MAKES – Cosenza Comics and Games, Calabria’s most important pop culture event is heating up the engines and is preparing to enter the heart of its tenth edition. Also for 2024 the appointment is at the Santa Chiara Water Park in Rendewhere nnumerous interactive activities, games, concerts and talks with great guests. The objectives of the event remain those that have distinguished it for ten years now: to explore and share the various facets of comics, gaming and entertainment and the collision of these worlds with other disciplines, offering fans moments of fun and sharing .
Cosenza Comics and Games all guests on Saturday
The guests who will reach Rende for the weekend and who will interact with the Calabrian fans for the first time ever have already been announced. He will intervene on Saturday morning Jacopo Calatroni, voice actor of numerous Japanese cartoons and of Peter Parker in the recent video game dedicated to the most famous wall climber of all time: Spider-Man. The latest chapter of the videogame saga dedicated to Spider-Man, voiced by Caltroni, broke numerous records, becoming the game with the most copies sold in its debut days, around 2.5 million on launch day.
Also on Saturday, a special meeting with Domenico Guastafierro, known on the Web as “Plato’s Cave”which will discuss the legacy of Akira Toriyama, the mangaka “father” of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, who passed away in March. Also among the comics authors present at the festival Vincenzo Filosa, cartoonist as well as translator from Japanese and tireless popularizer of the ninth art made in Japan, who will speak together with Pasquale Ferrara, illustrator and cover artist currently working with DC Comics, for a debate dedicated to the meeting between authorial and mainstream comics, organized in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Reggio Calabria. To close the day on Saturday 25 May the Joanna concert, an Italian punk rock band that will pay homage to the most iconic songs of Disney imagery, from The Lion King to Treasure Planet.
Cosenza Comics and Games all guests on Sunday
Speaking on Sunday 26 May will be the content creator Kurolily and the group InnTale, today considered among the most important disseminators on the web regarding the topics of videogames and role-playing games. As per tradition, the event will take place on Sunday afternoon competitive competition with cosplayers, who, performing on the stage of the event, will show their costumes and accessories, created to pay homage to and impersonate their favorite characters. Sunday’s race will be organized by Epicosthe most important Italian group involved in the organization of events related to cosplay and which will award the lucky winner of the competition will represent the fair and Calabria at the final of the Cosplay Italian Cupthe national tournament also created by Epicos.
To close the festival and the series of sshows scheduled for Sunday will be The Spleen Orchestra, an amazing and picturesque band that will pay homage to the best songs from Tim Burton’s films, from Corpse Bride to the immortal The Nightmare Before Christmaswhose songs in the Italian version were adapted and sung by Renato Zero.
Tickets, online discounts and entry
Tickets for the event can be purchased directly at the entrancebut the organization recommends purchasing them in advance on the Liveticket platform, where there is also a discount valid until May 19th. The 2024 edition of Cosenza Comics and Games therefore promises to be one of the most varied and rich in activities in the entire history of the event.
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