Comic-Con International has made it official — there won’t be a live convention in San Diego again this summer. Instead, CCI has announced a three-day virtual Comic Con@Home event, like they held in 2020, with plans for a smaller, three-day in-person convention in San Diego in November.
“Never could we have imagined what the world experienced in 2020 and continues to experience today,” the statement reads on their website. “While we are buoyed by the rollout of the vaccine and the growing number of individuals being inoculated, it appears that July will still be too early to safely hold an in-person event of the magnitude of Comic-Con. For this reason, we have made the challenging decision to postpone Comic-Con 2021 as an in-person gathering until our 2022 dates, and once again hold this year’s celebration as the free online Comic-Con@Home. Unfortunately, the challenges of this past year and the multiple postponements of our two largest events have left us with limited financial resources, so this year the online experience will be reduced to a three-day event, spanning July 23-25, 2021.”
If you purchased badges that were rolled over to the 2021 show, those badges will automatically transfer to the 2022 event, you request a refund. To submit a badge refund request, visit www.comic-con.org/cci/comic-con-cancellationrefund-policy.
Last year CCI cancelled both its in-person WonderCon event and the summer’s Comic-Con International in San Diego. This year’s in-person WonderCon event has also been cancelled.
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