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Gen Con moved to the Midwest Express Center (now the Wisconsin Center) in 1998. In November 1999 Wizards announced that Gen Con would leave Milwaukee after the 2002 convention. [17] Peter Adkison, founder of Wizards of the Coast, purchased Gen Con from Hasbro in May 2002, [24] forming Gen Con LLC to run the convention. The first show under ...
[8] [9] In March 2021, Informa acquired Denver Pop Culture Con, which was rebranded as FAN EXPO Denver. [10] In August 2021, Informa acquired Wizard Entertainment's conventions; all of its remaining events for 2021 were cancelled, barring Wizard World Chicago (which was held in October 2021 as the final Wizard World-branded event). All six of ...
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[citation needed] Since 2013, Emerald City Comic-Con and Rose City Comic-Con have been a Pacific Northwest partnership stationed in its two biggest cities: Seattle and Portland. In late 2013, the Portland-based Stumptown Comics Fest , which focused on small-press comics, went "on hiatus" and entered an into an operating agreement with Rose City ...
Comic-Con: The Cruise will bring a version of the beloved event to the high seas in 2025.
Location Venue Most Recent Event Upcoming Event Dates Year First Started GalaxyCon Raleigh Raleigh, North Carolina: Raleigh Convention Center: July 25-28, 2024 [22] July 24-27, 2025 [23] 2017 [24] Animate! Raleigh: Raleigh, North Carolina: Raleigh Convention Center: January 5-7, 2024 January 3-5, 2025 [25] 2024 [26] GalaxyCon Richmond Richmond ...
After a successful post-pandemic return in 2022, San Diego Comic-Con will hold a much quieter event for 2023, which runs from July 20-23. In June, with possibility of SAG-AFTRA joining the WGA on ...
It was founded in 1972 as Nostalgia '72, Chicago Comic Con and later as the Chicago Comic and Nostalgia Convention by a local dealer (and school teacher) named Nancy Warner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Acquired by Wizard Entertainment in 1997, and Informa 's Fan Expo unit in 2021, Fan Expo Chicago is among the larger comic book conventions in the United States ...