No Brand Con is happy to announce Chris Cason as a guest for for our 2012 convention. His most prominent voice acting roles include Mr. Popo and Tien in Dragonball Z, Jack the Ripper in Soul Eater, and Gluttony in Full Metal Alchemist. He’s also done ADR directing for Funimation, and has also had a number of videogame voice acting roles.

Check the full description on our Guest Page

The Gardening Ninja has written the No Brand Heroes a letter, as he’s a bit tired right now…

If you’d like to apply to become a No Brand Hero, you can find out more information right here!

No Brand Con is pleased to welcome back voice actor Kyle Hebert for another great year! Best known for his work as the Narrator in Dragon Ball Z, Kyle has also provided voice work for dozens of other anime series, as well as video games, and advertisements.

We’re also happy to have DJ Jinrei with us for his first visit to No Brand Con. Jinrei has been providing live mixes for clubs and parties in California and Las Vegas for years and now will be bringing his unique skills and exciting beats to bear at the No Brand Con dance!

For more information on our first two guests, click on the Guests link in the navigation bar above.

Finally, we would like to announce that all space in the Artists’ Alley has been filled! We look forward to seeing all the original art and crafts for sale during the con.

Every year you see No Brand Con’s intrepid mascots go on crazy adventures, but it looks like this year they’ll be one hero short. We’re going all out to find a replacement, so that they can get back to battling space mummies and businessrobots.

To find out how you can show the world what a great No Brand Hero you can be, check out the rules here. No only will you impress us with your superhuman powers, but one entrant will even get $30 dollars worth of swag or free admission to No Brand Con 2012!

You can now download our Artist Alley application, fill it out, and mail it in to us:

Sorry, Artist Alley Registration is now closed.

Tables are reserved on a first come, first serve basis and the Artist Alley tends to fill up very quickly, so don’t wait too long in filling it out and mailing it in to us. Also, remember the following requirements if you haven’t done so already from our update from last week. Being preregistered for the convention is a requirement in order to reserve a table, so make sure you do so before we receive your application in the mail!

Today is also the last day you’ll have to get in on our $25 early-bird preregistartion rate! You can preregister after today as well, but the rate will move up to $30 starting Sunday, October 2nd! Be sure to take advantage of the cheaper rate if you can!

Grandfather Vendor packets will also be mailed out this weekend. Once you’ve received yours, you can begin reserving your tables online!

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.

Just a reminder you only have two more days to take advantage of our $25 early-bird preregistration rate! Your mail-in registration form must be post-marked by Saturday, October 1 or you must have registered online by midnight on Sunday, October 2nd to get in on this discounted rate! Starting Sunday, October 2 preregistration will move up to our standard $30 rate which will run until April 6, 2012 when preregistration for No Brand Con XI closes, so be sure to take advantage of this while you can!

Also, just a reminder that the application form for Artist Alley will go up tomorrow on Saturday, October 1st! Once the form is up, you can download it, fill it out, and send it in to us! Be sure you check the previous update below this one for details as there are a couple of specific requirements that need to be met before your reservation becomes final. Our Artist Alley tends to fill up very quickly, so don’t wait too long to fill out and mail your application in.

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.

We wanted to give all our prospective Artist Alley and Grandfather Vendors a heads up that we will be opening up registration for both next Saturday, October 1st.

We will post our 2012 Artist Alley registration form online in an update next Saturday, and Artist Alley vendors will be able to download and print it out, fill it out, and mail it in to us. Tables for the Artist Alley will be reserved on a first come, first serve basis in the order we receive applications in the mail. Each Artist/Studio is only allowed to reserve one table. The following is required:

1. Any prospective Artist/Studio who would like to reserve a table in our 2012 Artist Alley MUST be preregistered for the 2012 convention. If we receive your application in the mail and check our registration system and see you have not preregistered, we will move onto the next application we’ve received and you will NOT receive an e-mail confirmation. We are letting all prospective Artists/Studios know a week in advance of when we’ll be opening up the Artist Alley so they can take advantage of our $25 early-bird registration rate before it moves up to $30 starting October 2, 2011. Table pricing for Artist’s Alley can be found on our Vendors page.

2. Once we receive your application and verify you have preregistered in our registration system, we will send you a confirmation e-mail stating you have a space reserved. You can request a specific spot or table and we will do our best to put you in or near that area but we cannot guarantee you’ll get a specific table you requested.

3. We have 19 tables available. Once they are full up, we will close taking applications and take the form off the website. If we receive your application after the tables are filled, you will be put on a waiting list in case of a cancellation in the order we received them.

4. Please do not submit payment for the table with your application. We prefer to receive payment after e-mail confirmations have been sent out to the Artists/Studios who we have confirmed. Mailing your payment with your application will not increase your chances of getting a table.

5. If you preregister for the convention, but are unable to get a table in our Artist Alley, we have no problem refunding preregistration as long as you put in the request by April 6, 2012 when preregistration for the 2012 convention closes. You can e-mail sales@nobrandcon.org by that date requesting a refund of your registration if you do not plan on attending the convention.

We will mail out Vendor packets to our Grandfather Vendors the weekend of October 1st and Grandfather Vendors will be able to begin reserving tables once they’ve received it via e-mail. This is ONLY for past vendors of No Brand Con who receive a vendor packet. If we have any tables available after Grandfather Vendor registration closes, we will open up what remaining tables we have to any new vendors.

If you have any questions about the Artists Alley, please e-mail our art head at art@nobrandcon.org or if you have any questions about our Vendor Room, you can e-mail our vendor head at vendors@nobrandcon.org. Feel free to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for convention updates.