NYCC 2009 Sees Sold-Out Saturday, Enjoys 15% Overall Attendance Boost

The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has the most succinct report about the success enjoyed by this weekend's New York Comic-Con. The performance should serve Reed Exhibitions well going into their initial Chicago show in Spring 2010 and for its first shot at the permanent fall schedule in NYC next fall. Economic worries had led some to believe there could be attendance drops or deathly little traffic at the exhibition tables set up to do business: the former turned out not to be true, with 77,000 unique visitors overall, and the latter -- while apparently hit and miss, and I appreciate ICv2.com pointing that out because other people won't -- certainly exceeded the gloomiest predictions by a wide, wide margin.

It's funny to look at the pictures and remember that once upon a time the hope for the NY show was it being a BEA for comics. Let's be honest: there may be a few elements of that, but NYCC is and will likely remain very, very, very much a traditional North American comics show -- closer to a Wizard World show than to an Angouleme Festival. Lots of people like those shows, though, and lots of comics people find them very useful, so there's no basis to complain.
 
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