Hello, I’m Miss OoLaLa, an award winning cosplayer from Lafayette, LA! I travel from place to place, hosting crafting, wig styling, and sewing panels, entering cosplay contests… and sometimes judging them too! I sell cosplay prints at my table, as well as handmade jewelry, hair accessories, and comic book & videogame pillows.
Facebook: Miss Oolala
Instagram: @miss.oolala
Gamma Rae Cosplay
Cosplay Contest Judge
"I work as a lawyer by day, but by night I double as a cosplayer, under the name Gamma Rae Cosplay. Three years ago, I attended my first Comic Con, where I discovered a newfound passion for cosplay. My first attempt at cosplay was when I went to the Mississippi Anime Festival, dressed as Rick from Rick and Morty. I've been addicted ever since.
I've always loved geek culture. Growing up I played video games and loved things like Ronin Warriors and Street Fighter.
I co-host a podcast called Geeked Up, where we discuss geek/pop culture and what it was like to grow up as a geek in Mississippi. She also recently started a chapter of the international organization Geek Girl Brunch (a meetup group for ladies to talk about geek culture over brunch and mimosas) in Jackson, MS with two of her close friends. When it comes to cosplaying I love doing cosplays as a variety of characters and adding some black girl magic to it."
Twitter: @GammaRaeCosplay
Instagram: @gammaraecosplay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gammaraecosplay
https://www.facebook.com/geekedupjxn
LigerZero Gaming
Cosplay Contest Judge
My name is Ligerzero! I'm a POC cosplayer and streamer from South Mississippi. After I attended my first convention in 2013, I fell completely in love with cosplay and jumped in feet first. While I started with some fun closet cosplays, now you'll find me around con floors, usually putting a bit of a curly haired twist on some of your favorite characters. With my huge love of anime like Gundam, Evangelion and My Hero Academia, video games like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Nier, and comics like Green Lantern, Spider-Man and Captain America, you never know who I'll show up as next. And when I'm not enjoying my love of cosplay, you can catch me coming to you live through the power of the internet, sharing my love of video games one stream at a time.
Twitch: Ligerzero_Gaming
YouTube: Ligerzero Gaming
Instagram: @ligerzero_gaming
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LigerzeroGaming
Lady Luna Loveless of Cajun Moon Creations
Cosplay Contest Judge
Lady Luna Loveless is an award winning cosplayer, wig stylist and owner of Cajun Moon Creations based out of Louisiana. When she's not gaming, reading comics or watching anime you can catch her spending her free time making cosplay for her and her family or nerdy items for her shop. She also take wig commissions to help other talented cosplayers realize their cosplay dreams. She continues to try to grow her craft in this ever changing world.
Instagram: @lady_luna_loveless , @cajun_moon_creations
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cajunmooncreations/
Lazy Nerds
Marketplace Vendor
We are a small team of artists who design, screenprint and embroider pop culture and nerd inspired merchandise. We offer professional and corporate looking products with a chill small biz feel. We also have a mobile Shaved Ice company that has been integrated into our Lazy Nerds branding.
Website: lazynerdsdesigns.com
Instagram:
@lazynerdsdesigns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lazynerdsdesigns
Sewlynn Jewelry and Designs
Marketplace Vendor
I'm a Baton Rouge seamstress who loves to create. I make fae/fairy inspired pieces to add to your cosplay. I'm also available to assist in custom cosplay items and accessories.
Website:
www.sewlynn.com
Instagram: @sewlynnjnd
Crazy Crochet & Extras
Marketplace Vendor
We make nerdy and sci-fi themed crochet items for all your geeky needs. We also carry a variety of goods such as jewelry and cosplay items.
Pro Se Productions
Marketplace Vendor
Ernest Russell is an author and editor who has written for Pro Se Productions, Beyond the Threshold Studios, and the literary journal Violet Windows. As submissions editor for Pro Se, an innovator in the Genre Fiction market, works to continually refine its presentation, product and is always working on exciting and unique veins of New Pulp to readers and fans of all ages everywhere! Some of his favorite things (besides coffee) are science fiction, horror, steampunk, and fantasy books and movies. As often as possible, you can find him playing board games, table-top, or an RPG. Most often with GUGL, Grown Up Gaming League, sponsored by the EBR Parish Library.
Website: http://prose-press.com
Instagram: @pro_se_productions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions
DopeSmack is a drug fighting superhero film and comic book.
Facebook: DopeSmack
Instagram: @dopesmackuniverse
I'm a Black Speculative fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a small publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul. MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books that represent people of color in a positive manner. I'm the author of twenty-one novels and short story collections; my most recent the Sword and Soul adventure Eda Blessed II. I'm also a contributing author to Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, published by Marvel and Titan Books and coauthor of Hadithi and the State of Black Speculative Fiction with Eugen Bacon. I'm editor and co-editor of eleven anthologies; Spyfunk!; Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL; Cyberfunk!; The City, Dark Universe and Dark Universe: The Bright Empire with Gene Peterson; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology, Steamfunk! , and Dieselfunk! with Balogun Ojetade. My work had also been featured in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology and Rococoa published by Roaring Lions Productions; Skelos 2: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy, Steampunk Writers Around the World published by Luna Press; Heroika: Dragoneaters published by First Perseid Press, Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume Two, and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire. Balogun Ojetade and I won the 2014 Urban Action Showcase Award for Best Script for our screenplay, Ngolo. My story ‘The Swarm’ was nominated for the 2017 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction and my story, Carnival, was nominated for the 2020 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction.
Facebook: Milton Davis
Website: miltonjdavis.com
NERDSoul is 70's soul mixed with comics. Sci-fi fantasy and movie geekery, topped off with the Golden Era of Hip Hop. For years, NERDSoul has represented the love of Wu-Tang, Justice League, Star Wars, and Stevie Wonder. Simply, NERDSoul is Hip Hop x Geek.
Facebook: That Nerd Soul
Instagram: @ThatNerdSoul
Website: thatnerdsoul.com
Blerd-ish
Marketplace Vendor
We are the Blerd.ish! podcast and comic book pop up shop. We are independent distribution for artists that consist of indie comics to manga and art prints. We are in the process of creating our own comic styled coloring book based on our experiences.
Website:
www.blerd-ish.com
Instagram: @blerd.ish
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Blerdish1
Wild Skullflower Art
Marketplace Vendor
I'm Corin Beverly, the artist behind Wild Skullflower Art! I create vibrant and colorful fine art illustrations which pulls elements from the tattoo world, street art, comics, and the generally peculiar. Otherworldly fantastic and magical imagery, brilliant crystals, beautiful flowers, skulls, and geek culture populate my work. It's a bright and colorful mish-mash but, hey, it works for me!
Website:
https://www.wildskullflowerart.com/
Instagram: @wildskullflowerart
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildSkullflowerArt
Die Bold Comics
Marketplace Vendor
Comic Books I write and self publish, everything from slice of life like A GIrl and Her Dog to horror like Alma to science fiction and crime comics.
Website: DieBoldComics.com
Instagram: @dieboldcomics
Twitter: @dieboldcomics
The Bear & The Beard Podcast
Marketplace Vendor
Toxicity has become a major problem in the nerd and pop culture fan communities. We try to combat that by spreading nerd love and awesomeness to our listeners. Now it’s panel attendees turn. We will give examples of toxicity in an effort to educate the difference between Healthy Dislike and Toxic Trolling. We will also discuss how gaslighting has negatively affected our respective fandoms. Fans have the power to change and to change things in their respective fandoms we just want to help make that happen.
It's all about having fun while we share with our opinions and try to spread love throughout all the fandoms in an attempt to end toxicity. We raise money for charity through raffles and merch giveaways. We bring props for the kids, and the kids at heart, to interact with. We even have a few team members that do cosplay.
Website:
www.thebearandthebeardpodcast.com
Facebook: https://www.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/
The Acadian Circus is a professional circus company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our local performers specialize in a range of acts from the ground to the sky, and even the water. Circus arts are beautiful and eye-catching art-forms to incorporate into an event or performance. The unique blend of daring strength and illusions of movement captivate your audience in a moment and keeps them locked in with wonder and amazement. It’s an experience people will want to share with others.
The Acadian Circus will be preforming all day August 5 in the outdoor plaza
Facebook: The Acadian Circus
YouTube: The Acadian Circus
Trapped in Anime is a web series that makes live action videos inspired by anime. They are known for their short videos that are styled with special effects and comedy.
Facebook: Trapped in Anime
Instagram: @trappedinanimetv
Cartoonman Studios
Keith Douglas
Presenter: Drawing Workshop
Marketplace Vendor
Keith Van Douglas is known all over South Louisiana as CartoonMan™ and as an extraordinarily prolific caricaturist has drawn over 300,000 people over his long and very productive career. Keith is a brilliant artist/cartoonist whose images are colorful, vivid and spatially imaginative. Keith’s work evokes his own sensibilities as well as the work and style of many of the greats who have preceded him. There is no style that Keith Van Douglas cannot do. Keith is positive, creative and unique.
Website:
Keithvandouglas.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keith.douglas2
Twitter: @revorascal
Instagram: @keithcartoonmandouglas
Calvin Wilson/Ground Nova
Marketplace Vendor
Calvin Wilson sells digital and traditional art prints at conventions. He draws characters in an anime/comic art style. He has attended Cyphacon, Mechacon and Louisianime as an art vendor.
Instagram: @groundnova
PoeArtry Creative Movement LLC & Cowries by Axya
(Antoine GHOST Mitchell, Erica Axya Williams-Mitchell)
Marketplace Vendor
Antoine GHOST Mitchell and Erica AYXA Williams-Mitchell are a creative husband and wife duo based in Baton Rouge, LA. Antoine is a graphic artist specializing in traditional and digital art and Erica creates cowrie shelled jewelry. Together they develop their Afro-Fantasy comic book series, Sankofa's Eymbrace, where Antoine is the creator, writer, and artist and Erica edits with a fine tooth.
Website:
www.sankofaseymbrace.com
Instagram: @sankofaseymbrace
Facebook: Sankofa's Eymbrace ,
Red Stick Reads
Marketplace Vendor
We are a small independent book shop, with a carefully curated selection of books for all ages, specializing in children’s books, and are fluent in all things nerd!
Website:
redstickreads.com
Instagram: @redstickreads
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redstickreaders
CorsPlasticSmores
Marketplace Vendor
CorsPlasticSmores is a locally owned business specializing in Perler beaded art. We sell everything from video game sprites, to anime characters, and everything else loved by fandoms. CorsPlasticSmores also does custom requests as well... If you can dream it, Cor can bead it!
Instagram: @corsplasticsmores
Twitter: @corssmores
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/corsplasticsmores
Nerd Brew Coffee & Gifts
Marketplace Vendor
Nerd Brew Coffee and Gifts is a pop culture based hand roasted coffee and handmade gift company. I started this business with the goal of spreading the nerdy love and bringing people together to talk and discuss fresh ideas over a cup of gourmet coffee. Nerd Brew prides itself in providing quality coffee and fun affordable jewelry and gifts.
Linda's Crochet
Marketplace Vendor
I have been crocheting for over 40 years. Items include hats, dolls, amigurumi, animals, baby items, afghans, etc. I try to stay up on items that are trending. Crochet makes great gifts for people of all ages.
I began drawing at the age of five and grew into comics and cartoons. I graduated from Humphreys County High in 2002 and later attended Hinds Community College pursuing a Graphic Design career. After that I attended International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa, FL continuing to seek more knowledge. My skills range from comic art, to illustrations and graphic arts. Comic Con has been a part of my life since 2015 and it has become a wonderful journey to live. In 2014, I collaborated with Rhythm Visions Productions Company Inc. for a show in Jackson, MS. Later I became the creator of the contest now a thirty-one day art challenge called iMonster Creation. In 2018 I began working with 123GO Publications for independent comics with the first published work being Gun Metal Black Ops. But first was an other published work with 123GO under a title called Sidereal Apogee. As of today I am working as an artist for Stoker/McAuley Productions with works under Dracula from the legacy of Bram Stoker.
Facebook: Kaz-Magic Arts
Instagram: @kaz_m_studios
Website: Kazmagicarts.com