OTTAWA COMICCON BREAKS RECORD WITH OVER 42,500 VISITORS! - Ottawa Comiccon

OTTAWA COMICCON BREAKS RECORD WITH OVER 42,500 VISITORS!

Experience Ottawa Comiccon’s 11th edition with a large array of more than 300 exhibitor booths in over 100,000 square feet of shopping madness! With several companies demonstrating their wares or set pieces from film or television, it’s a shopping experience like no other, aimed at fans that are looking for original artwork, video games, T-Shirts, comics, graphic novels, toys, statues, replicas and more collector items. The Exhibition Hall showcases artists and products from entertainment genres like: Sci-fi, Horror, Anime, Gaming in all its forms, and, of course, bande dessinée and comic books, as well as numerous cosplay fan groups.

CELEBRITIES: Meet celebrities while getting an autograph, a photo or even listen to their stories on stage.

The FOUR HOBBITS themselves ELIJAH WOOD (Frodo Baggins), SEAN ASTIN (Samwise Gamgee), BILLY BOYD (Pippin Took), and DOMINIC MONAGHAN (Merry Brandybuck); SUMMER GLAU, best known for her roles in television series Firefly, Serenity, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Arrow; CHAD COLEMAN, best known for playing Dennis “Cutty” Wise on the HBO show The Wire, Tyreese in The Walking Dead The Evil Queen/Regina Mills from Once Upon a Time, LANA PARRILLA; GIANCARLO ESPOSITO who had the most legendary roles of Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian and Stan Edgar in The Boys; the T-1000 himself, ROBERT PATRICK (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The X-Files, Reacher, The Night Agent, Peacemaker); DENIS LAWSON (original Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Bleak House, New Tricks); DIANA LEE INOSANTO (Ahsoka, Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, Rent, stunt performer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer); DANTE BASCO (Hook, Avatar: The Last Airbender); COLTON HAYNES (Teen Wolf, Arrow); MARY MCDONNELL (Battlestar Galactica, Dances with Wolves [1990], The Fall of the House of Usher, Donnie Darko [2001]); EDWARD JAMES OLMOS (Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner [1982], Stand and Deliver [1988], Miami Vice); CALLUM KEITH RENNIE (Battlestar Galactica, Due South, Californication, Jessica Jones, Highlander: The Series, The Commish, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Forever Knight, La Femme Nikita, and more recently, Star Trek: Discovery); LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS (Stargate: Universe La Bamba (1987), Young Guns (1988), Stand and Deliver (1988) The Big Hit (1998); as well as WWE superstars D-VON DUDLEY and KURT ANGLE.

Plus, presenting a brand-new short film entitled Have a Good Day, director LISA SOPER (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Riverdale, The Winchesters) will be at Ottawa Comiccon Saturday and Sunday.

COMIC BOOKS CREATORS: Have a chat with your favorite comic book artists and discover their collections!

Creators such as RYAN OTTLEY (Invincible, The Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlanne’s Haunt, Hulk), JAMES RAIZ (Transformers Hulk: Destruction, Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey), TOM FOWLER (Rick and Morty, Mysterius, Venom),JACK BRIGLIO (Growing Up Enchanted, Dominion Jack, True Patriot Presents), YANICK PAQUETTE (Wonder Woman, Batman, Swamp Thing), KEN STEACY (Spawn, Star Wars, Astro City) & BRIANA JUNE (Archie Comics), ROSSI GIFFORD (Invincible Presents: Atom Eve [Skybound Games], Spirit Leaves, Bitch Planet), MARTIN SLAM DUNCAN (Frankenstein Visions, Dracula Visions), ANTHONY RUTTGAIZER (The First Hero, Heroes of Homeroom C), CASEY PARSONS (Department of Truth, Ice Cream Man, Swamp Dogs), FRANK TIERI (Wolverine, Deadpool: Blood, White and Red, Harley Quinn, Jughead: The Hunger), GEOF ISHERWOOD (Dr. Strange, Conan, Namor),AISLIN (cartoonist for Montreal Gazette), SAM NOIR (Monstrosity, Steampunk Originals, Holmes vs. Moriarty),JANET HETHERINGTON (Secret Loves of Geek Girls, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), DEREK HUNTER (Adventure Time, DuckTales, Kid Cosmic), RONN SUTTON (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Lucifers Sword M.C.: Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club), JIMMY SUZAN (Migrasyon, Tricomb Dynasty), CRAIG A. TAILLEFER (Books Of Magic, Dead Boy Detectives, Thrilling Tales of Vistas Unknown), SAMI FRANCIS (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Betty and Veronica Fairy Tales), and HUGH ROOKWOOD (Howdy, I’m John Ware, Apocalypse 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) will also be present in Artist Alley at Ottawa Comicon 2024!

ATTRACTIONS:

Besides the numerous panels, workshops, celebrities on stage, Ottawa Comiccon offers many attractions!

THE MASQUERADE:

Don’t miss out on Saturday’s BIG event: the masquerade is the place to show off your talents in costume making. Whether they come from the world of comics, of Japanese anime or video games, this amateur costume competition puts your favourite heroes in the spotlight; you can view unique and amazing costume creations. Go on stage and show off your creations (and maybe fight some ninjas!), or come and encourage the contestants! It’s not just posing on stage, but a spectacle filled with awe, allure, action, artistry, astonishment, and maybe a song and dance too.

JUST PUSH PLAY is proud to be running Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournaments all weekend long!

It’s time to prove you’re the best Mario Kart driver in the city!

Friday we will be running a 8P linked match of human players! Race against 7 of your friends or compete against new players to win! Tournament is FREE TO PLAY with a general admission ticket to Ottawa Comiccon 2024! Each tournament starts at 12:00 p.m. sharp! You are welcome to bring your own controller, BUT if there are too many racers in the tournament, we will request you use the controllers provided to save time and make the tournament fair for all racers!

3…2…1.. GO! TIME TO GET RACING!

Nerd-lesque: The Comic-Strip Show
Nerd-lesque combines the art of burlesque and nerd culture. Think of it as cosplay striptease! See your favorite characters brought to life through weird and sexy performances. Come see Kopy Cat, Tristan Ginger, BJ Stroker, Enshantay, Randi Rouge, Mistress Mae, Koston Kreme & Canary Quinn perform at Ottawa Comicon! This show is for a mature audience only. You must be 18+ to attend.

The show takes place Friday, September 6 at 8:30 p.m. in Main Events – Hall 1!

Fighting Game Community free-play (by Downtown Rumble)
Several stations will be set up with Street Fighter 6Tekken 8Guilty Gear Strive & more. Sign-ups will be available on the spot for all of our tournament brackets, and are entirely free! Join in the fun, test your might, and be eligible for convention-appropriate merchandise and prizes. Free play setups will also be made available for a wide variety of titles, not just those included in the tournament line-up. Every tournament match (excluding grand-finals) will be first to two wins, single elimination. Aforementioned grand-finals will be first to three wins. Bringing your own (Playstation 4 compatible) controller is encouraged, but controllers can also be supplied.

Lord of the Rings Tabletop Gaming Zone
Discover intense tabletop wargaming in immersive sceneries inspired by Peter Jackson’s trilogies and crafted by our members! This is Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game by Warhammer! Gather, build and paint your armies, fight for the forces of Good or Evil and join the Strategy Battle Game community to dominate the battlefield through our multiple events across Québec, Ontario and even at international gatherings!

About Ottawa Comiccon:

Ottawa Comiccon was launched in the spring of 2012. This annual event dedicated to pop culture takes the form of a fan convention with multi-genre content: comic books, sci-fi, horror, anime, video games and the entertainment world. Ottawa Comiccon is one of the fastest growing paid events in Ontario, attracting an engaged young adult target audience. It features a large array of exhibits with several companies demonstrating their wares and a few vehicles or set pieces from film or television are on display, a shopping experience like no other, aimed at fans that are looking for games, T-Shirts, comics, toys, statues, replicas and more collector items.

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