London's own Forest City Comicon coming October
Centennial Hall will hold a celebration
of nerd culture like no
other on October 19. This day will
go down in nerd himstory to mark
London’s first Forest City Comicon.
The convention will feature the
largest agic tournament ever held in
London, video game tournaments,
costumes, vendors, panels, board
games, special guests and more.
“Although this is a completely new event we are, in part, building off what was learned in the past,” said John Houghton, member of the 2014 Comicon organizing group, about the collaboration of The London Rogues and L.A. Mood Comics and Games with the Forest City Comicon concept. “We want to make sure that the convention goes smoothly so that it can become an annual event – one that gets bigger and bigger every year.”
According to Houghton, the idea for the convention stemmed from the notion that London was ready to push forward with major Comicon- type of events from the usual small-scale events that our city is more used to holding.
He revealed that the convention will be taking up all three floors of Centennial Hall with vendors and other activities, such as a LAN (local area network) party for multiplayer video games and London’s biggest Magic tournament ever.
“We have already used up all our possible expansion space by using all three levels of Centennial Hall, which is rare for events that take place there,” Houghton said. “The scale of our event has technically already outgrown the space in terms of the number of vendors and displays that were interested.”
With this being said, fans of everything that is geek culture are in for a treat.
“Believe it or not, because there has been such strong interest from both guests and vendors we are already looking at more venue options for 2015 pending the success of the October event,” said Houghton.
Comicon has been used to describe a variety of different events across North America. What it means to fans of comics, TV shows, cosplay and geek culture is everything that is awesome under one roof. So it would only be logical for all of you, comic book loving, magic wielding, video game playing enthusiasts out there to visit what the convention will be bringing to our hometown.
For more information, Houghton encourages people to sign up for the Forest City Comicon newsletter to stay in the loop on the latest news, including guest announcements.
For this inaugural Forest City Comicon, featured guest is Ron Glass, who is best known for his role as Shepherd Book on Firefly and Serenity.
You can also keep up with the Forest City Comicon at facebook.com/ForestCityComicon or @forestCTcomicon on Twitter.
“Although this is a completely new event we are, in part, building off what was learned in the past,” said John Houghton, member of the 2014 Comicon organizing group, about the collaboration of The London Rogues and L.A. Mood Comics and Games with the Forest City Comicon concept. “We want to make sure that the convention goes smoothly so that it can become an annual event – one that gets bigger and bigger every year.”
According to Houghton, the idea for the convention stemmed from the notion that London was ready to push forward with major Comicon- type of events from the usual small-scale events that our city is more used to holding.
He revealed that the convention will be taking up all three floors of Centennial Hall with vendors and other activities, such as a LAN (local area network) party for multiplayer video games and London’s biggest Magic tournament ever.
“We have already used up all our possible expansion space by using all three levels of Centennial Hall, which is rare for events that take place there,” Houghton said. “The scale of our event has technically already outgrown the space in terms of the number of vendors and displays that were interested.”
With this being said, fans of everything that is geek culture are in for a treat.
“Believe it or not, because there has been such strong interest from both guests and vendors we are already looking at more venue options for 2015 pending the success of the October event,” said Houghton.
Comicon has been used to describe a variety of different events across North America. What it means to fans of comics, TV shows, cosplay and geek culture is everything that is awesome under one roof. So it would only be logical for all of you, comic book loving, magic wielding, video game playing enthusiasts out there to visit what the convention will be bringing to our hometown.
For more information, Houghton encourages people to sign up for the Forest City Comicon newsletter to stay in the loop on the latest news, including guest announcements.
For this inaugural Forest City Comicon, featured guest is Ron Glass, who is best known for his role as Shepherd Book on Firefly and Serenity.
You can also keep up with the Forest City Comicon at facebook.com/ForestCityComicon or @forestCTcomicon on Twitter.
