Conventions
- Charlotte Mini-Con (Charlotte, North Carolina) — one-day event held at local mall by Shelton Drum, owner of the comics retailer Heroes Aren't Hard To Find (and future founder of HeroesCon).
- FantaCon 2 (Albany, New York) — Program book includes "artist's profiles" on Berni Wrightson, Raoul Vezina, John Caldwell, Jeff Jones, Richard & Wendy Pini, Joe Staton, and Fred Hembeck
- Katy-Kon (Santa Barbara, California) — first convention dedicated to Katy Keene
- March 15–16: Long Island Comic Book Convention (Holiday Inn, Rockville Center, New York)
- July 4–6: Comic Art Convention (Statler Hilton Hotel, New York City)
- July 18–20: Chicago Comicon (Pick-Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois)
- July 30–August 3: San Diego Comic-Con (Convention and Performing Arts Center and U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, California) — 5,000 attendees; official guests: John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Mike Grell, Paul Gulacy, Larry Niven, Joe Orlando, Richard Pini, Wendy Pini, Jerry Pournelle, Osamu Tezuka, Adam West, Wally Wood
- Fall: Mid-Ohio Con (Ohio) — first staging of this annual event, produced by Roger A. Price
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)