Do you like drawing, writing, or making comics? Do you love No Brand Con? Well, have we got a deal for you! No Brand Con is looking for entries for this year’s No Brand Comic! If you are interested in getting your original comics, No Brand fanart, or (heaven forbid) No Brand fanfiction out there to be seen by hundreds of con-goers, free of charge, submit your work to art@nobrandcon.org! However, we have a few rules:

1. Please avoid copyrighted material. Stick to your own characters, or if you want, the No Brand Con mascots. We love fanart almost as much as we love cheesecake.
2. Black-and-white, 5.5″ x 8.5″ pages only. That’s the way they’ll be printed.
3. Length can vary, but please, don’t make it a novel. The upper limit is eight pages for comics, 400 words for prose.
4. As we are a family friendly convention, we ask that you also make your comics family friendly.
The deadline is March 31, 2013, let’s get moving!

NewsBot 6000 here with a little news out of our Tabletop Gaming Department!

First off, there’s an incredibly easy way to submit your own game or event; just submit an email to tabletop@nobrandcon.org with the following information:

Your Name(s):
Name of and Author(s) of the game/module:
The Game System (eg. Pathfinder, GURPS, etc):
Description of Game/Module:
Desired Number of Players:
Desired Player Level:
Desired Time (eg. morning Saturday, late night Friday, etc):
Contact Information:

Game submissions will be accepted through January 31, 2013. Attendees will be able to register to attend games up until the convention, at our Warhorn Event Page At  http://warhorn.net/no-brand-con-2013/

Again, we love having your games or events affect the convention, and user submitted games are the best way to see your vision change our programming.  Did I mention we love games?

That’s all for today’s news, I’ve been NewsBot 6000, and that’s news to me!

Hi Guys!

NewsBot 6000 Here with the news!

After a crazy Geek.Kon tailspin, we’re back with our first wave of announcements.  If you haven’t already followed us on facebook, be sure to soon, after all, friendship is magic.

First thing’s first!  Registration, right now, is only $25 for the entire weekend!  At a discount of $10, I’d say this is the best time if you want to save a few bucks for the vendor room!  And don’t forget!  If you see us at another convention in the Ambassador Alley, not only will you get a discount, you might get a hug.  Aw.

Moving on!

AMV Contest Registratation is up and we’d love to get your submissions. Follow this link to learn how to submit one today! (AMV Submissions or email AMV@nobrandcon.org) We on staff love congoer submitted content….

Speaking of which!  Panel Submissions are up too!  Got an idea for a panel?  Well, my fine NBC’er just e-mail panels@nobrandcon.org for more information on how to submit OR follow this handy link to our panels page for more detail!

Anyway, we hope you all have enjoyed your No Brand Con lull, more than halfway home already, where’s the time gone? Hope you all have a wonderful October and remember, we’ll be at DaishoCon in November, but we’ll make a more formal announcement about that in a couple of weeks, be sure to check back for more information!

See you soon!

-NewsBot6000

You can now download our Artist Alley application, fill it out, and mail it in to us:

Sorry, Artist Alley Registration is now closed.

Tables are reserved on a first come, first serve basis and the Artist Alley tends to fill up very quickly, so don’t wait too long in filling it out and mailing it in to us. Also, remember the following requirements if you haven’t done so already from our update from last week. Being preregistered for the convention is a requirement in order to reserve a table, so make sure you do so before we receive your application in the mail!

Today is also the last day you’ll have to get in on our $25 early-bird preregistartion rate! You can preregister after today as well, but the rate will move up to $30 starting Sunday, October 2nd! Be sure to take advantage of the cheaper rate if you can!

Grandfather Vendor packets will also be mailed out this weekend. Once you’ve received yours, you can begin reserving your tables online!

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.

Just a reminder you only have two more days to take advantage of our $25 early-bird preregistration rate! Your mail-in registration form must be post-marked by Saturday, October 1 or you must have registered online by midnight on Sunday, October 2nd to get in on this discounted rate! Starting Sunday, October 2 preregistration will move up to our standard $30 rate which will run until April 6, 2012 when preregistration for No Brand Con XI closes, so be sure to take advantage of this while you can!

Also, just a reminder that the application form for Artist Alley will go up tomorrow on Saturday, October 1st! Once the form is up, you can download it, fill it out, and send it in to us! Be sure you check the previous update below this one for details as there are a couple of specific requirements that need to be met before your reservation becomes final. Our Artist Alley tends to fill up very quickly, so don’t wait too long to fill out and mail your application in.

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.

We wanted to give all our prospective Artist Alley and Grandfather Vendors a heads up that we will be opening up registration for both next Saturday, October 1st.

We will post our 2012 Artist Alley registration form online in an update next Saturday, and Artist Alley vendors will be able to download and print it out, fill it out, and mail it in to us. Tables for the Artist Alley will be reserved on a first come, first serve basis in the order we receive applications in the mail. Each Artist/Studio is only allowed to reserve one table. The following is required:

1. Any prospective Artist/Studio who would like to reserve a table in our 2012 Artist Alley MUST be preregistered for the 2012 convention. If we receive your application in the mail and check our registration system and see you have not preregistered, we will move onto the next application we’ve received and you will NOT receive an e-mail confirmation. We are letting all prospective Artists/Studios know a week in advance of when we’ll be opening up the Artist Alley so they can take advantage of our $25 early-bird registration rate before it moves up to $30 starting October 2, 2011. Table pricing for Artist’s Alley can be found on our Vendors page.

2. Once we receive your application and verify you have preregistered in our registration system, we will send you a confirmation e-mail stating you have a space reserved. You can request a specific spot or table and we will do our best to put you in or near that area but we cannot guarantee you’ll get a specific table you requested.

3. We have 19 tables available. Once they are full up, we will close taking applications and take the form off the website. If we receive your application after the tables are filled, you will be put on a waiting list in case of a cancellation in the order we received them.

4. Please do not submit payment for the table with your application. We prefer to receive payment after e-mail confirmations have been sent out to the Artists/Studios who we have confirmed. Mailing your payment with your application will not increase your chances of getting a table.

5. If you preregister for the convention, but are unable to get a table in our Artist Alley, we have no problem refunding preregistration as long as you put in the request by April 6, 2012 when preregistration for the 2012 convention closes. You can e-mail sales@nobrandcon.org by that date requesting a refund of your registration if you do not plan on attending the convention.

We will mail out Vendor packets to our Grandfather Vendors the weekend of October 1st and Grandfather Vendors will be able to begin reserving tables once they’ve received it via e-mail. This is ONLY for past vendors of No Brand Con who receive a vendor packet. If we have any tables available after Grandfather Vendor registration closes, we will open up what remaining tables we have to any new vendors.

If you have any questions about the Artists Alley, please e-mail our art head at art@nobrandcon.org or if you have any questions about our Vendor Room, you can e-mail our vendor head at vendors@nobrandcon.org. Feel free to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.