Are you an aficionado of anime, a connoisseur of cosplay or a consumer of comics?

Gamma.Con convenor Bella Hurst says the 2019 Canberra pop culture event, coming up to its sixth year, will be the biggest yet.

It started at the ANU in 2013 with 250 people attending. Last year, more than 6000 people went to Gamma.Con, then at Exhibition Park for the first time.

Back at EPIC, it will be a full weekend event with plenty to see and do.

For the uninitiated, cosplay - a portmanteau of costume play - is an activity in which participants dress up as a character - whether from a film, TV show, comic, anime or other source.

More than 100 artists, most of them local, will be selling their creations on the exhibition floors - including writers, comic book artists and makers of clothes and handcrafts.

Games developers will demonstrate their work at the AIE (Academy of Interactive Entertainment) Games Showcase.

This year's international guests are American YouTube gaming star Jesse Cox and anime and game voice actor Paul St.Peter, who over two decades has amassed credits such as Resident Evil and Dragon Ball. In addition, Gamma.Con has also booked Australian cosplayers HenchWench, Danielle Debs, ScrapShopProps and NerdCore Creations.

A one-day version of Gamma.Con was on in Wagga Wagga in March, a warm-up for this year's Canberra event.

It's billed as the biggest of its kind in the ACT/Southern NSW region, a regional equivalent of such pop culture conventions in state capitals, as Supanova and Oz Comic-Con.

Hurst says that compared to the bigger events, Gamma.Con "focuses more on the indie, underground scene, outside the mainstream - the 'little guy.'''

There will also be, she says, some socially relevant content on topics like Exploitation of Fan Labour and Going Pro - Making a living through Cosplay, as well as the Canberra Gaymers Panel.

An 18+ evening is a part of the weekend, featuring a drag queen show, cosplay pole dancing and erotic fan fiction.

Hurst makes a living as a professional cosplayer at similar events around the country.

She's has won four national cosplay championships and has been in the World Cosplay Championship in Chicago.

She says the world celebrated in Gamma.Con is no longer solely the domain of young men, contrary to stereotypes.

"There are lots of anime girls," she says. And there are plenty of female cosplayers who dress as a wide range of characters.

One of the constant supporters of Gamma.Con, donating prizes for competitions, is Mal Briggs.

His store Impact Comics has been part of the Canberra scene for the last 15 years with weekly imports from the US, English translations of manga and more.

He says that what was once a subculture became more mainstream in recent years - aided by the popularity the Avengers and Star Wars films and Game of Thrones on TV.

The biggest book at the moment, he says, is the fantasy adventure series The Adventure Zone.

As for Gamma.Con, at which Impact always has a stall, Briggs says, "It began small but has never stopped growing.

"It's one of those things that has never been the same two years in a row."