San Diego Comic Con 50 How It Became The Mecca Of Conventions
Whether you know it best as San Diego Comic-Con, Comic-Con, or SDCC, for more than 130,000 people annually, Comic-Con International: San Diego is the show for fandom. There were cons held before SDCC (New York Comicon, 1964), and there are larger ones (Comiket in Japan, with more than half a million attendees), but the San Diego-based nonprofit event, celebrating its 50th, is The Con. Each year, San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter is overtaken by fans celebrating pop culture, an entertainment industry seeking to generate buzz, and media outlets from all over the world covering it....