Sponsors
A Huge Thank you to the following Sponsors for 2026
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 March and November. 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 will be the weekend of March 28-29, 2026 at the Enercare Centre – Hall G, 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 19-21, 2026 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 July 18-19, 2026 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.
Dangerous Ladies is a small woman owned and operated, LGBTQ+ friendly costuming company that has been cosplaying together for a decade and providing resin kits, 3D printed props, patterns, textiles, and other accessories to cosplayers since 2014.
CosPayton Cosplay + Crafting specializes in size-inclusive sewing patterns, 3D files, embroidered patches, kits, and more.
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.
