
With the summer heat comes good traveling weather, and with that comes dozens of conventions. It doesn't matter if you like to fish, fire pottery, assemble newspapers or just stare out the window; someone, somewhere loves the same things as you do, and co...
...he sci-fi conventions of the 70s and 80s. The first invasion of anime into these stuffy hotel rooms came in the form of bootleg and imported VHS tapes, as well as the rare art book or model. The cross-over audience of general sci-fi fans and mecha anim...
Right Stuf's ANIME TODAY Talks Conventions With AnimeCons.com Founder Patrick Delahanty Plus travel gear for your trip to Japan, contests and reviews in Episode 49! GRIMES, IA, September 14, 2007 " Anime producer and mega-online anime retailer Right S...
...ports our conventions, admission is FREE for both days to all attendees who have pre-registered for Anime Supercon, our 3 day event on Halloween weekend. For more information on Anime Supercon go to www.animesupercon.com. For attendees who have not pre...
...at sci-fi conventions were as doomed as doomed could be. That they were dwelling in a malaise of mediocrity and had become glorified baseball card shows with overpriced stars trotted out for expensive autographs and apocryphal storytelling in the inter...
... see...3. CONVENTIONS ARE ONLY FOR THE GEEKY:Conventions have always been for the more... let's say... "invested" fans of science fiction. But there was a time when the hometown, truck stop comic book convention would bring out an actor like Leonard Ni...
Seeing people dressed up in costumes at conventions is just an accepted reality now at anime conventions and larger comic shows, even at trade shows with the notorious booth girls. The practice has its origins at sci-fi conventions where fans showed t...
...e fiction conventions do you do in Japan? Morioka: Japan Science Fiction Convention is the main one. Aside from that, there are many local science fiction conventions. I go to a few every year. Andrew: Are they panels or signings? Morioka: There are...
...ings [the conventions] started to peter out, we noticed that an incredible network of fans had been created. I don`t take credit for all of it, but I claim credit for triggering a large part of it, because I also helped the other conventions build up t...
...urself at conventions. There were only three self-publishing questions for Tedd Walley from last week, and I've forwarded his answers to all those that wrote. I'd like to thank Tedd again, along with all of this week's contributors for their time and...

