Not Comics: Writer’s Strike and CCI

The San Diego Union-Tribune's Peter Rowe asks after the potential effect of the Writer's Guild of America strike on Comic-Con International, given that the show has benefited greatly the last few years in terms of public exposure and some of its attendance swell from the presence of Hollywood studios and various celebrities promoting TV shows and movies. By summer, the article notes, several unions could be striking. The article's answer seems to be "it could change a lot of things," and reasonably explains which things, although I'd have to agree with the con's David Glanzer that the con would do just fine rolling with whatever punch the lack of studio presence would cause. CCI has partnered with the big studios these last few years in mutually beneficial ways, but I've never thought them so invested in that arm of programming in a way the fate of the show depends on how many cast members of whichever show up, or if it came to it, any at all. I'd also guess that if the strike is settled and the related others averted that there will be a rush of energy to get back on the promotion stage, especially for whatever the Fall television season looks like, by which the con would conceivably benefit. My interests are such I won't notice either way.
 
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