San Diego Comic-Con is happening this year in a certain shape, way or form. Despite the fact that Comic-Con International formally canceled the traditional summer convention earlier this year, the outfit announced the dates for a smaller convention that it plans to host later this year. According to a new press release distributed by Comic-Con organizers, San Diego Comic-Con will now take place at the San Diego Convention Center on Thanksgiving weekend. Instead of a week-long event, this year’s San Diego Comic-Con will be a three-day intimate adventure that runs from Friday, November 26 to Sunday, November 28.
The company calls this year’s convention “Comic-Con Special Edition”, and the cost of the badge, participation capacity and “related information” have not yet been set by the organizers and officials of the convention centers.
“Although we have managed to pivot from in-person meetings to limited online events, the loss of revenue has had an acute impact on the organization, as it has done with many small businesses, requiring reduced work schedules and reduced employee salaries,” among other issues, “Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer said in a statement issued.” We hope that this event will strengthen our financial reserves and mark a slow return to larger meetings in person in 2022. ”.
Like any other convention in 2020, Comic-Con has been canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Now that vaccines are becoming readily available across the country, the country has slowly begun to reopen with social events. In the last month or so, both New York and California – two of the last remnants of the country – have begun to reopen their limited capacity cinemas.
“Southern California, you’re going to be the beneficiary of this,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said of the theater. “Specifically, LA will be a big beneficiary of this new value that will probably be fulfilled on Friday. And over the weekend and next week, you will see more activity, more weakening of the levels. It is encouraging and I hope that people will be excited about what it means to move forward, because we have a number of other thresholds and other goals that will allow us to move forward with more clarity, more conviction and more. confidence as we go through the next few weeks and months. ”