Celebrating Pop Culture in D.C. at Awesome Con 2022 (photos)

June 5, 2022

Awesome Con, the premier pop culture festival in Washington, D.C., returned to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this past weekend, June 3-5. As an upstart version of San Diego’s […]

AwesomeCon 2022

April 20, 2022

SAVE THE DATE: 6/3 – 6/5: AWESOME CON 2022 Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2022) – Over 50,000 fans of comics, technology and science, television and film, custom art, and over-the-top […]

A Celebration of Geek Culture: Awesome Con Returns to D.C. (photos)

August 22, 2021

After a 28-month hiatus, Awesome Con, the premier pop culture festival in Washington, D.C., returned to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this past weekend, Aug. 20 to 22. Awesome […]

Awesome Con Lives Up to Its Name (photos)

April 30, 2019

Smithsonian Magazine once again partnered with the event, a mecca for fans of comic books and science fiction and fantasy, in a series of lectures and panels called Future Con.

Women Cartoonists at Library of Congress

April 4, 2018

In the past century, I can’t think of two subjects more overlooked in art history than the contributions of women and the influence of cartoons. A protracted struggle has long […]