Fan Expo - Interesting Things to Buy

There were a lot of interesting products to buy, in addition to the usual t-shirts, artwork, collectables, comics, etc.

I've made a short album with some of my favourites from the show, including - where I know them - links for more information.  Here's the link where you can read my captions and see larger versions of the pictures.  If you just want to see the images, check out the slideshow.

Fan Expo Canada part 3: Steampunk

No recent con is complete without a decent steampunk presence.  There are several great costumes in the round-up in my picasa album.

The Toronto Steampunk Society (the link is to their facebook group) and Steampunk Canada had a really cool booth:

There was also an amazing assortment of steampunk jewelry and memorabilia on sale.

The above jewelry was made by Irina Pertseva at Black Currant Jewelry.

Unfortunately, while I did collect business cards from several booths, the one selling the sextants didn't have a card, so I can't say who made them.

SF Contario - Artist Alley

I'd meant to do a few SF Contario posts last week, but other things came up, so they've been pushed back to this week.

First up are some of the fantastic works from Artists Alley.

The artist guest of honour was Billy Tackett, 'art with BRAAAAINNNNSSSS!!'. He has some great pictures in his "Dead, White & Blue" series, like this one: A New Corpse.


Heather V. Kreiter had a nice display of "My Little Demon" ponies.


Margaret Chown's site won't let me save a picture for display. She's got watercolours and more, so go check it out.

Kerry Maffeo has steampunk inspired art. You can see some of it on her blog, and buy it on her etsy page.


If you like steampunk jewelry, there were two dealers. The first, Irina Pertseva,


the second, C. J. Grand-Cowan.