As covered last week in our Industry News section, the show rom 10 AM to 3:00 PM at the Holiday Inn Baltimore-Towson, 1100 Cromwell Bridge Road, Towson, Maryland.  Admission is $5 for adults and free admission for children under 12.

According to the company, the convention will feature numerous tables of exhibitors from the non-sports card hobby, including manufacturers and publishers such as Non-Sport Update, a bi-monthly magazine that caters exclusively to the discriminating collector of non-sports cards.

Other highlights of the convention will include appearances by various non-sports card artists, including Jeff Zapata (art director at Topps), Mark Pingitore (full-time artist in the animation business who did concept work for the Garbage Pal Kids series and also Hollywood Zombies), and Jim Kyle (a professional illustrator now working in the non sport field who has done work for all of the major non sport companies including Topps, Rittenhouse, Breygent, Marvel, DC, and Lucasfilm).

For more information, visit www.usatheatres.com/conventions.html.