candidgamera | Conventions (Reply)

So once Origins changes dates (starting next year, it'll be near Memorial Day Weekend) maybe I can actually hit some other conventions, sometimes. Especially those near the end of Summer or beginning of Fall. I have a kind of 'wish list' of conventions I'd like to see once, mostly comic related, but not all of them.

GenCon - the biggest gaming convention in the land.
DragonCon - the biggest science fiction and fantasy convention.
Emerald City Comic-Con - Because Seattle is awesome.
Penny Arcade Expo - Did I mention Seattle is awesome?
San Diego Comic-Con - It's big.
New York City Comic-Con - Also big. Also want to see New York.
Heroes Con - Because about half the people I know seem to live in North Carolina.

There's also the Pittsburgh Comic-Con, which I haven't done yet because I'm basically lazy. There are a couple of WV Cons - TsubasaCon for anime, and CharCon for gaming.. haven't made the effort to check them out either, regrettably.

I get loads of vacation time each year, so getting out of work to get to these places is generally not a problem - it's the travel and hotel expenses that make them tougher to commit to. That and the lazy thing.

I wonder if there's a unified 'convention calendar' somewhere? Wikipedia has good lists of cons, but they're not really organized usefully. There should be a sortable calendar of nerd-cons.