Jan 16 – Jan 20, 2025
San Jose McEnery Convention Center…
Further Confusion, often shortened to FurCon (or just FC), is an annual furry convention in San Jose, CA. Our schedule features exciting events, educational panels, nightly dance parties, and more. At FurCon, you’ll find something fun for everyone!
FurCon is an event by Anthropomorphic Arts and Education, a 501(c)(3). We are a non-profit event, and benefit a different local charity of interest to our attendees each year. We are run by a team of over 250 incredible volunteers, by and for our community. Our goals are simple: create an exciting weekend of memorable fun, while raising money for a worthwhile cause.
So what’s a furry? In a general sense, the furry community is a large and diverse group of people, brought together by a shared interest in anthropomorphic animals. These are often animal or animal-themed characters in movies, cartoons, books, or comics. Many of our attendees create characters of their own, and some even attend in costume.
Jan 9 – Jan 12, 2025
Long Beach Convention & Entertainm…
Join fellow anime enthusiasts at Animé Los Angeles 2025! This convention features engaging panels, exciting cosplay contests, and a marketplace packed with exclusive merchandise.
Nov 29 – Dec 1, 2024
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Fan Expo San Francisco is a multi-genre convention celebrating comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, and gaming. The event features celebrity guests, autograph sessions, cosplay contests, and exhibitor halls.
Nov 23 – Nov 24, 2024
Kern County Fair Grounds, Bakersfi…
You can spot the real ones by how they walk a room. Slow, hands behind the back, scanning a table of collectibles the way other people read a menu. That pace is the entire pleasure of a convention that never got big enough to become a logistics problem.
The fairgrounds fill with comics, costumes, and the specific kind of vendor who will talk to you for twenty minutes about a character nobody else at the table has heard of. Cosplayers pose in the aisles without a handler managing a line. The celebrity guests actually look up. Panels happen in rooms you walk into rather than queue for, and the gaming runs off to one side for anyone who wants to sit down and play instead of shuffle past.
Kern County Fair Grounds, Bakersfield, one hall holding all of it. Send it to the friend who says conventions stopped being fun once they got too crowded.
Mouse-Con Bay Area is a convention dedicated to all things Disney, including collectibles, merchandise, and memorabilia. The event features vendors, panels, and special guests from the Disney community
Oct 26 – Oct 27, 2024
Holiday Inn San Jose: Silicon Vall…
YumeConUSA is a convention celebrating Japanese culture, including anime, manga, and cosplay. The event features panels, workshops, artist alleys, and special guest appearances.
Oct 19 – Oct 20, 2024
Hilton Los Angeles Airport, Los An…
Splat Con is a convention celebrating all things related to splatting, including paintball, airsoft, and Nerf. The event features tournaments, demonstrations, vendor booths, and community meetups for splat enthusiasts.
Sep 20 – Sep 22, 2024
Ontario Convention Center, Ontario…
Creep I.E. Aftermath is a horror convention featuring haunted attractions, celebrity guests, panels, vendors, and cosplay. The event celebrates all things horror and provides a spooky experience for attendees.
TwitchCon is an annual convention for the live streaming video platform Twitch. The event features panels, meet-and-greets with popular streamers, interactive activities, and showcases of the latest in gaming and streaming technology. It is a hub for content creators, gamers, and fans to connect and celebrate the Twitch community.
Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2024
Sheraton Downtown Phoenix, Phoenix…
Saboten Con is Arizona's largest anime convention, featuring cosplay, gaming, panels, screenings, and special guest appearances. The event celebrates Japanese pop culture and provides a welcoming space for fans to come together and share their passions.
Aug 30 – Sep 1, 2024
SAFE Credit Union Convention Cente…
SacAnime Summer is an anime convention featuring cosplay, panels, screenings, gaming, and special guests from the anime industry. The event attracts anime fans from throughout Northern California.
Aug 23 – Aug 25, 2024
Pasadena Convention Center, Pasade…
Power Morphicon is a convention dedicated to the Power Rangers franchise, featuring cast members, panels, screenings, and merchandise. The event celebrates the legacy of the iconic superhero series.
Aug 16 – Aug 18, 2024
San Jose McEnery Convention Center…
GalaxyCon San Jose is a multi-genre convention featuring celebrities, comic creators, artists, vendors, and fan-centric programming. The event celebrates various aspects of pop culture, including comics, anime, gaming, and more.
Aug 9 – Aug 11, 2024
Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim…
D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2024 was held August 9-11 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Disney dropped major announcements across MCU, Star Wars, animation, and theme parks — including Avengers: Secret Wars details, new Disney+ series, and next-generation park experiences.
Jul 25 – Jul 28, 2024
San Diego International Comic Con …
Downtown stops being an office district and becomes a place where a stranger in full armor holds the crosswalk button for a family with strollers, and nobody finds it remarkable. That is the part people who have never gone do not understand — this is not a trade show. It is the week when the thing you love in private becomes the default language on the street. Comics are still the spine of it, but the floor spilled long ago into movies, television, gaming, and interactive work that did not have a name when this started. The convention center downtown holds the official version; the sidewalks, the hotel lobbies and the lines hold the rest, and the lines are where people actually meet each other. Go with the person you have been explaining your favorite series to for years, and let them find out there are thousands more.
Every summer San Diego Comic-Con transforms the Gaslamp Quarter into a constellation of private events, industry showcases, and cultural celebrations that never make it onto the official schedule. In 2024, Prime Video turned one of those rooms into something that mattered — a night called Blerd & Boujee, built around the proposition that Black nerd culture is not a niche but a civilization with its own canon, its own dress code, and its own definition of cool.
The party was held during SDCC weekend, positioned as a Culture Rated activation — Prime Video's ongoing initiative to spotlight content and community at the intersection of Blackness and genre fiction, anime fandom, gaming, cosplay, and speculative storytelling. The guest list skewed toward creators, influencers, and fans who live at that crossroads — people who grew up code-switching between Dragon Ball Z and the Essence Festival, between Magic: The Gathering and Afrofuturism.
What made the night distinctive was its refusal to treat the audience as a subset. Most SDCC satellite events position diverse fandoms as a lane within the larger convention ecosystem. Blerd & Boujee positioned itself as the room the convention should have built first. Music, themed cocktails, cosplay showcases, and curated content previews framed around the idea that if you understood the reference, you were already home.
The event is part of a broader cultural moment: the recognition that the largest growth segment in American fandom is multicultural, genre-fluent, and intensely communal. Studios are learning that these audiences do not need to be invited — they need to be acknowledged. Blerd & Boujee was Prime Video's way of saying: we see you, and we built this room for you.
For anyone tracking the evolution of pop culture events in the SDCC ecosystem, Blerd & Boujee represents a template — the corporate activation that actually felt like a gathering. It ran once. The format is replicable. The community it served is permanent.
Rooftop, Comic-Con week, and the line downstairs is full of people who could not get in. That is the whole social physics of this party: invitation only, thrown while the convention is at full boil, and everyone inside it works in or around the thing you spent all week standing in line for. Fandom, the largest fan platform on the internet, throws it at FLOAT above the Hard Rock, and Electronic Arts is back as presenting sponsor with activations built around Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Z2 Comics and Pinfinity run their own, including an AR experience. Jason Derulo plays a set. The company is turning twenty in October, so the night doubles as the opening move of its own birthday run, with moments scattered across the evening for whoever made it upstairs. It is the party your badge does not get you into. Which is precisely why everyone in San Diego that week is trying to find someone who knows someone.
Jul 4 – Jul 7, 2024
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los…
Anime Expo is one of the largest anime conventions in North America, featuring cosplay, industry panels, exclusive premieres, and a massive exhibitor hall. The event attracts tens of thousands of attendees from around the world.
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