Cirroc Lofton, Chris Rankin, Tanya Roberts, Sean Schemmel, Tracy Scoggins, Marina Sirtis, and Jamie Yeates February 24–26: New York Comic Con, New York City, US March 3–6: Napoli Comicon, Naples, Italy March 4: STAPLE! (Red Oak Ballroom, Austin, Texas, US) – guests: Tony Millionaire, Jim Mahfood, David Hopkins, and winners of the Xeric Foundation grant for comic book self-publishers March 11: UK Web & Mini Comix Thing, London, UK March 12: New York Comic Book Spectacular (New York City, US) – guests include Mike Grell, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, and Keith Williams March 17–19: Wizard World Los Angeles, (Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, US) March 31 – April 2: Small Press Expo, Stockholm, Sweden April 1: Fluke: A Mini-comics/Zine Explosion, Athens, Georgia, US April 1–2: Emerald City Comicon, (Qwest Field Event Center, Seattle, Washington, US) – guests: J. G. Jones, Stuart Immonen, Steve Niles, Roman Dirge, Pia Guerra, Sean Phillips, Tony Harris, Alé Garza, Tim Vigil, Jason Pearson, Rob Liefeld, Patrick Zircher, Cully Hamner, Erik Larsen, Doug Mahnke, Adam Hughes, Jonathan & Joshua Luna, Rick Leonardi, Dan Brereton, Brian Stelfreeze, Corey Lewis, Jim Mahfood, Ryan Ottley, Francis Manapul, Scott Kurtz, Michael Lark, Bob Schreck, Ed Brubaker, Alex Maleev, Matt Wagner, Tim Sale, Clayton Crain, James O'Barr, John Layman, Josh Ortega, Mike Bullock, Brom, Tony Moore, and Scott Morse April 1–9: Fumetto International Comix Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland April 8–9: APE: The Alternative Press Expo, San Francisco, US April 21–23: Pittsburgh Comicon (Radisson Hotel Pittsburgh ExpoMart, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, US) – 8,400 attendees; guests include George Pérez, Brian Michael Bendis, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Jim Balent, Adam Hughes, Greg Horn, Michael Turner, Mark Waid, Bob McLeod, Howard Chaykin, Arthur Suydam, Timothy Truman, Joseph Michael Linsner, Bruno Sammartino, Ray Park, Ed Piskor, and Ron Frenz April 23: Toronto ComiCON Fan Appreciation Event (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) April 28–30: Toronto Comicon, National Trade Centre, Hall C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – guests of honor: George Pérez and David Lloyd April 29–30: Dallas Comic Con ("DCC7") (Plano Centre, Plano, Texas) – guests include Bernie Wrightson, Dave Dorman, Tony Harris, Howard Chaykin, Steve Niles, Norm Breyfogle, James O'Barr, Josh Howard, Tom Hodges, Kerry Gammill, Ben Dunn, Jim Daly, David Hopkins, and Tim Bradstreet May 6–7: Comicdom Con Athens, Athens, Greece May 13: Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (S.P.A.C.E.), Ohio Expo Center, Rhodes Center, Columbus, Ohio, US – special guests: Dave Sim and