Flame Con welcomes this year’s featured cosplayers: CosplaybyBriar, Maeviary, and Stardust Megu!

FIREBALL, the official Flame Con after-party hosted by Megami, has all kinds of crazy, sexy, and geeky fun in store for all your favorite queer friends at this 21+ event. Featuring geek-themed drag, burlesque, boylesque, dancing, and more! 

Learn more about the lovely and talented divas performing this year:

Princess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race, gender, and pop culture. Formerly an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs or cuddling with her cat, Lola.

Terry Blas is the illustrator and writer behind the viral webcomics You Say Latino and You Say Latinx. He wrote the comic book tie-in for Ariana Grande’s R.EM. fragrance campaign. He is also the writer of Steven Universe comics for Boom, and Rick and Morty comics for Oni Press. His original graphic novels are Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom, Hotel Dare, Lifetime Passes, and Eat Your Heart Out, all of which feature queer and Mexican characters. He wrote several Marvel series including: Reptil: Brink of Extinction, Nova, and Runaways as well as Wonder Woman and Vixen for DC comics.

Shannon Watters is the co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling comic book series LUMBERJANES, as well as the hit graphic novel HOLLOW, and a writer of animation, comics, and prose. She is also an acclaimed editor and the former founder/editorial head of BOOM! Box line at BOOM! Studios, the imprint behind critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels like GIANT DAYS, THE BACKSTAGERS, LUMBERJANES, FENCE, GOLDIE VANCE, HEAVY VINYL, THE AVANT-GUARDS, and many, many others. She loves vintage nonsense, cooking elaborate meals, and funny words. She lives in Los Angeles.

Emily Drabinski (she/her) is Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. Drabinski served as the 2023-24 President of the American Library Association.