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Created from the words comics and convention, Comic Con’ Paris refers to the inevitable American events which have been celebrating cult universes for over 60 years. The principle is to celebrate, in one place, all the fantastic cultures, which developed through comics and Pulp magazines during the 20^th century, soon joined by science fiction and fantasy literatures, by cinema, TV and now video games.

Fans –and non-fan, curious people– lacked a yearly meeting which would highlight this rich but sometimes ignored culture. Super-heroes, fantastic, science fiction, horror, robotics or even witchcraft: come and discover Comic Con’ Paris, the leader event about popular arts in Europe!

Like every year since it’s been created, Comic Con’ Paris is linked to a touchstone event which is over 10 years old, Japan Expo. This association allows everyone to discover the tendencies in entertainment and culture from anywhere around the world, in one place and at one time. Comics, Manga, Asian and American cinema, video games and much more immerse you for four days deep into these communities and cult universes!

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  The DC Comics 75^th Anniversary exhibition (2010)

Comics & “bande dessinée”

 

American comic imagination, an important part of today’s culture in the USA, was born in the early 20^th century in badly crafted magazines and were very successful among young and older people. New, cheap, original and varied, they soon became an essential element of popular culture. In 1938, Spiderman was born and along with him creative artists, authors and illustrators who laid the bases of the fantastic and science fiction universes who were to become cult.

Comic books and comics are the cornerstones of Comic Con’ Paris. Comic authors cross the oceans to be there and many Franco-Belgian authors are in for it: the groups ComicVerse and Café Salé, publishers such as Soleil, les Humanoïdes Associés, Ankama, Delcourt, Glénat and much more!

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Jean-Claude MÉZIÈRES & Pierre CHRISTIN - Univers de Mézières exhibition (2010)

In 2010, during Season 2, great names of Franco-Belgian “bande dessinée”, Jean-Claude MÉZIÈRES and Pierre CHRISTIN, came to the festival. The illustrator and the scriptwriter of the famous science fiction comic Valérian were the guests of honor of the festival. The Comics Alley brought together no less than ten artists and scriptwriters who had come to meet the attendees and offer them autographs. Like the greatest and most mythical American conventions, Comic Con’ Paris also proposed an Artists’ Alley which was entirely dedicated to young artists of comics.

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The Comics Alley & the Artists Alley (2010)

Cinema & TV series

 

In movies or on TV, the greatest cult universes were born ahead of their time: from George Méliès to George Lucas, there is an ongoing will to innovate, not only from a graphic point of view, but also from a thematic point of view. Keeping the foundations of genre literatures, adapted as films, cinema allows a whole generation of young fans passionate of “the image” to gather around new universes. Long before cinema, TV was already at work. From Star Trek in 1966 to Heroes in 2006, 40 years have elapsed but TV still offers as many cult universes when it comes to science fiction, super-heroes and fantastic.

More than ever, cinema and TV series belong to Comic Con’ Paris thanks to many guests, such as the casts of Highlander or Hero Corp in 2010 and many exclusivities, with the support of TV channels, publishers and distributors.

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The casts of Highlander and Hero Corp in conference (2010)

Video games

 

As a new media which has been expanding for 20 years now, video games today are the first cultural industry in the world. Often referring to cinema or comics, video games also show great know-how and innovation: in Europe, in the USA or in Japan, games are amazingly revived thanks to processes which were only used for films, literature or pictorial arts up to now, such as the making, the acting, the scriptwriting, the music, or the 2D and 3D graphic arts. Often ahead of their time, video games are getting attractive to more and more great artists. There are many of them and famous names from cinema or music give in to this new expression media.

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Video games are definitely part of Comic Con’ Paris! The video game area of the festival is an important part of it and publishers, online video game amateur developers and associations meet here to organize ongoing freeplay and tournaments, display on thousands meters square to celebrate video games and the hundreds cult universes and persistent worlds that are present!

In 2010, a new stage entirely dedicated to video games was created. It hosts presentations, world previews, conferences and tournaments. The very much expected FINAL FANTASY® XIV ONLINE (Square Enix) had been unveiled by its producer Hiromichi TANAKA who presented the game during a conference.

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The video game stage hosting a tournament (2010)

 

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