Zenkaikon News

We are happy to announce our 7th annual T-shirt Design Contest! Now is your chance to get your unique design immortalized on the official T-shirt that will be sold to members of Zenkaikon 2017! The winner of the contest will receive a complimentary membership to Zenkaikon 2017, a table in the Artist Alley, and a T-shirt featuring their design!

Learn more on our T-shirt Contest page.

Zenkaikon 2017 is happy to welcome voice-over actress, writer, singer, and director Mary Elizabeth McGlynn! As an actress, she is perhaps most famous for being the voice of Major Motoko Kusanagi for the Ghost in the Shell series, portraying her for the films Innocence and Solid State Society, as well as the critically acclaimed TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. She is also the director of the Naruto anime series, which includes the original anime, six films, and Naruto: Shippuden.

Philcon, the world's longest-running conference of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, is coming up quickly on November 18-20, 2016! Our friends at the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society are busily making final preparations for their 79th annual convention, and we're very happy to be working with them to help put together a jam-packed schedule of programming for the Anime & Animation track!

Attention Artists! Artist Alley applications will open tomorrow (Sept 28) at 9:30pm Eastern, and remain open for 1 week. Please review the Artist Alley Registration page regarding juried allocation method and other updates for 2017.