DragonCon, one of the world’s largest the sci-fi, fantasy, and pop-culture conventions, will not be held in person for the first time in 34 years. The convention was (as always) scheduled for Labor Day weekend (as well as the surrounding week of) and was projected to bring around 90,000 people to downtown Atlanta, GA. Organizers…
Con Nooga has announced the dates opened submissions for the 2020 offering of the Con Nooga Film Festival at their 13th annual convention. The event will take place February 21-23 at both the Chattanooga Convention Center and The Chattanoogan Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Con Nooga is Tennessee’s largest three-day multi-fandom convention and in addition to…
DragonCon is a truly massive event on an epic scale – so the story goes. While experiencing the event this year, you felt it from the crowds pressed together in the halls of each venue which hosted them, to the parties and main programming held during the entire 24-hour escapades spanning over 5 days in…
Saturday, October 6th marked the 2018 offering of the Horror Movie Freaks Film Festival. The day-long event took place at the Village Inn Event Center in the town of Clemmons, just minutes outside the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Presented by the Horror Movie Freaks digital publication, and organized by HMF staff Josh Mabe, Stephen…
Earlier today, Falstaff Books in association with The Charlotte Geeks announced the official launch of Con-Tagion, the latest convention to join Charlotte’s rapidly-expanding market, and first to present itself as an event specifically “for creatives, by creatives.” Convention Founder (and Founder of Falstaff Books), award-winning author John G. Hartness, when asked about the reasons behind…
Katsucon is an annual anime convention hosted in National Harbor, Maryland (just outside of Washington, DC). This year, I had the pleasure to attend Katsucon 2018 and model in their fashion show. It was my first year in attendance and having heard about the convention for many years now, I had high expectations. I’m happy…
February 23-25 marked the 2018 offering of Con Nooga – Chattanooga, Tennessee’s largest multi-fandom convention, and one of the largest of its kind on the east coast of North America. Con Nooga has been an annual tradition for the Nerd Nation crew since its inception over a decade ago – back when the majority of…
Greetings Fellow Nerds! 2018 marks Nerd Nation’s fourth year traversing the land and bringing you the latest goings on in the ever-expanding convention world, and 2018 saw us kick off the new year at Days of the Dead: Atlanta. This is the seventh year for the famed horror-themed convention in Atlanta, GA, that also holds…
Hi, I’m Jade and I’m an artist. You won’t hear much about cosplay, main events, or guests in this review – it’s all about business and my uncensored experience as an artist and panelist at MomoCon 2017. Two years ago, I participated in what I called “the best convention in the southeast”: MomoCon. It’s…
ConCarolinas returned for its 16th year this past weekend for three days of sci-fi//fantasy fun in Charlotte, North Carolina. Much as we are every year, the Nerd Nation crew was in attendance, with our own Dave Harlequin participating in various panels and programming all weekend long, including his highly popular signature panel: “This One Time…
