Cajun Con arrives in Gonzales on Saturday, December 5, 2026, closing out the year's convention calendar in the corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Gonzales has quietly become one of the busiest collectibles towns in south Louisiana — it hosts multiple card shows and conventions each year — and Cajun Con leans into the local flavor with a pop-culture and collectibles floor built for a regional audience rather than a coastal-market crowd.
The vendor mix runs across categories. Comic dealers bring long boxes spanning golden age through current runs, graded CGC and CBCS slabs and key issues in cases. Toy vendors stock vintage action figures, Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe and 1980s and 1990s nostalgia both loose and carded. The trading card presence includes sports singles across football, baseball and basketball — heavy on Saints, LSU and SEC material given the December timing — plus graded slabs, unopened wax, and Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and One Piece singles and sealed product. Artist alley creators, anime and manga vendors, Funko Pop dealers and collectible statue sellers round out the floor. Cosplay is a regular feature and costume programming is typical.
Hours and admission had not been finalized at the time this listing was compiled, and the specific venue is still to be confirmed — Gonzales conventions commonly use the Price LeBlanc PACE Center or the Lamar Dixon Expo Center, both of which host events of this scale. Verify the location and door price with the organizer before you drive out. Regional conventions in this market typically run a single Saturday with a modest door fee and reduced or free entry for young children.
Gonzales sits just off Airline Highway and I-10, about fifty minutes from downtown New Orleans and thirty from Baton Rouge. Both likely venues offer large free on-site parking lots. The Tanger Outlets and a dense cluster of chain and local restaurants are within a few minutes, which makes a December visit easy to combine with holiday shopping — a genuinely practical consideration for families.
Cajun Con is best suited to collectors with wide-ranging interests and to families looking for a December outing that is not a mall. The convention format means kids have plenty to look at beyond the display cases, and the holiday timing makes it a strong place to find gifts for collectors — vendors at December shows expect gift shoppers and price accordingly. Card-focused specialists should treat it as a bonus stop rather than a primary buying event, though the dealers who attend often bring material that has not cycled through the metro shows.
Tips: confirm the venue before you leave home. Arrive at open, since December conventions front-load their strongest inventory and artist alley prints sell out. Bring cash — smaller regional vendors are frequently cash-only. Carry bags and boards for comics, sleeves and top loaders for cards. Walk the whole floor once before buying, because at a crossover show comparable items land at very different prices from table to table. And ask about bundle pricing; December vendors are usually motivated.
Watch the event's Treasure Hunter listing and social pages for confirmed venue, hours, admission and the vendor roster.