Founder of San Diego Comic-Con dies at 76: PHOTO
Founder of San Diego Comic-Con dies at 76 San Diego

Founder of Comic-Con Dies at Age 76
Freelance artist and comic strip letterer, Sheldon Dorf, passes away on Tuesday. The Associated Press reported that Sheldon Dorf died at a San Diego Hospital due to kidney failure. Greg Koudoulian, a longtime friend of Dorf, said that the 76-year-old was hospitalized for about a year due to Diabetes. Dorf founded the San Diego Comic-Con International in 1970 after moving from Detroit. What was once a small comic book convention had, over the years, turned into an international event that draws...

Comic - Con Founder Sheldon -Shel' Dorf Dead At Age 76 (Photo)
Founder of Comic-Con , Sheldon ‘Shel’ Dorf , has died at the age of 76 in

Founder Of Comic Con Dead At 76: PHOTO
Shel Dorf, founder of San Diego's annual Comic-Con gathering, died Tuesday of complications from Diabetes, a spokesman said Wednesday. He was 76. Dorf's first convention in 1970 attracted about 300 comic-book fans. This year, it drew 125,000 and became the launch pad for an assortment of sci-fi and fantasy films and TV shows. 05/11/2009

R.I.P.: Sheldon Dorf, Comic-Con Founder: PHOTO
Dorf will be missed. ( John Shearer/Getty Images ) By Mark Memmott As The San Diego Union-Tribune says , "Dick Tracy, Charlie Brown and the entire comic strip pantheon lost a friend" this week. Sheldon Dorf, who founded the hugely successful Comic-Con International comic book convention, died Tuesday at the age of 76 . A friend, Greg Koudoulian, tells the Associated Press that Dorf succumbed to kidney failure. The wire service adds that Dorf "had Diabetes and had been hospitalized for about a...

RIP Shel Dorf: PHOTO
Shel Dorf, comics fans, letterer and the driving force behind the early years of the San Diego Comic-Con, passed away yesterday from complications related to Diabetes. He was 76. Growing up in Detroit, the young Dorf organized fan gatherings and conventions, including the “Triple Fan Fest”, an interest he took with him when he moved to California in the late Sixties. Together with Ken Krueger and other enthusiasts, Dorf put on what become the mighty San Diego Comic-Con. As Mark...

Comic Con Founder Dead At 76: PHOTO
The brains behind the world's biggest comic book convention, Comic-Con International, has died. Shel Dorf founded the San Diego-based annual comic book festival in 1970. He died from kidney failure on Tuesday (03Nov09), aged 76. This year's (09) event was attended by more than 125,000 people.

Comic-Con founder Sheldon Dorf dead at 76 in San Diego
Comic-Con founder Sheldon Dorf dead at 76 in San Diego - Chicago SUN-TIMES

Comic-Con founder Sheldon Dorf dies
Sheldon "Shel" Dorf, who spent 15 years as the leader of Comic-Con International, died Tuesday in San Diego. He was 76. Read more

On Comic-Con Website, a Tribute to a Founder
The Web site of Comic-Con International, usually a welter of whiz-bang graphics and news about the fan world, was topped on Friday by a simple black-and-white snapshot of Sheldon Dorf

A Weekend At San Diego Comic-Con
A montage of some of the sights (and celebrities) at the annual California mega-convention By MICHAEL HINMAN Oct-29-2009 It wasn't all work at San Diego Comic-Con this past July for the staffs of Airlock Alpha, Rabid Doll and Inside Blip. OK, maybe it was. But there was a tiny bit of downtime, which we used to video some of the fun things that happened during the most recent event. That included the dealer showroom which would even have the Mall of America in awe. We also included a look at the...

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Swiss to get expedited appeal of Cup venue ruling
San Diego — With just more than three months to go before the start of the most contentious America's Cup ever, a shore crew in San Diego focused on spars on Wednesday while the bitter legal sparring dragged on in a New York court. In San Diego, challenger BMW Oracle Racing was trying to figure out why the 200-foot mast on its monster trimaran came crashing down on Tuesday during a test sail on the Pacific Ocean. The syndicate said it planned to debut a new rig next week anyway, so it's...

Cleveland mass killing suspect linked to prior attack in Coronado: PHOTO
This Nov. 1, 2009 photo provided by the Cleveland Police Department shows Anthony Sowell, 50, who Cleveland Police arrested Saturday, Oct. 31 on a Rape and felonious assault warrant. The bodies of 10 women were found in Sowell's home. (AP Photo/Cleveland Police Department) The suspect in a gruesome mass killing in Cleveland, Ohio may be responsible for the attack on a woman in San Diego. Authorities think a woman may have been raped in San Diego years ago by the convicted rapist at the...

Family visits pond where ND college students found
DICKINSON, N.D. -- Family members and teammates of three North Dakota college softball players have thrown roses and softballs into a pond where the students were found dead inside their Jeep. The bodies of 22-year-old Kyrstin Gemar, of San Diego; 20-year-old Afton Williamson of Lake Elsinore, Calif.; and 21-year-old Ashley Neufeld, of Brandon, Manitoba were found inside their white SUV on Tuesday. Authorities say it appears the three went on a stargazing trip when their vehicle slid into the...

Swiss to get expedited appeal of Cup venue ruling
With just more than three months to go before the start of the most contentious America's Cup ever, a shore crew in San Diego focused on spars on Wednesday while the bitter legal sparring dragged on in a New York court. In San Diego, challenger BMW Oracle Racing was trying to figure out why the 200-foot mast on its monster trimaran came crashing down on Tuesday during a test sail on the Pacific Ocean . The syndicate said it planned to debut a new rig next week anyway, so it's possible it will...

Students Tried Calling for Help: PHOTO
A Clairemont high school alum who was missing for two days along with her college softball teamates was found dead inside a vehicle pulled from a North Dakota pond Tuesday. San Diego resident Kyrstin Gemar , 22, was last seen Sunday when she left to go stargazing with 20-year-old Afton Williamson, of Lake Elsinore, Calif.; and 21-year-old Ashley Neufeld of Brandon, Manitoba.  All three attended Dickinson State and played softball for the school’s team. The only leads investigators had...

Dickinson State University Students Found Dead in Jeep Pulled from Pond: PHOTO
(Personal Photo/The Dickinson Press) Photo: From left, Ashley Neufeld, Kyrstin Gemar and Afton Williamson. DICKINSON, N.D. (CBS/AP) The three missing Dickinson State University softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep that was pulled from a pond two days after the women disappeared. PICTURES: Missing Softball Girls Authorities had been searching since Sunday night for Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Man., Kyrstin Gemar, 22, of San Diego; and Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore,...

NCIS: “Outlaws and In-Laws”
A Navy vessel discovers the bullet-riddled bodies of two Mercenaries aboard one of Gibbs’s sailboats floating into San Diego harbor. Gibbs says the boat was a gift to his goddaughter, the American-Iraqi granddaughter of retired NCIS Special Agent Mike Franks (Muse Watson). Franks, his daughter-in-law, and his granddaughter show up at Gibbs’s house, and it appears the Mercenaries he saw as enemies were hired by his daughter-in-law’s Iraqi family to find her. Gibbs must sort out...

Robert Pattinson's Vanity Fair Interview
Vanity Fair ’s December issue has the gorgeous Robert Pattinson on the cover.

Vanity Fair Article: PHOTO
Accompanying the amazing Vanity Fair photos that we have been posting recently, is an article by Evgenia Peretz entitled “Twilight's Hot Gleaming.” Peretz, who, as it happens, profiled DiCaprio in 2004, follows the Byronic British actor from the Comic-Con convention in San Diego to the Waldorf Towers in New York City, as he prepares for the November 20 release of Twilight's sequel, New Moon. There are no wild nights out at clubs

San Diego 2010: Don't mean ta scare you, but…: PHOTO
Looks like four-day passes for NEXT YEAR’s San Diego Comic-Con are selling out pretty quickly. Honestly, this is just…INSANE. At this rate, the show is going to be sold out six months ahead of time. It really is like a concert or sporting event now.

Twilight's Pattinson Covers Vanity Fair: VIDEO
I never do junkets. But I knew I had to interview Rob Pattinson for Twilight with my flip cam. Summit gave me a one-on-one with him at the Four Seasons. He doesn’t do one-on-ones anymore. At Comic-Con that year, the place went nuts. And the following July, they did again. Now a year after Twilight (worldwide gross : $382.5 million) comes New Moon . And Pattinson’s on the cover of Vanity Fair . They’re teasing us with a little taste, because they want us to plunk down some...

Original Roger Rabbit Writers Are Back to Write the Sequel
If I were Robert Zemeckis, I would take this as a sign that I should stop making CGI motion capture movies and go back to live action. The Zemeckis-related news story that has been talked about the most this entire year is the Roger Rabbit sequel that he's been dropping hints about since April . Our last update was back in July during Comic-Con, where Zemeckis confirmed that "the 2D animated characters will remain 2D" if it ever happened. Now Zemeckis reveals to MTV today that they've actually...