White Plectrum is just a guy named Keith playing and singing and having fun. But at the same time, it's more than just that as well. It's something that involves a group of people backing me up and helping me give the best show possible for the fans.

(For those not familiar with filking, the linked wiki article is a good start. A much better followup would be to attend the participatory Filking 101 panel on Saturday afternoon!

Jerry Conner attended RoVaCon, the first convention is south central Virginia back in 1976. The next year, he did a filmmaking workshop (with real film!) and was one of the con's first costumers. Years later, he was running RoVaCon's descendant, Rising Star.

In between, he has dabbled in traditional art, digital art (which he also teaches), SF model building, costuming for others, television production (which he also teaches), SF trivia, and filking (as a member of White Plectrum). He is a powerful proponent for Apple computers; Moebius, Pegasus and Round 2 plastic model manufacturers; and equal rights for ring-tailed lemurs.

Creator of "Project: Interplanetary Unity- The Struggle for Peace", more at Dan Delby Comics.

"Hey you sass that hoopy Garth Graham? Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is," would be the words on the lips of internet trawlers the world 'round if we didn't happen to live in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy. Instead, they just say how professional he is as he lurks in modest internet fame, churning out captivating comics since 2004 in an artistic style that mystically abducts the essences of both western comics and eastern manga; blending them together through patent pending methods into an addictive drug that tantalizes the optic nerves in ways science has yet to be able to explain.

His latest artistic creation is Finder's Keepers, the dark urban fantasy of a young lady who accidentally claims the soul of a man who is not entirely human, thus entangling herself in a mystery that spans the breadth of human imagination. A mystery whose solution will most likely get her killed, but is the only thing that can return her to a normal life and break the bond between herself and her otherworldly companion. It is kind of like what you'd get if Scott Campbell of Danger Girl drew Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Garth has become well known for his steampunk art, though his heart will always belong to cyberpunk.

Tyler Leslie is an English student at Virginia Tech and has loved to write since the age of ten. Even at that age he could usually be found spending his time writing short stories, creating his own worlds and filling them with imagination. He has recently published his first novel, Ancient Armada, and will be presenting it at Technicon.

Studio Unseen: Chris Impink and Barb Fischer

Studio Unseen is made up of two carbon-based creatures: Chris Impink and Barb Fischer. They recently premiered their new project, Sledgebunny: a sports-anime-inspired comic that takes place in the fast-paced world of flat track roller derby. On December 30, 2009, they closed the book on Fragile Gravity, a strip that featured independent comics, conventions, and (in an earlier arc) an invasionary force of penguins. Oh, and an extra-bitter stoat.

Chris Impink does the artwork and web design; he has been featured in Antarctic Press and did much of the graphic work for The Babylon Project role-playing game. Additionally, his work has been featured at various conventions such as Katsucon, Technicon, and Rising Star. He is also mildly notorious for co-founding Katsucon, though his team of spin doctors has kept that under wraps for many years. In his rare moments of free time, Chris works with the crew from Super Art Fight, running the Wheel of Death and notching up wins on the championship belt.

Barb Fischer does the writing as well as merchandise assembly and convention spotting; when not plotting out the nuts and bolts of Sledgebunny, she supervises the geek training of her ten-year-old son, who now enjoys listening to the themes to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. She hopes one day to conquer the world with her invincible shelving robots, but has yet to find anyone who would buy her enough Legos to start construction.