Fan Expo 2007.

Have you ever just walked by the lonely souls in the Artist Alley. Remember they would like to talk and be out on the show floor as well.

a little dragonball cosplay to warm your soul.

Cons This Weekend 8/31-9/3 2007

Anime Banzai Salt Lake City, UT (Anime)

Anime Fest Dallas, TX (Anime)

Anime Vegas Las Vegas, NV (Anime)

KumoriconVancouver, BC (Anime)

Gencon UK Reading, UK (Gaming)

Tacticon Denver, CO (Gaming)

Worldcon/Nippon 2007 Yokohoma, Japan (Scifi)

Conquest San Fransico, CA (Gaming)

DragonCon Atlanta, GA (Sf/Fantasy, Media)

Memphit FurmeetMemphis, TN (Furries)

StategiconLos Angeles, CA (Gaming)

Full week, with Worldcon, and Dragoncon happening. Two gaming conventions competing in California. dumb promoters, Work together not against each other. NOTE some of these cons are four days because of labor day.

Wizar World's 2008 dates.

Hmm, can i squeeze Chicago in right before Convergence? Would be nice.

leipzig roundup.

All the stories Kotaku did on Leipzig games convention can be found all in one handy spot here

wil wheaton at PAX keynote

For trekkies and gamers, Wheaton remembers the arcade days. NSFW

Penny Arcade blog.

XBLRAdio is blogging at PAX. Some pictures of them drinking included. Show me the show floor darn it!

Leizipig Games Con coverage.

1up's Leizipig Game Convention coverage, has photo's, articles and video of germany's open to the public games convention.

Smash Bros Cosplay

Oh smash bros and cosplay from an anime convention in montreal

Cons This Weekend 8/24-8/26 2007

Bubonicon Alberque, NM (SF)

Canadian Fan ExpoToronto (Media/Games)

Creation Stargate Chicago, IL (Stargate)

Eastern Media Newark, NJ (Multimedia)

Monster Mania Cherry Hill, NJ (MOnsters)

Penny Arcade Expo Seattle, WA (GAMES)

Realms ConCorpus Christi, TX (anime)

Tomo-dachi No. Ireland (Anime)

BokudouconStillwater, OK (anime)

UFO Expo San Fran, CA (Yes, UFO's)

Feral CampOntario (Furry Camping)during next week.

Man, what I wouldn't give to go to PAX. too far, too far.

Convention history.

Looking for a history of your favorite con? Just found this wonderful Wiki called Fan History. Looks like this site could really become something. Fan History

Anime Evolution photo's

Photo's on this flickr site of last weekend's Anime EvolutionCria Crow's Photo's

Mark Millar at Wizard World

Mark Millar on the show floor at Wizard World Chicago.

Gencon photo page

72 pictures of gaming at Gencon
Gencon photo's

Dragoncon Commercial is scary awful.

Does anyone want to say it? Dragon Con needs a new advertiser. cheesey.

Wizard World video.

includes interviews with spiderman, iron man and the joker. and they are not very funny.

Cons This Weekend 8/17-8/19 2007

GENcon Indianapolis, IN (Gaming)

Anime Festival Wichita Wichita, KS (Anime)

Conchord Woodland Hills, CA (Filk)

ConVersion Calgary, Alberta (SF/Fantasy)

Dark Shadows Maplewood, NJ (Dark Shadows)

Fright Night Louisville, KY (Horror)

Spacefest Mesa, AZ (Space)

Anime Evolution Vancouver (Anime)

Anime Jam Fresno, CA (anime)

Toronto Comics ArtsToronto, Canada (Comics)

Busy busy busy.

Trekmovie has good reports.

Trek Movie has some really good reports up from last weekend's Trek Con in Vegas.

Anime Iowa photo's

back home

back home from Anime Iowa. The Coralville Marriot is one of the nicest hotels i've ever had the pleasure of going to a con at. I can not wait for ICON there this november. Im even running two panels there. Anime Iowa was once again a very nice con to attend and I enjoyed the non anime panels the most including a wonderful Tea Ceremony run by Jeff Wallace. I will get pictures up tommorow. I hope!

Anime Iowa tminus one day

so we are going straight from work to Anime Iowa tommorow. we will try to update with pics on Saturday morning but most likely we wont get a report up till sunday night. look forward to seeing people there!

Anime Iowa Venturing out.

I'm heading to Anime Iowa this weekend to realize how old I am. Anime cons are the cons where you deal with people anywhere from 8 to well my age. Im old at this con and that's just weird. But I'm o.k. with that, because it means Im the hip 'old' guy. UGHH... That was painful to write. That's alright though because this year there is a track of panels for old anime. Meaning the stuff I actually remember and not Naruto, or Fullmetal. Stuff that came out before the internet and you paid twenty dollars for 30 mins of animation. What world were we living in when $20 seemed reasonible for an episode of Tenchi Muyo? On VHS? anyway this is my second trip to Anime Iowa and it's only ten minutes down the road at the beautiful new Marriot. Bring the Pocky, Im ready.

Cons This Weekend 8/10-8/12

Anime Iowa Coralville, IA (Anime)

Wizard World Chicago Chicago, IL (Comics)

The Offical Star Trek CON Las Vegas, NV (Star Trek)

Armodillo Con Austin, TX (Sf)

Conglomeration Louisville, KY (SF)

Dragonflight Bellevue, WA (Gaming)

Horrorfind Weekend Baltimore, MD (Horror)

RecombinationCambridge, England (gaming/SF)

VividconChicago, IL (Fan Films)

Amecon Leicester, UK (Anime)

Animethon Edmonton, AB (Anime)

Ikasucon Ft. Wayne, IN (Anime)

2-Pi Con West Springfield, MA (Gaming)

Fandemonium Idaho!

A nice report of this Idaho convention.

Blizzcon costumes.

So Kotaku did Quakecon, Joystiq responds with a huge page of Blizzcon costumes. The battle for game convention photo's is on. Joystiq

Quakecon photo's

Cant believe I forgot to mention Quake Con and Blizz Con were going on this weekend. Anyway great photo's and reports of them both can be found all throughout website Kotaku

Space News at Polaris

A nice video from Polaris 21, includes interviews with Ron Glass and more!

Trek Expo in tulsa moves to October

Past few years this has been a summer media con, now its moving to October. Guest so far include Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, and Levar Burton. I went in 2005 and it was a very good con for the price. Their website is Trekexpo.net

Sand People Choir

The sand people choir at comic con. Credit to i360.com