No, I am not suggesting that you work on having that intervention with your kids for their Mario Kart habit. I fully support Mario Kart! I am referring to an upcoming convention where you can feel good about bringing the geekling along. The con is called Intervention, a clever portmanteau of ...

No, I am not suggesting that you work on having that intervention with your kids for their Mario Kart habit. I fully support Mario Kart! I am referring to an upcoming convention where you can feel good about bringing the geekling along. The con is called Intervention, a clever portmanteau of ...

“Your Online Life. In Person.” That’s the motto of InterventionCon, which will be held on September 16-18th in the Washington, D.C. area. The con is a creator-focused event designed to bring people together according to their online interests. The conference had over 500 attendees last year, its first,  according to co-founder Onezumi Hartstein. ...

I was contacted by a friend from the comics world about the new Intervention convention. Intrigued, I checked out the workshop list. My first thought after looking at it was “Ooo! A con that talks about web comics and how to create them.” The workshops go beyond the simple nuts and ...

Rob Balder, the author of the delightfully geeky webcomic Erfworld, has a new trick up his sleeves. He has written a short 24-page comic based on a story by Dr. Ben Bova, science fiction author and editor of Omni magazine, among other things. Illustrated by Bill Holbrook, Duel in the ...