A few weeks ago here, we had the tough task of saying goodbye to a great guy and a fine writer-researcher, Bill Schelly. One of the last big things Bill wrote and researched was a long, expertly-crafted history of Comic-Con International in San Diego. It was commissioned for and published in the souvenir book for the 50th Comic-Con last July.
Inevitably, a few folks have carped that they felt they and their contributions should have been mentioned more expansively but if you leave that aside, no one seems to have serious quibbles with Bill's reporting or with his judgment calls on what constituted a major event or deed. I sure don't. If you want to know how that wonderful annual gathering came to be, you'll want to give it a read…and now, you don't need to score a copy of that souvenir book to do so. The convention folks have posted a PDF of Bill's article online and you can get it right here.