Let’s say you want an autograph from Rainn Wilson, who on “The Office” played Dwight Schrute, the most famous beet farmer in television history.
Or meet Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor on “Doctor Who,” and now Daemon Targaryen, the long-tressed chaos agent on “Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon.”
Maybe talk to Tom Kenny and Roger Bumpass, the voice actors behind SpongeBob and Squidward on “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
There is only one place where all those folks will be this weekend – L.A. Comic Con – which kicked off Friday, Dec. 1 and runs through Sunday, Dec. 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The annual gathering of cosplayers and comic-book collectors, fantasy fans and sci-fi nerds holds a good spot on the calendar of cons – just over three months until WonderCon returns to Anaheim at the end of March, and a brief eternity until San Diego Comic-Con rolls back around as July nears its close.
This is it for comic- and con-related holiday shopping – there’s 1.2-million-square-feet of artists, exhibitors and others on the convention hall floor.
It’s the place, too, for finding actors from your favorite shows and movies, now, with the end of the actors’ strike, once again free to go out and talk about all their work past, present and future.
Here’s how to go if you feel like heading down. Or up. We don’t know where you live, after all.
L.A. Comic-Con is open 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
VIP passes are sold out, so forget about those. Friday is a bargain at $40, Saturday is priciest at $60, and Sunday dips back down to $50.
To get tickets and find all the information you want on panels, guests, exhibitors and more, see comicconla.com.
