The little convention that could

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Once upon a time there was a small convention held in a hotel in San Diego. And then it grew and grew…

…and this week coverage of the San Diego Con is on the front page of “Variety,” for God’s sake. “Variety.” The front page where, y’know, they cover the Oscars and stuff like that.

Geez. Some “geekfest,” huh?

PAD

7 comments on “The little convention that could”

  2. Heck, they handed out copies of Variety while I was waiting in the Industry registration line with preview articles about Comic-Con (including one written by Mark Evanier).

    Btw, official attendance numbers are out. 87,000, not including exhibitors.

  3. They were handing out copies of Variety at registration last year, too.

    Not that having the coverage on the front page isn’t really cool, by the way!

    TWL

  4. Perhaps more important than Variety’s coverage was what i saw on the way to the convention. The LA Times had a color picture of one of Alex Ross’s Superman portraits, and talked about how the director had walked from the film, and Warner was back to square one.

    That cast a pall over everything AOL Time Warner tried to do throughout the convention. One of my colleagues was treated with hostility when she wanted to tape the Warner Animation panel on audio tape alone.

    And if you think Time Warner lost the “AOL” in their company name, you haven’t been paying attention. This kind of glitch and mismanagement is exactly what you expect from AOL.

  5. That’s kind of odd… wasn’t it pre-San Diego by at least a week that Bryan Singer and most of the rest of the X2 team had signed on to write (and Singer to direct) the next Superman movie, and McG was the one who had walked?

    Seems like McG walking away from Superman was greeted as great news in most quarters.

  6. San Diego is the “little convention that could”. Now FCBD can be the “little comic book event that could”. See my comments in Talk Back at ICV2.com.
    In fact, if you look at things practically, FCBD and San Diego are almost bookends for the Summer season. Almost because of course the convention occurs too early for the end of Summer.

  7. Randy, you are right that the report came out a week before the con. However, the con is such an important part of the film business that the LA Times did the article in time for the con’s preview night.

    Curiously, though, there are few mainstream media types in the convention. I and my friends represented TOON Magazine. There are lots of web sites showing up there (often with their own booths). But you have a con with major celebs showing up, in front of live audiences for a change (remember most of these guys are film actors who never encounter real human beings) and no one coves it. What gives?

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