Meltdown, Inc. » kidney failure http://www.meltcomics.com/blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:08:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comic-Con founder Sheldon Dorf dead at 76 http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/2009/11/05/comic-con-founder-sheldon-dorf-dead-at-76/ http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/2009/11/05/comic-con-founder-sheldon-dorf-dead-at-76/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:59:37 +0000 FcoD http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/?p=6728 [...]]]> Comic-Con founder Sheldon Dorf dead at 76 | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times.

Comic-Con Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world-famous Comic-Con International comic-book convention, has died. He was 76. A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Ocean Beach resident died at a San Diego hospital on Nov. 3 from kidney failure. He had diabetes and had been hospitalized for about a year. Dorf, a freelance artist and comic-strip letterer, founded Comic-Con in San Diego in 1970 after moving from Detroit. Today, the convention draws 125,000 fans a year and is a major gathering for comic-book fans, artists, writers and movie stars.– Associated Press
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