Conventions & Events

We exhibit at several conventions and shows each year.  Our display space and the range of materials we bring to each show varies.  We hope to see you at one or more of these shows.  We highly recommend each one.

If you are attending any of these shows and would like to place an order to pick up at the show, please let us know.

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! - May 18-20, 2012 - Kansas City, MO

The inaugural Spectrum expo and we will be there.  This will be our first midwest convention.  I haven't yet figured out the logistics, but I wasn't going to miss what looks to be a fantastic event for fans of illustration art!

http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/

San Diego Comic-Con - July 11-15, 2012 - San Diego, CA

Over 150,000 people converge on this sleepy conservative Southern California city for this, the premier comics and pop culture event in the country.  

We have signed up for our usual five booths, plus one extra for 2012.  Stay tuned for further announcements.  

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

Pasadena Antiquarian Book & Paper Fair - October 6-7, 2012 - Pasadena, CA

We will be exhibiting at the 13th annual Pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo and Paper Fair.  Subscribers to our email list will receive free passes for this fair.  

Exhibitors will display and offer for sale a wide variety of antiquarian, rare and modern  1st edition books, prints, posters, vintage photographs, autographs, fine graphics, maps,  manuscripts and many unique pieces of ephemera.  The seasoned enthusiast, beginning collector or someone just browsing should not miss this extraordinary opportunity to experience so many fine collections all in one location.

Saturday 10 a.m. To 6 p.m. And Sunday 11 a.m. To 4 p.m. 
General Admission $8.00. 
Senior Citizens (62+ years) $5.00.  
Children under 12 free.
Free Return Privileges.

The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA  

www.bustamante-shows.com

APE - October 13-14, 2012 - San Francisco, CA 

The Alternative Press Expo is the West Coast showcase for indy publishers and self-publishing creators.  Hundred of tables populated by artists and writers selling their wares.  We bring our publications as well as an assortment of artists' self-published sketchbooks/artbooks. 

http://www.comic-con.org/ape/

WonderCon - 2013 - San Francisco, CA

We have exhibited at this San Francisco bay area comic convention every year going back to its Oakland days.  It is growing every year in its ideal San Francisco Moscone Center location making it a smaller, still managable version of SDCC.   

As long as this convention is held in the SF bay area, we will be there.

http://www.comic-con.org/wc/

Paperback Collectors Show & Sale - 2013 - Mission Hills, CA

An incredible one-day show in the San Fernando Valley is devoted to vintage massmarket paperbacks and associated genres: Pulps, SF, mystery/detective fiction, nudist & men's magazines.  Where not just the books are vintage, but most of the dealers as well, this is an old-fashioned wheelin' and dealin' kind of show.  I love it!  The show is held in March or April each year.

http://www.la-vintage-paperback-show.com/index.html