Practically everybody in the world knows the famous Comic Con, a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California, United States. The event holds several Guinness World Records including the largest annual comic and pop culture festival in the world, for example in 2010 it welcomed more than 130,000 attendees. Ever since 2013 also Slovenia has its own Comic Con, the so called NMN (convention “On the edge of the invisible”) which has bravely been taking care of the imagination since 2013 and bringing the science fiction world to this wonderful European country with great location, just superb to attract also fans from the neighbouring countries.
Choosing the GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre for the 5th convention was a bold move for the organizers which have organized previous four conventions at much smaller venues, so they’ve worked hard and used the superb location of the country and the venue to the maximum, also attracting visitors from the neighbouring countries with an excellent program and a broad range of exhibitors. Location of GR in the middle of the Slovenian capital is simply put a great advantage with various accommodation options just around the venue and lively happening in the Ljubljana centre. And boy oh boy, the decision proved to be correct with successfully welcoming almost 2,000 fans of the fantasy world to GR, which for one day became a playground for basically everything about SF and fantasy genres – games, literature, cosplay …