Festival del Fumetto

Without Festival del Fumetto it’s no life!

The fair dedicated to the world of Comix, Cosplay and Games at Parco Esposizioni Novegro returns for its Spring Edition on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May!

What will be at the fair?

While you wait for news on the guests and initiatives of this edition, here is a recap of what you will find during the Novegro nerd weekend:

• 20000 sqm of exhibition space and events spread over 5 pavilions
• 80000 sqm of park fully available to visitors
• over 200 exhibitors
• the largest Italian Cosplay Village (Pavilion D), with shows and contests organised by Epicos Cosplay
• 1000 square metres of board games area (pavilion B)
• section dedicated to contemporary video game tournaments and retrogaming (pavilion D)
• manga and western comics for all tastes and collector’s items
• gadgets, action figures, soft toys, video games, trading card games and much more
• cosplayer accessories
• Japan/Korea area with the participation of Ochacaffè (pavilion D)
• Artist Alley (pavilion A)
• the Scuola del Fumetto di Milano with workshops and conferences on various subjects (pavilion C)
• our official portrait artist Mik¥ Ritratti Manga (pavilion A)
• food pavilion
• cloakroom (pavilion B)
• over 5000 parking spaces
• Free shuttle buses to Parco Esposizioni Novegro (info on this will be released in the next few days)
• ATM point

Opening hours (pavilions A,B,C,D,E + Outdoor Area):

-Saturday 18 May: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

-Sunday 19 May: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Reach the event by underground from the centre of Milan: get on at San Babila (Line M4 Blu) and get off at Linate Aeroporto (exit via Circonvallazione idroscalo).

You can buy tickets for the event online here.

In any case, it will always be possible to buy tickets at the box office as well.

Don’t miss this!

In the Village dedicated to the Cosplayer community in pavilion D, the most important hub in Italy for associations and groups in the Cosplay world, a unique passion is celebrated, emulating in appearance, costumes and movements many characters. These include the protagonists of the anime and manga universe and Marvel and DC heroes.

Novegro’s Cosplay Hub, with the collaboration of EPICOS, will give space to various associations and VIP lounges. All with the extraordinary participation of important cosplayer guests.

Finally, there will be official competitions and non-competitive contests open to different categories: beginners, pros, groups and couples.

All details on the cosplay contests and guests will be announced soon.

Do you love the ninth art?

At the fair there will be plenty of comics of every genre, era and rarity: manga (also in Japanese), manhwa, American comics (in English as well), Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, Italian comics and much more.

In short, a vast selection to meet the needs of even the most demanding readers.

Plushies, mugs, key chains, contemporary and vintage video games, figures, toys, trading card games, board games, t-shirts, cosplayer accessories, anime on DVD/Blu-ray and much more.

Here’s what you’ll find at Festival del Fumetto, full of all kinds of nerdy gadgets and merchandising.

The thrill of seeing your heroes reproduced in model form is priceless!

For this reason, ample space will be given at the fair to figures and action figures of the most varied female and male characters from many comic, animated, video game and film sagas.

They will be in different sizes and with different levels of detail, ranging from the smallest and most stylised to full-fledged statues.

In addition to exhibitors specialised in contemporary and vintage video games, you will find:

TOURNAMENTS
Dozens of stations, located in pavilion D, await our gamers, ready to compete in tournaments of different video game titles. All information about the competitions will be released soon.

RETROGAMING
In pavilion D there will also be space for retrogaming, with many games for consoles from the past such as the first Play Station, the NES, the Super Nintendo and many others.

Places and stories so different from our own, and yet so fascinating.

At Festival del Fumetto there will be stands and initiatives to discover more about the cultures of Japan and South Korea, distant in space and time but within reach: the sights, smells and tastes of distant worlds.

As far as this topic is concerned, in pavilion D there will be the Ochacaffè association, a real info point on all facets of Japan: culture, language, travel, study, etc.

The board games area, hosted in pavilion B of Festival del Fumetto, has been managed since its creation by the volunteers of the groups taking part in the Casa dei Giochi Project, a unique game associationism initiative in Italy, which aims to promote games and manage spaces and activities for gamers at 360 degrees. All this with the collaboration of Biblioteca Italiana dei Giochi.

During the two days of the Festival, the public will be able to try out hundreds of games of all types and for all ages under the guidance of our volunteers, from classic to the most modern board games, collectible card and role-playing games, interpretation and live games, strategy and abstract games, and of course the now famous giant games, which have always characterised the proposal of Casa dei Giochi.

In the next few days we will publish all the info on featured associations and boardgames.