I read that not enough "regular" people were writing about this year's NYCC. I'm gonna dash off some thoughts, because I don't work for a news outlet
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I was pretty underwhelmed this year, moreso than other years. I had mixed feelings about the fact that they put Artists' Alley in a different room. They didn't hand out programs when you got your badge, an they didn't have them out anywhere for people to grab-- you had to specifically ask for one, or at least I did when I got there on Thursday. Even though I was chiefly LOOKING for AA when I got there, I couldn't find it because it was in another room and not very well-labeled. I did two whole rounds of the main floor before I saw the sign pointing to "more!" Many people I know who aren't familiar with comic conventions never got in there because they didn't know it existed at all. The same was true for the Anime dealers' tables-- I didn't even find out they existed until late on Saturday. I felt like things weren't really organized in an easily-findable way, except for the book publishers being all together, and Artists' Alley had so much space between the tables as to appear unfriendly, while the main floor had not enough space and was hard to walk through, let alone navigate. And the autographing space seemed just like wasted space for a lot of the con, with those long aisles set up and no one in them.
I went to a lot fewer panels this year than I usually do; partly, I didn't see a lot of engaging subjects, and many of them were panels on subjects I'd seen before. I also had a hard time finding the ones I wanted to go to in the program. I spent most of the weekend at the convention, but most of that, I spent trying to find my friends who had tables so I could say hi.
I had quite a few panels I wished to attend, but getting into them wasn't happening. Since I had interviews in the morning I wasn't able to grab a seat first thing the convention opened like everyone else. >.> At one point I tried to attend a panel for a person I just finished interviewing--I was there 2 hours ahead of time and couldn't even get a spot on the 'waiting list' line! That annoyed and frustrated me more than anything else.
I found it kind of irritating that there was two 'artist alleys'. The 'professional' one--with those who are published artist/indy creators and the 'non-professional' one--for the fan artists/creators. Both labeled Artist Alley and both jack crazy to get to.
I went to a lot fewer panels this year than I usually do; partly, I didn't see a lot of engaging subjects, and many of them were panels on subjects I'd seen before. I also had a hard time finding the ones I wanted to go to in the program. I spent most of the weekend at the convention, but most of that, I spent trying to find my friends who had tables so I could say hi.
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I found it kind of irritating that there was two 'artist alleys'. The 'professional' one--with those who are published artist/indy creators and the 'non-professional' one--for the fan artists/creators. Both labeled Artist Alley and both jack crazy to get to.
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