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San Diego Comic-Con 2008
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San Diego Comic-Con International is officially underway here in Southern California, and ComicMix is on location to bring you everything you need to know -- and some things you might not realize you needed to know -- about the people, places and geekery that make it one of the most feared anticipated events of the year for fans of comics and comics culture.
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News Articles Featured in San Diego Comic-Con 2008
Sun Jul 13, 2008 — by Van Jensen
Comic-Con 2008 Programming
Finalized schedule listed for each day.
Half of the four-day schedule for San Diego's Comic-Con International 2008 is up and running.
Here's Thursday. Here's Sunday.
Obviously, much cool stuff to choose from. Too much cool stuff, in fact. Makes me almost not sad that I won't make it this year (watch out 2009!).
While we're on the subject, Variety has a retrospective of the early days of Comic-Con, when film people had little idea how to relate to comics fans.
Although it was more than 30 years ago, for example, I keenly recall a preview of the 1978 feature "Superman
," where the studio rep described the campy villain Lex Luthor, played by Gene Hackman, as a real-estate mogul, not a master criminal. He was practically hooted off the stage.
Gradually, the studios started to wise up, hiring publicists specifically trained to handle Comic-Con's savvy but easily riled audience. When Ridley Scott's space-horror film "Alien
Thu Jul 10, 2008 — by Van Jensen
Comic Con 2008: Going, Going, Gone
Friday and Saturday sold out at San Diego
Plenty to look forward to for people headed to San Diego for Comic Con International 2008, at least as long as you already have tickets.
According to the CCI Web site, single-day passes for both Friday and Saturday are sold out, as are four-day passes.
Sounds like more proof positive of the idea brought up by Laura Hudson in this Publishers Weekly story, that Comic Con has possibly grown too large for its own good.
Even publishers aren't sure if they'll make it inside:
Exhibitors are also feeling the pinch as they compete for limited space on the convention floor. At the recommendation of fire marshals, aisles in the giant halls D and E were widened, meaning there's even less available acreage overall. As a result, many professionals and publishers, including book publishing giant HarperCollins, are still on a waiting list for a booth only weeks before the show opens—and unlikely to come off of it.
