Comet

Entrance fee to Comiket 90 in August 2016.

The Comic Market (コミックマーケット, Komikku Māketto^?), or better known as Comiket (コミケット , Komiketto^?) is a biannual dōjinshi convention, held in Tokyo in August and December for three days per edition where most Half a million people attend this festival.

Professional and amateur artists come together to share their latest works, amateur cartoonists have the opportunity to publish their works and sell them, doujin software (video games and computer software), doujin music, doujin novels and doujin clothing are also sold Made by hobby artists looking to share their unique designs, many of the cartoonists form groups or "circles" of fans and publish magazines to show their work to other fans, most of the doujin sold at comiket are parodies of existing anime and manga works but there are also original creations, some achieve high levels of popularity to the point of being able to enter the trade market and draw for a company. Thus, cartoonists like Rumiko Takahashi and the CLAMP began drawing dôjinshi which they later showed at Comiket. Some cartoonists publish dōjinshi for comiket after entering the professional world, out of love for art and the freedom of expression that they often do not find in their commercial works, finally in comiket there are trends that are often will later be reflected in the commercial manga and anime.

Comiket started with 30 booths and an audience of 700-800 people, but now the number of artist groups or circles or fan studios is 35,000, organized and operated by the Comic Market Committee in Tokyo Big Sight, (Tokyo International Exhibition Center) approximately 590,000 people attend the event per edition, comiket hosts 190 corporate stands a year. This includes large commercial companies such as game studios and manga publishers, such as celebrity meet-and-greets, some circles may sell several thousand copies of their books at each comiket, circles must provide a sample of any title wishing to distribute at the event to the comiket committee, delegates have archived sample titles since the first issue in 1975, more than 2,100,000 titles stored in a purpose-built warehouse in Saitama Prefecture, these numbers continue to show an upward trend, cosplay is also very common, to use cosplay, you must wear the costumes in Tokyo Big Sight and it is recommended not to go to the event in costume.

Comiket Facts

Public at Comiket 62.

Date and place

Cosplay @ Comiket 84 - summer 2013 @ Tokyo Big Sight.

This event is the largest fan convention in the world It takes place twice a year for three days in each edition; once in August and once in December. These editions are known, respectively, as Summer Comiket and Winter Comiket.

It has been held at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center near Odaiba, Tokyo since 1996. Gates open to the public at 10am. Due to the long queues that are formed. Both events are held every day from 10:00 am. to 4:00 p.m., with corporate booths open until 5:00 p.m. m. and the entire convention will close one hour before the last day of the event.

Comiket is known abroad as an event representing Japan's otaku culture due to local image sharing on social media and video-sharing services, as well as Comiket's appearance in anime. There is also information that a small percentage of all Comiket participants are foreigners.

Vision

December 21, 1975: the Doujinshi convention " 1st Comic Market " is planned and sponsored by the critics group "Labyrinth '75" with the purpose of building a place where manga fans can interact creatively. The venue is the Japan Fireworks Hall (Toranomon, Tokyo) meeting room, with 32 participating circles and around 700 participants. The participants at the time were mainly middle school and high school students who were fans of shojo manga, manga creative circles that follow the flow of the " COM " and manga study groups at women's colleges.

Comic Market Catalog

The catalog is about the size of a small phone book, and contains information about the various circles participating in the event, floor plans of the convention center with directions on how to get in and out, rules of conduct, and a photo or two per each circle. The images are very helpful, especially for tourists who do not know Japanese, since this is the only language in which the catalog is published. There is also a version on CD-ROM.

Philanthropy

Since 1993, ComiketPC has donated more than 60 million yen to sustainable forest management to offset the paper used in dōjinshi production. Since 2007, ComiketPC has worked with the Japanese Red Cross to organize blood vehicles at Comiket events and donors received exclusive Comiket posters depicting anime and video game characters. The Red Cross receives approximately 1,500 blood donations at each Comiket.

Rules of behavior

The general rules of behavior are indicated in the catalog and are of a certain common sense:

• Don't run. There are many people in front of the door when the bell rings, so the risk of being rolled and trampled by other visitors is very real and can lead to serious injuries.
• Don't get in line hours before the convention. The "feasts" before the convention have been a source of complaints among the residents of the area in previous years.
• Don't take pictures of them. cosplayers outside the indicated place or without your consent.

There are other rules that apply to cosplayers:

• Do not walk in the streets with cosplay, you must dress in the right place.
• Don't bring sharp items.
• Do not wear recorders, sound.

History

In the early 1970s, cheap offset printing media and photocopiers became available to the general public, allowing for cheaper reproduction and distribution of amateur manga, as well as political and literary texts. New technologies allowed the birth of small printers and publishers through which people of all classes and means could print and reproduce their work without having to resort to large publishers. This alternative cultural production was called minikomi (mini communication) as an alternative to mass communication (masukomi ). The most common forms of minikomi in Japan would have been amateur manga.

In 1975 a group of young students from Meiji University, passionate about manga, Yoshihiro Yonezawa, Teruo Harada and Jun Aniwa founded a dōjin club to promote the development and spread of amateur manga. The goal was to create a large public gathering, to be held several times a year, where amateur manga could find a market and diffusion.

The first Comiket was held in December 1975, 32 clubs participated with an attendance of 600 people. These numbers grew gradually between 1975 and 1986, with an exponential increase between 1986 and 1992. In the first ten years the comiket was held three days a year, with the growth of the audience, the event was rescheduled on two different weekends in August and December at the Harumi Exhibition Center in Tokyo. In the mid-1970s, when the gathering was relatively small, many amateur artists turned professional, including: Hisaichi Ishii, Saimon Fumi, and Rumiko Takahashi. As the amateur medium grew, by the 1980s fewer and fewer amateur artists were making it into commercial production. However, its existence led to the birth of new clubs in schools, universities and fans in almost the entire country. Theorists have developed the idea that these types of subcultures can operate as 'shadow cultural economies', offending individuals who lack formal education and the consequent social status to access an alternative world where can express themselves, compare themselves, grow. Over the years, Comiket has become a central structure of the amateur manga medium.

Comiket Editions

This is a list of some issues of Comiket, in some cases with external links to web pages with photos or comments.

30. 10 August 1986

31. 27-28 December 1986

32. 8-9 August 1987

33. 26-27 December 1987

34. 13-14 August 1988

35. 25-26 March 1989 - Spring Comiket

36. 13-14 August 1989

37. 23-24 December 1989

38. 18-19 August 1990

39. 23-24 December 1990

40. 16-17 August 1991

41. 29-30 December 1991

42. 15-16 August 1992

43. 29-30 December 1992

44. 15-16 August 1993

45. 29-30 December 1993

46. 7-8 August 1994

47. 29-30 December 1994

48. 18-20 August 1995

49. 29-30 December 1995

50. 3-4 August 1996

51. 28-29 December 1996

52. 15-17 August 1997 Review

53. 28-29 December 1997

54. 14-16 August 1998

55. 29-30 December 1998

56. 13-15 August 1999

57. 24-26 December 1999

58. 11-13 August 2000

59. 29-30 December 2000

60. 10-12 August 2001

61. 29-30 December 2001

62. 9-11 August 2002 Images

63. 28-30 December 2002 Information

64. 15-17 August 2003

65. 28-30 December 2003 Information

66. 13-15 August 2004

67. 29-30 December 2004

68. 12-14 August 2005

69. 29-30 December 2005

70. 11-13 August 2006

71. 29-31 December 2006

72. 17-19 August 2007

73. 29-31 December 2007

74. 15-17 August 2008

75. 28-30 December 2008

76. 14-16 August 2009

77. 29-31 December 2009

78. 13-15 August 2010

79. 29-31 December 2010

80. 12-14 August 2011

81. 29-31 December 2011

82. 10-12 August 2012

83. 29-31 December 2012

84. 10-12 August 2013

85. 29-31 December 2013

86. 15-17 August 2014

87. 28-30 December 2014

88. 14-16 August 2015

89. 29-31 December 2015

90. 12-14 August 2016

91. 29-31 December 2016

92. 11-13 August 2017

93. 29-31 December 2017

94. 10-12 August 2018

95. 29-31 December 2018

96. 9-12 August 2019

97. 28-31 December 2019

98. 2020 Cancelled