Conventions
- Detroit Triple Fan Fair (Detroit, Michigan) — 7th edition of the convention, program includes "a history of the Detroit Triple Fan Fair"
- April 25–28: First American International Congress of Comics (New York City)
- May 26–29: EC Fan Addict Convention (New York City)
- June: MultiCon (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) — 2nd occurrence of this show
- July 1–5: Comic Art Convention (Statler Hilton Hotel, New York City) — Jack Kirby and Alex Toth guests of honor; announcement of the 1971 Goethe Awards
- July 22–23: Nostalgia '72 (Pick-Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois) — first Chicago-area comics and collectibles convention, produced by Nancy Warner; c. 2,000 attendees
- August 5–6: Comicon '72 (British Comic Art Convention) (Waverley Hotel, London, England) — 5th annual show, produced by Nick Landau
- August 18–21: San Diego's West Coast Comic Convention (e.g., the third occurrence of what is eventually known as the San Diego Comic-Con) (El Cortez Hotel, San Diego, California) — 900+ attendees; official guests: Bob Clampett, Harry Harrison, Jack Kirby, Katherine Kurtz, Mel Lazarus, Roy Thomas, Milt Gray
- November 24–26: Creation Con II (New York City) — guests of honor: Philip José Farmer and Frank Kelly Freas; other guest: Vaughn Bodé
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole—so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader’s consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)