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Boding Well for 2007

Via Tom Spurgeon at the Comics Journal blog, this article in ICv2 news about changes for next year's New York Comic-Con on February 23-25 has a lot of potentially good news, if organizers can follow through on it:

New York Comic-Con's exhibit floor will now occupy premium space on the top level of the Javits, with over twice the total square feet of the 2006 space, allowing twice as many booths and much wider aisles (the show had only 8-foot aisles throughout the exhibit floor in 2006, but will have 12- and 20-foot aisles in 2007)... Registration will be handled from twice the number of ticket counters. Only exhibitors and professionals will receive badges; other attendees will simply receive a bracelet showing they've paid. Separate lines will handle pre-registered attendees and those that are registering on-site. Fans that pre-register online will be able to show their bar-coded registration, have it scanned, and be quickly issued a bracelet. Pre-registered exhibitors and professionals will have their credentials mailed out in advance, allowing them to bypass onsite registration.

Robin and I were always going to attept to attend this con once more in 2007; as we technically live in the city I think we'd be foolish not to try again. If they can pull off these improvements, finances permitting we may even consider purchasing artist alley space...