Photographer Chris Keller-Jackson rounds-up all of the best pics and outfits from ComicCon 2022
Comic Conventions are always a hot and sweaty affair. In part due to the amount of camera equipment I carry, in part due to the crowds of attendees in rather confined spaces, and in part, all the fur, leather, plastic and foam used to create the sometimes elaborate costumes of the Cosplayers.
This year's affair at BEC Manchester (when did it stop being Bowler's?) was certainly a great, if very hot, event.
Below are a few examples of the "best dressed" Cosplayers, players who entered the Cosplay Masquerade on the event stage and for me, the highlight of the weekend, meeting and listening to the child cast of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Not the Tim Burton variety – the original, with sadly passed Gene Wilder and Roy Kinnear. The remaining children, Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), Augustus Gloop (Michael Bollner), Mike TeeVee (Paris Themmen) and Veruca Salt (Julie Dawn Cole) were all there signing autographs and speaking to visitors along with Rusty Goffe, one of the Ommpa Loompas and a Jawa in Star Wars.
Scroll on for a selection of the best picturess and outfits from Manchester's ComicCon 2022.
![Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Cast At Manchester Comic Con 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211889/c304f99b5456f5be314cab4e9b3a1114.png)
![Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Cast Manchester Comic Con 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211890/a7f283006226f63a95df1c47d7b9c2bd.jpeg)
![Comic Con 2022 Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Cast](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211891/016cf404e261cfd0bcff3d360aa4ee06.jpeg)
![Comic Con Cosplay Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211892/ef775c86650994f141075473a0d65e8f.jpeg)
![Comic Con Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Event August 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211893/aacce81d4fca1a9b13ad8dd6d7b63ecd.jpeg)
![Comic Con Manchester Joker Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211894/ccb7f32f64fc8b710878f21b2c91c197.jpeg)
![Comic Con Manchester Super Hero Costumes August 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211895/54c557205cca790c00203594605b338a.jpeg)
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![Cosplay Superheroes Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211897/dd25ff2cc751301910dd368c29bddfae.jpeg)
![Deadpool Costume At Manchester Comic Con Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211898/39040a60a84a944eb23c0413d4492d8f.png)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Costumes 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211899/21ae2ba7552e8ae3b7384fb366c5f5f1.png)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Costumes 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211900/f787cafc48885ba93a675ba734da175f.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Costumes Event 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211901/edac5058fefb994b2430e7d35cf9dbca.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event 2022 Costume Photography](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211903/356d49e01294e2daba0f4ab1c0ca1872.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event 2022 Costumes](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211904/71b04c5a0ca8ef8ce601270b12ad3f46.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event Cosplay Costumes 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211905/00bd1a9c542cfbe4a063ab44df6071d6.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event Costumes 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211906/f6f2042e4845e5a74051ecca27fbe332.jpeg)
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![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Comic Con Event Werewolf Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211908/d93c300c5c87b1ea35d4030b24710b45.jpeg)
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![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Costumed Comic Con Event 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211910/59bf71a86ede0880441238e65ddf0122.jpeg)
![Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre Megacon Event Outfits 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211911/456a5861fd8ca72e26a4593da0f3bc49.jpeg)
![Manchester Comiccon 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211935/3f5347d0462379beb00624ced5630d9a.png)
![Manchester Comic Con 2022 Jack Sparrow Costume](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211936/693775630abc46e74d556d23e39fc579.png)
![Manchester Comiccon Ariel Costume Manchester Bowlers Exhbition Centre 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211937/07280bd70eaa35023b46ae28532e4177.jpeg)
![Manchester Comic Con August 2022 Stage Performers](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211938/50c95cc1316b684a3f286c29e8d244c3.png)
![Manchester Comiccon Catwoman And Poison Ivy 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211939/0a080e1f9cbb045f7f461322ef9cbf2a.png)
![Manchester Comic Con Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Cast 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211940/9ced32a63810db9d4a30337955bf0299.png)
![Manchester Comic Con Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Panel Discussion 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211941/081d16102c230737cfb51ce35d74148c.jpeg)
![Manchester Comic Con Costumes Belle Princess Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211943/21cfa6a9a47a04929163365861714f3c.jpeg)
![Manchester Comic Con Costumes Manchester Bowlers Exhibition Centre 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211944/e9b3c75be87284bfaa3c68080dde9290.jpeg)
![Manchester Comic Con Costumes Masquerade Stage 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1211945/6d38445fff32bc23349544fbc5410551.png)
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![Manchester Comic Con Freddie Krueger Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212021/90cee11043c8371562629ad7663803b7.png)
![Manchester Comic Con Freddie Mercury Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212022/944630fe4e43527184fbe022c2a4a580.png)
![Manchester Comic Con Freddie Mercury Costume Manchester Central 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212023/de1fd6e438f37dcc73774f7165bdca7b.jpeg)
![Manchester Comic Con Group Photo Manchester Central 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212024/d193fa5e61b37a86cff2fa273189a389.jpeg)
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![Manchester Comiccon Little Red Riding Hood Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212034/b33b000946992335ec70ab83a055a29e.png)
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![Manchester Comiccon Masquerade Stage 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212038/c3d850423eb4a76600ee9de7c000d29b.png)
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![Manchester Comic Con Yoda Costume 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212046/af226f51c8bbb052a3990556e8977931.png)
![Manchester Comic Con Zombies Costumes 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212047/db3a4641cd7c80ba9fb6ba1587e30561.jpeg)
![Manchester Commiccon Imagery 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212048/6a94ae22de7eb81e075c6638ea323b95.png)
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![Manchester Mega Con Comic Con Event Stormtrooper Costume](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212053/7d9dfdc24ce14dbfd0f227313561a051.png)
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![Spiderman At Manchester Comic Con 2022](/uploads/imager/299deb39facbb0c50fa0371390d9cd0c/1212097/bccf304aa55dd6ab1b74e332fd2716a6.png)
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Images: Chris Keller-Jackson exclusively for Manchester Confidential
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