New York City’s largest and most enthralling comic book convention turns two decades old this year.
It’s hard to believe we’ve had 20 years of New York Comic Con already. I, the author of this piece, actually attended the very first one back in 2006, and I only heard about it because the woman I was dating at the time, a columnist for Long Island Press, had a publicity contact who allowed us to check it out for an hour. It was already apparent from the long waiting line, which would have taken an hour to get through, that NYCC was going to blossom into something really big. By 2009 and 2010, we were already covering major panels at NYCC for sites like Fandango and MSN Movies.
Although San Diego Comic Con is still the most famous of all the comic cons, New York Comic Con has consistently drawn equally big, if not larger, crowds. While it feels like NYCC has a bit less cache these days within the film and TV world, what makes this event special is the mixture of people coming from points near and far, the diverse panels, the comic book bins holding untold treasures, and of course, all the great cosplay that we marvel at every year.
This year I had the pleasure of moderating a panel c...