What’s the Asus Lanka Comic Con all about?
ලංකා කොමික්-කොන් පිටුපස: අකිල වීරසිංහගේ ටුක් ටුක් වීරවරයා
පසුගිය වසරේ අප විසින් 2016 ලංකා කොමික්-කොන් වෙනුවෙන් නිල ලාංඡන තරඟයක් පැවත්වූවා.එහිදී අකිල ඉදිරිපත් කරපු ලාංඡන නිර්මාණයට අපි ගොඩක් පැහැදුනු නිසා, අපි එය ලංකා කොමික් කොන් උළෙලට නිල වශයෙන් භාවිතා කළ යුතුම බවට තීරණය කළා. මම ‘ටුක් ටුක් වීරවරයා’ ගැනත්, එම නිර්මාණ සංකල්පය බිහිවුන හැටි ගැනත් අකිලගෙන් විමසුවා. “ප්‍රථමයෙන්ම කියන්න ඕනේ මේ උළෙල මම වඩාත් ආදරය […]
Red Dot Geek: How Sri Lanka Finally Got a Comic Book Store
If you’ve ever been to a comic or game store, you know it’s more than just a place to buy things. You’ll see the store manager arguing with the Annoying Guy (about an unknown movie with dead actors). There’s the teenagers in the back who are always too loud and don’t really buy anything. Then […]
Lanka Comic Con Wins US Grant to start Nonprofit Comic Book Press
Work In Progress from the upcoming Extra Ordinary The Lanka Comic Con Trust has been awarded a grant by the US State Department, to start a nonprofit, comic book press in Sri Lanka. It will be an art and literature platform for local creators, in all three, national languages. “I wanted to create a sustainable […]
Stigmata will play at the Asus Lanka Comic Con
Over the next two decades, Stigmata released 4 albums (Hollow Dreams 2003, Silent Chaos Serpentine 2006, Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom 2010, The Ascetic Paradox 2015) and numerous singles.They’ve performed in India, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Dubai, and Bangladesh. They headlined at the Southern Ultimate Explosion metal music festival in Malaysia, and at Rockstorm […]
Join us at the Asus Lanka Comic Con Bus Mob (and Partay)
On July 29th, we’re packing a double-decker full of cosplayers, and driving around Colombo. There will be waving at random strangers (who may wave back). There will be picture-taking and instagramming. Security guards will chase us away, for no good reason. Then we’re taking over Crescat, where we’ll hang out with other cosplayers, and people coming […]
Yamato One: Sri Lanka’s first Anime and Manga Startup
The Yamato One Team. Arigato! There are plenty of things harder than starting a business. Going to war. Doing surgery on yourself. Watching Transformers. But few trials are as a sustained as starting a business, especially in a town with so many negative nancies. You give up a full-time income. You work 12+ hour days. Your […]
Seer: Death Sight – a Sri Lankan directed, Sci-Fi Action Series
Seer: Death Sight is a sci-fi action web series, starring Joey Ansah (The Bourne Ultimatum) and Christian Howard (Street Fighter: Assassin’s fist). It was written, directed, and produced by Sandun Seneviratne. Together with executive producers Ray Martenstyn and Udana Fonseka they are Grindout Productions, a Sri Lankan production and distribution company. You can see the […]
Inside Comic Con: Akila Weerasinghe creates a Tuk Tuk Hero
Last year we held a logo competition, for Lanka Comic Con 2016. We were so pleased with Akila Weerasinghe’s entry, we decided to make it an official logo for Lanka Comic Con, period. I talked to Akila about “Tuk Tuk Man,” and how he came up with the design. “Firstly,” he said, “this was an […]
Lanka Comic Con wins Interim Injunction Against Raveen Wijayatilake
In December 2015, we discovered that Raveen Wijayatilake had acquired LankaComicCon.com, .net, and .org urls through GoDaddy.com. This was immediately following the breakdown in our relationship with him, after he demanded we give him the Lanka Comic Con trademark, which we refused. We then requested the urls be returned to us, and were ignored. We then […]