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.
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.
Reminder! Panel applications close on March 1st!
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.
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.
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)
We know there’s been a significant delay, but the room block for No Brand Con 2026 at the Lismore Hotel is now open! Rooms are discounted, and there is a two night minimum with the block due to limited space available.
You can reserve your room with this reservation link right now.
Are you a member of a fan club, college group, or high school organization? Are you interested in bringing your group to No Brand Con 2026? Well we’d love to have you! We offer reduced registration rates for organizations looking to attend our event.
We discount weekend badges for groups by $10, and you can find the full information on our Group Rates page!
The No Brand Con road show is headed out again, but this time somewhere close to home. This Saturday, December 6th, you’ll be able to find us out at UWEC GEEKcon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire! UWEC GEEKcon is a student run event, and it’s free to students, with a $3 suggested donation for non-students to attend.
So if you’re in town, stop on by and say hi (and maybe consider preregistering for No Brand Con while you’re at it).
