The schedule for Forest City ComiCon’s June 24, 2023 event at Centennial Hall has been released! Fans can start planning their day using the schedule here: https://forestcitycomicon.ca/event-schedule/
More events are being added all the time so check back often.
Are you an artist? Do you want your art to be viewed by thousands of people? Win great prizes? Would you love your art on the cover of the Forest City Comicon Event Guide?
The Forest City Comicon is once again hosting a contest for local and regional artists to put their art on the front page! Among other bonuses, the winning artist will receive a complimentary table at the event. Finalists also receive great prizes too!
Stefan Kapicic, best known to fans for his role as the iconic X-Men character “Colossus” in the record-breaking and Golden Globe nominated Marvel/Fox feature films Deadpool and Deadpool 2, is set to be the headlining guest at the ninth-annual Forest City ComiCon. The event takes place at London, Ontario, Canada’s Centennial Hall on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Early bird tickets for the event are available now at www.ForestCityComiCon.ca.
Kapicic’s apperance has been a long time coming. Originally set to the be the featured guest at the COVID-cancelled 2020 and 2021 Forest City ComiCon events, Kapicic remained committed to making his way to meet fans in London.
“Colossus is just one small part of Stefan’s story,” explained convention host Jeremy Bushell, now in his seventh-year hosting main stage events with the show. “Forest City ComiCon prides itself on a unique panel experience and with Stefan it is guaranteed to be one of a kind. No one plays the room better than Stefan.”
Fans can expect to see more “Colossus” in the future with Kapicic’s contract stretching through two more films. In addition to “Colossus”, Kapicic has played more than 80 roles in theatre, film, and television including appearances in AMC’s Better Call Saul (Season 4 as Casper), guest-starring in the Netflix show Love, Death, and Robots, STARZ Network’s Counterpart, David Mamet’s The Unit, Ridley Scott’s Numb3rs, Fox’s 24, and NBC’s The Event. He also known for his portrayal of Nikolai in the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare I & II (2019, 2022). In addition, he also gave voice to James in the Serbian dubs of Pokemon.
Early bird tickets for Forest City ComiCon are available online now. The celebration of nerd and geek culture, which comes to London’s Centennial Hall on Saturday, June 24, is an all-ages comic con event featuring artists, exhibitors, cosplay, vendors, panels presentations, board games, video game tournaments, and more.
In addition to celebrity presentations, the Forest City ComiCon annually welcomes local and regional presenters to the stage. Do you have what it takes to present at a Comic Con this June?
Topics range from costume design, developing games, fan fiction, dramatic presentations, movie critiques, comic book analysis… AND MORE!
Applications are now open on the Panel & Presentation Application page.
Interested exhibitors can now apply to join Forest City ComiCon 2023! Full information can be found on the exhibitor page.
Now is your chance to help shape the future of the event! We want to hear from fans and exhibitors:
The judges for the 2022 cosplay contest have been announced!
It’s been over two long years since we have had a chance to come together for Forest City ComiCon. We can’t wait to welcome you back! Here’s everything you need to know as you head to the event this Saturday:
Forest City ComiCon is set to return next weekend on Saturday, June 25 at Centennial Hall. Like so many other events, Forest City ComiCon has been on a two-year covid hiatus until conditions made it possible to operate again. The seventh-annual event features cosplay, a full exhibitor floor, panels & presentations, and special appearances by celebrity guests.
“There is huge interest in the return of Forest City ComiCon,” said board member John Houghton. “The excitement for this year’s show already seems to be outpacing the 2019 event. It’s been a difficult few years and we can’t wait to get this event back up and running in our community.”
Featured guests this year include David Nykl & Mitch Markowitz. Nykl has appeared in dozens of film and TV projects including Stargate: Atlantis (Dr. Zelenka), Arrow (Anatoly Knyazev), Supernatural (Lester Morris), Fringe (Reverend Marcus), Eureka (Dr. Steven Whiticus), Continuum (Sergei), Tomorrowland, HBO’s The Sleepers (Gerald Lloyd), and, since 2019, Carnival Row (Constable Boggs). Markowitz was the co-Producer of Hilarious House of Frightenstein which is celebrating its 50th anniversary and streaming now on Crave. He was a co-Star in the series as the Super Hippy Character and involved in the production of numerous other television (game show) programs in a career spanning decades.
An additional highlight at the event includes a special appearance by Adam Buckley who is the star of the YouTube channel “A Dose of Buckley”. Buckley’s channel has reached over 500,000 subscribers and nearly 200,000,000 views since 2009.
Featured artists at this year’s event include Richard Comely, the creator of Captain Canuck, Derek Laufman, known for his own comics and Graphic Novels including Ruinworld, Bot-9, and The Witch of Wickerson, and Joe Shuster and Ignatz-nominated cartoonist Diana Tamblyn.
On stage, fans will also catch “Fan Fiction the Show”, which showcases a roster of actors performing dramatic readings of (terrible) fan fiction scripts, as well as the annual highlight of the show: the cosplay contest. There will also be a Nintendo Switch Super Smash Tournament presented by Game on Entertainment Services.
Tickets for the event are available online at www.ForestCityComiCon.ca or at the door the day of the event. Doors at the event open at 10:00 am for advanced tickets, 10:15 am for new ticket purchases.
About: The Forest City Comicon is London, Ontario, Canada’s all-ages comic con celebration of nerd and geek culture: featuring artists, exhibitors, cosplay, vendors, panels, board games, video game tournaments, and more. The event has run annually since 2014.
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A celebration of nerd and geek culture like no other: Forest City ComiCon Inc. is a London, Ontario based comic con that features costumes, vendors, panels, board games, video game tournaments and more. Since 2014 the event has been a celebration of nerd culture and the popular culture that surrounds it.