Intervention is a yearly Internet Culture convention held in September in Rockville Maryland at the Hilton Rockville/Washington D.C. hotel. Intervention highlights independent artists from all spectrums of creative output who use the Internet as their primary distribution method. The convention hosts panels, workshops, movie showings, music concerts, open gaming, and dance events.
Notable Guests
Notable guests of Intervention 2010 include Phil “Frumph” Hofer, lead programmer of ComicPress, the premiere web-comic publishing front-end on the Internet; cartoonist Brad Guigar, creator of “Evil, Inc.” a syndicated strip which appears both online and in front of 1.5 million newspaper readers; artist/writer Fred Gallagher, who created the widely successful webcomic “Megatokyo”, the collections of which are ranked by Nielsen Bookscan as one of the best-selling Original English-language Manga on shelves; and artist Molly Crabapple, creator of the graphic novelScarlett Takes Manhattan and founder of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, which has branches in over 100 cities across the world. In all over 40+ professional artists were guests at the 2010 convention and participated in panels and workshops. New Notable guest of Intervention 2011 include Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey Wells of the webcomic Skin Horse; Jennie Breeden of the webcomic The Devil's Panties; Becky Harks of the blog Mommywantsvodka.com; Carrie Gouldin, Web Community Manager for thinkgeek.com; and Christopher Baldwin of the webcomic Spacetrawler. In addition Intervention began a Children's Programming track in conjunction with members of Wired.com's GeekDad and GeekMom blog. A live music/performance track was also started with the musical acts Eien Strife, The Tombstone Teeth, Mark Aaron James, Blue, The FuMP, and DJ Dave Ghoul; and with performances by the dance troop Antipode, Cosplay Burlesque, and Super Art Fight. In all over 50+ professional artists and performers were guests at the 2011 convention and participated in panels and workshops.
