The convention F.A.C.T.S. is organised once a year by Con-Fuse, an organisation which promotes Science Fiction, Comics, Fantasy and Japanese animation.
F.A.C.T.S. has grown from a small amateur gathering in a small pub into the biggest convention in its kind in the Benelux with yearly thousands of happy visitors.
The I.C.C. is once again the F.A.C.T.S. the place to be.
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Have you missed Jean-Claude Van Damme, Matthew Wood, Don S. Davis or Corin Nemec at FACTS?
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Early Bird tickets
Regular tickets can be bought at the doors.
Check out the F.A.C.T.S. radio and television spots , Lectrr Cartoons and Wallpaper and the F.A.C.T.S. tune by the Fifty Foot Combo.
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The cosplay contest is one of the highlights of the convention.
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Jean-Claude VAN DAMME will be present on F.A.C.T.S. 2007 on Saturday only from 4 PM on.
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Extra activities will be organised to raise funds for the Make a Wish foundation.
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Fantasy - Anime - Comics - Toys - Science-Fiction
F.A.C.T.S. - In the beginning...
In the beginning there was … nothing. It were the Dark Ages. The last West-European anime-wave was slowly but surely dying out (limiting itself to reruns of older tv-shows), Spawn wasn’t back from hell yet and The Phantom Menace was nothing but a faraway dream. We are talking beginning of the nineties, when science fiction and fantasy were known only by the happy few in Belgium. A couple of shops were specialized in selling related material with virtually no fan initiatives to be seen around.
By the end of 1992, four people, all sharing a common interest in science fiction, anime and comics, met in the compounds of a shop named Sniff (specialized in second hand European comics, CD’s and a limited range of toys). The names of our four heroes are: Rik De Clercq, Yves De Meyer, Steven Smet and Emmanuel Van Melkebeke.
Discovering their common taste, the four decided to launch an initiative in order to try to meet other people with the same interests. They indeed suspected that there were other fans around, interested in the same genres, but unaware of the presence of similar-minded people. After some discussions about the best way to meet their goal (magazine? ? monthly meetings? ) they opted for a convention, a meeting place where people would be able to discuss their fields of interest, swap addresses and find collectable stuff to buy, sell and/or trade.
As with many things, finding a name wasn’t the easiest of tasks and after dismissing quite a few acronyms and other neologisms (the horrors of which we’ll save you from), they chose an abbreviation, which united the five major interests on which the convention would be based (European comics being expressly excluded, since there were plenty of convention in that area already): Fantasy, Animation, Comics, Toys, Space.
F.A.C.T.S. was born.