{"id":5582,"date":"2010-05-05T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2010-05-05T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:19:09","slug":"san-diegos-chump-change-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5582","title":{"rendered":"San Diego’s “Chump Change” offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I’m going to be very blunt with you too: we’re not doing this deal in the media. Anaheim and San Diego \u2013 San Diego just woke up and put out that offer a day late and a dollar short, in my view. Our offer’s been out there for five years. And our offer is superior to their offer. I won’t say all the details because I’m not going to play this all out in the media, but I will say that that offer is a chump change offer. It’s kind of an afterthought to me. It’s like, “We think we’re going to lose it, so we’re going to throw a few bucks out there.” <\/strong>And I’ve got to be honest with you, to Comic-Con it isn’t just about that. That’s how I interpret it. It’s all about “How can we grow and enhance the show?” And my primary mission here is to grow and enhance that show. If I can’t improve that show for Comic-Con and for your industry here in Los Angeles, then I would not pursue this show. And I would not have busted my rear end for five years to do it if I couldn’t present them with that option. My offer today is only improved by the fact that I have A.E.G. and the LA Live development in partnership with me.<\/p>\n

– Michael Krause, part of the comittee wooing Comic-Con to move to Los Angeles, @ CBR<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have 10,000 other things to do today, but I came across this in a link from Scott McCloud on Twitter (who is firmly in favour of Comic-Con staying in San Diego, I should say), and the bolded part up there (Emphasis mine) jumped out at me.<\/p>\n

My response? Yes. Exactly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Despite some public commentary to the contrary, San Diego has been routinely horrible to the Comic-Con, and their efforts to “work” with their most volumnous show of the year have been sad.\u00a0The big “public show of support” this year is a fucking joke, flat out. You don’t look at what they’re promising to do, you look at what they _actually_ do, and this year the biggest hotel and the closest hotel basically told Comic-Con to fuck off, holding a giant conference (very police and security-heavy) on the same weekend, blocking off a bunch of rooms and holding them away from an event that they’ve known was coming for… years.<\/p>\n

It’s a joke, the city from an infrastructure point of view does not like the show. They don’t. This ‘show of support’ they made is tokenism at best, it’s a to cover their asses with the hotels and restaurants–their constituents–if 125,000+ tourists and their associated tourist dollars disappear in a few years.<\/p>\n

I run a show. It’s less than 1\/10th the size of San Diego, I’m on nowhere <\/em>near the same playing field. But running a show like this, making demands on people and organizations and venues and having to make concessions and the wonderful back-and-forth that goes into planning a large event? You begin to be able to tell when the folks on the other end want to make something work, and when they don’t<\/em>, and in my opinion San Diego isn’t really interested in making the Con work.<\/p>\n

This isn’t important, in the grand scheme of things. I think we all know that, but I do think it’s nice that someone–even someone coming from a competing organization\/area–came forward and said “We’ve got a better offer, San Diego doesn’t really give a shit” because that’s been my observation all along. And then their recent promises and shows of support? WOEFULLY inadequate. Chump Change.<\/p>\n

So yeah, I like walking out the back doors to the pristine Bay view and the good food as much as the next guy, but… I also want a better offer. I want more floorspace, more hotel space, better organization, and I want to be at an event where everyone involved is actually on board, and not barely tolerating each other’s presence.<\/p>\n

Where’s that event?<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And I’m going to be very blunt with you too: we’re not doing this deal in the media. Anaheim and San Diego \u2013 San Diego just woke up and put out that offer a day late and a dollar short, in my view. Our offer’s been out there for five years. And our offer is … <\/p>\n

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