East European Comic Con is a multigenre convention held annually in Bucharest, Romania. It is the largest event, dedicated to fans of comics, Japanese animations – anime and manga, board games, video games, as well as TV series and movies in East Europe.
The event is inspired by the biggest event in that area - San Diego Comic-Con International. The beginning is in 2013, when the first edition of the festival gathers the unprecedented number of around 9 400 visitors. During the two days of the festival the fans are presented the opportunity to participate in a Cosplay costume contest, LOL championship, Quiz Contest, Art contest, to meet and talk with over 20 well-known artists and meet some of their favorite actors. The same event takes place in 2014 as well and has even greater success, gathering over 22 000 visitors, which is more than double the number of the first edition of the festival. The timetable is richer and the VIP guests, attending this year include names like Jason Momoa, whom we are familiar with from the blockbuster “Game of Thrones”, Marh Sheppard, who played the King of Hell in the popular TV series “Supernatural”, Natalia Tena, Ian Churchill etc. This year the big dates are 8, 9 and 10th of May, the place – Romexpo and the scales and the number of expected visitors are simply breathtaking. The event offers all kinds of entertaining activities in which the visitors may take part in. Here are some of the most intriguing activities, according to Friday Chopsticks’ team
The event is inspired by the biggest event in that area - San Diego Comic-Con International. The beginning is in 2013, when the first edition of the festival gathers the unprecedented number of around 9 400 visitors. During the two days of the festival the fans are presented the opportunity to participate in a Cosplay costume contest, LOL championship, Quiz Contest, Art contest, to meet and talk with over 20 well-known artists and meet some of their favorite actors. The same event takes place in 2014 as well and has even greater success, gathering over 22 000 visitors, which is more than double the number of the first edition of the festival. The timetable is richer and the VIP guests, attending this year include names like Jason Momoa, whom we are familiar with from the blockbuster “Game of Thrones”, Marh Sheppard, who played the King of Hell in the popular TV series “Supernatural”, Natalia Tena, Ian Churchill etc. This year the big dates are 8, 9 and 10th of May, the place – Romexpo and the scales and the number of expected visitors are simply breathtaking. The event offers all kinds of entertaining activities in which the visitors may take part in. Here are some of the most intriguing activities, according to Friday Chopsticks’ team
Surely one of the most anticipated elements of the convention are the, so called “Panels”. Like the western panels, which we see at the large festivals, the ones in Romania are going to be part of East European Comic Con as well. The panels are sessions with people from the industry, who answer concrete questions, asked by the audience. Therefore this is the perfect opportunity to get to know better your favorite idol and personally find out interesting details about them, their plans and everything else you would like to know. Last years’ star list included Yaya Han, Kamui, Jason Momoa, John Rhys-Davies etc., which set the bar quite high. The people, organizing the event surely realized that and therefore this years’ guest list is even more thrilling, and includes Vsauce1, Manu Bennett, Robert Knepper, Osric Chau and many more! All panels can be accessed for free if you have the 3 day ticket for the event!
This year we’ll also see another famous part of all respected festivals worldwide – Artists’ Alley. It lets the artists show their fascinating creations like paintings, comics and accessories to a vast public and even sell them to the fans.
Another exciting element of EECC’s timetable is The Quiz Competition. The event itself is going to be held in the main hall and is similar to a TV show with questions and answers, yet ones only in certain areas, like Anime, Manga, Gaming, TV Series, Comics etc. That is the perfect chance for the superfans to show off their knowledge and compete on who’s going to list more trivia facts about their favorite Game, TV show or Comic book.
The gaming part is also well known to the vast public and will be well-presented on EECC. Some of the best teams from East Europe are going to compete with each other and try to be number one in the contest. The highlighted games this year are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and Hearthstone.
We reached the definitely most anticipated part of the event for many of the fans and mostly the attending otakus - the Cosplay costume contest! This one is going to be in two parts, one for solo cosplay and one for group one. Both categories are supervised by an international jury, including 3 very experienced cosplayers, which will judge and evaluate the quality of the presented costumes and the stage performance of each and every participant.
We have heard that there will be quite a lot of Bulgarian competitors in all of the contest and are keeping our fingers crossed and wishing lots of luck to all participants and especially compatriots!
See you there!
This year we’ll also see another famous part of all respected festivals worldwide – Artists’ Alley. It lets the artists show their fascinating creations like paintings, comics and accessories to a vast public and even sell them to the fans.
Another exciting element of EECC’s timetable is The Quiz Competition. The event itself is going to be held in the main hall and is similar to a TV show with questions and answers, yet ones only in certain areas, like Anime, Manga, Gaming, TV Series, Comics etc. That is the perfect chance for the superfans to show off their knowledge and compete on who’s going to list more trivia facts about their favorite Game, TV show or Comic book.
The gaming part is also well known to the vast public and will be well-presented on EECC. Some of the best teams from East Europe are going to compete with each other and try to be number one in the contest. The highlighted games this year are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and Hearthstone.
We reached the definitely most anticipated part of the event for many of the fans and mostly the attending otakus - the Cosplay costume contest! This one is going to be in two parts, one for solo cosplay and one for group one. Both categories are supervised by an international jury, including 3 very experienced cosplayers, which will judge and evaluate the quality of the presented costumes and the stage performance of each and every participant.
We have heard that there will be quite a lot of Bulgarian competitors in all of the contest and are keeping our fingers crossed and wishing lots of luck to all participants and especially compatriots!
See you there!
Author: Emilia Kircheva
Editor and translator: Tereza Balabanova
Editor and translator: Tereza Balabanova
