Anime Improv, pixel art, film editing, and cosplay are just a few of the many exciting activities offered at this year’s Iigurubando Con in small town Fairfield.

Iigurubando Con-4 is a one-day fundraising event in which all proceeds will be used to support Fairfield High School’s Grand Band from Eagle Land.

Featured at the Con are artists, writers, video games and Cosplayers and everything “Geek.”

Darren ‘TekForce’ Columbus will perform his ‘Nerdcore’ Rapping to delight the nerdy crowd.

Returning this year is Fairfield’s own Tori Martin, of Funimation, who will do a panel on film editing.

Discussing being a 5th grade teacher and a comic creator in Dallas is Hector Rodriguez, creator of the El Peso Hero comic and co-creator of the first ever Texas Latino Comic Con.

Also featured is Take One Productions, who will perform two improv panels including audience participations.

Lisa Cossentino of Songbird Beauty will demonstrate pixel art.

Elizabeth Howard of Wild Designs will display her creative work in digital, traditional, and multi-medium arts.

Comic illustrator, Eliamaria M. Crawford will be on hand to showcase her special stick-figured, dry-humored comics.

Award winning Cosplayer, Dallis Gregory will return to demonstrate her special techniques.

An air-brush art presentation will be provided by Raymond Casteel.

To top it all off, Shouff! Studios will be returning to do a panel on drawing art.

Iigurubando Con will be set up like a big “Con,” but with a Hometown feel. The Con will run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 27, 2018.

Doors open at 9 a.m. and entry is $20 per person; donations are always appreciated.

The con is expanding this year. There will be an area for board game & card game demos and art demos, as well as the usual video gaming area and anime viewing area. The main panel room will be in the large band hall.

David Doub will host a Magic the Gathering tournament. Entry fee is $5.00.

This year the con will be teaming up with Mr. Wright, drama teacher at Fairfield High School, and his students will be very much involved.

 

Elizabeth Howard

Owner of Wilde Designs, Elizabeth Howard loves all things ‘dorky.’

Professionally, she is a graphic designer who lives in Denton, Texas and works full time at Texas Women’s University.

In her free time, she runs Wilde Designs and freelances as a designer and social media manager.

Opened in 2007, Wilde Designs is the artist’s playground where she tries out new techniques in digital and traditional art as well as crafting mediums.

Her most notorious works are the Barbie Murders photographic series, which are hanging in homes all across the U.S. and abroad.

 

Eliamaria M. Crawford

Dallas based illustrator, Elia Crawford, is well known for her stick-figured, dry-humored comics.

She started drawing little comics centered on life’s thoughts and happenings in high school and eventually evolved to doing cool projects from custom wedding graphics, to convention poster art, and even contributing comics to many projects.

Elia also has a YouTube channel where she posts videos centered on her art life, time-lapse drawings, and vlogs from an artist-alley perspective at conventions.

In 2016, she got her first book published, “Humans Really Irritate Me,” which is an anthology featuring all the comics she illustrated centered on UTA-famed professor Dr. Allan Saxe.

With many more ideas and stories on her mind, she’s always working on her next project!

 

Raymond Casteel

Drawing since the age of three, encouraged by his grandmother showing him the Bob Ross painting show, artist Raymond Casteel is best known for his comic character, The Black Wasp, released in 1992.

The story of the character is yet to be written, as he says, “I’m a better artist than a writer.”

Since then, he has created fan art of some of his favorite characters such as The Joker, Harley Quinn, Logan, and Lady Death, just to name a few.

He has gained recognition by comic legend and creator of Dead World; who commissioned him to do the Justice card in The Book Of The Tarot and the character Dead Killer from Dead World.

 

TekForce

Darren ‘TekForce’ Columbus has always been engrossed in nerd culture. As a child of the 80’s, he was exposed to everything from G.I. Joe to Transformers and movies like Ghostbusters and TRON.

At the same time that he developed his love of everything nerdy, he also began his love of Hip-Hop music.

He was influenced by groups like A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan and Gangstaar, and eventually, years later, started performing his own music.

He released his first album, Tek Support, to critical acclaim and has since performed at several conventions, such as Dallas Comic Con, Doc’s Comics and Games, Classic Gaming Fest, Retropalooza, and even at opening night of The National Video Game Museum in Frisco, Texas.

 

Shonuff! Studio

Partners, and professional artists, Halo Sama and Terry Parr, handle any art project thrown at them.

Halo’s cartoon anime and Terry’s comic pin-up styles are well known in the comic world.

They are currently working on their own comic; AEROBICIDE, The Extreme Ninja Workout, funded on Kickstarter and published on Comixology; and The Essential Zombie Kitty Pet Guide, published by Dusk Comics.

They also illustrated and colored art for the El Peso Hero comic series and even had an award-winning design on TeeFury!

Their animated and diverse illustration styles will bring out the geek in you! Shonuff!