Comic-Con happens each year in New York City, and is the premier media convention on the East Coast (aside from Otakon in the summer). But originally, the festival occupying the Jacob Javits Center every autumn was not Comic-Con, but the New York Anime Festival, originally the Big Apple Anime Festival. However, BAAF’s last official year was 2003, and support in the New York area has dwindled in the stead of the rising popularity of Comic-Con. The two are now held simultaneously in the same building.