Pictures from Minicon 36

Scenes from When Wierds Collide - Mardi Gras meets the Minnesota State Fair at Minicon

To the left, the Death of Rats (?) steps out of Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man at ten times actual size. To the right, ? destroys all other competition for the Best Squid In Show title

On the right, Marilee effortlessly dominates the festivities in a gorgeous beaded butterfly mask; to the left, Erik Olson bears stoically his necklace of crayfish from Geri and his moose antlers (emphatically not ears, my colleague in Large Ungulate Anatomy tells me) from David Owen-Cruise

Fun With Hologram Foil; ? as the Imperial High Potentate, and Ctein as Harvey the six-foot rabbit

More conventional convention photos

John Houghton provides a superb example of the Declaiming Fan

Saturday evening, at Brasserie Zinc. Thomas Yan, Beth Friedman, Kip Williams, David Goldfarb, Doug Faunt, Cathy Doyle

Cally Soukup and Mary Kay Kare; admire that amber necklace and the sheen on that shirt. This would have been a triptych, but the middle lady (possibly Shana Rosenfeld) hid behind Mary Kay as the camera came out.

Sunday evening, at Sawatdee. Clockwise from the front of the table: Doug Wickstrom, Shana Rosenfeld, Marilee Layman, Thomas Yan, hair of Cally Soukup, Martin Maney, David Goldfarb