Two new cons are coming to Huntington, West Virginia this year. Jewel City Con, a gaming con, and Tri-State Comic Con (Tri-Con), a comic convention.

Steampunk Conventions are now everywhere you turn in Texas and Oklahoma. As such, I have listed the ones we are expecting, but know that several one day or single evening events are springing up that are not yet clear about details.

Fill yourself with turkey and mashed potatoes Thursday, then geek out at a fan convention all weekend.

If your were despairing of there being anymore good anime conventions now that the year is almost over, worry not. There are several events this Veterans Day Weekend, November 11-13.

Here’s a snap-shot of the fan conventions happening this month.

Horror and Halloween-themed fan events for this weekend, October 28-30; from horror conventions to a steampunk picnic in a graveyard.

For you fellow lovers of the sequential joys of comic books, there are three comics fan events this weekend. Including one of the biggies, New York Comic Con.

There are five science fiction themed conventions this weekend, ranging from local SFF events to steampunk cons to a Transformers fest.

There are several fan events, parties, festivals and general frolicking scheduled for lovers of retro futurism this month.

Fall is horror and paranormal convention season. September starts the scary off.

West Virginia is not really a place you think of when making convention and nerd event plans, but there are a few events that take place in this state every year that might interest you. In fact a lot of them happen over the next two months. Here are list a geeky events I have been able to come across in the Mountain States.

A sampling of fan conventions and events for September, 2011.

This weekend is Labor Day Weekend, September 2-5. Three-day weekends are always good for a nice crop of fan conventions.

This August there are quite a few local sci-fi/fantasy (SFF) conventions. So if you’d like to celebrate some speculative fiction one last time before the end of summer here are the events waiting for you.

There are several gaming conventions scheduled for August, 2011. Everything from video games to boardgames.

August is here, the last month of summer conventions. There are quite a few fan events for anime, manga, and Japanese culture appreciation scheduled for this month.

If you’re an anthropomorphics fan there are two conventions the August 12 weekend.

A sampling of the upcoming fan conventions happening this month, August 2011.

With it’s increasing popularity steampunk has gained stronger footholds in the mainstreams of fandom around the world, allowing for more and more conventions each year dedicated entirely to this speculative fiction genre and subculture. Here are the steampunk conventions, mini-cons and festivals happening in 2011: AnachroCon: Southern Steampunk Symposium When: February 25-27, 2011 Where: Atlanta, Georgia AnachroCon is the place