Sunday at the New York Comic Con, expectedly, was a little bit slower on the news front than Friday or Saturday, which gave the comic sites a little bit of time to catch up and post a lot of stuff from yesterday’s panels. The big news today, it seems, is the show itself; Lance Fensterman reports on the NYCC blog that they surpassed last year’s attendance numbers:
So what do we know?
At least 64,000 people attended New York Comic Con this weekend. We have more details to pour through from retailers and on site tickets sales, but as of tonight we know that at least 64,000 attendees were in the building over the weekend. That’s an intense jump from 49,000 last year and it seems to say this crazy little party we call New York Comic Con continues to grow as fast as a speeding bullet.
Stay tuned for final numbers in the next few days.
Some other folks found time to blog today as things were winding down. Peter David gave an update on his wife, who was in a car crash while he was at the con on Friday:
Kathleen was in one piece: As anyone who’s read her blog knows, Kath was in an auto accident. Fortunately she’s fine, albeit a bit achy and bruised. Upon learning of the accident Friday, I immediately headed home, rendering me unavailable for the Marvel autograph session and also the Mondo Marvel panel. I left word at the Marvel booth, but somehow they didn’t get the message to panel moderator Jim McCann. On stage he noticed my absence and wondered aloud where I was. When one of the panels whispered in his ear what had happened, a startled Jim said “Oh my God!”…right into the open microphone, causing some degree of confusion and alarm for the audience which he quickly had to undo.
And Mark Evanier talked about the Steve Gerber tribute panel … which Gerber was able to attend:
Friday, I did two panels — one about the work of the late/great Will Eisner; the other, about the state of the animation business. Saturday morn, we had a nice public memorial panel about our pal, the late/also great Steve Gerber. Many of Steve’s fans and friends were there, along with members of his family. And Steve himself was present as you can see from this photo…
I guess you can’t read the label so I’ll tell you what the top line of it says: “This Package Contains the Cremated Remains of Stephen R. GERBER.” That’s right. We had his ashes there. Morbid, I know…but Steve wouldn’t have wanted to miss a whole panel about himself. It was announced that immediately following the panel, we’d be taking the ashes down and flinging them in the faces of certain editors.
More coverage of New York Comic Con:
Panels
Final Crisis (Newsarama)
Battlestar Galactica (Newsarama)
Top Cow (Newsarama)
Wanted (Newsarama)
BOOM! (Newsarama)
Tokyopop (giapet)
Devil’s Due (Comic Book Resources)
Interviews
Karl Kesel on Marvel Apes (Newsarama)
Grant Morrison (Daily Cross Hatch)
Chris Onstad (CBR)
John Arcudi on BPRD: The Warning (CBR)
Scott Allie on Solomon Kane (CBR)
Additional coverage
NYCC on Fox National News (Medium at Large)
Day two report (Geekanerd) (Redhead Fangirl) (Pink Raygun)
Blog reports (Laura Hudson) (Shelly’s Comic Book Shelf)
Heroes, Gears of War action figure gallery (Action Figure Hub)
April 21st, 2008 at 12:35 am
I’m glad to hear that Peter David’s wife was not seriously injured in her car crash.