Rhode Island Comic Con 2026 Part1
I haven’t been to Rhode Island Comic Con since 2018, mostly because of cost and travel issues. But this year, I had an offer for a ride from Adventures of Clever, who was attending on Saturday, and jumped at the opportunity to return.
Along with Cat of bad_phoenix_wolf we were only going to be at the con until mid-afternoon, but that was enough time to get two galleries worth of photos. Alas, our plan to get there by 11 a.m. was destroyed by the fact that both parking garages for the Rhode Island Convention Center were completely full, and it took us a good half hour of traveling around the streets of Providence to get into the Providence Place Mall parking garage.
One thing that offset the delay was the fact that the convention had relocated the press check-in from a doorway on the far end of the Amica Mutual Pavilion (the arena) to just inside the security checkpoint at the entrance from the convention center garages and the skywalks from the mall to the Omni Hotel to the convention center.
That little change was needed, because by the time we got in at noon the hallway outside the actual show floor was so crowded it took at least another 10 minutes to get up the escalators to the mezzanine — approximately 100 feet distance. By the time I was able to get a seat and my lights set up it was about 12:30 p.m.
However, once I was set up I was quickly grabbing passing cosplayers for photos and friends started finding me. In fact, despite being set up on the opposite side of the mezzanine level than normal, of the first 10 cosplayer sets in the gallery below, only two are passing cosplayers — all the rest are friends who somehow saw my Instagram post about where I was set up. Among those are the Jean Grey and Wolverine in the group of Hellfire Gala costumed Marvel characters. The saw my post and come by even though the last time I took their photos was in 2019.
In this first of two galleries from Rhode Island Comic Con 2026 are cosplayers queenofcoatscosplay, steelshieldsundries, queenmaabus, plinth666, vnm.cosplay87, iadontknow, blueeyedsirencosplay, sprielly, terman8er, graceelinftw, delirious.cosplay, zephyr_roc, schreibdog2487, pandavalentine, misspelleditaly, jennyjuiceboxxx7, channiesweets93, _nerdiverse_, and many more.
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