Hitler Talks About Cosplay at Lanka Comic Con
The Bus Mob is This Weekend.
On Saturday (the 29th) the bus mob gets going. If you want to see the mob: Please scroll down to 11:30am, Crescat Mall, the ASUS, Republic of Gamers, Qualifier. We’d love for you to join us at Crescat for pictures and games. It will also be the last chance to get the All Access badges […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monday is the last day to get your Comic Con stall at 40% off
Comic Con stalls and tables are at 40% off, only until Monday (May 15th). If you want a stall (18,000 LKR) or a table (6,000 LKR) ** : 1) contact us here*2) Make the payment to: The Lanka Comic Con TrustCommercial Bank, Thummulla Branch,Current Account: 111 602 2457 3) Send us a pic of the […]
Free Comic Book Day, and the Geek Art Show
Free Comic Book Day… Local comic store startup, Red Dot Geek, is bringing Free Comic Book Day to Sri Lanka. They’ll be giving away 2000 comics. Everyone gets 2 free (till they run out). Be early! … And The Geek Art Show… We’ll also be having an art show, just for Sri Lankan Geek […]
The “V for Vendetta Artist” is coming to Lanka Comic Con 2017
British comic book artist, David Lloyd, is coming to Lanka Comic-Con 2017. He is probably best known as the illustrator for the Alan Moore story, “V for Vendetta.” Picture credit: Warner Bros., DC Comics “I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical. I just suggested it to Alan, […]