Who is attending comic con 2018

NYCC reported about , fans in attendance a year ago. The revamped Harvey Awards, which honor achievement in comics and graphic novels, returned to New York City after several years in Baltimore. The continuing surge in attendance at the show will come as no surprise to attendees or exhibitors trying to get around the floor during NYCC. The show exhibition floor and lower concourse areas were swamped by a river of fans, and lines just to get into the restrooms especially for women were long and depressing.

But while the traffic was often slow going, people in the aisles were able to keep moving and circulating. Asked if ReedPop is concerned that New York Comic Con will become too big to deliver a quality fan experience, Armstrong says, well, no.

We are working hard to make sure that by using our badge technology, mobile app and recommendations, we can deliver to all our fans a personalized experience. And in September , the house will release Guts , a new graphic memoir that follows Telgemeier's previous autobiographical bestsellers, Smile and Sisters.

Share Your Smile will have an initial printing of , copies; and Guts will kickoff with a first printing of a million copies. His revival of the Predator series stars Wonder -kind Jacob Tremblay as a pre-teen who accidentally beckons one of the space-hunters to our planet, where it wreaks havoc with rangers and government officials before going to battle with an even bigger bad guy: a super-creature rumored to be named the Mega-Predator.

Brown, and Jake Busey Jake Busey! All in all, we expect it to be a good day. Nearly two decades ago, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan released his post- Sixth Sense superhero drama Unbreakable —and then watched it get busted at the box office by How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Fans like Patton Oswalt lobbied for a sequel , and last year, they unexpectedly got in one in Split , the hit thriller featuring James McAvoy as a monstrous creature who lives in the same Unbreakable universe. Jackson—as high-haired villain Mr. Expect plenty of evasive answers from the panel about the film itself, as Shyamalan is a master practitioner of that rarest 21st-century super-power: Secrecy.

In previous years, DC parent Warner Bros. That webcomic, and an animated version of it produced by PBS and shared on NPR, brought his story to more than 3 million readers worldwide. He is currently expanding A Fire Story into a full-length graphic novel while he and his wife Karen rebuild their home. Manuele Fior was born in Cesena in After getting a degree in architecture in Venice in , he moved to Berlin, where he worked until as a cartoonist, illustrator and architect.

He is working on a new comic book titled Celestia. His work appears in English translations from Fantagraphics Books. Manuele lives in Paris. Andy Fish is a noted comic book artist, illustrator and painter. His work has been published all over the world and exhibited in galleries as far away as Sydney Australia. He is currently working on an online version of the Adam West version of Batman and a new graphic novel mystery set during the age of the Dust Bowl in America's Midwest.

He resides in New England with his wife and fellow artist Veronica. The biggest entertainment expo in the world, Comic-Con has grown from humble origins to become one of the most influential pop culture events in the calendar, attracting large crowds, panels of A-list franchise stars and exclusive trailer premieres.

An opportunity for fans to meet their heroes, score autographs, buy collectibles, dress up and interact with fellow enthusiasts — no matter how niche the shared obsession — Comic-Con is now in its 48th year and going from strength to strength. This is in no small part thanks to the boom in interest in CGI superhero blockbusters since the turn of the millennium and the emergence of Marvel as a Hollywood power player.

Comic books and genre fare have joined the mainstream since the dawn of the internet and Comic-Con's sprawl perfectly represents the opening out of the culture.