Location
- Dec 16 2023
- Expired!
The Big Apple Christmas Con
Saturday December 16, 2023
The New Yorker Hotel, 481 8th Ave @ 34th St.
Big Apple Comic Con “Christmas Con,” Saturday, December 16th 2023, 10am-7pm (early admission 9am)
General Admission $35;
VIP Admission $85;
Kids under 14 $15, Kids under 10 are Free.
Big Apple Comic Convention, NYC’s original comic con now in our 27th year, is proud to announce our 4th Annual Christmas Con, a party convention with loads of gifts, prizes, and special events to celebrate Christmas and NYC’s all season love affair with the world of comics and pop culture collectibles with our fans. It’s a Christmas Party.
The BACC Christmas Con features over 100 exhibitors, plus artists, guests, and cosplayers, with a special focus on talented up and coming artists from the NYC area.
Guests include:
- Jim Steranko, pantheon author and artist, whose real surreal imagry transformedcomic book visual art,
- Ink Pot award winning Artist, Actor, Author, Larry Hama, ( Joe, The ‘Nam, and Bucky O’Hare)
- Eisner Award winner Jim Rugg (creator of Street Angel) (Street Angel kicks butt, the coolest stuff ever).
- Eisner Award winner Ed Piskor(creator of the world phenomena Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus) (Every modern family should have a copy,. A great gift and get it signed too).
- Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor host the super popular You Tube program Cartoon Kayfabe!(If you ain’t listening you ain’t thinking comics. The inimitable award winning.
- Bill Tucci creator of Shi (4 million copies sold) A Child is Born(perfect gift for Christmas)
- Alitha Martinez2018 Eisner Award, and GLAAD Media Award winner (World of Wakanda). Innovative, versatile (Iron Man, Moon Girl, Black Panther, Nubia, Archie), a complete master of the craft and culture, Alitha’s unique style and humane vision emerge whatever subject she creates.
- Underground Comic artist/author legendPaul Kirchner (Awaiting the Apocalypse, Dope Rider, The Bus)
- Indie comic cult icon Ken LandgrafNew York City Outlaws, Strangers, Blind Justice, Ink Zeitgeist, Apocalypse 5000, Atomic Hercules. (If you think out of the box, you gonna find Ken been there for time).
- Master artist andinker of hundreds of comics, from Marvel to DC and back Keith Williams.
- Artist and editor Sean Chen for Valiant he produced X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, and Rai and the Future Force (RFF #9, sold over 900,000 copies). The for Marvel he drew Iron Man for over three years, along with Wolverine, Elektra, and the maxi-series X-Men: The End.. (The next master blaster!).
- Lou Manna , Thunder Agents, The Young All Stars, Infinity Agents, is a consummate stylist.
- Mahdi Khene,indie publisher, musician, is the creator of the remarkably alternative Bootleg Spiderman, and Steel Streets (Ho Ho Ho, new stuff happinin’)
- We also will have the MAD Magazine, forever in our minds visionary artist of. Spy vs.SpyEisner Award winner Peter Kuper (Anyone ever read Mad needs to meet this man)
Also, Skateboard legend, author, actor, and musician for Black Flag Mike Vallely, will be signing your deck and his new graphic novel bio Blvd of the Eagles
Yes, the rumors are true, Santa Claus will arrive at the 40th floor of New Yorker Hotel and slide down the chimney (elevator) with a huge bag of gifts for our little fans. Of course, our rightfully famous Cosplay contest, and an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest, with prizes by our partner Ultimate Wireless.
The BACC is an essential NYC comic book and pop culture collectible event, a national hub for collectors and traders, with 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 @34th St).