San Diego's Comic-Con goes Hollywood

July 23, 2007 Over the past couple of years, attendees of San Diego's annual Comic-Con International have begun to complain that the convention has "gone Hollywood," but the SDCC's director of marketing, David Glanzer, would like to offer those grumblers a history lesson. [...] in 1976, a year before the release of "Star Wars," George Lucas did a presentation about his movie that got the fan community salivating. Glanzer's two examples of how Hollywood and Comic-Con have intersected from the start might also quiet those who worry that the increased presence of movie studios and TV producers in San Diego has pulled the convention away from its fantasy-superhero roots.

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