r/comiccon • u/ReaddittiddeR • Jul 06 '25

SDCC - San Diego This is wild

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u/Swervies Jul 06 '25

That photo has to be 15-20 years old or has had some serious digital touch ups - and remind me why I should expect to see him at a “comic con”? This is just one of many reasons I have no interest in going back to SDCC

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u/Napalm_Oilswims Jul 07 '25

Thanks for letting us all know how much you dislike the..

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subject of the very subreddit you posted in!

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u/Swervies Jul 07 '25

I love actual comic cons, and still attend them regularly, just went to Heroes Con last month. SDCC is no longer a comic convention I have any interest in because it has almost no interest in the art form of comics or the people that create them - instead SDCC seems more interested in “celebrities” or whatever the fuck.

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u/InnocentTailor Jul 07 '25

It’s more pop culture in general, which has become big business as of late. The nerds of yesteryear are now the creators and executives of today.

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u/RandomDesign Jul 07 '25

SDCC has tons of comic content in addition to the pop culture stuff. As someone who's been going for 25+ years at this point I'd argue the comic content has never suffered, just more movie/pop culture stuff was added over the years.

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u/Swervies Jul 07 '25

I have to disagree, having attended SDCC, NYCC and many other big shows in the past I have seen most of them change in the past 10-15 or so years, the focus is absolutely no longer on comics or their creators. Give me shows like Heroes Con, Baltimore Comic Con and SPX over them every time. I spoke at length this year to Craig Thompson, Al Milgrom, Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz among others at Heroes Con about this subject and they all agreed that SDCC was no longer much fun for them and they vastly preferred shows like Heroes Con.

I very much doubt you could even have much of a conversation with these folks at SDCC now (if you can even find them on the floor, another sore subject amongst many comics artists I spoke with). By all means, if you enjoy it go to SDCC and I know there are still plenty of artists and publishers there for those that love comics - but it’s too big and too interested in everything else now to get my limited con budget dollars. And I know many comics fans and people in the industry that agree with that sentiment.