Pop
HUB: Comics Splash X Fandom Fiesta Volume 1 was held last September 15 to 16 at
SMX Convention Center Manila Mall of Asia Philippines.
Pop Hub is one of the best events this month
for me as it has the right mixture of pop culture stuff at a very affordable
price. The games, artist booths and prizes alone is well worth beyond the price
of admission.
Pop Hub has comic book creators, artists,
writers, directors, editors, animators, illustrators, dealers, collectors,
publishers, members of the academe, comic and pop culture fans that its hard to
name them all.
Folks like Pol Medina, Kevin Talibao among
other great artist and illustrators are there. Im fans of both of them and have
been following them for quite some time and seeing there booths at the event is
always a treat.
A
fellow cosplayer and friend of mine Prince De Guzman who is now a well known
cosplay special effects artist also had a book there so me and some of the
other guys decided to go there in costume to show our support.
He gave a quick tutorial on how to do special effects make up which was really impressive to see. You can check out Prince De Guzman Facebook and Youtube channel to find out more.
He gave a quick tutorial on how to do special effects make up which was really impressive to see. You can check out Prince De Guzman Facebook and Youtube channel to find out more.
There
were fun mini games for event goers as well from a fun archery game and a cat car race which are all
Barangay 143 theme inspired where participants can win Barangay143 merchandise. Everyone who participated wins. Easy.
Barangay
143 is an upcoming anime inspired by local Philippine street basketball set on
the Philippines done by collaboration from japan, Singapore and Philippines. I'm
really excited for this new anime series and I hope its a start for more
Philippine based anime in the future.
Here's
a teaser trailer of Barangay143.
The
booth shops varies from shirts, to board and card games, to comic book and
stickers and other novelty items and the likes. Even a DIY Papercraft booth for making beautiful 3d paper craft figures.
They
got a lot of awesome displays as well from Starwars to Harry Potter, Game of
Thrones and Star Trek. Artist booths like Meme Squad, Fan N’ Art Buddies, Mher Sayan Design Studio, Magedonart, Tradigiko, Graphic Geeks, , Wiggly Line as well as Jamilton
Groups
from different pop culture fandom from the 501st legion, Hogwarts Philippines
which is a harry Potter fan group, Westeros Philippines and many others were
also there for fans of their respective series. I even saw the Harry Potter
group giving wand casting tutorials to some of the attendees. Something that wasn't
shown in the Harry Potter movies but was a big thing in the Harry Potter books.
They
got a lot of awesome displays as well from Starwars to Harry Potter, Game of
Thrones and Star Trek. Aside from me and our horror theme cosplay group some
cosplayers from different fandoms are there as well.
Overall
an enjoyable event for me although the booths need more variety like maybe some
Transformers and Gundam but there is always the next time and Ill definitely
look forward to the next one if they plan to make another such event.
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