Question:
I was watching a show on ComicCon on G4,
A couple of questions:
1. What is the difference between Comic Con San Diego and Comic Con
New York other than location?
2. What did you go as in the Masquerade?
3. Are you going this year?
Answer:
1. ComiCon, aka the San Diego Comic-Con, is the annual world comic book
convention (unlike the annual world science fiction convention, ComicCon
has a permanent home). It is attended by over 100,000 individuals over 4
(and a half) days.
Comic book conventions at other places, well, aren't.
The New York Comic Con is a new comics convention (there have been only the
2006 and 2007 conventions so far). It's floor space for the main
exhibition hall (what at sf cons would be called the 'Dealer's Room') isn't
as large as the ComiCon, but is growing. It doesn't have the ancillery
stuff that San Diego does (Hollywood is only an hour and half up the coast,
and is massively represented at ComiCon).
2. I've never attended the masquerade myself, much less entered. Just viewing
it can be daunting. It's held in a 4500 seat ballroom, and simultaneously
shown on big screens on the Sailplane Pavilion, which can hold around
10,000, and they are both packed.
3. I'm already marking out stuff to see
(there's conflicts, such as Dark Horse Comics presenting Joss Whedon for a
talk in Ballroom 20 (the ballroom where the Masquerade will be), while at
the same time Summer Glau will be at the screening of the Sarah Connor
Chronicles pilot at the other end of the building, and 'at the other end of
the building' means something pretty daunting when you're talking about the
San Diego Convention Center).
