NYCC 2023 Cosplay Gallery Part 3 By Adam Etheridge
As someone that has a professional background in quality, it’s natural for me to identify problems and give feedback regarding how to help solve and prevent them. At the same time, it’s important to recognize things that are done well. While New York Comic Con encounters new challenges every year, I’ve certainly seen improvement in many areas over the course of the decade or so that I’ve been attending the convention. In this article, I’ll be focusing on the things that NYCC does well.
Before any of us can experience what NYCC has to offer, we have to get into the building. For a convention that brings in around 200,000 attendees, they do a great job of getting all of those people into the Javits in a timely manner. The past couple of years when I attended as a “regular fan” with a single day badge, I got into the building in around 10-15 minutes. There have been much smaller conventions where attendees have waited much longer to get inside and enjoy the event. Time is money, and in my opinion, every moment that you’re waiting in line to be admitted, the value of your ticket/badge/membership is decreasing. More hours of enjoyment equals more value.
Speaking of hours, the first day of NYCC, Thursday, offers a full day of activities. Thursday’s show floor hours were 10:00am – 7:00pm, with artist’s alley being open until 8:00pm. This is NOT the case with quite a few other conventions. FAN EXPO does not admit attendees on the first day of their events until 2:00pm, and even that is only for certain badge types. Attendees purchasing general single day admission tickets don’t get in until 4:00pm. Anime NYC, a large anime convention held in the same venue as NYCC, does not begin until 2:00pm on its first day. Mind you, Anime NYC charges almost the exact same amount for admission as NYCC does, so I believe it’s more than fair to compare them. I would say that NYCC gives attendees more bang for their buck than most conventions.
New York Comic Con does everything BIG. The entire convention center is utilized for the event. Again, I’m going to mention Anime NYC in comparison, which splits the building with another event every year. The huge size and amount of content that NYCC offers gives a badge to the convention more value than other similar events.
There’s a lot to love about NYCC. There’s a reason why it draws so many fans, many of whom keep coming back year after year.
See you in NYC again next year, nerds.
Cosplayers in this final gallery are Sakuraharunogirl, angel_moon_cosplay, erisvu, liloldrachael, starlightgoddess_cosplay, ibealphotography, _i_am_kitty_cosplay, naught_3, relic_cosplay, think_geek_36, tiffanyjanelcosplay, kidkryptonite89, myratheoncosplay, the.buddy.holly, sammyxtorres18, abigaiil.morris, and many more.
We now use Smugmug to present cosplay photo galleries and will post all photos there, with a link to each gallery in its own gallery article. This will allow us to give you higher resolution images to download — still for free.
To view the entire gallery, just click on the image below. If you are pictured in any of our galleries, feel free to download the images and use them non-commercially on social media, with appropriate credit.
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Also, High-res images for sale is back!
If you are pictured in any of our galleries and want the high-resolution (3200 pixels at its widest by 300dpi) download for yourself, we can make it available via a private Smugmug link, for $10 per image. Just send an email to editor AT nerdcaliber.com. Currently limited to only photos taken by FirstPerson Shooter (aka Rodney Brown).
This was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, many of the characters being cosplayed here wouldn’t exist. Please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund here.
