Sheldon Dorf, founder of San Diego Comic-Con, dies at 76
In this June 29, 2006, picture, Sheldon Dorf holds a Dick Tracy comic book in Ocean Beach, Calif. near San Diego. Dorf, a freelance artist and comic strip letterer, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention in 1970, died Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009, in San Diego.
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SAN DIEGO — 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 Tuesday 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.
Koudoulian says Dorf was friends with comic greats such as Marvel artist Jack Kirby and “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz. He says Dorf was also instrumental in helping budding artists find audiences.
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