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San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, since 1970. The event's official name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego, but is more commonly known as Comic-Con, the San Diego Comic-Con, or the abbreviation SDCC.
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The San Diego Convention Center is the primary convention...
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San Diego Comic-Con International, a multigenre...
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- Humble Beginnings
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- Massive Growth in A Global Market
- Fans Are Still at Its Heart
The Comic-Con Mission Statement, prominently displayed on the homepage, reads as follows: “The SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION (Comic-Con International) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art for...
The SDCC’s stated mission seems now like an obviously noble pursuit in an age in which comic book adaptations like Joker and Black Panther have earned Best Picture nominations, and when pop culture in general has become more accepted by highbrow culture (once strictly the fancy-pants domain of literature, drama, opera, classical music, painting, sc...
Attendance was steady throughout the 1980s at 5,000 to6,000 people a year, then exploded in the 1990s, increasing from 13,000 in 1990 to 42,000 in 1999. The nascent internet and its mind-boggling new organizing and communicating capabilities played a role, but so did the corporatization of popular culture — the horizontal integration of franchise c...
But while the enterprise is about profit, it’s hardly all cynical. SDCC has directed enormous revenue and exposure toward thousands of filmmakers, authors, artists, actors, and ancillary businesses without massive name brand recognition, some of whom owe their livelihoods to it. And if the idea that any of this is for “charity” provokes titters, th...
The San Diego Comic-Con started when a bunch of sci fi, comic book and movie fans got together in a hotel ballroom. That was 50 years ago. Now it's one of the biggest pop culture events in...
Jul 19, 2022 · By: Claudia Amezcua. Posted at 5:03 PM, Jul 19, 2022. and last updated 5:03 PM, Jul 19, 2022. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – With San Diego Comic-Con just around the corner, what better time to...
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Jul 19, 2017 · July 19, 2017. San Diego Comic-Con has become one of the most influential – and enduring – pop culture events of all time. Alan Light. One fall afternoon in 1969, a heavyset 36-year old man...
- Chris Chafin
Jul 18, 2013 · San Diego Comic-Con was founded by comic book artist and letterer Shel Dorf, comic book storeowner Richard Alf, and publisher Ken Krueger. They wanted to give Southern California its first...
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Jul 13, 2022 · Comic-Con is the San Diego Convention Center’s largest convention. With an annual attendance of over 130,000, Comic-Con boasts such a large crowd that nearby hotel bookings for the week...
