Yuricon Art Contest is ongoing

 Don't forget, there's still a Yuricon Art contest going on for another chance at winning great Yuri prizes! http://is.gd/YMJ76u

Entries will be taken until June 15th - if you voted for the art contest, we *really* hope you'll submit a picture (since if you voted for an art contest , but aren't submitting, you completely failed to grok the point of voting.)

The first "What Yuri means to Me" essays are up at Yuricon.com!

Our written archive of personal histories relating to Yuri is now online, with the first two sets of essays! Enjoy the Q&A with Morishima Akiko-sensei from the 2005 Yuricon in Tokyo program book, in English and Japanese, and an essay from Katherine Hanson.

http://www.yuricon.com/2011/05/17/…



We hope you'll all contribute to the project and email us a short essay about "What Yuri Means to You." Details are here:
http://www.yuricon.com/2011/04/24/…

Introducing the new Yuricon Website!

We've got a brand new website for Yuricon and to inaugurate it, we're running a brand new Yuricon contest!


The new Yuricon design is all about interaction - we welcome your comments on our posts and have made it easy for you to share pages of interest and, just as we want you to be part of the website, we are inviting you to be part of the decision for what kind of Contest will be our first!

We're running two polls, on our Facebook Community and Yuricon Mailing List, for you to decide which kind of contest it will be: Art Contest, Fanfic Contest or AMV Contest.
 

Since the New Yuricon is all about interaction, we don’t want to know what you want to see as a contest – we want to know what contest you want to participate in! Tell us whether you want to draw a picture of Yuriko and her friends, write a story about them or make a Yuri AMV. The contest that gets the most votes will win.

We’ll leave the polls open for a couple of weeks, so roll your sleeves up and get ready to create!


In the meantime, visit the Yuriko Art Gallery, the Shoujoai ni Bouken Fanfic Gallery or Yuri Studios for inspiration!

MangaNEXT Panel Schedule

MangaNEXT, the only all-manga convention will be held on October 29-31 in East Brunswick, NJ. (Visit the website for location, registration, etc.)

Sean Gaffney and I will be doing a Yuri Panel on Saturday, Oct. 30 at 7PM.

I will be giving some stuff away, because I have stuff and would like to give it away. :-)

I'll also be running panels How to Become a Manga Expert on Friday at 3:30 and How (Not) to Talk to a Publisher on Sunday at 11:30 AM. The "Manga Expert" Panel will include a discussion of critical reading of manga (something we've discussed on Okazu here before) and how to do research. I'm a professional researcher. I know what I'm talking about in regards to this one thing. ^_^

If you are interested in being part of "The Industry" and want to know what it takes to be an illustrator, graphic novelist, how to make it in Japan or the US, DO come to MangaNEXT! It's got great guests, and lots of "how to" stuff going on. Lea Hernandez will be teaching a Manga Boot Camp and dishing about her experience with Gainax. Graphic Novelist Dirk I. Tiede, creator of OEL Manga Bizhenghast, M. Alice LeGrow, Japanese independent manga artist Kondoh Akino and illustrator Juri H. will all have things to tell you about life "in the industry."

I hope to see you there, of course. Yuricon will not have table, because I am on MangaNEXT staff so, if you see me hanging around and talking to someone, that's me working. ^_^ Come join us for what promises to be a really great con!