Intervention 2012 now has an official date and place: September 21-23rd, 2012 at the Hilton Rockville. Pre-registration for attendees will be online within a day, with Artist Alley applications being taken by early next week.

Intervention 2011 is happy to announce the following premieres and special launch events happening at the event this year:

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.

Ok, you can stop now. We’re about to burst at the seems with stuff at the Intervention 2011, we can’t take anymore I tell you!

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.