Featured Presenters

Weeb Palace

Through many name and member changes over the years, Weeb Palace has been presenting panels and workshops since 2009 on a variety of topics. Their mutual love of anime, video games and cosplay has been a constant drive in their lives to promote creativity and an overall sense of enjoyment in what one chooses to do in life. Having recently hit the 50,0000 followers mark on Tik Tok, Weeb Palace is looking to change short form comedic cosplay content into long form on their growing YouTube channel. Weeb Palace is more than just a place to live and have fun, but also a state of mind.

Dollfille

Toshi Salvino (@Dollfille) is an internationally recognized make up artist, model, and face of the Living Doll subculture. She has been making art and wearing alternative fashion her entire life and has been featured on NHK, TLC, Cosmopolitan as well as KERA magazine and supports indie fashion brands at conventions, and in New York And LA fashion week.  Toshi loves nothing more than to use her platform to help raise up others in the community to flaunt their own individuality.  

Super Art Fight

Created in 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland by artists Jamie Noguchi and Nick DiFabbio, SAF has grown over the past decade into an absolutely can't miss live event, mixing elements of pro-wrestling styled storytelling and character work, live art, and improvised humor.

To date, Super Art Fight has produced hundreds of live events, including shows across the United States and into Canada; appearances at such big conventions as Otakon, Anime Expo, MAGFest, and Awesome Con; features in the pages of The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and Wired; and regular engagements at such legendary rock-and-roll venues as Baltimore's Ottobar and Washington DC's The Black Cat.

Want to see artists collide in one-on-one or tag-team action? Can they stand tall against the ridiculous topics from the crowd-sourced Wheel of Death? Are you ready to cheer your favorites on to victory?

There's only one way to get started...

3-2-1...ART FIGHT!

Shoestring Scientists

Shoestring Scientists is a loose collaboration of cosplayers, hobbyists, artists, cat rescuers, and sarcastic gits. They have regularly presented panels and workshops at Otakon for many years, and occasionally run a booth in Artist Alley to help pay for their convention obsession. Members of Shoestring Scientists can be easily identified by their lab coats and loud yelling.

Jenni Bon, Kaymm, Valley Bunny, and Angelipon

Jenni Bon, Kaymm, Valley Bunny, and Angelipon are a group of best friends who have been hosting dance panels and workshops since 2009. In 2011 they joined DansuToPantsu, an internet dance group that also holds organized dance gatherings at conventions, one of the first to do so. With DTP and their own drive and passion they have been able to find a place to give back to the convention dance and pop music community and help it grow. Together, they host a wide range of dance panels with the simple focus of letting lose and having fun! Their panels cover not just Kpop, Jpop and anime music, but regularly include Thai and Chinese pop music as well. They are probably most well known for their hilarious Awkward Dance Moves and Let’s Get Sexy Kpop Style dance workshops. Since every panel they present is made up of entirely new content each time, they’ve become presenters that people look forward to at every con, every year! Their greatest dance accomplishment together to date was appearing on Mthai Top Talk About Awards in 2012 after winning an international Thai dance contest.

Evan Minto

Evan has been writing, podcasting, and speaking at conventions about anime, manga, and video games for over a decade. He’s the Editor-in-Chief at Ani-Gamers and half of of the Ani-Gamers Podcast, and has written for Otaku USA Magazine, Anime News Network, IGN, and Crunchyroll. You may also know him from Crunchyroll’s podcasts and videos, including the Crunchycast and Anime Academy. Follow him on Twitter @VamptVo for all of this and to witness his unhealthy obsession with anime hamburgers.

Nate A.M.

Nate has been talking about topics in anime history and production to anyone who’ll listen at east coast cons since 2015. This usually means:

• The lives and times of people he admires
• Stories from the anime industry he thinks are hilarious
• The history and theory of animation techniques

Aside from his own blog, he also wrote about the Touhou doujin music scene for BuyDoujin before they up and vanished (and yet he’s never done a panel about this hmm). His twitter is @kbnet_