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Saturday, November 07, 2009 

Comicon's founder passes away at 76

Shel Dorf, who founded the SanDiego ComiCon back in 1970, is now dead at age 76. It's sad to see him go.

Most amazing about Dorf is that he understood the problem of Hollywood's infiltration:
Publicly, he complained that it was an ordeal to oversee an event that had grown so large. He also felt that "Hollywood had hijacked it," a reference to the convention broadening to reflect a wider range of entertainment that included anime and video games.
And it's understandable if he was bothered about Hollywood's takeover, because since then, it's served only to minimize the impact of the comics themselves.

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