Sponsors
A Huge Thank you to the following Sponsors for 2027
Guelph’s Eisner Award winning source for Comics, Games, and Manga!
The Dragon, and its owner Jenn, and manager Amy, are recipients of numerous awards, recognizing excellence in retail and the community. This includes the extremely prestigious Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing award, which recognizes the best comic stores in the world, the CanGift Retailer of Distinction award, recognizing the best retailers in Canada, and, in 2023, was nominated for the Guelph Chamber of Commerce Awards of Excellence in the category of “difference maker”. The Dragon is a proud participant in Free Comic Book Day since the 2007, a member of ComicsPRO (of which Jenn is the President) and GAMA, a supporter of the CBLDF and Hero Initiative, and the founder of Downtown Guelph Trick-or-Treating.
Toronto Game Expo runs twice a year in Spring and Fall. The most games under one roof! 100,000 sq feet of Video Games, Toys, Collectables, Pop Culture, Artist, Cosplay, Free Play and so much more! Get your tickets now!
Toronto Game Expo (Fall Edition) will be the weekend of November 7-8, 2026 at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place in Toronto.
Toronto Game Expo (Spring Edition) will be the weekend of May 1 -2, 2026 at the Exhibition Place in Toronto.
TriCon is Kitchener/Waterloo’s premier fan event celebrating all things pop culture, comics, gaming, cosplay, and fandom! TriCon combines a convention, vendor fair, and speaker event into one weekend that immerses guests in all things pop culture, sci-fi, comics, anime, visual art, digital technology, interactive tech-art, and more!
TriCon will be the weekend of May 2-3, 2026 at the Museum in Waterloo.
YetiCon is Canada’s Biggest Destination Con at beautiful Blue Mountain Resort there’s adventure all around! This year’s event is expanding – get yeti for it! Offering exclusive parties, panels, workshops, vendors, and so much more. Get your tickets now!
Yeticon will be the weekend of June 18-20, 2027 at the Blue Mountain Resort.
Pretty Heroes is a convention focused on strong female characters, the characters who support them, as well as real-life inspirational women and girls. We believe that:
Every Girl Can Be a Hero Because Everyone Can Be a Hero.
Pretty Heroes will be the weekend of TBA, 2027 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto.
Animethon is Canada’s longest running anime convention. We are a volunteer-run event that uplifts and showcases Asian popular arts and related local communities in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We strive to bring people together to celebrate community, creativity, and culture.
Animethon will be the weekend of Aug 7-9, 2026 at the Edmonton Convention Center.
Meet CosPayton, your new cosplay bestie! Your one-stop shop for size-inclusive and accessible sewing patterns, blueprints, supplies, and more to make your dream cosplay come true.
ClueSolvers Adventure is a fast-paced scavenger hunt and a brain-teasing outdoor escape room, all rolled into one… Simply put, you will follow a trail of clues and puzzles on a 3km walk around town, all set to a fun storyline.
They are the sponsor of our mystery hunt!
The Hodge Podge Pony is …that’s a good question, We make lots of stuff and have fun doing it. Clearly we need to actually write something here. We paint, we make shirts, hats, buttons, costumes, fabric experiments. This blurb is from 2024, and honestly it stills fits.
