Every year at Con on the Cob we offer the opportunity to meet some of the geek world's most iconic creators. Artists, game designers, musicians, and a motley assortment of interesting characters are there or your hanging-out-with enjoyment. We extremely proud to present this year's special guests:


Jamie Chambers, creator of the popular Battlestar Galactica and Serenity rpgs, grew up in north Georgia where he found a love for games and books, but apparently not mild winters and sweet tea—which is why he moved to southeast Wisconsin where he could get away from them and write stories and games for a living. When not writing long, run-on sentences, he is working on various role playing game and fiction projects. He lives in an old, creepy house with his wife and three kids. Follow his latest antics on the web: http://www.jamiechambers.net.




      Sean Patrick Fannon was born in Tennessee (January 4th, 1966) and raised in Georgia. He has lived and worked in Binghamton, NY; San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA; Raleigh, NC; Jacksonville, FL; Chattanooga, TN; Columbus, OH; and most recently he’s returned to the estate of his family up on Signal Mountain, TN. He is 6'1", of large frame and build, with black hair, green eyes, and a penchant for really cool hats.
      Sean has been professionally involved in RPGs and interactive entertainment for the last 20 years of his life. Starting in 1988, Sean began writing freelance articles and game reviews for small roleplaying game magazines and fan `zines. He then started writing books for the world-famous Champions RPG (including High Tech Enemies, The Mutant File and Champions Universe). He then went on to become the Continuity Director of the Champions Universe property. During this time, Sean also wrote for such properties as the Shatterzone RPG and the Star Wars RPG, as well as Shadis Magazine, Adventurer's Club Magazine and Dragon Magazine for TSR.
     Ummm... Tell you what, just go here to read more about Sean and his awesomness. I'm running out of space.


In his own words...
     I have been creating fantasy and science fiction art for over 20 years. I worked as a staff artist for TSR, Inc. from 1981 to 1987. While at TSR, I helped set the standards of gaming art in the role-playing genre. Besides creating covers for Dungeons & Dragons, AD&D and other gaming books, I may be best known for my work with the world of Dragonlance. Since 1987, I’ve been working as a freelance illustrator, doing covers for comics, computer games, magazines, fantasy and science fiction books and many more projects too numerous to list here.
     My time at TSR, Inc. is best exemplified on the covers of the DRAGONLANCE book series. Since then, I have worked for other publishers such as BAEN books, Bantam, Warner Books, ACE/Berkley, Doubleday, and Del Rey. I am also the co-author of "Runes of Autumn" and creator of the "Sovereign Stone" series. In the gaming and comic industries, I have freelanced for TSR, Inc, FASA, Mayfair Games, Game Designer’s Workshop, White Wolf, Iron Crown Enterprises, Dragon Magazine, Amazing Magazine, Wizard Press, D. C. Comics, First Comics, Eclipse Comics and Frank Frazetta’s Fantasy Illustrated. Miscellaneous credits include: LJN Toys, Mattel, Lucas Films, Tonka, Monogram Models, Western Publishing, Sony Entertainment’s Ever Quest, and various computer game covers.




     Back at Con on the Cob for the fourth damned time (third if you take into account the great Food Poisoning Adventure of 2007,) it's friggin' Worm Quartet, dammit!  Worm Quartet, despite its misleading name, is really just one long-haired obnoxious fatass named -=ShoEboX=- who performs a bizarre-yet-catchy style of poppy punky electronic music with witty, irreverent, and occasionaly-nonsensical lyrics that he insists on calling "comedy synth-punk."  Worm Quartet has been described as the Ramones meets Frank Zappa meets a cheapass Casio keyboard, as Ministry meets They Might Be Giants, and as "just like Atom and his Package, only worse." 
      Worm Quartet is one of Dr. Demento's most requested artists of the last decade, having snagged the show's #1 song of the year spot in 2004 with "Great Idea for a Song" and in 2005 with "Inner Voice" (a collaboration with Sudden Death,) as well as the #2 song in 2002 with "Frank's Not In The Band Anymore."  Shoebox contributed programming and backing vocals to MC Lars' new disc "This Gigantic Robot Kills," and he's played at cons and clubs and bars and salamander-appreciation festivals across the country, sharing the stage with artists ranging from the Voodoo Glow Skulls to the great Luke Ski to the Vibrators to Jonathan Coulton to MC Frontalot to Dr. Demento himself.  Oh, and one time at this one con he played a show and Peter Mayhew had a panel right after him in the same room, so he can totally say he opened for Chewbacca.  Worm Quartet is also a card-carrying core member of The Funny Music Project, which you can find at www.thefump.com
      Currently, Worm Quartet is working hard on a new album which Shoebox swears he will finish before the end of the year or he's going to kill himself with a garlic press.  He has four albums out to date, as well as one CD from his side project with Rob Balder, "Baldbox."  By day, Shoebox poses as a mild-mannered software engineer and sits in a cubicle surrounded by pictures of his wonderful wife and his revoltingly-cute 4-year-old son, either of whom could totally beat your 4-year-old at Frogger.
      More information about Worm Quartet is at www.wormquartet.com
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