Ahoy, I'm Peter Tatara. In brief, I'm left-handed, a vegetarian, and my blood type is A. I work for the New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival and have a cute girlfriend and a Space: Above & Beyond boxset. I'm generally a happy guy.
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Kyle Cassidy Snaps Photos at NYAF!
Wanna hear something cool? Photographer Kyle Cassidy will be shooting portraits of fans for an upcoming gallery show at the New York Anime Festival. Kyle's most recent book is "Who Killed Amanda Palmer", created with author Neil Gaiman. You can find out more about Kyle on his blog at www.kylecassidy.com and see his fan photos from Worldcon 2009 at http://tinyurl.com/lfse9x
Kyle will be taking photos from 2 to 5 PM on Friday, September 25 in NYAF Room 1A01. Everybody's welcome, and all images will be available for download later.
NYAF and NYCC in 2010!
Early in the year, we put out a Press Release announcing C2E2: The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and New York Comic Con's move to the fall. We just put out a Press Release speaking about what this means for the New York Anime Festival -- traditionally held in the fall as well.
In short, NYCC and NYAF will be co-locating in 2010.
Want more details? We're launching the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in April 2010, and we moved NYCC to a permanent October date, thus providing a spring and fall balance to these two key events which will remain in place as we move forward. With NYAF, rather than create a third date for the show, it was decided a co-location would be better for anime fans, professionals, exhibitors, and partners. We looked at a lot of options, alternate venues, and alternate times, but nothing gelled. Instead, what made more and more sense was combining it with NYCC, and we spoke to attendees and exhibitors of both shows before making this decision, and everyone agrees that this will provide an opportunity for both shows to further grow and prosper.
The jointly-held New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival 2010 will occupy virtually the entire Jacob K. Javits Center. Both shows will maintain distinct guests and programming space and share a common show floor. And, more importantly for attendees, fans will be able to attend both shows for the price of one -- as a ticket to NYCC 2010 will also provide access to NYAF 2010 and vice versa. Re-read that last sentence. That's right. Really.
We'll have a lot more details about the co-location in the future, as it means a lot of new and exciting things for both NYCC and NYAF, but -- most importantly -- we wanted to make this announcement now before NYAF 2009 so there's not an "OMG! WTF!" storm when people open up the Program Guide and see the new dates.
AKB48 Concert Tickets!
Japan's biggest idol group in every sense of the word -- AKB48 -- will be coming to NYAF this year, performing a small concert, panel, and autographing on Saturday, September 26 at the Javits. Then, on Sunday, September 27 is the main event -- AKB48 taking over the Grand Ballroom at Webster Hall New York City!
Doors open at 4 PM, and the concert kicks off at 5. It’ll be a historic event, and it’ll be a free event – as AKB48 is giving away all the tickets to the concert to fans via an online giveaway! All you need to do is enter to win at the AKB48 Concert Page at nyanimefestival.com...
http://www.newyorkanimefestival.com/en/Events/AKB48-Tickets/
From now until 11:59 PM EST on September 21, just sign up to be in the running to win free tickets to AKB48's NYC debut! Each winner will win a pair of tickets to the show! AKB48 will be picking winners randomly, we’ll be reaching out to them from September 22 to September 25, and winners will be able to pick up their AKB48 concert tickets at the AKB48 Booth (Booth 115) at the New York Anime Festival. (You'll need a NYAF Badge to get in.)
Tickets will not be sold to the AKB48 concert, and all public tickets will be distributed through this online giveaway.
Ganbatte!
(VIPs and Press, how do you get tickets? Check the Ticket page for all you need to know.)
Brooklyn Book Fest This Weekend!
Just a reminder that this year's Brooklyn Book Festival (brooklynbookfestival.org) is going on this Sunday at Brooklyn Borough Hall. From 10 to 6, it's a celebration of literacy in all its forms. And, for the first time, New York Comic Con is taking part with a stage and whole section of exhibitors dedicated to comics and graphic novels. Check out nycomiccon.com for all our guests and panels.
Oh, and it's free. That's right. Free. You heard me. Free.
Roland Kelts comes to NYAF!
I have the great honor of announcing that Roland Nozomu Kelts will be attending this year's NYAF! Roland is a half-Japanese American writer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo and publishes in both English and Japanese. He is the author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US. He is also a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, a contributing editor and writer for "Adbusters" magazine and "A Public Space" literary journal, and a columnist for "The Daily Yomiuri" in Japan. His essays and stories can be found in the books "A Wild Haruki Chase," "Gamers," "Kuhaku," "Playboy's College Fiction," "Tokyo Art Space," "Zoetrope" and others.
He is the Editor in Chief of the "Anime Masterpieces" screening and discussion series.
His forthcoming novel is called "Access," and when he is not writing, reading, lecturing or traveling, he can be found playing the drums in his band.
Mr. Kelts will appear at NYAF to introduce Yoshiyuki Tomino on his Friday panel as well as moderate AKB48's Saturday panel and Sunday's Yui Makino Q&A.
