The Convention Fans Blog

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.

Music has been a huge part of video game production for years, and five composers who have created memorable themes and soundtracks for major releases such as “Bioshock,” “Dragon Age,” “Uncharted” and “Call of Duty: Black Ops” will be in attendance at next weekend’s Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con. Greg Edmonson, Sean Murray, Garry Schyman, Kevin Sherwood,and Inon Zur will meet fans, sign autographs throughout the weekend and share some of their experiences in a special panel at the event, set for April 29 – May 1 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

We have a very exciting announcement to make, as part of our new relationship with Medieval Costumes & Gifts, one of our new advertisers! Medieval Costumes & Gifts is a vendor of medieval, Greek, and Roman-themed costume armor and decor, and they’ve agreed to let one lucky reader pick a helmet from their collection! That’s right, you could win an awesome Medieval, Roman, or Greek helmet (many of which are worth $60+).

In an attempt to create a truly unique opportunity for fans of the anime Cowboy Bebop, Wasabi Anime has worked with Florida’s fan conventions to create the “Cowboy Bebop Florida Tour.” The voices of all four main characters from the beloved anime Cowboy Bebop will be appearing in Florida in the summer of 2011.

Mr Rob Granito: “My thing is, I never want to try and hurt anyone, you know. I mean I messed up in not properly listing the homages in my work. But dude thats all it was, thats all it was. The fans, the kids, they like to have those tributes to covers and stuff they liked growing up. I saw that one Alex Ross did, well he did a few, and noone is calling HIM a fraud. Alex Ross did those silverage Marvel covers right? Its a homage, I am creating some iconic imagery for the fans. Thats the thing. It was never about the money with me its about those fans who smile when they see the art on the wall when they go home.”