PLANET FUNK CON, THE QUAD CITIES PREMIERE COMICS & ENTERTAINMENT CONVENTION
For the last several of years, we have held the biggest Pop Culture event the Quad Cities has ever seen. Join our thousands of attendees for comics, toys, celebrities, cosplay, panels, tabletop games, video games, tournaments, and a ton of FUN! Join us for 3 DAYS of fresh and funky fun! Click here to see some of last year’s photos!
EVENT INFO
Located at the RiverCenter!!
136 E 3rd St, Davenport, IA 52801
Event Dates
June 27-29,2025
Event Time
Friday: 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
HOTEL INFO
Guests will need to call the hotel directly @ 563-322-2200 and ask Planet Funk Con room block.
2025 Celebrity Guests
Ben Diskin
Ben Diskin is one of the most in-demand voice actors today, appearing in high profile games, animation, and anime. His anime credits include "Naruto: Shippuden" as Sai, "The Seven Deadly Sins" as Ban, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency" as Joseph Joestar, "Bleach" as Szayelaporro Grantz, "K" as Yata, "Kill la Kill" as Takarada, "Stitch!" and "Stitch & Ai" as Stitch, "Digimon Fusion" as Shoutmon & Cutemon, "Blood+" as Kai, "Digimon Adventure: 2020" as Agumon, "Sword art Online" as Death Gun, "Aggretsuko" as Haida, "Hunter x Hunter" as Knuckle Bine, "Erased" as Satoru Fujinuma, "Blood Lad" as Wolf, "BNA: Brand New Animal" as Shirou Ogami, "Beastars" as Jack, "Avatar: The Last Airbender" as Hahn, "Demon Slayer" as Temple Demon, "Kuroko's Basketball" as Aomine, and "MASHLE: Magic and Muscles" as Dot, just to name a few. Some of Ben's video game credits include "Tony Hawk's Underground" as Eric Sparrow, "The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel" as Jusis Albarea, "Rogue Galaxy" as Jupis, "Kingdom Hearts" as Young Master Xehanort, "Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2" as Daichi, "God Eater" as Karel Schneider, "Puyo Puyo Tetris" as Sig & Lemres, "Mega Man 11" as Mega Man, "The Elder Scrolls Online" as Za'ji, "Fire Emblem" as Jakob, Saizo, Hayato, Caspar, & Lorenz, "Tales of Zestiria" as Atakk, "Friday the 13th: The Game" as Chad & Eric, "Tales of Berseria" as Rokurou Rangetsu, "BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle" as Merkava, "Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric" as Q-N-C, "Rune Factory 4" as Kiel, "13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim" as Kyuta Shiba & Fluffy, "Xenoblade Chronicles X" as "Joker" Male Avatar, and many more.
Tony Oliver
Tony Oliver is a Puerto Rican voice actor and voice director based in the United States. He is best known for voicing Rick Hunter from Robotech, Lancer from Fate/stay night, and Arsène Lupin III from Lupin the Third. He helped produce the live action shows Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and VR Troopers.
Samantha Newark
Samantha Newark is an English musician and actress. She is best known for her voice-over work as the speaking voice of Jem and Jerrica in the animated cartoon series Jem. As a teenager, Newark became a voice-over talent in mainstream television. Her work on "Jem" produced a serious cult following that persists to this day.She lent her voice to many radio and TV projects while writing and performing her original music as a solo recording artist in Los Angeles CA, Nashville TN and Dallas, Texas. In 2015 Newark appeared in the live-action feature film adaptation on Jem and the Holograms directed by Jon M. Chu.
Tom Fahn
Originally from Huntington, NY, Tom and his family are now based in Los Angeles – though he loves going back to visit NY whenever possible! He’s best known as the voice of Agumon in the TV series Digimon: Digital Monsters and he recently reprised the role in the Digimon Adventure Tri movies and Video Game! Other credits include Brigand Boss in both Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia, and Fire Emblem Heroes, as well as Edens Zero, Cells at Work Code Black, God of War, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, and Cowboy Bebop.
Dorothy Fahn
Dorothy is a native of southern California who began her career as a stage and on-camera actress, specializing in musicals... and commercials with no dialog! Since then she has lent her voice to hundreds of Anime, Video Games, ADR, and Animation titles! Some of which are Mercedes and Rinea in Fire Emblem, Konan in Naruto, Kie Kamado in Demon Slayer, Meryl in Trigun, Ms. Bustier in Miraculous Ladybug, Lillymon-Rosemon and lots of other ‘mons’ in Digimon, and Chihiro, Sayaka & Tsumugi in Danganronpa!
Joshua Seth
Joshua Seth is known for his iconic roles in over 100 animated series and movies. He is best known as the voice of Tai, the starring role in Digimon, which he has voiced for 25 years. He has also brought to life such legendary anime characters as Tetsuo in Akira, young Knives in Trigun, 009 in Cyborg Soldier 009, Shobu in Duel Masters and Alpha 5 in Power Rangers Turbo. His extensive career also includes roles in beloved shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Rugrats, Transformers, Wolf’s Rain, Xenosaga, Zatch Bell, Last Exile and many other classic series.
Wendee Lee
Wendee Lee is an American voice actress, writer and ADR director from Los Angeles, California who voiced in dozens of animated films, animated series and video games including Akira, Robotech, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, Sailor Moon Crystal, Rurouni Kenshin, Magic Knight Rayearth, Outlaw Star, Digimon Adventure and Cowboy Bebop.
Bettina Bush
Bettina's professional career began at the age of 5 when she began modeling and acting. Her acting career eventually led to voiceovers, including My Little Pony (as Megan), The Get Along Gang (as Dotty Dog), The Littles (as Lucy Little), Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Stargate Infinity, Ben 10 (as Kai Green), Age of Empires III (as Nonahkee), God Hand (as Olivia), and is perhaps best known as the voice of Rainbow Brite and as the voice of Gloria in the Madagascar video games. She has also performed the McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" commercial jingles.She starred as Maria, a teenage Native American girl, in the film Journey to Spirit Island (1988).
Billy Gunn
He is best known under the ring name Billy Gunn and for his eleven year long tenure in the World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment. He has also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Kip James. In WWE, Sopp was a one time Intercontinental Champion, a two time Hardcore Champion, and the 1999 King of the Ring, but found his greatest success as a tag team wrestler, becoming an eleven-time World Tag Team Champion. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he won the AEW World Trios Championship once with Max Caster and Anthony Bowens.
Lester Speight
Lester Speight is a film and television actor best known for his portrayal of Terry Tate: Office Linebacker in a series of Reebok commercials that first aired during Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. The spots feature Speight, a former All-American Football player himself, as a linebacker charged with the no-holds barred enforcement of office policies. The commercials achieved much critical acclaim and were ranked the most watched of the Super Bowl by The Hollywood Reporter. The popular character recently made a return appearance in a series of ads campaign in support of voting. Amongst the Office Linebacker's new tackles included former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. As determined and hardworking on screen as a linebacker is on the field, Speight has appeared with such stars as Eddie Murphy, Damon Wayans, Anthony Anderson, and even Optimus Prime. His television work includes a recurring role on the ABC series "My Wife and Kids," as well as guest starring appearances on "Prison Break," "Bones," and "Cold Case." On the silver screen he has appeared in hit films such as "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Norbit," and "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay." Aside from Terry Tate however, Speight is probably most recognized by fans of the Gears of War video game series for the XBOX 360. Speight won the G-Phoria award for Best Voiceover in 2007 by the G4 Network for his performance as Augustus Cole (AKA Cole Train), a character that was modeled after Speight and includes subtle allusions to the Office Linebacker. Speight hails from Baltimore, MD, has been defending one thing or another most of his life. Lester's early life was challenging as he struggled with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) & ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). This deficit challenged him with his teachers, peers and in school classroom. Lester had to learn discipline and behavior to re-focus his energy to become an astounding student and athlete. He used this energy to succeed in sports. Before reaching his teens, Speight and his older sister Leslie were forced to sing in their granddaddy's Baptist Church, the late Rev. Thomas Hughes, by their self-taught piano playing mother, Mrs. Gussie B. Hughes-Speight. The vocal trio group was known as the "Speight Specials." who also sang in and around Baltimore City. Speight was inducted at Old Mill High School Hall of Fame in Millersville, Maryland, as a three-sport standout for Football (All-American), Basketball (All-County), and Track & Field (All-American) in 1996. During his college years, Speight was a Division I All-American Linebacker for Morgan State University and All-American Track and Field. He majored in communications and minored in Theatre. Speight worked in small productions in and around Baltimore City in the mid 1980's. Speight dropped his Theatre classes in order to not be poked fun of by his football teammates. Speight later went on to sign with the Baltimore Stars of the USFL. His passion and desire for acting, performing, and entertaining later prevailed when he landed his first role on the film of Robert Townsend's, "Meteor Man" as a background actor in 1991. By the mid 1990s, Lester turned a corner from Entrepreneurship to returning back into the TV and Film industry, and studying with top-notch acting coach, Michael Mack at the "Fearless Acting Workshop" in Washington, D.C., landing him his first TV appearance as a guest star on the hit TV shows, "Homicide: Life on the Street," HBO "The Corner," "The Replacements with Keanue Reeves, "Hallow Man" starring Kevin Bacon, and Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday," alongside Oscar-winner AL Pacino. Speight achieved all of this before touching ground in Hollywood. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Lester hit the ground running by landing roles in a variety of television shows, like, "Walker, Texas Ranger" "18 Wheels of Justice," "Ladies Man," "Three Sisters," "That's My Bush," "Arli$$", "The Young and the Restless", "NYPD Blue" and "Malcolm in the Middle" to name a few. Early on, his feature films included, "Cradle 2 the Grave," and "Malibu's Most Wanted, "Thirteen Moons" with Steve Buscemi, "Who's your Caddy," and "Bachelor Party Vegas." Since then, with a body of work that spans over two decades, the opportunity came up for Speight to play "Hardcore Eddie" in Paramount Studio's, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" or TF3, directed by Michael Bay, executive producer Steven Spielberg. TF3 went on to be the box office juggernaut that it is. TF3: "Dark of the Moon" has now surpassed "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" to become the fourth highest grossing movie of all-times grossing worldwide over $1 billion. Lester kicked off 2009 with 5 major movie roles including "Something Like a Business" starred opposite Kevin Hart, "Peep World" and WWE "Knucklehead" 2010, he starred opposite Dwayne Johnson in the role of 'Baphomet' in the thrill feature, "Faster". But Speight's breakout role that he is most known for is the Reebok Super Bowl commercial as the hard-hitting office linebacker Terry Tate, the overly aggressive employee who makes it his job to keep office employees in order. To date, that commercial is still the number #1 rated Super Bowl spot of all-time by "Sports Illustrated" who feature Speight in a February 2013 Super Bowl Special Edition "The 8 Debate Greatest Super Bowl Commercial Terry Tate, Office Linebacker Reebok 2003 voted #1, "you know you need a cover sheet on your TPS reports Richard." Tate bellows. "That ain't new, baby! Soon after Speight turned a guest starring spot into two seasons, as 'Calvin' on "My Wife and Kids", starring opposite Damon Wayans. His recent TV and film credits have included appearances on "Prison Break", "Numb3rs", and "Bones", He also landed a lead role in the 2007 "Norbit" starring opposite Eddie Murphy as 'Blue Lattimore' one of Rasputia's three brothers. Then came "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" and "Finding Amada". Fans can catch Speight in the role of 'Hugh' on Warner Brothers webisode, "Rockville CA."
Nicole Sullivan
Nicole Sullivan is an accomplished actress, comedian, and writer best known for her sharp wit and versatile performances. She rose to fame as a cast member on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series MADtv, where her memorable characters and impressions earned her widespread acclaim. Nicole further showcased her comedic talent as Holly Shumpert on the hit sitcom The King of Queens. She has also lent her voice to numerous animated series, including Disney’s Kim Possible as Shego and The Penguins of Madagascar as Marlene.
2025 Artists
Coming Soon
Coming Soon
2025 Cosplayers
Alys Belyn
Alys Belyn is an award-winning cosplayer, professional model, and retired ballet dancer. Spends her days creating a variety of different crafts and thinking of new ways to incorporate fashion accents into upcoming cosplays. Most recently she created an Effie Trinket cosplay for Des Moines Con 2023, utilizing historical patterns and drafting techniques.
Alys Belyn
Alys Belyn is an award-winning cosplayer, professional model, and retired ballet dancer. Spends her days creating a variety of different crafts and thinking of new ways to incorporate fashion accents into upcoming cosplays. Most recently she created an Effie Trinket cosplay for Des Moines Con 2023, utilizing historical patterns and drafting techniques.
Celtic Honey
Celtic Honey is a LGBTQIA+, body positive cosplayer and performer located out of Rock Island Illinois that goes by Fae/Faer pronouns. Fae has been a Guest of Honor, Guest Panelist, Cosplay Guest and headlined conventions, burlesque and nerdlesque shows all over the country as well as a long time con attendee/cosplayer starting over 20 years ago with Gen Con being faer roots! With a passion for all things gaming, nerdy, geeky, fantasy, and more, cons have been always the place called home. Honey has several passions of Kung Fu, Body Painting, Modeling, Neo Burl/Nerd/Draglesque but faer main platform is to spread the words of consent and con safety! The Yin Yang of the Midwest Plains, Celtic Honey!
gabbee19cosplay
Sarah, also known as gabbee19cosplay, has been cosplaying since 2018. She began her journey into the wide world of cosplay after some nudging from friends to combine her love of all things geeky with her creative side through crafting. Sarah started out with just crafting cosplays and attending cons in cosplay, but soon ventured into sitting on cosplay panels (especially ones relating to body positivity and how cosplay is for everyone) and helping organize, run, and judge some small cosplay contests. She enjoys meeting everyone and sharing her life, journey, and struggles with others as a means of enlightening and helping them to know that they are not alone, and to help inspire others to follow the passion of cosplay, regardless of the hurdles before them. She is always excited to answer questions about crafting as well as learning more from others as she continues her own cosplay journey. In her free time, she loves talking about her fandoms, cosplay, and, of course, her cat. Sarah has brought her knowledge and skills to help organize and run the Planet Funk Cosplay Competition since 2022, and she is super excited to be reprising this role in 2025
Joshua Torche
Josh, also known as Yoko2369Cosplay, has been cosplaying since around 2016, and every step has been a journey, one that's not over yet. From his very first convention, when Wizard World rolled through Des Moines he discovered that cosplay was something that was literally for anyone, he decided that road was one to follow. He borrowed a sewing machine and learned to pattern from a friend, and the self taught the rest. Every project has been a learning experience, and he looks forward to continuing to learn as much as he can from this wonderful journey. With honorable mentions from Wizard World and QuadCon, Best in Masters category from Des Moines Con, and Best in Show from QuadCon Des Moines Con, and even Best in Video Games from Planet Funk Con, he's run the gambit, and isn't done yet. With cosplays such as Yang Xiao Long, Ike Greil, Cyclops, Riddler, and more, his roster continues to grow, and his passion for the creativity and process continues to grow. Cosplay is a hobby of passion, and he continues his journey to share that love with others. Learning what he can from some, and teaching what he can to others, he enjoys talking, sharing, and helping everyone learn to love the art of cosplay to the fullest. He utilizes his management history in retail to help organize for local shows and emcee for the show and contests, and is looking forward to helping emcee the cosplay contest at this years Planet FunkCon. Photo credit: @theportraitdude & @mixmedia_mae
2025 Entertainers
The Raconteur Society
The Raconteur Society are a bunch of "Geeks past thier Peaks" based in West Central Illinois. Members have been playing tabletop roleplaying games together since the 1980s... collectively, they have over 200 years of TTRPG experience! Now this nerdy pack has begun the journey of live streaming their adventures every Tuesday night on TikTok, Facebook, Twitch, and Clapper with a social presences onTwitter, Reddit, Instagram and Tumblr. The group also posts all their live streams on their YouTube channel as well so that fans can follow thier antics and storylines for each of the games they play. Due to the nature of the Table Top Gaming industry, the nitch The Raconteur Society has is that they tend to play games that are no longer published. Not that they don't play some that are currently available, but the majority of them are out of print. The group consists of Dale Griffitts, Brad Helton, Michael Anderson, Bobbi Dupoy, Dennis Appell, and R.L." Big Rob" McDorman with members from their Raconteur Reserves group joining and special guest appearances now and then. This makes watching the Raconteur Society an adventure on its own! Check out their links to watch as well as all the other links to things the group does outside of the Society on thier Linktree! https://linktr.ee/TheRaconteurSociety
Gaea's Greenhouse Maid Cafe
Gaea’s Greenhouse has set its roots into Planet Funk Con! Come one, come all! Travelers from all over will enjoy games, activities, and performances in our cozy greenhouse. Not only do we serve looks with our fabulous fantasy maids and butlers but we serve food too! We’ll have cup ramen, drinks, and tasty treats to energize you on your journey! Let’s make magical memories!
Nerds In Heat
A sensual after-hours 18+ show featuring a cast of characters that will heat up the night. We invite you to join us for a multitude of performances, featuring nerdlesque (cosplay burlesque) and cosplay performance.
Doctor Ivan Cryptosis
Doctor Ivan Cryptosis, Center Square of Pop Culture and America’s Pitchman. Comic, Ventriloquist, Quizmaster, and Movie Host are just some of the titles used to describe him. He has hosted films on Saturday Night Frights television, enjoyed a 20 year career as the Voice of the Highway 18 Drive In Theater, and appears live at various events specializing in pop culture, comic, toy, horror, and science fiction. He will be appearing at Planet Funk Con along with his sidekick, Professor Varnus Lupescu entertaining attendees with his unique blend of humor and Doctor C’s Quagmire Quiz.
501st Legion Central Garrison-Korriban Squad
The 501st Legion is an all-volunteer member organization of over 17,000 members worldwide, which seeks to promote interest in Star Wars through the building and wearing of quality villain costumes, and to facilitate the use of these costumes for Star Wars-related events as well as contributions to the local community through costumed charity and crew member work. The local 501st is represented by the Central Garrison, which proudly serves Iowa (Korriban Squad), Minnesota (Wolf Pack Squad), Nebraska (Imperial 80th Squad), North Dakota (Wampa Hunter Squad) and South Dakota (621st Detention Squad)
The Iowa Ghostbusters & ECTO IA
The Iowa Ghostbusters is a fan based cosplay group dedicated to all things Ghostbusters, 1984 to present.