Biella Coleman To Speak at ROFLCon

Good afternoon, ladies and chaps — we’re sorry to interrupt your regular internet programming to bring you an exciting late breaking guest announcement today. Happy to officially drop the news that Biella Coleman, NYU Prof of Media Culture and Communication (read: awesomeness), will be a featured guest at ROFLCon II!

Specifically, she’ll be taking the helm and moderating our final mega-blowout keynote panel “Mainstreaming the Web,” with moot, Know Your Meme, Ben Huh, and Greg Rutter. Which is excellent.

Biella has done a great deal of work on the eccentric interfaces of internet culture and mainstream culture, and has had the fine distinction of presenting slides on lulz in various srs settings. For those among you of the definitively geekier persuasion, her name will probably be familiar from her turbo-charged work on open source/free software communities.

Anyways, this is superb news. Welcome aboard!

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Omni Consumer Products Sponsors ROFLCon!

With their nearly flawless corporate track record in designing robotic law enforcement devices and the 6000 SUX, we’re glad today to announce that the well-respected international conglomerate Omni Consumer Products is coming on board as a key partner for ROFLCon II!

You may remember Omni from ROFLCon 2008 as the company responsible for (fantastically) bringing Brawndo to life and keeping our conference two years ago hyped up on caffeine and electrolytes. One of their subsidiaries, Sex Panther Cologne, also was a sponsor during the festivities of ROFLThing-NYC. They’ve also since been the masterminds behind Tru Blood.

The shadowy and reclusive CEO behind Omni, Pete Hottelet, will also be attending and speaking at the conference. So, needless to say, we’re thrilled to have him on board.

Additionally, let it be known that ROFLCon II will be the official world premiere relaunch of Omni’s latest purchased subsidiary, Stay Puft Marshmallows. That’s all I’ll say for now.

Double Announce! Softer World and Secret Asian Man at ROFLCon!

Last, but absolutely definitely not least by a long stretch, ROFLCon is happy today to be announcing the last of our of special guest artist announcements by concluding this fine Thursday afternoon to say that the following fine ladies and gentlemen will be representing themselves and their creations at ROFLCon II:

* Joey Comeau and Emily Horne, creators of the beautifully dark and wonderfully brilliant A Softer World (and alums from ROFLCon I and our gallery show Titans of Small Town)

* AND Tak Toyoshima from long-standing favorite Secret Asian Man (who the sharper among you may have already picked up on from our announcement about Super Art Fight yesterday).

Thrilled to have ‘em both — catch them hanging around through the weekend, and otherwise kicking ass.

And, as of today, we’re officially t-minus two weeks before ROFLCon gets under way — mind-blowingly excited to see you all there!

Johnny Wander @ ROFLCon II!

Swinging back into the comix universe, terrifically happy today to be finally announcing that our friends Ananth Panagariya and Yuko Ota, creators of the gorgeously done, semi-biographical Johnny Wander, will be joining the guest list and attending the festivities at ROFLCon II!

You might also remember Ananth from Applegeeks, and may have seen his masterful design skills recently in action on ONI’s limited-edition geek-salivation-inducing Scott Pilgrim shirt. Both are works of high badassery and both Ananth and Yuko are folks of the highest order, so we’re absolutely lucky to have both of them on board.

Unbelievably enough, the guests keep on piling in as we run into the home stretch. We’ve got double announcements today, so check in later for a bonus bit of ROFL!