This summer marks 50 years since three comic book enthusiasts created a first-of-its-kind comics convention at San Diego’s U.S. Grant Hotel to bring people who loved comics together. Now the annual gatherings, known as Comic-Cons, are held all over the world, though San Diego hosts the biggest, which starts Thursday.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — In a crowded ballroom on the top floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, teens and young adults with colorful hair and cameras in their hands mingled on Friday.
The group had gathered as part of a networking group of up-and-coming creators hoping to grow their YouTube channels or online presence at the 10th annual VidCon, a YouTube-focused convention for the platform's stars, fans and those learning the tricks of the trade.
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Every year, video game enthusiasts of all sorts converge in Seattle to attend the Penny Arcade Expo. Among the crowd are a special type in costume. These cosplayers, a portmanteau of costume and play, walk the convention floor as onlookers gawk and photograph their elaborate attire. But there are times, collected here in PhotoBlog, when cosplayers pause from strutting the exhibition hall and return to every-day life.
