Alicon: Adelaide Australia and an Artist Argue All Around and Anarchy Arises About Actors and Attribution

Always Add Alliteration. Always.

So, if you've never heard of Alicon, you're not alone. It's a first-year convention running in Adelaide Australia at the end of next month, and is being billed as "The Best of the Australian Brony Fandom" (which, they're probably right by default). But as can be expected, the maiden voyage of this first year gathering is experiencing some...turbulence. HN was tipped off to the turmoil from a source within a Facebook group for Australian bronies, which started with a screencap of a post from Sherry Fowler, the personal agent for a number of My Little Pony VA's, including Claire Corlett and John De Lancie. The post, which you can read above, indicates that Alicon backed out of a booking and booked another actor afterward.

This had a cascading effect, including responses from the convention, and Sherry announcing a pay-in-full policy on all first-year events from here on out, as well as a dispute between an Artist and the convention itself, regarding posting rights to artwork used for tshirts.

We'll include the screencaps below...because really none of this makes sense without them.

Here are the screencaps that were posted of the DMs had with the artist.

That's...that's a lot.

tl/dr the Aussies ruin everything AGAIN.

Oh, and if you were wondering who was announced by the convention as being booked, after Sherry's post:

ah.