What is Comic-Con and why is it in San Diego? Here's what you need to know.
Toward the end of July every summer, Comic-Con shakes up downtown San Diego. This year, the event will run from July 21 to July 24, with a preview night on July 20. After celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019, the in-person convention was canceled for two years due to COVID-19. A virtual alternative called “Comic-Con@home” was held instead.
, the first San Diego Comic-Con took place in the basement of the U.S Grant Hotel in the summer of 1970. The allure of the convention lay in the community it attracted. Just shy of 300 people crowded together to watch legends like comic creator Jack Kirby and sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury speak, to trade comics and to bond over their love for various characters. There were only two adults involved in that first convention, as a majority of the convention committee consisted of passionate teenagers.
This is the San Diego Convention Center along Harbor Drive in downtown on February 18, 2020 in San Diego, California. Measure C, a hotel tax hike on the March 3rd ballot, will raise money for a major convention center expansion, homelessness and road repairs.The convention was held at a handful of different venues during its earlier years, but established the San Diego Convention center as its home back in 1991.
Names can be deceiving; while Comic-Con was founded with the intent of spreading comic love and appreciation, as times changed, so did the convention. It has come to encapsulate everything under the umbrella of pop culture: films, TV shows, cosplay, collectibles and more. Of course, there is still a thread of comic book fervor at the heart of this convention, and there are usually comic book sellers dotted around the main exhibit hall.
Sesame Street cast members, Eric Jacobson, left with Grover, Ryan Dillon, with Elmo, and Matt Vogel, right, who is the Count, during the Sesame Street at 50 panel discussion on day three of the Comic-Con International Convention, July 20, 2019, at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, California.A Comic-Con badge allows fans to peruse the vast exhibit hall, which typically features a sea of well-known vendors such as Lego and Funko, as well as tons of independent businesses.
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