Recap: New York Comic Con 2016

WOW! This year's New York Comic Con was a blast! I'm still recovering from standing and talking for pretty much nearly five days straight. We usually drive in very early to the show on Thursday morning, but this year I was asked to be a part of an event on Wednesday evening at Society of Illustrators, so we arrived a day early and brought in our booth materials on Wednesday to the Javits Center.

On Thursday afternoon I did a signing at the National Cartoonists Society booth and hung out with Ed Steckley and Ray Alma.

This is Alicia supporting our Heart Comics shirt she purchased last year at #NYCC. This year she picked up our new book French Fry Club (we are unfortunately now sold out at @newyorkcomiccon and Alicia picked up the last copy). We have a few Heart Comics shirts available. We have two more issues left of The Legettes left! We also have prints, Curls comic strip collection, Black Magic Tales comic book, stickers, buttons, and more! Visit Booth 1162 in the Small Press section (lower ceiling area on the show floor) today until 5:00PM. #nycc2016 #comiccon #comics #FrenchFryClub #soldout #curlsstudio #tour #heartcomics #fan

A photo posted by Carolyn Belefski (@carolynbelefski) on Oct 9, 2016 at 9:09am PDT

I was excited to meet new people and recognize new faces and stayed at the booth the majority of the time. I did not attempt to go to any panels, but was able to break away to catch glimpses of Frank Miller, Gerard Way, Ric Flair, Mick Foley, Noelle Foley, Christian, Jerry Lawler, and Joey Styles. Luckily their booths were not too far away so it took little time away from the booth.

We sold out of all the copies we had of our new comic, French Fry Club! And we also sold out of all copies of The Legettes. I still have a very limited supply of the Heart Comics shirts, so if you are interested in getting a shirt, please check them out at the online store: http://www.carolynbelefski.com/store

Overall, NYCC is a tremendous show and we hope to be back next year in our same booth #1162! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say hi or who purchased our comics and merchandise. We really appreciate you all. I suspect we'll record a recap podcast soon, so be on the lookout for that audio soon here.

More NYCC photos are available for viewing on the Curls Studio Facebook page. Give us a "like" while you are there.

The next event I'm organizing is the Cartoonists Draw Blood drive with the American Red Cross on Saturday, October 29, 2016. I plan to post more details about that event soon and we hope to see you there!