Convention News

The convention center in which Comic-Con International convenes in San Diego is getting a much-needed expansion but not fast enough. I'm a bit fuzzy on when it was to be completed but it ain't gonna be done by then, whenever then was.

Comic-Con is committed to San Diego through 2016. I have long predicted that it will remain there long after that and I hold to that prediction. Yes, we've had two splendid WonderCons run by the same crew in Anaheim and to some, the notion that Comic-Con might someday relocate there doesn't sound quite as impossible (or undesirable) as it once did. On the other hand, can you imagine the price of a hotel room and the density of traffic on the freeway if they held Comic-Con adjacent to Disneyland in the middle of July? Forget my running joke about how if you want a parking space for Comic-Con, leave six months early. If Comic-Con 2017 is in Anaheim in July, leave now.