{"id":123185,"date":"2018-01-31T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123185"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:20:54","slug":"massive-attendance-for-first-comic-con-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123185-massive-attendance-for-first-comic-con-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Massive attendance for first Comic Con in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reed Exhibitions Africa said the inaugural Comic Con Africa was an \u201cunprecedented success\u201d, with over 45,000 fans in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted at the Kyalami International Convention Centre from 14-16 September 2018, and tickets sold out before the gates opened to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica\u2019s inaugural Comic Con has wrapped up and it exceeded even our wildest expectations,\u201d Carol Weaving, Reed Exhibitions Africa MD, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three-day gathering of gamers, cosplayers, pop culture fanatics, and comic book enthusiasts has ignited a magical fire on the African continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comic Con Africa featured interactive sessions with international celebrities, large esports tournaments, panel discussions, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Weaving added that due to the big success, the event will return to Johannesburg next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on this success we are very proud and excited to announce that we will be bringing Comic Con Africa back to Johannesburg in 2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Now read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/275997-comic-con-south-africa-was-awesome-this-is-why-i-will-definitely-go-again.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Comic Con South Africa was awesome \u2013 this is why I will definitely go again<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic Con Africa will appear again after a very successful first year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":123187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25658,7048,2163],"class_list":["post-123185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comic-con-africa","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}