Shel Dorf, Comic-Con’s Founding Father, Dies At 76 RIP
Sunday 8 November 2009 @ 2:39 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 6 Comments
This weekend comes with a feeling of great loss for geeks of all associations. Shel Dorf, Comic-Con’s founding father, has died this past Tuesday, he was 76.
Beyond the rift comics and manga have, or any other flavor of geekdom, we should all be grateful for Dorf’s work to the community as a whole. Basically pioneering pop-culture conventions, at least in the western world, is no small feat! He turned a small 300 people convention in 1970 into the behemoth that is Comic-Con nowadays with over 125,000 people in attendance.
Whether you’ve been to Comic-Con or to Otakon, AX, ACEN, or your local anime club’s convention, you owe a lot of that groundwork to Shel Dorf and his team. He was a man that lived for his passions. Let’s take a moment to reflect on that and celebrate all that he brought forth. May he rest in peace.
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Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte
David 'KidKobun' Bruno
Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
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Aww, Shelly! Noooooo D’x
I HATE comics!
Kind of late but still, i did not know the man or how pioneered such an event that pushed forward most forms of pop entertainment gatherings in the West, at least in the U.S.A. May he rest in peace.
RIP from the anime side of the population
this is my facebook accont if your interested…
i remember my first Con back in the mid 90’s… changed me life it did, many thanks and good journeys Mr Dorf u.u