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The virtual fest will be scaled down to a three-day event, taking place July 23-25, 2021, because the multiple postponements of Comic-Con and WonderCon have left the organization with “limited ...
September 9: . A copy of the first issue of Spider-Man is sold for the record-breaking prize of 3.6 million dollars. [29]A scandal breaks out in Ontario, Canada, when it is revealed that in 2019 30 schools have burned or removed 5,000 children's books, novels, encyclopedias and comics, for depicting "prejudice against indigenous peoples."
[7] [8] In March 2021, Informa acquired Denver Pop Culture Con, which was rebranded as Fan Expo Denver. [9] In August 2021, Informa acquired Wizard Entertainment's conventions; all of its remaining events for 2021 were cancelled, barring Wizard World Chicago (which was held in October 2021 as the final Wizard World-branded event). All six of ...
Also in 2019, festival founder Lotay was given the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at the Eisner Awards ceremony, held at San Diego Comic-Con. [21] The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; [22] it returned to in-person status in November 2021. [20] In 2022, festival founder Tula Lotay announced she was stepping down as ...
After going virtual during the pandemic, San Diego Comic-Con is back with plenty of star-studded panels as it resumes in-person events for the first time in two years, from Thursday, July 21 to ...
January 20: Legendary comics writer René Goscinny receives a statue in Paris. He is the first comics artist to be honoured this way in the French capital. [1] [2]January 28: A cartoon by Niels Bo Bojesen in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten causes a diplomatic incident with the Chinese embassy for depicting the Chinese flag, with its yellow stars depicting the coronavirus particles.
EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal has big plans to take over Gaslamp Plaza in San Diego this month with its first-ever NBCU Corner @ San Diego Comic-Con, with content from NBC, Peacock, Syfy, and USA Network.
Instead, a virtual event called "New York Comic Con X MCM Comic Con Metaverse" was on those dates. Tickets to the 2020 in-person event had not gone on sale prior to its cancellation. [44] New York Comic Con returned to the Javits Center in 2021 with an in-person event held on October 7–10.