A GATHERING OF SUPERHEROES, and marvelous monsters, and the fanciful figures that lurk in the pages of graphic novels, fantasy tales, and realms of disbelief? You can find them whenever you watch a favorite film or pick up a novel, oh yes, and you can also encounter all sorts of otherworldly beings in Anaheim each spring. For that’s the where and when of WonderCon, the three-day pop-culture-everything-and-more-tacular, a huge panel-packed party presented by the people behind Comic-Con International. That enormous pop-culture-and-everything-and-more-tacular is still a few months away, but you swing Spidey-style through Anaheim while you’re planning your summer jaunt to San Diego. WonderCon 2026 is just ahead, over the final weekend of March, and fantastical forces will be gleefully gathering in the County o’ Orange.
THE MAP IS LIVE, and it is larger than large, with a buoyant bevy of talented people setting up shop in Artists’ Alley and an area devoted to Fan Tables filling out a good stretch of the Anaheim Convention Center. On the con’s considerable and creativity-driven schedule? Oodles of goodness, with the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, “Star Wars: Inside the Creatures, Droids, and Puppetry,” “Closet Cosplay: Crafting Without Breaking the Bank,” and “Storytelling Across Games, Comics, and Beyond” adding flavor, imagination, and inspiration to the busy roster. On the Special Guest List? Oh hello there, Felicia Day, Floyd Norman, Babs Tarr, and a host of terrific performers, actors, writers, thinkers, and dreamers. To secure your badge for the March 27-29 event, connect with cosplay information, map out what your day (or days) will look like, and get up on the ins/outs of the full-to-fabulous festivity, enact a three-point landing at this site.