The Cartoon Art Museum hosted a late-night reception on Friday evening, with special guests Batton Lash (left) and Gahan Wilson. Courtesy of Andrew Farago.

Convention attendees had no shortage of post-con activities as the Bay Area comics community provided many entertainment options for visitors. The Cartoon Art Museum hosted a late-night reception on Friday evening with special guests Sergio Aragonés, Batton Lash, Bill Morrison (Bongo Comics, The Simpsons), Scott Shaw! (Oddball Comics) and Gahan Wilson. Isotope: The Comics Lounge featured late-night parties with Grant Morrison and Eric Powell on Friday and Saturday night, respectively; and Berkeley’s legendary comic bookstore Comic Relief hosted a party on Saturday night and a special reception on Sunday night for the aforementioned Frank Miller.

Miller visited Berkeley on Sunday to host a benefit screening of Sin City, based on Miller’s comic series. The screening raised money for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an organization formed 20 years ago to protect the First Amendment of comicbook creators and publishers. Miller discussed the upcoming Sin City sequel and his next project for DC Comics, a Batman vs. Al-Qaeda comicbook entitled, Holy Terror, Batman!

By most accounts, the 20th WonderCon was the most successful yet, and shows no signs of slowing down as it enters its second decade as the Bay Area’s premiere comicbook convention.

Andrew Farago is gallery manager and curator of San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum.