BY JOY STRUTHERS The Holiday Inn in Guelph looked ordinary from the front of the building on Feb. 4, and if you didn’t know about the convention, seeing costumed characters standing outside the back door would have been a surprise. A man standing at the doors videotaping the characters from Judge Dredd walking down the path toward him made it feel almost like being on the set of a movie. … Continued
BY CHRIS HUSSEY Cosplayers and fans of all things geek took over City Hall for the second-annual Kitchener Comic Con on April 2nd. The event returned for its second year, and easily surpassed last year’s attendance of 3,500 people. Like many of these conventions, there were a wide variety of vendors and activities, and of course, lots of comic books.
BY LEAH MORROW It was 1984, the year of Ghostbusters and Terminator and the year that Dune was turned into a movie. It was also the year the term “cosplay” was coined. According to the website strangelandcostumes.com, Japanese reporter Nov Takahashi invented the term to describe what he saw at the 1984 Los Angeles World Science Fiction Convention (more popularly known as Worldcon). What Takahashi saw were people wearing costumes … Continued
By HEATHER STANLEY For those who wanted to see all of their favourite superheroes and villains in one place, Kitchener City Hall was the place to be. The city embraced its inner “geek” on Feb. 28 by holding its first-ever comic con at City Hall. Around 2,500 attended the free event that ran from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The convention was comprised of clubs from the University of Waterloo … Continued
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