Covid-19: 2, SDCC: 0

Yesterday Comic-Con International made the not very surprising announcement that the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con was not going to take place in July as an in-person event, but will instead be held “virtually” as it was in 2020. So, that’s two years of SDCC wiped out by the pandemic. Here’s their official press release.

Again, not surprising. These types of mega events that feature cavernous indoor convention centers packed shoulder to shoulder with shuffling, droplet spewing humanity are the very last things that will return. Forget about catching a virus, after a walk across the SDCC convention floor I come out the other side smeared with mustard and smelling like nachos, and I wasn’t eating anything.

The big surprise was the announcement that CCI is planning some sort of three-day in-person convention in San Diego in November. Dates and details TBA. So with the announcement of C2E2 and Emerald City also planning late-in-the-year events, now we have three major conventions all crammed into November and December of 2021. I’m not sure how that is going to work, but there is no way I’ll be able to do so many shows so close together… at least I don’t think I can.

In the meantime I am gearing up for my virtual artist’s alley table later this month on the dates that WOULD have been C2E2 2021: March 26-28th. It will be the same format as the handful of these I did in 2020…convention exclusive commissions and items at convention prices.

I’m sure we will all be seeing a gradual return to normalcy as 2021 goes along. I’m looking forward to sitting at a table at a comic con someday soon, mustard smears, nacho stench and all.