The Convention Fans Blog

Hello convention fans! I’d like to thank all of for your patience over the past week as we worked to recover from being hacked. Thanks to some very diligent hard work from several of our staffers, along with some genius database recovery work from my friend Vincent, we are almost back to normal!

ALSDEAD, known as a “Visual Kei” metal band, will be performing at Naka-Kon 2011 as the musical guest of honor. Naka-Kon is an anime convention is organized and operated by approximately 100 volunteer staff members, many of whom are students and most of whom live in the greater Kansas City area.

This past weekend I headed out to KotoriCon, a small anime convention held at Gloucester County College in New Jersey. It was my first time at the convention, but I was very psyched to know that cosplay singer Reni Mimura would be performing there. Read on for the review and to see pictures!

Okay steampunk fans, you now have plans for May 6 – 8, 2011. Trust me, anything else you have scheduled that weekend pales in comparison to this event I’m about to share with you. Jeff Mach, the man behindWicked Faire and The Steampunk World’s Fair, along with Thomas Willeford of Brute Force Leather, have announced an amazing event dubbed the International Steampunk City.

All things vampire continue to be extremely popular in the fandom convention market. EyeCon, the convention company that has had TrueBlood and Twilight conventions thus far, has just announced a Vampire Diaries convention to debut in March 2011. EyeCon The Vampire Diaries will be held March 25 – 27, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Westin Atlanta Airport hotel. The