Rhode Island Comic Con

Rhode Island Comic Con runs three days, Friday through Sunday, across three skybridge-connected downtown Providence buildings: the Rhode Island Convention Center, the Amica Mutual Pavilion, and the Omni Hotel. A standard adult badge for the 2026 show costs $55 for Friday, $70 for Saturday, $60 for Sunday, or $129.99 for all three days at the current price tier; kids 6-12 pay a reduced rate on every tier and children five and under attend free with a paying adult. A VIP 3-Day badge at $259.99 adds early entry each day, a celebrity fast-pass line, priority panel seating, a gift card, an exclusive comic and pin, and other add-ons, and sits outside the standard badge range. Autographs and photo ops with the celebrity guests are a further paid layer on top of any badge, priced per guest by the celebrity rather than the organizer: published examples for the 2026 show run from $40 to over $130 for an autograph and from $65 to $137.50 for a professional photo op. The show is organized by guest category across pages for celebrities, comic and fantasy artists and writers, and cosplayers, with an Artist Alley, a tattoo pavilion, tabletop and video gaming through Left of Center Gaming, and a hosted Cosplay Red Carpet and daily themed cosplay meetups rather than a single judged masquerade. Cosplay props and toy weapons are welcome once checked by security, with a rule that all prop weapons must be foam swords or orange-tipped guns, no wood or metal. The show suits both comics and genre-television fans chasing autographs from a changing celebrity roster and cosplayers looking for a photographed meetup rather than a formal contest stage