{"id":52546,"date":"2013-04-04T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52546"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:27:02","slug":"comic-con-sa-disregard-everything-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52546-comic-con-sa-disregard-everything-you-know","title":{"rendered":"Comic Con SA: disregard everything you know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Update]\u00a0<\/strong>They Did This! Illustration and Design have told MyGaming that they will not be attending Comic Con SA.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Town-based studio behind the local comic, The Lil\u2019 Five, have confirmed that they will not be a part of the much talked-about event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Original article]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been some confusion among MyGaming readers since the revelation that South Africa was going to get its own Comic Con; and after contacting the organisers and affiliates, the final details of the event have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Comic Con SA will take place in Cape Town on the 26 \u2013 28 of April at \u201cIt\u2019s a house\u201d design space, 20 Jarvis Street, De Waterkant, Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The event will begin at 9am and continue \u201ctill late\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There will be promotions for Marvel Superheroes Magazine from an \u201cundisclosed party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>South African comic book retailer Outer Limits will be present at the event and have an on-site store.<\/p>\n<p>Other participants of the event include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outer limits comic book stores (comics);<\/li>\n<li>ZombieGamer (video games);<\/li>\n<li>Vinyl junkie (comic book related paraphernalia, figurines);<\/li>\n<li>Rebirth graphic novel (South African author);<\/li>\n<li><del>The Lil&#8217; Five (South African comic book);<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Part of the Pok\u00e9mon league (Cape Town edition);<\/li>\n<li>Zabalazaa (local artists, sketching competition).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comic Con SA did say that they did \u201cnot expect so much feedback and we expect a lot more participants before we get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Card games, anime and video games will be played and food will be served from 9h00 to 17h30. All ages are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>An official Comic Con SA cosplay winner will be declared on Day 2.<\/p>\n<p>Official Comic Con gamer winners declared on day 2 and 3 (various titles), with card game winners also being declared over the second and third days of the event.<\/p>\n<p>A Day 1 entrance ticket will cost R50, while Day 2 tickets will cost R200 (unless you\u2019re wearing cosplay, then it\u2019s R150). Female cosplayers will get free entrance for the whole event.<\/p>\n<p>Day 3 entrance tickets cost R30.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Comic Con SA<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 26, 27, 28 April 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s a house\u201d design space, 20 Jarvis st. De Waterkant, Green Point, 8005 Cape Town, Western Cape.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong>Activities:<\/strong> comics, card games, anime, cosplay, and video games<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Costs:<\/strong> Day 1 tickets are R50; Day 2 tickets are R200 (R150 for cosplayers); Day 3 tickets are R30. Female cosplayers get free event entrance.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52497-comic-con-sa-bringing-the-super-powered-expo-to-sa.html\">Comic Con SA: bringing the super-powered expo to SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50479-spider-mans-dark-secret-and-other-weird-superhero-facts.html\">Spider-Man\u2019s dark secret, other weird superhero facts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51829-sa-dev-reveals-red.html\">SA dev reveals RED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52038-zx-hyperblast-sa-devs-retro-love-letter.html\">zX \u2013 Hyperblast: SA dev\u2019s retro love-letter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52305-battlefield-4-sa-pricing-revealed.html\">Battlefield 4 SA pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52260-assassins-creed-4-black-flag-collectors-editions-coming-to-sa.html\">Assassin\u2019s Creed 4: Black Flag Collector\u2019s Editions coming to SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers clarify details for Comic Con SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9468,9469,9467,4900,21,4083,9470,2752,5793],"class_list":["post-52546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-comic-con-sa","tag-comic-con-sa-features","tag-comic-con-south-africa","tag-comic-con","tag-headline","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-sa","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52549,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions\/52549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}