comic con fringe

We love to keep the Portsmouth Comic Con community active all year round, which is why we hold our Portsmouth Comic Con Fringe events throughout the city. Take a look below to see what’s in store…

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Halloween Film Fest

Experience the word of Tim Burton this year with three of his classic films!

Looking for something fun and affordable this October half term? Look no further! Portsmouth Comic Con presents a Tim Burton Halloween Film Fest!

Join us this Halloween season for a Tim Burton Film Fest featuring a trio of gothic delights:

📽️ The Nightmare Before Christmas
💍 Corpse Bride
👻 Beetlejuice

Whether you’re a lifelong Burton fan or discovering his eerie world for the first time, these iconic films will cast a spell on you.

PLUS! There will be Halloween crafts and activities, spooky mocktails and movie snacks
All this for just £2.50!

When? 28th October 2025
Where? Portsmouth Guildhall

Generation Why

As seen on HBO & BBC, Dian Cathal brings you a new comedy hour about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us. The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes. That is how many see us. The generation of social change, technological revolution and pizza rolls. This is who we are.

To put it in perspective, the formative years of millennials have had: The US and UK in the longest war since WW2, the worst recession since the Great Depression, Nazis are back, Russia is evil again, The Plague AKA Covid-19.

We are tasked with saving the world, just like Saturday morning cartoons taught us, but we are hamstrung by our own trauma. We have to face it to get past it and learn from it. This show is the start.

And more importantly, why didn’t Pokemon prepare us for this?


When? 16th April 2026
Where? The Lens Studio, Portsmouth Guildhall