Awesome Con ran this past weekend in Washington, DC and saw fantastic crowds in only its second year. Below check out some of the cosplay on display at the show, as well as other photos, and you can head to our Flickr account for more!
Award-winning comic book publisher BOOM! Studios will exhibit at this coming weekend’s Awesome Con in Washington, D.C. The show runs the weekend of April 18-20, 2014.
At Awesome Con, which will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., BOOM! can be found at booth number #421. They will host the following creators all weekend:
In addition, an Awesome Con exclusive variant cover of Adventure Time 2014 Annual #1 illustrated by Ian McGinty will be sold through the convention. Starring baby versions of Fionna and Cake, this is the first-ever horizontal Adventure Time issue!
Awesome Con is taking advantage of Black Friday and having a huge Black Friday sale. That’s right, they’re slashing $10 off their 3-Day Easter Geekend Tickets AND their VIP Tickets!
Just head to http://awesomecondc.com/tickets, use code blackfriday at checkout, and you’ll get the savings! But you’ve got to act fast, this sale only runs from Friday to Monday!
Want to give the gift of Awesome, but you don’t know how? Well, now it’s easy! For a limited time, they are offering a special ticket that is easily giftable. Just select the new Holiday Special Geekend Ticket or the Holiday Special VIP Ticket, and they will mail you a special Awesome Con holiday card with your ticket inside. It’s the perfect gift! And it’s also part of the Black Friday sale, so you can get $10 off of these special tickets, too!
With a successful Kickstarter campaign behind it, with over $56,000 raised, Awesome Con is gearing up for a solid second convention in 2014.
Guests are already lining up for next year’s convention. Along with George Pérez, Ben Templesmith, and Justin Jordan, here are a few more guests the convention has added:
The conventions is also in talks with a dozen more guests and waiting on the schedules for even more. That and more is quickly making Awesome Con 2014 one of the premiere events in the Washington, DC region.
This past weekend, April 20 and 21 saw the inaugural convention for Awesome Con DC! The convention took place at the Washington, DC Convention Center and saw continuous crowds. The upstart convention brought in celebrities like Ernie Hudson, Nicholas Brendon and comic creators like Justin Jordan, Ben Templesmith, Larry Hama and more.
While small, the show was eclectic with panels on everything from comic books to wrestling. It was clear promoters wanted to see what would stick and prove popular, a smart tactic for a first show. The convention center is massive and the convention took up only a small part of it, at times making it seem small, but that also allowed for a lot of room for folks to hang out and chat.
Chatting to vendors and creators, all seemed happy with the first time convention, saying it was a constant stream of people. I saw a diverse crowd of young and old, men and women and numerous races, something great to see at a convention.
The $15 tickets made it a cheap way to entertain oneself and check out an convention which I’m expecting to get bigger and popular really soon.
It’s about time Washington, DC had its own geek convention and Awesome Con DC is here to fill that need!
There’s less than a month left until Awesome Con DC which takes place April 20 and 21 in Washington, DC and they’re not done with the announcements. Last week the convention announced Buffy‘s Nicholas Brendon will be coming to the first year convention.
Nicholas Brendon is best known to audiences as the sardonic Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a role he played for the seven-year run of the show. He’s currently recurring as FBI technical analyst Kevin Lynch on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds, was recently featured in a four-episode arc on the ABC drama Private Practice, and also starred in the Fox comedy Kitchen Confidential.
This is just one of the recent announcements which also includes The Walking Dead‘s Theodus Crane, Wolverine co-creator Herb Trimpe and 30 Days of Night co-creator Ben Templesmith.
The convention line-up is impressive including Phil LaMarr, Ernie Hudson and comic creators including Larry Hama, John Ostrander, Justin Jordan, S.L. Gallant, Jeff Shultz, Jeremy Whitley and many more.
