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I've seen a number of shares of that article online, many with an accompanying comment citing this as evidence in favor of the narrative that "San Diego Comic-Con isn't about comics anymore" and I disagree with that on two fronts....I remain skeptical that many of the blogs & culture commentators who continue to promote this narrative have actually been to San Diego Comic-Con or even tried to see the "comics side" of the convention. Yeah, most of the juicy coverage that permeates pop culture news is indeed the movie/tv stuff, but I go to the con primarily for comics stuff. I can fill every second of my day with comic-focused panels. Many of the 'Big 2' (plus Image) panels are packed to capacity. The presence of publishers (large, medium, small, web, and self-publishing) keeps getting better.
The article itself also pointed out that many of the comic are now sold by the publishers directly at SDCC. So the Comics publishers are actually taking away comics sales business from the comics retailers. That doesn't say that comics are going away at SDCC, only that there is a change in how customers are buying them.
So basically cutting out the middle man and doing sales directly to buyer instead of making stores order so many to get any variants and all i guess.
I wonder that if they tried to scale back how much space they try to have, then maybe might be easier to adjust so not to have to pay for so much space then be able to earn enough back and then some idk just a guess.
Mile High didn't go for a smaller booth because the booth price and the decrease in sales was only part of the reason they decided not to attend this year. They had a really bad experience with getting the booth set up last year and were treated pretty poorly by CCI. It's a whole long story but they basically felt that CCI didn't treat them right and didn't really even care if they attend or not. I've talked to some other vendors the past few years and got a lot of the same stories. CCI has kind of taken on a we are too big to fail attitude and right now in a way they are right. They know that for every vendor that leaves they have 5 ready to take there place. It's the same thing with attendees. Don't like the way they do something or handle something they know for any one who decides not to go they have 100's of other people waiting to take there place.