Conventions
- July: HoustonCon (Houston, Texas)
- July: Dallas name TK (Dallas, Texas)
- July 2–4: Comic Art Convention (Statler Hilton Hotel, New York City) — Credited by Will Eisner for his return to comics:
| “ | I came back into the field because of . I remember calling me in New London, where I was sitting there as chairman of the board of Croft Publishing Co. My secretary said, 'There's a Mr. Seuling on the phone and he's talking about a comics convention. What is that?' ... I came down and was stunned at the existence of the whole world. ... That was a world that I had left, and I found it very exciting, very stimulating. I went down to the convention, which was being held in one of the hotels in New York, and there was a group of guys with long hair and scraggly beards, who had been turning out what spun as literature, really popular 'gutter' literature if you will, but pure literature. And they were taking on illegal subject matter that no comics had ever dealt with before. ... I came away from that recognizing that a revolution had occurred then, a turning point in the history of this medium. | ” |
- August 6–8: Golden State Comic Con (e.g., the second occurrence of what becomes the San Diego Comic-Con) (Muir College, University of California, San Diego Campus, La Jolla, California) — Official guests: Kirk Alyn, Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Edmund Hamilton, Jack Kirby
- August 15: Metro Con (Washington, D.C.) — second annual show organized by 16-year-old Gary Groth; attendees include Phil Seuling, Bud Plant, and Dave Cockrum
- Summer: Name TK (Miam, Florida)i
- Summer: Name TK (Boston, Massachusetts)
- November 26–28: Creation Con (New Yorker Hotel, New York City) — first iteration of this trade show, produced by two 14 year-old Queens schoolboys, Adam Malin and Gary Berman; guest: Jim Steranko
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Famous quotes containing the word conventions:
“What people don’t realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules—don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so, don’t take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)