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Highlights from New York Comic Con 2025

I went to New York Comic Con the other day. As usual, it was mobbed – claustrophobic.

These days, it’s less about comics and more about tv, movies and streaming, but if you look, you can find some comics-related things.

I saw the National Cartoonists Society booth and the Comics Kingdom booth. I’m not sure if GoComics.com was there, I didn’t seem them.

Comics Kingdom tells me I am on their short list to be published by them, but I didn’t see anyone I new at the booth to pester about that, so I didn’t

I tried to find my cousin who usually works the booth for the comics company he works with, but I couldn’t find him in the crowd.

See that Batman photo above, from his back, I was following him from behind, filming him for a mini movie and he turned and asked me to take his picture with Superman, who you can see there. I didn’t get the image on my camera, but I took a few of them together on his phone for him.

There were a few Spider-men around, not the usual dozens that I usually see and of course, there were many characters that I didn’t know who they were.

A couple of times I heard people thanking others for knowing who they were, so maybe they weren’t that common and only real fans knew who those cosplayers were.

When I left, scalpers were asking for my badge. I didn’t scan myself out because I knew I wasn’t returning, so it was not a usable badge if you don’t scan out, and I almost sold my “dead” badge to the scalpers, but then realized they wouldn’t lose out – an innocent person who buys the badge from them would suffer, so I didn’t sell it, I just saved it as a souvenir.

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Snagged my NYCC tix

I got my tickets for New York Comic Con (NYCC) yesterday.

It’s a whole process. I no longer get press passes after 15 years of that, so I have to purchase the tickets now and wait in line, online, like everyone else.

You have to be fan verified, and get a time and date to get on and buy the tickets. Mine was 10 am Sunday morning, the first thing, the first group, but of course if you get online at that very moment, there is a long wait to get your access to the tickets. My wait was 20 minutes, not that bad.

Who are these people that are always there, first in line? In person, you see them in tents, camping outside venues for a week to buy something like an Nintendo Switch or concert tickets.

By the way, NYCC is Oct. 9-12, and the tickets sell out fast.

For so many years, I wrote for the Huffington Post and other publications and I received press passes, which made me feel important, but best of all, I didn’t have to wait in any lines and I had access to everything for all four days.

To be honest, I think I outgrew the whole thing, but since I’m a cartoonist, I feel it’s my duty to go, but it seems that Comic Cons have gone from being comic oriented, to movies, games and tv, which make up the bulk of it all.

One of my cousins works for a company that sells original cartoon art. His company has a booth at the cons and last year when I finally found his booth, he was telling me how the actual comics are all confined to a small area now, almost being forced out of their namesake event. I can’t even find the cartoon syndicates now. I’m not sure they show up anymore.

The best part of course is the cosplay, you know, people dressed up as their favorite tv and movie characters. But I do like to mix and mingle with other cartoonists and organizations. I could have sat and worked the National Cartoonists Society booth, but I declined. I’m not sure why, that way I would have free access and get to meet many of my peers. Maybe next year.

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