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Information on the southwest's oldest and largest student-run Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Convention. with details on panels, events and guests.

America's premiere independent publishing event, organised by Comic-Con International. With information on events and guests and directions for visitors.

Major NEW three day con held in New Orleans! Site has everything you'll need to know about this special "Pop Culture Mardi Gras"! Guests, exhibitors, hotel and travel info, tickets, contests and more.

Yearly convention in Toronto, held in the summer. Site offers information on guests and events plus a look back at earlier issues.

Caption is an annual alternative comics convention (in Oxford, UK) that aims to combine the best and brightest of the small press and alternative talent, people and product with large quantites of beer and sunshine.

Convention information includes date, time, admission price and guests.

Mainstream comic convention in Essen, Germany. With information on attending creators, exhibitions and more. Site in German.

Comic and pop culture convention in Toronto, Canada. Site pays special attention to independent publishers, along with info on events and guests. And signed T-shirts on auction.

An online comic convention. Many publishers and creators are represented here. Auctions, discussion forums, exclusive comic strips, an art gallery, and the Splash newspage. No hospitality suites or all night parties, yet.

All the information you need to start planning your trip to Comics 99 (Bristol, England). E-mail the organisers for your free programme.

The Comics Arts Conference (San Diego) is designed to bring together comics scholars, practitioners, critics, and historians who want to be involved in the dynamic process of evolving an aesthetic and a criticism of the comics medium.

We got Gaiman! Neil Gaiman, that is. This year our small, limited to 500 Con in Knoxville, TN has Neil Gaiman as Guest of Honor and Artist GOH Lisa Snellings. Celebrate the End of the World As We Know It! November 1999.

Touring exhibition of Australian self-published zines, ezines and comics, with over 100 publications exhibited.

Dragon*Con bills itself as America's SF and Popular Arts Convention, and thus pays great attention to comics. Next to the usual info (who will be there, where's it going to be, how to get there), this site has a nice feature : the photo album to last year's event.

Fantasticon is an on-line virtual convention about comics, science-fiction and movies. With news, previews and games and ongoing contests.

Information on the annual Angoulême comic festival, with profiles of the Alph'Art and other award winners, exhibitions, the history of the festival, games, and more. Updated annually.

The Ohio State University 1998 Festival of Cartoon Art has for its theme : "The Art of Cartooning: Its History, Current Status, and Future Prospects".

An International Congress on Comics organized by the Italian cartoonists society Anonima Fumetti & the Italian Centre for Comic Art together with the Communication Codes Educational Centre.

Information this small press con in Gainesville, Florida. With guest and event lists and visitors' directions.

Information on the comics festival in Helsinki, Finland. With a full programme and exhibitions list. Slightly out of date (1996)...

Comic Convention held yearly in Charlotte NC. Information on attending artists, how to get there and why they do it.

The largest most dynamic convention for Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy fans. Covering comic books, games, toys, media and books.

To e held on October 17, 1999 in Los Angeles, this is a celebration of independent comics and fanzines.

ICAF is an international forum for artists, scholars, editors, curators and all those with a passion for comics to meet and share ideas.

Held at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.