By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 6/13/2016
This is your last day to register as a fan for the purpose of buying New York Comic Con tickets. The process begins here. I wrote a bit about it here. It appears there are work around if you do not have a cel phone.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 6/8/2016
Well, well, as we predicted a few days ago, BookCon is becoming a major brand for ReedPOP’s portfolio, and it’s getting a major boost with the announcement that this year’s New York Comic Con will have it’s very own BookCon @ NYCC. The event — which will be open only to NYCC badge holders — […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 5/25/2016
Speaking of crowds and branding, we have a FEW openings for staff reporters for The Beat's coverage of the 2016 New York Comic Con on October 6-9. NYCC has cracked down on the number of press passes this year, so I know a lot of good people have been left out. We have been given a handful of slots to fill up, so here's your chance. What we need:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/new-york-comic-con-2020-a-look-back/
*AHEM* “Off-site events were also successful, although some events are difficult to tabulate:…”
Further predictions:
The Marriott Marquis will be used at some point, since the 7 train is accessible.
Further analysis here:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc15-another-attendance-record-smashed-but-how-do-you-fit-more-people-inside-javits/
And if the Governor can find the money, Javits will be doubled:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-transcript-governor-cuomo-announces-7th-proposal-2016-agenda-dramatic-expansion-jacob-k
http://www.comicsbeat.com/1-billion-expansion-of-javits-center-announced-by-governor-cuomo/
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Since you’ll need a NYCC badge to attend BookCon, the publishers will not relocate from the show floor.
Judging by the space and blueprints, I suspect that both floors will be used for panels.
(AND I WAS RIGHT, thanks for the update!)
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Meanwhile, construction continues on Hudson Yards.
Within ten years, Javits will face a wall of skyscrapers along Eleventh Avenue, and to the south.
http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Javits-neighborhood-developement.jpg
35 Hudson Yards, at 33rd and Eleventh, will have a hotel, and probably event space.
There’s a 70-storey hotel planned at 35th.
http://www.mckeanarchitecture.com/mobile/jht.html
Another, Hudson Rise, is planned at 38th:
http://www.6sqft.com/new-renderings-for-chinese-lantern-inspired-skyscraper-at-470-eleventh-avenue/
(and another next door to that, at 540 W 38)
The Culture Shed, on 30th, just north of the High Line, will have 170K sq.ft. of space.
http://www.dsrny.com/projects/culture-shed
http://www.rockwellgroup.com/projects/culture-shed
Not an unexpected occurrence. However, I was doing it before they had the first BookCon in AZ. What I started at Phoenix Comicon was a similar approach. A focus on genre authors (in 2014 we had 70+ authors, three publishers exhibiting and several other publishers participating) with multiple programming tracks, an area dedicated to authors adjacent to Artists Alley. It was unoficially dubbed AuthorCon within the overall comicon. However, the powers that be decided to scale it back (about 60% of what 2014 was) while other cons (Emerald City, now NYCC) have started expanding their author based content.