Metro Detroit’s newest Pop Culture Convention Astronomicon heads into its 4th year!
Check out MIGeekScene’s previous coverage:
2018 Review
2018 Gallery
Ming Chen Interview 2018
Metro Detroit’s newest Pop Culture Convention Astronomicon heads into its 4th year!
Check out MIGeekScene’s previous coverage:
2018 Review
2018 Gallery
Ming Chen Interview 2018
Tulip City’s 5th annual Comics & Toy Fare!! The Tulip City Comics & Toy Fare is an annual event for the celebration of all things geek – cosplay, comics, toys, fandoms and more!
Check out MIGeekScene’s Previous Coverage:
2019 Gallery/Review
Knight’s Hall Comic and Toy Show
Buy, Sell and Trade!!!
JUST $3 Admission with LOTS of fun to be had by all!
**Tickets at the door – No need to buy them ahead of time**
Hourly Door Prizes and Lots of Vendors with a Variety of Options to choose from!!
Midland’s first ever Comic Con is coming to Midland Mall Saturday, March 7th – Sunday, March 8th! Join us for a FREE, fun, family-friendly weekend featuring Pop Culture Vendors, free indoor Bounce Houses, Family Photos with Real-Life Movie Droids, Cosplay Contests with prizes, Facepainting, and more.
$5 admission
Toy show at the Royal Oak Farmers Market
Don’t know what to do for the week? Well, check out what’s going on for this weekend.
Pokemon masters young and young at heart! Do you have what it takes to be the number one trainer in West Michigan? Do you just want to play Pokemon with fellow trainers? We have the event for you! On February 22, 2020, JAFAX will be partnering with The Comic Signal to host a Pokemon event to celebrate Pokemon Sword and Shield.
Everyone is welcome at this family friendly event. We will hold events for Pokemon Sword and Shield, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Pokken and much more. More information to come soon!
Come celebrate this huge milestone in Pokemon history with The Comic Signal and JAFAX.
Held every year on the beautiful campus of Michigan State University, The Michigan State University Comics Forum is an an event that brings together scholars, creators, and fans in order to explore celebrate the medium of comics, graphic storytelling, and sequential art.
Emil Ferris is an American writer, cartoonist, and designer. Ferris debuted in publishing with her 2017 graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a coming-of-age story of Karen Reyes, a girl growing up in 1960s Chicago. The book is written and drawn in the form of the character’s notebook. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters was heralded as a “masterpiece” by Forbes and The AV Club, among others and has garnered numerous awards, including:
Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an assistant professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is starting a Comics Studies program. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled Unflattening, it argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning, and was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Humanities, the Lynd Ward Prize for best Graphic Novel of 2015, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic work. To date, Unflattening has been translated into French, Korean, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Italian, and Chinese.
The Great Lakes Comic-Con
Friday, February 21, 2020
5PM to 9PM
and
Saturday, February 22, 2020
10AM to 6PM
Special Guests:
We have invited many of our previous guests from all of our past year’s shows! We’ll reveal each of their names in the coming weeks. We also have several guests who are new to the event in 2020!
ALSO AVAILABLE!
Free-Play Video Game Arcade – courtesy of Big Toys of Sterling Heights!
Free Board Gaming – hosted by The Grand Gaming Academy!
Prototype Gaming demonstrated and played!
Magic Card Tournament – hosted by Game Players!
Face Painting by Chantel!
Costume Contests!
Guest Panels!
and much, much, more!
DON’T MISS!
The Star Wars 501st Great Lakes Garrison!
The Star Wars Rebel Legion!
The Ghostbusters Coalition of Southeastern Michigan!
The League of Enchantment
and much more!
Don’t know what to do for the week? Well, check out what’s going on for this weekend.