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Since its inception in 1970, Comic-Con has called San Diego, California, home. Legend has it that the initial gathering was a small group of fans in a living room and the first official Comic-Con was attended by 145 people. Flash-forward to the 2009 event, where the attendance topped 125,000.
With its popularity and injection into the mainstream, Comic-Con—once an afterthought to Hollywood—has become the must-attend event for fans not only of comics, but film and television as well. Now everyone wants a piece of the pie.
The show's speedy growth has raised concerns that San Diego's Convention Center can't handle the traffic, and having attended Comic-Cons for the last four years, I can vouch for the worry. It's a mess—a beautiful mess, but a mess nonetheless.
Now, other cities are selflessly willing to take on the geek explosion (and the millions of dollars of local revenue that come with it) when Comic-Con's contract with San Diego expires in 2012, according to Variety. Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Anaheim have all volunteered themselves as possible new destinations for the overweight men who wear too-tight Superman costumes without shame.
Call me a traditionalist (though that wouldn't be fair, since I've only been to four Comic-Cons), but taking Comic-Con from San Diego seems like another step toward losing the convention's intrinsic appeal as a fan-centric event.
Imagine how much control the studios would have if Comic-Con was plopped right in the middle of Los Angeles or down the 5 in Anaheim. Comic-Con is a fan's event, and it's already getting too commercial. Putting the event in LA would be like leading lambs to the slaughter.
Las Vegas is a better choice, and it can certainly handle the flow. But Sin City has too many distractions that could take away from the fan events that occur when the convention shuts it doors for the night. And no one wants to see strippers with Dorito-fingerprints on them after relaxing the no-touch rule for a Spider-Man fan from Wisconsin.
A better solution would be to keep Comic-Con International in San Diego and put an emphasis on growing its little brothers, Comic-Con New York and WonderCon in San Francisco, to shoulder some of the weight that is being heaped on the main event.
Besides, there's something beautiful and redeeming about seeing a town that's so obsessed with beach bodies, tans, and backwards Hurley baseball hats get overrun with pale guys in Boba Fett costumes. I say keep Comic-Con in San Diego.
Yes!
No Way!Why leave Americas' Finest City!Unless they just want more money!
We have nerds in the midwest. But I know that they will never land in fly over land.
I agree kep Comic-Con in SD. It's were it was born and it should stay there until people stop liking Comic-related TV shows, movies, merchandise and of course Comic-books xP
I think Comic-con should move to Las Vegas... better hotels, more fun and a LOT of accomodation to choose from... in San Diego, it's basically paying too much for too little
Just a correction... Comic-Con New York is not owned by the company that owns San Diego Comic Con, which is Comic Con International. New York Comic Con is owned by Reed Conventions, who is technically a competitor.Reed owns New York Comic Con and the upcoming brand new Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (aka C2E2).Comic Con International, also referred to as CCI, owns San Diego Comic Con, Wonder Con, and Alternative Press Expo (which is referred to as APE). The former being in San Diego, and both the latter being in San Francisco.Also, San Diego isn't all beach bodies. There are THREE known comic book publishers located in and around San Diego, not to mention a couple of video game design companies and a trading card corporation. LA is full of those obsessed you mentioned... San Diego is downright awesome.I do hope they keep SDCC in San Diego. But I fear the only solution to that is to get rid of some of the commercial aspects that have tried to take over the show. SDCC needs to continue to be about comics, not things like movies that are usually unassociated with comics. We're seeing far too many comic entities being pushed out to make room for humongous booths from media companies promoting the latest ping pong ninja crap. But it'll never happen, we know....moreless
YEA COME TO TORONTO CANADA, Toronto is a huge popular city. Also CANADIANS ARE AWESOME and PEACEFUL
I want comic-con in canada toronto would be in ideal city
Well, since the world ends in 2012, I guess it doesn't matter.
wondercon in SF has already gotten bigger each year somewhat. i'd like to see it keep getting bigger. i don't know how i feel about comicon leaving SD, i agree it needs more space, but i think it should stay there.
I'm glad I have the NYC Comic con. But thats kinda what makes this story. If you move Comic con outta the Deigo, It'll be Comic con (location). won't be the same.
I want a comic con on the east coast!