San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970.
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16 Facts About Comic-Con International
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Comic-Con International 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.
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Since 1974, Comic-Con International has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award on guests and persons of interest in the popular arts industries, as well as on members of Comic-Con International's board of directors and the Convention committee.
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Comic-Con International has been canceled twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Comic-Con International returned later that year with a scaled back version of itself in November 2021, marketed as "Comic-Con International Special Edition".
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Comic-Con International is a non-profit organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as SAM: Storytelling Across Media and WonderCon.
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Academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con International, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium.
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Comic-Con International has served as the setting for Mark Hamill's Comic Book: The Movie, and for an episode of the HBO television series Entourage, the latter of which, while set at the event, was not filmed there.
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In season 5, episode six, of the Showtime show Weeds, attendees from Comic-Con International 2009 are seen in Silas and Doug's medicinal marijuana club.
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Comic-Con International featured at some length in the 2011 movie Paul which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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The fifth Kelly Green graphic novel The Comic-Con International Heist written by Leonard Starr and drawn by Stan Drake was set at the 1983 con and depicted such regulars as Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Burne Hogarth and Jack Kirby along with Shel Dorf; it initially only appeared in French until Classic Comics Press issued a collection of all five volumes of the series in English in 2016.
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Comic-Con International is mentioned in the long-running CBS geek-targeted sitcom The Big Bang Theory in several episodes, and in NBC's Chuck in the episode "Chuck Versus the Sandworm", as an event the characters enjoy attending.
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In "It's My Party and I'll Bang If I Want To", an episode of the 2011 season of The Real World: San Diego, the cast attends Comic-Con International made up as zombies in order to pass out promotional flyers for the House of Blues, where they worked as part of their season work assignment.
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The podcast is a six-part mini-series chronicling the birth and evolution of the San Diego Comic-Con International, and is told by over 50 of the original contributors.
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The Comic-Con International Magazine debuted as Update in July 2005 and mainly focused on the winners of the Eisner Awards.
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Comic-Con International announced that 4-day passes for the 2014 convention would no longer be available and only single days would be sold.
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