Author Guest of Honor:
Kim Newman
Steamcon IV is delighted to announce Kim Newman as our Author GOH.
Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, Anno Dracula, The Quorum, The Bloody Red Baron, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Life’s Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), Dracula Cha Cha Cha, The Man From the Diogenes Club, Secret Files of the Diogenes Club and Mysteries of the Diogenes Club under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing 
Empire’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote an episode (‘Phish Phood’) for Radio 7’s series The Man in Black. His official web-site, ‘Dr Shade’s Laboratory’ can be found at www.johnnyalucard.com. His current publications are expanded reissues of the Anno Dracula series and The Hound of the d’Urbervilles (from Titan) and a much-expanded edition of Nightmare Movies (from Bloomsbury). He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Children of the Night Award, the Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly, the International Horror Critics' Guild Award), the Prix Ozone, the British Fantasy Award and the Rondo Award.
Empire’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote an episode (‘Phish Phood’) for Radio 7’s series The Man in Black. His official web-site, ‘Dr Shade’s Laboratory’ can be found at www.johnnyalucard.com. His current publications are expanded reissues of the Anno Dracula series and The Hound of the d’Urbervilles (from Titan) and a much-expanded edition of Nightmare Movies (from Bloomsbury). He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Children of the Night Award, the Fiction Award of the Lord Ruthven Assembly, the International Horror Critics' Guild Award), the Prix Ozone, the British Fantasy Award and the Rondo Award.
Artist Guest of Honor:
Joe Benitez
Steamcon is proud to honor Airship Award winning artist, Joe Benitez as Artist Guest of Honor!
Joe Benitez is an American comic book artist who has worked on such titles as "JLA", "Superman/Batman", "Detective Comics", "Supergirl", and "Titans" for DC Comics and "The Darkness" for Image Comics. He also co-created and penciled the sci-fi series "Weapon Zero" and the dark fantasy mini-series "Magdalena: Blood Divine" for Image.
In 2005, Joe published his first creator-owned mini-series "Wraithborn" through Wildstorm. In 2009, he stepped in to finish up Michael Turner's run on "Soulfire". Joe is currently working on a new creator-owned book, Lady Mechanika, which is published by Aspen Comics.