Dracon*Con
Status	Active
Genre	Multi-Genre
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Country	United States
Years in existence	1987 to Present
Official Website

Dragon Con (also Dragon*Con) is North America's second largest multigenre convention, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... The following is a list of some of the larger multi-genres in the United States and elsewhere around the world. ... Nickname: Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates: , Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, DeKalb Government  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area  - City  132. ...

Overview

Dragon*Con was launched in 1987, as a project of a local science fiction and gaming group, the Dragon Alliance of Gamers and Role-Players (DAGR), founded by Ed Kramer. In 1990, Dragon Con launched the Atlanta Comics Expo and the Georgia Fantasy Convention, both of which are now part of the annual multi-media popular arts event that crosses over into fantasy, horror, gaming, comics, and gothic culture with broad ranges which extend from books, art, and film to computer animation, special effects, and music. Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Edward E. Kramer was born on March 20, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... Popular culture, sometimes called pop culture, consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ... This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ... A German Goth, a so-called Gruftie, with rosary beads and alchemical symbol on forehead. ... [1]#redirect Book ... The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ... // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ...

Programming

Celebrity guests meet with their fans to sign autographs on the DragonCon 2005 "Walk of Fame."

The 4-day event comprises approximately 850 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, art, gaming, NASA space science, robotics, filk, costuming, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, MST3K, British and American SF television, New Zealand's The Tribe, Gothic Shadows (focusing on gothic culture and dark fantasy), the Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival,and various others which appear when specific Guests of Honor attend (i.e. Clive Barker's Lost Souls and Storm Constantine's Grissecon). From its origin, music has been a significant feature of Dragon Con, with past performances by Blue Öyster Cult, Bella Morte, Chick Corea, Edgar Winter, Ghost of the Robot, Godhead, Iced Earth, Voltaire, The Crüxshadows, Jefferson Starship, The Misfits, and many others. 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Awards

In 1998, Dragon Con established the Julie Award, in honor of Julius Schwartz, bestowed for universal achievement spanning multiple genres, selected each year by an esteemed panel of industry professionals. The inaugural recipient was science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Ray Bradbury. Additional recipient awards, presented by Schwartz each year, included: Forry Ackerman, Yoshitaka Amano, Alice Cooper, Will Eisner, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Carmine Infantino, Anne McCaffrey, Jim Steranko and Paul Dini. It is also the host of the Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival, the Futura Award (paying homage to the Fritz Lang masterpiece Metropolis), and the Georgia Fandom Award. Fan Award winners include Brian Canfield Mitchell. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Julius Schwartz, editor for DC Comics Julius Julie Schwartz (June 19, 1915 - February 8, 2004) was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... Forrest J. Ackerman (also Forrest J Ackerman) (born November 24, 1916), often called Forry and sometimes 4e or 4SJ, is a legendary, wealthy science fiction fan, minor author, actor, producer (Vampirella), and literary agent of many of the science fiction greats. ... Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝 Amano Yoshitaka, originally 天野 嘉孝 (pronounced the same), born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist, best known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs for the video game series Final Fantasy. ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ... William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. ... Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. ... Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. ... Cover for Spider-Woman #8 (November 1978). ... Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. ... Captain America #111 (March 1969): Sterankos signature surrealism. ... Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. ... A film festival is the presentation or showcasing of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues. ... Friedrich Christian Anton Fritz Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Metropolis is a very early science fiction film that was produced in Germany during the brief years of the Weimar Republic. ... The subject of this article may not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

Further Information

There are many web sites and yahoo groups that are dedicated to Dragon Con and the convention lifestyle. One notable group is the DConU group. This group has one of the largest member followings with news and opinions on almost every subject of scifi and fantasy. Of course, the website, www.dragoncon.org is a prime source of information as well.

The 25,000 member convention takes over a six-square block area of downtown Atlanta adjacent to the 1996 Summer Olympics Village, and is hosted by an 850-member volunteer staff to raise thousands of dollars each year for local and national charities. Dragon Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Convention and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). Like many World Fantasy Conventions, it is operated by a private corporation, and has been the subject of considerable controversy by a small segment of fandom since it is has been scheduled on Labor Day Weekend, which has been a traditional date of domestic Worldcons. This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Origins International Game Expo is one of North Americas most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... NASFiC, a. ... NASFiC, a. ... The World Fantasy Convention is an annual gathering of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of fantasy. ... “Corporate” redirects here. ... Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, dukedom, etc. ... Labour Day Parade in Toronto in early 1900s A Labour Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. ... It has been suggested that World Science Fiction Society be merged into this article or section. ...

External links

• Dragon Con's official web site
• Daily Dragon
• CNN coverage of Dragon Con
• Salon Magazine on Dragon Con
• Dragon*Con Photos
• An EI look at Dragon Con
• The North American Science Fiction Convention
• DragonConTV (fan films & spoof videos created for Dragon Con)