Big Apple Comic Convention Is Coming! - Queens Gazette (2024)

Big Apple Comic Convention, NYC’s original comic con now in its 28th year, proudly announced its 4th Annual Holiday Con, a party convention with loads of gifts, prizes, and special events to open and celebrate the Holiday Season as well as NYC’s all season love affair with the world of comics and pop culture collectibles with our fans.

The BACC Holiday Con features over 100 ex­hibitors, artists, guests, and cosplayers, with a special focus on talented up and coming artists from the NYC area.

“This year we are partnering with Crash Media Partners; the super­charged popular art promoters Scott Mauriello and Chris Parente will bring their unique skills to bear on the BIG APPLE Comic Con with excit­ing new guests and events including:

•Al Kahn the man who brought the multi-billion-dollar Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese anime franchises to the world outside of Japan;

•An entire warehouse (in a dedi­cated 1400-sq-ft event room) of top-grade collectibles from the legendary Joe Koch and Forbidden Planet. Amazing deals and steals; and

•A completely new Independent Creators Alley (ICA) to give small and independent creators an op­portunity to bring their work to a broad mainstream audience at BIG APPLE Comic Con. All this plus an all-star guest line-up including:

•Inkpot and Eagle award winning artist/writer Howard Chaykin (Star Wars, Captain America)

•Animation king Bill Plympton (won Best Film and Best Director LA animation festival2023)

•Aaron Reynolds the creator of the bestselling phenom Effin’ Birds

•The master of Spy vs Spy and cartoon genius Peter Kuper

•Eisner Award winner Alitha Martinez (World of Wakanda, X-Men, Moon Girl, Black Panther)

•Underground Comics legend Larry Welz (Cherry Poptart, Captain Guts)

•Magical voice of a thousand characters Marc Thompson (Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Transformers)

•Alpha Girl Comics author, and Bram Stoker Award winner Amy Chu, whose mind-boggling tal­ent includes Red Sonja, Poison Ivy, Carmilla: The First Vampire

•Mr Monopoly and Genshin Impact, Bottomless Potamus the many voices of actor Tony Waldman

•Seinfeld’s own John O’Hurley and the voice of King Neptune on Sponge Bob and other characters

•Sean Chen visionary creator of EVERMIND and innovative artist for Wolverine, Electra, X-Men

•Bill Tucci Inkpot Award winner, creator of the phenomenal saga Shi (also Sgt Rock. A Child is Born)

•Nik Virella the innovative and spectacular art sensation (Wolverine, Hyperion, 1872)

•Ever sparkling super talented actor/podcaster all around mensch Ming Chen

•Eisner, Inkpot and Harvey award winner Joe Staton (Batman, Justice League, too many to list)

•X-Men, Batman, Daredevil, Thor never looked so good as when Mark Morales brings them to life

•Bob Camp cartoonist, artist, director 2X Emmy nominee (Ren and Stimpy, Sponge Bob, Conan)

•Ken Landgraf artist for the greatest vigilante comic of all time New York City Outlaws (Wolver­ine)

•Michael Fife creator/writer/artist of the action series COPRA(also Bloodstrike Brutalists, Zegas)

•Extraordinary cosplayer, wrestler, actor, internet radio Monique “GATA” Dupree

•Emmy and Ringo award winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma and The Red Hook)

•Charles Forsman, creator of Revenger, Cele­brated Summer, Slasher, and Automa

•Zuperhero Comics and “Bootleg Spiderman” phenom Mahdi Khene

•Man of a thousand inks Keith Williams (X-Men, Superman, Star Wars, Harlem Hell fighters)

•Writer, artist, inker Al Milgrom edited Marvel Fanfare for 10 yrs (X-Factor, Spiderman, Avengers)

•World renowned comic book culture maven Heidi MacDonald, editor in chief of Comics Beat

•Creator of Squish and Squash and The Crying Boy, Ringo nominated writer illustrator Niall O’Rourke

•Topps sport cards master illustrator Brian Kong

•Kristen Gudsnuk, writer/artist of the ground­breaking Henchgirl and the hit series Making Friends

•Sublime artist and colorist James Sherman (Su­perboy, Silver Surfer, The Punisher)

•Actor Anthony Forest, who has had iconic parts in Star Wars, Oppenheimer, and Spy Who Loved Me

•Martial Arts Hall of Famer Sifu Cliff Kupper presents a NYC Premiere of his latest film Martialist 2

•The voice of Tony the Tiger voice actor Tony Daniels (X-Men, JoJo#39; Circus, Sailor Moon)

There will be a dedicated Pokemon event room for players and voice actors.

And how about an Archie-Themed Cosplay Contest (get ready for some real kitch).

“This will be our best show ever, as usual in the fabulous Art Deco Wyndham New Yorker Hotel.” Maybe Santa will show early this year. The BACC is a collectible dream world event, a national hub for collectors and traders, where some of the greatest collectible books are exhibited and traded. All of this in the spacious ballrooms of the Art Deco master­piece New Yorker Hotel (481 8th Ave at 34th St).