Tour de Cons

Tour de Cons

Martha and Rob discuss various comic and pop culture conventions with guests and friends. Artists, superheroes, indie comics, comic books, writers, books, movies, TV, video games, tabletop games, anime, and music are all topics that are covered.

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June 7, 2023 31 mins

Rob interviews  Sean Nittner about the Backerkit for,  "Big Bad Con 23"!

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Rob interviews Carl Doninger, the COO of Pop Con, about the 2023 Indy Pop Con and his new convention, Louisville Pop Con.

Check out the Pop Con Website for more information and to get tickets!

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This episode is sponsored by:

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Rob interviews Enrica Jang, the director of Poe House, about the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival and the 5th Annual Saturday Poe "Visiter" Awards.

Website: https://poefestinternational.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/poefestintl

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/poefestinternational/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poebaltimore

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEKC_0busyzb7aySf9feNg

 

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Rob Interviews author Russell Nohelty from Wannabe Press about the virtual comic-con WannaCon that is happening this weekend.

Last weekend, Emerald City Comic Con made the decision to cancel their convention that was to happen this weekend.  Since then, a bunch of conventions have started canceling which is not just bad for the fans and the companies behind th...

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November 8, 2018 46 mins

Rob sits down with artists and writers from the Fall 2018 SMG Micro-Con at the Blue Box Cafe in Elgin.  The roundtable was made up Rebecca Rothschild, Xane Daniel, Rich Perez, and Zach Lehner. 

Here's the link to support Xane's Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevmo/righteous-comic-series-volume-2-first-printing

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In our final pre Texas Frightmare Weekend episodes, Jesse is joined by a soon to be first time attendee of the convention Latrice.  Hope you enjoy her story.   If you are attending TFW the first weekend of May, please send me a tweet and let's try to do a quick mini interview at the show!
 
Jesse's Twitter - JesseJacksonDFW
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April 24, 2018 50 mins

We continue our discussion with fans of Texas Frightmare Weekend with Mike!  The show is getting closer. Will we see you there?

 
 
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April 10, 2018 32 mins

As we get closer and closer to Texas Frightmare Weekend 2018, Jesse is joined by Christi.  She shares her love of the horror genre and how she uses that love in her teaching!  Hope you enjoy our conversation and we will see you at TFW!  

 
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April 5, 2018 14 mins
Rob is joined by Mike Armstrong, the guy behind C2E2 in Chicago.  
 
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April 3, 2018 57 mins
Jesse is joined by another fan of Texas Frightmare Weekend Todd.  They talk about past shows and spend sometime talking about this year's show wichi will be in DFW the first weekend of May!
 
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In another episode of our series focusing on the upcoming Texas Frightmare Weekend, Jesse is joined by Jason from KBLP 105.1. They talk about Jason's history with the horror genre and his past experiances at TFW.  

 
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January 9, 2018 52 mins
The first weekend of May this year will be the 13th annual Texas Frightmare Weekend held at 
the Hyatt Regency at DFW Airport.   The show dates are May 4, 5, 6 2018.   Tour de Cons will be covering the show for the Southgate Media Network.  To start out our coverage Jesse Jackson is joined by Ken Schaefer to talk about the history of "T...
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Jesse Jackson went to Dragon Con on Labor Day weekend and while he didn't bring us back a shirt, he did bring us back some recordings of some fan panels.
First off is a The Walking Dead Fan Panel.   Here is the panel description from the Dragon Con program.  Hope you enjoy the discussion.
 
The World of the Walking Dead: Fan Discussion Panel

The comic so riveting that it spawned a TV show...

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Here is the  2nd Walking Dead Fan panel that Jesse Jackson recorded during Dragon Con  

Influence of The Walking Dead on the Current Zombie Genre
Zombie have been on the rise. Some say it started with "The Walking Dead", though that is up for debate. Regardless, what is certain is the impact it has had on the current state of the zombie genre. Experts discuss the effects of that impact, and whether or not it's fo...

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August 25, 2017 48 mins
Every Labor Day downtown Atlanta transforms into a land of skeptics, zombies, Klingons, storm troopers and more stars than you can see in the sky!  Dragon Con is the largest fan run convention in the nation and a truly magical place.  Jesse talks to Shannon the Director of the Apocalypse Rising Track at Dragon Con.   They talk about zombies, first aide, meeting celebrities in the wild, the importance of 8-2-1 and why Dragon Co...
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June 16, 2017 42 mins

Jesse sits down to talk to Thom Zahler about a couple of new projects he has coming up.  First is a story called Warning Label that will be published weekly on WebToons.com.  It's all about a boy, a girl and a warning label curse.  Go to 

 
http://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/warning-label/list?title_no=1051 and please give it 10 stars and subscribe!  
 
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Interview with Chris Latshaw from The North Texas Comic Book Show
 
Sometimes comic conventions can be over whelming.  They have massive crowds, long lines and high fees.  Well Chris Latshaw from Dallas Texas is doing his best to fight that trend by organizing a great comic book show in Dallas, TX each quarter.  The next show will be
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Interview with Sandy King Carpenter at C2E2 2016

Rob sits down for a one on one interview with Sandy King Carpenter to discuss her comics, movies, John Carpenter, and a whole lot more.

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December 1, 2015 23 mins

Phil sits down for a one on one interview with World Famous Ani-Mia to discuss her life as a successful cosplayer, her Christmas charity toy drive, and her upcoming appearance at the Steel City Con in Pittsburgh December 4-6, 2015

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C2E2 2015 Interviews - In this episodes, we have three seperate interviews with some amazing people we had the privilage of speaking with at the 2015 C2E2 in Chicago.  First up are Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, creators of Thrilling Adventure Hour (the stage show, podcast, comic books).  The second interview is with Timothy Omundson who was in Chicago to perform with Thrilling Adventure Hour.  Timothy is ...

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