![]() Her first day’s home-made costume cost $50 and took 18 hours to create for her second day, she bought a pre-made look for $30 from Amazon. But she's cost consious, calling herself "a super bargain shopper": she stacks coupons at a large fabric retailer, where she buys supplies to fashion her own outfits. Hayes is attending Friday and Saturday this year, wearing a different costume – called cosplaying – each day. Dressed in costume as DC Comics character Poison Ivy, she fell in love with the event the moment she saw the life-sized statues of charecters from the anime Dragon Ball Z. ![]() "My gift to myself is going to comic cons and having a good time, because that's what work is for."įor years, Jasmine Hayes's friends insisted she had go to New York Comic Con, but she never found the time, until last October. Besides his full-time job as an implication specialist and product manager for a software company, helping clients learn to use programs, he delivers food with UberEats. "You have to find ways to put money aside for this," he says. In 2018, he made $710 off a $40 exclusive signed comic – a habit that helps alleviate the stress on his bank account.Īlongside the New York event, Murillo now attends 10 to 12 comic cons each year across the US. ![]() To recoup some cash, he plans to sell some of his haul on eBay once he returns home. He will spend $400 to $600 for comic creators signitures, which can run from $5 to $60 $2,000 to $3,000 to get 40 to 60 comics "graded", or appraised $1,000 on other comics and $600 to $700 for after-parties and food. He expects to spend between $800 and $1,200 on convention-exclusive comics in the first hour alone, which cost $20 to $50 each. Gas and tolls back and forth to his home in Albany, New York, runs him $100, and parking is an additional $200. For this year's New York City event, a four-day pass costs $250 with fees and shipping a four-night stay in Times Square is $1,600. He was drawn in by the atmosphere as well as the mentality among the attendees: "We're all nerds there," he says. He worked as an operations specialist for a company that created DC and Marvel-licensed goods, and his boss had an extra ticket. Initally, he "didn't have any expectations," he says. He's gone every year since, except 2020, when the in-person gathering was cancelled due to the pandemic. It's worth it for the fans who return every year.ĭave Murillo, 37: $7,000 to $9,000 (£5,777 to £7,414)ĭave Murillo was a lapsed comic book fan, but rekindled his love when he attended his first New York Comic Con in 2016. Celebrity spottings are common: 2023's convention, which runs 12 to 15 October, will feature top names in entertainment, including Ewan McGregor and Chris Evans, who each played major characters in blockbuster films.įans spend big to get in on the fun – for some, the total runs into the thousands when accounting for costumes, tickets, travel and merchandise (think an $18,000 life-size light-up Iron Man statue, or a $30 Thor-hammer meat tenderiser). ![]() Today, roughly 200,000 fans gather at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, attending panels and swarming booths showcasing future releases in comics, video games and toys. The first New York Comic Con was held in 2006 with 33,000 attendees. These superheroes, winged creatures and anime characters are all on their way to New York Comic Con, the US east coast's massive ode to comic books and entertainment. For four days every October, New York City resembles something out of a science fiction movie – people dressed in elabourate, head-turning costumes pepper Manhttan's West Side.
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