In the article Every Year of
Comic-Con in One Giant Timeline, the authors show the wonderful history behind
this popular exposition. The San Diego’s
Convention is one of the biggest pop-culture gatherings in the whole world. This
article post pictures in which revels that the San Diego Comic-Con wasn’t
always a big draw. In fact, when it was founded in 1970, its first iteration
took place in a basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel with just 145 attendees,
mostly of them were fans and booksellers like Ken Krueger. The event was known
as the San Diego Golden State Comic Mini-Con. The following year the newspaper
Los Angeles Times estimate that San Diego’s second con, only attracted 300 fans.
Still, the event was much more significant than its predecessor, attracting
comic book lights like Jack Kirby, one of the creators of characters like
Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Over the years this huge pop culture event was
gained popularity with the society. It turning in one of the most numbered and
important convention. The San Diego Comi-Con has expanded to include not just
readers of superhero comics, but fans of television, film and other pop
culture. The author believes that this convention has developed a reputation as
one of the hottest tickets in town. According
to Los Angeles Time this year’s attendance was 130,000-plus, hosted by the San
Diego Convention Center. The tickets were sold out in just 55 minutes. Super star actors and actress were invited as
honorable guest, such as Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Jeff Bridges, Paul Rudd, James
Spader, Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Ben Affleck. This small event turns in a masses attractor. This
is live pop culture.
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