Jun 26, 2007 - Archived - This is the archive of the I-CON 26 website, it will no longer be updated. For the latest I-CON news, please visit the main I-CON site at http://iconsf.org

Apr 30, 2007 - Indie Movies - The final list of indie movies shown at I-CON26 has been updated, check it out at the films page.

Apr 17, 2007 - AeroSith at I-CON 26 on Youtube - You can find a video of AeroSith performing at I-CON 26 on youtube here. Enjoy!

Apr 3, 2007 - Charity Auction - A video of Spat doing some creative auctioning for charity at I-CON 26 can be found on youtube here. Our charity auction this year benefited Breast Cancer Help, find more info here!

Mar 25, 2007 - I-CON 26 Photo Highlights - A small photo gallery has been added here. It will be updated as frequently as possible. Enjoy the pics!

News Archive

Rob Balder is a self-described "renaissance geek," who spreads his creative energies across the fields of comics, game design, small press publishing, writing, poetry, and filk.

He writes and sings filk/comedy/parody songs, and has recorded two CDs (http://www.richfantasylives.com). The title track from Rob's first filk CD, "Rich Fantasy Lives" was co-written with Filk Hall of Famer (http://www.tomsmithonline.com) Tom Smith, and was nominated for a Pegasus Award for Best Filk Song in 2006. Rob's songs have also been heard on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show (http://www.doctordemento.com). In January 2006, he and six other comedy music performers founded The Funny Music Project (http://http://www.TheFuMP.com), where they present two free songs a week.

Rob is also the creator of the clip-art comic strip PartiallyClips (http://www.partiallyclips.com), which is widely read online and has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines. A book collection of the strip, "Suffering for my Clip Art: the Best of PartiallyClips, volume 1" was published in 2005. In 2006, PartiallyClips was nominated for a Webcomics Creators Choice Award for Outstanding Short Form Comic.

He is the Associate Editor of Nth Degree (< a href="http://www.nthzine.com/index.html">http://www.nthzine.com/index.html) a popular fanzine covering genre fiction, gaming, comics, fandom and more.

He writes science fiction and fantasy, including one unpublished novel and many short stories and poems.

Rob also teamed up with Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance (http://www.sluggy.com) to create "Get Nifty," (http://www.getnifty.com) a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. Get Nifty debuted in stores in early 2006, through Blood & Cardstock Games (http://www.blood-and-cardstock.com).

His current project is a full-color Fantasy webcomic called Erfworld, co-created with illustrator Jami Noguchi (http://www.angryzenmaster.com). Erfworld began in December 2006 and updates twice weekly at (http://www.giantitp.com), home of the popular roleplay comic, "The Order of the Stick," by Rich Burlew.