Intervention 2012 is happy to announce it’s first round of guests for the 2012 event. We have a great collection of returning guests from our previous years, and a notable new guest of Danielle Corsetto, creator of Girls with Slingshots. We have many other guests in the works, so expect some huge announcements over the next few weeks.

This is just the beginning of the chaos….

We are in the process of signing guests for this year, and expect to have the first round of confirmed announcements in the next week. We expect to have even more guests than our already overwhelming previous 2011 and 2010 line ups.

We are starting our Artist Alley / Vendor submission reviews this weekend, so we will also be announcing our first group of confirmed vendors soon as well. (and there’s still time to apply)

It also looks like we’ll be hosting a fun photo op set up that will make you feel like you’re in “The Future” (or just going back to it).

And on the sponsors front, it seems like we can’t hold them back from wanting to be more involved this year, so expect even bigger giveaways and offers for attendees than even our epic last year haul of goods.

Things are shaping up behind the scenes, so get ready for the wave of stuff to hit the front page soon. It’s still the best time to register for the event since we’re currently offering our “Early Owl” rate of only $30 for the entire weekend. Buy your registration now here.

We will be giving away samples of Black Black caffeinated gum from Japan courtesy of ThinkGeek! These are sure to go fast, so I have to tell you that this is while supplies last only! :D Find our table in the dealer’s room! We will also have Think Geek catalogs with a discount code and stickers for you!

If you register for our con in person at Katsucon, you get the

Seal-Slappingly Captain Ridiculous Low Rate of $30

for THE WHOLE WEEKEND of geek funs.

Harknell and I are also guest speakers at Katsucon. If you want an even more in-depth look at what we stand for, you can hear us speak on the following panels and events:

UPDATE: Oni and Harknell will not be able to attend Katsucon on Friday, we will be there on Saturday and Sunday

Friday:

12:00pm-1:00pm – Live 2 – VIP Passholder Meet & Greet

2:00pm-4:00pm – Live 5 – Creating or Staffing an Event

Saturday:

8:30pm-9:30pm – Live 4 – Promoting Your Work Online

Sunday:

11:00am-12:00pm – Live 2 – All Webcomics Panel

2:00pm-3:00pm – Live 3 – The Computer is Willing but the Spirit is Weak (How to stay motivated)

Just a quick note to let you know that we are in the final stages of the website rewrite to make things easier to read through. We also will be updating the site with the form from where artists and vendors can register to exhibit.

If you are curious about all of that, you can get a general idea of how we did it by looking through “Archive” on our top bar.

We are back from Magfest this weekend and wanted to thank you all for purchasing all of our squeaky owls. Many of you registered as well. Meeting you and talking with you really inspires us to make this con even better every year. Thank you!

If you’d like to see pictures from this weekend, you can see them on our Facebook as well.

We Intervened and Inspired this weekend at Magfest in Maryland:

We sold our squeaky owls – when you purchase one of these you also are donating to support the event. We SOLD OUT of all of them:

I was drawing some comic goodness at the table. This will be a comic over at Onezumi.com in the next few days:

I found an awesome flower for my hair yay:

Janice, our new Exhibition Hall coordinator made this for me! SQUEE:

We love our friends over at Squishable.com. If you attended a last Intervention, you had a really great chance of winning one of these guys:

For once, I remembered to wear my Intervention T- Shirt. PROOF:

I played SO MANY games in the arcade room at Magfest. This was less than half of the room – more like 1/8th of the room. It was huge in reality:

Ghostbusters car:

I hope you all had a great weekend! I now have a flat tire from my trip home. Nothing goes perfectly in life, but if you keep thinking positively things will be great! :D

Click here to read the article. It will be front page this coming week.

If you are coming over here from CNN, please bookmark us and subscribe to our RSS so that you can get information about our 2012 event as details unfold. You can also register to attend Intervention 2012 and book your room to come and join us.

Please check out the archive on top navigation bar of this site and like us on Facebook to see some of the cool things we did. It’ll give you an idea of how awesome our 2012 event will be. :D We also have downloadable flyers for our event here.

Travis Surber, creator of the webcomic Hainted Holler, will be debuting his second collection of strips, Hainted Holler 2:Redneck Boonaloo at the event. Check out his table in the Vendor Room to get a copy.

Studio Unseen, the team behind the webcomic Sledge Bunny will be launching their own sculpted armadillo characters at the event–they were sculpted by one of our other Vendor Room artists Kelsey Wailes (eattoast), who has already been written up for her incredible work on io9.

Peej and Bengie, the team behind the new comic Slackjaw will be having their official launch party at Intervention 2011 on Saturday September 17th at 7pm in Panel room 1. They are also running our famous Interfection LARP as well, so expect both hijinks and horror.

Bree Rubin, from Nerd comics, has also let us know that she will be launching their new compilation “Washington” at the event, and may have a, *ahem*, “small”, *cough*, room party to celebrate it at some point during the weekend. You’ll want to catch her in the Vendor Room for more details.

Fine, alright, we give in. We’ve got even more stuff being added to the event or updated:

We’ve added a new musical act to our Saturday lineup: Mark Aaron James. NYC based singer/songwriter Mark Aaron James was a winner in the USA Songwriting and UNISONG Songwriting Competitions and was twice voted the Best Singer/Songwriter in Greenwich Village by the Underground Music Organization. Check out the video for his song Aquaman’s Lament:

We’ve received some comics from actionfigurekingdom.com to give away for our Children’s Programming. Check out their selection of comics online–they’re neat, you can even color them yourself!

We’ve also updated our contest page with contest details (for high value items) and how you can enter to win. You’ll still have random chances to win other things just checking in at registration, wandering the halls, being in panels, watching videos, or breathing.

Thank you to Popchips for their generous contribution of 20 cases of PopChips. We will be giving PopChips out as long as supplies last this weekend.

I contacted PopChips because I am a health nut and they were already my favorite snack. I buy them every week when I go shopping. They taste just as good at potato chips, but don’t have many calories or bad things in them. If you’ve never tried them before, you will get your chance this weekend! My favorites are BBQ and Original Potato.