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This square design is made on a turquoise, green, mustard-yellow, and black gradient background. The “Archon 47 2024”logo, which depicts Godzilla rampaging through the St. Louis, MO skyline, after passing by the Gateway Arch, dominates the left side and overlaps a drone photo of the Gateway Center where the convention is headquartered. Logo courtesy of Archon 47; drone photo courtesy of Wedding Wire.
Archon Persists

Archon Persists

One thing I can say at the end of my very sparse “sf convention season” of 2024: Archon persists. We’ve seen a lot of fan-run science fiction conventions bucking strong headwinds since the Pandemic. My “home convention,” ConQuesT, has gone on hiatus. The club isn’t ready to say it’s dead yet, but we didn’t have one this year. Another longtime mainstay, SoonerCon, also went through a bumpy transition this year, as I noted in an earlier blog post. We and…

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The Archon 44 Art Show entrance and Jan’s display.
Artists at Archon 44

Artists at Archon 44

By Jan S. Gephardt If I may judge from my own experience, it was a pretty good weekend for artists at Archon 44. There was only a little space left over in the Art Show, but not much. And there was a nice variety of media and art styles represented. The Artists’/Creators’ Alley looked full and busy to me, even though the overall crowd was definitely smaller this year. It seemed as if people had been cooped up for close…

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