This year’s featured contest is the “Loyal Order of the Ribbon.” You know you’re having a good Con when you look at your badge and are immediately reminded of the amazing people you’ve met who chose to share a ribbon with you. They are small pieces of imprinted ribbon that attach to the bottom of a membership badge or the bottom of another ribbon in a chain called a “beard.” The ribbons represent anything and everything, from a costume to a cult to a quote from a favorite movie.
Read MoreEvery year over the Labor Day weekend, thousands of pop culture enthusiasts descend upon downtown Atlanta, Georgia to celebrate every form of fandom imaginable in the massive pop culture celebration known as Dragon Con.
Read MoreThis year’s convention attracted over 70 thousand attendees and raised more than 200 thousand dollars for this year’s official charity, Cure Childhood Cancer. While Dragon Con always features costumed fans of all varieties, this year, one category clearly dominated the crowd.
Read MoreBoxwars started out in 2002 as a way for two brothers and their friends to have a fun, cheap creative outlet through mock-medieval battles using homemade cardboard armor and weapons.
