A Family Exploring the World of Fandom Together
At Nola Nerd Couple, fan conventions are our passion. We attend fan conventions across the Gulf Coast, Houston, and beyond—including California, Illinois, and the UK—always sharing reports from a fan’s perspective. Our ComicCon-ing 101 series helps newcomers navigate the world of fan conventions with confidence. Since our daughter joined us in 2018, our coverage also highlights the joys and challenges of experiencing fan conventions as a family, from stroller strategies to meeting celebrities and exploring the vendor halls with a curious elementary schooler.
Warwick Davis Returns to Celebration Star Wars Celebration will be here before we know it. We are so excited about attending panels, meeting celebrity guests and authors, and sharing our love for all things Star Wars with our friends – ones that we have known for a long time and…
We’re Back and So is Wizard World We love going to Wizard World New Orleans. Its a great con and great for the city. Even last year, when Mrs. Nola Nerd Couple was in the throes of extreme nausea due to the baby, we had a great time. In fact,…
More Authors Announced for Celebration 2019 Star Wars Celebration Chicago added more authors to their lineup! This was already a super strong author lineup, and Celebration just beefed it up some more EK Johnston: Ms. Johnston is primarily a young author writer, and has previously published the novel, Ahsoka, for…
The Podcast Stage Well, we applied for the Star Wars Celebration 2019 Podcast stage, but we weren’t selected. It wasn’t a surprise. We haven’t recorded in a while due to some health issues. Well, that and the fact that there are so many great podcasts that cover all the facets…
Star Wars New Roundup From Around the Web One of our favorite Star Wars authors is back writing one of our favorite characters in the Star Wars Universe. Timothy Zahn is writing a third Star Wars Thrawn novel! Thrawn is the perfect character to explore in the written word due…
Meet the Authors of Star Wars While the celebrity guests garner most of the attention at Star Wars Celebration, they are not the only guests worth meeting. We had an amazing time meeting authors and artists of the saga just as much as we did the stars. This week Star Wars…
Creator Supreme Both my wife and I got into comic books late. Local comic shops didn’t exist where I grew up. However, for as long as I can remember I knew who Stan Lee was. His creations, well co-creations, are part of the consciousnesses of our country. Spider-man, the Fantastic…
Star Wars Galactic Nights Back in May, we attended Star Wars Galactic Nights. The Nola Nerd Baby was three months old and did a fantastic job. She didn’t complain and slept through most of it.On the first meeting of her great-grandfather, he slipped her twenty dollars. We want to make…
Wizard World New Orleans is starting to announce a lot of guests for their show coming the first weekend in January. There first wave of guests was mainly from Outlander. As always, they are planning a great show and have now announced guests from more fandoms! Even though it has…