Anime Hell at AWA 2017

Anime Hell is back for another two hours of goofy short stuff for goofs!! The first Hell at AWA was in 1997 at our third show - the first year I was way too busy to think about doing a Hell, the second year I put together a pre-made VHS of clips, titled it "Trailer Park", and put it in the anime room, where it filled the room, and the third year I said sure, fine, and used my Con Chair Powers to schedule it in the main events room on Friday night, where it became the big Friday night signature event and stayed that way ever since.

Once I started doing it at AWA I quit doing it at Dragoncon; in Atlanta it's an exclusive event at AWA. Other local shows have tried to do their own goofy clip shows, and I haven't seen any of them, but I'm told they aren't nearly as good as my Anime Hell.

There was a period in the mid 2000s when people were convinced that doing their own version of my Anime Hell would be their ticket to Fame And Fortune And Anime Con Guesthood Status; I'd get plaintive emails from people who wanted me to send them a big pile of hilarious clips and the full Anime Hell Franchise Package so they could become Big Stars and eventually do Anime Hell at Otakon or some dang where. One guy doing his own Hilarious Clip Show at Dragoncon wanted me to give him the post-Hell time slot at AWA so that he could leech off *my* success and bore the shit out of *my* crowds with his boredom. He emailed me and I said no, and he emailed my brother and my brother said no, and then he emailed me again and I said no again, and then he quit asking because we're all jerks. Too bad, pal.

The three or four years of every loser with a laptop doing their own Hilarious Internets Videoes panel at Doofuscons and Local Comic Expos burned the audiences, and those panels have largely vanished from the con schedules of the world. I'm still here doing my thing, filling the main events room.