This month September, Lovers of comics, books, animation, film and gaming are in for the time of their lives at the Fearless Lagos Comic Convention which is set to go on for three full days for the first time ever. In this piece you will get to know every single, important and necessary details to prepare yourself for this mind blowing event. Let’s begin.
OFFICIAL DATES
In it’s eight year of growing Africa’s creative industry, Nigeria’s own Comic Convention goes FEARLESS and triples the fun from 19th to 21st of September 2019.
The Lagos Comic Con, now known as the Fearless Lagos Comic Con has for nearly a decade been the hottest platform for celebrating and promoting the best of Africa’s creativity in form of comics, animation, film, books and gaming with thousands of young and vibrant enthusiasts, industry players and investors gathering to exhibit, interact and keep in touch with the latest trends in the industry.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR FREE!
This year’s event will feature the regulars like exhibitions, industry panel discussions, workshops, competitions and pitches and cosplays. One fantastic news about this year is that for the first time, not only will it be a three day event but it will also be free to access all zones of the event. According to the Chief Event Coordinator, Ray Anyasi, the fact that it is a three day event this year has allowed for more robust programming and the activities and fun have been tripled to give the guests a time of their lives. He noted that after the unbelievable crowd turn out at last year’s event, it became expedient that they expand the duration of the event, saying they expect over six thousand guests in the three days of this year’s event. While attendance is free, guests must register to get access to the many fun activities.
Win Easy Cash Prizes.
Now folks, lets talk how to win easy cash prizes. There will be a host of competitions with lots of prizes which attendees can enter for. They are;
Board Games Competitions
Console Games Competition
Costume Competition (cosplay)
Drawing Competitions
Comic Pitch Competition
Book Pitch Competition
Animation Pitch Competition
Film Pitch Competition
The one we are really looking out for is the dozens of cosplayers that will compete for a grand prize of fifty thousand naira and other gifts. you could REALLY win this.
Just Pick a cool character, Dress up in their costume and that’s it.
Free Advice: Villans are the coolest of all.
More Details
The Panel sessions will have top speakers from France, USA, Japan, South Africa and Nigeria discussing key issues in the creative industry like running a viable comic business, creating contents that sell, distribution for animation, the effect of digital book platforms on Africa’s reading culture among other topics. At the master class zone, top creative professionals will facilitate classes on film making, story plotting, illustrations and many others. . There will also be exclusive screenings of ground breaking films in animation and CGI/VFX.
VENUE
The Fearless Lagos Comic Con 2019 will hold on 19th, 20th and 21st of September at the Alliance Francaise, Mike Adenuga Centre, Osborne Road, Ikoyi, and Lagos. Activities are scheduled from 9AM to 7PM each day.
This year’s event is sponsored by Fearless energy drink, Alliance Francaise, Mike Adenuga Centre, the French Embassy, Film House Nigeria, African Movie Channel, Scooper news amongst others.
We @ShockNG are also Official MEDIA PARTNERS FOR LAGOS COMIC CON 2019
Still need more details about this event ?? call 08131978457.
