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Big Apple Comic Con Moves to New Yorker Hotel With a Christmas Convention For December 14th

The Big Apple Comic Con is the longest-running comic convention in New York Started by retailer Michael Carbonaro in March 1996 in the basement of the St Paul the Apostle Church, it switched from 2001 to 2008 to the Penn Plaza Pavilion, a location that Heidi MacDonald once described to me as an 'eight pounds[...]

Freaky Like Cons Used To Be At The New York Comic Book Marketplace

Formerly, I am told, it was known as the Big Apple Con, and before that it has had more names than can be counted on both hands Founded in 1996 by Michael Carbonaro, it claims to be the longest running comics convention in the USA, and in convention time, that's pretty much a millennia, give[...]

New York's Big Apple Wizard World Comic Con Programming Schedule

Look for people on his books like Julian McMahon, Ken Watanabe, Chris Hemsworth, Cobie Smulders and Yeardley Smith to start appearing at Wizard World events. But for now, here's a look at the programming for the upcoming Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con at Penn Plaza Pavilion in Manhattan on MAy the 21st and 22nd ,[...]