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, Calif., resident died at a San Diego hospital on Tuesday from kidney failure.
Dorf, a freelance artist and comic strip letterer, founded Comic-Con in San Diego in 1970 after moving from Detroit.
Read more at the Hollywood Reporter.
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