International Visitors: What you Need to Know
The Venue The SLECC is the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Center. Here it is on Google Maps. Here is a map you can download / print. pdf map (Please ignore the bit where is says “permanently closed”, I don’t know what’s up with that) If your driver seems mystified about the largest exhibition hall in […]
Here is the Asus Lanka Comic Con Event Schedule
The schedule is live. (Click here). Or click me. I’m furry.
Watch our Print Partner deadlifting.
Dinesh Rajawasan, CEO and founder of Anim8 Dinesh Rajawasan is the CEO of Anim8, our print partner. Anim8 has an interesting story, so I asked him about it and got some very Dinesh, answers. He talked about how a tech startup ended up as a printing firm; going green; and the charity work they help organize. Dinesh is […]
Lionborn: The Legend of Sinhabahu as a Comic
Writing is easy – it’s a solo job. You don’t have to be a team player, you set your deadlines, you’re not holding anyone else up. Not so with comics – typically these are team efforts – if you to make things difficult and obstacle prone, write a comic. One of the changes since 2016 […]
These Are the Patrons of Sri Lankan Geek Culture.
We thank our partners for their support, and for helping us – and you! – to create our country’s own geek cultural festival. Asus – Title Partner Asus is one of the world’s largest PC vendors. Asus appears in BusinessWeek’s “InfoTech 100” and “Asia’s Top 10 IT Companies” rankings, and it ranked first in […]
Here’s what happens when you pack Cosplayers on a Bus
So we packed a bus full of cosplayers and volunteers over the weekend. Here’s what we did. Trolling To be fair, Shayne never asked anyone for help. Posing Dat hot pink. Volunteering Our volunteers helped with snacks and milk at the Sri Jinananda Children’s Home. Reading We also got books for each of the kids, […]
The Sri Lankan Sci-fi Novel “Numbercaste” just dropped, and it’s hot
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, who hit number 1# on Amazon’s short story rankings, will be doing a panel at the Asus Lanka Comic Con 2017, about his new book ‘Numbercaste‘, modern digital publishing, and writing fiction. ‘Numbercaste’ is about a world where Big Data; gamification; and our loss of privacy gives a social media company power over all our lives. […]
Why Three Languages Matter
Just because Sri Lanka is tri-lingual, doesn’t mean we’re any good at it. Being language-friendly is more than just having a few translated signs up. It means people can see their language, hear it, and not have to speak anything else to get what they need. There have to be panels in their language, with […]
සියර්: ඩෙත් සයිට් – ශ්‍රී ලාංකික අධ්‍යක්ශකවරයෙකුගේ විද්‍යා ප්‍රභන්ධක ත්‍රාසජනක රූපවාහිනි කථා මාලාව
සියර්: ඩෙත් සයිට් කියන්නේ විද්‍යා ප්‍රබන්ධනාත්මක වෙබ් නාට්‍ය මාලාවක්. එහි රඟපාන්නේ ජෝයි අන්සාහ් (ද බෝන් අල්ටිමේටම්) සහ ක්‍රිස්ටියන් හවර්ඩ් (ස්ට්‍රීට් ෆයිටර් : අසෑසින්ස් ෆිස්ට්) යන ශිල්පීන්ය.මෙහි තිර රචනය අධ්‍යක්ෂණය හා, නිශ්පාදනය යන අංශ තුනම කළේ සඳුන් සෙනෙවිරත්නයි.රේ මාර්ටන්ස්ටයින් හා උදාන ෆොන්සේකා යන විධායක නිශ්පාදකයින් සමඟ එකතු වූ ඔහු ග්‍රයින්ඩ්අවුට් ප්‍රොඩක්ශන්ස් යන නමින් ඔවුන් හඳුන්වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකික නිශ්පාදන […]