Hello everyone!
First off, I want to sincerely apologize for my delay on this announcement. I'm currently dealing with some debilitating physical and mental health challenges and have fallen behind on Issho obligations. So, I want to thank you all for your patience with us!
We wanted to announce that we have begun getting our merch from IsshoCon 2026 rolling into gear. As you all know, because of weather delays during con, our order was cancelled and we weren't able to get our merch completed in time before con wrapped up this year.
To remedy this, we have begun working on our merchandise for Issho 2026. That includes getting our merch to be mailed out to our VIP's.
Starting tomorrow, we will begin sending out emails to all of our VIPs to re-confirm sizes and mailing addresses. If you have purchased a VIP bundle for IsshoCon 2026, please keep an eye out in the email used to register your badge! If you have not received a VIP update email by Friday 4/3, please send us an email to "[email protected]"
As a reminder for our VIP's, shipping will be complimentary, and you will also be receiving a discount code for IsshoCon 2027 for the inconvenience!
Starting 4/6, all IsshoCon 2026 merch will be available for pre-order through the official IsshoCon website. Once we complete this, we will post another update here!
As for IsshoCon 2027, we will have updates for you all very soon! We have been in contact with a few venues and have been making some decisions on what IsshoCon will look like moving forward. We want to make sure you all to have the most fun and comfortable experience with us as possible! Decisions are still being made behind the scenes, but we should have updates for you all by the end of April. We sincerely appreciate everyone's patience with us as we get things sorted out for this next year.
As always if you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you all! 💕
We just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU SO MUCH for another amazing year! For this who didn't make it to Closing Ceremonies, we did just about 3000 attendees this year. That's crazy!
We love and appreciate y'all so much! 💕 Seeing y'all's smiling faces and amazing cosplays always makes our day. We appreciate your patience with us through our shortfalls! We are always aiming to do better.
As of now, we don't have dates yet for next year but we do have a theme...
The theme for IsshoCon 2027 will be IsshoCon the Circus Spectacular! 🎪 🐅 🤡 🎉
Due to the weather, we want to give everyone selling more time to drive home safely tomorrow, the Vendor Hall will be closing at 2 pm instead of the original 3 pm. This also means the Stamp Rally drawing will be at 1:30 pm.
The Vendor Hall will also have some empty tables due to some people wanting to get home before the weather gets worse.
We apologize for the inconvenience!
Just to ease a lot of worries. The hotel has confirmed that some of the tow trucks we have seen areived due to car troubles, not because they explicitly called them to tow.
Just a reminder that if you parked in a non permitted parking space/ lane. Tow trucks have begun showing up to the area and loading vehicles.
If you know you've parked in an unauthorized zone/ location, we suggest you move your vehicle ASAP!
Just an update for our V.I.P attendees!
Due to weather delays, our shipment containing our V.I.P Shirts was cancelled. These shirts have been in limbo all week and had a delivery date of Monday. We just received notification it has been cancelled.
Currently we do have the bags and lanyards, those will be completed by 5 PM and available to pick up at registration! For the shirts, we will take your information and ship your shirts for you free of charge.
If we aren't able to see you this weekend, we will contact the email that is attached to the badge in order to confirm your information.
You will also be receiving 20% off your admission for IsshoCon 2027 for the inconvenience. We truly appreciate your patience through the weather delays.
Hello everyone! Just a parking update for you all!
The Golf Course is OK to park. The North Bay can ALSO be parked at "at your own risk" per our Hotel Contact. There is also parking on the opposite side, some spots near-ish to registration: But this area is not plowed. Hotel staff has confirmed a hotel employee has parked here.
We are unable to provide additional parking beyond these listed above. Any and all additional spots are provided are at the discretion of the Marriott Hotel. You are welcome to contact the Eagle Crest Marriott via phone with any questions. We apologize for the delay.
We have some unfortunate news, Gabe Kunda is unable to attend IsshoCon 2026. He has become sick over the last week and is not in stable condition to attend. We were advised he will join us for IsshoCon 2027!
But in exciting news, we would love to welcome Matthew David Rudd to join us this year!
Matthew is a film, television and voice actor. He is the voice of Panda & Mahoraga in Jujutsu Kaisen,
Tamagami No. 3 in Dragonball Daima, Admiral Ryokugyu in One Piece, Rak Wraithraiser in Tower Of
God, Belial in Granblue Fantasy, Shoei Barou in Blue Lock, Legendary Rocker Corey Taylor in SMITE,
The Utopian and The Salamander in Netflix's Super Crooks, Shishido in My Hero Academia, Leaky
Eye Luca in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and he voices many more characters in both animation and
video games. Matthew's work includes appearances on Queen of the South, American Crime and
several award-winning short films as well as voice over work for Netflix, Adult Swim,
Funimation/Crunchyroll, Sony Interactive, Square-Enix, Bethesda Softworks, Activision/Blizzard and
many more.
We will need to push pre-reg opening until 7:30 PM tonight. Sadly, with the weather delays our badges still have not arrived. We have an ETA for them to be delivered within the next couple hours. At this time we should be ready to go and get everyone registered. Pre-reg for non VIP attendees will begin at 8 PM.
We will also be extending online badge sales until 11:59 PM EST. We had a few attendees who had issues with their Summer Bash promo codes expiring early. We wanted to allow those who could not redeem their badges more time to register. As a reminder, if you need help with your badge code please send an email to "[email protected]" for further asssitance.
We appreciate everyone's patience as we get this sorted! Thank you!
Just a reminder that the final day to purchase badges online is Thursday 1/22 @ 6 P.M EST! At this time online badge sales will close. We will only offer badges at the door after this (while they last!)
Badges have begun picking up rapidly, so be sure to register online if you have been thinking about it! 👀
Please keep an eye out for some final announcements tomorrow! ❤️ We look forward to seeing you all this weekend! 🎉
HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED on LGBT Detroit Live 😭🎙️
We kicked off a VERY nerdy edition with IsshoCon co-chair Angelo Williams and straight-up comic shop energy from Vault of Midnight — and immediately got into comics, cosplay, Black nerd joy, and unserious banter.
From “thirsty baddies vs Minnesota Accents” to setting the tone for all things gay, Black, and geeky… the vibes were vibing EARLY.
Missed it live? Don’t worry — the laughs, the blerd talk, and the culture are still waiting for you. Tap in and catch up 🖤📚✨
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