Intervention (convention)

Intervention

Intervention logo
Status Active
Genre Internet Culture
Venue Hilton Rockville/Washington D.C.
Location Rockville, Maryland
Country United States
First held 2010
Organizer Onezumi Events Inc.
Attendance 527 in 2010
Official website http://www.interventioncon.com

Intervention is a yearly Internet Culture convention held in September in Rockville Maryland at the Hilton Rockville/Washington D.C. hotel.[1] Intervention (a combination of the words "Internet" and "Convention")[2] highlights independent artists from all spectrums of creative output (Comics, Music, Video, Blogging, Stories, etc.) who use the Internet as their primary distribution method. The convention hosts panels, workshops, movie showings, music concerts, open gaming, and dance events.

Contents

Notable Guests

Notable guests of Intervention 2010 include Phil “Frumph” Hofer, lead programmer of ComicPress, the premiere web-comic publishing front-end on the Internet; cartoonist Brad Guigar, creator of “Evil, Inc.” a syndicated strip which appears both online and in front of 1.5 million newspaper readers; artist/writer Fred Gallagher, who created the widely successful webcomic “Megatokyo”, the collections of which are ranked by Nielsen Bookscan as one of the best-selling Original English-language Manga on shelves; and artist Molly Crabapple, creator of the graphic novel Scarlett Takes Manhattan and founder of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, which has branches in over 100 cities across the world.

In all over 40+ professional artists were guests at the 2010 convention and participated in panels and workshops.[3]

Press and Discussions of The Convention

Locations and dates

Dates Location Attendance Notable guests Notes
September 10–12, 2010 Hilton Washington DC/Rockville 527 Pete Abrams, Rob Balder, Molly Crabapple, Phil “Frumph” Hofer, Fred Gallagher, Brad Guigar, Mohammad "Hawk" Haque, Bill Holbrook, Phil Kahn, Steve Napierski, Michael "Mookie" Terracciano, Krishna M. Sadasivam, David Willis[3]
September 16–18, 2011 Hilton Washington DC/Rockville 734 [4] Pete Abrams, Rob Balder, Jennie Breeden, Shaenon Garrity, Matt Blum (Of Wired.com GeekDad Blog), Carrie Gouldin (ThinkGeek.com Social Media Coordinator), Bill Holbrook, David Reddick, Steve Napierski, Michael "Mookie" Terracciano [5] Opens: Friday 9/16/2011 12pm, Closes: Sunday 9/18/2011 4pm
September 21–23, 2012 Hilton Washington DC/Rockville To Be Announced To Be Announced

References

  1. ^ "Intervention web site". intervention. http://www.interventioncon.com/location. Retrieved 2010-12-08. 
  2. ^ "Intervention web site". intervention. http://www.interventioncon.com/contact. Retrieved 2010-12-08. 
  3. ^ a b "Intervention web site". intervention. http://interventioncon.com/2010/guests/. Retrieved 2010-12-08. 
  4. ^ "Wrapping Up 2011: Part 2". intervention. http://interventioncon.com/2011/09/28/wrapping-up-2011-part-2/. Retrieved 2011-09-28. 
  5. ^ "Intervention web site". intervention. http://interventioncon.com/guests/. Retrieved 2011-08-02. 

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