art-and-cultureUpdated: Apr 18, 2020 15:16 ISTComic-Con San Diego, one of the world’s largest pop culture gatherings, has been cancelled for the first time in its 50-year history due to the coronavirus pandemic. The sprawling convention which draws Hollywood A-listers, billion-dollar franchises and 135,000 screaming fans each year had been due to take place in July. But it became the latest major festival to be scratched due to the global pandemic, after California Governor Gavin Newsom this week indicated mass gatherings were unlikely to be allowed for months to come. Comic-Con began life as a small gathering of around 100 comic book fans in a San Diego hotel basement in 1970. “The prospect of mass gatherings is negligible, at best, until we get to herd immunity, and we get to a vaccine,” Newsom warned at a press conference Tuesday.

Source: Hindustan Times April 18, 2020 09:46 UTC