Comic Con Paris is growing and is full of stars

Paris (AFP)

From the actress playing Nebula to the cinema to the 80 years of Batman, passing by stars of "Hartley hearts live" and "Vikings": Comic Con Paris returns from 25 to 27 October with a program designed to delight fans of comics and series and addicted to superheroes.

To better accommodate its audience (30,000 visitors last year), the festival of pop culture held at the Grande halle de la Villette is expanding this year, with the addition of a temporary structure of 1,300 seats that will host including projections.

The programming promises to be again very varied, to satisfy the fans of all kinds, with more than 200 guests (writers and cartoonists of comics, actors, directors, screenwriters and stars of the cosplay, this practice more and more popular consisting in manufacturing and wear the costume of his favorite hero ...).

Among the headliners, Karen Gillan who plays Nebula in "Guardians of the Galaxy" and the last two "Avengers"; X-Men screenwriter Chris Claremont; and Callan Mulvey, star of the "Hartley Hearts Live" series in the 1990s. But also a duo of actors from "Gotham", Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie, and Alexander Ludwig from "Vikings" and "Hunger Games".

The public will also be able to preview the movie "Zombieland 2", unpublished episodes of the Amazon series "Jack Ryan" and "The Expanse"; or two unreleased "Rick and Morty" cartoons during a night dedicated to the Adult Swim channel.

In terms of comics, the Comic Con Paris will mark a double anniversary: ​​the 80 years of Batman, and those of Marvel.

We can meet the famous cartoonist and screenwriter Jim Starlin, who is among other characters the creator of Thanos (main antagonist of the Avengers), and who wrote the scenario of the album in which the Joker assassinates the second incarnation of Robin. Or the star designer Jorge Jimenez (Superman, New Justice ...). But also the veteran Roy Thomas, former editor of Marvel who had succeeded Stan Lee, and to whom we owe the adaptation of Conan the barbarian in comics, or Ryan Meinerding, creative director of Marvel studio.

Finally, the cosplayers, who represent about half of the visitors, are always welcome with multiple planned activities including the final of the French cosplay championship that will designate the representative of France at the world championships to be held next year in Chicago.

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