Comic Con will team up with the New York Anime Festival this weekend at the Javits Center (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th St. (11th Ave. between 34th & 39th Sts.)
October 13-16
Friday Pass $35, Saturday Pass $45 (sold out), Sunday Pass $35, three-day pass $65, four-day pass $85
www.newyorkcomiccon.com
New York Comic Con and the New York Anime Festival arrive in town this week, continuing to grow in its sixth year after nearly one hundred thousand people showed up in 2010. Expanded to four days, this year’s festival features such special guests as actors and comedians Judah Friedlander, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, David Cross, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, Eliza Dushku, Chris Elliot, Maggie Q, Mark Hamill, Patton Oswalt, Seth Meyers, James Marsters, Kristen Schaal, Seth Green, and Rose McGowan and such comic-book writers, artists, and graphic novelists as Robert Kirkman, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Joe Kubert, Joe Simon, Neal Adams, David Mazzucchelli, Tara McPherson, Ron English, Tom Morello, and Stan Lee. Saturday is already sold out, but you can still get a four-day pass in addition to day passes on Friday and Sunday. After October 11, prices on all tickets go up, so get yours now. Below are just some of the many highlights of this terrifically geeky nerd-fest.
Thursday, October 13
NYCC Kick-Off Concert with Headliner DJ Z-Trip and Tom Morello as the Nightwatchman, IGN Theater, 7:30 (VIP and four-day passes only)
Friday, October 14
Robot Chicken, with Doug Goldstein, Matthew Seinrich, Seth Green, and Zeb Wells, IGN Theater, 5:15
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Live Podcast, IGN Theater, 7:00 (additional $10-$35 tickets needed for entry)
Charity Comic Art Auction benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Room 1B03, 7:45-9:45
Saturday, October 15
Nikita Special Video Presentation and Q&A, with Lyndsy Fonseca, Shane West, and Maggie Q, IGN Theater, 2:45
AMC’s The Walking Dead, with Robert Kirkman, IGN Theater, 5:15
Marvel Studios: Marvel’s The Avengers, with Chris Evans, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Feige, and Tom Hiddleston, IGN Theater, 6:30
MTV Presents Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head, with Mike Judge, MTV Theater, Room 1A10, 7:30
Tell Your Friends! The Live Show! with Christian Finnegan, Janeane Garofalo, Kristen Schaal, Liam McEeaney, and Rob Paravonian, Room 1A02, 9:00
Sunday, October 16
Conan Spotlight with Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, and Rose McGowan, Romm 1A22, 10:00 am
IFC’S Portlandia and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, with Carrie Brownstein, David Cross, Fred Armisen, H.Jon Benjamin , and Seth Meyers, MTV Theater, Room 1A10, 11:00 am