David Glanzer Of CCI: Con Group Weighing All Options, All Proposals

CBR has a nice, short interview with Comic-Con Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer over recent news that there are multiple bids for the massive pop-culture convention whose arrangement with facilities in four-decade home San Diego run through only 2012. Glanzer is pretty blunt: there are bids, they're considering all of them, the efforts by San Diego civic leaders are substantial but address real needs, and more people want to go to the show now that the current arrangements can handle. He also mentions that they have to do this while managing their other shows and the forthcoming CCI iterations locked into San Diego, and, it seems to me but it's really my interpretation, seems to be saying that these kinds of discussion were a bit late in the coming. Anyway, it's certainly a must-read for anyone interested in these massive comics-related businesses.

I sympathize with the tensions at work: the surge of interest in the show puts severe pressure on what's a pretty solid infrastructure, and it was clear after two events related to the 2009 show (in the middle of a recession) -- Twilight adherents settled in for their portion of the show like fierce fan warriors despite multiple hardships, and then District 9 and perhaps even Avatar receiving a perceived con bounce -- that there was going to be no forthcoming diminished level of interest in the show as an event and marketing platform. I would look at everything, too.
 
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