The Convention Fans Blog

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8.com will officially be attending PAX East! PAX is short for Penny Arcade Expo, and it’s shaping up to be one of the biggest conventions on the east coast. They are expecting a sell out crowd! PAX East is March 26-28th in Boston, Massachusetts at the Hynes Convention Center. We’re super excited PAX has finally come to the

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8.com team is very excited to report that we’ll be attending Farpoint, a Maryland science fiction media convention! It is being held at the Crowne Plaza Baltimore North in Maryland (USA) on February 12th-14th, 2010. From the official website: “Farpoint is an annual gathering for fans of all genres of imaginative fiction – Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror,

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8.com team is very excited to report that we’ll be attending an incredible event in May: The Steampunk World’s Fair! It is being held in at the Radisson of Piscataway in New Jersey on May 14th-16th, 2010. From the official website: “[The Steampunk World's Fair] is the first East Coast event to welcome Steampunks, Neo-Victorians, Retro-futurists, Gas

Earlier this month, popular web cartoonists Blind Ferret posted on their forums that they had been “booted” from Dragon*con 2010. There had been some difficulty regarding their vendor table for 2009, but the issue had been resolved, and they signed up to attend in 2010. But they never heard anything back, despite repeated attempts to contact D*C about it. Then

As some of our regular readers may recall, The Convention Fans Blog team (and two of our lucky readers) got to go see Cinematic Titanic at the Kewick Theater last night. Cinematic Titanic is the brainchild of Joel Hodgson, who created and stared in the cult hit TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Well, I got to interview him! Click