THE WORLD: POP CULTURE / COMIC-CON GOES ONLINE, FREE

TODAY, Comic-Con will kick off its 51st year — re-branded as Comic-Con@Home — online for free.

GUEST BLOG / By Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, Business Reporter—In mid-April, San Diego’s prized Comic-Con International was called off because of COVID-19.

It made sense to call it off considering 135,000 attendees jammed into San Diego Convention Center and had the potential to be an epic super germ spreader event.

“We had to break the news to everybody that we wouldn’t have a show,” said Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer about when they told employees.  “To be honest, there was some crying.”

But then something happened.

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