Nebkon Abridged

Guest Announcement! You’ve seen him on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, now see him IN PERSON at NebKon Abridged! Please welcome DJ IMYOONOTYOU!!

Please give a hearty welcome to Thousand Faces Cosplay!

Calling all Party Room Hosts!!

Our application to host a room party at NebKon Abridged is now open! Come one, come all, apply for your party room and show us how you run a party! Party rooms can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic!

Fill out your application!

If you haven’t heard the good news, our Hotel room block is open for booking!

Want to come have a night away from the kids? Or hang out with friends until the wee hours of the morning but don’t want to drive home tired and hung over?

Then stay at the hotel! Check out the rooms in our hotel block here!

Please check our submission form here!

Our registration is open!

Weekend passes are $40.00

They will go up to $45.00 for AT DOOR pricing (meaning purchasing at the door day of the event)

Check it out here!

Love NebKon and want more of it?

Check out our NebKon bundle which includes admission to both NebKon Abridged AND Anime NebrasKon. For $75 you can get access to both events! Must be 19 or older to purchase. Better hurry! There are only 250 available at a first come, first serve basis.

Check our Registration page for more information!

2025 starting off strong, our panel submission form is now OPEN for those who wish to run a panel at NebKon Abridged 2025!

Panel Submission Form

Panel submissions will be open until the first week of May 2025, panelists will get their acceptance emails 3 weeks prior to the event.

We can’t wait to see what panels y’all want to run!

You’ve been waiting. So we’ll cut to the good part: The new venue is the Comfort Inn & Suites Omaha Central! You literally could not pick a venue closer to our old stomping ground of the Red Lion / Coco Keys Water Resort. Trust us. We TRIED.

Now for reasons we will go into: we recommend waiting to book a room. We’re working on getting a room block done around the same time we finally drop our registration (if big sis Nebraskon will let us have a turn at the computer) to sign up for our lovely event June 6th -7th, 2025.

So if you have ideas for guests, panels, room parties, vendors or events you’d like to see at this upcoming or future cons, let us know! Or if you’re feeling EXTRA spicy (of the non beagle variety) you can also sign up to help the event directly by joining our illustrious staff! So until we get even more for you this holiday season, stay classy and we’ll see you soon!

(Check back soon for updated information related to room codes, registration information and more!!)

Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, X, and we are now on Bluesky!

Hello everyone! We at NebKon Abridged are happy to announce our dates for 2025!

June 6-7 2025!!

Venue will be announced soon.

Yes we are going to 2 days! You will see forms and posts coming out soon for several key item that were requested by YOU, the amazing party people who helped make 2024 memorable.

Those forms/post will be (in no particular order): Vendor Hall/Artist Alley applications, Fan Panel Submissions, Party Room Host applications.

Please stay tuned to our website, social media (Facebook, X, Instagram) for when these announcements go live!

Gear up Party People, Abridged 2025 is coming, June 6-7!!

A Letter from the Con Chair of Nebkon Abridged:

To all of those who even thought of our event, I would like to say thank you. I won’t lie and say the event was flawless, but like the shows we all love to riff on, Abridged was really a love letter to the earlier days. It was absolutely worth the effort on my end. I wasn’t sure how many would show up especially after taking the reins so late into the year but you all did show up. Surprisingly a lot of cosplayers showed up and it warmed my heart to know you wanted our event to share your craft with us. I know I made several memories I will hold for a very very long time.

To all of my staff, thank you. Every one of you was so professional and efficient that I was proud to even work with you. I hope you all will work with me in the future to make this event even better and give the attendees a show they truly deserve.

To all of our panelists, thank you for sharing your event with our own. As someone who started out as a panelist at Anime Nebraskon, I found they really were the heart and soul of our convention. I hope to see you again and hope to see even more of you take the stage.

I would like to thank all of the special guests we had this year. The Shinjuku Strays, especially Leon who continues to honor me with his friendship, who showed me what burlesque and pop culture are really an art form I really never knew about until I started this event. They always have made their events so welcoming and fun that I hope to see them again very soon. I would like to thank the best artist guest we’ve ever invited, Fredd Gorham. We all call him Papa Fred for a reason, he has an infectious warmth and insight we are happy to see at any event, but especially our own. To our cosplay judges, Jeanette Haro, Carissa Baker, and Natalie D. Schamp, who were able to assist at nearly the last minute and whose insight on the craft was obvious even just by looking at them. To our DJs, Qubit and Shylynx, who helped make the ending concert special even when we stumbled before it could even start.

Lastly, I would like to thank my wife Vanessa. She frequently pauses her life to watch our two kids when I was needed for a meeting after both of us already worked an eight hour shift each. Who supported me every step of the way when I sincerely doubted this was going to be even remotely successful. I love you Vanessa, and I always will.

We do not know when the next event will be (cause come on, any Abridged series has a rather erratic schedule) but I know the next one will be special because of you, the reader. Your support means so much to me. I know we can make the next one better so, if you haven’t already, I encourage you to submit your thoughts to our feedback form. When we do announce our next date, prepare those panels, cosplays and karaoke set lists, because I know number four is going to be big.

Til we meet again, I’m Professor Shinobi, keep being yourself.

-Andrew Montz, Con Chair of Nebkon Abridged 2024