Shel Dorf and Ken Krueger Remembered in Fall 2009 Comic-Con Magazine

January 4, 2010

The new online, Fall 2009 edition of the Comic-Con Magazine is available from http://www.comic-con.org/common/cc_magazine.shtml. It features very nice articles on San Diego Comic-Con International Founder Shel Dorf (pages 4-5) and Chairman of Comic-Con #1 Ken Krueger (page 6). There is also a great picture of Ken with some of the original Comic-Con crew at the 2009 Comic-Con on page 36.

Read the full article →

Alan Light’s 1975 San Diego Comic-Con LP Record- Listen to it here!

December 22, 2009

Streamable audio from Alan Light’s 1975 San Diego Comic-Con LP record. Contains recordings of Ray Bradbury, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Jerry Siegel and Joanne Siegel, Chuck Norris, June Foray, Daws Butler, Robert Bloch, and Will Eisner. Listen to it here!

Read the full article →

The Mini-Cons That Attacked Southern California!

(In 1974)

December 20, 2009

In an article from 1974, Mark Evanier writes of a new wave of Southern California comic mini-con conventions: Greg Koudoulian’s Fabulous First Sunday Club, Terry Stroud and David Alexander’s Super Sunday, and Shel Dorf and Ken Krueger’s King Kon.

Read the full article →

Coming Attractions

December 10, 2009

In the weeks ahead, Barry Alfonso, a founding member of the San Diego Comic-Con committee and a Grammy-nominated music journalist, will be sharing his remembrances of the famous (and/or infamous, depending upon point of view) Dr. Timothy Leary’s appearance as a guest at the 1976 San Diego convention.

Read the full article →

Welcome to Comic-Convention Memories

December 10, 2009

Welcome to Comic-Convention Memories, a venue for all your comic-convention memories. With your help, we’d like to have pages for every comic convention, a page for everyone who’s worked on a con or been a guest or dealer at one, for anyone who has a good story to tell, as long as someone is willing to contribute the words and pictures. Data storage is cheap and no trees need be injured in the making of this site. Just click on the “Contact” tab at the top of the page and let us know what tales you have to tell.

Read the full article →

Next Entries →