NAPLES – New record For COMICON Naples which concludes the XXIV edition with 175,000 visitors and is moving towards two long-awaited appointments: the second year of COMICON Bergamo (21 – 23 June) And COMICON Naples 2025 which will celebrate the important milestone of XXV edition of the festival.
COMICON Napoli 2024 offered a very rich program for all areas of the festival (Comics, Cinema and TV Series, Videogames, Games, Asian, Music, Cosplay, Kids, Neverland, Exhibitions, PizzaCon, J-Pop Manga Niwa, Urban) with over 30,000 covered m2, 50,000 m2 of space outdoorsa 850 seat theater indoors and a6,000-seat outdoor arena, 400 exhibitorsmore than 450 guestsbeyond 580 events And 8,000 accredited among professionals from different sectors.
Among the most followed events: the talk Elodie meets Manara hosted by the writer Valeria Parrella; the meeting with the directors LRNZ and Giuseppe Squillaci for the film The Secret of Liberato; Hitoshi Sakimoto – New Gaming Worlds, the first concert dedicated to the Ennio Morricone of gaming music Hitoshi Sakimoto, performed by the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti; the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons with Frank Mentzer; the meetings with the living legend of American comics John Romita Jr and the showcases of the sensei Iwamuro, Umezawa, Minami Seira; the arrival of game designer Yasumi Matsuno; the Giorgio Vanni concert; the Comicon Cosplay Challenge PRO and Comicon Cosplay Challenge KIDS; the meeting with Giampaolo Morelli, Ciro Priello, Fabio Balsamo, Giovanni Esposito, Desirée Popper, Valeria Angione and Gianfranco Gallo for the preview of the film Let her turn 2 Offline; the Palmarès Awards; the talk with astronaut Paolo Nespoli and popularizers Luca Perri and Adrian Fartade; the live episode of Tintoria, the podcast by Daniele Tinti and Stefano Rapone with guest Dario Moccia; appointments with David Lloyd, Glenn Fabry, Pierluigi Pardo, Lele Adani and many others; the panel with the voice actors of Hazbin Hotel.
“We are very happy with the success of the festival and its extraordinary proposal of quality and international importance. COMICON is a happy example of fusion between the different languages of creativity, but also between economic development, tourism and dissemination. Lots of new features in this XXIV edition, new thematic areas and guests from all over the world. A special thank you to the South Korean delegation and to the friends of Komacon with whom the COMICON-BICOF (Bucheon International Comics Festival) twinning was born, thanks to which dozens of artists, exhibitions, events and even gastronomic culture were present at COMICON.
And in October, COMICON will represent Naples, Campania and Italy in Korea alike. At COMICON Naples we attracted the most important publishers, authors, content creators and all the main players in the supply chains of the sectors involved in the festival, as well as the large national and international brands that follow us as partners and sponsors. A special thank you to the entire working group who, with dedication and passion, are committed every year to the growing success of COMICON.
We are proud to have made many events in Sign Language accessible for the first time and to have broadened the attention to social fragilities and disabilities. Further thanks to the Campania Region which has supported us for some years for part of the exhibitions and cultural activities in COMICON, and to the Municipality of Naples which intervened for the first time on the events and exhibitions held in the city, in the COMIC(ON)OFF programme. Finally, since I cannot mention everyone, I would like to thank our long-standing and new partners, such as Alcott, Forst, Caffè Borbone, Crodino, RAI, Ditron, Gls, Trenitalia, Anm, Eav, Convergenze, Cial and Ricrea” – declared Claudio Curcio, president and founder of COMICON.
COMICON Naples returns in 2025 from May 1st to 4th For celebrate the first ones all together twenty-five editions of one of the most loved and followed cross-media festivals in the world.
