Comic-Con began that day in 1969 when Richard Alf, age 17, drove his 1954 VW Bug to the San Diego community of Clairemont for a meeting with Shel Dorf. Accompanying Richard were two teenage comic dealer friends, and two more young comic fans joined them at Shel's place. They liked Shel's idea of a comic convention for San Diego, and soon Richard was devoting himself to the challenge of creating it. While co-chairman for the first Comic-Con, chairman for the second, and again co-chairman for the third, Richard provided business sense, funds, transportation, energy, hard work, enthusiasm, good cheer, and social vision that proved essential to establishing Comic-Con as a viable institution. Join moderator
Mike Towry and panelists
Earl Bookhammer,
David Clark,
William Clausen (
Alf the Elf-Sized Epic),
Ed Cormier,
George Clayton Johnson (
Twilight Zone),
Greg Koudoulian,
David McGlone,
Clayton Moore,
Paul Sammon (
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner),
Dennis Smith,
David Glanzer (Comic-Con International director of Marketing and PR), and
Rob Ray (SDSU Comic-Con History Project) in paying tribute to Richard Alf.
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