20 September, 2014

ComicCon 2014

Just when life gets monotonous, there'e one day to break the routine and enjoy the day. And that was ComicCon. A 3-day event hosted at White Orchid Bangalore, I went on the second day(Saturday). Needless to say, the crowd was overwhelming. Seeing cosplayers all over the place, posing for pictures and selfies, was a major highlight of the event B-) Let's get to that later. 

Many independent artists displayed their work that were well appraised. One particular booth that caught my attention was the Paper Cut Artwork. 
Papercut Artwork
Every design in the above image is made by cutting paper in different shapes. A skillful work that requires lots of patience. They accepted making custom designs on spot too. Brilliant work I should say =D> Another place I loved was the charcoal painting section. Had some really great work. 

Merchandises included T-shirts, pajamas, keychains, badges, wallets, bags, masks, mugs, posters, coasters, wall hangings, dolls, sunglasses, shoes, phone covers and I can't think of the rest :P Popular superhero stuff included Batman, Ironman, Superman and Hulk. Anime stalls were filled with people buying their favorite character posters, mugs and other merchandises. Harry Potter stall selling the snitch, sorting hat and wands were thronged by people atleast for taking pictures :)) The One ring, LOTR books with posters and T-shirts were a good collection too. Surprisingly, I couldn't find gollum posters or Tees anywhere :| Guy fawkes mask, V for vendetta book and Tees were sold too. Oh, how could I miss the legendary Star Wars? A dedicated star wars booth with light sabers and the droids. Posing by fighting with the light saber had a huge queue :P T-shirts of Sherlock with famous quotes and Sherlock images itself were sold. Again, couldn't find Watson quotes or T-shirts. Strange! Bazinga Tees, Mugs, keychains etc were found in most stalls along with Sheldon's quotes and posters. Somehow the other characters weren't found. Wonder why :-/ And finally, stalls with Game Of Thrones crafts. Found lots of quotes, posters, T-shirts, the book, a few memes and many more interesting stuff. 

Three sorry four places where people thronged the most were to get a free poster, a caricature, instaframe and face painting. Free posters for anyone filling a form to choose your favorite superhero or star wars character! B-) Caricature sketches by TaxiForSure was another interesting place. Artists sketched faces of fans on printed superhero torsos. There were two sketch artists with a long queue of fans. Instaframe was a photo booth to capture your image by wearing colored wigs :)) Instagram special I must say. Face painting (or so it was called) with superhero logos, symbols etc was another demand. And I got batman logo painted on my arm :P The patience these guys had to paint for so many people should be appreciated.  

Guests of the day. Met Rob Denbleyker, the co-creator of Cyanide & Happiness comics. He was more than willing to draw sketches on spot to dedicated fans. Dan Parent of Archie Comics was there too. Got an autograph from David Llyod of V for Vendetta. Took a photo with him too :P 

Coming to the highlight of the event. Cosplay! Special guests for the day to host cosplay were the boys from A!B. With their jokes and sarcasm, the event was lively. The event was started by professional Japenese Cosplayers Akira and Miya. Akira sang a Japanese song. Had no clue what she was singing or saying :| Finally, the cosplayers. These guys were all over the place from noon. The major cosplayers I came across were Scarecrow, Joker(very common), Prince of Persia, Khaleesi, Catwoman, Rapunzel, Jack Sparrow, V, Thor, Wall E, Bellatrix, Harry Potter, Sherlock, Wolverine, plenty of Anime characters (too many to mention :P), Neo, Minions, Ironman, Darth Vader and that's all I can remember :P Selfies and photos all over the place with the cosplayers :)) 

The major bummer of the event was lack of Network for 3G and WiFi :( Most of the time, calls/messages couldn't be received too. I think apart from that, it was a very nice experience. Amazing crowd! Met a lot of school friends and college friends :) After a very long time, I got to enjoy an entire day thoroughly. Hoping to pen another nice experience soon. Until then, see ya folks! :-h

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