My visit of the Comic Con Stuttgart 2019
After my visits in 2016, 2017 and 2018, I also visited the Comic Con Germany in Stuttgart last weekend. It was once again a lot of fun. This time I focused on buying original artwork and chatting with fellow German comic artists. Like always, I also saw an enormous number of cosplayers with great costumes. In this post, you can have a look at all the photos I took with some added commentary. You can click on each photo to see a larger version of it. The article contains the following sections:
- Impressions from the fair
- Artists I met or saw
- Artwork I bought
- Cosplay I saw
- The LEGO area
Impressions from the fair
The entrance area a few minutes before opening at 9 o’clock:
The main hall right after opening:
Stands for artists and small publishers:
More artist stands:
A great monster statue at the Ghostbusters area:
A view of the main hall from the gallery:
The entrance area of the main hall:
Merchandising stands from above:
Recreation of a battle from Lord of the Rings with miniature figures:
The telephone box from the Doctor Who TV series:
You were also able to fight with light sabers:
Good ol’ booth babes! Yay!
Artists I met or saw
Duck artist Arild Mithund gave a short presentation about his work and the medium:
My fellow German webcomic artists Sarah Burrini and Mario Bühling signing some books:
Sarah talking on stage with Andre Lux:
Swabian comedian Dodokay was also present this year again:
Comic artist and Sandra and Woo fan Cleo-San:
Artwork I bought
I’m always happy to see raccoons in artwork. I can’t make out the signature, though. It looks like “Seff”, but that does nor sound like a real name nor like a nickname. Goddamnit, artists, how hard is it to put a legible name on your drawings?!
A fantastic bird by Mandy Frank:
A sword by Mandy Frank that goes very nicely with the bird regarding its layout, style and coloration:
A lovely drawing of two girls in manga style. Without any signature, though. Sigh.
A lovely drawing of a red fox by Cleo-San and four funny monster drawings by Stella Bialek. Unfortunately, I placed one of the wrong way when taking the photo:
Since I still have so many unread comics at home, I bought only one comic, a very nicely drawn fantasy comic:
Artist Florian Biege also drew a great sketch into the book:
A collection of funny postcards:
More funny postcards:
More funny postcards:
A print of a fantastic drawing of a tiger with great colors by Lunakia:
An owl in the same style:
He is Groot:
A Disney Infinity statue of Rocket Raccoon. I’m not interested in the game, but the statues have a very good quality regarding their price:
Cosplay I saw
The dinosaur was at the con again, and again he drew a large crowd wherever he went:
Thanos and the Guardians of the Galaxy:
I finally saw a Megumin from KonoSuba! Yay! Too bad she was missing her signature hat. It would have made her costume perfect:
Yuna from Final Fantasy X:
Megumin with Tortoro:
Pickle Rick?
Toy Story characters:
The medusa costume was impressive:
This does not look very practical. So I guess the character is either from Star Wars, from an anime or a Japanese video game:
The Star Wars area was full of semi-professional cosplayers:
San from Princess Mononoke:
A self-made Steampunk costume:
The back bag was particularly impressive with the glowing light bulbs and mushrooms:
ASDF:
There was an awesome Mad Max area with two cars, a motorbike and a large tent:
I think this one said that his character isn’t based on any existing property:
Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl. Hit-Girl is one of my favorite characters so I was very excited so see her:
This Deadpool danced to music he played on his portable music player:
There were some nice photo screens with fitting objects from popular franchises:
All furries go to Hufflepuff:
More furries:
I don’t know the character, but the costume looked cool:
This joker had great facial expressions:
Doctor Who fans in front of the telephone box:
So many cosplayers…
My mother is a big fan of I Dream of Jeannie so she like this photo in particular. To bad that the guy’s head does not look like that of Major Tony Nelson at all:
A very convincing Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter:
Purpur tentacle from the classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle:
These two would actually make a great team (the Dude from The Big Lebowski and Master Roshi from Dragon Ball):
Dumbledore and Voldemort:
Dumbledore, Voldemort and Draco Malfoy:
I found Wally!
More cosplay:
The LEGO area
Photos from the LEGO area without further commentary:
“This does not look very practical. So I guess the character is either from Star Wars, from an anime or a Japanese video game:”
It appears to be Kosh (or perhaps some other Vorlon) from Babylon 5.
That one is ambassador Kosh of the Vorlons from the marvelous Babylon 5 sci-fi series.
Nice pictures overall. I really like the Nerd Girl Lego wall. 🙂
That knight cosplay is the player character from Dark Souls 3 (wearing the Abyss Watchers armor?). He even has an Estus flask, very nice!
Egomane wrote:
Came here to identify Kosh and see that I am late to the party. Great pics!!
Any chance of an appearance GenCon in Indiana?
Some of those Mad Max cosplayers look more like Irathients from Defiance.
@ James T. Savidge: ALL the Vorlons were named Kosh. The initial one died and was replaced by the purple one, whose name was Kosh. I love Babylon 5 so much. I was ecstatic to see a cosplay from it. saddened that he didn’t know who it was, though.
Rick wrote:
“…We are all Kosh. [chime, clink, swosh, clatter]”
And a fun time was had by all! …especially Oliver!!! 🙂
I love how everybody else here knows the Vorlons.