The Convention Fans Blog is expanding their writing team again! As you may have noticed, especially if you’ve been reading us for a while now, we’ve been growing quite a bit over the past year or so. We’ve added writers from Florida, Texas, California, Virginia, New York, and more. But that’s not enough!

North America’s largest pop-culture tour continues as the 11th annual Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con returns to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, June 17-19, with superstar guests Bruce Campbell, Adam Baldwin, Pam Grier, Vivica A. Fox, Julie Benz and Billy Dee Williams headlining the list of celebrity attendees. The event will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in pop culture, movies, comics, toys, video gaming, television, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more.

This weekend is the end of April and the beginning of May. There are two major horror conventions and a brand new Canadian extravaganza happening in the April 29-May 1 window for 2011.

Memorial Day is coming up. Here’s a snapshot of conventions happening Memorial Day Weekend, 2011 (arranged VERY roughly by general geographical regions).

April 29-May 2 2011 is Costume-Con, a major national celebration of costuming in ALL its varied forms.