Themes and Guests of Honor By Year
Every year the convention has several Guests of Honor – prominent individuals who are compensated for their attendance and travel expenses. Past Guests of Honor at Anthrocon have included:
| Year | Theme | Guests of Honor |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | An East Coast Furry Convention | artist Daphne Lage artist Watts Martin |
| 1998 | Here There Be Dragons | artist Jim Groat artist Jeffery A. Carver |
| 1999 | Join the Furry Revolution | artist Vicky Wyman author S. Andrew Swann |
| 2000 | Furries of Myth and Legend | artist Sara "Caribou" Palmer author Paul Kidd |
| 2001 | Furries in Flight | comic-book artist Dan DeCarlo (creator of Josie and the Pussycats) syndicated cartoonist Bill Holbrook |
| 2002 | Inventions | author Lisanne Norman (of The Sholan Series) artist Heather Bruton |
| 2003 | Creatures of the Night | artist Guy Gilchrist artist Mark E. Rogers |
| 2004 | Summer Games | artist Stan Sakai (creator of Usagi Yojimbo) artist Michael Gagne |
| 2005 | Heroes | Peter Laird (co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Timothy Albee (director "Kaze, Ghost Warrior") |
| 2006 | Making History | artist Scott Shaw! (creator of a number of comic book and cartoon characters) Diane Duane (author of several series including So You Want to Be a Wizard |
| 2007 | Looking to the Future | voice actor Rob Paulsen writer Mark Evanier artist Carolyn Kelly |
| 2008 | It's a Jungle Out There | animator and Disney Legend Floyd Norman |
| 2009 | OMG Aliens | character developer and artist Joe Harris character artist and story designer Ben Balistreri illustrator and television producer Bob Boyle |
| 2010 | Modern Stone-Age Furries | author and illustrator James Gurney puppeteer and director Jim Martin |
| 2011 | The Anthropomorphic Institute of Magic | author and illustrator Andy Runton writer Peter S. Beagle |
| 2012 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Comic Artist, Animator, Director, TV Repairman Mike Kazaleh of Sly Cooper fame, among many others. Dev Madan |
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Famous quotes containing the words themes, guests, honor and/or year:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When the guests have left, the host is at peace.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I honor your art, because you contrived it, but it only helps those who think the way you do. You may give a sick man your best potion but he’ll die if he thinks it’s poison.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)