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A-Kon
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| Convention | |
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| Name: | A-Kon, Project A-kon |
| Dates: | 1990-present |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Location: | DFW area,Texas |
| Type: | |
| Focus: | Anime |
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| Founder: | |
| Founding Date: | 1990 |
| URL: | https://a-kon.com/ |
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A-kon is the longest-running anime convention in North America. It was first held in July 1990 in Richardson, Texas, at which point it was called Project A-kon in reference to Project A-ko.
alt.fan.sailor-moon held an annual gathering at the convention (see page for reports and photos).
Reports
Trish LeDoux, the second chief editor of Animag, reported on the first annual A-kon in Animag issue 11, with several entries referencing Animag's clash under its first editor with Texas-based Randall S. Stukey:
11:00 a.m., 7/28/90[...] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Lou Scarborough, Jr. and Chip ‘n Dale creator Tex Henson formed instant rapport during guest intros.
11:25 a.m., 7/28/90
My Youth in Arcadia Roman Album on sale in dealers room for $40.00+. Yikes—it's worse than Books Nippan!
12:00 p.m., 7/28/90
Potential Cage of Death match with infamous Randall “Greatest Evil in the Universe” Stukey averted when self-described “Evil” turns out to be very nice (and very pink). Instructed publisher's son to take lots of pictures to prove that two animation fans can occupy the same space at the same time.
4:00 p.m., 7/28/90
Survived first panel ("Ask Animag's Editor”) at 3:30. Expected egg-wielding fans nowhere in sight; reports of Texas as “hotbed of anti-Animag sentiment” greatly exaggerated.
6:30 p.m., 7/28/90
Sat with publisher Tibbetts for “Anime Magazine Publishing” panel at 6:00 p.m. No egg-wielding fans here, either. Made a mental note to find better informers.Animag Issue 11, 1990
1994
- Cosplay in America @ A-kon 1994, video footage from A-kon 1994 taken by Cosplay in America