Editing Dragon Con (section)

=== Programming ===
[[File:Don Rosa Dragon Con 2009.JPG|thumb|Artist [[Don Rosa]] at the artist area of Dragon Con in 2009]]
[[File:D.C._Douglas_and_Maurice_LaMarche,_DragonCon,_2021.png|thumb|Voice actors [[D.C. Douglas]] and [[Maurice LaMarche]], Dragon Con, 2021]]
As of 2008, Dragon Con was a four-day event comprising approximately 3500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include [[writing]], [[alternate history]], [[art]], [[anime]], [[Role-playing game|gaming]], [[science fiction]] and [[fantasy]] literature, [[comic books]], [[costuming]], [[space science|space, science]], [[online media]], [[independent film]], [[podcasting]], [[Culture of Asia|Asian]] cinema and culture, [[robotics]], [[filk]], [[scientific skepticism]], ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''Military Scifi Media'', ''[[X-Files]]'', [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] themes, [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Pern]]'', [[Robert Jordan]]'s ''[[The Wheel of Time|Wheel of Time]]'', [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[United States|American]] science fiction television, dark fantasy, the Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival, and general programming which specific Guests of Honor attend (e.g., [[Clive Barker]]'s ''Lost Souls'' and [[Storm Constantine]]'s ''Grissecon'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dragoncon.org/fan_tracks.php|title=Programming Tracks|publisher=Dragon Con|access-date=2008-07-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080628020032/http://www.dragoncon.org/fan_tracks.php|archive-date=2008-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Christine|last=Boese|url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/16/hln.hot.buzz.dragon/|title=DragonCon: All hope abandon, ye who enter here|publisher=CNN.com|date=2002-08-19|access-date=2007-08-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514184528/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/16/hln.hot.buzz.dragon/|archive-date=2007-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Always a Fan|author=Resnick, Mike|author-link=Mike Resnick|year=2009|publisher=Wildside Press|isbn=978-1-4344-0441-1|chapter=Dragoncon 2007|page=71}}</ref>

As of 2017, Dragon Con is a five-day event, beginning the Thursday before Labor Day.<ref>2017 Dragon Con attendance badge.</ref>