
Fri-Sun, July 4-6, 2025
St. John’s Convention Centre
101 New Gower Street, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Vendor hours: 1pm-8pm Friday; 10am-7pm Saturday (10am-11am accessibility hour); 10am-6pm Sunday.
JPOP/Anime dance Friday evening
Shrek Rave Saturday 730pm-10pm
Gaming, lobby, and calm room will also be open in the evenings.
Box office closes half an hour before vendor room, readmission possible.
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St. John's Comic Con

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

Photo credit: Ritche Perez

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Guests
Robert J. Sawyer
Author Guest of Honour (Saturday and Sunday)
(Photo credit: Carolyn Clink)
Robert J. Sawyer — called “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by The Ottawa Citizen and “just about the best science-fiction writer out there” by The Denver Rocky Mountain News — is one of only eight writers in history (and the only Canadian) to win all three of the science-fiction field’s top honors for best novel of the year:
- the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Award, which he won for his novel Hominids;
- the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award, which he won for his novel The Terminal Experiment;
- and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which he won his novel Mindscan.
Rob is a member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor given by his country, and of the Order of Ontario, the highest honor given by his province. He was also one of the initial inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. According to the US trade journal Locus, Rob is the #1 all-time worldwide leader in number of award wins as a science fiction or fantasy novelist.
The 2009-2010 ABC TV series FlashForward was based on Rob’s of the same name, and he was a scriptwriter for that series. Rob also hosted the Canadian TV series Supernatural Investigator and wrote the two-part series finale for the popular web series Star Trek Continues.
Maclean’s says, “By any reckoning, Sawyer is among the most successful Canadian authors ever,” and The New York Times calls him “a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation.” The Canadian publishing trade journal Quill & Quire named Rob one of “the thirty most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing” (the only other authors making the list were Margaret Atwood and Douglas Coupland).
Rob’s twenty-four novels include The Oppenheimer Alternative, Quantum Night, Calculating God, and the “WWW” trilogy of Wake, Watch, and Wonder, each volume of which separately won the Aurora Award — Canada’s top honor in science fiction — for Best Novel of the Year. In addition, his “Neanderthal Parallax” trilogy, consisting of Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids, won the Aurora Award for Best Work of the Entire Decade (for the first decade of the 21st century).
Rob’s novels are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, appearing on the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s bestsellers’ lists, and they’ve hit #1 on the science-fiction bestsellers’ lists published by Locus, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, and Audible.com.
Rob — who holds honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg and Laurentian University — has done consulting for many organizations, including NASA, and he’s given over 100 keynote addresses worldwide. Born in Ottawa, he lives just west of Toronto in Mississauga.
We’re very excited to have Rob joining us. 🙂
Jenny Yokobori
Voice Actress
Jenny is a Japanese-American voice actress known for her roles in Genshin Impact, Beyblade X, Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, The Simpsons, Dandadan, Demons Souls, XCOM: Chimera Squad, Rainbow High, Fire Emblem Heroes, and more!
We’re tremendously excited to have Jenny joining us. 🙂
Brianna June
Comic Illustrator
Brianna June is a freelance comic illustrator from the East Coast of Canada. Her Professional work includes illustrated variant covers and colors for IDW (TMNT), Archie Comics, Second Sight Publishing, Keenspot Publishing, creator owned comics as well works in Animation with Cartoon Conrad. Currently working with GY6 Studios creating comics and doing variant covers.
Originally scheduled for AvEx Fall, but couldn’t make it due to ferry delays, we’re very happy to finally have her joining us. 🙂
Brianna will be embedded with the artist vendors.
Sponsors and Friends
Escape Quest
Platinum Sponsor
Escape Quest is an escape room experience in downtown St. John’s. Crafted by local artists and gamers, our five interactive escape scenarios provide a thrilling combination of challenge, entertainment, and teamwork.
WHAT IS AN ESCAPE ROOM?
Escape rooms are a new form of entertainment that has caught on all over the world! Groups are sent into one of several exciting, thematic rooms filled with obstacles, locks, and clues. Working together, they must solve each problem in the hopes of finding a way out before the time is up.
Each success gives players a rush of excitement, but as the game goes on, the challenges get tougher. Only by working together and finding every clue can players hope to escape!
WHO IS ESCAPE QUEST?
Located in scenic downtown St. John’s, Escape Quest has been designed by a local group of artists and gamers to deliver the definitive escape room experience. Each room has been carefully developed to tell a story with you and your friends as the main characters! Our designers believe that gaming is an art; we love a great game with rich, immersive settings, with intelligent, challenging obstacles, and with unexpected twists and turns. Escape Quest delivers a one-of-a-kind gaming adventure, all with the vibrant local flare St. John’s is known for.
Sandbox Gaming
Friend of the Convention
Sandbox Gaming Inc. is a registered non-profit organization located in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The organization was founded in November of 2010 when a group of local gamers decided to do something great with their love of video games!
Sandbox Gaming has since raised
over $150,000
for local charities!
What we do:
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Bi-annual fundraising live stream marathons with all proceeds donated directly to our Annual Charity Fund.
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Full-day Gaming Carnivals, with organized Tournaments, Demos, & more!
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Community Events – Fan Conventions, Escape Room Experiences, Trivia, Game Release Day Parties, etc…
… And 100% Volunteer-Run!

Registration
Passes available online and at the door, as well as in advance at the Mary Brown’s Centre box office in person.