New comic convention coming to New York City - "Special Edition: NYC"!

It was announced today through Comic Book Resources that ReedPOP, the producers of C2E2 and New York Comic Con, will be bringing a brand new comic convention to New York City this summer! This new convention will be just two days, June 14-15th, and will be called "Special Edition: NYC". Lance Fensterman, ReedPOP Vice President, is stating that unlike New York Comic Con, this convention will be purely focused on comics.

"It's really about creators, artists, dealers and some publishers," Fensterman told CBR. "We're trying to keep it really pure to comics, [with] a little bit of kind of an indie bent to it. Just something for that pure comic fan, and something for the creator community."

This new convention will be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City and will be held in the North Wing where the Artist's Alley is usually held during New York Comic Con. Programming will also be held in a few panel rooms in the Javits Center. According to CBR, the capacity for this event will be in the range of 10,000 - 15,000 people a day.

""After every show we do, we do really in-depth research, and with artists, exhibitors, fans, professionals, where they give extremely detailed feedback about how the show was for them -- about 40 or 50 questions," Fensterman said. "Across the board, from both artists and fans, Artist Alley was the single highest-rated component of the show. The satisfaction numbers were crazy, crazy high. If they were that satisfied with it, maybe they want more. From there, it wasn't much of a leap to think of that as a standalone event, because of the way it felt.""

There are many fans out there who feel that most big comic conventions have left comics behind as they grew to make room for other convention aspects. In part this is completely true and a fair thing to point out. ReedPOP is now creating "Special Edition: NYC" as an answer to this concern. This new convention will be for those comic lovers out there, whether you are the ones creating them or just reading them.

Does the idea of a new comic convention in New York City excite you? Would you be willing to attend this convention when it rolls around in mid June? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Source: Comic Book Resources