http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37842 wesley Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:45:17 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37842 Can I ask a question, how do they come up with the 64,000 number? The boast half the attendance of Comic-Con but with half the days and not even half the space. That seem mathematically impossible. Can I ask a question, how do they come up with the 64,000 number? The boast half the attendance of Comic-Con but with half the days and not even half the space. That seem mathematically impossible.

]]> http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37841 Clive Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:53:14 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37841 Speaking as someone who organized one of the panels affected by the panel room mess, I loved that problem. Our panel was on the history and current resurgence of fan films; go to most conventions and fan flicks get the short end of the stick--a smelly closet room, no internal promotion, and room for four people. At NYCC, we got a prime-sized room, peak-hour scheduling, and we packed it with 250+ people--about five times what we realistically expected. Seeing as I organized it in hopes of building some pre-launch buzz for my book on fan films ("Homemade Hollywood," coming from Continuum in September), I really couldn't have asked for a better problem than too many people wanting to see what we had going on. Speaking as someone who organized one of the panels affected by the panel room mess, I loved that problem. Our panel was on the history and current resurgence of fan films; go to most conventions and fan flicks get the short end of the stick–a smelly closet room, no internal promotion, and room for four people. At NYCC, we got a prime-sized room, peak-hour scheduling, and we packed it with 250+ people–about five times what we realistically expected. Seeing as I organized it in hopes of building some pre-launch buzz for my book on fan films (“Homemade Hollywood,” coming from Continuum in September), I really couldn’t have asked for a better problem than too many people wanting to see what we had going on.

]]> http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37840 Tom S. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:18:36 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37840 That is a bad line to end all bad lines. Remember, close to 10,000 people of that were exhibitors and professionals. Exhibitors pay to attend through their booth fees, also. That is a bad line to end all bad lines. Remember, close to 10,000 people of that were exhibitors and professionals. Exhibitors pay to attend through their booth fees, also.

]]> http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37839 Alan Coil Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:24:22 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-37839 "...and it seems to say this crazy little party we call New York Comic Con continues to grow as fast as a speeding bullet." . . Somebody stop that person before he or she writes again. “…and it seems to say this crazy little party we call New York Comic Con continues to grow as fast as a speeding bullet.”
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Somebody stop that person before he or she writes again.

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