Conventions

 

An online listing for conventions, June 2004 page, with links to other months and year listings:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4677/cons062004.html

 

 

Dates and links for Conventions of note:

 

San Diego Comi-Con (July 22-25 2004) (July 17-20 2003) (Aug 1-4 2002)

http://www.comic-con.org/

 

 

A-kon (June 4-6 2004) (May 30-June 1 2003)(May 31-June 2 2002)

http://www.a-kon.com/

 

 

AnimeFEST(Sept 3-6 2004)(Aug 29-Sept 1 2003)(Aug 3–Sept 2 2002)laborday

http://www.animefest.org/

 

 

AnimeNEXT (June 18-20, 2004) (Oct 03-05, 2003) (October 11-13, 2002)

http://www.animenext.org/

 

 

Anime Expo (July 02-05, 2004) (July 03-06, 2003) (July 04-07, 2002)

http://www.anime-expo.org/index2004.html  (said to be the largest anime convention in the US, period. West coast- Anaheim, CA)

 

 

Anime Central (May 14-16, 2004)( May 16-18, 2003) (April 19-21, 2002)

http://www.acen.org/ (said to be the largest anime con in the Midwest)

 

 

Otakon (July 30- Aug 01, 2004) (Aug 08-10, 2003) (July 26-28, 2002)

http://www.otakon.com/ (largest E. coast anime con)

 

 

Katsucon  (Feb 13-15 2004) (Feb 14-17, 2003) (Feb 15-17, 2002)

http://www.katsucon.com/ (2nd largest E. coast anime con)

 

 

KamikazeCon - March 25-27th 2005**

http://www.kamikazecon.com/ (said to be the Largest Anime Convention in Houston, Texas)

 

Dragon*Con – Sept 02-05, 2005**

http://www.dragoncon.org/ (Said to be the largest US sci-fi con)

 

 

The 63rd WorldCon/World Science Fiction Convention- Aug 04-08, 2005**

…will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. (2004 was in Boston, 2006 will be in Los Angeles) http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/whatis.htm

and http://www.wsfs.org/

 

 

Bot-Con (June 19-20 2004) (July 25-27 2003) (July 26-28 2002)

http://botcon.com/  (transformers, moves around the country)

 

 

Anthrocon (July 8-11 2004)(July 17-20 2003) (July 11-14 2002)

http://www.anthrocon.org/info.cgi/index    (furry, east coast- Philly)

 

 

Conifur(Sept 24-26 2004) (Sept 26-28 2003) (Oct 4-6 2002)

http://www.conifur.org/      (furry, west-coast)

 

 

RingCon (March 05-07, 2004, as well as Oct 29-31, 2004) (Feb 21-23, 2003 and October 24-26 2003)

http://www.ringcon.com/  (Lord of the Rings, west coast- Seattle)

 

 

Moonlight Rising (June 04-06, 2004)(June 06-08, 2003)

http://webpages.charter.net/moonlight-rising/

An east-coast Buffy-con. With both Anthony Stewart Head and James Marsters as confirmed guests for this year. Hmm…

 

 

And there is a Convention for Harry Potter fans planned for Salem, Massachusetts in October 06 of 2005, by the people who did the first convention in Florida in 2003. http://www.hp2003.org/

Interestingly enough, they had an update page in LiveJournal.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/hporlando/