Wonder no more, the WonderCon 2026 dates are here

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WonderCon 2025 is almost here, but we already know when the next one is. The WonderCon 2026 dates have been announced to be March 27 through 29, 2026, again at the Anaheim Convention Center in California's LA area. How did we find it? We looked in the WonderCon 2025 program guide, silly.

These 2026 dates put the annual WonderCon event up against Kansas City's Planet Comicon. While the two events are 1600 miles apart, given they're roughly the same size, you expect to see vendors and creators debating which one is better for them that weekend. Of course, WonderCon is in the more media-friendly environs of LA.

WonderCon is the second-largest comic convention in the Los Angeles area, with LA Comic Con lapping it in 2016 and currently boasting 126,000 annually. WonderCon keeps its attendance numbers under wraps, however, 2016's event had a reported 60,000, according to Publisher's Weekly. For this year's event, WonderCon boasts over 900 exhibitors using half of the Anaheim Convention Center's exhibit hall space, with the featured guests being Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, and a rare Funko booth appearance (and all that goes with it).

2026 will be a busy year for WonderCon's organizers, the non-profit known as the San Diego Comic Convention. In addition to WonderCon, it has two other conventions - the second annual Comic-Con: The Cruise in January, the mega con that is Comic-Con International: San Diego in July, and its first-ever Comic-Con Málaga in Spain in September 2026. If that wasn't enough, 2026 is the final year of the company's contract with the city of San Diego for its flagship con to be at that city.

We'll see you this weekend at WonderCon 2025, and no doubt we'll be there in 2026 as well.

But wait, there's more! Here's a list of all the upcoming comic conventions in 2025 and 2026.