Spring is in the Air!

Today Spring seems to be promised again with temperatures in the upper 40s, yet yesterday it dipped in the 20s overnight. Weather in New Jersey is a see-saw & so is my expectations of progress of my personal yokai, a.k.a CloverCon. Maybe I should give it a chibi nickname to make it sweet & simple. Hmmmmm…. maybe “Clover Baby-baby” (a tribute to my recent binging of Resident Alien)? To get me & everyone else in the loop (Is this a trap?), here are the present highlights:

• Artist Alley is FULL with 13 newbies out of the 32 total number of these creative artists. As of now, the waiting list has 5 hopeful artists.

• Dealers’ Area is almost full again with the same dealers as last year bringing their amazing bounty of goods for sale.

• Our Guest Presenters include:

  • Adam Hennessey & Jaime Bonsignore with “How the Music Evokes” reveals the emotional responses to the music scores in several anime & video games.

  • Jon Turner with “40 Years of Nausicaä” examines its backstories of Miyasaki leading his team in this tale of war & peace.

  • Tyler Barth with “What’s with the Mask? A History of Kigurumi” presents why these silent masked cosplayers are who they are.

• Watch for more guests to come as we wait for their confirmations & descriptions of their presentations.

• The website features new photos provided by 4-H Photobombers. As of now only our own members in cosplay are included, but I expect other cosplayers will be highlighted after their permission is secured at this year’s CloverCon for future inclusion on our website.

Look here & elsewhere on the website for more news & updates as they happen.

So it goes (as Vonnegut liked to say),

Betty sensei

Coordinator and/or friend of Clover Baby-baby