Comicon 2017

Comicon 2017 has come and gone.  Four fun days of cosplaying, shopping, and hanging with authors and celebrities is what Sienna and I experienced.

Day 1 was me as Provincial Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Sienna as Lilo from Disney's Lilo and Stitch.

 

In addition to dressing up in costume, otherwise known as cosplay, we also like to attend author spotlights, workshops, and panels.  These four guys are all sci-fi authors who are great writers and just outright funny and smart guys.  The one second from the left is Sam Sykes, who is also Diana Gabaldon's son.  She is the prolifically popular author of the Outlander series, also currently seen on television on the Starz channel.  I am currently reading the series and am starting Book 7 of 9.  The show is AMAZING and even has Sienna hooked. 

 

We attended a class by The Potter Professors who talked about the history of magic behind J.K Rowling's latest film, Fantastic Beasts.  I dressed up as the main character from that movie, Newt Scamander, on Day 2.

Here we are having fun at the "Hall of Heroes" where you get to take pictures at various movie sets and even with movie characters, like Stormtroopers.

Our favorite local bookstore sets up shop near the author signing tables, so we're able to buy any last minute books we need for signing, or just have fun with picture props.

 

 

 

Day 2 was Sienna as Moana and me as Newt Scamander.

We attended a live reading of a fan fiction story related to Fantastic Beasts that day and bought some great memorabilia you can only find at comicons.

 

 

 

Look at this awesome Outlander apron I got!  I was able to get it signed by Diana the next day!

 

 

Day 3 found us as Gryffindor students from Harry Potter.

We purposely dressed as Gryffindor students because we were meeting Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny Weasley Potter in the Harry Potter movies, and who also was a Gryffindor.

 

Here's our photo op!

 

 

Then we attended her panel afterwards and learned all about the behind the scenes filming of the movies from her perspective.

 

We also walked around and met people, like this Gene Simmons.

 



 

We saw Dick Van Dyke.

 

And Jay Garrick who played Zoom in The Flash.

 

We also attended a Diana Gabaldon spotlight and got our books signed.  She's such a gracious lady.

 



We also got to know another author by the name of Wesley Chu. 

 

Sienna is deep in conversation with him because he is writing a spin-off of one of Sienna's favorite book series, The Shadowhunters.  She's asking for scoop!

 

He was super sweet.

 



Then we ended the day with many of the same authors playing a game called Botsu.  It was fun to watch but we're glad to not be playing because the consequence was eating hot salsa.

Day 4 was Sienna as Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games and me as Gypsy from The Flash.

 

Here I am with Hulk and his lady.

This is us with Sam Sykes, author and son of Diana Gabaldon.

Here we are with Sienna's crush, Pierce Brown, author of the Red Rising series.

 



 

 

Another great Comicon.  Here's looking to next year!