San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con International is the comic book convention together with nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, United States since 1970. a name, as condition on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is ordinarily known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or "SDCC".

The convention was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a companies of San Diegans that mentioned Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Ron Graf, as well as Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention", Dorf said during an interview that he hoped the first Con would bring in 500 attendees. this is the a four-day event Thursday–Sunday held during the summer in July since 2003 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the official opening, professionals, exhibitors, and pre-registered guests for any four days can attend a pre-event "Preview Night" to administer attendees the possibility to walk the exhibit hall and see what will be usable during the convention.

Comic-Con International also produces WonderCon, held in Anaheim, and SAM: Storytelling Across Media, a conference held in 2016 in San Francisco and beginning in 2018 annually at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. Since 1974, Comic-Con has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award on guests and persons of interest in the popular arts industries, as alive as on members of Comic-Con's board of directors and the Convention committee. it is for also the home of the Will Eisner Awards.

Originally showcasing primarily comic books and science fiction/fantasy related film, television, and similar popular arts, the convention has since refers a larger range of pop culture and entertainment elements across virtually any genres, including horror, Western animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels. In 2010 and used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters year subsequently, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees. In addition to drawing huge crowds, the event holds several Guinness World Records including the largest annual comic and pop culture festival in the world.

SDCC had been canceled twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The year 2020 marked the first time that SDCC had missed a year since its establishment.

Events

Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films and portfolio review sessions with top comic book and video game companies. The evenings put events such(a) as awards ceremonies, the annual Masquerade costume contest, and the Comic-Con International self-employed grownup Film Festival, which showcases shorts and feature-length movies that form not name distribution or distribution deals.

Traditional events add an eclectic film program, screening rooms devoted to Japanese animation, gaming, programs such as cartoonist Scott Shaw!'s "Oddball Comics" slide show, Quick Draw! hosted by Mark Evanier with Shaw!, Sergio Aragones and a customer cartoonist responding to improvisational prompts and games a la Whose shape Is It Anyway? and animation a adult engaged or qualified in a profession. Jerry Beck's script featuring TV's "worst cartoons ever", as alive as over 350 hours of other programming on all aspects of comic books and pop culture.

Like almost comic book conventions, Comic-Con qualities a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such(a) as movie studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers and collectibles merchants. And like almost comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an autograph area, as well as the Artists' Alley where comics artists canautographs and sell or do free sketches. Despite the name, artists' alleys can include writers and even models.

Academics and comic industry experienced annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium.

In recent years, the number of television shows that are promoted far outnumber films. During the 2011 convention, at least 80 TV shows were represented, compared to about 35 films. The shows not only promote in the exhibit halls, but also usage screenings and panels of various actors, writers, producers, and others from their shows.

Premium cable channels HBO and Showtime have used the con to promote programs like Game of Thrones HBO, Dexter Showtime, Shameless Showtime and True Blood HBO.

In 2013, there were 1075 or done as a reaction to a question panels held during the convention, the plurality of which were anime-focused 29%, followed by comic-focused panels 26%. 1036 vendors participated in the convention in 2013.

There are at least 17 separate rooms in the convention center used for panels and screenings, ranging in size from 280 seats to 6,100 seats. The two biggest are Ballroom 20, which seats approximately 4,900; and Hall H, which seats just over 6,100.

The neighboring Hilton Bayfront is also used, with its main ballroom Indigo seating up to 2,600. The other neighboring hotel, the Marriott Marquis & Marina, also hosts a lot of Comic-Con activity. Among other things, the hotel serves as the anime headquarters and is where the nighttime films are shown.