I have three underlings (twenty-somethings) from my department at work who asked for today and tomorrow off to go to this. Being that they're all good artists, they got the time off from the agency to go have fun.

/well deserved
//don't worry kids, us old timers will take up the slack

AlwaysRightBoy:
You realize they are going to farking jump ship and do comics.

Idiot.

NEVER give artist the day off. We will rape you business wise if we can.

Nah, just kidding. They are making much more then they ever will in comics.

Could NYCCC beat San Diego? Possible-if they just stick to comics. The major publishers are on the east coast. Many of the talent are local. Europeans have a much better time to get to NYC than SD.

The problem with SDCC is that it became too much of a Hollywood stomping ground. Far too crowded and now in several buildings. But then that is the advantage that SDCC has over NYC. Better weather and a lot o Hollywood people.

You know to boot, we filed it under 'business seminar' so these yuts don't lose any PTO time.

/I don't know much about Comic Con but it has considerable interest among the Ad field here in NYC.

AlwaysRightBoy: You know to boot, we filed it under 'business seminar' so these yuts don't lose any PTO time.

/I don't know much about Comic Con but it has considerable interest among the Ad field here in NYC.

You mean interest from clients or interest among the employees? Comics are just another place that gets mined for material now days...

Darth_Lukecash: employees

Just interest among the employees.

/I'm in a different ad game than comics now

//I worked for Fangoria in the early eighties. Does that count for anything?

Any Farkers going?

I always wondered why nobody ever proposed an NYCC Fark Party. I mean, there are lots of Farkers in NYC and the metro area, and there's a good chance of lots of Farkers going there.

Darth_Lukecash: AlwaysRightBoy:
You realize they are going to farking jump ship and do comics.

Idiot.

NEVER give artist the day off. We will rape you business wise if we can.

Nah, just kidding. They are making much more then they ever will in comics.

Could NYCCC beat San Diego? Possible-if they just stick to comics. The major publishers are on the east coast. Many of the talent are local. Europeans have a much better time to get to NYC than SD.

The problem with SDCC is that it became too much of a Hollywood stomping ground. Far too crowded and now in several buildings. But then that is the advantage that SDCC has over NYC. Better weather and a lot o Hollywood people.

The only downside to the NYCCC is the sheer expense of doing business in NYC,
but overall I think the advantages you delineate outweigh that.

SDCC long ago became a general Hollywood trade show, and the strong NYC geek
fan community needs a new central gathering event.

Obscure Login: I was just thinking, oh neat, I have tomorrow off, maybe I'll just swing by. So checking out the website I see tickets are available for farking 45 dollars and they are more expensive on Sat and Sun.

People really pay at least $45 to get into these things? Holy fark.

Yup, though from what I've heard from my friends who are going, they sold out on
pre-reg, so at-the-door day passes may not even be available.

Wish I was still in the NY area so I could check it out.

DjangoStonereaver: Obscure Login: I was just thinking, oh neat, I have tomorrow off, maybe I'll just swing by. So checking out the website I see tickets are available for farking 45 dollars and they are more expensive on Sat and Sun.

People really pay at least $45 to get into these things? Holy fark.

Yup, though from what I've heard from my friends who are going, they sold out on
pre-reg, so at-the-door day passes may not even be available.

Wish I was still in the NY area so I could check it out.

They're sold out except for Friday tickets, according to the email I just got.

Arachnophobe: I've been to NYCC twice. And until they either find a bigger venue than the Javits Center (the Garden, maybe?) or reduce the number of vendors so they can widen the aisles, I won't be going back. Far FAR too crowded in there last year.

BIGGER than Javitz? In NYC? You won't find it.

Jeez, how big is NYCC? I suspect they didn't have the entire Javitz Center; back in
the 1990s (before the recent expansion), I talked to some people who were thinking of
putting together a WorldCon bid, which assumes 10K attendance, and that wouldn't
have half filled the basement of the JC.

The Gaylord at the National Harbor outside of DC has 180,000 square feet of exhibit
space and it handled 3 conventions with a total of at least 10,000 attendies between
them while still feeling almost deserted. Javitz has 675,000 square feet (as per
Wikipedia, which could be the pre-expansion size; I found elsewhere a number of
760,000 square feet). I seriously doubt NYCC got 40,000, but then again: I've never
been.

/Helps run cons in his spare time. Stop looking at me like that.

minnesotaboy: Agreed. Revealing Cosplay will be the deciding factor...

I've lived in San Diego on and off for thirty years or so, and went to ComicCon for the first time this year. I did much ogling.

Arachnophobe: DjangoStonereaver: Arachnophobe: I've been to NYCC twice. And until they either find a bigger venue than the Javits Center (the Garden, maybe?) or reduce the number of vendors so they can widen the aisles, I won't be going back. Far FAR too crowded in there last year.

BIGGER than Javitz? In NYC? You won't find it.

Jeez, how big is NYCC? I suspect they didn't have the entire Javitz Center; back in
the 1990s (before the recent expansion), I talked to some people who were thinking of
putting together a WorldCon bid, which assumes 10K attendance, and that wouldn't
have half filled the basement of the JC.

The Gaylord at the National Harbor outside of DC has 180,000 square feet of exhibit
space and it handled 3 conventions with a total of at least 10,000 attendies between
them while still feeling almost deserted. Javitz has 675,000 square feet (as per
Wikipedia, which could be the pre-expansion size; I found elsewhere a number of
760,000 square feet). I seriously doubt NYCC got 40,000, but then again: I've never
been.

/Helps run cons in his spare time. Stop looking at me like that.

Estimated attendance of 96,000 last year, which is the year that broke me. Granted, that's over all three days, but I was there on Saturday, which is generally the busiest day of any con. I am not claustrophobic, but trying to quite literally shove my way through a packed tight crowd to get out of the aisle had me near panicking.

Wow.

Even given that its NYC, that number utterly floors me.

No con will ever get into MSG, that's for sure.