http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:51:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1355164 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:45:17 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1355164 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://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1336164 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:53:14 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1336164 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://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1334868 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:18:36 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1334868 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://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1332882 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:24:22 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/64000-people-attend-nycc/#comment-1332882 "...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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