Shel dorf Archives

And he was one of the original founders of Comic-Con International San Diego in 1970 alongside Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk and Greg Bear I last saw him at the Founders Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition of 2021. A couple of weeks ago, he posted to[...]

Shel Dorf basically founded the San Diego Comic Con, now a massive media event event, bringing in billions of dollars. Dying in 2009, he is buried in an unmarked grave in Home of Peace Cemetery. During the Detroit Fanfare convention, which hosts the Shel Dorf Awards, one group began raising money for a gravestone to commemorate the[...]

You might have thought outing Shel Dorf, co-founder of San Diego Comic Con as a gay man, online, might have disqualified us from this one Seems not… But at the Shel Dorf Awards held at last night at Detroit Fanfare, I won the Comic Blogger Of The Year Award. Which was nice Heidi MacDonald won last year[...]

Including the report on the Gays In Comics panel, celebrating its 25th year, with a star studded panel hosted by Andy Mangels as always, where he was presented with an Inkpot Award, BTW, for his extensive career in and around the comic field and also humanitarian work around the topic of Gays in Comics, and[...]