This past Sunday, August 28, was the 2nd annual international Read Comics in Public Day (RCPD). I created a Facebook event for my hometown of San Diego, inviting sequential art lovers in the general area to come hang out in the shade outside a Starbucks in the Clairemont neighborhood.

We pulled some of the best out for cosplay, gaming, and other events at San Diego Comic-Con 2011. Here’s the full collection of slideshows.

The convention was much more crowded than I recall it being last time I went 3 years ago. This is something I’ve noticed about conventions as a whole, and something Stacey (another contributor to this blog) and I mentioned on our coverage of the New York Comic Con. I chalk it up to Hollywood and the recent success of comic book movies. Finally, after all these years, it’s cool to be a geek. We’re geek chic now!

This past weekend we sent intrepid Convention Fans Blog photographer Joey DeMarco to Wizard World Philly, Philadelphia’s largest fandom convention. He took hundreds of photos while he was at the convention, and we’re happy to present some of our favorites to you here!

Contagion: Outbreak! is a new pop culture convention that took place in Omaha from June 10 – 12. Contagion: Outbreak! was held at the beautiful Qwest Center in downtown Omaha. It did not fill the entire convention center (in fact, there was a gem and jewelry show just next door), but convention staff made excellent use of the space they had.