All about Delhi Comic Con 2024, a grand celebration of pop culture, comics, and creativity

Comic Con India has grown into a nationwide taste improvement since its humble beginnings arsenic a niche gathering for comic publication enthusiasts. Now successful its 12th year, it continues to connection a level that transcends accepted boundaries and unites divers facets of popular civilization nether 1 roof.

What makes this twelvemonth special

Exclusive goodies: Every attendee receives a No.1 Issue of Radiant Black, a Solo Levelling poster, and a commemorative Comic Con India bag.

Star-studded creator lineup: International artists similar Ryan North and Jason Loo volition articulation galore Indian creators.

Gaming arena: The Nodwin Gaming Arena offers console gaming, VR experiences, and breathtaking tournaments.

Live performances: Stand-up comedians Ravi Gupta and Rohan Joshi volition execute alongside philharmonic acts similar Panther and Fotty Seven.

Illustrator, animator, and award-winning indie comics creator Abhijit Kini tells indianexpress.com, “There’s nary amended level than Comic Con successful our state to beforehand comics and art. The vulnerability we get is excellent; for artists, it’s a large spot to showcase our work. We cognize the radical attending are inclined to this benignant of content. There’s truthful overmuch astonishing enactment successful the comics tract successful India.”

Sumit Kumar, CEO of Bakarmax, an animation and comics studio, adds, “Comic Cons bash what nary different litfest oregon tiny property expo does. We get to conscionable the widest, astir mainstream audience. A batch of radical don’t adjacent cognize we beryllium — and erstwhile they do, they walk each their wealth connected us! We’ve recovered galore dedicated fans that way.”

Aashish Solanki Performing astatine Delhi Comic Con 2022 (Source: PR Handout)

Cosplay showcase

Delhi Comic Con 2024 promises an epic cosplay acquisition featuring hundreds of passionate cosplayers showcasing their creativity and fandom. The lawsuit is known for celebrating the creation of cosplay, with participants expected to bring characters from comics, anime, gaming, and popular civilization to life.

“Cosplay, arsenic always, volition beryllium a large draw; I americium looking guardant to seeing immoderate fantabulous costumes. We besides debuting the Nodwin Gaming Arena, a unsocial gaming experience. There are immoderate astonishing instrumentality experiences and a stellar lineup of comedic and philharmonic performances, and a peculiar quality by Actor Rana Daggubati,” said Jatin Varma, founder.

Akshat Rathee, co-founder and managing manager of NODWIN Gaming, highlights the event’s committedness to cosplay by emphasising, “With 3 extraordinary days of popular culture, an expanded gaming arena, delicious food, iconic cosplay showcases, exclusive merch, performances from apical entertainers and hundreds of cosplayers showcasing their creativity and fandom- the tone of Delhi shines bright!”

Fans tin expect intricate costumes, originative interpretations, and a vibrant show of instrumentality dedication passim the three-day event.

Celebrating Indian and planetary creativity

The normal volition showcase a divers lineup of publishing houses and artists.

Performer lineup

Stand-up drama shows

Fans tin bask performances by:

• Ravi Gupta (Shudh Desi Comic)
• Rohan Joshi
• The Internet Said So (Varun Thakur, Kautuk Srivastav, Aadar Malik)
• Ashish Solanki
• Pranav Sharma

Musical and originative acts

• Geek Fruit
• Panther
• Fotty Seven
• Art Guy Rob (M.A.D. artist) — bringing nostalgic puerility creativity

Artists and publishing showcase

International highlights

• Ryan North (New York Times bestselling author)
• Jason Loo (Eisner Award-winning artist)

Indian originative talents

The lawsuit features artists and publishers, including Indusverse, Yali Dreams Creations, Prasad Bhat, Garbage Bin, Bullseye Press, Holy Cow Entertainment, Bakarmax, Art of SAVIO, and galore more.

Prasad Bhat, creator and laminitis of Graphicurry, expresses his excitement up of the event, mentioning, “I’m precise excited to conscionable my fans successful Delhi. The metropolis has ever been welcoming, and I’m looking guardant to gathering some aged and caller faces. The energy, the fans, and the accidental to spot radical link with my creation — it’s similar a originative recharge.”

“This year, I’m moving connected thing peculiar inspired by a sensational popular icon of our time. It’s a caller artwork, and it’s rather unique. Fans volition emotion it. You’ll person to driblet by to spot it!” helium reveals.

Similarly, Sumit, from Bakarmax, unveiled his plans for the event: “This twelvemonth marks the archetypal clip we are returning to the festival with our hardcover books — aft past year’s Karejwa launch. We are besides soft-launching a caller graphic caller by Vivekananda Roy Ghatak called Orin – The Parent Tamer. We mightiness adjacent springiness audiences a sneak peek astatine the archetypal fewer minutes of Aapki Poojita.”

Cosplayers astatine the Delhi Comic Con 2022 cosplay contention (Source: PR Handout)

A level for creativity

Varma reflected connected the event’s journey, noting however Comic Con has grown from a imagination to a monolithic solemnisation of Indian popular culture. “It started arsenic a passionateness project, a much intimate gathering of fans, and implicit the years, it has evolved into a gigantic event, bringing successful a divers assemblage of popular civilization fans. It’s genuinely go a level that engages with each elements of popular culture. The assemblage premix besides keeps evolving; successful the past fewer years, we person seen galore much families and teens successful the crowds. The contented premix has besides changed; fans petition overmuch much for unrecorded amusement and unsocial instrumentality experiences,” helium told indianexpress.com.

Abhijit notes however times person changed. “For me, interacting with kids and youngsters who privation to amusement their artworks oregon portfolios and who privation to cognize much astir however comic-making works makes it worthwhile. We didn’t person specified opportunities to link with comic creators erstwhile we were successful schoolhouse easily, but present there’s this fantastic platform,” said the artist, who volition motorboat caller comic titles, creation prints and merchandise this year.

Ticket information

Passes are disposable connected Insider.in and the Comic Con India website.