{"id":6873,"date":"2025-10-17T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:22:09","slug":"fandom-takes-over-the-big-apple-at-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6873\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandom takes over the Big Apple at New York Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comics<\/a>, collectibles, and cosplay were all on display at the 2025 New York City Comic Con for one of the most exciting weekends in fandom.<\/p>\n

From October 9 through 12, over 250,000 convention goers visited the Javits Center to experience everything pop culture, from celebrity icons, comic creators, and creative cosplay.<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s biggest highlights included a wealth of celebrity panels, new announcements, exclusive previews, and trailer debuts across all forms of media, including HBO<\/a>\u2019s latest Game of Thrones<\/a> spinoff, \u2018A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,\u2019 AMC\u2019s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and voice actors from the iconic Avatar: The Last Airbender, celebrating 20 years of the famed animated series.<\/p>\n

Some of the biggest stars in the world made appearances throughout the weekend, including James McAvoy, Elliot Page, Sigourney Weaver, Shang-Chi star Simu Liu, and genre-defying musician turned comic book author Post Malone.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, we are reminded that New York Comic Con is more than a convention, it\u2019s a community.\u00a0 The energy and passion for pop culture that fans bring to this event is palpable and what makes it so special,\u201d Kristina Rogers, VP of ReedPop US Comics Portfolio, BookCon, and Star Wars<\/a> Celebration, told Newsweek. \u201cNYCC continues to set the standard for live events and the participation from studios, creators, and, of course, the fans, shows how powerful the community is in shaping the pop culture landscape.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYCC is a collector\u2019s paradise. The show floor included well over 650 exhibitors showing off exclusive wares just for con-goers. Funko<\/a>, Capcom<\/a>, Bandai, and Marvel<\/a> are among the marquee names on the show floor.<\/p>\n

Be a Hero, See a Hero<\/p>\n

For cosplayer Dominic Middleton from Memphis, Tennessee, the 1000-mile trip couldn\u2019t have been better. \u201cThe experience this year at NYCC was absolutely a great one indeed, even though it was a bit short cause I only attended 2 days. Going to NYCC has always been a great experience for me. From meeting new people, to seeing amazing cosplays, and to just geek out at some of the stuff you see, the experience is well worth it,\u201d the frequent con-goer told Newsweek via e-mail.<\/p>\n

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The convention\u2019s magnitude makes it one of the more \u201cexciting\u201d events to attend in the world of fandom, according to Middleton, \u201cOne thing for sure is that it’s definitely top 2 when it comes to size\/attendance. … NYCC is more commercial and mainstream than some of the others I go to. All the big companies you can think of are at NYCC. Marvel\/Disney<\/a>, DC\/WB, Crunchyroll<\/a>, Sony<\/a>, Nintendo<\/a>, Paramount, etc. It’s definitely one for the masses and you can find any and everything at NYCC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But for cosplayers and attendees, NYCC is more than just the merchandise on the floor, it\u2019s about community and connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year was a bit more special for me personally,\u201d said Middleton. \u201cOne was that I got to cosplay with one of my best friends as two of my favorite characters on one of the days we were there. Whenever I go to comic cons, 95% of the time I usually go by myself and meet up with some con friends and catch up with them for a bit. But with my best friend and I, we hung out the entire time we were there together, so it was great getting to spend some quality time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Comic Con, not only can you be your heroes, you can also see your heroes. This year\u2019s affair was a particularly meaningful one for Middleton, a Fantastic Four<\/a> superfan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI got to meet Ioan Gruffudd, who played Reed Richards\/Mr. Fantastic in the mid-2000s Fantastic Four movies. It was truly a special moment for me because of the impact those movies had on me as a kid. Those movies got me into reading comic books and help shape my love for the Fantastic Four that I have today. So getting to meet Ioan meant a lot to me, and getting to spend time with him for a few minutes chatting is going down as one of my top 3 Comic Con moments of all time.<\/p>\n

NYCC returns to the Javits Center on October 8 through 11 next year to celebrate its 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comics, collectibles, and cosplay were all on display at the 2025 New York City Comic Con for one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,2426,6127,5085,6129,6133,2434,2428,6132,6131,2431,9,6134,56,63,65,64,6135,6136,6128],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-capcom","tag-comic-con","tag-comics","tag-crunchyroll","tag-dc-comics","tag-disney","tag-fantastic-four","tag-funko","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-hbo","tag-marvel","tag-new-york","tag-nintendo","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sony","tag-star-wars","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}