestions will make it to the final schedule–but if you have enough people and can get a decent number to pre-register for the con–we can get you the space and time for your event. (as a side note, remember we do offer group rates)

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The response we’ve received for our Enabler program has been incredible so far. Approximately 1/3 of you guys have gone out of your way to help out the event this year by buying optional extra levels of support in addition to your registration for the event. Of course, “Express Registration” ( meaning you get your con badge before the event) is a very helpful addon for buying any Enabler level, but from your feedback it’s not the only reason for your actions–especially when you get to the much higher level Enabler purchases.

We’d like to say a very sincere thank you to 2 of our recent Enablers: Frank “Grayhawk” Huminski and Illya Kuryakin. Not only did they help us out with an Enabler purchase, but they went even further by buying up to the $100+ levels. As a first year event this level of support really makes a difference, and we are even more dedicated to making the event a success with help like this.

The whole Intervention team thanks you for your support!

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Frumph, the lead programming developer for ComicPress, who’s hosting our ComicPress/WordPress workshops, made a special announcement on some added value to people attending these workshops:

As a bonus to all workshop attendee’s, I will be providing information on how to receive the automated Cast addon to ComicPress child themes as a free download. The casts addon allows you to display your cast members in a totally new to ComicPress way, showing when they first appeared in the comic, how often they have been in the comic, all of the comics they were in with links and other statistics as well as individual biographical information! (I might even have time to include the relationship tree with that too ;) )

If you cannot attend the workshop I will be providing this child theme addon for ComicPress for around $29 (after) the con is over. The addon will be offered as a one time purchase with unlimited upgrades or free for attending any workshops.

Wow, considering that the Basic Workshop only costs $25, you’ve actually saved $4 and received professional help for your site directly from the software developer himself.

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