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Ottawa’s annual celebration of comic book and pop culture is about to turn six and the event’s organizers have chosen to celebrate the milestone by going “red.”
Redheads Gates McFadden, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: the Next Generation, Madelaine Petsch, from the hit TV show Riverdale and Ruth Connell, who plays the witch Rowena on the TV show Supernatural, have been added to the event as “featured guests.”
Gates McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher, sits on-stage during the 25th anniversary reunion of the Star Trek: the Next Generation cast during the 25th anniversary reunion of the Star Trek: the Next Generation cast during the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo at the Corral in Calgary on Saturday, April 28, 2012.
Actor Madelaine Petsch at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Los Angeles, California, May 7, 2017.
Filmmaker George A. Romero, renowned for creating the blood-thirsty zombie movie genre, is also on coming and he’s bringing a “blood red ale” for convention attendees that he’s brewed in collaboration with Ottawa’s Clocktower Brew Pub.
Filmmaker George A. Romero is the godfather of all zombie movies.
The George Romero-themed beer for Ottawa Comiccon will be called Pint of the Living Dead.
Even the film cars on display are getting into the spirit as red and white Jeep 12 from Jurassic Park and K.I.T.T., the famous talking car from the 1980s TV series Knight Rider, will be at the show with its iconic red flashing lights.
“Funny enough, I was starting to notice the same thing when we added Ruth Connell last week! It wasn’t the goal, but the universe seems to want us to go this route. Perhaps it’s to tie in Canada’s 150th!” said Ottawa Comiccon’s program director Cliff Caporale.
In addition to the abundance of famous ginger-haired characters, Caporale also stressed other attendees including, Smallville’s Supergirl Laura Vandervoort, a large contingent of Dr. Who stars including the latest Time Lord, Peter Capaldi, a Degrassi Junior High reunion and Hollywood actor John Cusack.
The announcement that the star of such films as Say Anything, High Fidelity and Hot Tub Time Machine threw a lot of people in the nation’s capital for a loop and is attracting a lot of newcomers to Comiccon, Caporale said. “People are asking, ‘What is Comiccon? And, how does it work?’ We’re dealing with a brand new crowd and that’s good,” he said.
In its inaugural year in 2011, organizers of Ottawa Comiccon weren’t sure the little event would be successful. They hoped for about 10,000 attendees — but more than twice that many came. Last year’s event attracted 42,000 people. This year is going to be even bigger.
Once again, the event has its own beer, which has been brewed by Ottawa’s Clocktower Brew Pub. For the past four years it has themed its beers around the event, including a wheat beer made in collaboration with Star Trek: The Next Generation star Wil Wheaton and an officially licensed Star Trek beer last year.
For this year’s event, Clocktower’s brew boss Patrick Fiori has partnered with Romero, the horror-film legend whose 1968 film Night of the Living Dead introduced the world to zombies. Fiori’s Comiccon beer for 2017 is a “blood-red” ale called Pint of the Living Dead, a pun that Fiori said pleased Romero.
“He loved the idea,” said Fiori. A self-admitted geek, he added that brewing for Comiccon attendees is something he really looks forward to annually. “We love being involved with Comiccon because it’s an exchange of cool. All our staff want to come out and work it and be involved. It’s a no-brainer.”
The emergence of Ottawa’s Comiccon has created a bit of an awakening in the city’s comic-book and pop-culture fan communities. While Comiccon is each year’s biggest annual event, offshoots like the Ottawa Geek Market and even a smaller winter Comiccon, called the Holiday Edition, have popped up.
“As a fan, I was going to anything and everything,” said Comiccon’s Caporale. “If you are a sports fan, there’s a game all the time. There’s a bar celebrating that. But, being a geek, there’s still not that many places you can go to celebrate with like-minded people. So, the conventions become those places.”
The event will take over the 220,000-square-foot EY Centre near the Ottawa Airport on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fans wearing brightly coloured costumes fill the building, showcasing their passion for TV shows and movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars and other science fiction related titles.
This year, fans of the Dr. Who franchise are expected to turn out en masse, as the 59-year-old Capaldi — known for playing the 12th incarnation of the doctor in the long-running sci-fi series — will appear. Capaldi, who is also an Oscar-winning director, will be ending his stint on the show next season.
Visitors to the show will have the opportunity to see the celebrities and listen to them talk about their experiences, while weaving their way through kilometres of displays and shops selling memorabilia, film props and replicas.
Ottawa Comiccon
When: May 12 to 14; Friday 1 to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: EY Centre, 4899 Uplands Dr.
Advance tickets: one-day passes from $25 to $99 plus fees, three-day passes from $65 to $229 plus fees, children 6 to 12 from $5 to $12 plus fees at ottawacomiccon.com; admission will be more at the door
More info: ottawacomiccon.com
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Redheads Gates McFadden, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: the Next Generation, Madelaine Petsch, from the hit TV show Riverdale and Ruth Connell, who plays the witch Rowena on the TV show Supernatural, have been added to the event as “featured guests.”
Gates McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher, sits on-stage during the 25th anniversary reunion of the Star Trek: the Next Generation cast during the 25th anniversary reunion of the Star Trek: the Next Generation cast during the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo at the Corral in Calgary on Saturday, April 28, 2012.
Actor Madelaine Petsch at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Los Angeles, California, May 7, 2017.
Filmmaker George A. Romero, renowned for creating the blood-thirsty zombie movie genre, is also on coming and he’s bringing a “blood red ale” for convention attendees that he’s brewed in collaboration with Ottawa’s Clocktower Brew Pub.
Filmmaker George A. Romero is the godfather of all zombie movies.
The George Romero-themed beer for Ottawa Comiccon will be called Pint of the Living Dead.
Even the film cars on display are getting into the spirit as red and white Jeep 12 from Jurassic Park and K.I.T.T., the famous talking car from the 1980s TV series Knight Rider, will be at the show with its iconic red flashing lights.
“Funny enough, I was starting to notice the same thing when we added Ruth Connell last week! It wasn’t the goal, but the universe seems to want us to go this route. Perhaps it’s to tie in Canada’s 150th!” said Ottawa Comiccon’s program director Cliff Caporale.
In addition to the abundance of famous ginger-haired characters, Caporale also stressed other attendees including, Smallville’s Supergirl Laura Vandervoort, a large contingent of Dr. Who stars including the latest Time Lord, Peter Capaldi, a Degrassi Junior High reunion and Hollywood actor John Cusack.
The announcement that the star of such films as Say Anything, High Fidelity and Hot Tub Time Machine threw a lot of people in the nation’s capital for a loop and is attracting a lot of newcomers to Comiccon, Caporale said. “People are asking, ‘What is Comiccon? And, how does it work?’ We’re dealing with a brand new crowd and that’s good,” he said.
In its inaugural year in 2011, organizers of Ottawa Comiccon weren’t sure the little event would be successful. They hoped for about 10,000 attendees — but more than twice that many came. Last year’s event attracted 42,000 people. This year is going to be even bigger.
Once again, the event has its own beer, which has been brewed by Ottawa’s Clocktower Brew Pub. For the past four years it has themed its beers around the event, including a wheat beer made in collaboration with Star Trek: The Next Generation star Wil Wheaton and an officially licensed Star Trek beer last year.
For this year’s event, Clocktower’s brew boss Patrick Fiori has partnered with Romero, the horror-film legend whose 1968 film Night of the Living Dead introduced the world to zombies. Fiori’s Comiccon beer for 2017 is a “blood-red” ale called Pint of the Living Dead, a pun that Fiori said pleased Romero.
“He loved the idea,” said Fiori. A self-admitted geek, he added that brewing for Comiccon attendees is something he really looks forward to annually. “We love being involved with Comiccon because it’s an exchange of cool. All our staff want to come out and work it and be involved. It’s a no-brainer.”
The emergence of Ottawa’s Comiccon has created a bit of an awakening in the city’s comic-book and pop-culture fan communities. While Comiccon is each year’s biggest annual event, offshoots like the Ottawa Geek Market and even a smaller winter Comiccon, called the Holiday Edition, have popped up.
“As a fan, I was going to anything and everything,” said Comiccon’s Caporale. “If you are a sports fan, there’s a game all the time. There’s a bar celebrating that. But, being a geek, there’s still not that many places you can go to celebrate with like-minded people. So, the conventions become those places.”
The event will take over the 220,000-square-foot EY Centre near the Ottawa Airport on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fans wearing brightly coloured costumes fill the building, showcasing their passion for TV shows and movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars and other science fiction related titles.
This year, fans of the Dr. Who franchise are expected to turn out en masse, as the 59-year-old Capaldi — known for playing the 12th incarnation of the doctor in the long-running sci-fi series — will appear. Capaldi, who is also an Oscar-winning director, will be ending his stint on the show next season.
Visitors to the show will have the opportunity to see the celebrities and listen to them talk about their experiences, while weaving their way through kilometres of displays and shops selling memorabilia, film props and replicas.
Ottawa Comiccon
When: May 12 to 14; Friday 1 to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: EY Centre, 4899 Uplands Dr.
Advance tickets: one-day passes from $25 to $99 plus fees, three-day passes from $65 to $229 plus fees, children 6 to 12 from $5 to $12 plus fees at ottawacomiccon.com; admission will be more at the door
More info: ottawacomiccon.com
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