Second Wave of Special Guests for WonderCon 2017 Revealed

WonderCon 2016

If you feel like it’s been a little quiet on the Comic-Con front, there’s good news for you today, as CCI has just unveiled new information about WonderCon Anaheim 2017.

The second wave of special guests for next year’s con, which will be moving back to Anaheim on March 31-April 2, have been revealed. From the Toucan Blog, attendees to WonderCon 2016 can look forward to seeing:

• Matt Fraction • Writer, Hawkeye, ODY-C, Sex Criminals
• Marguerite Sauvage • Artist, DC Bombshells, Faith, Scarlet Witch
• David F. Walker • Writer, Shaft, Power Man and Iron Fist, Occupy Avengers
• Judd Winick • Writer/artist, Hilo, Pedro and Me

Additional special guests will be announced next week.

You can find the complete announcement on the Toucan Blog.

Are you excited about theses special guests? Let us know in the comments.

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WonderCon Anaheim Announces Second Wave of 2017 Special Guests!

WONDERCON WEDNESDAY!

WonderCon Anaheim Announces Second Wave of 2017 Special Guests!

Our WonderCon Anaheim 2017 special guests list just doubled in size with 4 more new guests! Who are the new confirmed additions? Click below to find out!

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First Wave of Special Guests for WonderCon 2017 Revealed

San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Preregistration (now re-branded as Returning Registration) may be pushed off until “early next year”, but Comic-Con International has still been busy.

Not only have they just announced SAM, Storytelling Across Media – a one-day symposium in San Francisco on November 5 dedicated to the art of storytelling – but now we also have the first information on WonderCon Anaheim 2017.

The first wave of special guests for next year’s con, which will be moving back to Anaheim on March 31-April 2, have been revealed. From the Toucan Blog, attendees to WonderCon 2016 can look forward to seeing:

• Michael Cho • Writer/artist, Shoplifter, DC and Marvel cover artist
• Hope Larson • Writer/artist, A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel; writer, Compass South, Batgirl
• Mark Waid • Writer, Archie, Avengers, Black Widow
• Chuck Wendig • Author, Star Wars: Aftermath, Miriam Black series, Atlanta Burns series

Additional special guests will be announced in two weeks.

You can find the complete announcement on the Toucan Blog.

Are you excited about theses special guests? Let us know in the comments.

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WonderCon Anaheim Announces First Wave of 2017 Special Guests!

WONDERCON WEDNESDAY

WonderCon Anaheim Announces First Wave of 2017 Special Guests!

This week's WonderCon Wednesday reveals the first 4 confirmed guests for WonderCon Anaheim 2017, March 31–April 2 at the Anaheim Convention Center!

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Setting the Stage: WonderCon 2016 Photo Galleries!

LET'S GET READY FOR WONDERCON 2017!

Setting the Stage: WonderCon 2016 Photo Galleries!

WonderCon Wednesday returns with a look back at the wonderment of the 2016 show through a series of photo galleries, including some outtakes here on Toucan! Our WonderCon Anaheim 2017 coverage starts now!

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Attendee Preregistration Reboot!

COMIC-CON 2017 REGISTRATION UPDATE!

Attendee Preregistration Reboot!

Important information on Comic-Con 2017 badge sales for returning attendees and the child-to-junior validation process.
 

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San Diego Comic-Con Preregistration Headed for 2017, Gets a Name Change

The times, they are a-changin’.

Comic-Con International recently updated the ‘Notices’ section of Member IDs with quite a few important tidbits of information, but the most important one refers to Preregistration – or as it’s now known, Returning Registration. While for the last several years, the event has occurred around November or December, next year’s registration is set to for “sometime in early 2017”.

Possibly due to the newly implemented RFID technology this year, you won’t need to input any information from your badge to validate yourself for the sale.

Returning Registration for San Diego Comic-Con 2017 is only available to those who attended San Diego Comic-Con 2016 as a general attendee. Just like always, you’ll be able to purchase up to three badges during the sale, so long as each person you’re purchasing for is eligible on their own. Want to know if you’re eligible? You can log into your Member ID right now to see.

Open Registration, whose name isn’t changing and which is still available to anyone so long as they sign up for a Member ID before it closes prior to the event, will occur “shortly after Returning Registration is complete”.

Professional applications, which was set to end on September 30, have been extended. If this is your first time to apply for Professional status or if you need to re-verify your status, you can now apply through October 10. Press applications for 2017 are not yet open, but should open sometime this month.

What does all of this mean? This isn’t the first time that Preregistration (sorry, Returning Registration) has been pushed to the spring. It was held February 8 back in 2014 – the first year of the EPIC Registration waiting room. Does this delay again signal a larger change on that scale? Or is it simply to help prepare EXPO Logic, who acquired EPIC last year, more time to prepare for the sale? Given how well onPeak handled the transition from Travel Planners for the hotel sale (also an acquisition), a little extra time might not be a bad thing in order to get it right.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

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