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No Brand Con 2026

Volunteer for No Brand Con 2026!

Did you know that if you join our volunteer team, you can get reimbursed for your No Brand Con badge? That’s right, if you work for ten hours over the course of the con weekend, the convention becomes effectively free to attend!

One of the best things about No Brand Con is that it’s run by fans like you, and as we’re an event completely driven by people donating their time, it’s a great way to feel a part of it.

To find out more information, check our our volunteer page. If you decided that you’re interested, just make a copy of our 2026 volunteer application, fill it out, and email it to volunteering@nobrandcon.org! You won’t regret it.

No Brand Con 2026

Guest Announcement: Princess Weekes

We’re excited to announce one more name for our guest list for No Brand Con 2026: Princess Weekes!

Princess has written for The Mary Sue, cohosted both PBS’s “It’s Lit” and Netflix’s “Geeked” Podcast, and releases frequent video essays on social issues, race, feminism, and pop culture on her YouTube channel. A lover of Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Magic, she has recently appeared on LRR’s Pre-PreRelease and TCC’s Shuffle Up & Play.

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Guest Announcement: Takoyaki Entertainment!

We’re excited to announce another addition to the guest list for No Brand Con 2026: Takoyaki Entertainment!

Takoyaki Entertainment is a Midwest Based comedy team devoted to delivering quality comedy content to the convention scene! Founded by a group of friends in 2017, they aim to make you laugh with events and panels.

We’re so excited that they’ll be bringing their unique brand of humor to our 2026 convention.

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Guest Announcement: Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug

We’re excited to announce another guest for No Brand Con 2026: Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug!

Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug is a comic book Youtuber most known for making excessively long videos about children’s media where people in spandex punch rubber suited monsters. When not battling robots, Lovecraftian monster Gods, and evil doppelgangers on his main show “Atop the Fourth Wall,” he’s ranting about the worst dreck the comic book industry has ever thought up and then dressing up like a ghoul to analyze horror comics.

And then he remembers “Oh, yeah, people like it when I talk about Power Rangers, don’t they?” and proceeds to release another retrospective on it.

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Guest Announcement: Tappy Toe Claws

We’re excited to announce another guest for No Brand Con 2026: Tappy Toe Claws!

Tappy Toe Claws is a cosplayer, twitch streamer, podcaster and self-proclaimed, sometimes publicly-endorsed, internet funny person. Tappy has been attending cons for almost 20 years as a cosplayer, artist, performer and (usually) loveable scamp.

She’s thrilled to be invited to No Brand Con as an official guest (rather than having to sneak in the back way along with several raccoons like last time.) You may know Tappy from her cosplay work with Magic the Gathering or as a regularly occurring villain and chaos advocate on Tolarian Community College and other fine tcg and table-top programming. Tappy also produces the very normal podcast all about fanfiction and internet fandom culture, Open Tabs, with her co-hosts Amy the Amazonian and Princess Weekes.

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Guest Announcement: Laughing Rat Cosplay

We’re excited to announce the first guest for No Brand Con 2026: Laughing Rat Cosplay!

Laughing Rat is thrilled to return to No Brand Con in 2026! A Milwaukee based cosplay crafter and rodent enthusiast, her work is known for its clean finishing, attention to detail, and always having at least one tiny nibble hole in it. She has competed at many Midwest cons, as well as the Crown Championships of Cosplay at C2E2, Disney’s D23 Mousequerade, and H+H Americas.

Outside of cosplay, she’s usually trying to keep her twelve pet rats from eating things they shouldn’t, reading, knitting, or doing yoga.

Photo Credits: Hayley Stein (tea gown), Zack Mleczek (Roserade)