2006: A great UGLY DOLL appearance, a life size Batman made of Legos, and access to some amazing comics creators. I ws able to procure sketches from David Lloyd, Tim Elred, Jerry Ordway, Coleen Doran, and many more.
2007: Worked the UVC booth as a photographer. Degrasi’s Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Mick Foley, great panels for Kappa Mickey and Hellboy Animated, amazing booth activation for ZODIAC, amazing booths by Tokyopop, a huge Pikachu, exclusive special sketches from Craig Tousseau, Eric Wight, Raina Tegelmeier, Rob Walton
2008: Went as press, Shappy hosted a show, got to hang with my buddy Orenthal, a huge HULK, an original sketch from Tokidoki. Compared to 2007, although the still huge at the time G4 was on the show floor and there were major guest surprises, the show floor was less.
2009: Excellent wrestling guests, the custom toys started, video games were big [SEGA and Rockstar among others}, a huge FAKER from He-Man, an amazing piece by Jim Mahfood, Robot Chicken as so huge the line for Seth Green and Breckin Meyer was moved to the auto garage, the show went big after the years quiet previous.
2010: A hard hitting year with press, Ubisoft had a huge Michael Jackson booth, Nathan Sawaya had an exhibit of Lego through the floor, Kirby Krackle, Iverna Lopez, Ron English, Green Hornet, an after party with MF Doom, Corey Feldman, Rob Corddry and the the first year of AMC’s The Walking Dead, promoted with extreme fanfare which paid off
2011: A huge Jake and Finn of Adventure Time baloon, the retun of JEM, booth activations for Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Batman Arkham City, Rayman. Tom Morello concert. Press sessions with Diamond Dallas Page, Corbin Bernsen, the cast of the series HUSBANDS, Venture Bros, the custom toy and art secton still being amazing, a Cartoon Network/Adult Swim session where I got a prized sketch by Pen Ward and JG Quintell.
2012: Another huge year of cool press with The Kroll Show, Dirty Work, Chris Hardwick, HUSBANDS, Booker T. Helped film the never finished Gritty Chimp [adult swim] documentary, big displays for Sleeping Dogs, Hitman, an art show for Assassin’s Creed and for Masters of the Universe, a big Aliens display.
2013:Press highlights include Zoe Bell, Robot Chicken, The Heart She Hollers, HUSBANDS, Mob City, Leprechaun. Secret Walls had a great presence. The Walking Dead Art exhibit offiste was this year. Brian Posehn and others performed live. I met cartoonist and friend Mady G for the first time as they cosplayed from Venture Bros., South Park: The Stick of Truth had an amazing booth.
2014: WETA had a huge booth. I attended the show on some days with family, The Wikia Fantasy Food Truck, a viking ship from How To Train Your Dragon, Chvrolet with a transforming Bumblebee, Rick and Morty press, Mike Tyson, more Heart She Hollers, [adult swim] Tyrannic where I was joined by my two best friends in the world (RIP David Shifren).
2015: Superman V Batman display, amazing cosplay, press sessions with the cast of The Librarians, From Dusk Till Dawn, Venture Bros., Regular Show, Jon Glaser, Nick Robinson in front of an amazing Jurassic World set, an amazing Back to the Future celebration, a performance at UCB with Jervis Cottonbelly,. This would be the last NYCC I got to attend for awhile. Circumstances of finances, life, press denial, etc. would delay me going back again, but I still got stuff in of Reedpop through Book Expo/Book Con and offsites in following years.
2016: I did not attend NYCC but I did go to a Playcrafting event, an afterparty for it and on a seperae day the [adult swim] boat where I hung out with Stephan Merchant, Tom Scharpling, Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartely.
2017: Did not attend again but I went to the Freeform Bodega across the street, the Mr. Robot ARG party and a Boris Vallejo exhibit where I also met Julie Bell. These events were attached to NYCC even though you didn’t need a badge for them. I also got lucky to see friends like David and Charles.
2018: Life got away from this year. I was planning a trip to Boston. Organizing production and promotion for a wrestling company. NYCC had to take a back seat sadly, financially and mentally.
2019: I had actually JUST gotten back from Twitchcon and a full week in San Diego. I was conventioned out, I was social battery wiped out, I was not ready to do NYCC again even I wanted to.
2020: There was No New York Comic Con. One could say this is actually NOT the 20th year, but I guess we are celebrating the 20th year since the start in 2006. Plus it was Covid, which
2021: I have no idea where I was or what I was doing, there is no record on socials or my personal records for this year, but many of us were still being Covid careful. I was booking wrestling, go to the art shows, but what I was doing during NYCC that year? No clue.
2022: My big return to the show, completely by choice. I learned of some of the happening for this show fairly early and this show floor was amazing. Batwheels, Marvel SNAP, Garbage Pail Kids, Wonders of Xandar- A Guardians of the Galaxy Popup from Disneyland/World, S.T.A.R. Labs from TITANS, Monster High The Movie, Teen Wolf, The Peripheral. All immersive art experiences with acting, visuals, giveaways. This was a dream of a convention as pop-culture convention.
2023: I waited to here if 2023 would have as much stuff as 2022 that blew me away, it didn’t happen. It was very Anime focused and I couldn’t quantify a return.
2024: This year was like 2022 and years prior that made excited. Big booth activations from Dexter, Creature Commados, Walmart (with Atlas Comics, TMNT and more), the premiere of Thrilljoy. I also went to the FANDOM party and made new friends.
2025: I went to Denver for Casa Bonita and Convergence Station (plus Stanley Manor, Elitch Gardens and more) and then Seattle for PAX West. By the time NYCC came along I wasn’t ready. I had a busy October as a member of SAG attending films for nominating consideration, wrestling shows galore. I do wish I had been there but…
2026: I will be. My mothers health had gone to a state where going to anything out of state is a no go. I am fortunate that my Las Vegas trip worked and my mom made it through very lackluster care (when hired they were not). This NYCC though with its Coney Island USA theme and being the 20th year. I just had to go for it as being my only other “vacation” this year. I may also go to the Mermaid Parade as NYCC is the sponsor. I have some wrestling shows in NYC but New York Comic Con 2026 is my BIG thing this year and looking back on 2006-2015, the 2016 outside spots and my experiences in 2022 and 2024, I’m pumped.
