Hong Kong Ani-Com 2024 to showcase city’s comic culture globally, organiser says
- Inaugural Shenzhen edition of fair in September to also provide platform for Hong Kong talent to go beyond limited local market
The 25th edition of Hong Kong’s annual comics and games fair will take a global approach with the event’s line-up of international guests when it launches at the end of the month, according to the organiser.
An inaugural mainland Chinese version of the fair, held in Shenzhen later this year, would also help spread Hong Kong’s comic culture beyond the city’s limited market to the rest of the world, the organiser added.
Ani-Com and Games Hong Kong 2024, scheduled for July 26 to 30, will mark the 25th year the event is being held.
Tickets will be sold at the fair’s website, unlike previous editions in which passes were available for purchase at the venue.
This year’s fair will span a space of more than 19,000 square metres (204,500 sq ft) and feature 140 merchants as well as 650 booths, according to organisers.
The event’s CEO Leung Chung-pun said that while attendance numbers were typically not revealed, they had been in the “hundreds of thousands” in past years.