Welcome to PortConMaine 2008: Mecha-PortCon! PortConMaine is Maine's biggest and longest running Anime & Gaming Convention! Fan run and for fans, the convention has succeeded year after year to bring anime and gaming funs events such as: a cosplay, anime music videos, two anime theaters, a video game room, panels, discussions, workshops, CCGs, miniature events, RPGs, board games, an auction, extreme geek, Cthulhu, karaoke, an artist ally, contests, free stuff, Dance Dance revolution, vendors, and more! Stock full of goodness, with enough events to keep you busy and wanting more- this convention is a family friendly outing for all ages!
For 2008 we'll be moving to the Eastland Park in Portland for July 3rd through the 6th! This year we're actually opening a day earlier to allow for some extra events Thursday night. Oooh! Instead of adding an awkward 4-day pass and moving everything about, Thursday of 2008 will be open to Pre-Registered people ONLY. Consider it our gift to you for signing up ahead of time and our way of continuing to grow and develop as Maine's Anime & Gaming convention! Check the schedule for what's going on Thursday as it develops, and the registration page for rates and info.
Keep checking this website for more news and information regarding the convention.
5/2/08: We're processing the registrations as fast as possible! Hopefully a finalized list will be up shortly.
If your name isn't on the list, but the name of your parent or guardian who got the badge IS, send us your name, their name, and their email (important-- this is the one thing that tells us you *are* connected to them without just looking through the list).
Meanwhile, a final vendor has been confirmed: Best Anime Shop. Special thanks to new sponsorTweeter who is going to donate television screens for our video game room! WOOT!
Christian Matzke is an amateur filmmaker and propmaker specializing in period adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft. His work has been favorably reviewed in both Fangoria and Rue Morgue Magazine, and Fortean Times called his short films "darkly apocalyptic". When Christian's pseudo-documentary Experiment 17 won the audience choice award at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2005, musician (and hardcore Lovecraft fan) Patti Smith praised the film saying "it is hard to tell where the truth ends and the fantasy
begins".
Christian's props and illustrations have appeared in a dozen Lovecraft adaptations as well as the Cthulhu: Live roleplaying manuals from Fantasy Flight Games. Along with his wife, makeup artist Sarah Matzke, Christian runs Page Street Studios, a production company
specializing in props and effects for both film and theater. To see some of their work, please go to: http://www.myspace.com/pagestreetstudios
This is Christian's first time at PortConMaine, and he is very excited to have the opportunity to discuss filmmaking and prop design.
Christina Siravo specializes in whimsical illustration in traditional mediums such as pen & ink with watercolor. She has earned her BFA in Illustration from the Maine College of art, and made her first debut into the children's book world with her magical illustrations for "An Orphan's Promise" by Dan Davis. Christina has worked with Re-ment Miniatures (www.re-ment.co.jp) to provide cute package designs and story-cards to compliment their miniature product "Bread and Butter". Her love for theatre and singing is an ever constant inspiration in her works, in addition to fantasy and fairy tales. She draws inspiration from treasured artists such as Hayao Miyazaki, Chiho Saito, Beatrix Potter, Alphonse Mucha, and Jesse Wilcox Smith. Visit her online Portfolio www.csiravo.com or her deviantart website bluebirdie.deviantart.com/store.
4/25/08: Updated the Pre-Registration list! The end of pre-registration is coming and the hotel is practically full- as soon as the block is gone we'll be posting alternate hotels.
4/23/08: Fiddling around with website.
4/15/08: Reminder: Pre-Registration ends May 1st! So make sure to register as soon as possible for the extra fourth day of Thursday! Click here for details. An updated list of pre-registrations is online. (We'll try to keep it as up to date as possible, promise!)
Here are two new banners donated by guest Kori Handweker:
Sketch: After his cosplay debut at Anime Boston 2004 as the now legendary “Leathery Vash” cosplayer, Sketch has continued to push the boundaries of the New England cosplay scene with elaborate cosplay after cosplay. Even if it took him three years to still not be done. (HEY!!... Okay, you’re right. –Sketch) He followed up with Lynx from the PS1 game Chrono Cross in ’05. He’s tormented Ed Elrics over countless cons as his Hohenheim of Light and delighted us with his Pervy Sage Jiraiya in the dating games coming up to his reveal of the TV headed robot, Canti (FLCL) in 08. Fitting our theme of robots and he’s bringing it… if it fits in the hallways that’s another matter.
Sketch’s classic training is in illustration, getting his BFA in ’04, has been found off n’ on in artist alleys showing off his art. But, being a constant student of life he sought out other forms of art in sculpture, sewing, electronics, and basket weaving… wait what? He’s known by his convention colleagues as someone who can figure out how to make anything.
His reformed site www.SketchedOutLife.com offers the public, free of charge, insight to Sketch’s plots of world domination. Or that it’s just a growing interactive portfolio. From cosplay to webcomics, it’ll someday be updated to share. >.>
4/6/08: Another banner was donated, this time by one of our guests- Easy Skankin'. Here:
Christian Matzke is an amateur filmmaker and propmaker specializing in period adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft. His work has been favorably reviewed in both Fangoria and Rue Morgue Magazine, and Fortean Times called his short films "darkly apocalyptic". When Christian's pseudo-documentary Experiment 17 won the audience choice award at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2005, musician (and hardcore Lovecraft fan) Patti Smith praised the film saying "it is hard to tell where the truth ends and the fantasy
Christina Siravo specializes in whimsical illustration in traditional mediums such as pen & ink with watercolor. She has earned her BFA in Illustration from the Maine College of art, and made her first debut into the children's book world with her magical illustrations for "An Orphan's Promise" by Dan Davis. Christina has worked with Re-ment Miniatures (
Sketch: After his cosplay debut at Anime Boston 2004 as the now legendary “Leathery Vash” cosplayer, Sketch has continued to push the boundaries of the New England cosplay scene with elaborate cosplay after cosplay. Even if it took him three years to still not be done. (HEY!!... Okay, you’re right. –Sketch) He followed up with Lynx from the PS1 game Chrono Cross in ’05. He’s tormented Ed Elrics over countless cons as his Hohenheim of Light and delighted us with his Pervy Sage Jiraiya in the dating games coming up to his reveal of the TV headed robot, Canti (FLCL) in 08. Fitting our theme of robots and he’s bringing it… if it fits in the hallways that’s another matter. 
