The largest world comic, audiovisual and fantasy fair travels to Malaga. The San Diego comic-with had never left the United States before, but this year will to travel to the Costa del Sol on a date that will be announced next Monday. The Malaga capital will take its most geek side in an appointment that is expected will have its epicenter in the Congresses Palace and will be held in many other locations in the city. The organization itself has been responsible for giving the news in a brief statement, in which it stressed that “the most important pop culture event will cross the Atlantic” for the first time in its 54 years of history.
The landing is preceded by a long negotiation to several bands between the City Council of Malaga, Tourism Andaluz and those responsible for the event, according to nearby sources. In fact, part of the organization traveled last autumn to the Andalusian city to assess whether it met the necessary requirements in terms of infrastructure, afor, means of transport or accommodations, among other aspects, since the arrival of thousands of people is expected.
In fact, the last edition in San Diego, held in July last year, brought together more than 135,000 – many of them disguised as super heroes and many other fiction and animation characters – who were able to participate in numerous activities and visit multitude of exhibitors of companies such as Marvel or Pokémon, in addition to enjoying meetings with movie stars. Comic, series, cinema, manga, video games are the soul of a proposal that, from its origins, is focused on “sensitizing the general public and to promote appreciation for comics and other related popular art forms,” according to their website.
The details of the arrival of the Comic-with to Malaga soil will be unveiled this Monday at an act that will be held at the Miramar Hotel. Santiago Segura will have as a master of ceremonies and Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Icíar Bollaín, Carlos Areces, Paco Plaza, Álex de la Iglesia and Joaquín Mazón will also participate. The reasons that have made the organizers are still unknown to bet on Malaga or if the city will have to make any economic contribution for it.
Malaga has finally attracted a great international event, a format after which he had been working for years, such as the failed 2027 Expo. The Palace of Fairs and Congresses of Malaga already welcomed an similar event until 2023, but promoted by the Malaga company Kaiju Group, the Freakcon. Then he moved to Torremolinos, where in 2024 he gathered 45,000 people, who enjoyed a good number of activities related to cinema, series, video games, comic and many other aspects of culture geek.